That might have been the second worst thing I heard. The first would be the guy who made a video showing how easy it is to not pay for cherries by buying just one and planting it. For the next, "a few weeks later" shot he had actually put a shoot of Parsley (whatever he had in the kitchen atm) into soil to prove his point.
Dangerous I can live with. What gets me are the fucking idiotic ones. Glasses falling off head? Hold them up by sticking a command strip to your forehead. My daughter likes watching pseudo-relaxing videos with me while she’s winding down for bed time and 5 minute crafts is one she likes. When that glasses/command strip hack came on she blurted “fucking seriously”. She was 8 at the time and had never sworn but I couldn’t even be mad at her because it really was the only correct response.
My kid dropped the word “fuck face” at 3 years old when his brother accidentally tripped him. I was floored, especially to find out he learned it from another 3 year old little girl. But was secretly impressed he used the right context.
We walked into the bathroom at in-n-out when my kid was like 4. Someone had thrown a receipt in the toilet and a bunch of paper towels and junk on the floor around the toilet. Inside I was like "what the fuck is wrong with people?" But I just said "oh, darn it!" She said "this is bullshit dad!" 🤣🤣🤣 I fucking died. The emphasis on bullshit, the correct context. I wasn't even mad.
I know a guy who works for him/his family and he said Ryan just wants to play video games but does other stuff because it’s a company and he’s the star. They do have a gaming channel now though.
They started out as *Ryan's Toy Reviews*, and it was as you'd expect, a young kid talking about and playing with toys. Then the parents starting shilling him to advertise for whomever, leading into their own line of shitty toys. Last I heard, they've stepped back from YouTube because Nickelodeon picked up the whole family for a tv show.
There’s masses of their shit toys with the kids face on them at Walmart. At least he’ll have a bunch of money. Hopefully if they don’t fuck him out of it somehow.
That family that adopted the Chinese kid, raised him for like 3-4 years, discovered he had disabilities, and "gave him away" so they could "find themselves" and help him lead a better life. Except the person they gave him to is now using him on Instagram for their own exposure and greed.
Worse, they knew from the beginning that he had disabilities. They specifically wanted to adopt a disabled child.
Sorry to hear Huxley fell into the hands of another social media attention seeker. He deserved better
Yup! They posted online before adopting him “what is a disability that seems hard to deal with but isn’t really?”
Just proves their motivations were never good.
They didn't *discover* he had disabilities. Myka actively sought out a disabled child to adopt for the clout of it all. There is record of her in mommy groups asking for Disabilities that were somewhat easy to deal with, but at the same time appeared difficult to outsiders. They were actively using this disabled toddler as a money maker; together the couple had like 4 or 5 YouTube channels.
They actively adopted a child who was no only Autistic, but also had some other delays and disorders. And as an Autistic woman myself the way they treated him was *abhorrent*. They quite literally duck taped his hands so he couldn't chew/suck on his fingers to stim/self sooth. They got mad when he didn't understand them, even though he was a toddler who clearly didn't know English. The dad would always complain that the child was "staring at him" when they ate.
They would even put him to bed extremely early and have 3-4 hours of "Family Time" with their other kids. During his meltdowns, usually caused by overstimulation, they'd get in his face (on camera) and start saying things like, "Are you done yet?". And when they decided to "rehome him", they went on a vacation without him after giving him up. And the police actively looked for him with social services because *no one knew where the child was*.
Im from Ohio, albeit a different part than they live, but even a year after it happened my college social work professor was using them as an example of people who shouldn't of ever been allowed to adopt.
I live on reddit, YouTube and the internet in general and I have no idea who any of these people are either. It is very weird to me how out of touch I am with a certain younger demographic.
When I taught Calculus at a major university last year, not only did the kids play games during my class that I did not recognize at all (as an avid gamer) but when doing a related rate problem involving StarCraft, I asked who knows what StarCraft is and one student raised their hand so I asked who DOESNT know what StarCraft is and 500 students put their hand up.
