Influencers that show their children….

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Do we have any in here, or anyone that is close friends with one?
It’s something that I’m really against, and the sooner they bring in laws to protect the children involved the better in my eyes.
i’m always really curious with how the people that do show their children on a monetised account rationalise it with themselves as being ok. They certainly aren’t in the minority, it’s more rare to find someone who shares their life on line that doesn’t show their children.

Agree. I'm just saying I'm sure many would justify it in this manner

I’d rather they showed the child than do the incredibly irritating and performative slapping an emoji over the child’s head.

I once read about one,who is always showing her kids online
She's fully aware that perverts are putting these pictures on the dark Web for others to wank over and doesn't care-shes still uploading those pictures and videos
(I'm so greatful the net wasn't around when I was young-my mother would have been all over it like a bad rash)

Another one tells the world about her dds autism diagnosis (with full records),all about her other dds periods and the fact her dss uses the withdrawal method
I don't want to know!
That's their dcs business but both women seem to think it's worth it for the clicks and likes
(I was mortified when I started my own periods and my mother told my father-that was bad enough,if I'd realised the whole world knew,I would have died,my sex life is my own business and any diagnosis is also my own business to deal with and tell people when I was ready)

Another father showed his dc on the potty
This young toddler is going to be a fully grown woman one day and god knows how she'll feel knowing that the world has seen her naked while having a wee
(It's bad enough these types of photos have made it into a family album,let alone the whole world)

I don't know any influencers but I've seen plenty of school mums post photos of their poorly children, crying or asleep, or just looking really rough. Saying things like "The sickness bug has hit our house!" or "Up all night with this one."
I can never understand it. I wouldn't dream of posting photos of my children like that.
Well I can understand it I suppose, its just pure attention seeking.

I know one mum a few years ago who posted photos of her 10/11 year old daughter in shorts and a vest top, on the local Facebook page with a photo of the letter from the NHS saying her daughter was overweight. It was the yr6 one where they come into school and it's all confidential. She was raging about it and did a massive long rant saying her daughter was perfect and it was disgraceful.
Her daughter who was obviously overweight on the photos must have been absolutely mortified! All she had to do was screw the letter up and throw it in the bin and no one would have ever known, but instead she chose to totally humiliate her daughter on social media for likes.

I'm thinking of leaving Instagram for this reason. I only follow friends I know and my feed is full of babies! I think it's because I stop to look so get shown more and it really concerns me how illogical it is to show all this. Its not like kids can consent to being tagged or not.

That’s absolutely awful!

She must have been so desperate for people to say she was right (“absolutely ridiculous hun, she’s the perfect weight, you ignore the horrible nurse”) she totally forgot her daughter was a person in her own right. I bet the mother wouldn’t ever have posted medical comments about her own weight/body!

As an ASD mum I agree with you. I wouldn’t post my child being vulnerable or having a meltdown. I do post him when he does his hobby or any days out pics but my page is private and only family and friends can see it.

The Saccone Joly's on youtube are disgusting. They've sold all their children from birth by using them as cash cows on their channel, their thumb nails are very heavily focused on their children in gymnastics poses and other inappropriate stuff. One of their children is trans and they've cashed in on that too. Personally I have no issues with people being trans but to use it as a way to make money off your children is sick.

TikTok is like this too. People using their childs ASD for clicks and money. It's disgusting.

Abusive, and I think the chickens will start to come home to roost now.

the first generation of exploited internet children is coming of age and I think they’ll have a hit to say about it.

id take it a step further and say no one should put their children online- influencer or not.

I hate the whole notion of any kids on any social media.
When I was a teen, the joke was that the photo albums would be brought out when I brought a boyfriend home - don't need to joke about it any more. Parents document and share their children's lives from the moment they take their first breath, morning, noon and night. If my parents had done this to me, I would've been absolutely furious.

The Birmingham “mummy” of 2 (won’t give her insta name) has DC who are now in high school but continues to post absolute drivel about them as if they were toddlers without their own minds. I’d be amazed if they didn’t get bullied about it - especially the son as she infantilises him so much. And she’s forever going on about her “melons”, chub rub thighs, sweaty creases etc and posting pics of her arse in tights etc.

She’s been told about their images being used for nefarious reasons but still does it. Ironically she posted a while back about being asked to do a talk at her DC school about internet safety!!!

I just can’t get my head around people putting their DC out there like this!

The worst ones are those that actively play up to the fact unsavoury people will watch their kids.

Eg Jon saccone-jolly (they were on a Stacey Dooley programme ages ago about influencers) purposely has his video thumbnails with his young daughters doing the splits etc. he knows exactly what he’s doing 🤢

There was the American Mom influencer as well on TikTok who had about 15million followers and just posted her toddler DD. She would always post videos of her eating things like hotdogs and the videos would have hundreds of thousands of downloads/saves.

@YoudontseehowI know who you’re referring to and despite being on the other side of the city, I could have a good guess which schools both go to and probably could find her address if I tried hard enough. If I wanted to do anything nasty I easily could. Quite scary really.

I am trying to recall but if i am remembering correctly in America there was a law made to protect child actors .The money they made from movies/tv was their own .If there is such a law or similar it needs restructuring for this day and age. To cover children that are filmed for a monetised account

The law needs to change as technology has changed to protect children

She actually outed her son’s school as she had a tab open on her laptop when showing her Disneyland activities spreadsheet 🤦‍♀️

The Netflix series Bad Influence about “kidfluencers” is a real eye opener and not in a good way.

I really think we will look back amazed that this was allowed to happen and there will be many irreparably damaged relationships.

I know one, with over 100k followers. A pp mentioned ‘chickens coming home to roost’ and they certainly are with one of her children.

As they are legally too young to give any sort of consent, I don’t really see any difference with it to being a pimp. And of course it should be addressed by government.

It's always the case even before the invention of social media (although undoubtedly that has made it all a lot worse) I was reading earlier about when the Beckham kids were tiny and their parents used to take them through airports in front of all the paps clicking away instead of allowing the staff to sprint them discreetly through more or less unseen and they never put an order out that the kids faces must be pixilated when published, which would have protected their privacy to some extent.

Brand first always thought.

I agree with you.
Imagine going to a job interview or wanting an important public role like PM and people can watch videos of you as a young child being potty trained or having a tantrum?

California have a law where kids in influencer videos have to be paid as if they were child performers. The money has to go in a trust fund for when the child is an adult. It doesn’t solve the morality and privacy issues but is a small positive.

Solomon is the Queen of child exploitation.

I was thinking that too.
Certainly her younger kids probably don't know that a world exists that doesn't involve having a camera in your face near constantly.