family vloggers are war criminals
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2022
- This week Ben expresses his distaste for the rise of social media family empires and highlights why the trend is so harmful! From privacy concerns to parents commodifying their own children into products for public consumption as a way to make money, family vloggers have a dark underbelly. Listen as Ben opens up about his own fears and considerations he'd take with his online presence if/when he has a kid of his own.
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This is why i like youtubers like moriah elizabeth becuase she had a kid when she already had millions of followers (shes a art youtuber) she showed her child once wont even say her childs name in front of a camera because she wants her child to be safe behind closed doors which is amazing
I watch her too, and I do think that was a really smart and good decision that Moriah made.
Her baby is so sweet tho, and its cute that she sometimes come in but isn't constantly exposed to the world
I watch her too and I respect her so much for what she did for little ME
I love her RUclips videos
Kinda like Laurenzside too, she shows and talks about her baby a few times but not that much
maturing is realizing why my parents hated for me to watch all those rich families on youtube. they were so rich and lived such a good life, and when i would show them they would just get sad bc they couldn’t give that to me. like it honestly is heartbreaking thinking back on it and how unrealistic my expectations were
Yes…. I used to watch these families as well. It’s really sad that their targeted demographic is young children who will be led to believe that their own family life isn’t “perfect”
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It's a little bit sad they did this to kids, luckily I wasn't like this. I was fine living a small live with an alright amount of money. Yeah, I got jealous, but looking back I wasn't that sad about my life.
when i was like 10 (6-7 years ago) i used to watch videos of family channels of kids opening like hundreds of toys for christmas bc i hoped one day mine would be like that so i can definitely see how that type of content can be damaging to kids and make them feel like that. my family didn’t have as much money growing up so christmas was limited but always a lot of fun. family channels don’t need to exist is what i’m trynna say😭😭
dude 100% AGREE
no fr i used to watch them because i literally wanted their life when i was like 8-9 😦😦😦
Most relatable comment I’ve ever read
same, when I was like 6-7 (5-6 years ago)
Yea! When I was young I watched the Labrant Family and I was angry and quite jealous that one of their children (everleigh I believe) got so many brand partnerships resulting in her getting all the newest toys that I wanted. I honestly feel bad for all these children because even if they get a lot of toys and presents they are probably worn out from always being put in front of a camera and faking their real life. They can’t consent or say no, either….
I used to watch family channels when I was like 8-10 or something. I was actually entertained by them but now I feel like you're right and I shouldn't give them money for just recording their kids. Now that you mention that, it's actually kinda creepy 💀
Same I used to watch every LaBrant fam video, I think i watched to see what a “perfect family” would be like lol but a couple years ago I watched a vid abt family vloggers (specifically them and their scandals also) and relised that it was bad.
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Bro same
I'm glad this is finally being talked about the way lot of family channels just flex money and things is ridiculous also
i watched them from like 7-12 because my home and family life just kind of sucked so i think i lived vicariously through the kids in the videos and used them as an escape but as i got older it didnt really work anymore and i started to learn how messed up they were
same
I am so happy that you talked about this and that other people are too. I have an aunt who makes videos about my cousins and posts them almost every day, her kids are 4, 6, and 7. Some people comment disgusting things and she just blows them off like it's nothing. Thank you, I love your videos and podcasts.
Omg! That is nasty! Ew delete the channel! Report it…
That’s just sad,have you tried telling her to turn them off
@@nicolesstudio743 Yes, my whole family has but she just tells us to mind our own business.
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I think the appeal for me when I was young was watching children have cool, interesting, “perfect” lives and having it be an escape from my not so perfect life with family trauma. Like others in the comments said, I kinda lived vicariously through them and what they did.
