Forcing Your Kids to Become TikTok Stars

[@kurtisconner]

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[@ThrarmAnimation]

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[@stan_lego_eda]

HI KURTIS

[@dominicdimaggio9992]

You in a game theory video now

[@certifiedgreg_rose]

Hi kurtis I love your content and you always make my day

[@waesucks]

I love you

[@Average_Babushka]

Kurtis roasting his dad for his divorces is exactly what I came here for

[@juratory8876]

​@ville__Please stop. You've been spamming the same comment in the hopes that people check out your content. It's annoying.

[@octoisgay]

@ville__ where are they.

[@ThrarmAnimation]

​@BollywoodNewzz"stop promoting your own channel in the comments, its obnoxious unrelated and a bore, if you're promoting your own channel in the comments, well it's not really a comment anymore" - jacksfilms, message to all commenters

[@ThrarmAnimation]

​@ville__you aswell

[@Isabellediaz112]

@@ThrarmAnimationomg

[@animatedastronaut8967]

there is nothing more terrifying to me than the idea of a parent posting the live locations of her children online

[@agatha004]

Yes lol, at least they live in Australia and there's not many people there, so im guessing its less probable to get harrassed, but still its fucking weird and dangerous, you never know what kind of creepos are out there

[@Mem0447]

@@agatha004out of touch teenage boys being recorded every fucking second of their lives? Anyone mentally fucked up enough in Australia can just track them if they wished because of the mom stating exactly where they're at She might as well say their address too bc Jesus christ

[@animatedastronaut8967]

@@agatha004 25 million people live in australia

[@emilyb.8219]

@@agatha004 I was gonna say at least in Australia, they don't have to worry about someone pulling up with a g*n like in the US 🙃

[@laonagrouchini]

​@ville__ only thing i see you put effort into is your comments- actually nah you're probably a bot

[@HEALORDER]

whenever i see parents forcing their kids to be stars i always think of jennette mccurdy’s book and what they could be experiencing behind closed doors 😔

[@Zeffer32]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@Zectifin]

I'm glad people are waking up to all of this child exploitation in media. Just because some of them end up rich and famous doesn't mean they weren't manipulated and abused their entire childhoods. Plus think of all the kids who went through this and didn't make it and have nothing to show for it but childhood trauma and a waiting job.

[@mb-xx7tv]

EXACTLY ever since i read that book i cant look at child fame the same ever again

[@Random-sk6hm]

Fr :(

[@seraphinw1]

i remember when folks missed the entire point of that book because they got offended by the title

[@Forkgurls]

My siblings didn’t want to start a band we wanted to start a reality tv show. Every time something traumatic would happen we would cope by imagining there was dramatic reality tv music in the background

[@hellguh]

this is the best thing i’ve read all day

[@AriHatesMakingUsernames]

LOLLL

[@rosefromtitanic2264]

Thank god I wasn’t the only one

[@Seafor-v4l]

Are you okay??

[@ProfessorMM]

I'm 29 and my sister is 33 and any time we're together we still do this 😂

[@HowdyHowdy_]

This convinces me that child labor laws are in desperate need of updating to stop this rampant exploitation of children particularly from their parents.

[@soulseobs]

This isn't really related but once last year during an interview or something of a minor kpop group the host said something along the lines of "due to child labor laws the girls can't unfortunately work on the show" and i was like UNFORTUNATELY?!?!

[@teashlee521]

It’s weird because in australia (at least my state) they changed the laws last year so that there’s now no minimum age requirement for working, it used to be 14 and 9 months so if anything were going in the opposite direction

[@Random-sk6hm]

Fr it's insane they should be worrying about homework not being forced to go live

[@kokana24]

Don't worry. They are getting updated. They are getting ROLLED BACK. New laws going through will allow 8th graders to drop out of school and work full-time. 😡😡😡😡😡😡

[@qqqqqqqqqqqqqq7665]

@@soulseobswait, which group was it? NewJeans?

[@rayhem]

i think it'd be funny if they turned the tables one day out of nowhere and woke up their mom with 4 livestreaming cameras in her face and told her to do a silly dance

[@jshanksffemtp]

this sounds so Black Mirror lol

[@topatsyn_]

I'm sorry but that'll be hilarious 😭

[@thatroosterheadiidiot1731]

i have never laughed so hard at a comment LMFAO

[@arknoklafayette2530]

PLEASE I WANT THIS TO HAPPEN LMAO

[@turtlejeepjen314]

She WOULD… she clearly wants the attention to turn to her as they get older. She’ll have tons of plastic surgery, & kids’ll foot moms bill.💀😑

[@melyannac9786]

The amount of documentaries we're gonna have in 10-20 years thanks to tiktok is insane

[@FukaiKokoro]

Thats the thing it's not just tik tok. It's all social media. Like KZbin, Instagram, Facebook, etc

[@cosmosisrose]

@@FukaiKokoroyeah I was gonna say, it’s everywhere. it was happening on youtube before tiktok was even a thing

[@worstusernameintheworld9871]

not a documentary, but didn't drew do a video about a reality show with the d'amelio sisters where most of it is showing how overworked they are as minors?

[@bookle5829]

ah yes cant wait for more 1 hour video essays on these guys.

[@brittneyyyann]

I know several middle and high school teachers, the kids who had parents that constantly posted everything about them on facebook talk about how much they hate it and how it really messed up their sense of privacy. They talk about being out in public and a friend of their moms from high school they’ve never even met talking to them about how big they’ve gotten or referencing things like potty training, first periods, or other embarrassing things. Too many people don’t see kids as their own people who deserve dignity and privacy and it’s sickening. I have a son and most people on my social media don’t even know because I’ve never, and will never, post anything about him.

[@JAZMINEVE29]

I met the aussie bro squad the other day when I was ice-skating with my friends, they were really sweet and let us and many other people take a picture or film TikToks with them. but their mother just wouldn't get out of their face. like 24/7 had a phone up against them yelling stuff to a livestream. it was mental.

[@PlayerTenji95]

I’m just glad they seem to be relatively well-adjusted in spite of their mom being Like That™️.

[@alexs.7956]

I really hope one day they get away from her and don't look back

[@SophieRapp-p1e]

That makes me really sad

[@Nyx_Fey_]

I donno man, it kinda just makes it worse that they're good, down to earth kids- means they're probably super aware of how abusive what their mother is doing is, and but then also know they can't get away from it.

[@itsthejavavoid]

awh, that makes me feel bad. in this video they seem pretty fun and sweet, its just that they have no control over their videos.

