you're not a 'family vlogger' you're an abuser 🙃

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But...

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

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

Gentle parenting accounts are still exploiting their children

Scripted content accounts are still exploiting their children

Accounts with low follower counts are still exploiting their children

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

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

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

Transgender kids

Gay kids

Teenagers who "could say no"

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

Gentle parenting account kids

Kids who were in scripted content and not vlogs

Kids with a lot of money