What To Do About Child Influencers?

I wish I was a child influencer...
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[@mikevismyelement]

PLEASE tell me Brianna Chickenfry is black

[@ShortFatOtaku]

she is not lol

[@hiruyabebaw7140]

Bro?

[@ChuckSneedly]

The white face of black supremacy

[@pedrohenriquesoutogueiros1449]

das funny

[@TheGreenlandPenguin1208]

​@@ShortFatOtakudamnit

[@MakkenziKreiga]

"Family seems to have moved to LA" That counts as parental abuse, right?

[@j.k.4479]

It's also inhumane to adults.

[@stevejones69420]

Pretty sure that's a war crime

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

Technically I'd call it kidnapping, since the father didn't know they had moved. A majority of all kidnappings are one parent taking a child without the consent of the other, and this fits.

[@konstantinosnikolakakis8125]

@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTownLegally I think it’s just the lesser charge of custodial interference.

[@_Carlos]

>Blended family fighting over the career of the youngest without regard for her wants or needs Yeah, average Vancouverite family.

[@oldoutlet6946]

Every big city in Canada really is a wannabe California, huh?

[@vitaliitomas8121]

Take out the career part and you have average custody battle.

[@vodkawhisperer3923]

Biggest nothing comment ever

[@SquashGuy02134]

​@vodkawhisperer3923 no it's funny because people from Vancouver suck

[@onpoint2292]

​​@@vitaliitomas8121that's what I hate about custody battles. The mom is automatically given so much leeway compared to the dad. Imagine if a divorced dad illegally immigrated their kid to another country without the mom's consent. The court system would revoke his custody rights immediately. They would say he was a terrible influence on the child, and would likely put a restraining order against him seeing his own kids. When the Mom flagrantly violates split custody terms, the court system is slow to act. Most of the time they don't even care. It is the courts + Mom vs Dads, essentially. Dads are treated like the devil, Mom's are treated like saints, unless you have verifiable evidence and sympathetic case workers towards the father.

[@yochlel2642]

There's something morbidly humorous about seeing people celebrate a child's death on Twitter, then delete the tweets not out of remorse, but solely because the child's death turned out to be fake.

[@addex1236]

Ya it's funny in a reminder that we are a waste of a spiceses

[@Sigurther]

"You gotta, like, act more ignorant." Holy crap, I busted out laughing at that. Even he knows the audience they're pandering to. All that being said, I can almost guarantee the 'death hoax' was put in place by the family to drum up attention. And it did! Stupid thing is, she could have had a career. Both father and mother had legitimate ideas - dad wanted to make her a legitimate star through all the necessary legal channels, and mom/bro already knew how to work the social media side. If they hadn't bickered incessently over who should have control, she could've made something real out of herself, and with the guidance of two actual, caring parents (instead of moneygrubbing knuckleheads) done it safely. Mostly, I just feel kinda bad for her. She probably was having fun doing silly social media skits and getting attention, but as usual, as soon as an adult sees the dollar signs, they turned it into an boring grind that was borderline abuse. Hope she actually comes out on top, safe, healthy and sane. Even I'll admit she was funny, but the whole gag of "nine year old kind talking gangsta" kinda vanishes as soon as they become a teenager.

[@ValleyMansonOfficial]

It shouldn't be legal for children to be "influencer", simple as.

[@revolioclockman8090]

No, she couldn't have had a "career". Like every other kid in the space, she was being exploited by the adults around her. Fame is bad for your mental (and sometimes physical) health and no responsible parent exposes their child like that. Or do you want *more* Natalie Portmans?

[@lainiwakura1776]

I seriously don't get how the dad was moneygrubbing, he was trying to get a trustfund set up for her so she could have her money when she became an adult.

[@lainiwakura1776]

@@revolioclockman8090 I think Emma Watson is the better example of what you don't want your child to grow up to be.

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

​@@lainiwakura1776Yeah, the whole thing with the mother sounds like "Dude, trust me bro. I'll hold on to the money and not waste it all."

[@ShadyDoorags]

I typically don't like the government telling people how to raise their kids, but anytime professional performances get involved, regulation always seems to be necessary. Simply consuming social media is dangerous to kids; being a part of it opens up a whole nother can of worms that absolutely needs to be monitored.