Not somebody trying to scam I think we know @ tp💀😭😭
this is a topic that i truly think needs to be talked about more. it is illegal (at least where i live) to take a direct photo of a person or group of people without their permission, and i feel like its almost the same doing this with your baby/child. but on the other hand, i used to watch sis vs bro in like 2017 and enjoyed this content. they werent so young but i still think they are very young to be providing for their family. they made vlogs and showed off their money like crazy which made me feel pretty bad. i agree with pretty much everything you said in this video. thank you for doing this podcast, its my fav podcast atm and wednesday is starting to be my fav day of the week haha
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I like how protective Ben is over little kids
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Ok, thank you so much for talking about this. This is not talked about enough and I’m glad you brought attention to this because some of it- MOST of it is just horrible.
when I was around ten I was obsessed with family fizz, I remember becoming so sad and completely wouldn't speak to my parents because I was so jealous that their family was so happy and mine wasn't. it really affected me for some reason
This is so true! It's ridiculous! But how do you feel about people who are just regular RUclipsrs and then have kids? And start to be a family vloggers? Cuz I feel like its kinda half and half, idk how I feel about it
Also love this podcast!! Its like the only one I can listen to and pay attention and enjoy ❤❤ love you Ben❤✨
I mean, if you just have a RUclips channel and you got a kid, that’s obviously okay. But I think you should talk to your partner, and if your kid is older also ask them if they want to be online. If you just want to show people the baby you got, that’s okay, but don’t share their whole name etc. Just keep your children safe, and don’t flex money! I think it’s okay if you just do that :)
@@mcmentallyunstable5455 I totally agree!
I love the fact the fact that ben posts so much but each time he posts i"m always entertained. He deserves a rewardddd!!!!
You also deserve an award, your name is ✨STUNNING✨
@@Kickbackwithacomeback omg thank you😭 so does your pfp , slayeddd😁
I highly agree. They do anything to make money and those that have kids always give away money like it’s something that grows on trees.
Btw big fan!
The highlight of my wednesdays are doing my skincare and listening to this podcast 😇🤸♀️
The fact that i used to watch and actually enjoy family channels as a kid, but now they annoy me so muchhh 😭
I used to watch a few family channels in my teens. In the adoption niche. Which kinda makes it worse. But it had that 'wow' factor. The families were usually large (8+ kids)
The families (mainly a channel called Crazy Pieces) I watched all seemed to have a healthy family dynamic. This may not have actually been the case because you can control what you put on the internet. But I didn't think about that at the time.
I guess the appeal for me was exactly that. These kids, in my view back then, were growing up with things that I didn't have. My family is dysfunctional. We're also not super wealthy. My parents got divorced when I was 15. I found comfort in that kind of content because of what I had lost. Plus, growing up I always felt like I was adopted. So maybe that explains my interest in adoption content.
I'm 22 now and I haven't touched content like that for 2 years now. I hope this helped in broadening your perspective, Ben.
There's a lot more that I want to talk about, but it would honestly be too long.
I completely agree with Ben but just know there is almost family channels that said when there kid is old enough to make their own decisions they will let them decide whether they want to be on camera or not
So when I was about 10 (currently 15), I was OBSESSED with this channel called That RUclips Family. I think the reason I liked it was because they did content with their older kids as well as the kids that were my age so I thought “oh cool, they must enjoy doing this”. BUT NO. I literally remember a video of one of the girls saying they would stay up until 2-3 in the morning recording videos and editing and then wake up at 4 to get ready for school. That is what disgusts me now. I can’t believe that parents would do that to their children and that they didn’t see a problem with it. And the only reason they had to stay up til 2-3 AM was because they had about 7 channels! Of course they were staying up that late. In any case, I find it gross and just.. no. But then? I thought they were the perfect little happy family. (Spoiler alert, they’re not.)
I’ve had a bad week I have pink eye don’t feel good and am growing my wisdom teeth and I’m top of it all I have a busy week of tests and quizzes but here comes Ben posting and it automatically makes my day
I used to watch family vlog channels between the ages of 5 and 10 and even then it was kinda weird to me that people would vlog their births and personal problems like some things should be PERSONAL!
There is this one family vlog channel named FV FAMILY and they did post a video about them being robbed and setting up something so the viewers can help catch the robber(s). Does that count?