Pretty sure he's gone from at least youtube now. The right Opinion on youtube has a 3 video explanation of that whole fiasco. Time warning though, its long.
Yeah it’s kinda sad, he makes TikToks and they can’t even peak like 2K views and they usually get abt 20 likes with most of the comments being “ok groomer” or something to that effect. He calls it “hate from snowflakes” but like, he’s talking to a wall cos no one is ever agreeing with him lolll
Those couples who "prank" each other by pretending to cheat or use fake pregnancy tests, or pretend to break up on camera etc. Yet they're being praised as perfect couples? It annoys the absolute hell out of me.
Eugenia Cooney and Nick Avocado. Both are polar opposites when it comes to their unhealthy lifestyles, but both promote poor body images to impressionable youth. I wish for them to seek help and recovery daily.
Basically all of those "life Hack" channel's. A majority of them are telling people do things that are extremely dangerous and will likely put people in the hospital or kill them.
Yet Youtube and Facebook just keep allowing them to exist.
Anne Reardon from YT channel how to cook that also reaponds to things her fans send her and has videos talking about it. She even had a video about the fractal wood burning and how its killed a lot of people. YT took it down but after her and her fans protested they put it back up. She is really great. Here is her fractal wood burning video. https://youtu.be/wzosDKcXQ0I she also speaks out about how messed up YT policies are and how they hurt people making genuine videos
Wasn’t one of her videos removed when she was documenting and warning people about one of the most dangerous “crafts” that involved, I don’t remember exactly, but something like using electricity to do wood burning? It’s a “trick” that has an actual death toll - dozens of people have electrocuted themselves trying it, not to speak of people who tried it but weren’t linked to the YouTube trend, or “merely” got a shock instead of dying.
And then YouTube removed HER video exposing the risk, but left up the videos saying “hey kids! Try this at home!”
I love her videos. Definitely a champion in this regard and especially cool for her very wise take on the promotion of often-times dangerous (like... physically) content. Her video on the lightning pattern in wood thing comes to mind.
Now when my friends show me "life hacks" they found on TikTok, I cringe inside. I always tell them to be extra careful!
That's not a person, that's a definitely not shady ~~Russian~~ Cypriot company with ties to Russia which mass-produces this kind of throwaway to nonsensical clickbait content across more than a hundred channels in at least eight languages. They are one of the biggest companies creating content primarily for Youtube.
Source: [documentary video by a trustworthy German Youtuber who is an OG from the time when you couldn't make money with Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tFO-7syXI)
I don't know who this family is, but in general I think the kids of influencers should, at minimum, be protected by the same laws child actors are. Limited work hours, and having a portion of earnings put away in a trust.
I really hate the way these kids have their private business blasted for clout and cash. I keep my kid's social media presence very low key - the occasional non-public pic, and never embarrassing or overly intimate. Like, "we went to the park today," not, "here's a gross thing that happened during potty training."
Think about it this way though.
Macaulay Culkin (of Home Alone fame) became super famous for playing Kevin McCallister a FICTIONAL CHARACTER that has nothing to do with his own personal life. He was on a set surrounded by adults as he pretended to be “Home Alone”
Meanwhile a child of an influencer is famous for being THEMSELVES as their full real legal name. They don’t get to act or separate themselves from that! A title of a video could be “We Made Our Kids Think They Were Home Alone!!!” And then that kid could get famous for ACTUALLY BELIEVING and ACTUALLY CRYING that their real life parents left them home alone!
Acting vs Trauma
It shouldn’t be protected under the same laws it should be illegal
I think the point of that comment is really that a child influencer can *never* have the same protections as a child actor due to the nature of their job. There is no way that you can adequately protect a child influencer.
Ive been thinking about this for an hour now and yeah, i cant think of anything that would adequately protect them when the nature of the job is so conducive to exploitation. When your boss can ground you, things get weird.
