“AMERICAN FAMILY ROAD TRIP” FAMILY VLOGGERS, 10 PEOPLE LIVING IN A BUS?! | Influencer Insanity Ep 8
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It is so sed to see these children grow up with a camera in their face as thier normal! About one week ago, a 7 or maybe 8-year-old girl of a familybloger family (5 Kinds 2 parents), grabs her mom's phone to make a lot of RUclips shorts with her friend and her brother. The songs she used wear inappropriate and the camera angels wear disturbing!
Thankfully, the parents notice the Videos and they wear delete next day.
I hope we'll get a video on ASMR content creators... Especially food ASMR
100 % agree with your assessment.
magic spoon is everything it’s chocked up to be lol. love the bars too! 😍
I think they are crazy ass hell
Low income parents are constantly shamed because they have kids sharing a room, but this is fine?
ikr. The latter has the means and chooses to give a poorer lifestyle to their kids. Or maybe it's all pretense and they actually have a masnion lol
yup, we are saving to buy a bigger house but right now our kids (2 yrs and 3mo) have to share a room and we got a lot of criticism about it from family and friends.
@@wolfsmaid6815 Ignore them, there's nothing wrong with children sharing a room.
@@wolfsmaid6815 my kids 6 and 8 have shared a room since the youngest was born (3 mon)They are close in age and has worked out well. They also have a playroom
@@wolfsmaid6815what! that is shameful, millions of kids share a room. Unless your family and friends are going to finance a bigger house for you they need to mind their own damn business.
This family is getting away with this under the “classy if you’re rich, trashy if you’re poor” mindset. I can guarantee this would not fly if this couple was not in their privileged position.
It also boils my blood that kids can be used for social media without any protections.
I don’t fault people who are doing the best they can with the income they earn, but if you choose to put 6 of your kids in one tiny room and your toddler on the floor when you could do better, that’s not right. And with them being all over each other in that confined space, I hope those kids have headphones. These kids are going to have trauma when they’re older, if they don’t already. Edit: I just got to the part where Hannah describes the bus rocking. 😂
@@kconway2263wholeheartedly agree!
@@kconway2263wholeheartedly agreed!
Thats why they have all these kids... for content and the attention. Its just an aesthetic and its gross.
It reminds me of the early days of Hollywood when child actors had zero protections. The field of child acting is still terrible, but those kids at least have *some* laws protecting them. Social media kids have basically none.
No one else finds it disturbing to imagine that 7 kids in a bus live with their parents whose main goal is to keep getting pregnant?
8 kids 🙃
No escape to school, sports, lessins, church, or neighbors or friends houses...so much they are missing out on...
@@carrieaponte8726 Ew..yeah.. when do they have time?! Do they make them go out side for a certain amount of time? Gross
No one misses out on church 😂@@icu3869
"OK, kids! Put in your headphones! Mommy and daddy need to make you a new costar... I mean, sibling!" There is not enough room there for the older kids to not notice when stuff is happening. The amount of therapy they will need is crazy.
If my husband had a "spiritual awakening" and forced us to move to a bus, I honestly think I'd have to divorce him... lol
Girl same cause wtf
It was a spiritual awakening, but not from God.
as you should
Think? That’s instant divorce in my book!😂
You would have a "marital awakening" and leave 😂
I remember one time a daughter on one of these insanity family buses wanted to SLEEP IN A HOTEL for her birthday. It's so sad.
That is truly sad. All of these families need to be investigated and held accountable!
Our family of 5 has been living in a trailer for 8 years now (it's all we can afford) and we do book ourselves into a hotel for Christmas as a treat. We house-sit every chance we get. We don't love living this way and are planning a move to another state next year to afford a house, but my kids are teens now and their younger years were really the ones I would've wanted to have a house for. So yeah, life is hard and sad in some ways.
@@KarinAllison my daughter and I are in a tough situation too and I feel for you. It’s different when you can’t afford enough space. You care about it and want to make it better, just like I do. Instead of being rich and doing it on purpose to make more money, like these idiots. Sending love to you ❤️
@@KarinAllison I’ve actually thought about the “van life” for my teenage daughter and me, but right now we live with my mom who has dementia bc I take care of her. But it’s always in my thoughts…would she have enough room for her privacy? I cannot believe these people are so blind to their children’s needs. They don’t need a ton, but they do need the option of privacy and a little space. It’s rough out here, I get it 😭
Oh gosh. Those kids are messed up. Why is there no stricter laws about children in the US? For example, here in Germany everybody HAS to go to school, no exceptions. it makes abuse like this harder
Also - the absolute hypocrisy of them demonising screen time and phones for their kids whilst at the same time making videos of their kids for others to watch on their screen time and phones and making money from it… insane!
The kids are truly cut off from other people. I was hoping they at least had friends on line. This is such a ripe place for abuse
I assumed that they don't have screens (ie cell phone ) is because they could see other people's lives and realize theirs in not typical. Plus they could call for help.
yeah be consistent. both are wrong
Hypocrisy is the bedrock of Christian values. They’re just following their “faith”.
exactly my thought
Oh we're getting a documentary about how traumatizing this was in a few years, guaranteed
I was thinking the same thing
Or a dateline episode
I agree, i think there will be a whole generation of social media children who will have a lot to process when they become adults.
Absolutely
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As someone who grew up in a very similar situation, your points are spot on. The older kids are 100% caring for/raising the younger ones. I would also like to add that while the kids may think they’re okay with this situation, when they become adults and realize how they were treated their feelings about it will almost certainly change. Children want to make their parents happy, and probably think that they’re fine with having their lives blasted all over social media. As an adult, they’re going to realize how much their privacy was violated in order to monetize a lifestyle that they probably won’t agree with in a few years.
Using your kids to make money on social media is disgusting and shouldn’t be legal.
Oldest of four here: there is zero chance that the ONLY DAUGHTER in a “Christian family” of this size is not the auxiliary parent. There’s a good chance she’s doing more of the housekeeping (buskeeping?) and toddler care than Mr. Just-My-Baby-Daddy.
I was thinking this exact thing too
Yes, me too 😔
I was thinking that the older kids probably take the littles on a walk so mom and dad can get nasty.. hopefully
This is the case in large Muslim families too. She is definitely both a housekeeper and a mom for the younger siblings.
@@Umurhan999 not just muslim, all intens religious people, cause that is how religion treats women
A man gets a calling to make an “ark”. Isolates family … is this the start of a true crime doc?!
If it's not, it'll certainly be a line in a scholarly article about the long-term psychological effects of this lifestyle on children.
its definitely the perfect situation for abuse. no one can even report it cause theyre always moving
For real, if this guy was Moslem or anything other than white and Christian people would probably riot and call him a terrorist in the making.
i'd swear it wouldn't be the first time it has happened
Stephanie Harlowe material! These people are deeply creepy.
If the baby was born in the bus and hasn't even been to a doctor, then they probably never got a birth certificate. I recently learned that this is a big problem for a lot of children whose parents try to keep them out of the system. It makes me wonder about the other kids and how many of them are going to be unable to get a job or a bank account when they get older.
You can get a delayed birth certificate as an adult. There are definitely some inconveniences related to a delayed vs normal birth certificate, but fortunately it means these kids can get passports, bank accounts, jobs, etc. Not endorsing it, though. Definitely better to just get the birth certificate when they are born.
Who said the baby has never been to the doctor?
Fortunately (?) they are getting baby a Passport now, perhaps to return to Brazil, perhaps to start sailing full time, so baby must have a birth cert for that to happen. THey made an appearance on the Zatara family sailing channel recently and hinted they want to sail.