[@Whiskin87]

Social media “child stars” is a scary concept. Kids in the entertainment industry (even with supposed oversight and established working conditions) can suffer so much abuse. Kids put on social media seem to have no one looking out for them.

[@Fizzymilkshakee]

@ville__ 🤖

[@kmlksekhon]

There are also legal protections for children in "traditional" media. If anyone abuses them (physically, financially, emotionally, etc.), they can sue. With these social media situations, there's no protections for their financial situation and it can be very difficult to go against parents for emotional/physical abuse because it becomes a "he said, she said" situation

[@KitKat0nly]

So is the concept of "child star" tbh

[@megan-mr9vk]

in the entertainment industry, you go to set and come home at the end of the day. imagine your set IS home. it never ends.

[@Elowai]

ITS THE EMO PROPERTY BROTHERS! Lmao.

[@justabridget]

I love it when Kurtis talks about his childhood in his videos, it’s like a dad revealing lore to his kids

[@Fizzymilkshakee]

@ville__ 🤖

[@he4rtlez]

@ville__ but Kurtis is Canadian and your not

[@WoRm_WoRm222]

We are both his citizens and his children.

[@noriii]

@@WoRm_WoRm222sounds a bit like a cult 😮

[@erikhuff7453]

A dad who has been divorced twice

[@gatorcopter]

giggling at the mom consistently having an australian accent while the kids just have kurtis's regular speaking voice in every skit

[@lacy.x0]

kurtis is australian!! i have proof! he has a mullet and canada is basically australia he has the build for afl and he talks funny!!

[@Lizardking24680]

@@lacy.x0I hope your Australian

[@buzztube1738]

​@@Lizardking24680you're*

[@philijean9810]

Oh was that meant to be an Australian accent 😬

[@lacy.x0]

@@Lizardking24680 yes i am dw

[@CaitlinKoi]

15:00 I only just noticed that the red X animation you used was one that I made and posted on an alt! I have never felt more honored to have a greenscreen asset I made featured in a Kurtis Conner video.

[@luvstimetosleep]

Congrats

[@brbrbrbrbbrbrbrbr]

Hey its you live your chanle

[@olisa_hehe]

Aw that's nice!

[@Queen_Cnidarian]

We need to start normalizing respecting the privacy of children. Not just your children, but all of them.

[@nignamedmutt7270]

In 50 years we're gonna be seeing recovery ads for "victims" of social media, and the host of bizarre mental illnesses past generations never even knew existed. Eventually further down the line, it'll become a gross, taboo thing(like cigarettes) and when people openly talk about checking accounts all day, everyone else will be silently thinking "yyyea..... no wonder you're such a nervous wreck all the time" It'll be a constant argument too. One group has so much fun with it, is too young to see it's impact, while the other is baffled how people who so clearly live out the damage, can refuse it even exists(look at any heroin addict saying "it's not THAT BAD")

[@Dutch3DMaster]

Can still recall being a photographer and being at the yearly fair taking pictures of people in the rides, which eventually involves children enjoying the slower rides as well. I'm completely fine with parents being concerned and asking what it's for and not wanting pictures taken, but it never failed to surprise how dirt-stupid the parents in question were because more often than not, I saw the same people being rightfully concerned about the safety of their child taking a picture with their phone, and then hearing them make a remark to an acquintance saying "Oh that's a nice one, that one goes on Facebook." I never got that attitude... I am glad that some family members of indirect family are super, SUPER careful with pictures of their children and are not posting literally anything...

[@Omnibushido-]

I hate when I’m scrolling through the comments on videos if content creators who actually respect their children’s privacy and I see a bunch of people literally begging to see their kids. “Why don’t you ever show your kids?!” “Do kids face reveal plz??” “Please let us see what your kid looks like!” I’ve seen people get offended and angry when the creator responds saying they don’t want to show their children out of respect for their privacy. It’s so creepy and weird to beg for that. You don’t really know them and they don’t know you, so why would they owe that to you? Why do you feel so entitled to it? Why is it so important to you that you see this child it changes literally NOTHING. I sometimes feel like people need to ask themselves “why?” more often.

[@rosswatson3993]

Yeah. Most normal people do

[@MonkGames666]

I agree but they're like 17/18

[@b1an7a]

as an australian im so glad that the insanity of aussie bro squad has gone international

[@Random-sk6hm]

I'm so sorry to hear that. However, on behalf on England, we regret to inform that we will not be accepting him here and pass him onto America for consideration.

[@umi2751]

come to brazil

[@hexagowe3415]

they breached containment

[@toast4082]

@@Random-sk6hm The council has mulled over this offer and on behalf of America we will be passing them on to Mexico for consideration.

[@coltrane1016]

@@Random-sk6hmus has enough nonsense going on we decline 😭

[@Galactic_Orca]

God, I feel so bad even for the kids who WANT to go into the industry, let alone the ones who don't. They just have no idea what they're signing up for.

[@themelnova]

when I was a little kid I used to beg and beg my parents for a KZbin channel. they told me to wait until I was a teenager. I still want to start one but holy shit I am so grateful they made me wait because I was bullied in school, imagine how much worse it would have been if I had a bunch of bids online of me as a kid.

[@Politoed89]

even the 'success stories' of teenage stardom often have issues related to being thrust into all of this attention at such a young age. i get the impression that taylor swift is still trying to mentally untangle that over a decade later, and she actually chose to do it. i can't imagine that being put on random teens involuntarily :|

[@waffleaffle231]

Me and my brother always wanted to film ourselves playing Minecraft and post it, but we weren't allowed to. I'm very glad about that now, I don't want to be online except for stuff related to my theatre career lol

[@hnichole]

I was a strong singer as a child, and in middle school I really thought I wanted to go into a singing/acting career, so in like 7th grade, I signed up behind my parents' back for a Disney audition. I ended up regretting it knowing I would get in trouble lmao, but my parents never yelled at me for doing it, just said they didn't really want to take me and that was that. Same when my sister and I were approached at a store and asked if we had ever considered modeling. That one my sister and I both wanted to do, but they wanted my parents to pay some crazy amount for them to manage us, so nothing came of it. In hindsight, my parents were abusive, but they at least did that right for me. I already struggled so badly with anxiety and body image issues, and developed an ED even without ever going into acting or modeling. I couldn't fathom what being in the entertainment industry would have done to me as a teen. And at the time, I really thought it was what I wanted. Idk I just feel so bad for these guys, and hope that they can realize what their mom is doing to them.