Honestly, any family vlogging channel that involves kids. They're all exploitative.
When these kids become adults, we're gonna see some pretty drastic changes unfold in the wake of major exposes and lawsuits.
While I hope—and cannot wait—to see these kids put their parents on blast, go NC, and/or take them to court, I’m honestly terrified to see the mental health repercussions we may see from many of these kids when they are teens/young adults
It feels like we are awaiting the results of some really fucked up longitudinal study
Used to be a nanny for a family like this. It was like they had children just for internet points. I felt so bad for the kids and the weird stuff they’d have to go through.
Indifferent. They weren’t abusive or anything but it was clear they didn’t care for the child raising part. If it wasn’t for internet point they didn’t care.
It probably worked out better for social media because those kids wanted nothing more than their parents love and attention. So they’d do anything to get it.
>those kids wanted nothing more than their parents love and attention.
Fuck, that made me tear up. To get *my* love and attention, my son has to simply exist.
Exactly. I owe him love and support, he owes me NOTHING. I made the choice to have him, I owe him the best life I can give him, that shouldn’t be contingent on what he can do for me.
I follow them on Instagram but that’s it. I was working too much. They paid well actually but I still came in early and stayed late just so the children knew they were loved.
At one point they even offered me a room because I was there so muchZ
I mean kids are doing ok. Healthy, good education and care. But nothing can replace a parents love.
Makes sense. No kid in their right mind would find it cool to go to YT to start a family channel, so probably often inherently driven by dominant parents.
I lost more braincells than I would've imagined when they claimed their pronouns were Kor/ean. One guy on Twitter commented on that by saying, "Kor lost ean mind."
Not only does he think he looks Korean, but he thinks he looks like a Korean man known for being extremely attractive. Yikes. Double dose of being out of touch with reality.
She gets paid to make fetish content. Her mom doesn’t have to do anything to enable that.
There was a livestream where she kept “accidentally” flashing her panties to the camera and every 10-15 minutes she’d make a show of struggling to move a chest.
It’s disgusting.
This was my first thought too.
I know you cannot help anyone with an eating disorder until they decide they want to help themselves and she clearly isn’t interested in getting that help and her mother is no better (I know EC is in her 20’s). If you want to make money off of your own eating disorder and feed (excuse the pun) the fetishists out there than so be it but do it on an adult only site where kids cannot be influenced.
I have seen a couple of her videos (I get them recommended to me randomly on YouTube) and it’s so upsetting to see the state she’s in. I am legitimately surprised that she is still alive.
Honestly same. I always just hope she recovers. I know a girl who gained an eating disorder at the age of 14 because she watched her videos.
Edit: This person has also stopped watching the videos and has been through therapy. They are much healthier now because they took the suggestions from the people around them who love them and cared about their well being. If only Eugenia could stick to that.
I find the comments on her video exhausting. Everyone is screaming at her to get help but it's obvious she doesn't want it. I used to be bulimic for 10 years and I can tell you, if you don't want to change no amount of pressure is going to get you to seek help. Her followers need to understand that this women doesn't want help.
And I’ve heard from other survivors of acute eating disorders that all these comments, praise, concern, and hate, all feed her disorder. They’re all triggers, and are sought out to maintain their ED. It’s so horribly sad. And people talk about her being evil for what she’s doing but really, she hasn’t been in control for most of her adult life. It’s so heartbreaking. I think the best thing people can do for her is ignore her. I’m glad you found your way out of your illness 💜
She is, and she’s one of the few on this list that probably needs to ‘disappear’ from the public eye for her own best interest rather than because she’s done something awful. But she’s built her life and income out of it so I doubt that will happen. I just hope she gets the support she needs and makes it through adulthood safely because she seems like she is struggling often.
I read all the other comments below and thought this was about Chris Chann, skateboarder and YouTuber. Needless to say I was in shock for about 5 minutes until I googled with the correct spelling.
