we gotta talk about gen alpha influencers
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A video from "gen alpha influencers" was put on tiktok and quickly spread to other platforms. Let's talk about child influencers, the money implications, and the parents behind the camera.
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Family channels walked so the parents of gen alpha influencers could run. We live in the bad place.
That's a good quote
The bad place is the Avdiivka region of Ukraine.
What we live in is more like the ethically/culturally bankrupt place.
@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 agreed, the US is not the bad place until Civil War 2's big start next year
@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372it’s a reference to a show 😂
@@cailinanne Indeed it is. I'm not that old. Thank God.
No Swell is right. These kids are just...exploited. The "We're Gen Alpha" video is a produced video. In other words, the shots are set up, the shots are rehearsed, the little girls have to (are forced to) "learn" their lines. There's reshearsals with the girls _and the_ camera.
And there's surely multiple takes.
It's work. And kids should never be forced to work.
yeah people wonder how these kids are so articulate and well spoken it's because they actually have no idea what they're saying and just have the lines down verbatim after having it drilled into their head all day.
Yeah, there's a big difference between a little kid wanting a lemonade stand in the front yard and sending a kid to make lemonade in a commercial kitchen. I feel like that's the difference between kids existing on social media and kids being full-blown influencers
@@CheezusYeah those kids are speaking sentences they would never say otherwise. In the Sephora video it's the same thing; no kid talks like that.
Because the language is unnatural for them it's likely challenging to recite. Some of those shots in the "Gen Alpha" video are tracking shots, so the kid has to recite absurd, complicated language while hitting their mark, and the focus and frame all have to be right. And for what?
_The difference_ between this and a professional set, as Swell points out, is the Coogan protections. These Gen Alpha kids essentially have no one looking out for their interests. God knows how long those videos took to produce.
@@msjkramey Well said.
I think the sad reality also comes down to the fact many of these younger parents themselves grew up during the “birth” of online influences/creators. Being told that’s something to aspired to be able to do one day. They couldn’t but now that they gave their own kids their pushing those dreams on them. Same reason there is a big thing with kids and makeup. It’s the stuff these parents grew up seen and normalizing. It’s pretty much the younger generation’s version of pageants and dance moms or w/e those shows were called.
The netflix documentaries are going to be insane in like 10-20 years
I sure hope no one knows what Netflix is in 10 years
And then the parents will try to play the victim and be like, "I was just doing what I thought was right! I never got to be famous or an influencer when I was a kid! It was sooo sad! I was giving my kid the thing I never got to have!"
Assuming we make it that far
You are very hopeful for the future if you really think that the world can continue on the way it is
@@2FRESH-4U it won’t. Trust in God, and support your local Nationalists.
My parents caught me making videos with my face fully on camera when i was like 13 and they proceeded to delete them all and tell me that i was too young to do that shit. I am very thankful they did, that's proper parenting.
So glad you took their advice to heart
I was raised in a time where you wouldn't make an account with your real name or face ever. So now I'm 31 with a very low internet presence and people have a hard time finding me from real life. Just as I like it, I want to keep those things separate. I hate that these kids don't even get this option. They don't know how this can affect them later.
I don't want my daughter online until she's sixteen. Kids in her school, she's six, have cellphones. Idk what I'm gonna do lol. (Other than teaching her internet safety but still)
@@DieAlteistwiederda It is seemingly insane to me that people use their real names on the internet. Social media is the complete antithesis of what I was taught growing up in the '90s.
it's ok to make videos for yourself and your friends. but posting them on public areas where strangers can see? nah wait till your frontal lobe developed fully
Good god. Hearing 'of course we don't have toys' come out of a literal CHILD'S mouth (even if it's been coached and bait), breaks my heart. I work with kids, and the idea of a child having their only concept of 'play' being make up get-ready-with-me's or demonstrating their 'skin care routine', or just preforming in front of a camera just shatters my heart.
I also worry because a lot of the audience for these channels is other kids. I worry about kids watching other kids open luxury skin care. There’s no reason for an eight year-old to know what retinol is or to be recognizing luxury brands.
the naive part of my brain wants to suggest that their digital lives may involve video games instead of toys, but somehow I know that wouldn't be happening either if they really didn't have toys
@@kyoyameganebereznoff i'd push back on the "recognizing luxury brands" part a bit - brands like Revlon and Estee Lauder (definitely luxury brands afaiaa) had SO MANY ads on TV when I was a kid. There's a certain buck teethed brit going "REYVLAWN NYEW LUNDUN" utterly lasered into my early memories lmao
imagine an adult saying well oh course i don’t have a job…
I’m sure the kids do actually have toys, I think that line was part of the rage bait. But it’s still a very upsetting video
The term gen alpha influencers makes me sick
I think in like 10-15ish years it'll be fine... But I agree. It's a little early for them to where they are on the internet.
@@katherinemclean1448 yeah the entire problem is that they’re children, and mid to late teens isn’t really okay to me either. The lack of parenting in our society is just sad.
Fr it made me want to throw up 🤢
The video she showed of “we’re gen alpha influencers” might be the one of the most upsetting yet completely safe for work thing I’ve ever seen
@@ville__ Sad to be you I guess
“Some of you are having children just for content” 🗣️🗣️🗣️ THANK YOUUUUU
my first thought was literally the labrant family
There’s a weird correlation to American religious families too. Christians/Mormons making it as commercial and obnoxious as possible, posting videos of them in swimwear, topless, it’s so irresponsible and darker than this video gets into. Ruby Franke is literally in a jail cell because of this culture lol how far does it need to go before getting regulated? Insaaaaaane
That .67 seconds of 😮 between “I’m on a cruise” and “not that cruise”. 😮💨
I didn't get it.