[@Random-sk6hm]

@@themelnova As someone who had the same wish and actually went through with making the KZbin channel and having their channel exposed in school, I wish my parents would've prevented me from it cos they could've saved me from a lot of bullying :/

[@IronWangCreates]

Trying his hardest to do an Australian accent and yet Kurtis still says sorry like a Canadian

[@erinesser6658]

​@NotVille_maybe put effort into not commenting the same thing on 46 kurtis videos

[@ghoultooth]

@@erinesser6658it’s a bot. They tend to do that

[@gabrielle-gamingandmore637]

​​​@ville__woah I can't believe Kurtis fakes her videos

[@kwowka]

HOW CAN YOU DISTINGUISH BETWEEN CANADIAN AND AMERICAN ACCENTS

[@IronWangCreates]

@@erinesser6658 just report them for spam, if they get reported by a few people it deletes all the spam comments they’ve left

[@billbill6094]

The child labor laws created for show business seriously need to catch up to content creators. Broadcasting every moment of a child's life to the world while forcing them to play a character or otherwise entertain is unhealthy, nevermind that the wealth created by their work rarely becomes theirs. As for the adult half of ABS, I hope they actually enjoy this and don't just feeling pigeonholed into it. Parents still hold a lot of control in the minds of 18 year olds.

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

If someone uses content creation as their main source of income, like on taxes and shit, could it then be considered child labour??

[@FukaiKokoro]

Plus it's scammy because the parents take all the money. And don't start a fund for them. Imo there should be a law that parents can only take 15% of the income created off their children.

[@StarBoundAngel]

18 year olds DEFINITELY still feel like children dependent on their parents. I still asked my mom before I did anything when I was 18 and it took me some time and her saying every time “I don’t know you’re an adult now it’s your choice” and me being very confused before I could grow from that. So, if she’s still treating them like they’re minors, they’re going to respond like they are.

[@thehalfmoonmirrorsvenus1234]

​​@@maxbracegirdle9990I was thinking the exact same thing after the eight passengers situation happened...

[@blissfullycat02]

Actually some countries have and I believe I just read that one state was putting this into law and some other states were looking to follow suit. Meanwhile other states are lowering the age kids can go to work... It's like one step forward, give steps back

[@potfur_z_bagna]

OF COURSE two of them are twins. Having twins seems to do something to people's brains, like they can't treat them like children or even human beings, but HAVE TO make a spectacle out of them - dressing them up all the time (in the same exact outfit, of course), teaching them some weird shtick and forcing them to perform in talent shows, filming them non stop and monetizing it on the internet, you name it.

[@Abs0408]

My cousins are twins (and it was an absolute miracle because my aunt was an older mother and had to have the eggs put in her so they put two just in case one yknow didn’t make it but both did) and as babies they dress the same and as kids/toddlers. But I feel like at that age it’s okay because they’re little and can’t dress themselves or choose to dress otherwise. They’re both 11 now (almost 12) and now dress completely different.

[@ANDREW-uo6tq]

LMFAOOOO my mom used to do this when I had a twin and a mom… but she was just weird in general, used to cut my hair and use it to make dolls

[@hospitable_ghost]

@@Abs0408If your aunt had IVF, it's really not a miracle she had twins. Multiples are one of the side effects of IVF.

[@Shiftarus]

​@@hospitable_ghost the twins wasn't the miracle part sherlock

[@rob-tt3hb]

​@hospitable_ghost you're very smart

[@saviette1910]

My cousins and I tried to start a band in the 2000s, we were called the Space Monkeys and had a total of one successful concerts in our aunt's basement before the band split up.

[@Karu_the_Kiwi]

Lowkey Space Monkeys kinda slaps

[@_Iemonboy.]

sick name

[@Anbei77]

Reunion concerts are popular

[@mipmipmipmipmip-v5x]

I was a fan of the Space Monkey's early work, but I'm glad they split up because at the concert it was clear they were selling out

[@saviette1910]

@@mipmipmipmipmip-v5x our tambourine player left when dinner was ready and never rejoined :/ clearly not all of us were in it for the art.

[@tahlia8675]

I am Australian and I remember waking up super early a few weeks ago, like I’m talkin 6 AM, and they were dancing in their backyard in the dark. Someone asked where the 1 was because he was missing, and she said “he couldn’t be bothered getting out of bed” or something of that nature. While the others just kept smiling and dancing, it was just weird.

[@ruthie8785]

That sounds extremely creepy to be honest.

[@Random-sk6hm]

This is the real life Black Mirror

[@AnythingButMeee]

Idk why i read that as you somehow ended up in their backyard in the middle of the night and saw all this go down irl, instead of the non-insane explanation of u just watching the live stream

[@tahlia8675]

@@AnythingButMeee this made me laugh sooo hard hahahahahah

[@luca6749]

@@AnythingButMeeeno same though ... i was like 'ur crazy why u watching them in they back yard at 6am' lmao for real though that's so gross, the wording of "he couldn't be bothered" makes her sound so bitter, as if he owes it to her or something... i am so worried for those kids

[@tryingtolivemylife]

When my siblings and I were younger, we decided to make a band. We called ourselves the ASK sisters because our first initials, in age orders, formed the word ask which we thought was so cool at the time. We came up with a song, including a chorus wed sing together and each of us got a solo verse. We worked on the song for a few days and then went out to the front yard and "performed" it like on repeat for about an hour. We were young enough that our "instruments" consisted of a clip board with lettered squares drawn on it that the youngest was hitting with a broken piece of a clothes hanger, something rigged up to be like a makeshift guitar with another hanger and some rubber bands, stuff like that. Btw, the entire song was about how we were called the ASK sisters and that we were a band. After that one day on summer break, we never did anything like that again.

[@earellereckley4085]

What a core memory you've shared

[@operaghosts]

I am the biggest ASK sisters fan

[@lyroevans2747]

ASK sisters reunion when???

[@Zimzum93]

Where can I get tickets for the reunion tour Melbourne show?

[@jarbincks6715]

need the ASK sisters tickets now

[@QueenofBleedingHearts24]

There will be a lot of therapy and lawsuits in these children’s futures. It is not normal or healthy for kids to be displayed and forced to perform online. I hope kids sue their parents for wages and emotional distress…maybe it will deter other parents from exploiting their kids.

[@caitie2010]

@ville__shut up. Nobody cares about your channel

[@S728-u9x]

​@ville__my Man i even looked into your channel to give you a chance but you Dont got no videos lol

[@ThrarmAnimation]

​@ville__WHAT VIDEOS???