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

I'd say a fair compromise would be once someone had reached a threshold, like 5 to 10 thousand dollars made or X number of followers, they must go through some course that helps understand the dangers of it and in the case of children, the parents must be made aware.

[@dougneon9550]

Where's my king of the hill Shady? No but for real it's tough trying to balance this sorta stuff because someone always does something stupid that makes us have to consider regulation

[@cgmason7568]

I think there's a King of the Hill episode like that

[@connorbutters8479]

"Don't ruin your kid's future for your present" Dev, that's how we got into this multi-generation spanning mess of a world we live in

[@2IDSGT]

Kids shouldn’t be allowed on KZbin or TikTok. Straight up.

[@TwoDollarGararge]

Kids will find a way onto the platform I started watching KZbin when I was 9

[@davemarx7856]

It should be the parents enforcing good behavior.

[@TwoDollarGararge]

@@davemarx7856 That's kind of an impossible task expecting every parent to be perfect and not have any blind spot for a piece of technology they just don't understand A lot of people are not very good parents they just made a decision one night and now they have to live with the decision they made

[@johnnysaurus04]

Based

[@TwoDollarGararge]

@@davemarx7856 also sometimes people have kids thinking it will be the glue that fixes their marriage/relationship but what usually ends up happening is that falls apart anyway and then you mess up the kid and leave them a a mental hurdle they have to overcome as an adult

[@TBoneTony]

The entire family situation seems to be messed up. Never allow kids to make content online until they are old enough to know what they were doing.

[@Xplora213]

They won’t know ever. You have to be an adult to direct their energy and edit the videos and understand the moral and privacy concerns. Signed the dad of a kid who made some videos.

[@KhorneBrzrkr]

Unfortunately, “smart” people will heed this advice, and complete smooth brains will do it anyways and reap the rewards. I agree with you myself, but I bet all the influencers will see advice like that and laugh all the way to the bank.

[@sterlingw3611]

Even if she did die I could honestly care less. It's the same with child stars and other Internet influencers.

[@Andy-im3kj]

That's great and all but really it takes the parents raising their kids right to avoid that very situation. If you have bad standards at home the kid will not know any better.

[@TrickyMario7654]

We all know how Hollywood treats child actors. Heads need to roll over there.

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

The wood chipper is hungry

[@Para0234]

@@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle BLOOD FOR THE BLOODY WOODCHIPPER

[@chillstoneblakeblast3172]

Dan "Hold her tighter, She's a Fighter" Schneider

[@vodkawhisperer3923]

The grinder is thirsting

[@mikebott6940]

Some years back, a friend moved to LA to work in film as a screenwriter. He told me horrible stories about how people in Hollywood and Burbank would groom and pimp their kids for the industry, and have them all sorts of places they shouldn't have been. This is far worse because it removes any middle people who might act as a moderating influence.

[@joekewl7539]

I think it's immoral and unjustifiable to put a child on the forefront of social media in ANY situation! Who the fuck thinks it's a good idea to bring a person in the most emotionally and mentally unstable period of their entire life and broadcast them to the public? Easy fix, I think, just don't let them be monetized.

[@SouthernGothicYT]

the parents who allow/aren't aware of their kids internet usage are the issue. Nobody likes seeing tablet toddlers

[@ImortalZeus13]

The sad thing is that most parents are actually aware of how much their children use the internet, they just don’t know what they’re doing. Parents hand off the iPad all the time and they’re happy to do it. Kids nowadays are getting addicted to constant media usage when they’re 3-5 years old and it’s creating a generation of young people who believe that influencership is normal and preferable to being unplugged.

[@thecompareablezombie]

@@ImortalZeus13 using the Laptop back in the 90s was a better time, before social media. Aside from having needed to go outside more.

[@eliseosterbrink8000]

@@ImortalZeus13People just don't want to be parents anymore. It's all about them and not the kids; that's why we have tablet toddlers. Irresponsible, careless parents just don't want to hear the screaming anymore so they put their kids in front of visual cocaine. The sounds and colors captivate them and stop the screaming so wine mom #46,738 can get some me time with some degenerate TV show and several glasses of box wine. They don't give a shit about the effects that unrestricted access to the internet has on their kids. They just want to pretend that the child that they have a duty to care for is independent enough to be left alone for the entire day with a tablet.