I follow the Fundie snark subreddit. One major problem is with the youngest child. The baby's showing signs of health problems and neglect. The baby is out in the sun without prtection and has sunburns/tans at just a few weeks/months old. The baby is showing signs of birth trauma (born in a small bus shower without medical or a post medical check). The baby never smiles or laughs and almost always is crying, frowning, or staring off into the distance (seems unable to eye track from possible blindness).
Also, the oldest child is sharing his bunk with the toddler. The baby is under the bed. But the bed is suspended and seems unsafe without regular professional checks.
the baby do smile and laugh and doesn't cry often. However, he has clearly very serious sight issues : he never reacts to what is in front of him, he doesn't seem to see what is in front of him. Unless it's brain damage.
But the worst part is, yeah, how those parents always take him out, just carrying him, instead of using a stroller, and he has neither hat nor sunglasses despite frequent extreme sunlight. And they often carrry him wrong, not supporting his neck.
That is really beyond me. Those two already had 7 children, each of them look healthy : so there is no way they don't know the basis of childare every childless idiot knows.
The only explanation i see, is they are so focused and obsessed by social media that they just don't care to endanger their babe if they can get their posts on beautiful sunburned places with the whole family (and a stroller is just slowing them, nah) , and they can't properly hold the babe while also holding the camera.
The other explanation is, they follow some crazy internet guru who has "traditionnal" methods for child raising, and they test it on their infortunate Boone.
I can't imagine sharing a probably tiny bed, which I do have, with a toddler of all people every single night
@@ariannasv22 I recently shared a twin bed with my toddler - a week was enough of that. Heck sharing my king size bed with the toddler gets old fast.
Whats the name of the family?
It’s extremely concerning that the oldest daughter has no privacy. Imagine going through puberty as a girl and not having your own space or being around other girls your age. Same with the teen boy. You share space with your sisters and have no other teens to befriend
Especially because they have the money for that space!!
@ville__omg youre absolutely disgusting
Recipe for tragedy
and no access to devices to make/keep friends with either, apparently. I would have at least one mental breakdown a day, especially since the older kids may be able to remember "normal" life.
When I was a teen, my parents took my door off its hinges for a week as punishment for slamming my door too many times. Having all these kids in one room is like that but 100 times worse. Their daily sleeping arrangement is worse than my punishment. 😢
If I were a UPS worker and a family of ten rolled up in a bus to weigh their baby on one of my scales, I would probably call social services
Absolutely
I thought the same thing
And you would be a hero to that baby
That clip was despicable. They have no shame, and I would have absolutely refused to let them use the scale if I worked there.
I came to the comments looking for this. Absolutely revolting bc it’s clear they can do better.
It's actually pretty terrifying to think that the kids not having access to screens = kids not having the only remaining way to access the outside world, resources, ppl, etc.
If someone wanted to raise kids in a trapped environment, that's how they would do it: leave them with nothing to compare to, no one else to talk to, and isolated in this little family echo chamber.
THIS! I was extremely sheltered and homeschooled by my eccentric mother. She distrusted things like online banking, thought smartphones were frivolous, etc. Cancer took her after several years of my 24/7 care. That alone was isolating. but the struggle of having to learn SO MUCH when I don't even KNOW what I dont know is HARD. Lessons that others have taken for granted for years and assume I know has been an overwhelming nightmare.
These kids are facing unexpected challenges beyond comprehension, I fear for their futures- these parents are disgraceful.
@@icu3869I hope you are making friends who are supporting you through this uphill struggle.
The answer to the “spread too thin” question is that the older children take on parenting roles
Coming from a large family, these big families often rely on the labor of the older children to run the household. Parentification is a huge problem and often results in strained and imbalanced relationships between the older children and their parents.
I was just going to comment the same thing. The way parents split themselves among 8 children is that they don’t. I would be shocked if the oldest 2 aren’t responsible for a lot of the child care.
Yesss parentification is so hard for kids and it happens frequently with families that are too big for the parents to handle without help
You are 100% correct! Any parent of 2+ kids will tell you that, even if one parent stays at home, it’s a CRAP TON of work. Being able to parent 8 children is next to impossible without help, and unfortunately these types of people don’t hire help or ask family/friends to assist. They make their teens secondary and tertiary parents. It’s disgusting.
Excellent point.
I'm the eldest of four and was parentified .... even when it was just me and my brother considering we didn't live full time with my two half siblings I was STILL the second/third/fifth parent.. I can't even fathom being the eldest in a family this large
I love that you’re not afraid to call creators out.. it’s a fact that some creators are so desperate for fame that they forget regular human values
Or, quite likely, they just never HAD normal human values ... just an overabundance of greed.
But…but…it’s “Noah’s Ark” *typed whilst giggling* 😂😂😂😂😂
Knowing that their biggest channel is on Instagram, they don’t make money from that platform. The only way to make money on Instagram is through sponsorships. Do they ever do sponsored videos? Wondering if there is any proof that they are exploiting their kids for cash or if they just are being exploited solely for the fame.
And while doing this she does not just dump on these people but wants us to think about what we are consuming. I stopped watching mommy channels after realizing how horrible it must be when (especially creepy) people watch your childhood publicly
Hannah, to me, seems to be the most genuine and authentic content creator out of all the celebrity world.
Hannah, unrelated to the topic - I just want to express my gratitude towards you, for the high level of english you provide. I am not a native speaker, so I always look for proper examples of how to form my thoughts with complicated words, in a logic and well structured way. Your words are so carefuly picked up, your thoughts are logic and easy to follow and understand and at the same time - one is able to enrich their vocabulary so much while listening to you ❤ You should become a teacher, you know ❤ Thank you for helping me upgrade my english ❤
If a voice claims to be god and asks you to traumatize your family, dont listen. Its just a psychosis.
😅 yeah, truth!
The devil is VERY good at sounding like God when those don’t really know Jesus or His Word.
@@truckers4christthe devil is very good at convincing gullible people that there is somehow a devil. And let me guess, whatever you personally feel is morally wrong is exactly what the devil is super into? And whatever you personally feel is morally correct happens to be exactly what god thinks.
@@truckers4christ there is no devil honey
@@OKBgosh yes precisely. You know me 100% as well as what I believe based on one comment on a post. Yeah, run with that!!! Lololol
I never understood the "sex is shameful," but if you're married, "explicitly discuss your sex life at nauseum" in these ultra conservative religious communities.
This isn't normal conservative religious behaviour, don't worry
@Jess_ica2927 in my area it definitely is
These folks want to project that "righteous married sex" is just super lit because God's rewarding them for waiting. I was in that world as an unknowing demisexual, super uncomfortable with all the obsession with sex. Before marriage: thinking about not thinking about it. After: talking about doing it
It all comes down to being preoccupied with sex, I think
@@Jess_ica2927it really is, sex is so shamed in the American Churches, so the second these people have a ’reson’ to be having sex, it seems like it’s all they want to talk about. They’ve needed to surpress the feeling of arousal/curiosity for the sake of wanting to seem pure, that when they no longer need, it’s like they can finally talk about it and become the curious and oversharing teen they never could be out of shame.
Those kids aren't far off from moving out, getting their own TikTok accounts, and spilling the beans on all the horrific stuff happening when the cameras are off.
If they're ever allowed to do so...
@@gmun2248 They'll move out of the bus one day....
I’d be plotting my escape if I were the teenager. I’d move with a family member or something
I deeply hope those kids will get out of this messed up situation, but it's easier to say than to be done. You need some cash to move out. Hard to say if family members [grandparents for example] would be willing to take those kids in.
