I Don’t Have A Problem With Family Vlogging If You’re Not Doing It For Shock

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1. Very true.

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2. Respectfully I disagree. Pageants and whatnot aren’t put on the internet for the entire world to see in real time, indefinitely. These family vloggers are making their home, a safe space, into a film set. Every argument and tear exploited and documented for the life of the internet. The worst cases turn into a Ruby Franke, other cases may be more subtle but have underlying cases of not so nice people stalking and using this kid content for gross reasons. The kids can’t give consent in any capacity and parents who exploit that for a paycheck are either very naive or selfish individuals.

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3. I have to disagree. I also disagree with child modeling, child peagants and child acting. There aren’t enough legislations that ensure that the revenue these children make go towards their future and not into the hands of their parents. There are so many examples of the latter unfortunately, just look at the Sprouse twins, especially Cole talks about this.
   Also we never know what goes on behind closed doors. 8 passengers is another great example.
   Child exploitation is rampant in these industries and family vlogging brings almost nothing but danger to these children. There’s a little girl, I won’t even write down her name, but what started as innocent content turned more and more sexual and the mother refuses to take down those videos that are saved and liked by a suspiciously large amount of men and faceless, postless profiles.
   Children can not consent to be public figures. The risk of them being ridiculed and bullied in school later in life because they have their lives on the internet (and potentially embarrasing moments from their childhood) is so much higher this way.
   There are so many more negatives and potential dangers of family vlogging than positives and potentially positive outcomes.

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4. I have to echo the disagreement voiced here.The internet does not forget, and invariably it will hold information and display it to everyone who cares to look. A child that liked it may grow into a teenager that hates it and is bullied and harrassed for past content. Not to mention that it turns into a career for many parents, a career they can’t just easily abandon the day the kids stop loving it. Also, loving it is not enough. Privacy is an important thing to learn about, and when the privacy of your home is invaded, this requires a form of in-depth understanding and consent that you cannot ask for in a young child. Pageantry and child acting are way less invasive in the sense that pageants are less public and child acting doesn’t show the child in her habitat, but a child who plays a different character on a set. Still, I am also against child pageants, for other reasons, and would never enter my own child in acting or advertisement either.

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