Dude I was so confused until I read this comment. I was like how is he like this… he always seems so wholesome from what I’ve seen, especially bringing his family with him to battle at the berrics. This all makes so much more sense now.
I knew a bit about Chris Chan before that, but man, that story gets depressing. One of those commenters from Something awful was really on point about the child naïveté clashing so hard against their understanding of what being an adult is.
I’m still reeling from the realization that it’s not an act in those videos, he’s really just a broken human being that’s eating himself to death for money.
Is this the dude who was stick thin, now huge and videos himself and him with other huge people eating huge amounts of food for huge amounts of money?…. Oh and huge amount of depression?
I still find it very interesting that he claims its all a social experiment. He claimed it was all intentional, he is completely aware of how bad it looks, and that is the whole point.
Reminds me of the guys who made Bumfights claiming they were using satire to raise awareness. I'll admit they succeeded in showing how vulnerable homeless people are and how shockingly numerous they are, especially in certain places, but it was much more by accident than by design.
He has an asshole the size of a rhinoceros'.
Someone linked what I thought was something else and just blasted me with it.
I wish it was just a Rick roll like usual, but nope.
Yes! I came here to mention her. It’s so upsetting to see her killing herself :( (I know this Nickocado guy is as well, by doing the opposite. But based on what I’ve seen, her life is in much more immediate danger than his is)
>her life is in much more immediate danger than his is
That's the reality with these things — not eating will always kill you faster than eating too much. People are like "Why do people rag on Eugenia and not fat people for their weight?" and the answer is that Eugenia is dying much faster. Nickocado has many years of life ahead of him before he might die of complications from his diet, but Eugenia could drop dead quite literally any day now. She could die mid livestream, and no one would be shocked.
It's frankly devastating how people's lives can be completely overtaken by something as simple as food. The worst part of it is that food is something we all need. It's not like drugs where you can remove it from your life and avoid triggers. With ED recovery, you have to face the thing that has been your biggest enemy every day, multiple times a day, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's exceedingly difficult to recover from an ED, and the people who have have developed incredible mental resilience.
When you're as exhausted and worn out as Nick and Eugenia, it's hard to find the energy and resilience to face your enemy every day. And so they just don't.
Anorexia is also the most difficult of the eating disorders to recover from, and tends to have the lowest rates of recovery and highest rate of mortality. Not saying it's impossible, but it is a tough, tough battle.
My ex used to watch her "oh she's awful, she walks the line but never gets cancelled, she's making so much money how is that possible?" etc. It's possible because you're watching her. She makes tonnes of money so no one's shutting her down unless it gets to legal issues level. Just ignore her.
The more people rage watch the worse she's going to get because it makes her more money.
IIRC, Onision let a 16-year-old girl move in with him (when he was, like, 30), had her live with him for years, and had sex with her the day she turned 18. Really scummy behavior and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Chris Hansen (yes, the Dateline guy who catches pdos) came in and tried to have him apprehended for that + a bunch of other stuff.
Don't forget his private discord where he encouraged 12 year old girls to send him their underwear selfies so he could tell them how attractive they are for "body positivity."
The Right Opinion has a three-part video series about him and everything he's done. I had already been exposed to quite a lot of it beforehand so I was aware of how problematic Onision really is but watching that series really made it easy to properly comprehend and take in. The fact that all three parts are over an hour long each should tell you something.
Onision I've heard of because he pissed off Linkara, but I haven't the slightest clue who he is.
Edit: mixed him up with OneyPlays. I don't think the other two ever had anything between them. My mistake.
A fairly popular YouTuber from the late 2000s to the early 2010s, but he fell into a lot of controversy over the years, the big ones being allegations of abuse from former partners and allegations of grooming minors. That pretty much only scratches the surface with him. Plenty of videos on this guy go into more detail if you're interested.