@@LoneLoboX88 "That" cruise is the 9 month cruise around the world so she was meaning she hadn't joined up with it.
The room looks way too nice to be on that specific cruise ship. 😅
@@rapids444 ... yet
@@DieAlteistwiederdaI was gonna say that lol she’s on a legit one it seems…
My sons just turned 10 and 8. They both want to start a RUclips channel. They kept hassling me to do it last year, so I told them if they wanted a channel, they needed to come up with five video ideas, film them, and edit them. If they had five edited videos, I would make them a channel. My older son filmed one video and partially edited it, but then gave up.
I wanted them to understand how much work creating content is and I figured that if they met a bar that high, they deserved to have their own channel.
That's a really smart idea. I might try that if I have kids and they ask for the same thing.
Good idea!
Thanks! I didn’t want to just say no, even though there are plenty of reasons to not give them a channel. I’d just watched a video where Mat Pat said he always launched channels with five videos. Kids like the idea of RUclips channels, but they have no concept of what goes into them, so I figured there was no harm in letting them try.
My older son was disappointed in himself for not finishing the edit, but we talked with his therapist about it. I explained to him that the task I’d set would be difficult for a grown adult and that the kids he sees on RUclips have adults in their life doing all that for them. Obviously, he asked why I wouldn’t do that for him, and I said that I believe he’s too young. When he’s able to script videos, film them, and edit them himself, he’ll be old enough but he should just enjoy being a kid for now!
Even if they did complete 5 videos, you shouldn’t let them have a channel at 10 and 8. What’s wrong with you?? You’re damaging your kids like this. Do better
@FransceneJK98 I think there's a big difference between kids making videos discussing their favorite subjects and a parent forcing their kid to be on camera. Forcing your kid to follow a script for a skincare routine to preform for an audience is deeply wrong and exploitative.
I like OPs take because it gives the kids a chance to see what work goes into editing and making videos. They get to understand what actually goes on behind the scenes for making films and movies. But there would have to be talks about mean comments, talking to strangers and giving out any personal info. A kid can express their hobbies and share those with others, I think that's reasonable. It's just up to the parents to have a discussion with their kids about online safety, and about moderation and when to take breaks from social media.
That's a lot different from forcing a kid, the OP is talking about giving their kids the chance to express themselves with reasonable expectations about what they can and cannot do. I say, good parenting and they ARE doing better by asking questions and questioning themselves and what's good for their family!
DO NOT GO DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE of the parents who have modeling accts for their preteens. AND they take request for “modeling” content. 🤢
Wow, anyone can be a toxic showbiz parent nowadays...
This happens so much in Japan
That sounds like creating child p****graphic material without going to jail for it …
@@bryncheeze8970They're digital pimps
How is that legal? You're saying basically like a legal, softcore OF for CHILDREN?? I feel like there's no way that it doesn't fall under some existing umbrella of illegal materials, but who's enforcing that stuff if it's not high profile when there's "bigger fish to fry"?
This is all so the parents can profit off of weird/creepy people that actually want to watch a random child on the internet. No grown adult I know would ever follow a child on the internet. It’s weirdo behavior.
I mean, most people can say that a silly baby is cute, especially moms. My youngest sister is 2, and my mom already missed having a little baby around and I could see her watching videos on cute little babies or something. But like, a 7 year old with their own whole account? Yeah I don't think normal people would be watching that...
@FelicityUwU I sometimes will get cute kids shorts/tiktoks show up on my feed. I'm so used to hitting the like button on sweet, wholesome stuff that I have to actively remind myself not to do that, so it doesn't feed the algorithm. I also report anything that feels even slightly off and report specific comments that ask the kids for details or request videos. I don't think any of that does much, but I think of the trouble I almost got into on the internet as a kid and then I think of how much more intense this stuff is. I was routinely talking to groomers in anonymous chat rooms without giving it a second thought (fortunately I never gave out any personal details though) and it was super inappropriate stuff going on
some parents don't fucking deserve their children
If you are caught watching a Disney film or any family film or any content with a kid in it, then you are going to be called out for being the biggest hypocrite ever and a deeply closeted ped... Stay in your mom's basement~!
The main consumer of kids videos are actual kids.
"of course we don't have toys." Made me sick to my stomach.
same, it's sad to know that there's kids out there growing up without toys or any other source of stimulation other than their phone
My parents drilled into me not to share any personal information on the internet, especially my age. Even as an adult, I'm purposefully vague about my age. And then I see comments like "I'm twelve how old are u?" under random videos and I die a little inside. Protect your privacy kiddos.
Every time I see a minor announcing their age in a comment section or twitch chat I get worried. Even now, I avoid putting my exact age on my socials. Personal privacy really should be emphasized more, especially since nothing every truly gets removed on the internet
"Never share your name online" "Never share your age online" "Never post where you live online, not even the city" Mantras that i STILL live by. EVEN AT WORK! "How old are you?" "I'm [vague range]" "Where do you live?" "[Vague description]" this is just for personal fucking safety. Please. PLEASE take it seriously omg
The youngest I've seen declaring their age is 9yo and it's in the comments section of a 19+ story with others chiming in saying they're about that age to 12yo and that scares me bc I have a 8yo sister that'll turn 9 in a few months and I kept thinking what if she stumbles on sites and saw things like these children and it would end up messing up her view of how things work and stuff irl?
