The Tragedy Of YouTube's Saddest Family Channel

When DaddyOFive first began their channel back in 2015, the goal was simple: play some light hearted pranks in order to generate views. In the beginning, the Daddy'O'Five channel was fun, however as time progressed, it would steadily descend into an increasingly tragic tale. Eventually, DaddyOFive would lose custody over part of his family, have his channel deleted, and completely steamroll his reputation in the process.
This is, The Tragedy Of KZbin's Saddest Family Channel: DaddyOFive.
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The idea for this video was partially inspired by "InternetAjay" who posted a video on a similar topic in August 2021 titled "The Rise And Fall Of DaddyOFive: From Family Prank Channel To Deleted" You can watch his version here - • The Rise And Fall Of D...

[@random_idiot1023]

"So you made me go through all this, just for a stupid prank" he is more mature than the parents

[@XinxWasHere]

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[@maxmustermann1533]

Yeah it hurts to see people like this

[@Mr_E19X]

That line watching him cry made me so upset with the parents

[@Ezsercer]

Made me go through all this, JUST TO ABUSE MY DISORDER?!?

[@taskmaster2219]

Man...that kid is a absolute beast for telling him who’s boss... he is cool

[@frostfire6561]

These parents literally think that verbally abusing their children is considered a "prank", and legitimately see nothing wrong with it. How can you be so evil???

[@elleash3040]

RIGHT!! A prank for a child is supposed to be mild, gentle humour. Not screaming at them with a camera in their face. Imagine what they DONT show us

[@mr.gamewatch8888]

Because they still think they’re kids with there brothers and sisters and they want to do that with there offspring. These ppl never grew up and never got over being bullied/pranked while a kid so now they think it’s ok and do it too there own kids but for monetary gain which is a dark motivation.

[@Not_Always]

Money. That's it. They were getting a lot of money. That's all they cared about.

[@Ryan-wx8of]

What blow my mind is how many people agree with them.

[@anti_s0ra_v1]

the kids where in on it are you sped..

[@acesofarchie4590]

God, when Cody first said "All of this for a stupid prank?'' that was just heartbreaking, you have to admit it's horrible that parents would do that to a child even after saying something like that

[@kisamebalusong4980]

its actually quite so terrifying and sad. "All of this for a stupid prank?" is quite a heavy sentence for that age. He is already in a stage where he questioning his parents and to challenge Normalcy, that sentence alone you can tell he has been through alot.

[@xavierwhite4405]

@@kisamebalusong4980 yeah man their parents should care more about their child's ODD disorder more than content, subscribers and views but the good thing is he was sent to a much better family since their father were being so abusive

[@xxsushid0rkxx451]

@@xavierwhite4405 exactly. My brother also has ODD and displays those types of gestures and emotions Cody can displace while in distress etc. it breaks my heart knowing his parents seems to care more about views than his sons condition.

[@waynetan4485]

It already feels like the parents are more childish than an actual child

[@siin9522]

TIKi kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYjJlWuFn7yerck 🎮

[@gandalfthequasar]

Every child deserves a parent, but not every parent deserves a child

[@jaysondosgaming6611]

Another legendary quote by the kaiser himself

[@liker-qd4fz]

You know that's a strangely cohesive and intelligent quote for a Kaiserboo

[@turbo_marc]

what an original comment

[@Ninja-qf6te]

@@jaysondosgaming6611hitler?

[@TerminatorReus]

kaiser you needed to show this wisdom in ww1

[@jackthestar1292]

The ink prank was always very interesting to me, the dad’s yelling sounds like bad acting but the mom sounded genuinely angry (even though it was her idea) almost as if she had some built up hatred towards Cody (which she probably did)

[@godhateseveryonewhodoesntr5977]

I wanted to comment that too! She also said he was a difficult child and clearly had a grudge against him. She was enjoying seeing him scared and crying. Her screaming sounded like genuine anger or hate. It's like with my dog. If she does something bad, I just can't get my voice deep and all serious. But there was this one time when she was a puppy and she was hurting my other very old dog at that time and I was genuinely mad and only then did I manage to really raise my voice.

[@just_chilling5588]

yeah it seems like that

[@DJKennedy90]

Oh, if you watch other deep dives into this, the fact that Heather despised Cody is VERY apparent. Like during the lead up to the first adoption "prank", the middle kid basically channeled the mom with the whole "We can't do anything because of Cody" which is the same language Heather used all the time. She HATED Cody & Emma, but loved them bringing in the views.

[@DJKennedy90]

@Sorrow627 Oh, the times that they were able to get Emma to react was also "gushy" as Mike put it. Like the bottle flip slap episode where she was slapped HARD, or when Cody was pushed into ruining her drawing with a water gun. But yes, Cody was the designated target, to the point where they made up excuses for him to be punished by their tier system that only Cody & Emma were actually on.

[@pobster88j94]

She’s got those crazy eyes.

[@annme_87]

I still burst into tears when I hear Cody desperately swearing to God he didn't get ink on the carpet. I hope he's doing well now. No kid deserves to be treated that way.

[@bian7744]

@@marcosgallo803 I got beat bleeding from the head and nose sometimes as a child and yes my family is minority...

[@lovecatxx]

Same here, it's really upsetting footage. Makes me cry every time, what a horrible way to have to live. I hope he's doing better.

[@annme_87]

@@marcosgallo803 so did I, but never to the point I felt the need to say "Ya'll don't love me. None of you ever loved me." through desperate sobs. That was the difference.

[@ElaraArale]

hahahah lol he deserved

[@rafaelsaez5596]

@@marcosgallo803 still I bet you've never been accused of something you didn't do and take it to the point of tearing up.

[@gaycatboy69]

the fact that the young girl specifically had no reaction to ANY pranks on her suggests that she learned that as a survival skill. she probably figured out early on that if she made herself boring to get pranked, they would stop shoving the camera in her face.

[@ricniks4619]

That’s something Cody should have done because since he would always react the most they would constantly go after him to “Prank” him.

[@HypezMagic]

@@ricniks4619 but the video stated that cody had a disorder where he can get angry or upset easily

[@gaycatboy69]

@@ricniks4619 Cody was a child and had certain neurological disorders that compelled him to have emotional outbursts. it was just the perfect storm, he was an extremely easy target in a family of morally corrupt adults. glad he's out of there now, though.

[@Max-jm6md]

@@ricniks4619 "should have done" 1) he's a kid 2) they literally talked about his disorder in the vid...

[@Leafi209]

@@ricniks4619 its not cody’s fault dude hes a kid and he has a disorder and it doesn’t help he is being traumatized everyday with a prank

[@sirtorus]

the poor kid, getting yelled at by your parents is a whole new level of fear and the fact it was a prank is even worse.

[@Milliardo5]

Only it's not really a prank--it's emotional abuse and the parents are enjoying doing it, especially to Cody. They only cared for the views and money and didn't care for the trauma it brought to the children.

[@KoopaKool12]

DaddyOFive abusing his kids and saying it was "just a prank" is like when Penguinz0 said "What do you mean I can't dismember my neighbor when I'm upset, what about free speech huh do we not live in a free country?".

[@lunarialoonatic]

Kids are so impressionable too, I hate being yelled at by anyone but when I was a kid I would cry everyone someone raised their voice. Some kids are more sensitive than others and do not deserve to be screamed at and verbally abused. Especially not even for the sake of discipline but “a prank.”

[@user-njyzcip]

“You just got owned! It's just a prank bruh" - Fully grown adult father of five children to his young child who he just screamed at

[@urarakaochako2386]

-Fully grown adult father of five children to his young child who he just screamed at who they made to have emotional breakdowns almost daily just for some people to watch it, making the kid not feel safe anymore in the house, and later telling their children who they probably doesn't even know what trauma means to say that they are not traumatized, when I heard that the little girl screamed in one video that she will end her life because everything is out of control*

[@siin9522]

TIKi kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYjJlWuFn7yerck 🎮

[@johnfulcher8448]

This shit is beyond disturbing, I hope the parents somehow get stuck in their car in the middle of nowhere on a 105° day. Sick fucks.

[@GrayBlood1331]

Well, fully _physically_ grown at least...

[@LM4710]

@@GrayBlood1331 very good point

[@Konani_the_unicorn_queen]

"was anybody traumatized?" "are you guys okay?" -right, because kids their age 100% knows what being traumatized means, how it could affect them psychologically, what types of consequences these horrible "pranks" may have to them as they grow up, etc. etc. etc.

[@alastairamos]

I'm sure they were complimented later for their excellent acting and line delivery.

[@ZuNikolaevich]

not only that, but also they could have told them to say that instead of the truth just to look good

[@Julia_BH]

Right. The trauma may not hit for a decade or longer.

[@Screwshrew]

Yeah my parents did “pranks” like this it’s made me extremely jumpy and I still don’t fully trust them. It should not have to get to the point of “too much” especially using his disorder as a way to prank him and make him feel like a bad kid I have adhd/autism which makes me react like that too and it sucks relating to Cody so much

[@ninjanikstudios2280]

I knew what traumatized meant at that age But everything else I agree with

[@LootyStuff]

I personally don't think putting children on Social Media is a good idea in general, but this is despicable.