[@It-is-me...Melsie]

@@S728-u9x Why did you even look? How could you not know to fall for that. Those annoying spammers are always under Kurtis's and almost every other famous KZbinr's videos. Don't feed the spammers - do the right thing and report them. I never cease to be amazed at the gullibility of some people.

[@S728-u9x]

@@It-is-me...Melsie lol i know Its a bot spam account obviously, i just thought it would have some trash videos and looked into the channel cus whatever It takes 2 seconds to do so and im bored. I didnt "Fall for It"

[@kristinablair6541]

"She just donated a hot dog. Give her a dance"

[@Rachel98246]

😪💃🏻

[@just_-me-_]

IKR I FREAKING ROFL

[@Pixelcherie]

Real

[@kowaretatc8611]

Sounds so bad out of context

[@catelikesmakeup]

As an Australian who just did my own mini deep dive, I would have to agree with the Reddit commenter who said that it is highly likely that the family is conservative/religious and the boys are probably home schooled. Most Aussie boys their age wouldn't be caught dead doing that, along with the fact that if they attended regular school, they would get horribly bullied for it. Their mum is definitely exploiting them and she definitely gives me off vibes ('boy mum'). Edit: just saw a comment of someone saying they went to school with them and that they don't like it at all - my new assumption is that their mum is abusive and insane

[@huener]

Or the commenter you saw is lying

[@galaxyocicat5660]

It's possible that comment could be lying but it would be easier to get more verified information since their mom likes to broadcast their entire lives so much.

[@seisage]

Regardless of if that commenter is lying, I think they do mention the two younger boys being dropped off at school in one of the clips Kurtis showed. The fact that they're absent for school and that they were dropped off leads me to believe they are at least not homeschooled, but that doesn't rule out the possibility of a conservative Christian private school or something similar.

[@dairyblitz]

defiantly. the mum has some sort of mental issues

[@bunny8962]

Actually there’s loads of people who have or go to school with them, the older two the twins are already graduated and the younger ones are in school apparently are very normal. It might be a load of shit but lots of people are coming about it and all the stories very similar

[@emilyb.8219]

Kurtis throwing out passive-aggressive jabs to his divorced dad is very relatable lmao

[@dykesupernova]

Double divorced dad*

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

Not to draw attention or anything, but my father is in the same situuation, bro messed up

[@Ghost-lt4sf]

I’m a product of third marriage (and subsequent divorce.) Woop soop multiple divorce gang

[@iaacryign]

My friend’s parents have been divorced 4 times and remarried 4 times. its painful to watch

[@yourregionalprotogen]

@ville__maybe actually post videos before saying that

[@SoggyOpossum]

If Kurtis didn't openly come out of the closet as canadian we would all think he could be any nationality

[@ThrarmAnimation]

come out as canadian lmao, i think we should use that wording more often

[@rattlesnaik]

Huh?

[@SuperHGB]

​@NotVille_HOW DOES HE FAKE IS VIDEO? WHAT IS THERE TO BE FAKED?

[@It-is-me...Melsie]

@NotVille_ Go away.

[@Ilikebigbooties]

He’s so brave

[@ILoveGrungeFrogs]

I fell asleep while watching his videos and him screaming "ABS" at the end of the video scared me so bad i almost passed out

[@eskilfjeld1761]

Serves you right for falling asleep

[@Patterrz]

I can't believe the mother can just push through all the abusive comments directed at her kids and move on like "Alice said you guys ate! Thanks Alice! :D"

[@raimarulightning]

"Ignore the critics'" taken to 11 lol

[@embrixcandray6073]

Pat?!?!?

[@tenwholebees]

This gives the same vibes as a dad who failed in high school football and force their son to play it, or the moms who have some sort of insecurity issues and force their daughter to do pageants. Forced vicarious living via your child ahould be a crime

[@Korrin69]

I love the B1 pfp

[@the_local_bigamist]

Agree completely. I wrote a long comment about sketchy parents pushing/forcing their kids into a sketchy industry but you summed it up perfectly.

[@ElSantoLuchador]

My brother was really, really good at baseball. My dad took this as a personal mission and made him go to the batting cages and spend his free time practicing his skills. I was average and he did not GAF about me and baseball one way or the other. My brother's reaction was to quit baseball and instead play soccer his senior year. My dad never really got over it and it just became another excuse for him to drink.

[@snowtigerko]

The emo property brother bit is definitely one of the best he's ever done, holy shit that got me 💀

[@greenb3ans]

he sounds like kip from Napoleon Dynamite too, it’s so good

[@bananawitchcraft]

I had to watch that twice. It reminded me of Lucas Cruikshank's short "Emo Flooring" which is also top-tier

[@mtermanas104]

Ive literally been laughing for 10 minutes hysterically

[@typicalghost6930]

same, and all the emo music references were amazing

[@TheEveningDeath]

@@greenb3ans Was actively looking for a comment that also shared this realization.😭

[@emberloader1308]

I watch the Aussie bro squad make tiktoks outside of my work and basically a man has a container full of different clothes and they change for every second video and change locations. There’s a woman (presumably a mum) filming them and they dance to almost silence.

[@maxsteel6732]

Im obsessed with Kurtis’ Australian accent consistently slipping into like a dirty North English farm lad

[@beee.4real]

it was more english and kiwi than aussie 😭

[@3m967]

@@beee.4real better then when most people who try 😭

[@aliviaprochilo]

@@beee.4realthat’s what I was saying sounds more kiwi

[@rachieebeee]

i'm obsessed with it never sounding australian at all. couldn't even do the naur /lhj

[@Random-sk6hm]

Imagine a Roadman Kurtis 😭

[@ElectricSquirrely]

Let's not forget what happened to the Olsen twins. Stardom was forced upon them as kids, and they were robbed of their childhood.

[@It-is-me...Melsie]

And famous and wealthy, which I gather is the mum's end goal.

[@FukaiKokoro]

Being famous and wealthy doesn't mean much when during your devloping stages are ruined and you're a very mentally unwell adult.