My first exposure to her was the video of her showing a black ragdoll and using the N-word as an acronym to spell out positive traits, like, "N is for nice, I is for intelligent," and summing it up with how that makes the N-word OK to say. What the what!
As a representative of the Nobel Prize committee. Congratulations, you have been nominated. However, we regret to inform you that you did not submit the paperwork in time and are now disqualified.
I think the worst she's ever done was saying that the 9/11 attacks were a good thing because a lot of meat eaters died in the world trade center.
This has to just be for attention at this point, no one in their right mind would say something like that
I wish that were the case. The dude is like a cockroach and has enough followers that he’s just going to be in the spotlight no matter what. He can behave like an absolute dick and doesn’t stop being relevant. So I think unfortunately losing a boxing match wouldn’t do it either.
He’s incredibly strange that guy.. I thought he was just mentally Ill or depressed or down shit, but then I saw a clip of this multimillion dollar suite he got where he talked about how he enjoyed watching poor people suffer from the window.
Fucked up man.
The whole 5 minutes crafts company for creating complete dangerous lies non stop
I saw them plant banana seeds once.
That might have been the second worst thing I heard. The first would be the guy who made a video showing how easy it is to not pay for cherries by buying just one and planting it. For the next, "a few weeks later" shot he had actually put a shoot of Parsley (whatever he had in the kitchen atm) into soil to prove his point.
Spoon not working? Don’t flip it over to the correct side, **use a fucking hammer, that should work.**
Dangerous I can live with. What gets me are the fucking idiotic ones. Glasses falling off head? Hold them up by sticking a command strip to your forehead. My daughter likes watching pseudo-relaxing videos with me while she’s winding down for bed time and 5 minute crafts is one she likes. When that glasses/command strip hack came on she blurted “fucking seriously”. She was 8 at the time and had never sworn but I couldn’t even be mad at her because it really was the only correct response.
My kid dropped the word “fuck face” at 3 years old when his brother accidentally tripped him. I was floored, especially to find out he learned it from another 3 year old little girl. But was secretly impressed he used the right context.
We walked into the bathroom at in-n-out when my kid was like 4. Someone had thrown a receipt in the toilet and a bunch of paper towels and junk on the floor around the toilet. Inside I was like "what the fuck is wrong with people?" But I just said "oh, darn it!" She said "this is bullshit dad!" 🤣🤣🤣 I fucking died. The emphasis on bullshit, the correct context. I wasn't even mad.
Isn’t Onision’s channel pretty much dead? I don’t think he’s getting millions of views anymore
He's still a big piece of shit, that needs to be shot of into the sun.
This is very true! Surprised he still has a channel tbh
I'm surprised he's not in jail tbh
Andrew Tate
The guy on tiktok sticking his tongue out when eating something Edit jkocic on tiktok papikocic.1 on instagram
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Anyone that uses their kids for likes and views. Adults may bug me but they can make their own decisions, kids can’t.
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I know a guy who works for him/his family and he said Ryan just wants to play video games but does other stuff because it’s a company and he’s the star. They do have a gaming channel now though.
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They started out as *Ryan's Toy Reviews*, and it was as you'd expect, a young kid talking about and playing with toys. Then the parents starting shilling him to advertise for whomever, leading into their own line of shitty toys. Last I heard, they've stepped back from YouTube because Nickelodeon picked up the whole family for a tv show.
Oh good, the network that someone just wrote a whole book about being a hellscape
Which book? The one by McCurdy?
Yep
There’s masses of their shit toys with the kids face on them at Walmart. At least he’ll have a bunch of money. Hopefully if they don’t fuck him out of it somehow.
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That family that adopted the Chinese kid, raised him for like 3-4 years, discovered he had disabilities, and "gave him away" so they could "find themselves" and help him lead a better life. Except the person they gave him to is now using him on Instagram for their own exposure and greed.
The stauffers are the ones you are thinking of. Specifically Myka Stauffer
Weren't they the ones who duct taped his thumbs so he'd stop thumb sucking?