Yeah, and ya gotta do it in person too. @@Sintanity people ask me at my job a lot like "when do you get off work?" And I go "Oh you know, later."
it was like that for me too when i was 13-14 with my parents but when i got older & even now at 22 i’m not very vague with a lot of stuff online but then again most of the people on my accounts are people i actually know lol
To anyone who says that this kid stuff won't follow them...Rebecca Black.
Maybe not the best example... she's now a successful performer with a loyal fan-base.
@@delphinewartelle8106 but ask her about the PTSD she experiences to this day. THAT was my point.
@delphinewartelle8106 it was a really rough journey for her between then and where she is now.
Not sure if she would say it was worth it or not.
@@delphinewartelle8106i think it’s a very good example of the relentless bullying actually
My niece is gen Alpha she wants to be an influencer. We film her and upload it to private so she feels like she's doing it without being in danger or being used and as a bonus we have lots of funny clips of her talking to herself doing her makeup to show her when she's 18 lmao we let her show them to her friends who come over and her family members for fun but she's too young to be exposed to the internet like that, I can encourage her hobby and not put her in danger.
Smart.
That's very cool. She gets to express herself without it feeling like a job or her being exploited. That's a very smart compromise.
I'm going to incorporate "that's going to sound condescending...and I hope it does" into my everyday life now 😂
Family reunions where you don’t know 90% of the people there are already awkward as fuck, imagine being a child influencer doing meet and greets with tons of adults and other kids you don’t know and will likely never see again but they know everything about your life because your mom and dad decided your entire life was monetizable
Have you seen Caroline Easom's satirical shorts about this? She's SO GOOD. And now she's become a real-life spokesperson supporting legislation to protect influencer kids. Free Little Sandwich!
It’s amazing, funny and bone chilling
I was about to comment this! Its so sad and so good!!
I’m gifting my children privacy and no internet footprint! These parents drive me crazy and all just for money. Some of them even know there’s creeps looking at their children every day.
Will you let your kids make their own accounts when they're in middle school or high school though? I was part of the MySpace/Facebook generation and from that experience, I think it's better to let kids make one that you know about than have them do it with no oversight behind your back. Some kids would have a secret second one, but most kids didn't feel like managing two, so just kept it tame enough on the ones their parents could see
@@msjkramey of course when the times come they will be allow to have social media. I’m still trying to figure how we are going to go about out it since they are still very small, but the last thing I want is for them to hide things from us. We also talk to my oldest about age appropriate things constantly and he understands why we do certain things like monitored tablet access, and we vet shows and games before he can play or watch.
If you can't read you shouldn't be online end of story. It's just too freaking dangerous. Please give these kids some finger paints or a sand pit or something messy and fun. The little skincare girls make me sick as much as they break my heart
A lot of these parents are making videos in order to get a brand deal. It used to be the other way around. You made the content, got subscribers, got brand deals …now these kids are being used as a chance to get a brand deal. It’s so gross.
So I just did a bedroom resign with my two nieces (10 and 5). We went to 5 Below and Target and they got to look over things and pick fairy lights, storage options and some cute fake plants. The 5 year old was bored as could be but the 10 year old was measuring things, using my calculator to budget and really weighing options for prices, colors, etc and trying to include her sister. I drew the light at candles tho because you’re a good kid but we don’t need open flames in a kids bedroom. But it made me so happy that they wanted Hello Kitty and bright colors and flowers
I like the little tea lights that are fake candles but still have a soft flickery light. I'm 34 but I'm worried I'll forget about candles 😂
The 10 year old sounds like they may have a future in interior decorating!
@@bookshelfhoneyI love me a fake candle. Nothing better than the timed ones that come on automatically every day and just give a little warm atmosphere without me even having to think about it😆
These videos are why my 11 year old niece is into skincare... she's 11! I didn't stop playing with Barbies until I was 12. Luckily her mom isn't buying into it and told her all she has to do is wash her face with soap.
I feel bad for the girls in the videos. They need toys, they need to engage with their imaginations, not shilling skincare they're too young for because mommy wants to play stage mom and live vicariously through her children.
not to be that guy but if she is washing her face she should probably have a moisturizer too or it might cause some pimples jsyk
11 or 12 is when I started using Proactive. It was after I had my first period and I was getting bad hormonal acne. I think that kind of thing is okay. You just don't need all this anti-aging bs. All the anti-aging that a child needs is a moisturizing sunblock. Prevention is the best medicine
at 11 i was drinking vodka, it could be way worse.
@@Man-ej6uv that's a false comparison. Come on
I stopped playing with toys at 12, like right after getting my first period. It was like a light switch.
You mentioned people recognizing kids when they go to do other things and how their peers might react, and it just reminds me of the way the 8 passengers kids would talk about how they have no friends, how they feel socially outcast, how they are bullied for what their mother posts of them, how they had to be put into home schooling. This stuff is real and it **will** happen. Kids of any ages are mean as fuck, they bully over the slightest inconvenience. Your parent posting and talking about every private milestone of your life gives their peers access to stuff bullies from 5 years ago wouldnt have even thought of looking into. It's crazy, and it really pains me how badly its going to fuck a lot of these 'child influencer' kids up.
Children should NEVER be the primary breadwinner for their family. Period.
Edit: these children are BABIES. Those parents should be ASHAMED
at their age i was outside making dirt potions or coloring...tf do they need to know what a cleanser is??
Stop. Working. On. Vacation!!