[@Svoorhout85]

I know at least one internet couple that anounced their retirement with the birth of their first child and I respected that.

[@sauce1232]

The father was a kid himself. I mean just look how he's dressed like a 10yo kid.

[@lefrogs6684]

I agree.

[@Swagmanrx]

@@sauce1232 no he’s a liptard don’t insult kids like that

[@chicoravelli5703]

Yeah, putting young children on social media is up there with teaching them about sexuality. So basically, I agree.

[@AlfredoTheRipoff]

7:27 is the most painful part. As someone who has trauma from being shouted at for things I didn’t do, i had chills run down my spine from the shouting, i can’t imagine what happened to Cody, actually being there and having it directed at him even though it wasn’t his fault. Seeing him break down made me wanna cry. I feel bad for the guy.

[@bulletbro4745]

I went through something similar and got turned against a lot by my friends when I was always in the right. Cody deserves so much more Justice than this to be honest.

[@AlfredoTheRipoff]

@@bulletbro4745 I agree. What happened was totally unfair

[@bulletbro4745]

@@AlfredoTheRipoff I will say that I also believe ANYONE can change. His father probably really wants to change too.

[@randompromises1038]

Being blamed for things I didn't do and having someone push that on me despite having no proof I did it is a legitimate trigger of mine that I have to work through in therapy. I felt Cody's pain in that moment, I really did.

[@AidanSverre]

I’ve been abused verbally and physically by my father sometimes, and being yelled at because I’m “a piece of crap” for nothing I’ve done wrong makes me emphasise with this kid a lot 😢 he didn’t deserve this kinda treatment at all

[@MyHam-os4bq]

Looking at Cody’s body language during the ink situation broke my heart. He is in such a state of heightened emotion that you can clearly see he wants to run away but he can’t. That is emotional abuse. And then to make him say later he was fine….. Children aren’t meant to experience those kinds of ups and downs from their parents. Douchebags.

[@GazBC4U]

1:50 - It's just a prank bro

[@luciferlucein]

Even when saying he was fine you can tell by his face that he didn't want to say he was fine. After saying it he even stared at nothing as if defeated.

[@parkermcwhorter1989]

It seemed as his parents forced him to tell the internet that he was “ok”

[@sergiotovar4278]

@@luciferlucein That do you know PopTart Face you need to stop making assumptions up You dont Know Cody like that you a target

[@luciferlucein]

@@sergiotovar4278 Why are you getting salty with me? I was just stating what I saw. Hell the comment I added to pretty much said the same so bugger off

[@MoonWielder]

There was no way the invisible ink prank was scripted as the kid's fear on their faces explains it all, and the circumstance itself looks traumatizing. I also have to feel extremely bad for Cody since he had gone through way too much as a child. Not to mention, when it comes down to those abusive parents, they are only ashamed because they got caught, which can go for all douchebags on the internet.

[@forgivezharion6989]

Ratio + yb better + nobody cares + this u 🤓🤓👶🏽👨🏼‍💻👨🏼‍💻

[@Graped28]

cool mr bot

[@laurocoman]

It's impossible to grow without trust issues when your parents behave like this. How in hell would a kid have a healthy relationship with his parents if this "pranks" are always on the table? How do you know where to draw the line with any other member of the family? Those idiots should be thankful if the children don't pull a "I started a fire" prank or "I unplugged your respirator" prank.

[@lokiggrabb4267]

@peter "finally it's here" 🤓🤓🤓

[@lokiggrabb4267]

@peter 🧢

[@Desiree2297]

ODD is hard for parents to deal with but it’s even harder for the child who already has an issue with the regulation of their emotions and to do this??? These poor kids, especially Cody. I hope he’s able to work through all this trauma one day. 😕

[@Cyhcg5uhgb]

I mean, if I were treated like that I'd develop ODD as well.

[@TrueEnergizerBunnies]

I bet he didn't even have ODD and was just acting out because of being unloved and tortured at home

[@aljo8200]

@@TrueEnergizerBunnies how does a child even pretend to have ODD

[@AgarthanExecutioner]

@@TrueEnergizerBunnies That sounds about right. I'm no medical professional, but I don't think ODD is a thing. I personally think it's a lazy blanket diagnosis when psychs don't want to look into a child's actual problems. Every child I've worked with that "had ODD", they were actually trauma victims and most were autistic or had ADHD. Not saying cody is autistic, but he definitely is a trauma victim. Plus mental health Systems are notorious for just slapping half assed diagnostics onto children they deem as "problematic" or "difficult".

[@OverKniteToes]

@@AgarthanExecutioner if you’re not a medical professional then how can you claim that you don’t think it exists? If you don’t have the qualifications to understand the disorder, then you can’t claim that you think it doesn’t exist when you don’t understand medical issues or disorders at all. Don’t try to say something if you don’t have proper evidence to show, and when you clearly don’t have any qualifications in the area you’re talking about. And as someone with a family member with ODD, I can tell you that that’s very wrong. Ever heard of comorbid disorders? If you have one, you’re more likely to have another? The reason that you see people diagnosed with ODD that also have ADHD and such is because it’s a cormorbid disorder. If you have ADHD you are moser likely to also have ODD more than a neurotypical person. Please educate yourself. ODD is in the DSM 5 for a reason, and can even develop into another disorder in adulthood. Please stop saying what you did as that can be extremely harmful. No hate, I just wanted to tell you about why I think that opinion can be harmful.

[@the_heartlessemo727]

This whole story broke my heart. I'm glad Cody was moved back to his mom, he needed a big loving hug.

[@reeihaa]

I remember when this happened, the abuse was so clear yet everyone laughed it off. The fact the dad edited out their cries for help during the abuse is insane. I'm glad they're wiped off the internet and in safe homes now.

[@forgivezharion6989]

Ratio + yb better + nobody cares + this u 🤓🤓👶🏽👨🏼‍💻👨🏼‍💻

[@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375]

@@forgivezharion6989 Counter Ratio

[@nr1fan4all]

I would have liked to hear why the kids where not with their biological mother from the start, also where was she before, did she not watch a single video of her ex and said "that ain't right"?

[@lememetiger7920]

@@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375 W

[@normicanomic6523]

I still remember vividly how he and his fans would blame defranco and anyone else involved as the cause for his family 'breaking up' and in general telling anyone is just a 'evil' haters for reporting the abuse, it shows how manipulative and moronic Mike is and how sadistic and truly manipulate his fanbase is, heck his own fanbase is either consist of victim of abuse from their family and abusers which is a horrible combo waiting to explode

[@topher2113]

Those children were already showing signs of trauma even in early videos. The daughter that would not react, that was her shutting down to avoid conflict and getting screamed at. She knew the harder she fought the harder they would push. and Cody, I can not even imagine the damage that poor child is going to be dealing with forever.

[@slicingonions4398]

She was surely a "I take no bs" kid

[@fansee1368]

@@slicingonions4398 You just know for a fact she was working on a plan to move out instead of indulging in their bullshit. Clever girl, ngl. Just makes me feel even worse for Cody cause not everyone can be so chill

[@sytherwusky]

Yeah these videos are a good example that perhaps that having zero vetting service on your platform isn’t the best idea

[@vviqxing]

@No Name the snowflakes are the ones dissing childhood trauma

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

My family did something similar with me, Albeit never upload the videos to KZbin because KZbin didn’t exist back when I was a kid. My siblings always knew they could get a reaction out of me as did my parents and so I was often blamed for stuff I flat out didn’t do, because my siblings thought it was funny to watch me freak out and my parents would harshly punish me. For instance, one time my sister threw a rock at a church window that was near our house, then said I did it. Naturally my parents took her side and when I said she did it, I was hit with a belt buckle so hard, it gave me a permanent scar on my cheek. To this day I do not have contact with my family, because in essence they are dead to me. I am sure Cody will learn to resent his family much like me. My only hope is that like me he will at least wish to have a family of his own so he can finally feel the love he never got as a child.

[@I_will_defeat_everyone]

Caring more about views than about your own kids, this is just disgusting

[@tomepsilon]

@its Time 🤓

[@cuteflamingo6196]

Did he really ever care about his kids tho

[@Flowtups]

I think you've defeated Justin Y

[@I_will_defeat_everyone]

@@Flowtups maybe, but our army clearly isnt strong enough to defeat Justin Y's army

[@permacoo3760]

@@I_will_defeat_everyone i believe in you

[@Void_Wars]

My stomach turned when the dad told Cody that “he’s a problem child” and “teachers should get raised” because that’s how my father treated me. In car rides he’d explain how I’m basically just a waste of money. Having autism, it only exasperated the reaction of my dad. Every car ride he’d look at the car mirror on the inside and tell me how upset and disappointed he was. I didn’t even care if I got into trouble for fighting a student or messing up a test or something I just felt hopeless and useless every day I went to school.

[@ghostyghost202]

I'm so sorry you had to go through that. I hope your doing better now and understand you're not at all useless

[@anablackwood6141]

I'm so sorry you went through that. I was 34 before I got an autism/ADHD diagnosis. I got it in a different way, though. I got "You're so hardheaded. You won't even try. You're wasting your potential." whenever I got bad grades. Literally the only thing I ever got in serious trouble for were bad grades (a C was considered a bad grade in our house) and "backtalking" or "being hateful" if I argued against the unfairness of this. I'm still trying to work out the bad (survival) habits I learned from those experiences.