I used to be a die hard fan of Norris Nuts when I was younger and now I look back at them and its just like wth 💀💀💀💀💀
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SAME THO I BEGGED MY MUM FOR THEIR OVER PRICES MERCH FOR AGES
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this is giving sis vs bro vibes
Ben your podcast is honestly one of my favorite sources of entertainment. I love hearing your thoughts and takes on things and I always look forward to another episode
The fact that the norris nuts reacted to ben is so funny to me
What vid
i watched these channels from 7-10/11, and i thoroughly enjoyed them. i thought they had the best life, they got toys they wanted, lived in these super upscale neighbour hoods in los angeles/some big city with super big houses, etc. i thought they had such good lives that i should just live with them. i’m really glad i matured and realized most of these shitty family channels are just using their kids for fame and money. ty ben for talking about this !
I used to love family channel videos since I was about 10 years old. I just loved watching peoples day to day lives and like what they did. This is before I understood a lot of what was actually going on behind screen’s though. So now I just watch very few that mostly don’t center the channel around their kids more about their actual day to day life and what they do.
my situation is a little different, more tame than some of these youtubers. but my dad is a pretty public figure where i live. he's in a popular local band and he brings a whole lot of attention to our family. and he likes documenting things, he always has. and i never saw much wrong with it until i turned 11 and realized i didn't want to be photographed or videod without my permission anymore. sometimes he'll sneak in my room and start recording and taking pictures when I am in my pajamas and having me-time and just wanna be left alone. i don't like it at all. i'm 16, almost 17 now and i became more vocal about my distain of his behavior. he always guilt tripped me into it. he'd threaten me emotionally with his own death. it irritates me how he just posts my face to the public when i don't want it. it's made me have a lot of issues with my face and body dysmorphia. and I'm not alone in this, all of my siblings hate it too. i hate it so much.
what the hell..thats actually horrible. The fact its your own dad aswell, is you mother aware of this? you should definitely talk ti a friend, or even your local council or teachers about this because its actually disgusting. I genuinely hope your doing ok along with your siblings i really hope things will get better!
@@j3ss.j yeah my moms aware and is on his side on this, but is less forceful. she's more of a "don't fight it, get it over with" type of attitude. and my brothers are legal adults now, so they have more of a say. my dad doesn't really respect my wants since I'm a minor. my brother's try to stick up for me as much as they can.
@@vivitronn honestly atleast you have your brothers. Im a minor aswell, i feel so bad for you. No one should have to go through this, im glad you could share your story and hopefully get things figured out soon! Im not religious but im praying for you 💗
Hi Ben!! When I was younger I watched lots of family channels and it entertained me because they usually did fun challenges but I also liked them because they lived such extravagant lives and it made me feel happy to see happy families for some reason since my family wasn’t super happy and couldn’t afford lots of stuff that those kids had, they had pools with water slides and things like that and I really wanted that as a kid. I’m older now and I understand that my family can’t afford that and I’ve stopped watching videos like that entirely. Ily Ben! :)
When I was about 7-8 years old, during the slime craze, I would watch them when they involved slime, witch was a lot. Once the slime craze was “over” I quit watching family channels, I also matured and realized it was weird. My little brother, he watches family channels when they do trick shots, gaming, or other things of that sort.
I remember when I was younger, my sisters used to love watching the LaBrant Fam and Norris Nuts and the Sis vs Bro channel- I never liked those things because I always thought the kids in the videos were spoiled- real glad you touched on this topic :)
Literally Ben as a dad is legit my mom when I was little 😂I love u sm Ben❤ thanks for always putting a smile on my face😊❤
omg when i was 6-9 i was obsessed w this family youtube chanel and it got to a point that i was laughing like the daughter oml and thing i found entataining about it was that they used to make slime lmaooo
I used to be a die hard fan of the Norris Nuts, I even begged my parents to get their over priced merch. Looking back I’m glad they didn’t cause all they do flex money and milk trends dry.
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Yeah I used to watch family blogs when I was 7, and although it weren't really so part of my interest, it was a least something enjoyable to watch. But ever since I saw the truth videos about these family vloggers I started to be disgusted by them. From *killing a Dog only to have a weak response* to *putting a adopted child up for adoption again a for views.* It really shows you the disgusting truth behind these despicable people. So I'm honestly glad that people like you are talking something like this that should have been talked about a lot!