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100% no third places for kids is what’s doing this. Yes we still have playgrounds but what about when it’s -10 degrees outside? Places that were once kid focused are going down the modernism train. Fast food play places are getting shut down and removed. Fun characters are being replaced with beige walls. The McDonald’s outside our local zoo used to have fun animals all around it and it was bright and colorful and they just renovated and now it looks like every other sad grey McDonald’s. And obviously it’s not just fast food. Children’s museums and science museums used to be places we would go to when we had no money. Now those same museums cost $60 PER PERSON aged two and up! Chuck E. Cheese? Forget it. It’s $50 for an hour. Sports or scouts? Can’t afford that either. The prices are ridiculous. It’s much cheaper to let your kids go crazy in the mall than take them to anything kid focused and that’s a huge problem. And even malls are getting rid of their play areas. And when’s the last time you’ve seen a real toy store? Libraries are the last thing we have left and they’re dramatically underutilized.
Check out the Museums for All program which allows low income families to have greatly reduced museum admission, also check out your local library which often has museum passes to check out. And libraries still have kid friendly areas!
i feel like parks are getting worse to. 3 parks near me dont even have swings anymore. i feel so bad taking my little cousins and all they can do is go down a slide and run in a circle 😭😭
Also, parents are too lazy to take their kids places, and then THOSE parents blame the kids and say, "Yeah, kids these days don't want to play anymore." as an excuse so they get away with not taking their kids anywhere. My younger siblings have been begging my parents to take them to a park. That's all they want. It's literally free, and the weather has been mostly nice, but convincing my parents, especially my dad, to take them is like pulling teeth. A lot of parents act like having to drive or walk with their kids to fun and cheap places, like the park or library, and then possibly having to watch them and do something FOR THEM and not themselves, is some kind of huge burden. In the 70s, 80s, and 90s, THEIR parents let them go to these places though. They got to have a childhood. But then these people grew up and complained about their parents and then deprived their own kids from fun even more than their parents supposedly did, having companies and cities catering to THEM and never their own children.
Then, these places shut down and assume, "Yeah, kids aren't interested in these places anymore." but the reality is that kids DO want to go. It's their lazy parents who want to take the easy way out for everything when it comes to parenting and only do things that benefit THEM and their own self image.
@@tech7653 I've seen newer playgrounds that look more like some weird modern art and hardly look like playgrounds. It's like these playground designers care more about being "different" or "aesthetically pleasing" than they do about actually making them enjoyable and fun for kids, aka the people these playgrounds were made for. Some of them do look good though.
I feel like playground designers used to care about what kids wanted, and now they care more about what's cheaper or looks pretty.
the comment about how weird it must be for a child to have random strange adults talk to you like they're family reminded me of the reddit post "I was brought up by family vloggers and it ruined my life" from a while ago:
"someone attempted to kidnap my sister and found it easy because they knew her full name, address, school and details about her. My sister didn’t know he was a stranger because he knew so much about her."
We've seen how extreme and criminal some parents can be when it comes to exploiting their kids. My concern is that parents don't see an issue with shoving a camera into their kids face and film very personal things for the whole worlds (creeps included) to see. They think since these are THEIR kids they can do whatever with them.
Ah yes, the idea that parents "own" their child, is thought of in very different ways across many different cultures.
i got so sad the other week buying clothes for my kids. i was in the 18 month section. i saw a shirt that said “future influencer”. i almost cried.
Being on the internet as a kid in the late 2000s/early 2010s was a fucking nightmare, I can't even imagine how bad it must be for people who've been using advanced technology since birth
I'm glad I was at least shielded from the awful parts of the internet from 2008-2011. I just mostly played flash games or those mmo type of games, and I very rarely used RUclips. The most inappropriate stuff I saw on RUclips at the time were those YTP videos. It's probably because I was never a huge fan of being "rebellious" or watching raunchy stuff, and my mom was also stricter and more attentive than most parents I knew. Even when I started using social media, I wasn't allowed to post my face or even my first name. I remember thinking that my friends' parents were crazy for letting their kids show their faces, full names, and name of their school online, at just 11-14 years old!
I'm from 87 so we fully had Internet and mobile phones but we still mostly lived our lives in real life, I am so grateful I got to have Internet and still know the 'we meet at that point at that time to hang out' and the 'be home before dusk' part of western society.
what happened in 2008-2011?
i hadn't considered the difference between gen z and gen alpha before hearing that the sephora kids are young gen z, and it made me realize that the difference between those generations will be defined by whether or not they had been in school before COVID happened and knew the difference, kind of like how i believe the difference between millenials and gen z is if you were in school when 9/11 happened and can remember what things were like before things like TSA
That's true. I've only in recent years learned about the generally accepted range for various generations and they do tend to be divided into major events. It somewhat fascinating to examine the different nuances not only between different generation but also the first and second half of a generation.
Being able to make a similar connection really helped me understand what "generations" are outside of their stereotypes & it's super interesting to think about. Based on discussions with my parents (Boomer/Gen X cuspers) and older coworkers, I think the shift from Boomers to Gen X is marked by the 1973 energy crisis & the ability to remember what things were like before (though honestly the "Boomer" designation is kind of rendered useless when viewing generations through this lens and can/should probably be split up into at least 2 separate generations - maybe being able to remember and understand the impact of the JFK assassination? Or the difference between pre- and post- Vietnam War?) It also helped me understand why our generational labels/stereotypes seemed so US-centric & didn't quite "fit" when used by my non-American cousins.