[@randompromises1038]

When my mom moved us to a different state, I did not take it very well because I was in one city my entire life and the abrupt change made me a lot more bitter than I probably should have been (I have an averse reaction to change, although it's mellowed out as I got older). My mom would go on to treat me as though my bitterness was out of control and I was literally on the path to become a criminal. She would talk about me all the time about how problematic I was, how I was ungrateful and selfish and couldn't do anything. I was ten.

[@Snoyjakniggas]

Your dad is a gigachad

[@Snoyjakniggas]

​@@randompromises1038you sound like a city slicker is that why you are so angry over that

[@AlSpice]

Asking a kid "are you traumatized?" is CRAZY and any mental health professional worth their salt would have a problem with this. Especially when the person asking the kid is the one who did the traumatizing. What did you THINK those kids would say!? Of course they're going to say they weren't. It's called "fawning" and it's one of the four main ways abused people deal with their abusers when confronted like that.

[@Southbound.Pachyderm]

Absolutely, it's a survival skill! Even adult victims use this tactic to survive their abuse - and adults can be independent and fend for themselves - unlike children who can't move out, can't get in their cars and leave, can't fight back physically, can't set boundaries, can't smash their dad's jaw with a well deserved haymaker.

[@sian8322]

Also not how they asked them whilst they'd been given sweets and cool snacks to bribe/confuse them

[@Freshest_Water]

Absolutely "Flight, Fright, Freeze and Fawn" is one of things people do when facing a threat or danger.

[@anti_honey]

This, absolutely. On top of that, you often don't realize something was traumatizing until years down the line when you reflect on it. Sort of like when you injure yourself. You often don't know right away whether long term pain or effects will be left behind just after getting the injury.

[@LeanlovesLain143]

Yo i just read this with sunnyV2’s voice while vid played

[@salazar556]

This still angers me. How can you, as a parent, enjoy seeing your kid cry everyday over something they didn't do? This was never "just a prank". This was something sick that the father and stepmother took pleasure in.

[@1bsubsnouploads823]

@whaaa t reported

[@1bsubsnouploads823]

@卐-Lakehuntist-卐 reported for swastika in your name. Goodbye channel

[@1bsubsnouploads823]

@peter reported for spam

[@lumibean7494]

Especially the step mother. You could see she favored her bio children over her step children. She always targeted Cody.

[@eugenemaggiore9004]

But the videos were funny tho 😢

[@YTSH0RTMEME3]

The kids have no choice BUT to say it's a prank. Imagine if they said no, not only could the parents remove the evidence but they could even get it worse. Especially Cody.

[@HTIMY]

Cody, Alex, and all the kids don’t deserve anything CLOSE to this

[@sydneyconcerts902]

So you made me go through all this, just for a stupid prank i dont think that bit was scripted

[@SelfDefenseMartyAndTheDeathRat]

yup they could easly cut it out and make them say it or else.

[@chad_yoriichi]

Idk how old they were back than but i am 99.9% sure cody didn't know what traumatized even meant

[@sydneyconcerts902]

@@chad_yoriichi um I knew what that word meant pretty young so what are you saying?

[@gloriacollins6608]

Why would you prank an already nervous child … as someone who has anxiety, seeing that boy panic over that ink triggered me. That’s messed up. That’s how you cause trauma, and for what??? Views ???😒😒😒

[@RameNoodls]

@@Norecording77tf is wrong with you

[@nilekhan638]

@@Norecording77ur shit at boxing 💀

[@Norecording77]

@@nilekhan638 I am a transgender. How dare you say that to me?

[@Norecording77]

@@RameNoodls struggle is one of the most beautiful things that can happen to a human being and watching it all fold right in front of your eyes, knowing how meaningless it is at the end of it all and how much we overreact gives me pleasure to watch

[@RameNoodls]

@@Norecording77 let’s be honest bro, you don’t actually think this and whatever struggles you are going through I support you 🫂

[@Kaliburrrr]

I still get so angry thinking about this, I used to be a Cody, and when everybody gets off on making you upset simply because they know you’re going to get upset. That behaviour makes you not believe anything, negative or positive they say and gaslight yourself constantly. I would hide in my room for days and days to avoid being seen by my own family. Every time I see this I just want to take them out there and save those kids

[@Ingraam]

Oh yeah i know how that feels Being constantly picked at knowing you'll blow up and just laughing it off

[@Kaliburrrr]

@@Ingraam it’s very infuriating, and if you’re a guy a tad emasculating, which just makes you start seeing red. People who do that are fully aware what they’re doing too

[@coleslaw3808]

I was diagnosed with odd when I was younger but nobody in my family really believed or cared and acted like i was crazy all the time and antagonize the fuck out of me.

[@Kaliburrrr]

@@coleslaw3808 autism for me, so there was a large learning curve with socialization my family never helped me with, just made me feel like I’m less of a person and I don’t even deserve to know how to understand myself. Nobody can take themselves seriously when people pick apart everything and make you feel silly for your thoughts

[@coleslaw3808]

@@Kaliburrrr I'm sorry they made you feel that way. Keep being you my man

[@400_billion_suns]

I don’t understand how anybody can argue this wasn’t abuse. Screaming at your kids all the time, getting their emotions and anxiety up to meltdown point, and then diminishing their trauma by saying “it’s just a prank.” There’s nothing even remotely ok about it. That’s straight up emotional abuse that will affect those poor kids well into adulthood.

[@sergiotovar4278]

You re the crazy one

[@kimnamjoonbts]

what

[@yoseprahhh]

@@sergiotovar4278 nice vid on philip defranco. clearly your out of your mind. get some help

[@yu9666]

@@sergiotovar4278 stay away from kids psycho

[@yu9666]

@@kimnamjoonbts poor u

[@rahofh1000]

The ink prank still manages to make me cry, it’s his body language. He was raising his hand up to his chest as a defense mechanism, and with his eyes switching between his “father” and “mother” searching for a glimpse of reassurance that someone believes him and everything would be okay. He looked, and possibly felt, helpless at that situation. And to make matters worse was her screaming!! Some idiots don’t see the negative effects of what screaming at a child would do, it’s an easy/messed up way to cause trauma and ptsd to them. That’s why every time I come across that video, I can’t help but cry, because I know that there are parents like that and even worse and I can’t do anything about it 💔

[@rahofh1000]

@@shearainey1561 also with his brother crying with him as well IMMEDIATELY after getting blamed for it, as if he knew this would turn back to him. It somehow paints a picture of “when i’m angry, *everyone* is in trouble”. This FOR SURE wasn’t the first time they were abused, prank or no prank

[@WiSHNUKEs]

my dad used to yell like that, i remember finding their channel and watched for entertainment when i was little, i thought that shit was normal

[@luminis6950]

Me as well, it was genuinely uncomfortable to watch. Reminded me all too closely of how my mom (who grew up in an abusive household as well) used to blame me for things I didn't do.

[@SamanthaM127]

My mum and dad would scream in my face and Im border-lining PTSD because of it so I know exactly how Cody feels

[@slicingonions4398]

Even as an adult one of the worst feelings is being accused by someone close to you of something that you didn't do. I wish I could some how adopt all kids in abusive homes and raise them with love, all the dogs and cats too

[@BraydenFromWiiSportsOfficial]

Honestly, it breaks my heart how this family went from innocent pranks, family videos to abusive prank videos. Thank god that Cody is in a better household and justice for Cody. 🥺💙💙

[@rogercastro9528]

The sad thing is that, as other commenters have pointed out, they were more than likely being abused before Mike started doing KZbin videos.

[@lynk3067]

Went from innocent to showing true colours

[@JaneDoe-rj4jn]

It’s beyond cruel. I can’t imagine growing up in this family. Never having privacy, and dealing with pranks on a daily life. It’s cruel… never knowing if simple things are a set up from your parents, or you should be worried.

[@Rivendell286]

If you can even call those "Pranks"

[@gooseggm]

@@thatcarguy6 found daddy o five

[@furcorn9804]

@@thatcarguy6 but you can make an educated guess based on the videos from them you watch

[@yakk13]

Feeling unsafe in your own home, not knowing if you are safe when you try to sleep, is the worst thing

[@kelseylandon1224]

Another family channel (although a little less dark) is the bratayley family I've met Jules and she's a wonderful person But imagine losing your brothers publicly to a genetic heart condition at 10, becoming a major celebrity, having your parents exploit your grief, having youtubers like Shane Dawson spread conspiracies, then ending up on a nick show and being pushed more into the spotlight all before your 18th birthday Those family vlog kids- all of them- have it rough

[@mannamedmaul5895]

The fact that it was Cody who got pranked the most angers me. He had the worst reaction to the point where it was unwatchable. But to their eyes he had the “best reactions”. Evil parents. They will never deserve children.

