Karina Garcia – WISE Score & Parent Review | Screenwise

Karina Garcia

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YouTube2012

68%

WISE Score

9.0M

Subscribers

The OG Slime Queen serves up DIY craft tutorials with infectious enthusiasm—wholesome fun, but you're still handing them YouTube.

Karina Garcia

YouTube

2012

68%

WISE Score

9.0M

Subscribers

The OG Slime Queen serves up DIY craft tutorials with infectious enthusiasm—wholesome fun, but you're still handing them YouTube.

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Screenwise Verdict

Karina Garcia is about as wholesome as YouTube gets—a genuinely enthusiastic creator making kid-appropriate craft content that actually inspires offline creativity. She's been at it since 2015, rode the slime wave to 9 million subscribers, and built Craft City along the way.

The content itself is fine. The problem is the delivery system. You're still giving your kid YouTube, which means autoplay, algorithm rabbit holes, and a comments section with 1.7 billion views worth of strangers. Even the best YouTube channel comes with the YouTube tax: endless distractions, screen time creep, and the platform's relentless push to keep eyeballs glued.

If you can watch together or set strict time limits, Karina's channel can genuinely inspire some fun afternoon projects. Just know that 'watching one slime video' rarely stays that way. The craft supplies you'll accumulate are a different conversation entirely.

Age Fit

Best for elementary and middle schoolers (roughly 6-13) who are into crafts and DIY projects. Teens might find it too young, and younger kids will need supervision for the actual crafting (and for YouTube navigation).

WISE Breakdown

Wholesome

Karina Garcia's channel centers on DIY crafts and slime-making with an upbeat, friendly tone. She describes herself as 'goofy and very comfortable in front of the camera' and focuses on creative projects. The content is generally positive and encouraging, though like most YouTube, the pacing can be energetic and slightly chaotic. No concerning behavior modeling or negativity detected.

Imaginative

The channel explicitly focuses on DIY projects, crafting, and slime tutorials—all hands-on creative activities that invite kids to make things themselves. She founded Craft City, reinforcing the maker ethos. However, much of the content follows predictable slime trends rather than truly original creative exploration. It's imaginative in execution but somewhat formulaic in concept.

Safe

Content is kid-friendly with no violence, mature themes, or inappropriate material. However, comments are enabled on a channel with 9M+ subscribers, which means kids can encounter unmoderated user interactions. The channel doesn't have YouTube Kids mode available. As a YouTube channel, it also keeps kids in the YouTube ecosystem where autoplay can lead anywhere. No major controversies found in search results.

Enriching

DIY and craft videos can teach following instructions, fine motor skills, and creative problem-solving. However, slime content is largely entertainment-focused rather than deeply educational. The channel provides some skill-building in craft techniques but doesn't offer substantial cognitive growth, critical thinking, or meaningful life lessons. It's fun and mildly enriching but not transformative.

Parent Info

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Why It Might Be Great

Genuinely kid-friendly content focused on hands-on crafting and slime-making
Encourages kids to create things IRL rather than just passively consume
Karina's warm, goofy personality makes tutorials accessible and fun
No concerning content—just glitter, glue, and good vibes
Can inspire actual offline projects (though you'll be buying a lot of craft supplies)

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What to Watch For

It's YouTube—autoplay and algorithm will try to keep them watching forever
Comments are enabled on a 9M+ subscriber channel, so random internet strangers are in the mix
Slime content can become repetitive and consumerist (endless new supplies to buy)
Screen time adds up fast when 'just one more video' is always a click away

Conversation Starters

"What's a craft project from Karina's channel you'd actually want to try? Let's see if we have the supplies."
"Why do you think slime videos got so popular? What makes them satisfying to watch?"
"If you started your own DIY channel, what would you make videos about?"