THIS. Gen alpha will pretty much only remember a post-Covid world. Just like gen z only remember a post-911 world
I was 17 the day 9/11 happeneed. Was in California at the time. Weired day. If my famy lived there, my hair would have gone straight back my younger platinum from the stress.
that was incorrect, the sephora kids are gen alpha. gen alpha starts in 2010, the oldest gen alpha being 14 right now, so sephora 12 year olds are gen alpha.
As a grade 9 teacher, some of the school issues come back to the same type of parents who see their kids as an accessory or a way to get attention. The children aren't getting the emotional support and care they should get from a parent; you feel so badly for them because - even if they're acting weirdly or awfully - so much of that behaviour is learned or the result of just not being cared about.
You are so right. My HS days were in the early 2000s, so before influencers existed, but my parents raised me with the "child is the accessory & makes us look good" concept in mind my whole life. So, they would happily show me off in public if I did something noteworthy, but at home? Nothing, except when any little mistake suddenly became the biggest in the world to them. It does damage & change a child and ruin their sense of self. Therapy will likely be needed- I feel nothing but sympathy and empathy for the children being forced to be influencers bc it feels like what I went though but multiplied by 100. It hurts to see that bc their lives *look* glamorous & exciting, it makes other kids *want* to do it too. Vicious cycle.
Agreed. Social media accelerated that trend and now people are having baby’s just to make Instagram and Tiktok posts and viral trends but as soon as the kids become toddlers they are dumped in front of iPads. This is what causes the Sephora epidemic
The number of parents I had to lock out of their children's bank accounts tells me there is a prevalent feeling that a parents owns their child like an extension of themselves. I've seen parents put utilities into their kid's names and sabotoge their credit before they're even 18. This was prior to the social media influencer boom, but it's no different to me. Watching a 16/17 year old trying to save up their relatively tiny McPaycheques to move out while their parent is in every other week screaming about how "it's my child, and therefore my money!" is a truly depressing situation I saw way too much. Even one is too much. I can only imagine how much harder it is to save up and move away from abuse when the money never touches the kid's account in the first place. They get no recourse without litigation.
Agreed. It’s concearning it’s awful
@@noahbossier1131 While the job was depressing af, I do miss getting those chances to, say, get the phone away from someone being scammed and have a little instant karma/ fun.
Oh they’re definitely having babies for content, so many videos to get views! The announcement, “telling my husband I’m pregnant”, “telling our parents we’re pregnant”, “telling our friends”, ultrasounds, baby showers, gender reveals and then finally filming the birth, I think two of the Shaytard kids have grown up, never not being on camera. It’s nuts to me
Oh god , what monster :(
What if they didn’t do announcement videos or birth videos? Then randomly nine months later you just said a baby wandering around like “what? did they have a baby?”
@dr.cheetahshow7277 There's a difference between announcing a pregnancy and getting pregnant for the purposes of making 50 videos around it and to exploit every aspect of your future child's life as a money making device for their entire childhood until they reach an age they're not considering cute enough to base content around anymore.
It really hit me when you said: "where are the parents?" "They're holding the camera." I'm an older millennial and was always taught the Internet was a dangerous place so I'm not sure if ignorance is an excuse anymore. My computer was in the kitchen. So many thoughts and concerns. Thanks for the content as always❤
i think the worst part of all this is that there is absolutely no way that these influencer parents don't know who is actually watching their kids. people have been talking about how pdf files are running rampant on tiktok. they read the comments, they see their save vs likes ratio, they see their profile pictures. there is NO benefit of the doubt here, they are aware, and it's disgusting.
You can say the word pedophile, don't censor it like that
Pdf files?
@@KD-ou2np RUclips auto-filters out comments so people have to use other terms to get around it. "Pdf file" is the replacement for "p3d0phile".
@@KD-ou2np adults who like kids a little too much.
Where gen alpha influencers we can’t say influencer because we don’t have all our teeth yet.
Child influencer law has been a thing in France for a couple of years now and I can only hope other countries will follow their example.
France, the country that gave us Cuties. Working as intended right?
These child 'influencers' will be spending their childhoods following trends and they'll grow up to be adults who just dont know what they like and dislike.
Like, those crucial years where you experiment with different styles and designs and music are just gone now. They like and enjoy whatever tiktok tells them they SHOULD like and enjoy.
The identity crisis these kids will be going through as older teens or young adults is heartbreaking to think about. These poor babies never stood a chance with their clout goblin parents.
we already see this happening with people on tiktok, especially young women, who are following trends that change every two weeks. following trends tjat quickly, wasting money so readily, doing rapid lifestyle changes to match aesthetics, all of it can only be explained by lacking a sense of distinct identity and trying to seek a community
@@spagheleton Exactly. This has always been an issue. Blame marketing for that.
I have 3 Gen alpha kids...One has asked "when can we start a youtube channel?". I answered "never" and we had to explain how life becomes work when you start a channel. Maybe I should dig a bunch of your clips commenting on your never taking real time off to help make my point :P
I guess you can do a fun selfmade movie instead? as alternative that they , i dont know. outlet for that? That they dont try to get infuencer :(
@@marocat4749 I love that idea!!! I should foster his creativity, thank you for this idea!
I just had this talk with my little Gen Alpha the other day. My conversation went in a completely other direction. I had a conversation about internet safety and how much harder it is when you become a youtuber/influencer. The next time the conversation comes up I'm going to take a page from you instead. The "it's not safe" talk is never convincing when these videos give such an unrealistic and delusional lifestyle to the Gen Alpha audience.