If that family are constantly on the way, those teen kids have no chance to get a job. IDK if parents would share their income [in which kids participated!] to help them be independent.
Still, again I hope those kids will success. This lifestyle must be a torture. Zero privacy. Zero friends. Nights "concerts" made of crying baby and parents moans while making new baby.
It's a hell.
I would absolutely run away to a relative and get emancipated if I were the oldest!
You nailed it. 👏
The lack of PRIVACY is absolutely traumatizing theses kids. The lack of proper MEDICAL CARE for these children, including newborns, is ATROCIOUS and DANGEROUS. The lack of proper EDUCATION is neglectful and ridiculous.
I cant believe this type of thing is actually happening.
How do you know the kids lack medical attention? Homeschooling is much better than going to school and being mass murdered by a crazed gunman.
@honeycharles8576 what do you mean??? because they give birth in a bus and never take the kids to a Dr on a regular basis.
@honeycharles8576 as tragic of a problem as it is, the odds of your kids dying in a school shooting is like 0.000000001%, and anyways they could still get shot at a church or grocery story or whatever, so youre not even solving anything
Meanwhile theres a very very high chance that these kids will end up with piss poor knowledge because one lady whos already working multiple jobs with no background in education thought "teaching 5 grades at once cant be that hard"
It's also worth mentioning that these children have no support system or access to other adults outside of their family. I was homeschooled myself and think homeschooling can be wonderful if done well but speaking from experience, homeschool families already have an issue with being somewhat isolated and insular and these kids don't stand a chance if they do have any issues with the way they're being raised or if there's something more sinister going on within their family.
100% !
'god told me we need to pack up and leave' gives strong 'the authorities are after me' - vibes
You're right, good catch
Yep, as someone who goes to church, not even my pastors would dare to say God told them anything. When people start speaking like this, it means they have a warped understanding of religion, maybe even don't feel it at all and are insecure about that, and are faking it to try to convince others they are super blessed. On the other hand, they could have a mental disorder if they don't understand that strong feelings and impulse decisions are not by default holy messages.
I’m sure if the “authorities” were after them, they wouldn’t be plastered all over social media.
Covering up for those bad spirits actually talking to him
The guy had a whole crypto bro stage so I wouldn't be surprised. They also headed off to South American and tried to have an anchor baby in a country without extradition for a while there but that seemed to go wrong.
The way she treats her infant like a prop is horrifying. She never supports his head, jiggles him around constantly while he's trying to sleep, and he's suffered at least three sunburns in her care. It's disgusting watching her in a hat and sunglasses while her unprotected baby fries in the sun.
Sunburnt her baby MULTIPLE times?! 😮 That is beyond the pale.
Just like Bella Lambert with her adopted daughter Story... someone need to make videos about this crazy "mom"
@@TsunaKimchi what happened to story?
@@hijabigirl18yeah, what’s going on with Bella & Story? 🤔
Follow DCP he is covering her vlogs @@TsunaKimchi
I’m one of 8 kids myself, and I love all my siblings and wouldn’t trade them for the world, but I wish I grew up in a somewhat smaller family. To this day, it is weird for me to spend time alone with my parents. They came to visit me last year and I spent an entire day with them by myself, and it felt so strange, like I wasn’t sure what to say to them or how to act. I realized I had never had their full attention before and I was receiving it for the first time at 30 years old.
The trauma of hearing your parents make your next sibling in a bus that you live in.
You cannot convince me that all 8 of these children are happy and healthy and they all live together with zero issues.
Edited to add: YES, I’m well aware that even families who don’t live in a bus have issues. Thanks to those who clearly don’t read the comments before them and repeat the same sentiment. It’s kinda not the point though! This family present themselves this way, as being happy, healthy with no issues, it’s the entire premise of their brand. I’m not saying they’d be happier in a mansion with a bedroom each and a pony. I’m just saying I’m not convinced that this family are as happy, healthy and issue free as they portray themselves to be.
I have 3 children, I am a stay at home mom, I am at their disposal any time they need me, and even with 3 children it’s too much. Someone always needs something, to talk about something, for me to help with something. It’s not easy with 3 if you are giving them your full attention and taking care of their needs.
Having so many kids like those two, no way are those kids getting the attention they need and their individual needs met.
My 3 kids are all different, different personalities, different temperaments, and even I know you gotta customize your parenting style and approach to each child. And that right there is exhausting. What works for one doesn’t work for the other. And you have to be flexible.
The cookie cutter approach doesn’t apply when raising children unless the parent chooses to out of laziness.
They actively ignore their kids' medical issues. The boy with glasses had a severe lazy eye until enough people left comments for the parents to take him to get glasses.
All families have issues whether they live in a mansion with 2 children or a shack with 12 children. Not living on a bus with 8 children doesn't guarantee an issue-free life.
@@rawcurls1There is no way you think kids with actual housing and there own personal space have the same issues this kids might have living in a bus with not even a proper bed like come on you know exactly what people mean.
@@rawcurls1 good point
"Your children don't have screens - but they appear a lot on ours" is hands down the most disturbing thing I've heard in a while. Also, them gushing over how their kids are each other's best friends is such a red flag when you realize those kids have no other options in friends or best friends if they're homeschooled, constantly on the move and don't even have a phone to chat with anyone else at all.
Not even to call a support line or straight up CPS, that's what I'd be aiming to do if someone stuck me in a shoebox with seven siblings, and parents that make me act out cringe for clout.
I wonder what the legalities of their situation are. Since they’re traveling in other countries, there might not even be a way to hold them responsible for any issues.
Yep, I don't get how "My kids are best friends" is a flex, when the only contact they have with other children is with their siblings
@@MarthaSpizziri It would blow my mind if you could travel across the US breaking laws and be untouchable only because you're 'just moving through' the country while you're actively abusing your children...for example. Even if somehow that wouldn't be breaking the law in the country they are the citizens of, if they are in a different country where it is illegal, they should be held responsible for it.
That's at least how EU would handle it - when in Rome, do as the Romans do or end up in jail.
Reminds me of a real-life "The Truman Show"
been following this series for the last few months and i really appreciate your tone of emphasising critical thinking in social media consumption and addressing concerns in a respectful way. i feel like so many commentators take on a very disrespectful, ridiculing tone and your content is a refreshing break from that :) thank you for the thought you've put into this series and keep up the good work!
Hannah, I love your quote “ if you don’t feel sick yet you’re about to” 😂
I’m so tired of influencer “Christians” making it impossible for the rest of us “regular” Christians to exist and appear to be normal humans with rational and logical thought patterns. God did not tell you to build an ark, sir, and if He did, then keep it to yourself. As my pastor says, “just because you’re a Christian, it doesn’t mean you have to be weird.” For goodness’ sake
lol, I love this. Thanks. I'll have to use that quote from your pastor. Did everyone forget that verse to 'live a quiet life?' I'm a faithful Christian and normal and live around normal people, and then I have to see people like this and tell others 'Christians aren't really like that!'
Right! ❤ 😭
That man was not told to build no ark. He saw that darn light bill.He saw that water bill.He got tired of paying them bills.That's what happened. 😂
Actually Scripture says the opposite. Not only will Christians look weird, but you'll be hated by the world. Has your pastor preached on John 15?
@@chrys77cross I’m totally not talking about that and you’re taking it completely out of context. Obviously we know we won’t live like the world. But we don’t have to appear like freaks to the world either.