[@cosmosisrose]

this is like 99% of child stars

[@spitfireCannibist]

​@@FukaiKokoro dunno if they were saying it didnt but rather pointing out the greed of the adults in their lives that did that to them

[@Damsel.in.distress]

@@It-is-me...MelsieActually the olsen twins mom didnt really want this, but it was their dad who did, later on the mom divorced him, after he forced Mary-kate to go to that thing cuz of her ed/anorexia, he also didnt let the olsen twins use their own money unless they did chores, and even when they did he wouldnt give them more than 30$, so dont blame their mom, she is actually a really sweet person. (Also the, going on full house wasnt really her choice, and the producers and other people forced the mom not to be there)

[@rubyssxo]

i commented on their live "let kurtis conner join the aussie bro squad" and the mum said "ruby get ur friend to email through! we'll see what we can do"

[@rodsitamara]

LOLLLL

[@lucyservo6574]

The only thing worse than a parent exploting their kids for views is KURT'S AUSTRALIAN ACCENT

[@bocktopus8993]

Came to the comments mid vid to see what the other Australians thought about that 😂

[@_rosalie_99]

it’s practically a kiwi accent 😭

[@YourJapanic]

Congrats on getting in the community post lmao

[@lucyservo6574]

@@YourJapanic I just saw that, amazing lmao. I've reached my peak

[@j.withani]

💀 what ​@ville__

[@PrincessPheej]

Something that blew my mind was that when one of my best friends and I were about 7 or so, we started a band together called SC3 (very close to KC3), which is a little bit of a coincidence, but even more so given that neither of our initials were anywhere close to S.C.

[@kayleesykes2739]

It’s weird that generations that grew up with rampant amounts of cybercrime and abused child stars you think they would be hyper aware or more inclined to protect children from the internet.

[@namantherockstar]

Kurtis inspires me.. My parents said if i get 70K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..

[@ghoultooth]

@@namantherockstarNa, man

[@noodian3268]

had a stroke reading this

[@secondskn]

@@noodian3268literally had to rub my eyes like a fucking cartoon character until they made squeaking sounds bro bc what

[@jxnebxggy]

no bc what does it say ​@@secondskn

[@CZsWorld]

Can we have a whole series about the emo property brother who listens to Sunny Day Real Estate?

[@vincentadultman6226]

Holy shit its CZsWorld

[@KateCarew]

Reality is even better He’s JD Scott and he hosts some weird show about carnivals or amusement parks on the country music channel 😂 I saw it once in a doctors office waiting room and had no idea he was the emo bro

[@WaltzXO]

Why do I see you everywhere. I’ve been watching you for years but now I see you in almost every KZbin comment section. What the actual fuck?

[@Curlsgirls19]

Omg CZsWorld!!

[@gracestitzel]

CZ!! i loved your videos on the Saw movies

[@nox6438]

"Oh cool what's a police officer! Is that a new tiktok gift?" Was so clever it knocked the wind out of me, thankyou Kurtis

[@Superboologan1]

"The most important thing is you got to give the people what they want. Even if it kills you, even if it empties you out until there's nothing left to empty. No matter what happens, no matter how much it hurts, you don't stop dancing, and you don't stop smiling, and you give those people what they want." - Bojack Horseman

[@Nonogram_Addict]

Being the only Canadian citizen must be super hard he’s so brave

[@Random-sk6hm]

Kurtis isn't a perpetrator, he's a survivor

[@thingfailure]

i am from Aotearoa/NZ so this may be inaccurate, but here i can confirm we actually raise all our children by forcing them to dance everyday. Sometimes they even dance with the sheep.

[@pinecous2910]

I can also confirm that children in Aus are raised dancing - and yes, we are upside down.

[@thingfailure]

@@pinecous2910 knew it

[@archivebyjuno]

as a fellow Kiwi, this is so true

[@Gustoberg]

I like NZ very much, on the list of countries I might try to move to, but one real, actual question, is New Zealand oceania's Wales?

[@It-is-me...Melsie]

@@Gustoberg Not quite that bad.

[@lily.bean2]

Everytime Kurtis posts, I kick my feet a little bit

[@eggseggy]

i giggle and blush too

[@3D_therian]

REAL

[@namantherockstar]

Kurtis inspires me.. My parents said if i get 70K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..

[@FroppyIsFruity]

Teehee!

[@st4r222thatsacooluser]

Same

[@dylanagoblin9298]

At my job we work with people with disabilities and some are kids we take online privacy so so seriously. I was a child victim of online grooming and I take that shit to heart. I wish every parent understood the dangers and took time to learn. I wish parents took that shit seriously, educators should as well. If you’re around kids you should always be doing the best you can to keep them safe, and the internet is INSANE.

[@sherryfondevilla]

I went to primary school and high school with the Aussie Bro Squad and Tyler is in my year and he does not like it at all but the horrible mother does not care and the other 3 brothers would definitely not like it either. It is really sad. One of my friends lived across from ABS and we did ding dong ditch years ago and she chased after us and got super angry and explained how "her boys" had a very tight schedule...

[@PlayerTenji95]

Jesus, that sucks.

[@delusion5867]

hope they ditch her when they're old enough

[@pap-fr]

Sure, buddy

[@Maialeen]

@pap-fr BuDdY, these people aren't aliens who just landed on earth. They know people and people know them. There's no reason this couldn't be true. This attitude of 'nothing ever is real' is kinda ridiculous.

[@allson1000]

The mum is a psycho.

[@tiredrabbit6776]

the band comment was interesting because the jackson 5 were in a similar (with the technology at the time) situation in terms of exploitation by parents and abusive home life. their father was incredibly authoritarian and forced them to work ridiculously hard considering they were children, both in music/dance and punishment in the form of physical labor. i think more could be said about the similarities between the jackson 5 and the aussie bro squad.

[@uncreativename1636]

It’s not too late . Make the Conner sibling band make a comeback!!!

[@crunchylettuce]

​@@hotdoggitydig conner

[@AnjaNothing-rk6lo]

Okay

[@SuperHGB]

​@ville__how can he fake his videos? Like what DO you fake?

[@ShinyHunterMuck]

@@crunchylettuceconga line

[@kissyface3000]

​@@SuperHGBit's a bot guy notice how they say "her" in the comment 🧍‍♂️

[@adele28nova84]

my mom used to record me doing silly stuff when i was little but she would never post anything or show it to anyone and it’s crazy to me how parents just exploit their kids like this

[@jlo9993]

The Emo Property Brother segment is honestly the best skit Kurtis has ever done

[@Akiira_official]

Indeed

[@slimshadeyyy]

I also loved that he sounded like Kip from Napoleon Dynamite

[@risha2651]

@@slimshadeyyy that’s exactly what I was thinking!

[@TheYoungKilljoy]

I know, he actually represented the subculture so well while being funny. I watched it Thrice ;)

[@Local_Skinwalker]

There were so many missed opportunities tho. "This is the living room. I'd rather call it the dead room cause I'd never be caught dead living in here..." I'm sure there are others but I have a short memory.

