Our brother site, Machochip, recently posted on a peculiar phenomenon sweeping YouTube channels in mobile homes all over the nation!: “Baby Cockfighting.” Which we initially assumed to be something different entirely. The videos show toddlers slapping, kicking and punching one another in terribly decorated homes while an adult, usually male, films them and eggs them on.

As you can watch for yourself in the clip below the jump, ABC did a report on these videos, focusing on one particular instance in which a woman discovered that her ex had been filming her sons and some other children fighting amongst one another while he encouraged them to hit back. Some might call this poor parenting, or unethical behavior. We have our own thoughts:

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Look, there’s really no doubt that filming children pummeling one another is not the best idea on might have as a parent. But, possibly worse, the people who create these videos are doing themselves a far greater disservice by allowing themselves to be ridiculed as “white trash.” And, believe us, white trashiness is not reserved exclusively for white people, as some of our relatives can surely attest. See, the sort of people who film babies pounding one another are also — most likely — the kind of people who are not employed and, as such, spend an inordinate amount of time basking in the glow of a WWE match, a Busch beer in one hand and their own, sad, flaccid member in another. During commercial breaks that do not happen to be low-budget local ads for a monster truck show at the county fairground, these people look around at their wood-paneled, beige-carpeted dens and smile, proud of their various “topless big-hair chick in stone-washed denim cut-offs” posters and that one Budweiser neon sign they stole while jacked up on crystal.

So, you know. Just make sure you realize what you’re getting into before you go ahead and post those videos of your sister-wife’s kids biting one another in an empty wading pool.

Is “Baby Cockfighting” The New MMA Or Bumfights? [Machochip]