Imagine ur 10 and living in a huge house with your family then one day ur dad has a bout of spiritual psychosis and forces you to live in a bus and never go to school and ur mom keeps having children so the amount of available space is getting smaller and smaller and you can’t ever have a quiet space alone, and you never get a sense of stability nor are in a specific area long enough to build friendships so you only know your family - ur essentially a cult in a bus. Sounds like pure hell
Bingo.
This is the most healing thing I’ve ever heard. I grew up in an over crowded homeschool house with my nine siblings. There was no space. No privacy. If you were the same size as your siblings? You shared underwear. You had food taken off your plate every day because there was too many kids for how much we had. It IS a nightmare and we DO unpack the trauma. Thank you for being upset at what is happening and not letting it be normalized. I couldn’t talk till I was three, and read and write until I was between 10 to 12. The second you could read, you were responsible for your own education. There are so many grades that I skipped that I should not have graduated high school.
I just started following you 2 days ago, but I've watched most of your videos. You have gained a fan in this Germany-based South African 🇿🇦 woman. I'll be recommending your channel to all my friends. As someone doing a PhD and who holds 3 Masters degrees, I regard myself as fairly educated and intellectually sound. Because of this, I value similar traits in other people. It did not shock me to learn that you're a fellow scholar with a Masters degree in pedagogical sciences (education). I am in awe of the depth of your thinking. You're one of few content creators who have such a profound sociological imagination. You do thorough research on the topics you present. You think critically and logically about issues. You're eloquent in your delivery of messages. Your thought process is amazing. But you also possess a huge sense of compassion. Even when you feel passionately about an issue, you engage with nuances and layered complexities. Truly, Hannah, it is a pleasure to be one of the more than 300k subscribers on your channel. Watching your videos, even with my busy schedule, is never time wasted. May the sun keep shining in your backyard. And as we say in our indigenous Xhosa language - makwande!!
Wow! Very well said. I feel the same way. All the best from Canada 🇨🇦
I agree!
I found her two days ago as well! Hello from Australia!
Molo Malaika! 🇿🇦😊
Germany-based South African here, too. ❤✌🏻
200 Square feet with 9 people is 22.22 square feet per a person. The average prison cell is 48 square feet, jails are 70 square feet minimum. Just think about that for a moment
Jesus Christ
well when you put it that way…
1. Actually, it's 10 people (2 adults plus [now] 8 kids). So, 20 (not 22.22) square feet per person.
2. Does the 200 square feet exclude the space taken up by counters and closets, etc.? If not, reduce that 20 square feet per person by at least 2 square feet - so, 18 square feet per person?
Subtract the space dedicated to kitchen cabinets and fixtures and other storage, (guessing about a third) and you’re down to 13.
Point of reference: the suggestion for housing size is 550 per person. That’s obviously flexible due to layout and who the people are, but….
Most people have a cell mate in prison tho
The thing is, with many of these RV/bus families, the children usually have no privacy or space, which the parents have an actual room with a king sized bed and an actual door. Entitlement at it's finest.
I'm a married mom of 1. We had very little money when my daughter was tiny and moved a few times. She ALWAYS got the nicest room. Even briefly had the only room. Today we are financially stable and my kid STILL has the nicer room. Kids first.
@@user-fe8kb1pd3l Guess what, that's actually very common in the USA with people who live in houses or mansions.
Parents get the largest bedroom or even a whole suite with a massive bed, huge walk in wardrobes and bathroom larger than a bedroom, and they only rarely do anything other than sleep, have sex and change clothes there.
Children play, study, do hobbies, entertain friends etc in their bedrooms but get the small (in comparison) bedrooms.
With a toddler sleeping UNDER their bed. So do you think they ever forget the child is sleeping under there when it’s adult happy fun time? Or do they just not care? One of the many many privacy concerns for this family, not to mention the trauma those kids have undoubtedly already experienced in so many ways.
@@brookelevy7145 Technically three of the older children sleep UNDER their siblings beds, so don't make a mountain out of a single word. Using vertical space is not a crime.
@@YaaLFH there is a giant difference between sleeping under a single sibling and sleeping under the bed of your sex crazed parents. That's what they were refering to with the emphasis on under, not the verticality of it.
I have been thinking extensively about the blurred lines on social media for children--aren't these children performing labor? Yet, they are not earning money and there are no laws to protect them. I wonder if 20-30 years from now, we will see legal cases where children sue their parents for using them to make money when they were in diapers.
Appreciate your consistency in blurring out the children. I try keep my kids off social media wherever possible, although I've been frustrated by well-meaning friends and family.
I don’t understand why the child actor and labor laws don’t seem to apply here. RUclips needs to take an active role in this issue.
Yes, Your correct! ALL platforms need to ban this! Get an honest job parents and budget properly! What happens now if they can’t upload? The kids are going to be thrown into The System!
Especially after the 8 Passengers fiasco
RUclips needs its ad revenue... Look at the Mr beast drama on literally casino'ing the brains of their child audience
I love this series because it feels like the closest to understanding the true nature of influencing. People make money which is not inherently wrong, but like all jobs, it depends on how you do it and what their intentions are.
Couldn't agree more!
The idea that they know when they know when their parents are getting it on is disgusting! So glad you're bringing attention to this! @@HannahAlonzo
Making an income from social media is going to go the way of the dodo bird. It's just not going to be a thing anymore. These exploitative nutjobs are going to ruin it for everyone.
What if they bus break down
Monetizing your kids is absolutely wrong and I hope there she laws protecting kids from predatory parents who force their kids to perform for social media.
dude. the mom and dad were recently in colorado in the passport office with their baby boone. i really feel like they're trying to fucking flee consequences of their child neglect/abuse. thank you for this video!!! more people from the mainstream need to see this!!!
The comment about being on screens while the kids aren’t allowed screens is exactly what turned me off The Duggers many years ago. I remember watching it with my school aged daughter and thinking “Really Michelle? It’s ok for my kid to watch your kids on tv but if we had a show, your precious gems wouldn’t be allowed?” And we disconnected cable shortly thereafter.
It was okay for your kids because they were confident they were showing your kids how to live a Christian life..
You too can keep ur children off of screens
I'm a religious dude, and I think this is a crock. Greed and pride is the driving force behind their decision to live this lifestyle and subject their children to it. Always beware of those who flaunt their belief for monetization.
100% They don't give a darn about their kids. I hate kids, and I even find this cruel and awful. The kids deserve stability and long term relationships
Completely agree. I believe in personal revelation, but as soon as she talked about the husband being called to “build an ark”, like no. I don’t buy that, sorry. 🚩🚩🚩
Apparently God told the father to do this? There is ZERO chance that the God revealed in the Bible tells someone to remove themselves from a church community. Hebrews 10:24-25, Ephesians 4:11-16, Matthew 16:18, Acts 9:31, the implications of Colossians 3:16, all the verses about leaders/ministers/deacons make it clear that if you call yourself a Christian, you should be attending a church to serve/encourage/be served/be encouraged/be taught/be prayed for/be in community etc.
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Isn't greed and pride like the bedrock of religion? I mean it certainly is the bedrock of Christianity as it's currently practiced.
As an autistic person, living on a bus with 10 people sounds like my own personal hell. 😅
I’ve raised 2 sons on the autism spectrum and they totally required their own bedrooms and time to decompress from the world. It was a basic need. I can’t imagine putting them through this for an extended period of time!