[@SunnyXGL]

I was a department store photographer for a couple years (US, East Coast) and I would have parents of young kids come in ALL THE TIME for profile pictures and "personality shoots". A lot of the time the kids fell into three categories: shy/unwilling, bratty/demanding, or theater kid in the making. A lot of the time they would try to video the sessions and make content off of it. A lot of the time it was for KZbin channels FOR THE CHILD - not even family channels. Just the kids. It made me sad because no matter what group of kids there were, you could see the damage right in front of your eyes.

[@xxTheLocketxx]

I feel that- I worked with a photographer in Nyc and she told me back in her city (midwest) parents would spend THOUSANDS on her 2 hour sessions to get really good curated photos of them; as they would hope acting and modeling agencies would notice and pick them up with these photos. She didn't care too much, she was the one collecting the check and its good money, but she said that some parent/kid combos left a bad taste in her mouth with their narcissism and pushiness to get thier child famous, by any means necessary.

[@Dutch3DMaster]

At an event where I was asked to take pictures of the people attending, I can still recall someone still being unhappy with the result after 30 attempts. Turns out she was used to overexposing her smartphone and angling the camera down "because it makes me glow more with less wrinkles" (with the last part probably being her phone doing some smoothing or noise-reduction and taking up the wrinkles in it or something).

[@AZaqZaqProduction]

Most of the time would you say that the kids or the parents were driving it? If the parents are helping out their kid, who is the one actually steering it, that's very different.

[@yulingzheng8841]

I love that Kurtis assumes he's being shown Australian tiktoks not because he searched "aussiebros" but because he looks Australian.

[@Xxth3_murder5cenexX]

i assumed he meant that as why he got recommended their videos in the first place but i prefer this order of events

[@psychopathicaf3277]

as an Australian, would just like to say that the concept of a "collage fund" sounds pretty funny bc here collage is most commonly used to describe aussie high school (year 7-12) and uni students usually just spend their lives in thousands of dollar of HECS debt

[@aoifet]

I have additional lore for u kurtis. I went into a deep dive cause I saw them dancing in my local maccas. If you go onto their merch website, it’s actually a website that’s a car parts shop that just has a section for Aussie Bro Squad shirts. Like there’s nothing on the website that is related to them except a tiny tab of their shirts. It’s so weird I reckon that’s their family busienss

[@Danish_Pastry]

Just looked at the TikTok with the merch link and the tab labeled Aussie Bro Squad Merch on the main page comes back as a 404 not found. Weird.

[@emthegem9866]

Sketch as fuck

[@uuh4yj43]

well one of the videos here does have them dancing in the back of a store with a bunch of piled up tires or wheels

[@SoggyOpossum]

I love watching kurtis's videos. It really helps me get through my suffering of chronic bullying.

[@readdungeonmeshi]

i hope it gets better. its horrible to undergo something like that

[@readdungeonmeshi]

oh lol its part of the video sorry!

[@SoggyOpossum]

@ville__ how tf do you fake a video we all know its scripted who cares

[@pepperpie9481]

​@ville__that's crazy bro

[@LoFoSho]

You should probably stop bullying people

[@pxrplecrocs]

Ok but Kurtis’s audition for the Aussie bro squad was like borderline psychological horror

[@mipmipmipmipmip-v5x]

Well, like the aussie bro squad

[@AlibraMentality]

I can’t even get my boys to stop arguing bickering and farting on each other, and clean their room, let alone make them dance for me 💀

[@bananabanana484]

Well, at least you’re no weird enough to do that!

[@mipmipmipmipmip-v5x]

I guess to make this work the parent needs to emotionally break the kids at the no-phase, so at 2 years old

[@kmlksekhon]

I love that the skit at 8:30 implies the mom is Australian, but the son isn't. Also, love how the son has an accent only to say "naur"

[@peterolmeda8399]

as both a citizen of Kurtistown and an AJR fan, I have recently discovered the meaning of "conflict of interest"

[@jessierabbit]

This is the second time I've heard him take a shot at AJR, and it hurts my heart a little bit each time 😢

[@champselyseesao3]

same 💀

[@AriLove_doodles]

Was looking for this comment :(

[@electricjadesloth]

SAMEEEE

[@BlazeIsEpic]

yes im being exposed with every vid

[@dullsunrise8820]

Genuinely feel bad for kids like them. Imagine becoming an adult only to realize your parents used you as nothing more than an exploitable accessory for views. Some people really shouldn’t be allowed to have children.

[@NatalieRose-u5t]

putting numbers in band names is still around and kicking in Brazil! One of my favorite Brazilian pop bands is Banda AL9

[@cazinewilson3078]

I’m glad the online exploitation of children by parents is being discussed more, even in funny videos like this one. From vlog families to these Tiktok kid groups, it’s sketchy at best and can go south so quick!

[@Alex-uk1nt]

I saw these kids in the shopping center when I was out with my mum one day. They were filming in public and kept doing it over and over. It was quite awful to see. I looked them up later and I couldn’t help but feel bad.

[@ARw275]

I don’t ever recall a time where my brother and I got along. I feel like our band would have just been known for stage violence.

[@bonbonnybon]

That didn't stop Oasis!

[@ARw275]

@@bonbonnybon lmao. I forgot about them.

[@Random-sk6hm]

This is my exact thought. I can't fathom the idea of people liking their siblings and not spending every waking moment making each others' lives worse in a constant violent battle.

[@stellviahohenheim]

Apparently i bullied my sister so hard she turned lesbian

[@redvelvetunderground]

@@Random-sk6hm Sparks is a band of brothers and they've been together for literal decades now with hundreds of albums behind them

[@rocou945]

the skit at 8:36 is my absolute favorite lol I would frame it if i could! But all jokes aside, somehow they send me the same vibe as Devonte Hart (look him for a very sad story). I'm sure they were blanket trained.

[@milena4779]

the emo property brother should 100% be a guest star to design rooms for angsty teens

[@jshanksffemtp]

I heard "food live" as "third live" and thought for a good minute that Kurtis was preparing an elaborate bit about how absurd it would be for the mom to not allow the kids to eat without livestreaming it, only to find out that's exactly what was happening lol

[@lunastar89]

I'm not gonna lie, this is probably one of the funniest episode Kurtis has done so far. The Emo Property Brother skit is so dumb and had me dying.😂

[@abominati0n]

do u know tht where tiny guitar clip is from when they first get mentioned around 14:51 ? i think u might know, its on the tip of my mind

[@ttoastpie]

@@abominati0nits emily by first to last

[@simonenagan605]

emo the chosen property brother

[@Zectifin]

I laughed extra hard because I listened to most of those bands back in highschool and remember seeing all the emo memes she shared when they were new. and Thursday still slaps.

