- Joe Pritchard, 25, allowed his son Jack, 2, to watch Peppa Pig on his phone
- Mr Pritchard said the episodes started as normal versions of the popular show
- However, when he checked on Jack, the tone of the episodes had changed
- Instead of wholesome familly fun, the episode was using disturbing language
A father-of-two has expressed outrage after his son started watching an explicit fake version of children’s favourite Peppa Pig while browsing YouTube.
The seemingly innocent video started as any normal tale involving Peppa, George and her parents.
However, the content soon changed with references to a paedophile dentist and a plastic phallus which were not included in the original version.
Joe Pritchard, 25, expressed outrage after his son, 2, started watching an episode of Peppa Pig which had been cruelly re-edited by internet pranksters in order to frighten children
The video featured obscene dialogue as well as the addition of other inappropriate material
Joe Pritchard, 25, from Cornwall let his three-year-old son watch some genuine Peppa Pig videos on the internet.
He told The Sun: ‘Jack is three and is in the process of being tested for autism, and we’ve found that if he watches a show for 15 minutes on the phone it calms him down and helps him relax.’
Mr Pritchard said he asked Jack about the episode he was watching and was disgusted when he realised the content of the video.
A prankster had used a genuine Peppa Pig episode and re-dubbed sections of it to include the reprehensible content.
He said: ‘Now we’re not going to be able to let him watch things on the mobile anymore. It’s going to make our lives ten times harder now and it’s a shame because he enjoyed it.’
Earlier this year, YouTube said it was working on methods of preventing such videos from being shared on their platform.
Many of the videos look like normal cartoons on YouTube’s homepage, but they stray from innocent themes to scenes of violence or sexuality.
The cartoon was digitally manipulated by an internet prankster and uploaded to YouTube
Now, the site says it is asking users to flag this content so that it no longer appears on the YouTube Kids app and requires over 18 age verification to be seen on the main app.
Mailonline has approached Google, who own YouTube and Entertainment One, who own the rights to Peppa Pig for a comment