[@xavierwhite4405]

yeah, poor Cody he deserved to be taken away by a much much better family

[@HarleyHerbert]

They are a clear example to prove that some people really shouldn't have kids. Also parents are meant to have strong parental instincts but people like this seem to have none at all

[@jayvhoncalma3458]

@@xavierwhite4405 that was needed to be done but his parents should've been sterilized for that

[@michaelrimmele4970]

I hate to ruin your day but they had another kid….

[@GS74214]

I feel bad for Cody. Hope he’s living a good life in his new home

[@GazBC4U]

1:50 - It's just a prank bro

[@rebellion6423]

Its sad because Cody's mom said he had irreversable trauma from that(apparently, but lowkey i hope its false information), he is going on treatment and far away from his dad which is what he needs, i feel bad for him and i also hope he is healthy and happy.

[@lonelyyfundzz]

lol naw this got me crying I thought it was you 😭😭 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmWVi6mImLKnpck

[@Huz7Edits]

@@rebellion6423 Honestly like i have this feeling inside me that the dad was the good one but was turned to bad by the mom and geniunly had some care for his kids

[@Mibowski_TF2]

as a person who dealt with parents like this for around 5 years ive sworn on my life to make sure that kids are not mistreated.

[@lukebf6254]

This sickens me and I’m glad my algorithm never took me to their videos or else I would’ve been sending my first hate comments. I hope the kids are okay and are far away from those abusive parents

[@TheCAB207]

As a father, I am sickened when seeing parents do this to their children. Kids are innocent and are a blank slate they are so wonderful. You just brutality messed with their emotions for clicks.

[@superkid5mini937]

👏🏻

[@daryncollins7640]

i mean you said brutality (as in the mortal kombat thing) instead of brutally but honestly they both fit

[@ritual_9968]

Gotta do what you gotta do

[@legendarywiimaster]

Perfect example of how every child deserves parents but not every parent deserves children

[@NatetheNintendofan]

@@ritual_9968 says the guy with the Soviet Union Banner you're the reason why the Russia versus Ukraine is going on

[@-lolzie-]

I genuinely feel so bad for Cody. I mean in the invisible ink video and just in general tbh they caused him to essentially have a complete emotional breakdown (multiple times.) The abuse these poor children (especially Cody) had to go through just for some attention online is so horrible. And the parents still have the nerve to play the victim talking about how they were being “attacked”. I hope the children are living a better life now. Edit: I edited my comment a bit bc looking back over it some words were kind of misused and the edit conveys what my thoughts are more clearly. Sorry everyone. My general point still stands however, the parents were horrible for this.

[@springs9922]

lol hes to soft. Bro should man up

[@BrandonA1]

@@springs9922 That "man up" mentality is why so many guys spill their brain matter on the floor when they get pushed over the edge. The kid was emotionally abused and he had preexisting mental health issues, acting tough won't do anything but make the problem worse

[@brianalaundrie6192]

Imagine being a Cody simp. #codyalwaysloses

[@dominikdurkovsky8318]

@卐-Lakehuntist-卐 you're more fake than those plastic decorative apples in supermarkets and other places

[@elijahpruitt3915]

You literally have a swastika in your username wtf

[@wholeftthestoveon]

"So you made me go through all this, just for a stupid prank" That hits deep.

[@lynettevera126]

I felt so bad for the poor kido :(

[@zahylon5993]

the sheer amount of hatred in his eyes...that kid will develop nothing but scorn towards life :(

[@JColossalEditz]

Fax thou

[@punjabiplug2823]

@@zahylon5993Villain Backstory

[@Attmay]

That scorn is justified when he’s basically being bullied by his parents for KZbin clicks. He would be better off with a Gay couple where he would at least get something decent to eat.

[@mikaidk-nw2tp]

“You are the problem” The stepmother says, after mentally abusing her poor boys. I’m glad they’re safe now

[@barrelracer12]

This is a perfect example of how useless CPS is. This is definitely textbook emotional abuse.

[@thomaskelliher]

There are so many cases of CPS failing children. It's absolutely tragic.

[@barrelracer12]

@@thomaskelliher Tell me about it. I work in a school and had a student specifically tell me they were afraid to go home that night. CPS came and talked to the student before the school day ended. Then dead air, I never heard anything and had to send the student back home. To the house he was afraid to return to. The reasoning the student told me the next day: when they went home to visit mom was unavaliable so they couldn't do anything else. What was the point of even calling, I felt so helpless when the student asked me what they were supposed to do.

[@thomaskelliher]

@@barrelracer12 I can't imagine that feeling, it breaks my heart to read that

[@barrelracer12]

@@thomaskelliher It was awful. I would never wish that on anyone else.

[@Delatroxx]

CPS reminds me of the japanese police.

[@starcrossreverie]

I remember there being a video where Cody was pushed into a dresser and started bleeding from a cut on his head. The parents were straight up abusive and teaching their other kids to accept and encourage this behavior. I'm glad their channels were deleted and they're no longer "pranking" their kids.

[@SomeRandomDevOpsGuy]

Yup. I'm almost 40 now and I still remember when my dad and step-mom took their kids on a 'family vacation' to this day. It was just a stupid cruise or something, but to be left out in the definition of 'family' has stuck with me to this day. Overall, my dad was a neglectful bastard so it's not just that... but with all of it combined I don't like to see him or let him see my kids ever. Of course now at his older age he all the sudden wants to be a grandpa to my sons. I'm never going to risk them feeling like I did when I was a kid.

[@toomanyopinions8353]

i doubt it has stopped.

[@Pearleace]

@@SomeRandomDevOpsGuy i obviously don't know your entire backstory, so if i'm wrong with what i have to say here, i apologize. but from your example alone, i feel you should reconsider and perhaps dig within yourself whether you could have it in you to forgive. you only have one father and your children might want to actually get to know the person he is today, as he is likely not the same person anymore that he used to be in the day. it just sounds a bit like overreacting and a personal grudge that you want to get vengeance for, rather than protecting your children from him. you are essentially denying them the right to get to know their family and having a, potentially, loving grandfather. of course, as i said, i do not know your whole story, and i mean not to offend, so if you feel i'm absolutely in the wrong in what i'm saying, you may as well dismiss this comment.

[@margarethmichelina5146]

In the other hand, Cody and Emma are getting taken by their original mom and her new husband because remember, Heather is not their stepmom. I feel like this is Heather's idea to make KZbin channel to humiliate Mike's kids and Mike has to get along with her.

[@catarcela1997]

@@Pearleace you shouldn't have made this comment, even if you apologize you are still invalidating him. I stand by people who cut out abusive family members, family is who loves you and nurtures you, not someone blood related

[@myfriendhadanuwuphase136]

That poor kid. Cody deserved a better childhood

[@guysmith5505]

Good thing the parents got arrested and Cody is with is real parents

[@Nutella9749]

I could imagine if that happened to me as a kid I would call the police

[@user-gi5kl8ie4m]

@@Nutella9749 they don't know they make cody got permanent damage

[@andremaster1752]

Better childhood? He was spoiled, actually. You never lived in his shoes.

[@shadowvoidking]

​​@@andremaster1752 Bruh, he had to endure constant bulling which was seen as pranking. And his family constantly belittled him when he had a breakdown. and also.. daddy o 5 exploited his kids for views.

[@digitlydumb5131]

grandma: *dead on the floor* DaddyOFive: It's just a prank bro

[@funnyguy-ko9mc]

granny came back to life 💀

[@thecorgi122]

funny but not funny I’m weird

[@sydneyxmckayla3880]

The Invisible Ink prank triggers my PTSD. They were saying it's a prank, but my parents used to yell at me exactly like that for hours for the simplest mistakes like spilling milk or breaking a bowl. To yell like that as a prank is horrendous. The fear you feel when you're that young is very real. These people deserve to be in jail.

[@melbapeach162]

In a way this kid was lucky this all happened in front of a camera.. for so many kids like you this stuff goes unnoticed and unquestioned 🙁 these people didn't deserve children

[@leena5875]

even if he spoiled the ink for real it shouldn’t have warranted a reaction like that. for them to be able to prank them like that they must’ve yelled at them like that in private

[@bernlin2000]

Who are the sick fucks that watch this shit? Sure, KZbin will warn me not to say "fuck" but this shit was on the platform for years? This is BLATANT CHILD ABUSE. Just shocking.

[@Hamza-B3]

I remember as a kid being falsely accused and punished for something one of my brothers did, so I cant imagine how those kids felt going through stuff like that repeatedly, and it being justified as “just a prank”

[@eriafatiny3479]

agree, cuz those are just straight abuse and its no longer prank

[@kroww5h848]

*eats a guy's leg off* "just a prank bro!"

[@Vestige_]

@Raytheslay dont care

[@Kennisaurus]

Same. My older sister actually weaponized getting me in trouble so I'd be punished by my mom's boyfriend. They can say "it's a prank" but it doesn't take away the trauma

[@byunniq9060]

@Raytheslay how tho

[@klaytonb9609]

"are any of y'all traumatized?" I'm sure they were too scared/traumatized to tell the truth. Once upon a time I used to be scared of my dad, his gf told him that I was scared of him. He decides to come and scream at me asking "ARE YOU SCARED OF ME???" terrified of being beat for saying yes I curled up into a ball and feebly said "no" through a broken voice. I was terrified.