[@isaactuuri6488]

"tablet todlers", im commandeering that term

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

"I don't care a little kid died" -person who will never be working nonymously again.

[@0fuxGiven]

i dont even want to upload pictures of my kids for the sake of their own privacy. maybe they will grow to be privacy-minded and i dont want to rob them of their digital anonymity. when they are old enough and understand the ramifications of the internet, they can make that decision for themselves.

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

When I wrote letters as a kid I was told not to include my full name, let alone my picture, and that was just when addressing things to a handful of people. Never use your real birthday to sign up for things. That sort of thing. Now Facebook is normal, and my cousin's 13 year old kid is uploading herself dancing on Tik Tok from her GPS device.

[@mmoVSmmo]

This is exactly what I plan on doing for my kids. Not a single photo of them will be on the public facing internet.

[@RobertMorgan]

what annoys me is seeing friends wives on facebook literally posting photos of their kids in front of their grade school, with the time and date, showing them getting out of their SUV, plate visible, along with all the photos she's shared of their home and farm....it *SEEMS* innocent, but someone who wanted to do even the mildest malicious action you've literally provided them with a free intel briefing and targeting package. @@KyriosHeptagrammaton

[@Ammoniummetavanadate]

Just ban kids from the internet. You can start a KZbin channel at 18.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

They made KZbin kids then still treats regularly KZbin like a bunch of children. They are trying to dumb down adults.

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

That's what China's been doing. I'm very curious to see what the results end up being.

[@littlemisseevee2309]

kids will lie to get online when they really want to

[@littlemisseevee2309]

@@KyriosHeptagrammatonconsidering its china there’s likely invasions if privacy involved to ensure a kid or unwanted people cant get online

[@LOUDMOUTHTYRONE]

You can't ban children from the Internet without taking away Internet anonymity.

[@stigmaoftherose]

We need way more stronger laws about child labor in media.

[@MsAhutch]

Why would that happen when they like to you know what to the kids?

[@SaberInferno]

Especially after listening to Alyson Stoner's podcast "Toddlers to Transwrecks Pipeline"

[@munkydreads]

How fast family vlogs would disappear would be great 👍

[@GoblinKnightLeo]

No, child labor laws are bad.

[@jamalisujang2712]

No, thanks. That would jeopardize the creation of unhinged celebs. 😂😂😂

[@jmaitland5709]

Goddamn, it says a lot about how absolutely worthless these internet awards shows are when some of the most recognisable nominees are guys that peaked in 2016 and guys that are most famous for stealing other people's content. Its like watching the Oscars and the big headliners are David Schwimmer and Amber Heard.

[@ReboyGTR]

*Icona Pop? C'mon, you know them as those annoying girls who screamed "I DON'T CARE! I LOVE IT!" and crashing her car into the bridge.*

[@xX_Pokeman_Xx]

THEY are the ones behind that!?

[@Mehtaru]

Oh that crap? No wonder I completely forgot

[@BiBiren]

I like one of Icona Pop's songs which is Emergency, I used to like I Don't Care but growing up made me realize that song is a terrible influence for young girls. I never knew Icona Pop streams to be in Streamy Awards. Maybe she's a guest there for Intermission Number idk lmao

[@chengliu872]

I feel sorry for her. Her mother and half brother are scumbags who deserve anything bad that happens to them.

[@AkiRa22084]

The father's plans seemed way more wise, but the mother had to troll...

[@masteroogway6660]

She stutters the line, the light leaves her young eyes as she looks downs and asks her handler "What do I say?", if anything could sum up children stars on youtube its this

[@MaverickhunterXZero]

Reminds me with the situation with Clock boy, where he gutted a clock and put it in a school tin lunchbox and paraded it around until he got in trouble which he knew he would. His entire family was in on it, coached him through interviews and tried to milk it for all it was worth, even wasting a scholarship on him. Many of the people who said it was a travesty never bothered telling their viewers it was all a scam. There are other cases where a mother abused her children for fame. The Lil' Tay story is many cases, is sadly a time-a-dozen.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

i remember clock boy, Ahmed Mohamed back in 2015. he ended up going to qatar after the news cycle passed

[@MaverickhunterXZero]

@@ShortFatOtaku Especially after being photographed with a war criminal. Journos panicked after that.

