Hi everyone. I am a long time lurker and never a poster. But now after reading about Elsagate and the very well done post from pizzasjw, I am more sickened than ever. They are reaching out into our devices and trying to grab our kids. We cannot have it! I am going to try to do my part by reaching out to my local and state education system, and asking them to disseminate information about this. We need to get this stuff out to all parents we can. If any of you would be so inclined as to write your local district, school, or state, please feel free to use any of this letter if it expedites the process for you. When I have more time I will try and post links to all the state education departments' communication offices. I believe churches is another outlet, we need to contact our pastors and youth groups. Thank you. God Bless you all. I am praying for our kids and for our country.

To Whom This May Concern:

As a concerned parent with only a few years' experience with the public school system, I am not sure to whom I should direct this inquiry. I will try to be concise.

As an informed citizen I have noticed that our society is witnessing exponential growth of sickening content online, in the paths of children who are innocently searching innocuous videos. I am asking what parent education tools would be available through the Department of Education, delivered directly through the school system to parents. I want to explain why I am asking, and give you a quick rundown of my concern.

My middle schooler goes to a parochial school presently. Her school's counselor very astutely sent out a message to all parents last spring, informing us of a Netflix series called "13 Reasons Why". The series brings suicide into the forefront of the minds of vulnerable middle schoolers. My own daughter, like many these days, struggles with depression and upon hearing about this series I disabled Netflix in our household.

Just this morning I heard on the news that 2 California fathers are suing Netflix because the 15-year old daughters committed suicide after watching this series. Educators already have too much on their plate with regard to helping families be aware of the dangers their children are dealing with, this I do realize. However, if there are already cyber communication avenues in place, is there an emphasis being placed on making sure that teachers and/or administration in EVERY school communicate to EVERY parent about the escalation of this heinous threat?

Here is what sparked me to finally write this letter. Yesterday, I discovered the content is being ramped up to an even darker place, with the kind of material that would normally only be found on the dark web. Videos using titles that are Disney or Marvel related, and words that kids might search. Videos that contain things which promote cannibalism, cutting up of other people, pedophilia and Satanism. I cannot sit on the sidelines and stomach this. Any child that goes to youtube and puts in a search term like "Elsa" or "Spiderman" and has youtube set on "autoplay", could wind up viewing a video that could stay with them for a very long time. These videos are being deliberately designed to catch as many kids as possible and are placed in kid-accessible areas. Here are a couple of titles of these youtube videos if you want to understand an example of what is being perpetrated while we sleep. "Bad Baby Santa Claus Eats Pizza & Plays Claw Machine vs Toy Freaks Family Dance Attacks". One more is "Bad Huk Frozen Elsa Cinderella Pregnant Baby Play - Learn Colors Play Doh Else Stop Motion Movies". A heads-up, these videos are disturbing to watch.

Forgive my long email, but I feel compelled to take this to my government and to my local administrators. Parents need help to understand what we are up against. I hope that our education system, which has direct access to so many parents, will be able to include this issue in their focus for parent communications, PTO meetings, whatever way possible.

Well-meaning society does not realize that we are in a war with ill-intending society.

I would greatly appreciate a reply. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,