[@noowooah]

i'm sorry you had to go through all that

[@HeWhoComments1]

Actually I kind of have this same problem. I’m a freshman and when I was little I knew if I did something wrong, my parents would be livid. One time when I was in first or second grade, My whole room was striped of almost anything to have fun with and they would have no regrets. That was in the past, after one time in 5th after getting extremely bad grades and them throwing notebooks and binders on the floor questioning every single piece of paper in my backpack, I think that was the point where things finally calmed down in punishments. I have made good grades from now on and when I do get bad grades it almost a totally different reaction. Instead, they look at me disappointedly and say I’m grounded until they are good again, meaning no technology (Except for NETFLIX AND Disney+ on TV.) or they say “two weeks to pull it up or I ground you from something”. This has been a much better way for me to bring my grades up. Now anyone who says “oh no I feel sorry for you” don’t be, I grew up with a little stressed out parents, but that’s all in the far past. I have always been just fine. Please read this before you decide to worthlessly say “oh no I’m sorry you had something bad happen” for no reason. Thank you.

[@VJ29110]

Put some bleach in her food.

[@tamari1127]

God, same.

[@floricelagranados7555]

Same as a Mexican American and I have a stepdad I have an akward relationship with him but he treats me as his own kid and since we were broke when I was young I would ask him for like a candy or chips and he would get mad and he doesn’t do this anymore it’s quit the opposite but I’m still somewhat scared to ask for anything from him

[@Jawednot]

8:05 Notice how the parents are laughing and the kids aren't

[@albertovitsch453]

The worst ones for me were when they slapped Emma in a stupid bottle flip challenge, and when they raided all of Emma's possessions and reduced her to tears. Especially when they made Cody and Emma do something against each other, even tho they had a special bond.

[@Moshua_Gerstein]

This is kind of common with child abuse unfortunately. The abusers will make their victims “abuse” each other which is trauma in both victims. People suck.

[@FelineBlue]

@@Moshua_Gerstein My dad's an evil piece of shit and all 3 of us siblings are varying levels of autistic. I'm the youngest so I got the brunt of the bullying. His insane and childish behaviour definitely rubbed off on the others because there would be constant bickering and harassment from them to eachother and to me. My middle brother to this day (he's 26) still does the annoying teenage sibling shit of touching you and bothering you when you don't want to be touched and saying 'jokes' that are really fucking mean and uncalled for. But when he's not been around our dad for a while he over time becomes a really sweet, eloquent and pleasant guy to be around, just a giant softie who loves to tell you history facts. It makes me fucking mad how much better his life could have turned out if we didn't have a 60yr old toddler instead of a father.

[@mrgrass1232]

@@Moshua_Gerstein it was actually used in Congo and other slave farms to reduce riots and people not teaming up. They let the slaves hit eachother so they would not become friends and riot together. Pretty terrifying

[@rachdiva]

@@Moshua_Gerstein that's fucking sick 😡

[@hellahkitty]

Not just that but they also get called "gingers" more as a slur from their own family or they get nicknames and insults thrown at them for being redheads.

[@jasonstimson6617]

How dare someone intentionally cause trauma to their children. They don’t deserve their children and their children don’t deserve what they did to them. The reason Cody was so bad is because he was traumatized, is clear as day.

[@benjaminyoung9694]

Grooming is normal these days

[@division1444]

@@benjaminyoung9694 and its so sad that it is.

[@D0NU75]

idk, ask all the trans-kids being groomed nowadays in a few years

[@pancake_the_pancake]

@@benjaminyoung9694 are you trying to justify something? Just because a lot of people get exposed for grooming doesn't mean it's right groomers deserve nothing but the worst

[@greycloud8057]

One of them literally has ODD. This is teaching him that the only resolution to a problem is yelling and that the only way he can argue with someone is to yell

[@Thepatientsadvice]

My son had ODD and it took me YEARS and tons of therapy to resolve it. I couldn't imagine pranking him or pushing him during this time. He's at a good place now, almost off medicine, and his ODD is gone. It was some of the toughest times of my life, but it was his disorder that caused it. I couldn't imagine pushing him. I love him so I fought for him and now he's 1000 percent better. If you love your kid and put in the work, ODD can be remedied.

[@alienextraterrestrial113]

You seem like a very kind human being.

[@Thepatientsadvice]

@@alienextraterrestrial113 thanks 😊 my son changed me for the better, so I have him to thank. I'd go through all of it over and over again for him.

[@SB-ls7qj]

You seem like an awesome parent. My daughter has meltdowns a lot, but I cannot wait to take her to Disneyland. She will be so happy. These people suck

[@Thepatientsadvice]

@@SB-ls7qj these people Def suck! That's awesome you're taking her to Disney land, seem like a great parent as well 😁

[@QUBIQUBED]

@@Thepatientsadvice Aww :)

[@Liektaht]

When the parents ask if they are traumatized you can tell by how quickly the answer “no” that they are in fact traumatized.

[@bagelbites1]

The kids were probably brainwashed after years of abuse into the “it’s just a prank” mentality to continuously forgive their “parents” for the abuse and trauma they endured. And for Cody, I hope he’s in a better place now

[@Alexisme.]

Cringe pfp :/

[@BradynNewcomer]

Is he dead?

[@orange33340]

They even brainwashed him into hating his real mom by telling him that they hit him and killed their dog

[@bobbybob4680]

I hope so too because I can't understand why the judge didn't grant custody to the biological mom in the first place....

[@Normaschthewanderer]

​@@bobbybob4680because he was prejudiced against people with bipolar disorder.

[@WaIter_White]

if you prank someone and they arent laughing after its not a prank

[@konstantingeist3587]

Yeah the difference between a prank and bullying

[@TedJM]

​@@konstantingeist3587and then bullying become abuse

[@cameronmoncrieff1982]

Uhhh no I think it’s a prank

[@ghostface5559]

or they have poor sportsmanship

[@sydneyconcerts902]

fact its now bullying

[@edgaralanfrog]

I got anxious just seeing the clips, I can’t imagine having to live through that. Constantly hearing my parents or siblings yell at me or being blamed for something I didn’t do, or being embarrassed and then having it end up online. I’m surprised Cody didn’t go crazy and hurt anyone; that boy has resilience.

[@FelineBlue]

I had basically the same childhood experience other than the fact it didn't get shared online (thank god I was born before the youtube era) and I can tell you that shit sticks with you forever. psychological abuse is just as damaging as physical abuse. I'd get bullied and harassed at school, get punished for reacting, and then go home just to get bullied and harassed by my grown ass adult father. There were literally times as a kid I would sit in my room as he screamed at my mother downstairs and I'd plan what would be the best way to kill him. My mum would tell me to "just be the bigger person" when I was a literal child as if this 60yr old man doesn't know any better. I still feel rage when someone behaves in a way that reminds me of him and I'll always hate him for ruining my brothers ability to develop socially in a normal way. I can't imagine having to grow up with all that and then also know that it had been posted online for millions to see and laugh at your pain. I hope that kid gets some fucking good therapy and actually gets some support for his ODD.

[@interifyrealify3887]

@@FelineBlue im living through the dick head father part rn and as far as i can say its mentally tiring, having you called 24/7 blamed for things you didnt do, blame every mistake they did to you. Honestly i feel like my life rn is just a stepping stone on making my father look strong. my relatives usually blame me for getting mad even though that is the only thing you feel on the situation.

[@FelineBlue]

@@interifyrealify3887 i feel you 100% buddy. you'll be able to get out of there in time and you'll feel so much better once you can cut him off. in the mean time stay strong even if your family is enabling his behaviour, you know inside that you are right in the end.

[@Red-jl1qr]

@No Touchy who gives a shit that it's not as bad as it can get. Should we wait til he's beaten? What kinda logic is that?

[@Hellknight101]

@No Touchy That's a shit take my guy. Just because its not the literal worst a child can go through, doesn't mean they should go through it.

[@maartjegoede9330]

Cody is probably going to have a life full of disfunctional relationships, substance abuse issues, never reaching your potential, mental health issues, the list goes on and on... If you want a happy and healthy kid as a parent: be a happy and healthy adult.

[@r11ey]

This type of parenting is quite literally how serial killers and pychopaths are made

[@JA11206]

you can't even call this parenting because it's straight up abuse.

[@Caratrox]

⁠@@JA11206yeah

[@inaciosthirdstudio]

@@JA11206Between you and me, the father’s channel makes 1980’s _Maniac_ more like a Pixar movie.

[@hayzree7486]

@@JA11206there biological mother beat them btw

[@Milliardo5]

What's even more sad is that the parents clearly enjoy what they're doing. They enjoy abusing them and really enjoy whenever Cody melts down. They never cared for the children in any way--it was all just for the views and money.

[@braindeadman1829]

Being a kid watching the ink prank really made me understand how much that would ruin a kid’s life. Thats not something that goes away, it sticks and these people were truly deplorable. We can only hope those kids turn out sane

[@lioexa600]

There was only a short clip of them screaming but it was enough to show how stressful and frustrating their lives were. Kids want to please their parents, because they are completely dependent. To manipulate and punish them is so heartbreaking.