[@draketheduelist]

I was recently surprised to find out that MatPat was still a thing. I was _not_ surprised to find out that he was still milking FNAF in The Year Of Our Lord 2023. That tracked.

[@goosegirl941]

He recently showed up in my reccs with a video about Lofi Girl Lore. I thought I had stepped back in time for a sec

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

Every time I search for anything with KZbin's new shit search I end up finding the video MatPat being transphobic for X minutes.

[@raggens]

I really like how Toby Fox basically told MatPat not to do any videos on Undertale/Deltarune again due to him intentionally misgendering Frisk and Kris among other things lol

[@onpoint2292]

​@@raggensWtf, I love Matt Patt now.😂 That is unironically based. Matt still has a bit of edge in him, I guess.

[@nikoclesceri2267]

@@raggenshow exactly does a developer stop someone from making videos on their game

[@dimitar4y]

all of it is manufactured social life. manufactured interests. manufactured fear. manufactured celebrities. synthetically crafted lives with nothing in them.

[@TheRoseBoy11]

Is it controversial to say that children under the age of 18 SHOULDN'T be on their phones let alone have social media accounts!?

[@blacksocrates1]

Facts and we should have PSAs about social media in general

[@whenimmanicimgodly4228]

I think them being on their phones and using social media is fine in some regards, but there's a lot of social media and content out there kids shouldn't be accessing at all.

[@blacksocrates1]

@@Sampsonoff they'll survive. The Internet is hella toxic and legitimately driving people crazy.

[@Mankepanke]

Even adults shouldn't be using social media so why should children?

[@dominicunderwood4911]

Your argument falls flat on its face straight out of the gate, since not everyone under 18 is a child. Ever heard of a *teenager?* They take up a bulk of the internet, and they, much like adults, sometimes need an outside sourse of escapism or digital research. You making some fictional, authoritarian hive-mind takr like "there should be a brain-chip that locks people out of phones" or whatever, idnt helping find a middle ground for all involved, nor anything other than stroking the egos of other equally ignorant authoritarians. If you, a stranger, would have tried to tamper with my houses wifi to "preserve" me when i was 15 or whatever, I would have had you swallowing teeth without 10 minutes.

[@kentlindal5422]

To the parents, Keep in mind that when you are old and sick and need someone to care for you, this is what you raised.

[@witnessfox3509]

Counter idea: instead of child labor laws, we make it legal to cup check any parents who make over a certain amount of money off of their kids social media/youtube.

[@k-techpl7222]

I just learned what a cup check is. Thanks!

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

Yeah, I'd say once someone makes five or ten grand they are a content creator, and must claim so. It lets the people who are doing it for fun just keep doing that, and it lets cases like this hopefully have some amount of oversight so a child isn't being used for internet clout and fucking up their lives.

[@UmamaGoblin]

They deleted horrible statements not because they're horrid but because the story was fake... that says everything 🥃

[@Ranatosk]

“Every age it seems is tainted by the greed of men.” -Patches (Dark Souls 3)

[@mrpopo8298]

This is a problem, but not just for influencers. In the culture war both sides love to use children.

[@mjanny6330]

Lol wheres the "rights" equivalent of trans kids?

[@CybuRTF2]

"Don't ruin your kid's future for your present." Damn that goes hard. Yet another good video dev, keep on keeping on!

[@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer]

We need to treat internet access the same way we use to about all things. Like working with power tools, or driving, or any other responsibilities. Only certain things at certain ages and only for certain times. Outside of that, it's illegal. Because it's harming the child. And nobody can say the internet isn't harming children

[@adelaideemiliem2772]

When this story I was 50-50 on weather it was true or not. Whenever I was thinking it was true, I kept being reminded of Lucille Ricksen. She was a silent film actress, constantly being made to look and act like she was older, with her mother pushing her career. Although her mother died first, it was only by two weeks and Lucille passed away at the age of 14. Although she passed away from tuberculosis, I felt like there are a lot of similar between the two.

