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.

I don't agree with children being shown on Instagram unless it's a private account. Don't mind babies as it's hard to identify a child from a baby photo when grown. I think there should be regulation as some people can't be trusted to protect their own children.

Yep, she’s one of the absolute worst isn’t she. Absolute hypocrite, she even had spot on a talking panel with the NSPCC about protecting children online. Yet constantly posts her kids in states of undress, in bed asleep, open mouthed with the their tongues hanging out. Almost baiting. Sick in the head that’s for sure. She doesn’t give her kids dignity in other ways either, posting about their health struggles and videoing meltdowns like it’s just something to laugh at. She’s either absolutely thick or very, very dangerous and fully aware that she’s exploiting her kids and serving up images on a silver platter for perverts.

Agreed and her sister is really getting in on the act now!

Louise Pentland is the one that gets me... she actually took her eldest offline when she was younger because she was worried about safety/privacy but has now put her back online more than she ever was. And yet she is an NSPCC ambassador! And they have worked with lots of influencers who put their children and identifying information online, I dont understand how they justify it as an organisation at all. There is just no need for any parent to do it. Its greed, pure and simple. Plus is there any regulation/oversight over it, like you get for child actors?

There's a YouTube family that makes me sick profiting from their very young son being transgender and constantly uploading thumbnails or their young children in the splits. This almost every single thumbnail!

It's crazy. Brittany Miller the one who lied about having cancer uses her twins for cash. She even has a video up of them half naked, it has over 12million views and 30,000 saves but she won't remove it.

How is this legal?

Very true.

I honestly think we'll look back at this the way we look back at children being sent up chimneys.

So sorry for the multiple posts
I kept getting an error message-i have reported my own posts

There was a documentary in Netflix recently about a big group of kids that had their own YouTube channel. The girls, now older, said that when they were 12-13 they were regularly sent packages from random men containing bikinis and dresses and other gifts and the mum who directed the channel would get them to do a personal thank you video and sell it to the guys that sent the presents. Absolutely sick.

Oh, and I read a something from The Anxious Generation which I think is so prudent - That kids are so over protected in the real world and so underprotected in the virtual one.

I guarantee all these fucking influencers are the first to say 'Oh no we don't let them play in the street you don't know who's out there!'

If it's the one I think you mean, I deliberately avoid any product (usually in Home Bargains) that has paid for her name to be associated.
She pisses me off immensely 🤨

For these poor kids it must be like living in a real life Truman Show. Some of them had their births filmed and shared! Their parents will say that it’s all done with their consent, but it’s not informed consent because most are too young to comprehend what they’re consenting to and the long term repercussions.

i dont follow / unfollow anyone going down that route. a lot of times i see them as i follow a brand. the brand gets unfollowed straight away. its bizarre.

In a press conference, the police looking for the little girl (Cleo ?) in Australia who was taken from her tent during the night and abducted, said that the only connection between the bloke that took her and the family was that he followed the mother’s social media. And she posted a lot about her family and that they were going to be at that camp site.

Yep the Saccone-jolly’s. It’s one thing being naive or blasé about the types of people viewing your children, but to actively and consciously play up to that is just 🤢🤢

Yes I totally agree! I think in years to come it will be looked back on as, if not abusive, very negligent.

I do have a private insta with about 150 followers (friends and family) and put pictures of my children but even then I don't put anything medical like potty training or when DS had Grommets. Or them having tantrums or them being ill. Just the odd cute picture.

They are absolutely disgusting. Imagine selling your kids online in a way that you know appeals to paedophiles. I bet those kids will grow up and cut off contact. No amount of money or private schools would be worth it for me to put my children online. If they wanted to do it when they were 18, fair enough.

I don’t follow any but some of these posts show how bad it is for those dc.

RVK is the worst i have seen. Now she is trying to become a kids travel influencer and regularly takes her kids out of school. I cannot fathom how any parent thinks it is ok to exploit their own children for their own financial gain. Not only are the children unable to consent the world knows about their lives all of it good and bad. If parents cannot find it within themselves to safeguard their own children the law has to step in and stop this utter madness it is so dangerous.

I agree but what i think is even worse is posting 100 'back of head' photos or emojis over their faces. Its ridiculous. Just don't post them. Stop using them for financial gain but blocking out their faces with a stupid emoji trying to pretend you are morally superior to those who post full pics of kids.
Leave them off your page completely.

Children cannot give informed consent, it shouldn’t be allowed.

This absolutely does my head in. It’s performative because if you actually cared about the child’s privacy you just wouldn’t post them. So it’s a way of saying ‘look! I’m a great mummy! I don’t show my children off.’

It has started to become a trend and it’s very, very irritating.

The book 'people like her' would be a good read for you op!

There’s an American mother of a disabled toddler whose videos keep getting pushed to me. He seems like a sweet wee boy and obviously has adversities to overcome in life but it feels like his parents film him all the time and often their interactions sound false eg saying “I love you” at strange times in an interaction because they feel they have to get that in somehow. I keep wanting to say “turn off the camera and just enjoy parenting your lovely son”.