[@siin9522]

TIKi kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYjJlWuFn7yerck 🎮

[@yourcatsfilthyvomitchunks6423]

That stepmother has some real issues as well. I can't imagine wanting to treat someone else's kids like this unless you sincerely enjoy abuse. Which she does.

[@ELTRIZOMIK]

Indeed she does.. it’s so obvious by the way she act

[@TrueOracle]

It's still her children, they're both as bad as each other

[@KittyRoyalty777]

As someone who grew up being blamed for things I didn't do, I now have a deep rooted fear of blame now and over react to an irrational point when im blamed for something whether I did it or not. Which makes me look guilty. Those kids may be in a better spot now but that trauma stays with you.

[@R83145]

This is so hard to watch, even after it's been several years ago. Wow, Cody must be, what, 13 or 14 now? Glad that Cody and Emma were returned to their birth mother and I hope that they can live happy lives now after all this trauma.

[@floppy4everyone913]

It never occurred to me that Cody would be the same age as me. That he isn't just some little kid on the internet. That he very well might be watching this video as I type this comment. I really hope that he's doing well without those worthless "parents."

[@HadassaMoon144]

He's a real person just like all other people who appear behind a screen are. He will grow into a man soon and hopefully he can be happy and well functioning despite the way he was abused. Always remember that people are people.

[@punnyarts]

I'm honestly incredibly happy that Cody and Emma have been taken away from these monsters. They're happy and safe now, Cody is getting his medication, Emma is happy. They're safe

[@leena5875]

i can’t imagine how it feels having all your childhood neglect abuse and humiliation on the internet

[@aodigital9421]

@@floppy4everyone913 bro, don't dismiss 14 year old as not just being "other little kids on the internet" you're literally also a child...

[@Cynsham]

"Every child deserves a parent, every parent does not deserve a child." I was disgusted by the rampant abuse in their videos when they became a big headline a few years or so ago, and still to this day this level of abuse is just heartbreaking and stomach churning. To see an innocent and vulnerable child like Cody who desperately needs some real love and affection get repeatedly emotionally abused by his own parents all for youtube views literally made my blood boil. No matter what these lying pieces of shit parents say, you can tell that the fear and emotional reactions from the children, especially Cody, are 100% real and genuine. That is by far the saddest and most heartbreaking part, to see that a vulnerable child like Cody is genuinely terrified of his parents.

[@TheLegend1342ProGame]

@Epic let’s plays extrapolation is an important skill

[@slashbash1347]

It did not literally make your blood boil. You'd be dead if your blood literally boiled.

[@dtoman6831]

Who else thinks that Cody would hav become a serial killer. I’m not even joking, all this sh*t seems like the back story for a serial killer. Either way, I’m glad Cody got out of that horrible situation. Hope he’s doing great.

[@nezzie534]

I feel so bad for the children especially Cody :( They deserved better parents for sure. I hope they are all ok now.

[@lirich0]

Bro you got the quote wrong

[@waterfalleyes]

I have a special hatred in my heart for these guys. I grew up in a strict and traditional asian family, and my brother was just a straight up bully that did similar "pranks". Although I didn't go through the same extent of abuse as these kids, I relate so much to them and I hope they heal.

[@zxcvb7251]

Most brother's do pranks ngl.I'm lucky to have good parents

[@TheLyricsAnalyst]

I relate heavily as a kid in a strict asian household; the boys are constantly put on a pedestal whereas the girls have to be held accountable constantly even if the issue wasn’t their fault

[@JustBuyTheWaywardsRealms]

​@@zxcvb7251 I was hitting my older brother when i was little every time i bullied him but when he said 'you're not my brother" i stopped and cried everytime i was crazy

[@qualicumjack3906]

It’s diffferent when it is your parents. Stop acting like you are traumatized because you had a big brother

[@waterfalleyes]

@@qualicumjack3906 I think you completely misunderstood my comment but that's okay, reading is hard

[@Nicoisdaddy]

The fact that the mother isn’t biological makes me rethink of how bad people really are.

[@nadiabutcallmewhatever8003]

As someone who was diagnosed at a very young age, and still struggling with ODD; I cannot image how much more infuriating it would have been to be apart of this family. For me at least, there were instances I'd get so upset I'd feel ill and couldn't think straight. The one thing that helped me calm down was being alone. Being somewhere I couldn't hurt myself or anyone else gave me the time necessary to calm down before a situation escalated to violence. Cody appears to try that multiple times but is constantly being followed and prodded for more and more violent reactions, all for the sake of some views on KZbin. It's absolutely disgusting and I'm glad that kid is out of there.

[@coolinspace6596]

Whatever

[@augusthenry6094]

Are you on social media at all? I also struggled with something similar growing up and I never had a chance to meet someone that had the same thing, but I get it you’re not comfortable with that

[@TheElusiveReality]

yeah he explicitly asks for the camera to be removed so he can try to calm himself down and the dad always refuses and flat out says that vlogging is more important

[@mr.mushrooms816]

@@coolinspace6596 ???

[@forgottenkarma9]

this feels like a reddit thread

[@TheMedicatedArtist]

I was so grateful when Phillip DeFranco shined a spotlight on these disgusting parents. Who knows how much longer these kids would have suffered if such a massive creator hadn’t brought attention to it.

[@DOOMStudios]

It would’ve been so much worse if we didn’t who this was. But I’m so glad Phillp Defranco did this.

[@advenco344]

This is an unpopular opinion but the reaction was way overblown and the parents shouldn’t have lost custody of their kids. It was clear that the parents weren’t abusive as they didn’t abuse the kids at all in the earlier videos and always knew when to stop before taking it too far, but eventually the views took over their rationality and they tried justifying taking it too far by saying that it was only for the video and that the kids were okay with it. Obviously, it was wrong but it was easily rectifiable and didn’t require CPS removing custody of their children from them. People really did destroy a perfectly happy and normal family.

[@tommy4716]

@@advenco344 idk, I can understand where you’re coming from but some of his “pranks” just consisted of screaming and threatening the kids on multiple occasions, which can be frightening especially at their young age

[@MikasaOkumura]

@@advenco344 Wtf is normal about a family exploiting their kids for views?

[@catscanhavelittleasalami]

@@tommy4716 Indeed. My father screamed at me almost two decades ago when I was very young, and I still remember it as if it happened yesterday. He's a wonderful loving man but that one time he just lost it and it was enough to make me wary of him. I love him with all my heart but I still have this tiny bit of distrust stuck in the back of my brain like a tumor. I really don't handle people screaming at me well because of this incident. At my age I shouldn't be this affected by strangers raising their voices at me but I can't help tearing up when that happens. It sucks. Those kids will definitely still be affected by the abuse as they grow up and I'm glad CPS was called. A shame such disgusting people are allowed to breed.

[@openyourbank9426]

“Haters” are normal people telling you you’re awful whilst you refuse to acknowledge you’re a terrible person who needs to grow and change

[@GRASS191]

Sometimes haters can just be rude for no reason. KZbinrs such as coryxkenshin, Mrbeast, jacksectepye, and technoblade have been mocked for either losing loved ones or having a disease. Some haters can just be losers. Some just speak truth.

[@openyourbank9426]

@@GRASS191 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYSqZqqBl9h8odk

[@ichangedmyusernamebecausei2551]

That invisible ink prank was straight up evil. Those two boys are definitely traumatized. I get that pranks can be taken a bit too far sometimes. But those kids were shaking in fear to which the “parents” should’ve realized that the prank was going too far and that they should’ve stopped.

[@user-ti6jh8ij9c]

it makes me VERY angry that other people have it so easy that they have the time to empathize with other people daddyofive situation wars etc when I was BADLY suffering with ocd and nobody seemed to care why do they help one and not the other😡 Also I could never empathize with people because I suffer BADLY from ocd

[@user-ti6jh8ij9c]

Society has this shitty double standard when it comes to stuff like this when I had ocd nobody cared and Mike WAS RIGHT about when you have an issue it’s your problem BUT WHEN you crush smash and hammer society then do the people cry and have empathy WHY do you people have empathy for some and not for others😡

[@WillieManga]

And the worst part? That is the one that got them into trouble. The reason that is so shocking is because... that isn't even their worst video. How the fuck did they not get in trouble earlier??

[@gooberdale]

love how they knew he had ODD but they never seemed to care, they just thought he was "bad", like emotionally abusing their kids isn't making them disobey you in anyway

[@smilegabe]

I dare to think the parents took advantage of Cody's ODD.

[@blueace1000]

@@smilegabe I wouldn’t put it past them to

[@Andy-WanKenobi]

@@smilegabe you don’t have to dare it’s clear they are

[@whitewolf8051]

My parents were the same way with my younger brother, and my aunt and uncle are the same way. The issues they have with him explain ODD perfectly, yet they won't see it and try to help with it because of the disorder

[@JaneDoe-li2hj]

Unless a child is in immediate danger and urgency is needed, it is always abuse to yell at a child like that. Even if the child really did spill ink on that rug, their tone of voice and body language is unnecessarily aggressive and threatening and is in no way perceived as humerus from a child’s point of view. Absolutely sick.