[@david.bowerman]

My child has their mind set on being a content creator. They are not old enough and I told them they will have to wait a few years but if that is what they want to try and do, I will support them. I will set ground rules on the types of things they can and cant do for moral and safety reasons, but beyond that, they will be in control of the content. So long as their education does not suffer.

[@orppranator5230]

That’s the same as wanting to be a rock star. It’s not realistic, feasible, and trying will likely waste their life.

[@Xplora213]

If they aren’t old enough you s should not be taking it seriously. Kids want to be astronauts and firemen and strippers and you just can’t entertain every whim. My kid has suggested the same. I told them to work at finding viral algorithms and practice their speaking and consider the customer…. They meet customer demand, any fame is incidental. I think this is a more useful way forward. Kids need apprenticeships to learn.

[@PoliticalPluralist]

5 video plugs in 2 minutes is impressive!

[@danielsurvivor1372]

Good to see tons of content from you Dev, hopefully ya ain't burning yourself out

[@TBoneTony]

This is the reason why I don't keep up with Hollywood Celebrities since the 90s. (Meg Ryan for example I respect her talent, but anything outside of her talent I don't mind not knowing) Never kept up with Internet Celebs unless if they were into similar hobbies I had. AVGN and a few others, I still have some respect for their talent but I don't wish to know anything more than their content.

[@averagedusty]

AVGN just seems like a genuinely good guy who made videos about his genuine gaming experiences. I enjoy his recent videos as much as his older content. #bringbackjamesmikemondays

[@Boomslayer19]

i do what some sort of internet celebrities(people who out earn all of these people in super chat numbers alone) that being vtubers because am a massive hololive fan

[@ProxyDoug]

This is actually happening right now with this Brazillian called Larissa Manoela. She started as a child actress and now that she's 18, her parents started selling some of her properties without her consent and upon further investigation, she found out that what she thought was a 50/50 revenue split, was actually 98/2.

[@johnwatts3862]

Everytime I think I’m living in clown world, Dev comes out and says “you stupid bitch, you have no idea how clown this world is”. Heart Felt Dev, heart felt

[@bug5654]

Anakin, no, that's not the solution.

[@QueenAleenaFan]

Parents should be held to standard.

[@jmckenzie962]

Icona Pop were the people who made that song that goes "I don't care, I love it" like 10 years ago, and they weren't really the star of the show on that song either, Charli XCX was. Shocked that they're seemingly still around

[@SaVanityVan]

This poor kid. Her family has ruined her, and I doubt she'll ever see a cent of the money her social media career has made.

[@xravenx24fe]

This will never improve so long as parenting in the USA amounts to babysitting your own kid by sticking them in front of a stimulus screen.

[@polygoncrazy]

Nothing of value was lost. Hopefully the parents follow.

[@RwandaBob]

it’s genuinely depressing to me that people are willing to ruin their child’s own life just for money

[@Para0234]

Honestly... I'm between a rock and a hard place on that one. On one side, children MUST be protected from the dangers internet causes. (Be it overusing social medias or... this.) On another side, any meaningful protection would require ending anonymity, which is far, far more dangerous than what people think. Apart from that (major) issue, adding the same protections as a child actor is the minimum. The best would be to stop child influencers entirely.

[@railfan_3371]

maybe the parents of these kids should do their damn job for once in their miserable alcoholic lives

[@carsandsports123]

Is Dylan getting the Stunning and brave award? His following is nowhere the top and as we all know there are better trans influencers out there. I feel like part of Bud lights success is due to how distortionly he/she whatever is pushed

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

I assume you mean success in destroying the brand?

[@RealMrBruh]

Ooo another dev video let's goooo!

[@Dave_Parrott]

That direction from her brother lol "you gotta be like more ignorant."

[@LabrnMystic]

I barely keep up with the online popularity contest, but when I hear high watcher content The creators also say they are lost; both fills me with the spare that I'll never catch back up, but also a little bit of hope that I don't need to because nobody knows

[@gweetus]

I honestly don't know what cure for crap like this is better than the disease... I just know I'm gonna send my folks a random text that I love them and thank them for raising me right.

