<story><title>Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content</title><url>https://www.teenvogue.com/story/influencer-parents-children-social-media-impact</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snapplebobapple</author><text>While I find parents doing this extremely concerning I am personally really hesitant to change anything because I can&amp;#x27;t think of any way to change it that doesn&amp;#x27;t seriously hinder normal and not creepy parental uses of images&amp;#x2F;videos of their children. We are already running into overreach problems trying to curtail the stuff we clearly need to curtail (i.e. that guy having to deal with the police for sending his kid&amp;#x27;s pediatrician a picture of some problem) I can&amp;#x27;t imagine what that would end up like if it happened on a large portion of videos shared with your kids in it.</text></item><item><author>PuppyTailWags</author><text>This article unfortunately doesn&amp;#x27;t cover a much darker part of the TikTok children: exploitation of the children for the titillation of online creepers. The Some Place Under Neith podcast goes into this extensively [their &amp;quot;Parasocial Pits Of Hell&amp;quot; series]. It&amp;#x27;s completely legal to vlog your children in swimming outfits or a similar level of skin exposure, have the children sing or perform for their &amp;quot;fans&amp;quot;, and encourage their children to form participate in parasocial relationships with the audience. It nets mad money.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.stitcher.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;some-place-under-neith&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.stitcher.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;some-place-under-neith&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>I like the (for some reason downvoted) reasonable suggestion by someone else to simply not monetize videos containing children. Doesn&amp;#x27;t YouTube already have some kind of classifier that finds children in videos, which lets them turn off commenting on those videos? Just extend that to also de-monetize them.&lt;p&gt;Sure, it doesn&amp;#x27;t solve the problem of child videos using other monetization channels like product placement, sponsorships and so on but don&amp;#x27;t let perfect be the enemy of good.</text></comment>
<story><title>Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content</title><url>https://www.teenvogue.com/story/influencer-parents-children-social-media-impact</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snapplebobapple</author><text>While I find parents doing this extremely concerning I am personally really hesitant to change anything because I can&amp;#x27;t think of any way to change it that doesn&amp;#x27;t seriously hinder normal and not creepy parental uses of images&amp;#x2F;videos of their children. We are already running into overreach problems trying to curtail the stuff we clearly need to curtail (i.e. that guy having to deal with the police for sending his kid&amp;#x27;s pediatrician a picture of some problem) I can&amp;#x27;t imagine what that would end up like if it happened on a large portion of videos shared with your kids in it.</text></item><item><author>PuppyTailWags</author><text>This article unfortunately doesn&amp;#x27;t cover a much darker part of the TikTok children: exploitation of the children for the titillation of online creepers. The Some Place Under Neith podcast goes into this extensively [their &amp;quot;Parasocial Pits Of Hell&amp;quot; series]. It&amp;#x27;s completely legal to vlog your children in swimming outfits or a similar level of skin exposure, have the children sing or perform for their &amp;quot;fans&amp;quot;, and encourage their children to form participate in parasocial relationships with the audience. It nets mad money.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.stitcher.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;some-place-under-neith&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.stitcher.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;some-place-under-neith&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stametseater</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;While I find parents doing this extremely concerning I am personally really hesitant to change anything because I can&amp;#x27;t think of any way to change it that doesn&amp;#x27;t seriously hinder normal and not creepy parental uses of images&amp;#x2F;videos of their children&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ban the commercialization of videos and images containing kids.  No more child actors, singers, models, etc.  Remove the child labor law exceptions which have been given to these industries.</text></comment>