Definitely. Absolute hell 🔥
Totally agree. I’m not autistic but am ADHD and an introvert, I could not imagine being stuck with this many people 24/7 and no escape 😳
I'm Neuro typical and it sounds like a loving hell to me too 😂. Even if everyone gets along well ALL the time, it's still not ok to live like this. It's child cruelty in my opinion.
not just an autistic person😊
I'll share my experience of growing up in a large Chirsitan family:
Note: There are nine kids, I am one of them, and my two parents. And to preface: please take in mind that this is my families personal experience, and defenitly not to norm for people from large or small families.
1. Space and privacy: We live in a nice 3 story house which has plenty of room for all of us (and as an introvert I get plenty of alone time, which is nice). I only have to share a room with one other sister (who is my best friend, so we both looooove the arrangement), my two lil brothers share a room (they have their own beds), my oldest sister and brother have their own rooms, and my three youngest sisters share a large room (once again they have their own beds). We aren't cramped at all and have plenty of free space, not to mention a decently large backyard that we can play around in.
2.Education: Yes, we're homeschooled, but both my parents were teachers before they decided to homeschool us so we are getting quality education.
And we get to go out with friends and hang out at our local library etc so we aren't socially hampered lol Sadly several of my friends have moved out of state recently (which is a bummer) but we still chat and video call often.
3.Parental love: my parents have done a great job on raising my siblings and I equally, and I've never felt ignored or neglected (I'm the forth child btw which is in the middle-child range, so if the middle child isn't neglected, you know no one is lol). And I always can confide in my parents (of course, some things like P and other girl stuff, I can't talk to my dad about bc that's just akward lol).... I did have my own rebellious teen era , but my parents gave me plenty of space,love, and support as I tried to figure myself out (and they've done the same to all my other siblings).
4. Sibling Relationshios: Of course my siblings and I have gotten into our fair share of fights, but honestly none of us can stay mad at each other for more than five minutes and would end up laughing and playing together after any argument lol. But most of the time, we have a good time together (as mentioned beforehand, we have friends as well, so it's not because we have no one else to play with, I guess we just naturally get along or smth)
I know a lot of people talk about the "older siblings have to be proxy parents to the younger siblings" but we never had to deal with that (trust me, I've talked with my three older siblings A LOT now that we are older). My eldest sister is bossy tho, but she is the eldest and they usually are the bossy ones, but we have great fun doing crafts and playing CODM together.
.And every single time I baby sit my younger siblings I get paid by my parents sooo yeah, I'm not getting taken advantage of. Btw My older brother is in college rn, and my older sisters both have jobs (yes, they still live at home, the economy is too horrible to live elsewhere) so I'm the oldest child in the house most of the time.
5.Healthcare: don't worry, we have insurance, birth certificals (all of us were born in a hospital) etc. We go to the doctors every year for health checkups. A lot of us have glasses (thx for the genes Mom lol) so we go to the eye doctor routinly. So yeah, our parents make sure that we are in good health!
6. Electronics: I think you can tell by my comment that we're allowed to have phones/tablets etc. The younger kids do have screen restrictions because they're young and don't need all that blue light. Us older kids (highschool age and up) take care of our selves bc my parents said we are old enough to make our own decisions (they will step in tho if we are making too many unhealthy choices, like staying on our phones all day every day to the point we are ignoring our health). My dad is kinda a tech nerd, and I'm one too, so yeah, electronics are loved in our house.
7. Publicity: My parents don't even have social media other than facebook, and they never post stuff about us (expect to close family members via a private DM). After my Dad retired from being a public school teacher, he taught cyber security and online safety classes, so he's kinda paranoid of putting pictures of us online because people can use AI to make perverted deepfakes and highly discourages anyone from putting pictures of their children online...(safety first people..)
8. Quality of living: yeah, if you read the entire essey before this, you probably can tell my family has it pretty good. My dad worked his behind off to provide for us, and my mom manages the money he brings in. Of course, we aren't spoiled and have to do chores to get allowance (don't freak out, we each take care of our rooms, and have one other domain to care for, it takes about 30 mintues a week for us to take care of all our chores...many hands make light work.) The adult children don't get allowances tho, they have jobs, and get to live at home for free lol
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9. Conclusion: I know not every big family is like this, this video proves that, but my parents are literally one in a million. They've done a pretty amazing job if I do dare say so myself. They didn't jump into having a large family as a status symbol or smth, they just decided to accept however many children God gave them, and made sure to care for us in the best way possible once we arrived.
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Having a big family is defenitly not for everyone, and I understand that, but I really wish people online would stop belittling large families such as mine because of crazy parents like this (and the older generation of parents that didn't realy parent at all but instead neglected their kids a lot). I have been bullied by ppl online because of the size of my family more times than I can count, and I hope that no one else is bullied because of the size of their family, big or small!
Underrated comment right here, and a stark contrast to the video where larger families are not doing life well. ❤
Just a question, they take all the children god give them. It means they dont use protection and if the mom gets pregnant maybe every year is also good. ?
@adrianaherrera7202 I know that before any of my siblings were born, they used 'protection' but that was before they decided to let God handle it , and us kids are all 2-2 1/2 or so years apart (with no twins), so my Mom wsn't constantly overwhelmed. My youngest sibling is now 7, so it's been a while since there was a new addition ^^
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Edit: I do remember my Mother saying something about "natural family planning" which I suggest you look up.
@@Rojin_04 yes, this! And contrary to popular belief, natural family planning (if done /correctly/), is super accurate. Correctly being the key word here; most people don't know how to actually use it (but say they do and are) and it gives it a bad name. It's basic biology; there's literally only a handful of days a month a woman can get pregnant...
As a punishment for watching TV passed by curfew, my parents punished me by forcing me to sleep in their room for a month. I only hear them having sex once when I woke up and I was so traumatized that even almost 30 years later I still haven't been able to process it. I was 10. I put the pillow over my head and I was crying praying that they stop, I can still hear their moans and movements. To this day, I haven't been able to have a normal sex life, most of the times I find sex repulsive, I tried therapy but it didn't work. I strongly believe that hearing your parents have sex as a child is one of the most abusive things a parent can do to their child.
That's so true, I was lucky enough I didn't hear them but when I asked once about the differences between girls and boys (I was 8) my parents showed themselves naked to me. I still have nightmares sometimes.
She said it herself in one of her reels: "My toxic trait is continuing to add things to my life that depend on me for survival." She said the quiet part out loud. She is doing this to fill some hole in her life. She needs people that depend on her- that's what determines her self worth. And she keeps having kids thinking that need will be met and that hole will be filled, and she's just digging herself deeper. What she needs is therapy and birth control.
Right?! You cannot convince me that this whole situation ISN'T straight up abuse. I understand not everyone has the means to live in a space large enough for their whole family, but this specific circumstance is clearly very different as they DO have the means and are choosing an extreme. Even if the parents turned out to be angels about everything else, just the fact that the kids are forced into living arrangements like this is enough to damage them for life. It really makes me wonder how you're supposed to integrate into society after growing up like that.
I mean she's a military vet from what I'm hearing. If it's Iraq ones... Well let's say troops were doing lots of warcrimes as usual in this conflict towards a local population specifically. I would not be surprised if people's psyche would get screwed or destroyed along with their morals.
They also think that raising kids is about the parents' development, so they have kids to serve the parents, not because they actually just want to have a nice family.
@@rebelbelle1388 I don't think she meant she needed her kids to fill a hole in a maternal way but in an attention way, she's birthing a fan club that is dependent on her. I don't think she has any maternal feeling towards Boone the way she has been treating him and ignoring his medical needs, but she loves him for the likes and clicks he brings her.
