Hello Toxic people of the internet. Todayyyyy I’m talking about FAMILIES on YouTube. Mostly family channels do vlogs. You know share their day to day lives and so on. A lot of people think family channels exploit their kids for money. Now let’s do a poll and see which of the seven channels below are the worst and I will leave YouTube videos below which you can watch to make your judgement easier.
Now let’s discuss EXPLOITATION. What exactly is exploitation or what does it mean to be exploited? According to Google < Dictionary.com > Exploitation is the act of selfishly taking advantage of someone or a group of people in order to profit from them.
Now I consider what the family Channels are doing exploitation. People wouldn’t necessarily be watching for the parents or the Adults of the channel but the children. In general people find things children do entertaining and the children being cute or having good looks is a plus. If an adult doesn’t bring something to the table they’re boring and people wouldn’t be watching them but children don’t have to do anything for people to be interested.
Family Channels’ audiences or fan bases are mainly kids. Children like to watch other children and what their playing with interest them so If a child sees another child especially one they like with something they would bother their parents to buy it for them. Now brands profit from this and they offer brand deals to the parents and the parents profit from that money.
You might say” but Elle the children too profit from this.” Well, you’re not wrong but their is more to it than that. Yes they might live in big houses, get the newest and coolest toys on the market and ware expensive clothing but it is a job they film for long hours and they might do things they don’t want to.
They are working but their not exactly receiving a paycheck. So maybe involuntary workers or < SLAVES >. The things they have like the big houses aren’t their houses but their parents’. The houses are in the parents’ names and in the future if the parents want to throw them out or something goes bad they could put the child of the house because legally it’s the parents’ house.
Now let’s have a chat abot the Children’s privacy. When the child have just been born and all they have know is being on the internet or being infront of a camera, they did not consent to this or ask for it. Some children that creates YouTube channels < well their parents created the channel > we’re influenced by other children that got their Fame from YouTube, so in a way they decided to be in front of the camera but when the parents realize that they’re making big profit from this, they become greedy and overwork the child and the child then becomes unhappy because it’s no longer a hobbie but a job.
Oversharing too much information about your child on the Internet isn’t safe. Things like showing where you live what school your child / children goes to, places they frequently visit or so on informs predators. Now with this information and other information that makes it feels like they know the child, it then becomes easy for someone to take or kidnap your child. Because the kidnapper knows things close people to them will know, it then makes the child trust them and feels comfortable enough to go with the kidnapper.
So sharing too much info online about your children can be a safety hazard and can be the reason why you lose your child. It gives predators easy access to your child. Being known will have people coming up to them, bmbarding them ad invading their personal space, this will make your child uncomfortable and feel overwhelmed especially to kids who aren’t very social or trusting towards strangers.
As the child / children grows they will be in school. Kids are mean and them having information to your kids personal lives will open up a lot of doors for bullying as well as it will be harder for the child to find true or real friends that aren’t using them for their fame and for clout.
Mental issues and probelms are known to develop in children who are famous or better yet were famous. All the chaos from the hectic world of being well known leaves an effect on them. Just look at all the child stars who went of the rails. Like Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes, Aaron Carter, Jodie Sweetin, and Macaulay Culkin. You’ve probably seen or heared of one of these people before.
Okay my little butterflies this is all for today remeber to tell my your thoughts in the comments below/ BYEEEEEEE ❤
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