[@wwalton]

What they should've done was say in a more dickish way like "huh you spilt ink all over the carpet how could you do such a dastardly thing he he", and then take the little bastards out for ice cream or whatever but no they did that shit

[@Vanityroseismybeauty]

I hope Cody is okay. He was the one that the family “pranked” the most. (Or just get straight up emotionally abused) he is probably (most likely is ) traumatized from this whole situation. He looks 5-7 in these videos. This is emotional neglect. And the fact that the family brushes it off as “pRaNkS” when he is getting emotionally abused is heartbreaking.

[@MrSheizen]

Yeah definitely. There's a difference between raising your voice and yelling/shouting abusively as they did.

[@robnicholson3402]

yeah even if he did do it a child doesn't deserve that one child can have bit of ink and just clean it off or cut the carpet that is destroyed and get a piece of carpet the same size and install that

[@lonelyyfundzz]

lol naw this got me crying I thought it was you 😭😭 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmWVi6mImLKnpck

[@randm4246]

I've never in my life yelled at my 14 year old son, or my 12 year old daughter, the way they yelled at Cody FOR A "PRANK"... I'm shaking in rage just watching how they treated that poor boy.

[@yellowguy2685]

To be honest that is torture in a nutshell for cody

[@mannyruth579]

Absolutely with you. Bring ANGRY at evil means you're good.

[@toyotagazooracer4455]

Both your son and your daughter seem either spoiled or absolute delinquents.

[@inaciosthirdstudio]

Between you and me, this kind of content that this father possesses breaks my heart every single day.

[@Stinkywhispers]

I legitimately cried for Cody, I struggled to watch this. I don't have children, but that motherly instinct is just so strong. Id be surprised if he doesnt develop more mental instability and emotional damage, he must have struggled so much & the one person who should have been by his side, helping and supporting him, was humiliating him, and even worse, he knew he was being recorded and where these recordings where going. My heart breaks for him 💔

[@exittierone]

Thank you, @StinkyWhispers

[@grandmaul9003]

He'll definitely think his manchild dad is a dick head for the rest of his life but beyond that hes doing fine

[@NatetheNintendofan]

My mum ducks she won't buy a nintendo switch OLED😠😠😠😠😠😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬 just because I already have a switch

[@QuickLern818]

It hit me hard, too.

[@Inuko15]

I felt the same way. I do have children and this kind of behavior from the “parents” is completely unacceptable.

[@johns1625]

I'm surprised you didn't include the video of him making his kids slap and hit each other in the face. Emma doesn't want to be a part of it at all but he makes her and makes her brothers hit her even harder. She cried SO MUCH and they still uploaded it. The totally not a future psychopath older brother was absolutely fascinated with his dad asking him to hurt someone.

[@Rada_Rada138]

That video is hard too watch so maybe not showing out right physical violence

[@user-wn3wv5bx5e]

And it absolutely sucks that we could even see how he could become a psychopath. It genuinely makes me mad that they desensitized a child that badly that he doesn't see any repurcussions for hurting people.

[@stevenrodriguez9655]

After reading your comment I had to look it up. The whole time that girl was crying this fucking monster made jokes for his video, telling his son in a joking tone “yoooo I said a little tap, I didn’t say tap her like that” The older son was way too excited to full force slap his sister like that by the way. Then the “father” approaches his daughter crying on the floor. I thought he was finally going to help her up and at least ask if she was ok. Nope. He just gets in real close with the camera and says “why did you want to play?” kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6SvgYx5Ytenaqc

[@minix07]

What were they thinking...

[@TRex-dd4ze]

Wow. That's physical abuse then. It's like the parents hitting the kids, if they coerce or force the kids to hit each other, that's like them just hitting the kids. The parents should be charged for that.

[@GeminiSucker]

I remember hearing about the invisible ink prank and I couldn’t get past the part when Cody started panicking. It hurt and you can tell the louder that step mother got the more panicked Cody and the other kids got. Even Emma was uncomfortable.

[@aceman0000099]

If she was a biological mother she probably wouldn't have let half the pranks fly. She didn't have enough of an emotional attachment to the children

[@christopheranna1341]

I feel horrible seeing that happen. I know from my own experiences that getting screamed at by family and people you trust for something that you didn’t do is absolutely horrifying. Those kids deserved so much better than what they were given by their parents, and I hope their futures aren’t as traumatic as their pasts.

[@BananaCake6423]

I remember seeing the invisible ink thing way back when Phillip DeFranco talked about it, the moment when Cody says "I swear to God I didn't do that" shattered me then and is still one of the most heartbreaking things I've seen in a long time.

[@nfaisnfgay]

@卐-Lakehuntist-卐 bot

[@TheRibottoStudios]

DeFranco was how I learned about this disgusting family. And then they tried to BLAME HIM which honey no.

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

@peter Yo 🔥(a youtube link to promote your stuff in such a pathetic and loser-like way)

[@talosgak1236]

Unfortunately this is taking place in millions of families around the world every day.

[@rayhanrizvi334]

I honestly don’t know who gets “entertained” at seeing children being verbally abused

[@senatorarmstrong1233]

A lot of people honestly, like comments on their videos were so sickening

[@Maialeen]

A lot of their audience was other kids. Kids LOVE these family channels. When you have an audience who doesn't get that it's wrong, you get these channels like this guy, ace family etc. Kids would leave absolutely psychopathic comments on the videos. They really did act like these aren't real people and it's all fiction.NOT to say there weren't sadistic adults watching. There absolutely were. It's just that younger viewers are the bread and butter of these channels.

[@johnd7760]

@@Maialeen Exactly. That's what happens when u give unlimited internet access to underage kids.. In general, don't blame the kids for the psycho comments/actions online, blame their damn families!

[@davekurt1433]

@@johnd7760 That's western society we went from dressing up nice in the 1920s even if you were poor to adults cheering 3 year olds twerking In Times Square

[@johnd7760]

@@davekurt1433 ikr?.. There is a thin line between something cute and something disgusting..

[@jewsaregenocidalhores]

Poor Cody mannnn ffs he’s such a cute kid, he’s adorable, he’s a lovely kid. Doesn’t seem a hard to deal with kid at all, let alone a very difficult one. I pray he grows up to be okay and this shit doesn’t affect him forever he’s sooo cute I feel horrible watching this

[@Aimen14]

Ikr I hope he gets good parents 🥺🥺🥺

[@marceloquinteros8492]

#FREEMYMANSCODY✊🏼

[@miguelquinteros1]

@@marceloquinteros8492 ✊🏼

[@sylvianapalma958]

@Vaccinated Kid Same thing to you. GET LOST!!!!

[@siin9522]

TIKi kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYjJlWuFn7yerck 🎮

[@ColinTurnedIntoAnEngie]

"Did this traumatize you?" "NO!" "Did this make you upset?" "...No." they definitely got lashings if they said the truth.

[@noshimoshi]

the way cody reacted to the invisible "prank" was so sad. He was freaking out and was scared bc he "did" something wrong. That made me think that these kids' punishment off cam are extreme.

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

His face just screamed ptsd from constantly getting fucked with by his own parents , so fucking sad really really heartbreaking to watch

[@pokintethesequel138]

in the "blocking all haters prank" cody looked like he head a gun to his head and was force to say yes or no

[@pokintethesequel138]

had* sorry

[@ergoth154]

I was always super angry as a kid when I was accused of doing something I didn't do, so he probably wasn't scared of some extreme punishment but its still incredibly emotionally damaging.

[@Konani_the_unicorn_queen]

don't forget the gaslighting; if his parents convinced him that _he_ did it, but he doesn't remember doing it, he might eventually believe he did do it, and then think he has something wrong with his memory, or be gaslighted to "remember doing it" even if he did not.

[@thelastmotel]

As a behavioural psychologist, who has worked almost exclusively with children, teens, and young adults, for the past 27 years, I can honestly say they aren't the worst I've ever seen, but the only ones who record their acts of abuse who are worse than Daddy'O'Five and his wife, are those who sell their recordings directly to a certain type of collector. Sadly, there is a big market for video and audio recordings of people punishing, humiliating, and tormenting, their children.

[@sinisterhunter]

And there's my sad fact of the day.

[@wildishbambino7479]

@@sinisterhunter same but year.

[@ddog12359]

I shouldn’t be surprised but damn that’s sad to hear…

[@bestbeloved2704]

That is beyond f*cked up

[@davekurt1433]

Well then we need to escape this liberal madness and put to death anyone who has children getting punished as a fetish (including celebs, politicians and Bankers) These people don't need to exist end of story

[@KiLLJOY1056]

Bro the way the mom was screaming during the ink prank was absolutely terrifying. That brought me back to bad childhood memories. I can only imagine how it makes the kids feel. They'll hate her for as long as she lives.

[@kyleknight8267]

Every child deserves a parent but not every parent deserves a child

[@ElsuperGTA]

Poor Cody, when he says “All of this for a stupid prank!?” That’s really heartbreaking :(

[@inaciosthirdstudio]

I feel bad for the kid.

[@inaciosthirdstudio]

The father himself ticks me off more than a Teen Titans Go episode.