Not to mention calling her children "things." She views them as props for her videos and nothing more.
I lived with 9 people in an 80m2 space as a child and it was literal hell. That’s all I have to say. Being a teenager is unbearable in those situations.
I lived in a 35m2 flat with my mom, my grandma and a bunch of cats. It's not many people, but even this lot was too much for me, I felt stuck in a cage, I wanted my own room soooo hard that I even lived in a balcony for some time. Children MUST have their own private place, period!
My feelings are mixed on this because I feel certain that child me would have loved this! However I had not considered becoming a teenager in this environment so I can see your point.
I had 85m2 own room but was already unhappy that is right next to my mum bedroom 😂, I would not survive sharing
@@bracken_3164 Also imagine that you have nowhere to go and get away from them, like school, after school activities. Even when they are out and about somewhere, they don't know anyone... :(
We were 5 people in a roughly 70m2 apartment and I still don't know how we made that work. We didn't have much money and there is a 13 year gap between me the youngest and my oldest sibling who moved out at 18.
These kids are going to act out in ways no one is going to see coming. Its child abuse. Dragging kids into your clout grab is sickening.
"build relationships" but the kids get 0 chance to build long term relationships with anyone outside of their bus.
You're assuming, you dont actually know this. Can you imagine the furore, if they filmed someone elses kids lol
8:54 they are probably only ‘best friends’ because they don’t interact with any other kids… someday there will be a documentary where these kids speak out about what this was really like
I just commented. This happened with an identical family years ago and the kids hated it and spoke out later.
@@dez6278 I think she did a vid about that family too!
A lot of kids from the early days of RUclips are at that age where they’re finally old enough to speak out, and they have been saying some pretty horrifying things!
I was thinking the exact same thing. Netflix doc coming 2030: "Growing up in our weird parents' sex bus"
This isn’t the first time a set of fundamentalist parents stuffed all their kids on a bus. Both times I know of there was horrible abuse happening and the kids spoke out later.
I hope that’s not the case here, but it seems to be a trend.
It’s kind of baffling to me how people all over the world live in small spaces due to necessity, yet these influencers try to make it look glamorous for their kids to have to be cramped, have no privacy, be removed from school and friends, etc. most people who have to make a small space work for a large family want to be out of that position one day. I doubt they’d think it’s quirky and fun.
It's cool when rich white people do it 🙄
Precisely! My family had to live in some small spaces with everyone sharing rooms when I was a kid, and you better believe we were all stoked to move to a house that actually allowed us each our own space! It's one thing to choose the van life for yourself as an adult, but to force that on your children is absolutely bonkers bordering on abuse.
Exactly! I had the same thought.
They are not traveling to beautiful places, are they?
The trade off is small home vast community globally. Not just being a tourist
Thanks for being an articulate voice of reason. I love this series
I lived in an RV with my boyfriend and two dogs for three years. Living in an RV isn't peaceful or stress free, you're just trading in one set of stressors for different ones. My RV was around 300 square feet. That wasn't even enough personal space for the two of us. I can't imagine adding 8 kids.
Exactly! I have been four years full time in an RV with husband dog and cat. We are constantly banging our heads, knocking our knees and elbows on things, and tripping over each other. We talk regularly about getting a house, apartment, visiting hotels, or even just getting land to park on for a while. Now add a zillion kids to the mix - IMPOSSIBLE. Yes, they are doing it but guaranteed doing it super poorly, neglecting the kids’ needs. Also look how tiny and thin the kids are! That seems to be a sign of parenting control issues, mom and dad “needing the kids to look perfect for the camera”!😢
I agree we live in a RV for a year my husband and 2 kids and we all had cabin fever. We were waiting for our house to be built. It was not fun!
As a homeschool family, it takes a lot of effort to effectively homeschool your kids. Being part of a community of other kids is so important. These kids have none of that. No friends, no community, no support system. Just siblings.
So true! My sister homeschools and her homeschool community is such a big thing. They go on field trips together, do classes together once a week, etc. The kids also participate in sports/clubs/activities as part of the wider community. Homeschooled should never equal lonely or friendless.
@jackiemartin7276 it is widely assumed that homeschooled kids don't have interactions with other kids. I homeschool my four kids, but they get social interaction with people from our church and they are also in a co-op (sounds like what your sister has her kids in). They definitely aren't deprived of anything!
They actually like their siblings, so it works for them.
My grandmother had six children by age 27 and she told all her daughters when they got married, "do not nave 6 children, you will not have enough time to give them what they deserve." and she was a homemaker while my grandfather was in the army. There's a reason why people have less kids these days because resources are tight. And maybe you have enough physical resources but your hours in the day are always a finite resource. Big famlies can be wonderful and people find happiness in them of course! But it's something that you have to consider when adding more and more people dependent on you.
I've always wanted a large family (grew up as an isolated only child), but my husband and I agreed on 4 children being the maximum amount, maybe 5 if we have twins the last time around. ^^ But even though I am a full time SAHM I don't think there would be enough hours in the day to care for 8 children without neglecting any of them.
preach your shit and im absolutely tired of people making fun/putting down others for not having plenty of kids either. im a demisexual (or asexual idrk) but ive always set on the fact i wanted atleast 1 or two children, most likely two because im an only child and i know what it feels like to be alone 100% of the time but id be damned if someone was just like "lol ur not a real parent bc u dont have 30 children" HUH? its kinda goofy 🤕
big families are so cool when you're able to maintain them and atleast have all the children when you and the partner are all settled with a few bucks n stuff to provide for all for them but ur so right, things are tight as hell rn, so its definitely something u gotta consider before doing
I agree. I have two sisters and even that could be difficult at times, especially when my sisters were still babies (we also had pets, which take time, too). But how can parents be there for their older kids if they constantly have a baby and a toddler?
I have 6 kids also and I always tell them not to go that route! It’s not fair to them☹️
"you will not have enough time to give them what they deserve." - That's such a good point. People can only split their attention so many different ways in a day and at some point the time runs out.
Back then, my grandparents, who had 12 children together, told me about how they lived together in a small house. But they worked very hard to make sure each kids are well fed and loved. As soon as they have an opportunity to move out to a bigger space, they took the chance. One may argue people in the past cramped in a small space with big families, but heres the point, they had no choice.
This family here, the parents are committing a crime.
Thank you for raising this attention. I hope someone will get to them and change their mind.
“They balanced this baby on a UPS parcel scale like a freakin’ Amazon return” absolutely killlllled me
Your Influencer Insanity series should be a prerequisite for anyone who consumes social media, 100%
plus anyone who aspires to create it
The lack of privacy is actually dangerous. This will not end well for many of these kids.
i regret even having had a myspace with my little friend group in elementary school lol. can’t imagine what this would feel like
Not to mention there’s one girl who’s very close to puberty living with her brothers in a tiny space with zero privacy… What about when she gets her period??!
@@lanegirl7826 Sadly I think that's going to be the least of her worries.
@@lanegirl7826 lol oh No NoT hEr PeRiOd. It's no biggie.
@@42ayla I hate to go there but when I heard there’s only one girl and they’re all crammed in like that and getting older, flowers in the attic immediately came to mind… I feel so bad for the girl. I can’t imagine growing up without other girls my age to play with and learn from.
Being a single, full time working dad, with four kids aged 5,6,9,11 living in a 550 square foot house I find it impossible to believe that those kids are happy. My kids are surprisingly nice to each other, knock on wood, but that only means that there’s a limited amount of conflict between them every day.