@@ambiguousreptilian4624 iits really wild! Myy kids don't even have access to RUclips directly, but a few RUclips channels have been added to a kids streaming app we use. I really don't mind the gaming content but as you said, the typical kidfluencer videos give completely unreal expectations
My niece is 6 and loves making stop motion movies, and she asked my sister for a RUclips channel, and my sister only said yes when she realized they could all be privated and shared only with family
The internet should be barred to children and the elderly in equal measure.
My mother in law is senile and thinks every Facebook scam and random scam text are legit things. Given she acts like a toddler, I can only assume actual toddlers are just as easily manipulated by these predators.
Thats what ive been thinking too. The internet is too vast for a child to understand. They dont understand that its _forever_ . Moms pop out kids with the intention of selling them out on the internet like a product and thats all these kids will know.
The laws are so behind. Make it mandatory to blur a childs face online or something. That would knock out so many family influencers and mommy bloggers so fast. If they want to be an influencer so they can do it using themselves. Not their kids.
i also get very hesitant whenever i see someone's very apparent senile grandparent or someone with dementia or old-age mental regression because they probably dont understand they're going on the public internet for views
@@glass9137don't you have to censor children's faces in other countries if you're allowed to post at all? (Talking from a US perspective here)
If TikTok actually followed their own policies and didn’t allow these “mom run” accounts we wouldn’t be here.
@@auggiedoggiesmommy1734 Right?! It's one thing for someone to make an account for their dog or something. It's a whole other thing to make an account for their child when the child should be safely prohibited from joining platforms like this.
"Get your hands out of your pants. We're talking. There will be a quiz" actually made me lol. So fun
I quit teaching last year because the way kids interact with each other and with adults has changed so much because of lockdown. Kids are actually maturing later but thinking they’re maturing earlier because of parents exploiting their kids like this, making them feel “grown up”. It makes me so sad to see kids get messed up like this :(
Many family channel parents aren't obtuse about the creeps watching their kids. They know, and they don't care, because it brings in the dough.
I appreciate you blurring the kids faces and also not saying the names.
My mom didn't even want my real name on ROBLOX of all things. Wtf is going on in these parents' craniums????
“I’m on A cruise not THE cruise”
While I would love to see you one THE cruise what happened to taking a proper vacation?!?! Maybe this is a little parasocial of me but we’d rather you take a real break on your own terms than burn yourself out and be forced to take one.
Unfortunately I'm the type of person that if I saw a parent buying their 7 year old adult skincare, I would absolutely tell them they are a terrible parent to their face
Honestly, sometimes people should be told. Probably won't change anything. But at least they've been told.
Good. We all need to normalize calling parents bad parents without feeling guilty again. This fear of "shaming" parents is part of the reason why parents are able to get away with this. Teachers are scared of parents. Other parents are scared of parents. Pediatricians are scared of parents. Child psychologists are scared of parents. We need to stop beating around the bush and staying quiet whenever we see a parent abusing, neglecting, spoiling, or exploiting their child. These parents were never told that what they're doing with their kids is cruel or were told they were bad parents, so they just keep doing what they're doing, because they either don't know better or know that everyone's too scared of holding them accountable. Then who gets hurt in the end? The children. People would choose bullying the kids over criticising parents. It's messed up.
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I have a 9yr old. Lock down isn't the reason this. It's more complicated. Part of the problem is lazy lazy parenting
videos like that (the gen alpha influencer one that was blowing up) make me wait for the future lawsuits cause i'd bet money that those kids won't be seeing the dollars they're making right now in the future.
This is our times’ version of child actors and their predatory parents
The phrase “gen alpha influencers” gives me psychic damage
Privacy is one of the most expensive things these days, and I hope we eventually get better laws to be able to court order our likeness to be scrubbed from online content. I also really hope that kougen laws get updated because monetized social media really should fall under that.
I remember during covid there was a surge of thefts at the Nashville Grand Ol Opry mall and a seeming increase of loitering/gang activity. They banned everyone under 18 from entering without a parent present and were straight up carding people. I feel like we need more community centers.
Not all heroes wear capes, some just wear alot of glasses
"That is now the rest of that child's life" is so true. It’s like that one embarrassing thing you did as a kid that your parents told the extended family and now they bring it up EVERY CHANCE THEY GET but at the extreme macro level.
My daughter is six and I barely like her having a tablet. It makes me wanna put her online even less, but due to the nature of myself and my work I don't think that'll be possible so I gotta just pay close attention to her shit lol.
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I'm sorry, but hearing these babies say these things is infuriating. All I can think about is how these kids act identical to my daughter, and how this is probably stressing them out, but the parents don't give a shit because they are too lazy to make money correctly.
Tiktok NEEDS TO BAN CHILDREN
These child "influencers" are being exploited. This is a blackpill, this whole thing is heartbreaking
i agree unfortunately there are absolutely parents out there who had kids to make internet money off them
Holy crap, the end comment about your parent wiping out your bank account really shows how dangerous this can be! I remember watching the Shiny Happy People doc about the Duggars and how even though the kids were 18 and older, their dad had signed them into a contract with TLC for basically the rest of their lives - this trauma for gen alpha "influencers" is not going to stop when they're adults.
Adding on about under 18 accounts your parents on that account have to sign away their rights to it, make a new account and transfer all the money out
I was a vendor at a Halloween event and they had a child get on stage and sing a few songs as part of the entertainment. That was fine, but later she came up to my booth and asked if i liked her performance and i said sure and she HANDED ME HER BUSINESS CARD and asked me to follow her. This 10 year old girl was literally walking around handing out business cards like she's trying to make connections with fellow business owners the way that I do with my small business! Her instagram had tens of thousands of followers, literally ten times the amount that I have for my legitimate business!! That's how you know we as a society are headed in the wrong direction with our children. There is nothing wrong with a child singing and performing for fun but they need to be a kid and have a childhood and go play with some dang barbies or something like I did as a kid, not soliciting followers for their social media.