[@OliveOilFan]

This is the new norm. Parents and even kids see money to be made and are scummy about it. It kinda died down now but it’s around and isn’t stopping anytime soon

[@SivaExperiment]

My take is that the father is kinda pushing her to do her music but is not doing it maliciously and is open to her quitting and stopping when she wants but the whole custody shit kinda threw that into a fire

[@ColePhelps-cv2qh]

i feel the same way just got out of marine corps boot camp so i was cut of for 3 and half months and i on' mind being behind on all the stuff that has happened.

[@SidneyBroadshead]

00:31 Icona Pop is a Swedish popstarlet. Her big thing is she sang "I Love It" (2012) in a duet with Charli XCX. She's not a new sensation.

[@crispyandspicy6813]

Internet trends die in weeks, maybe months, because there's always more creators than hollywood for instance, the content is unimpactful, and there's always someone more daring to do the next dumbest thing. The parents thought their kid had a rare talent that could be exploited, but really it was just sensationalist crap that's easily out matched by the plethora of idiocy on the internet

[@diogenesdacynic8656]

Icona pop has been around since 09...they did that "i love it" song. Cmon Dev!!😂

[@_BirdOfGoodOmen]

Less influencer jobs for children, more jobs in the mines. The children yearn for the mines

[@pathfindersavant3988]

Abe Simpson: "I used to be 'with it'. But then they changed with 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it', and what's 'it' is weird and scary to me. It will happen to you!"

[@thecompareablezombie]

This is wise words

[@brianlinden3042]

"THAT'S the name you chose?!?" -ShortFatOtaku

[@AColonDashSix]

I'm glad she's alive and only here career is dead. Luckily she's young enough that when she gets older, nobody will recognise her. She could still have a normal life, she dodged a bullet.

[@GeorgeCowsert]

This is precisely why the internet needs to be locked off to children. It isn't like a library, where you can just let your kid roam around and pick out a random book. It isn't like TV, where a long history of law and standards keep the most scummy side contained to the studios. Letting your kid be on the internet, let alone encouraging them to make a career on it before they even started puberty, is worse than neglect and abuse.

[@samoto6943]

This beginning of the video reminding me of the Teen Choice Awards bit from Family Guy

[@nikoclesceri2267]

a short drop and a sudden stop would fix most of the problems with the modern internet

[@JM-mh1pp]

Honestly and with all the love. Internet was a mistake, it should remain as a tool for universities and military.

[@supersniffer9632]

Does a "short drop and a sudden stop" mean something very very different to you.

[@nikoclesceri2267]

@@supersniffer9632no, to the gallows with the degenerates

[@cp1cupcake]

I honestly don't know why these children are NOT protected under child labor and actor laws.

[@bigflyboy13]

What’s the bg music? When I hear it I just go oh yeah Dev is about to spit right quick

[@ImCurrentlyNaked]

I think that parents do need to control it to some extent - don't want the fame to go to the kids head and ruining them (among other worse scenarios). However it seems that many adults these days have an inability to control themselves once they get a drop of e-fame either, so maybe we're expecting too much.

[@LARB05]

NEW SFO LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[@14megasxlr]

Yeah, just don’t let kids fuck around in the Internet before like 13-14, it’s very simple. We haven’t had the Internet for THAT long, humanity can survive it’s first 13 years without direct access to it.

[@jamesstaggs4160]

What gets me almost more than this cjiod being used by adults who are supposed to care for her is that the attitude she displayed in her old videos is what many have and are aspiring to be. Namely a shallow, ignorant, materialistic, rude, obnoxious narcissist. That's the ideal. People condone, encourage and validate that type of person. Sure plemty of us can't stand that type of person but just as many will defend it. Humility is seen as weak. Decent is seen as boring. The selfless are seem as suckers. I'd just hit my teen years wheh this stiff began to really take off and even back then I saw where it was leading and what sort of damage it would do to people and communities that embraces it. I'd say my fears jave been born out.

[@alphamonder]

My response: 💢💢😭 CORRECTION IS NEEDED!

[@JChang0114]

"And nothing of value was lost"

[@ottagol1985]

If memory serves, Icona Pop were a music that were big when they did "I Love It" with Charlie XCX a few years back. They're not KZbinrs.