25:06 i watched family channels when i was about as old as the kids were, just because I didnt realize how dysfunctional my family was, and seeing other people with "normal" families online made me realize that there was something wrong with my family.
these podcasts eps are the highlight of my thursdays
Well this is my experience. I used to watch family channels until I was like 7. I saw them unboxing stuff and just like you said in the video I obviously asked my parents, they pretty much always said no- I think that the only appeal these videos had for me as a kid were the things they were unboxing which to a 7 year old appeared fascinating.
This is so true omg people recording their kids opening up egg and dolls make other kids compare it to theirs and all the gifts they get and a large audience like that attracts wierd ppl just put on a show or cocomelon instead its not that hard instead of exploiting 5 year olds😭😭
I know some family vlogs are more advice based, like “how to put a toddler to bed” or “how to explain death to a child”, and I think those are great, making family advice accessible to lots of people without those people needing to pay for it is inherently good (in my opinion). The problem arises when it’s selfishly motivated.
When I was little and was on RUclips ( I got social media at a VERY young age) I would love seeing family channels and like u said in the video, a lot of the toys and stuff like that I would see I would ask my mom or dad for them and we never had a lot of money. And a lot of the family channels would be like “ we got a new house” and i got very upset bc I wanted the same lifestyle.
I love watching these videos while doing homework
I used to watch Norris nuts when I was like 10-11 and I ONLY watched the "Spend as much MONEY until you get CAUGHT!", when I tell you I was obsessed I MEAN IT, I could just sit there for hours watching them run around buying stuff and I don't know why I was sooo obsessed
8:22 sis vs bro...
i used to watch family channels when i was like maybe 8, the soul reason i watched them was probably for comfort. My parents were huge workaholics when i was little so i loved watching videos of other families who were always "there for each other" (looking back none of those families were f=there for each other lol) as i got older i started to realize those families were most definitely not healthy and theres a lot of horror stories with them. anyways I loved this video and i enjoy listening to your rants ben!! :)
I am 15 now and love your videos. But when I was about 4 or 5 I loved this Channel were kids were playing with slime,and doing challenges for money.
8:22 not sis vs bro 😭😭😭
When I was 8 or 9 I used to watch a family channel about a huge family playing games like Among Us and Granny in real life with each other. I have one brother and both of my parents own two businesses so they couldn't play games with us like that family could. It made me very sad when they were too tired to play Granny or Among Us. Looking back at it, I realized that most of their money came from recording their kids and RUclips.
These kids should be covered under the Coogan Act. It was passed in 1939 after Jackie Coogan, one of the first child stars mother and stepfather went through almost all of his money before he was an adult. He played Uncle Fester on the original Addams Family tv show.
When i was like 5 or 7 I would watch these families with kids who had everything they wanted and it made me sad cause I didn't have that life and I would make my mom feel so bad about it now I feel bad and wish i didn't do that.
When I was about 6 or so I used to watch family channels specially the fish fam and the labrant fam, I think looking back on it I watched them because I didn't have a very good home life and seeing these people live my dream as a kid was very fulfilling it felt like I was living my dream through there life
my little cousin is 5 and once she was watching this channel called “A for
Adley,” although i am in hs i actually found some parts funny and the appeal was honestly that it was comforting 💀. from the vids i saw it felt pretty natural with unexpected twists from Adley while playing that her dad would just go along with. ofc sometimes you could see where her dad is exaggerating but it’s still pretty chill and mostly to make her laugh. it just made me feel so comforted to see a happy kid getting to enjoy being one, and really made my wishes or a family and baby fever grow because i just want to give my future kids a happy life(not posted ofc i still thinks it’s kinda CRAZY to do that.) they also weren’t really boasting and showing off their money which i think made it even more inviting. also dw ben(if you’re reading this,) i am not making no babies rn that is definitely for the future ✋💀 love ya and love what you do. everyone have a nice day/night
When I was around 9, I loved sis vs bro SOOO MUCH and im still kinda emotionally attached to the two. They were just funny and like friendly. I also really wanted their rich lifestyle so seeing them live it was like watching someone else my dream.
I could listen to this man talk for hours
I used to always watch family channel when I was 16. I stop watching them when I was 18. I was so jealous of them little kids of how much gifts they used to get on Christmas and birthdays but I never ask my parents anything or harassed them for more things cause I know they situation. Beginning of this year I had more free time so I went to my subscriptions after years not looking at it and I was shocked I had 900. I can't remember who is these people I did subscribe to at the time. Now I have 271, I did subscribe to so many family channels. Now I only watched like 20 channels.
