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I'm gonna need some hurt comfort adoption fic with the child of a youtube family channel just to heal my soul, ok?

[kidfluencingadvocate]

The family vlogging kid urge to run away to France because that's the only country with meaningful regulation against family vloggers

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Hey uh while we're at the whole 'stopping family youtube channels' thing we also need to start protesting MCNs that work with family channels. Mcns are like fiercely protective families. If one of the channels is accused of something, they all go rush to their defense. We need to stop these MCNs from protecting the perpetrators.

[kidfluencingadvocate]

If you take part in family vlogging snark, you are part of the problem you are trying to solve.

If you actively and consciously engage with 'satire' of family vlogs that victims have labeled as harmful, you are part of the problem.

If you have decided to further exploit children or their stories for your entertainment, money, or just because you "like the drama" get over yourself and realize that you aren't a snark fan. You're not a sandwich family fan. You're a fan of family vlogging.

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Would die for another drew gooden video where he subtly points out the issues with family vlogging and child actors while also maintaining his commentary format haha I hate this job

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As a child of a family vlogger I think I'm justified in saying this is the only ethical way to run a family vlog

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[kidfluencingadvocate]

I can advocate for child safety on the internet without kicking kids off the internet completely.

I can admit that children need support from adults other than their parents while also remaining wary of adults online.

I can acknowledge the privilege of certain children while still recognizing children as an opressed group.

In the same way, I can recognize the privileges of family vlogger children while still condemning the family's actions, no matter how much money they've made.

I am capable of the logical procressing to make both true. I am able to protect myself.

[kidfluencingadvocate]

Family vlogging is child labor trafficking and we need to be talking about this.

Forcing your children to be in videos with you so that you can make money? Force.

Promising your children a cut of that money and then spending it all? Fraud.

Convincing your children to be in videos by threatening them with their salary, embarrassing photographs online, physical harm? Coercion.

Not to mention the sheer amount of financial abuse and manipulation that goes on in these families to keep their kids silent.

[kidfluencingadvocate]

Happy data privacy week! Here's some pointers and reminders on posting your children online!

-most content on CP websites was posted by the parents first. Just because you think the photo you posted was innocuous, doesn't mean it doesn't exist somewhere on a malicious website.

- teaching your kids about internet privacy and forbidding them from posting on social media, getting a phone etc. Does NOTHING for them if you're not following those rules yourself. ESPECIALLY if you're going around posting images of your children.

-set boundaries with your family members about not reposting or sharing content of your children outside of a group chat.

-a pictures worth a thousand words yadda yadda BUT- physical pictures are worth a gazillion. And they minimize the risk of people stealing images of your children.

[kidfluencingadvocate]

Current child influencing bills in Ohio, PA, Washington state, and CA would require two things

-a financial account to protect half of the earnings from the channel to give to the child when they turn 18

- "the right to be forgotten", or delete any content with their likeness on it after reaching 18 years of age.

And this is great because it's really the first motion to change we're seeing in the US.

But...

This legislation ultimately reinstates the idea that parents have rights over their children's image until they turn 18. It also implies that children are not allowed to say no to their parents. If we want more meaningful legislation we're also going to need to start thinking differently, start thinking of these kids as future adults, future traumatized individuals instead of just workers or 'youtube drama' or whatever the hell else.

We're going to need help, financial help, mental help, housing help, because of the lack of support from parents.

We need to consider what happens beyond youth.

[kidfluencingadvocate]

Can we talk about dhmis as a metaphor for kidfluencing and family youtube channels? (BTW I'm not saying this is the correct point of view or not because its probably not) just pointing out that a lot of the themes in dhmis line up with the practices of family channels.

Roy makes a kid a part of his content, and when other people point out how that's wrong, they get kicked from the show.

Yellow guy says that his dad is a computer, a possible reference to the disconnect he feels towards his own father, as his father is more of his online boss instead of a nurturing figure.

A lot of the harmful messages found in children's TV is even more prevalent on children's youtube, and we need to talk about that.

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Haha laugh hiding real pain

[kidfluencingadvocate]

Here's an awakening some of yall need!

Gentle parenting accounts are still exploiting their children

Scripted content accounts are still exploiting their children

Accounts with low follower counts are still exploiting their children

Accounts you think are "doing it right" are still. Exploiting. Their. Children.

[kidfluencingadvocate]

Saw this abhorrent take on Instagram today. Basically this assistant principal thinks that parents should check their children's phones often because kids don't know how to act.

I'm primarily a kidfluencing account, but the idea of being anti-kidfluencing is inherently intertwined with the idea of youth liberation.

The idea of kids having online safety can and should co-exist with the idea of kids having privacy. Full stop.

The post goes on to say that parents should conduct regular and random phone checks on their children. It also says they should "make content" with their children, which just hurt more to see this rhetoric posted by an anti-kidfluencing advocate I admire, mom.uncharted.

This article undermines the intelligence of children while also giving the parents the rights to literally everything their child is doing. And it comes from a leader of one of the most oppressive institutions for children- school.

So are we really surprised?

[kidfluencingadvocate]

If your activism against family vlogging doesn't include

Transgender kids

Gay kids

Teenagers who "could say no"

Kids with low subscriber counts or who "aren't famous"

Gentle parenting account kids

Kids who were in scripted content and not vlogs

Kids with a lot of money

Then I don't want your activism!