[@whenimmanicimgodly4228]

The only people I recognized on the streamy award banner were Rhett and link

[@kaizokujimbei143]

The moral of the story is that children should NOT be using social media and their internet access should be limited to online libraries and educational material.

[@adherentofladycolumbia725]

Man, Lauren Chen was a brat in her early YT career.

[@digitalcthulhu143]

😂😂

[@phariphari4897]

I love how dead he sounds at 11:16 when Dev says "child musicians or child performers".

[@Aiphiae]

Goddamn. That's really sad. Listening to her get instructions on how to be a PoS instead of how to be a decent person.

[@tylerfortniteninjablevins1457]

i love internet drama but only the drama with people i know

[@TJK10]

Maybe an update vid on this topic after recent developments might be merited, Dev? Dunno’, just a thought.

[@Selrisitai]

I don't think regulation is the answer. I don't think more government is the answer. The answer is more family, more church, more community, more social pressure, more parents teaching their children right. Tay here seems, as far as can tell, to NOT have died, killed herself or to have grown up particularly damaged from what we can see, so we're trying to add new laws, or at least supporting the idea of them which is just as bad, because of a case in which. . . nothing happened. You can make anything sound awful. My mother accidentally hit my brother on the head with a hoe. I fell out of our truck while it was moving. I got tar on me, which began binding with my flesh, and while my mother was washing it off with gasoline in the tub, the hot-water heater caught the fumes and the tub burst into flames. I'm here, alive and well, and fully mentally sound, if a bit weird (home-schooling). What you're saying, in effect, is that today's children are more helpless/impressionable/retarded than YOU were. If you think your children are dumber than you, then heaven help us all.

[@vorevids]

Her parents and brother are horrible people.

[@TheHustlingFox]

Trevor Moore - Help Me

[@anomonyous]

Don't allow them online. Don't allow them on TV. Don't allow them to be abused and churned through the system. Let kids be kids.

[@vlionheart]

Meat, I mean, Speed is never going to live this down. And man, this whole child exploitation thing is disturbing.

[@newpaperyes]

At 6:00 I stopped listening because I was too focused on watching the video. Had to scroll back to re-listen to it.

[@pyxylation]

What made me feel the whole thing was sus was when they said her bro died too.

[@georgereevesjr8289]

"Never complain about me being late to the party" No, we're still going to complain. You are right to take it slow, but complaining is all we got,man.

[@sophietemple2728]

Horse has bolted now, but I honestly don’t think children should have been allowed free access to social media until we fully realised the potential consequences it could have. Grown adults can’t always face the pressure of social media. I get scared sometimes just posting a comment in case someone I don’t know doesn’t agree with me and starts kicking off, for all intents and purposes, they’re not real in my life, just a few characters on a screen, but it’s still scares me. How on earth are kids supposed to be mature enough to deal with that? Not to mention how exposed to exploitation it leaves them!

[@doyourbest_uwu]

I watched through the entirety of the Streamy Awards live, never again. The only part I liked was Brandon Rogers being himself in a skit with Vivziepop. One thing I remember was Hasan getting an award for the category of news, which makes me laugh to no end.

[@TheDolphinTuna]

“Look, there’s something we haven’t told ya, Bobby. But maybe now’s the time. You see, show business is inherently evil.”

[@DrWarman86]

icona pop did a song with DJ Aokie featured on the movie Rons gone wrong

[@sik3xploit]

Older people themselves these days seem to have questionable adulthood.

[@orirune3079]

"Brianna Chickenfry? THAT'S the name you chose???" says "ShortFatOtaku" 🤣

[@ShortFatOtaku]

yeah i'm not actually an e-celeb

[@orirune3079]

@@ShortFatOtaku You're an e-celeb to me ❤

[@markgel9510]

12:20 shoot he mentioned Scott

[@ALulzyApprentice]

Lil Tay's brother knew what he was doing. Get this boy a proper MBA.

[@RachelRichards]

Please just don't put your children's images or videos on the internet. Every child deserves to have a private life. It's sad that the only people that will heed this message are those that already care very much for their children. The narcissistic, fame and money hungry parents see their children as means to an end.

[@Meladonessable]

Hopefully her career evaporates, she will never be a normal child and grow up all messed up, but over a long enough time line the abuse would have escalated. It would be another case of used and abused child star.