Cramming twice the amount of kids on half the space and not having them go to school and daycare is something I couldn’t imagine putting kids through
Seeing her husband’s expression from the deleted video gives me anxiety filled memories of living with my kids mom. Every time I feel tired, multiple times per day, I remember that I’m happier and more well off single and tired under my own control
Hannah you are able to do these videos in such a calm and informative manner, all while not coming off like you’re standing on a soap box judging. You’re better than me! 😂
I don't understand how they think Jesus wants them to exploit their children and gives a hoot about social media. This is what THEY want to do. And if they say they are living a simple life to be like Jesus, they should be giving all their influencer money to the poor. You can't have it both ways.
narcissism makes you think you can hear god
@@nightcoreeclub I need this quote on a t-shirt.
@@nightcoreeclubexcellent point. I also want it on a shirt 🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That's what happens when people believe in godly beings that speak to them. Their own desires become "god's" desires. Religions, more often than not, take away their own responsibility for their own choices, whether good or bad. Blame it on God, or the devil, or whatever else they believe in, even karma.
As someone said narcissism makes you think Jesus was referring to you when he said repopulate the earth
Ok, I grew up in a large, low income family (9 kids currently). When I only had 6 siblings I lived in a trailer. We were also all homeschooled. It's a similar size and 7 kids is a similar number, so I want to compare that experience.
Me and my siblings were neglected emotionally, academically, and somewhat physically. Our mom was a stay at home mom, but she didn't have the time in the day to properly support all of us. Older kids would be homeschooling younger ones. My oldest sibling, at age 12, helped with the home birth of one of my younger siblings.
We had 3 bedrooms, with 3 kids per room and the youngest with our parents. There was no privacy. My oldest sibling was rooming with 2 toddlers. They hated it. We would spend most of the day outside doing random projects and wandering in the woods. All of us were behind in school to the point cps later put us in public school.
I'm also very worried about the safety of these kids. None of them have phones, which means no ability to call 911 or family tracking apps. They are famous online, which means they have some creepy followers, that's just how it is. Their parents document where they are at any time. They are constantly in an unfamiliar environment. I hate to say it, but I'm extremely worried one of them will be taken advantage of or even kidnapped.
I grew up in a similar situation. It was like a kid farm and we were the livestock.
It absolutely is not appropriate to have older kids with tiny kids. In my situation, there were multiple instances of sexual abuse.
I am so sorry that both of you had to go through that! This is terrible experience 💔
@@amandaschmidt9528 thats unfortunately very common in these situations because the kids are so isolated, you don't develop socially the same way, and their aren't safeguards in place to protect you.
@universal_stupidity it's like the "200 Kids and Counting" show. The oldest son got into trouble for abusing some of the older sisters. I'm not saying it's okay, or justifiable, but when kids aren't socialized properly, sexual, hormonal development doesn't just stop. And it WILL somehow find an outlet, especially in these religious, almost puritan families. It's incredibly irresponsible to put children in these circumstances
Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm sorry your childhood was like this. I hope you're doing ok now.
Genuinely worried about the baby, looks like he’s not achieving developmental milestones at all
I found hilarious the part of the last post you showed where they say “it’s not my job to entertain them. It’s their job to entertain themselves” ("and you dear viewers", if I may add 😂).
I'm sorry, the Toddler sleeps UNDER that bed? That is so scary. I wouldn't let my animals sleep under that.
I think it's a trundle bed that rolls out from under the bed. It's a drawer with a mattress in it.
The baby is also regularly shown lying on a little sheepskin on THE FLOOR, in the middle of the bus, while the other 7 children are crammed and struggling to move around. He could so easily be stepped on or had something dropped on him. :(
I was thinking the same thing! There is no trundle, their bed literally folds off the wall and goes over top of the couch. I'd be terried the bed would break and smash the toddler! *I was mentioning the trundle due to another commenter
All the while the parents on top work on conceiving the next bundle of joy.
@@tangentartists6876it's not
A lot of our parents' and grandparents' generations grew up with 5-7 kids in a house under 1,200 square feet, and sharing bedrooms with 2-3 siblings, but the main difference is they were able to leave to go to school, hang out with friends, play sports, etc. So they were only packed in that house during the evenings and overnight. Having grown up in a family of five in a larger home, I can't imagine having to deal with either situation, but the bus with 10 people sounds like a nightmare.
RV kids leave all the time to go play and hang out with friends.
@@MaryPetersonCookwhat friends do these kids have? They move to a new location multiple times/week. They quite literally have zero stability.
@@MaryPetersonCook they have no friends 💀 they have zero way to keep a relationship outside family since they have no phones and parents want to move to a new state every week
And the kids are there when they make more babies…
@@MaryPetersonCookthey aren’t “RV kids” who live in a trailer park. They travel non-stop
I have this feeling that families like this one don’t actually live on the bus full-time. I feel like it’s just a façade just for the channel and just for the views. There’s just literally no way that you could live in such a small space with so many people… Hell even three or four people living on a bus that small would be absolutely impossible to be done comfortably.
This'll be a documentary on Netflix within 12 months no doubt about it.
"when your love language is *taking your breeder fetish way too far* you end up with a kajillion kids" -- fixed it
My Ex tried to FORCE this RV lifestyle on me and my kids. The result was a Divorce. That should pretty much explain everything.
GOOD FOR YOU! This stranger is proud of you ❤
I have four kids and we live in 3 bedroom house and it feels tiny I cannot imagine living in an RV by myself😂
Smart woman ❤
@@jennifercriswell198 Thank you for your kind words 💝 It was still a very Painful decision but I was EXHAUSTED and there comes a point in your Life where you ask yourself if you are going to let someone else run you into the ground like that without receiving any genuine appreciation in return. The kids got fed up too. But our wishes still didn't seem to count ... until I MADE IT count. The RV just may have been that straw that broke the camel's back.
I get annoyed being stuck in a car for 1 hour. I can’t imagine living in one.
I love your videos Hannah! Honestly, this type of content has so many dangerous undertones if we actually think about what’s happening. I love that you’re digging into these issues. ❤
💁🏻♀️: "Our family of 10 lives in a trailer park/one bedroom apartment"
🗣: "Somebody call CPS!!! That's neglect and abuse!!! Don't have kids if you can't afford them 🤬"
🙋🏼♀️: "Our family of 10 lives in a bus, travelling the US full time."
🗣: "Awww that's so sweet! Your kids must love it, I was always close to my siblings too 🥰 How amazing that you're giving them all these wonderful experiences!"
Both shouldn't have kids lmao
Hence why they travel to a different state every few days. That way, the state CPS can't catch them.
Unregulated media showing children in any way should be banned full stop.
Wow that last comment you read about their kids not getting screens but being on ours says it all!
Knowing how often influencers fake their contents for views, I wonder if all of this whole “a big family living in a bus” is all a big lie. I can easily imagine the family having an actual house and living there most of the time but going for a road trip over the weekend or something to get their week’s worth of contents filmed. Or, if they’re rich enough, get hotel rooms every other night or something.
I hope you are right! A RUclipsr named Dave2D exposed many of these kinds of scams and lies.
The kids not having access to phones or computers makes it so much worse, they get no contact with the outside world. The parents want to keep them trapped in ignorance.
I bet they do, there's no way she's keeping 8 kids entertained in that tiny bus with no space to play properly.
bingo
The kids also have no way to call for help
I bet the kids have more contact with the actual world around them than most Who live their life glued to their video games and phone
This is a cult at this point. A personal little cult. Freaking disgusting.
These children cannot give informed consent to be part of these videos at their age. Therefore, it is plain and simple child exploitation.