I was about 9-10 yrs old when I watched a family vlogger channel, but after I broke my 2008 iPad 💀 I stopped watching. As I grew older I’ve heard fr HORROR story’s of some family vloggers. I always liked to watch family vloggers storm videos bc I was always interested in tornados lol
I've been stalking his chanel forever now I can watch in piece 😂😌
YES NEW EPISODE
I used to watch family Channels when i was like 5-8 bc I was sad bc we didn't have as much money as them so it kinda made me feel better about it until, I snapped back to reality honestly.
My aunt has a TikTok for my little cousin but she comes from the best intent, she doesn’t want money from it she just wants to share smiles and happiness to everybody! (She is the most genuine person ever) and my little cousin loves being on camera she always steals my phone when I start a video and records herself and laughs her head off, she loves it! (she is 10 months old!)
I used to watch family channels when I was like 4-8, I remember seeing what they got for Christmas and all the presents would fill up the entire living room and they couldn’t walk around cause of it. I don’t know why I found it entertaining but I did lol💀 I used to ask my parents to have a family channel with my sister too😭😭😭
same!
I used to like watch family vlogs when I was like 6 to like 7, I really thought the fact watching someone live a very different life style than mine was like really cool and interesting then like after a month of watching them I stopped because I realized how abusive it kinda was even though I was like 7-9 or something.
i never watched family channel unless i was real bored but my brother who is 8 used to watch them a whole lot one of them was ninja kids he watch them because they posted power ranger stuff but later on he grow really jealous of them and the toys,IPHONES and money they would get from family comps and how "supportive" the parent were.
btw love the vids
When I was 7-9 I used to watch ninja kids💀💀
i watched family channels in elementary school (i wanna say 2nd-4th or 5th grade), mainly Bratayley. the appeal for me was that they had kids my age, and in my brain it was the same thing as seeing child actors on tv. when i finally realized the difference between tv actors and youtubers i became really jealous of them, because i realized that they got to live this glamorous life with all of the things i could only dream about. honestly i think the reason i kept watching was to live through them. and it wasn't just Bratayley - any family channel I came across, I'd wonder how great my life would be if I was a part of their family. I would even ask my mom if we could become youtubers. I had this idea that family channels had these glamorous lives and I really wanted to be them. Looking back obviously that was not the case, and i wish i never watched them because all it taught me was to envy everyone else instead of living my life
I love your content and podcasts
i used to watch family channels when i was 6-7 and they had a pool and three dogs so i always thought that was normal. now i realise its far from the reality
My sister used to yell at me for watching them and I would get mad but now I understand
8:22 dude was describing sis vrs bro 😂
10:49 I'm glad he cared ant his followers more than money or fame its rlly sweet😄
When I was 6 I tried to go to Walmart with my mom and I tried to get a WHOLE BOX worth of these kids toys that I saw on a kids chanel and I wanted that so when I tried to get it my mom said she couldn't afford it and I didn't listen and I started crying, but now I understand the sad look that my mom gave me everytime she said we couldn't afford toys
8:23 U literally described sis vs bro I’m a nutshell 😭
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT
I watched family channels around 10/11 years old. I'm an only child and seeing siblings playing games and doing challenges was so fun and entertaining, and I could see myself being there. Sometimes I would get jealous and wonder what it would be like if I could be a young, famous youtuber. I would pretend to be in videos talking to myself. I'm not sure what appealed to me so much, but I mostly just watched kids my age.
I was like 11-12 watching the Norris nuts, but even then that was the only family channel I watched and even now that’s the only family channel I’ll watch, they r great tbh
theyre doing all the same shit as the other family channels. filming their poor babies from the minute theyre born
Some family channels even post videos about their child getting hurt.. that’s just disgusting.
i totally agree
Omg I was watching your podcast yesterday
You always make me feel better :D
I agree with every word this man said in this video and I have HUGEEE respect for this! I used to wanna be part of a family RUclips channel, I find that my OLD. TINY BABY BRAIN! Messed up
when I was 6-9 I used to watch these and I always wed to be like them and I would beg to make videos with my parents (not going to give more details about what happened after that) but I would try to be like them it was so dumb
May I ask your opinion on families that were making videos and money and later the end up having kids and here and there make fun or silly ( but meaning to be cute ) videos on there babies?