[@inaciosthirdstudio]

Like I feel like I’m watching a horror movie featuring a sick redneck. Which the father looks like by the way.

[@CoolGorillaGoAnimate7000]

My cousin has ODD and I can't imagine him being treated like this. I really hope Cody's living in a happy home.

[@ShadowGamer2549-k5k]

I didn’t know you was going to comment on here LMAOOOOOO

[@CoolGorillaGoAnimate7000]

@@ShadowGamer2549-k5k Bonjour my friend.

[@brabbit3134]

I have odd and a lot of things will set me off

[@KORALSTRIPZ]

i have odd and watching this video was so painful, because i knew exactly how cody felt. when you're told to do something, or told something you don't like, it can be almost physically painful. i have seriously bad memories from my preschool teachers yelling at me all the time for being disobedient. one of them would even hit me in the face. shit was awful. i can't imagine the hell of not having supportive parents when you have odd. i hope he's in a safer place as well.

[@CoolGorillaGoAnimate7000]

@@KORALSTRIPZ damn. I'm sorry that happened to you. At least you have someone to relate with.

[@Angry_Ostrich]

Daddy’O’Five doesn’t deserve to be a Daddy’O’Five. I’m surprised he was able to keep his kids for that long and I hope the kids have a better life now

[@erinmccutcheon3751]

He should be renamed "HatedbyAll".

[@jp.metalhead]

Jail'4'Life

[@Vusa42]

DaddyO0

[@Tea_l-q6w]

Daddy'O'none

[@starrysar6143]

cody and emma were taken away.

[@MaskedCosplayer]

I remember watching Daddyofive before the whole controversy started. There would always be comments saying stuff like "Cody deserves it" or "Cody's so spoilt that I'm glad he's getting punished" but after the whole drama with the Family, then the comments started to defend Cody.

[@llyn5759]

Parents like this transcend mere toxicity, these two are the CHERNOBYL of emotional health. My heart is seriously aching for Cody.

[@brentambrielcabigas1086]

That's an insult to Chernobyl itself

[@didiknow6480]

*This is sus* 💀😏😡 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXzVnIB6eat1f80

[@jordanbrown3109]

@@brentambrielcabigas1086 Forget Chernobyl, that’s the Tsar Bomba

[@st1xdxx]

So many bots

[@icantgetridofthisusernamehelp]

I was abused as a child. I remember stumbling upon this channel when I was about 14-15 and immediately seeing the abuse behind the "pranks." I related to Cody so much and it made me so mad to see these shitheads getting away with this. I had to stop watching their content after that, made me too mad. Glad to see the parents are suffering now.

[@Ambera3407]

You don't even need to have experience with abuse to relate with Cody. That's just how bad things are.

[@bernlin2000]

If you see something, say something. I know social media can seem like make believe sometimes, but you were literally watching child abuse in front of your eyes, and you did nothing to stop it from happening again. These are real criminals with real residences...just a phone call for a "welfare check" to social services would have been enough.

[@RaveN_EDM]

Suffering? They lost their kids but they’re still living off their KZbin money. They were big at the right time of KZbin history when ad revenue was actually really high. They probably justified the abuse because they were making like 20k a video. They should’ve had all their earnings taken away and given to birth mother for college and expenses. The kids earned the KZbin money and paid for it in trauma.

[@commiehunter733]

Lol

[@Xukkus]

So sorry to hear you had similar experiences. Hope you’re feeling better.

[@ChrisHangry]

"are you guys okay?" Cody's shifty eyed and mumbled "yea it's just a prank" is reeeeal convincing..

[@n0odles86]

I prank my kids by pointing at their shirt, telling them they've got some dirt, and booping their nose when they look down. I do it to my husband, too. Works 90% of the time. They just don't learn! I've also blasted Rebecca Black's "It's Friday" over the speakers in their rooms on a Monday morning before school. I had a rotten childhood, much like Cody's, so I like to fill our house with laughter. I hope Cody has learnt to laugh again. Bless his heart.

[@NoDoSwLa]

It's unbelieveable. Ideal: Children need a stable emotional household. Just waiting for getting yelled at and get confronted with stuff you didn't do is emotional torture. How should they're be able to build up trust etc.

[@InvestmentJoy]

Family channels scare me, and worries me about bringing my family in on my channel. My top video (105m views) has my son in it. I know it works but it worries me it'll kill my channel, or worse, my family.

[@AlfreeMP4]

As long as you aint abusing kids you should be good, but as just some guy without a mustache says, family channels in general don’t age well at all, a lot of times it comes down to parents just exploiting their poor children for views. Also you shouldn't be worrying considering your channel isnt a family channel. I dont think anyone is going to care considering only a couple videos may have your family in it.

[@jakecollen1776]

there’s a difference between having your kids as the main thing in your videos and just showing their face once in a while if it’s relevant

[@boyishmistakes]

I’ve always had the opinion that as long as the camera isn’t in their face 24/7 and you respect their emotions and feelings when they don’t wanna be involved/on camera, you should be fine. It’s the people who actively exploit and ignore their kids feelings that are awful parents.

[@ivanmk8287]

Lmao… he had to add in that “(105m views)” just to flex… kinda sad

[@Pyth110]

@@ivanmk8287 Lmao it really is sad

[@kwc0435]

You know its bad when even redditors are against you

[@cbbblue8348]

Nah redditors only do so if they can take the moral highground. If the kid was slightly naughty they be calling for adoption or killing the kid

[@whatismylife879]

@@cbbblue8348 this is true in some cases

[@dewie110]

@@cbbblue8348 I agree there is 2 sides of reddit

[@uzacki]

@@dewie110 this so true. Reddit is basically 40% Normal folks, and 60% racist incels. Maybe more or less. No way to truly say what percentage it would be. it's just feels like that.

[@dewie110]

@@uzacki I agree that there is 2 sides

[@KolassalL]

after going through a traumatic breakup they had to deal with thier parents and siblings emotionally and physicly abusing them for years, i cant imagine how bad that mustve felt and how hard that wouldve been to endure...

[@sakurarairikutsu7029]

Ive been in the kids place before, it broke my heart to see the look on their faces when they answered that they are fine, and everything is alright when their abusers questioned them. My abusive father was like that to me and my siblings as well. After hes done abusing us, he let things settle down a little and after we were done crying he point blank asked us in our face wether or not we would do it again, or were we okay now. And as victims of his abuse, it felt like we had no choice but to say we were fine and act like nothing ever happened or else things would get worse either that moment or later when the absue started back up again. he would find a way to justify what he did to us, like it was no big deal and trauma it caused was none existent and we were just acting like babies. And it’s disgusting to see not one, but BOTH of them act so much like that man. .

[@theamazinggamerperson3474]

Sorry you had to go through that

[@arnoldj.samson5795]

You into anime so I'm not surprised

[@davida.marcantoni7211]

@Raytheslay Keep coping kid.

[@Hymn_]

@@arnoldj.samson5795 i see nothing wrong with it. it’s just like people who cope their trauma or their horrible life in general with video games. as long as it’s good, then there’s nothing wrong with it.

[@arnoldj.samson5795]

@@Hymn_ that's my point lol

[@CB_W0lf]

Is Cody okay??? As a sister of a little brother who has anger issues, seeing how they treated and targeted that boy just made me sick to my stomach. I hope the little ones get a chance to grow up normally and in safety.

[@topoalvarez6581]

Y’all soft

[@blueace1000]

@@topoalvarez6581 so not being ok with children being exploited and abused makes someone soft? Noted

[@topoalvarez6581]

@@blueace1000 that isn’t being abused unless you get hit with bruises and shit that just makes you mental

[@topoalvarez6581]

@@blueace1000 wish it was the time we owned ur kind

[@bloxz2944]

Cody gonna kill soon

[@RiversXXVII]

As a dad, seeing that poor child get treated like that knowing he has a emotional disorder breaks my heart. I hope Cody is in a better place mentally now!

[@inaciosthirdstudio]

I don’t blame you, man.

[@emiliaholmberg3320]

It is crazy that they called their obvious abuse towards Cody for "a prank". The disrespect towards his privacy and emotions is beyond me.

[@SuperSara924]

Kids typically don’t realize they’re being abused/exploited. When they’ve grown up in that environment, that’s their “normal”. So of course when you put a camera in their face and ask if they’re traumatized they’ll say no. I hope Cody and Emma are doing better with their mom and overcoming the abuse their dad/stepmom put them through

[@harryolive750]

The clip of Cody crying in the Ink Prank still makes me angry to this day

[@RedFeverOfficial]

@peter bruh the hell is this

[@RedFeverOfficial]

Dude what the hell are these bots

[@nandinianil6390]

@@RedFeverOfficial this bot is under every frickin comment under this video

[@RedFeverOfficial]

@@nandinianil6390 thats the worst part the least the bots can do is like link me to some good video

[@nandinianil6390]

@@RedFeverOfficial the last thing you should expect from a bot is a link to a good video lol

[@SteviiLove]

My heart still hurts every time I hear Cody say "You made me go through all this,just for a stupid prank?" I hope Cody especially is doing well and like the one comment said, that he knows he was right and what he went through was not okay.

[@Jabholt013]

Five years probation? No, he needs actual jail time