I recently explained my feelings about family vloggers to my 9yo grandson. He loved watching the outdoor boys channel on RUclips. He thought about what I said and has since decided not to watch any channels with children anymore. He prefers outdoor channels anyway and finds plenty of content to consume. Could not be more proud of him.
Children, being minors, cannot give informed consent about anything. Therefore, everything a parent does is exploitation. Signing your kid up for football or singing lessons is considered exploitation, using your lologic.
@@TomikaKelly "To be part of these videos" for the world to see (Including all the creeps) and using their children to MAKE MONEY!
@@TomikaKelly Wow, you just love deliberately missing the point left and right, don't you? You have no business talking about "logic" if you can't even comprehend what's being argued.
One of the kids should say they had a prophecy to live in a house
Usually large families have the support of their parents and families. But in this case they don't have that support with traveling.
They don't need it; they have money. Regular large families must rely on familial support because of the financial constraints of having a large family
Cosplaying homelessness is exactly what these van life influences are.
Yeah. I can't remember where I was seeing this trend a w while ago, what is trashy if you're poor but classy if you're rich.
It's not cosplaying. They actually are technically homeless.
@@pileofwit is it homelessnes if you can afford to move to a house in their selected area at any point? 🤔 Technically, homelessnes can be a lifestyle choice, but it seldom is.
While I don't agree with filiming their kids the way they are I see nothing wrong with van life. Wanting to take a few years to explore the world is really cool so why not film it and make some money. The kids are getting a better education exploring the world than sitting in a stuffy school. I know there is a lot of bad things with these types of pages but I do see some good things. Film your van life but only if there are no kids involved.
@@peggancox4493 For sure. But also only film if it makes you happy. Creating and posting social content is a time consuming and draining process even if you like doing it, and it would suck if that took joy out of the experience you are trying to share.
We all know the older kids are “parenting” the younger ones. The parents are not parenting all of them.
Yup. That sounds about right
The oldest son is their real parent
this is how children learn to become adults, or at least they used to
You can learn by doing little, not being handed over babies for your parents to make and push them out. It is parents' responsibility, not the child's.
@@faeknereddi4782 nah they're "Christians", the daughter is the parent cause ... Women and tradition and all that stuff performative christians yap about
I love the Influencer Insanity series. I somehow got recommended this while scrolling my feed and I'm so happy it was! I've been following for a while now, maybe a month or two but this is my first time commenting. Thanks for this series! I love the way you cover these topics
30:00 6 kids in my family, definitely ignored most the time. My parents thought it taught us to be self-reliant. Instead I learned not to rely on them. 🤷 These kids aren’t gonna be okay.
Illinois has a new law for children featured on monetized social media postings!! If a child is featured on at least 30% of monetized content, they’re entitled to 15% of the income, by law, in a trust account they can access when they’re 18. At that time, they can also request their image be removed from these accounts. If a parent refuses, the child can pursue legal action. This law actually goes a step further than Coogan laws, at least to my potentially outdated knowledge, by naming a required percentage of income.
The parents having that much sex to make even more children METRES away from all their other children is so f**ked up. Disturbing. Let alone living on top of each other with no space, privacy, or 1:1 parental attention. Poor kids.
*Just got to the part where you also point this out! It's just so gross 🤢
Ya isn’t that considered sexual abuse? Exposing kids to sexual things?
Mime sex
@@Mama_Bear524If it isnt already it should be, absolutely disgusting 🤢
And she said that the toddler is now sleeping under their bed... That's so f*cked up
Big breeder fetish vibes
Found this video via the FSU subreddit. Thanks for covering this topic!
To answer your question about growing up in big families … I grew up in a homeschooled family of 6 kids. In many ways my childhood was wonderful and something I’m grateful for. But in other ways it was really, really hard. For one, my parents did struggle to give enough attention and nurturing to each of us, despite them having access to us almost 24/7. That’s resulted in some emotional neglect-related trauma that frankly I’m still dealing with in therapy today. I’m not saying that that dynamic is guaranteed to happen in every big family, but it is something parents should be wary of. Just because your kid seems okay in that environment, doesn’t mean they are.
Hahaha before you said the shampoo comment I was like OMG MLMs are drinking their shampoos now?!
All I heard regarding the kids not having any phones or tablets or screens at all (especially the oldest/teen) is that they literally have no way of contacting anyone in the outside world ever. Can't ask grandparents or safe family members for help if they ever needed it. They're completely reliant on their parents and the decisions their parents make
Also they can't document anything that's happening themselves. Can't look up any information. Can't look at the content they are in to see what it looks like or that people are concerned for them. They don't even know how many people are watching.. so sad and scary 😢
Legit, that seems like a red flag for a cult/high control group. Looking at the BITE model, it honestly feels like they're really hitting some points on Behavioral and Information control by cutting them off from the world and other humans like that.
Crazy because there are literally child safe phones the parents could get them
Right? As if the "divine" vision of building an "ark" wasnt already a red flag for control issues!
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imagine being a child unknowingly participating in videos about your parents getting it on & then getting older & realizing what those videos were really about. I think I would be disgusted.
Disgusted to say the least... I would be traumatized for life...
Living on a bus with their parents making babies on the other side of a non-soundproofed door, they probably find out pretty quickly.
...I'm sure the kids know....
@@InFondRemembrance Living mobile doesn't mean you NEVER get hotels, stop by friends or relatives, etc....
Not to mention that if they do end up in school, the other kids will find these videos
How do the 'parents' make this work? The older siblings take over the parenting of their younger siblings so they get attention, are fed, are clean, and are safe. Do the parents' specifically ask you to? No. But you cannot stand by and let your siblings not have some sense of inclusion. Letting them know someone cares/sees them.
Honestly these type of influencers feed into our addictions for reality tv and the entertainment of seeing wild living situations and scenarios, these people are giving TLC
I'm a single person, living in a 250sqft studio apartment. 200sqft for TEN people? Absolutely not. That's ridiculous.
I’m single in a 1000 sq foot condo, can’t imagine more than 2 people living here 😮
For real! 400sqft with my cats is plenty!!
How many times have these poor kids gotten accidentally stepped on?
RIGHT! I live in a rather large, bougie RV with my husband and our 3 cats and even that sometimes feels cramped. I couldn’t IMAGINE putting that many people/children in that same small space. That’s INSANITY! And child abuse, if you ask me!!
We’re a family of 3 living in a 1300 sqft house and we’re already saving up to get a more spacious space when my son becomes a teen (yeeears from now). I can’t imagine living in a 200sqft bus, omg.
9:06 child actors also get a separation between work and home which helps them know real life from production and they have limited work hours!
My son was a child actor (started at age 5) and is now an adult actor (20). SAG has VERY strict rules for kids being on set. They often bring in body doubles to run the scenes so that the child actor doesn’t go over their allotted hours. Yes, there is separation for child actors from work but there are auditions to tape, modeling go sees, acting classes, etc. so lots of work behind the scenes that people don’t realize.
Yes. Child actors aren’t playing themselves. While obviously there are still issues and more protections needed, it’s different
And there are legal protections for money child actors make that don't apply to influencer kids. The parents could spend every dime these kids earn for them and not give them anything.
And even so, it's awful for many children. See Jennette McCurdy's recent memoir about her abusive stage mom.
@@milikoshki I was not an abusive stage mom. I told my son anytime he wants to quit, he can quit. He loves acting and at 20 still wants to act but it’s a very tough industry.
I watched all of your "influencer insanity" videos now and loved them! Please continue with making them 😊