Those young ones can't even fully say influencers, it makes me wildly uncomfortable that they're online like that
When people talk about the loss of 3rd places for children did they just forget libraries exist? I know some areas don’t have as many resources so the libraries might not be an option but I know at least In my area that they still run the children’s programs and one of those include free daycare and story times with supervision so my mom would drop my cousin and I off with a librarian and they would watch us plus like 8 other kids for an hour and read us a book. If your a parent looking for a 3rd space go check out your library, I also know some bookstore hold free storyhours for kids as well as have children’s sections with couches. It might take more effort to find than needed before but they do exist :)
Part of it is that they need space where they can be loud and that is just something the library can’t do. So yes it’s a good option in moderation but it’s equally not helpful to have the only place available be a quiet space.
It's sad we're now losing libraries because the attack on libraries being "woke"
@@wolfwise1135 I'm glad my area still has some malls floating around. It really is an important place for teens and tweens.
I don't think the issue is that we have a lack of third places for kids. It's part of the problem, but there's a reason why this problem exists in the first place. The problem is that many kids have no way of getting there. Parents are too lazy to take them/don't have time, then these places are far away from their homes or schools and are in not so pedestrian safe areas, so they can't walk there themselves a lot of times, and public transit is non-existent in most parts of the US and Canada (probably other parts too), unless you live in the city, so they can't take the bus or train to these places either. What's the point of third places for kids if kids have no way of getting there?
Even to places where you don't have to spend money, like the park or library, you still have to get there.
Then, of course, you have some people who are shaken up by the pandemic and are still afraid of kids visiting public places, but I think that we're finally getting to a point where most parents are over it and are more relaxed about it.
@@elizrebezilmadommdo1662 That's definitely an issue as well. It certainly was 10+ years ago when I was growing up. Everything was 20+ minutes away by car, and public transportation is non-existent in so many places.
These kids shouldn't be doing skincare they should be playing with toys, drawing with crayons, and watching cartoons!
Thanks for the last tip! My parents weren't abussive at all and STILL, they had a child savings account for me when I was little, and surprise surprise, I saw NONE of the money ever (coulndn't be that much money but still, I wanted that money since I didn't get allowances growing up) By the time I turned 18, the first thing I did after graduating HS was to get an account of my own. I really can't imagine what these kids are/will be going through
Actually the law in Illinois that sets aside money for children is specifically about children featured in online content it was passed just last year so hopefully other states will start adopting it as well. And the amount set aside for the child is dependent on how much they are featured in the content.
I’m at work listening to this half blanking in and out and randomly hearing get your hand outta your pants there will be a quiz made me laugh so hard. 😂😂😂
This is exactly why I don't have Tiktok and never have. The minute you mentioned you were being force fed a video by the algorithm -- I knew exactly which one you were talking about. I watched another youtuber go through their videos and the girls in these videos, unfortunately, DO use those products. Their mom is mainly behind all of this, which is made obvious when she does Q&As with them while they do their skincare. They've also done at least 1 PSA on their Tiktok about not using retinol. (Still not sure I believe they don't.) To make it worse-- the dad cheated on the mom and last I heard she had multiple videos on the account talking about her divorcing him and getting a puppy. So between these 5-7 year old twin girls doing skin care routines, tanning, and stuff you get THAT. It's honestly depressing.
And the same lady is trying to get sponsorships and ad deals. And the mom is also a younique mlm seller
Hey Swell, this isn’t really relevant with the video, but I’m sick and barely holding it together and your video really cheers me up right now ❤
I hope you get better soon
Get well soon!
I absolutely agree if not setting aside money for the literal work a child is doing ... it is stealing.
I literally can not imagine how many children are struggling rn cause they don’t know they have dyslexia or ADHD or any kind of learning disability. It’s hard enough even when you do get the help and accommodations you need for your learning
I second the part about changing your account over when you're 18. I found out the same thing at 25. Nothing bad happened with mine. I was trying to buy a car and they said I couldn't get a cashier's check for that large of an amount without parent permission. My Dad got off work and met me at the bank and everything worked out, but the whole thing was ridiculous and potentially catastrophic if I didn't just happen to have good parents.
Strong agree on the loss of third places being a contributor to seeing kids in adult spaces like Sephora. Also agree that family channels that don’t segregate a % of the $ earned are stealing from their children.
Elder millenial who grew up online. The internet is a vastly different landscape now than it was when it was "forming," but even in the late 90s and early 00s, millenials my age were CLUELESS about how social media needed to be used responsibly. People my age, and some Gen x, are unhinged with how they want internet clout their their kids and have no sense of how unhealthy it is for their kids to be online so much - both shown on and on it. Seeing how this effects people in 10 years is going to be insane.
*I am so glad* a bottle of Reggae sauce dropped out of my cupboard and smashed my IPad - so I never became an IPad kid.
oddly specific event, but i'm happy your glad!
That Reggae bottle changed the course of history forever.
God interfering /j
I remember hearing a story forever ago about a mom who had a fairly successful parenting blog talking about her daughter. But it wasn’t just “here are a few ideas you can try at their next birthday party”, it was deeply personal shit like her getting her first period and staining her pajamas and sheets, right there for the entire world to read.
