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AIBU to dislike parents using children in social media content?

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Hakunatomato · 30/08/2026 12:34

Frances Haugen and Stuart Armfield. They are all over social media. I try blocking their pages, but they pop up everywhere. It is nothing to do with them being two gay dads. It’s just the nauseating constant attention seeking, and using the children in content to make money. There was another content creator a bug life or something, where the kid was quite cute, but is it wrong to put your kids all over the internet when they have no say in it, just to make a fast buck? By the time they decide they don’t want their younger years documented and shown all over the world it will be too late. A clip came up this morning and one of the two dads was posing in his underpants, quite provocatively, for attention, and the next scene showed the kids. Yeuch….. What do you think?

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beaglescurleduplikebagels · 31/08/2026 17:10

Backedoffhackedoff · 30/08/2026 16:32

Do you think it’s ok for an employer to make employment decisions based on seeing an 18 year olds toddler tantrum posted by their mum? Wouldn’t you think it was the employer who was weird as hell for caring about that?!

yes talking about periods and medical issues (which is extreme) is highly embarrassing but I would hope other adults would be mature enough not to punish the child for their parents actions.

Whether I think it's okay or not is irrelevant really - because employers do use social media to make decisions about employment.

Lomonald · 31/08/2026 17:15

Hakunatomato · 30/08/2026 12:34

Frances Haugen and Stuart Armfield. They are all over social media. I try blocking their pages, but they pop up everywhere. It is nothing to do with them being two gay dads. It’s just the nauseating constant attention seeking, and using the children in content to make money. There was another content creator a bug life or something, where the kid was quite cute, but is it wrong to put your kids all over the internet when they have no say in it, just to make a fast buck? By the time they decide they don’t want their younger years documented and shown all over the world it will be too late. A clip came up this morning and one of the two dads was posing in his underpants, quite provocatively, for attention, and the next scene showed the kids. Yeuch….. What do you think?

You have given the Internet their full names so you will get them popping up again, I don't really know who they are but they seemed to have specifically annoy you, they will be a part of your algorithm.

Backedoffhackedoff · 31/08/2026 19:02

beaglescurleduplikebagels · 31/08/2026 17:10

Whether I think it's okay or not is irrelevant really - because employers do use social media to make decisions about employment.

But do you seriously think that use of social media includes concern about tantrums 15 years previously posted on their mothers account?

or do you think they’re more likely to be checking for, I dunno, racism, sexism, drug use etc on the applicants own social media account?!

OverpricedCupcake · 31/08/2026 19:04

ChopSueyCharcuterieBoard · 30/08/2026 12:48

The sooner they bring in laws to stop "family influencers" the better.

I hate them all.

Especially that Jonathan Joly one, I've had him blocked for years and years.

I've literally just seen that his wife has been on a podcast I watch, talking about their trans child.
Won't be watching that anymore.

ChopSueyCharcuterieBoard · 31/08/2026 19:23

OverpricedCupcake · 31/08/2026 19:04

I've literally just seen that his wife has been on a podcast I watch, talking about their trans child.
Won't be watching that anymore.

I saw them probably about a year before their child 'became trans' and I spotted what was going to happen a mile off. That whole situation is grooming right in front of the world.

OverpricedCupcake · 31/08/2026 19:25

It absolutely is.
I've not watched the podcast, but from the tagline used I'm guessing it's lapping it up.
Eurgh.
That poor boy.

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