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

@@Zectifin rawr means I love you in dinosaur XD

[@anexplodedguitar]

0:33 my chemical romance (Gerard way and Mikey Way)

[@bunny8962]

The Aussie bro rabbit hole is insane, apparently the older ones,the twins, are graduated high school but other two are still in school there’s lots of people who have said they go to school with them or went to school with them and that Cld be a load of shit but the stories are similar. The people who have met them say the boys are very normal so honestly I think it’s all the mum vicariously living through her sons like she’s a very dominant presence in all the lives she does most of the talking and is most likely coming up with all the video ideas etc

[@lynylynylyn]

i know lots of people who go to school with them and ive seen them in real life, so im pretty sure the coemments saying they have are legit. its a public highschool and allat so

[@gracierose1847]

yeah they go to a public school on the nsw coast. they're on the school website and everything, the twins graduated 2023.

[@Rakadeja]

"i'm going to be 30 this year" struck me straight through the heart. me too, and i'm also hitting the fucking griddy 😭😭😭

[@mattthecreator4653]

the nitty griddy

[@heidithomson6813]

Hi Kurtis, So in Australia you don't need to save for a college fund because our government runs a scheme where we pay back our university bills really slowly through our taxes if we earn enough. We also don't always go off to college like North Americans, a lot of Aussies live at home with their folks whilst they go to university and just commute. So they could definitely be going to university still and just living at home whilst they go. Also his accent is almost a New Zealand accent which is apparently harder to get right than an Aussie one lols

[@tiac1309]

yeah i came here to see if anyone else had commented about this, also our HECS debt is usually only like $30,000 AUD which is super manageable to pay off, I dont even notice the repayments because they come out of tax its sooo good Also uni is on break from november to march! so these boys could be studying and just on uni break

[@Izzywildflowerr]

i think this same scheme is also used in the uk

[@Random-sk6hm]

This is how student loans work in the UK aswell. All British citizens are guaranteed a student loan that is only paid back after you graduate and are earning above a certain threshold (Currently £27, 295 and rising every year). You pay it back in a small instalment (usually less than a mobile phone bill) that is automatically taken at the same time as you pay taxes. As long as you earn underneath the threshold, you don't pay back a single penny, and after 30 years the debt is automatically wiped (regardless of how much you've paid). The vast majority of people will never pay it back completely unless they're earning a very high amount. It's very affordable and people usually refer to it as a 'graduation tax' rather than a student loan.

[@mipmipmipmipmip-v5x]

That's great but you still let a mum abuse her kids without child protection services step in, so maybe have a look at that first.

[@bryandraughn9830]

"And she donated a hot dog"😅😅😅😅 I've gotta catch your performance man!

[@Cavemanbrain]

The juxtaposition of Curtis mocking our accent but pairing it with “oot and aboot” was peak comedy

[@maddyocean5948]

mocking and imitation are two different things

[@kaskaskas]

Ok but he was clearly doing it to be funny and not accurate lmao

[@murkrowo]

I love that he almost had it at one point but then went with kiwi instead

[@SuzER08]

​@@murkrowo as an American I can't tell the difference lol

[@brente89]

Let's be honest Kurtis. You really covered this topic to show off how incredible your Aussie accent has gotten.

[@xletragedyx]

It's incredible. I'm saur jealous 😢

[@heidithomson6813]

He sounds more like a New Zealander, which is apparently harder than an Aussie accent

[@skunkjo3195]

He sounds cockney 😂 its hilarious but Australian (or kiwi) it is not

[@Jillian721]

Im not sure if ur talking ab the one in the middle of the video or the end that sounds real (the voice over) but i think its actually liam Thompson speaking at the end. It's driving me crazy not knowing for sure lol. He is from new Zealand which would explain why it sounds that way

[@kateemma22]

He's an Australian born in London and raised in NZ for half his life.

[@H.annahPaige]

i feel like there’s a category somewhere in the timeline between band member siblings and tiktok star siblings, and it’s for sure imovie siblings. equipped with an iPhone 4, the assigned director, the assigned actors, and a dream

[@mrlagoonslawyer]

THIS

[@mrlagoonslawyer]

can confirm as a former iMovie kid

[@colinbash]

real

[@emackenzie]

Vine siblings

[@brownboyfly]

You just described me and my cousins to a T lmao. I used to film us doing skits with a 4th gen iPod touch and it was about as early 2010’s as it sounds. I just wish I hadn’t deleted that KZbin channel due to me being an easily embarrassed teenager a few years later

[@charlotte46366]

i’m 4 months late, one of them was a year below me in school, he got “homeschooled” or the mum just did “out schooling” which is taking your kid out of school legally without further education (real) everyone in his year said he was really nice and the semi popular kid, no where near how he acts on the streams, it’s like the great mystery of our school

[@sofalint2905]

17:54 the way kurtis sways from side to side and nervously whispers is so similar to how actual toddlers act

[@KnarfStein]

My stomach hurt from laughing so much during the mock audition segment. It's probably also not a coincidence that you made it look like a found footage-style horror film.

[@Slashscreen]

i've been watching a lot of bluey, so thank you kurtis for the reminder that not all austrailian parents are good

[@PK.NOiR.7]

Bluey us by far the best current generation children's show, I love watching it with my son

[@briankaslewicz6130]

One thing about Bluey I love is the VAs for Bluey and her sister are anonymous to avoid any celebrity attachment to their names

[@manboy4720]

drinkin a fackin vee bee

[@marywilliams6367]

this comment holy shit

[@chanciels]

@ville__ so true, robot, these videos are so scripted...

[@bonnie_e_macpherson]

as an australian, I congratulate you on your mastery of the kiwi accent

[@georgiamoorvan]

Kurtis portrayed the emo property brother way too naturally

[@emotionalagliophilic8623]

I think every modern renovation show should be required to have at least one alternative person in their group to prevent the others from making all the rooms have bland white walls and beige everything

[@raysofmariehere6441]

9:04 the saddest naur

[@Eja132]

This is now my fav Kurtis Conner video, I’m definitely not Jonas brothers obsessed so u mentioning them so much made my day along with the fact that u knew their mothers name

[@Chrysriph]

I love hearing about other people’s experiences with their siblings because they’re SO inconsistent with my childhood lol

[@OfTheSeaKND]

SAME! 😅

[@stacie1595]

Same!