When I was around 9-11 years old I would watch family channels A LOT. I feel like it was damaging because I would always see the kids get hundreds of gifts for their birthday or for Christmas and it made me more disappointed whenever I got gifts that weren't nearly as big . I would always dream about becoming a youtuber or whatever and I didn't ever think about all of the negative things that would come with that. Even thinking about it now is kinda sad because real life will most likely never be as exciting as it seems in those videos. I just feel like it sets most kids up for whole bunch of disappointment and having unrealistic expectations.
my little cousins are obsessed with the norris nuts and i hate it ! the kids seem like they love it, but it's horrible. some people have too much money and too much spare time.
When I was 8 I asked my family if I could have my public own channel and they said no, I was annoyed before but now I am not and I’m happy they said no because I don’t want to be exploited
The fact that Norris nuts are in ur thumbnail and they reacted to one of ur videos
The main audience for the family channel videos (as a lot of the other comments are saying) is like 7-12 year old kids ish and I think that this is because the kids watching don’t know any better. They can’t and don’t understand what’s happening and like the toxicity of these channels. Kids just want to be like the rich kids in the videos living “perfect” lives, they don’t understand what happens behind the scenes.
Why did you remind me of sis vs bro 😭🤚 like the mansion in Spain and having three houses that’s exactly like them
Yeppp
I started watching these random family vlogging channels when I was 6 and got an iPad. I saw that the kids where literally crying and the parents weren’t doing anything and I disinterested give a single thought because well, I was six - but it was just really really weird
where did you get the hoodie?
i used to watch sis vs bro all the time when i was like 7 (it entertained me for hours)
I used to watch this one family channel when I was 8 or so. they had a (I think six year old) daughter and they filmed these videos where the kid unboxed toys, did challenges, played board games or just random vlogs. idk I was so entertained by them but now it's just creepy
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You KNOW that we are all thinking of sis vs bro ☠️☠️
I agree
Had a very intense norris nuts phase when i was 10. Can't really say what i saw in it but it was kind of what i wanted my life to be like i guess (and i thought their songs were a bop. tbh still do)
When I was younger around the ages of (8-11) I watched family channels and a lot of youtube in general because I was not in a really good position in life and the only thing that I did and was really allowed to do was to watch youtube and that is where I had found family youtube channels. I never really watched the ones about unboxing or the ones purely based around children or that were based around gifts and money and things because I didn't really care about that stuff. Still, I watched the ones where family would be together doing activities and playing games together because I had never really gotten the chance to experience that so that was the way where I could feel like I was involved in that aspect of a family and I received joy from it. But as I got other that stuff didn't appeal to me anymore because I had grown out of that mindset and started thinking that it was a little strange. But I will always be thankful for those channels being accessible to me at that time because in truth it had helped me a lot. Anyway, less of that rant I highly doubt that anyone will read this but it is good to think back and reflect.
I watch the Norris nuts cause they are the only family channel I like,the channel was originally the oldest girl in that family’s account (sabre) cause she skates and surfs and it got her on the Ellen show, but now they do blogs and stuff which is actually somewhat entertaining
A good example of this would be sis vs bro, they were so close to each other at the start of the channel and made videos about slime and other things like that but when they started getting older the channels became more about how much money they made and buying things with the money they have and they eventually grew apart and stopped making videos. Karina(sis) got a comment on one of her videos saying something about how she isn’t the same person she was before and she replied saying that’s the plan. maybe the kids liked being recorded as children but now anything they do (mostly Karina) is linked back to when went wrong in the past for this to happen and she most likely wants to be a different person from when she was like 10(idk how old she was 💀)
If you read that whole thing, thx 😅❤️
I watched sis v bro and the creative girls in like 2018 during the slime graze because I liked arts and crafts, and I also think I found them funny at the time lmao. I was like 8 or 9 maybe.. but I think my motive was definitely more the craft side tbh