At one point the daughter walked up to her mom and said “Mom, I don’t want you writing about me anymore”. She said that kids at her school were reading it and making fun of her, that she felt uncomfortable about everyone knowing her personal business, and how she felt like she had no privacy whatsoever, that nowhere was safe - even in her own home, even with her own mother.
You know what her mom said?
“No.
This is how mommy makes money, so mommy’s going to keep doing it.”
You're not wrong about people only having kids for content. There was this one family channel I saw a video on that talked about how they weren't going to adopt anymore because they wouldn't be allowed to show the photos or videos of the kid for a certain amount of time.
I like money as much as the next broke person but I have a five year old and I don’t post him all over social media for it. I can’t even imagine that!! I made one silly video with him when he was a baby and literally less than a day later I thought about it and got so paranoid that I took it down and it only had like 20 views. I can’t imagine being okay with thousands or millions of views and saves on a video of my little kid. That just grosses me out. How do they not see the red flags or care??
Swell I really appreciate your tone and vibe in this video. You have a wonderful confidence and strength here.
Bless you for the under-18 account advice tag at the end. I was blessed to not have to worry about that issue but it breaks my heart so many do!
That little bit at the end about youth account needing to be updated to remove a guardian is so important!! I have seen so many stories about parents having no care for their children and cleaning out accounts or opening credit in their name (if you think there's a chance someone might try to open credit in your name freeze your credit).
It’s true a lot of parents don’t want to be “inconvenienced” by their children. I work at a self defense school and it has gotten ridiculous. Our 3-5 year old class gets out and the parents want to hang out in the lobby talking to each other not watch their children for over an hour, past the time that the class after their kids has ended. The kids are all friends but none of them want to sit in there on the phone they want to go out and play. I had to start hiding in the back as they kept trying to get me the office manager to watch them when I’m still doing my job. It highly ridiculous as there is literally a park on the other side of the parking lot, not even the street, the parking lot. And the kids beg and beg to go out to it because they can see it from the windows. These are 4 year olds, they are not all addicted to tech yet, the parks fenced in, and is all up to code. The weather is beautiful where I am at. In the mid 70’s, not a cloud in the sky, with a cool breeze. But these parents don’t want to “be inconvenienced” by their children at all. It sad especially because 2-3 of the children (it’s a class of about 10) parents do take them out to the park after class. And so the other kids have gotten so loud with begging to go out cause other children are out there. And as far as I can tell these parents have no beef with each other. They just don’t want to go and be inconvenienced in their socializing, to do it in a proper kid friendly environment. I mean the park has kid play area, work out area, basketball and baseball fields and their are bench with squirrels and ducks near it to feed (if you can’t tell I’ve been in the park) So these parents are just trying to engage with their kids as little as possible and it’s really sad.
There are still so many ppl on tiktok who are posting things that are so so obviously ads, but they say nothing avoutbit
I'm genuinely excited to see your video today! Brought a light to my gray evening, thanks for doing the dishes with me! 😊
Thank you so much for telling people about the under 18 bank account thing. I had a similar experience when I was 19 and attempted to move out of the house, only to find my multiple thousand dollars stollen by my abusive father.
Thank you for blurring them, it was really sad seeing their faces broadcast all over twitter :((
Couldn't have said it any better! Very well-spoken & firm yet direct in offering constructive criticism per usual. Well done amanda!!
That ending tip made me really feel for you, thanks for looking out for those who have a chance ❤
Swell bringing "thanks I hate it" topics to my attention
I wasn't a family channel kid. I was a kid before they got popular and so my mum didn't get into it, instead I was put on Flickr and Twitter, and the most money my mum made from me was whatever the value was of a camera she won in a competition once.
I feel so awful for these kids. If my mum and I were 15 years older.. I don't know if I'd be so lucky. I already have horrific anxiety about my face and personal information being on the internet, even now when its now necessary for my job and I can tell people "no". And I didn't have my face nearly as present as these kids, there wasn't really money involved, and the worst way my image has been used to my knowledge is a photo of me (age.. 14?) getting used as a RUclips thumbnail under the assumption I was an adult.
If the personal information my mother has put online was out there more visibly with my face and name more clearly attached? I don't know if I would be able to go on the internet non anonymously again for the sheer fear of people finding me. I am already scared of employers looking up my name and finding personal details including information about my medical conditions, even though it's at least obscured enough to not show up in Google searches, even though the account she did the worst of it on is gone. I didn't understand the implications when mum put photos of me on Flickr when I was 4, 5, 7... Then I was 15, 16, 20, 22.. and still arguing about her posting photos and information about me without my consent to thousands of people. It is a awful awful situation even in the less severe cases and I want to cry thinking about these kids and how their lives are going to be impacted by this.
Super glad to hear that you're taking a vacation!
Im very glad youre able to be ok with what you got and not always pusbing to something new. Dont get me wrong i like new things, but some creators push so hard they ruin it and lose a LOT of their audience. Youre awesome, and swell!
I feel the same level of discomfort when I see accounts that show their disabled or on the spectrum children. As the sister of a sibling with disabilities, at first it was heartwarming but now it kinda has undertones of unintentional exploitation. It just feels weird how many posts they do, especially when their child is non verbal and I have no idea if they gave consent or have the awareness to understand what consent is in this context. It’s vague, and I just wouldn’t do it.
Back in my day people exploited their kids on national television like normal people
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I’ve never been so happy for someone to be on a vacation? Weird.. but I’m so happy for her!! I hope she’s enjoying it and getting some inside scoop about cruises in general that she can talk about. I love swell and she really does work so hard. It’s amazing. Thank you lovely, enjoy ever moment