[@Random-sk6hm]

Fr 😂😭. I can't imagine people liking their siblings instead of being in an eternal violent war where you make each others' lives as worse as possible

[@OfTheSeaKND]

@@Random-sk6hm I literally have a core memory of me and my brother having a fight to the death on the stairs. It’s been 23 years since that fight. That’s wild that some people have happy sibling memories growing up. Good for them tho. 😅

[@smolpuppers9354]

⁠​⁠@@Random-sk6hm I remember me and my brothers used to play some sort of WW1 game with the neighborhood kids where we gathered sticks and pretended we were soldiers using bayonets. We’d throw stones and hit each other with sticks when one of the kids accidentally threw a rock at me and left an ugly bruise. Things turned violent real quick after I retaliated and my bros always had my back and ended up in a fistfight with one of the neighborhood boys. It was a comforting thought for me, knowing that even if we fight with each other at times, we’d always have each other’s backs when the going gets tough.

[@amelia-uo6hw]

I met them once, they were leaving the shopping centre and a fan came over and their mum said "we'll take this to the car and come back for photos" they did come back and were still around for hours after, the boys looked so tired.

[@charmiiex]

hi!!! not finished the video yet but I was actually good friends with the middle child of the aussie bro squad in primary school. this is really surreal to see lmao (I did not know the scope of their tiktok stardom, thought they were just a local thing). not surprising to me as I have been to their house and their mum is kind of strange, so this is 100% the kind of thing I’d expect from her😭😭 still crazy though that my childhood friend is in a kurtis conner video lol!!!! also if you want some lore on these guys please feel free to ask - I will not give out personal info but I can give some anecdotes from when I was a child lol.

[@petra._]

wait that’s CRAZYY do yk if they liked dancing before they got big?

[@charmiiex]

@@petra._ don’t recall them being interested in dancing or music in any way!! their mum is very very controlling and has strange vibes about her, my personal guess is that it was all her idea, though idk.

[@keeprollin9911]

@@charmiiex thats so insane. do you know anything about the father?? maybe he could step in and let the kids live their own lives. =/

[@charmiiex]

@@keeprollin9911 I never remembered there being a father - always assumed they had a single mum. just asked my parents however and they said that they did, in fact, have a father who I had actually met and lives in the same house (?) but he participated so little that I forgot about him 💀💀💀💀 from that description I speculate that he wouldn’t do very much about it rip🥲🥲

[@peacefulchaos333]

Do you know what hobbies or interests they had of their own?

[@violetmarlo2978]

Thea skits you do in between are hilarious. Poo live next week is crazy😭😭

[@Voodoorai]

I'm not a poo joke kinda person...but I had tears rolling down my face from laughing so hard. He looked so distressed. I had to keep reminding myself it wasn't real. 💩😂

[@hummussandwich6580]

im so glad youre talking about this ive been watching them from a distance for a couple months and showing my friends like "look do they not look kidnapped to you?!". i hope that theyre okay honestly

[@Random-sk6hm]

They're not kidnapped, their mum is just really strange in real life :/

[@callizto1964]

15:20 is just a mix of napoleon dynamite and the chosen from smosh

[@kennethstiles3930]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought of the chosen!

[@ambrite]

They're like the new version of the Norris Nuts, who are an Australian family of 8 who became KZbin famous years ago, similar vibes: Controlling mother, homeschooled, the 4 oldest kids all shared a room even though they were rich and teenagers, only ever seemed to hang out with their siblings, etc. These families seem to put all their eggs in one basket and rely on the kids financially.

[@lani8871]

they live in the same city I do... only found about them bc a child recognised them and went and got a photo. sucks it happens everywhere.

[@shawnb6151]

I have been laughing for like 30 minutes straight over "Bonus Jonas" I fucking can not

[@inrainbows1829]

Someone needs to call the Australian version of CPS Questions need to be asked to these kids if they want to dance and have their entire lives filmed like some Family Dollar Truman Show SDRE 😂

[@yuki97kira]

If the kids wants to do it, they wouldve had their own acc where they do stuff outside the mom filming

[@MrStGeorgeIllawarra]

They are all older teenagers and male no CPS like organization ain't gonna do shit no matter what the country.

[@wesaidsomething]

CPS would not care about this. As long as the parents aren't addicts and physically abusing them, and they have a roof over their head, CPS does not care.

[@sari9645]

@@MrStGeorgeIllawarraI don’t think CPS discriminates on gender but I do think one (if not more) of boys are 18 or older so I don’t know who can help in that sort of situation

[@GrumpyIan]

​@@sari9645adult protective services might step in then.

[@SbuMthembu_]

6:19 always forget ur Canadian but that “out and about” was all the reminding I needed.

[@worlddomination92]

The mom birthed her own personal boy band. She can literally make it seem like this is normal, like this happens to all kids in every house. 😬

[@strawbunni6834]

KC3 is genuinely a banger of a band name. I hope you get the band back together for one song at least

[@annawallace3383]

Emo property brothers is legit one of your best bits, Kurt. Such an amazing tangent that I didn't expect 😂

[@laylamonae1382]

Right

[@lisavandenhoven5672]

When I was a kid, I watched a movie about the Dionne Quintuplets. The ending of the movie was kind of dystopian, with the father creating a glass walled room for his daughters to come out and ride tricycles in, while crowds of paying people watched. This is honestly my earliest memory of hearing the word exploitation. And now this thing that was "Look how sad" in a 90s made for tv movie, is just common. All over TikTok and KZbin. Child labor laws need to catch up with influencer culture and put some protection in place for these kids.

[@sari9645]

I had never heard of the Dionne quintuplets until this comment so I read their Wikipedia page and oh my god. Those poor children.

[@placeholderdoe]

by 2030 there will definitely be a lawsuit

[@erikhuff7453]

If you think the mom saying where they are is bad, my local radio station constantly asks kids on the radio where they go to school and whose class they are in. He also does "what you wearing" Wednesday where he asks them what they're wearing too 😂😅

[@lollabunyxxx]

WHATT?????

[@erikhuff7453]

@@lollabunyxxx Look up 94.9 "Izzy in the Morning". It's kind of crazy. I make jokes when I hear him that one day he's going to ask, "What name would someone give to the front office to check you out of school early" and then follow it up with, "What is the most amount of ransom your parents would pay for you?"

[@CG00_]

Our local stations do the same! 😂

[@munmunil]

@@CG00_that’s weird….

[@QueenKunta]

This sounds nefarious 😅