Yes, but allowed their bio child to suck her thumb.
Wtf
Worse, they knew from the beginning that he had disabilities. They specifically wanted to adopt a disabled child. Sorry to hear Huxley fell into the hands of another social media attention seeker. He deserved better
This should be illegal
If I'm thinking of the same family. They knew his disabilities beforehand but thought it wouldn't be too much to handle..it became too much to handle.
Yup! They posted online before adopting him “what is a disability that seems hard to deal with but isn’t really?” Just proves their motivations were never good.
IIRC the boy also was diagnosed with a brain tumour when they adopted him.
Myka Stauffer and her husband. They still make money on their YouTube channel "Stauffer Garage," as it's not well known they're the sane family.
They didn't *discover* he had disabilities. Myka actively sought out a disabled child to adopt for the clout of it all. There is record of her in mommy groups asking for Disabilities that were somewhat easy to deal with, but at the same time appeared difficult to outsiders. They were actively using this disabled toddler as a money maker; together the couple had like 4 or 5 YouTube channels. They actively adopted a child who was no only Autistic, but also had some other delays and disorders. And as an Autistic woman myself the way they treated him was *abhorrent*. They quite literally duck taped his hands so he couldn't chew/suck on his fingers to stim/self sooth. They got mad when he didn't understand them, even though he was a toddler who clearly didn't know English. The dad would always complain that the child was "staring at him" when they ate. They would even put him to bed extremely early and have 3-4 hours of "Family Time" with their other kids. During his meltdowns, usually caused by overstimulation, they'd get in his face (on camera) and start saying things like, "Are you done yet?". And when they decided to "rehome him", they went on a vacation without him after giving him up. And the police actively looked for him with social services because *no one knew where the child was*. Im from Ohio, albeit a different part than they live, but even a year after it happened my college social work professor was using them as an example of people who shouldn't of ever been allowed to adopt.
Ace Family
I take a little pride in not knowing who any of these people are, yet I am on the internet most of the day.
Same. Ace Family is currently the top two answers and I have no idea who they are, and I never care to learn.
Seems like they are some youtuber family... Which in itself sounds pretty bad.
I live on reddit, YouTube and the internet in general and I have no idea who any of these people are either. It is very weird to me how out of touch I am with a certain younger demographic. When I taught Calculus at a major university last year, not only did the kids play games during my class that I did not recognize at all (as an avid gamer) but when doing a related rate problem involving StarCraft, I asked who knows what StarCraft is and one student raised their hand so I asked who DOESNT know what StarCraft is and 500 students put their hand up.
Is Onision still a thing? If so he needed to disappear about a decade ago.
Pretty sure he's gone from at least youtube now. The right Opinion on youtube has a 3 video explanation of that whole fiasco. Time warning though, its long.
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Yeah it’s kinda sad, he makes TikToks and they can’t even peak like 2K views and they usually get abt 20 likes with most of the comments being “ok groomer” or something to that effect. He calls it “hate from snowflakes” but like, he’s talking to a wall cos no one is ever agreeing with him lolll
Those couples who "prank" each other by pretending to cheat or use fake pregnancy tests, or pretend to break up on camera etc. Yet they're being praised as perfect couples? It annoys the absolute hell out of me.
Eugenia Cooney and Nick Avocado. Both are polar opposites when it comes to their unhealthy lifestyles, but both promote poor body images to impressionable youth. I wish for them to seek help and recovery daily.
Basically all of those "life Hack" channel's. A majority of them are telling people do things that are extremely dangerous and will likely put people in the hospital or kill them. Yet Youtube and Facebook just keep allowing them to exist.
Anne Reardon from YT channel how to cook that also reaponds to things her fans send her and has videos talking about it. She even had a video about the fractal wood burning and how its killed a lot of people. YT took it down but after her and her fans protested they put it back up. She is really great. Here is her fractal wood burning video. https://youtu.be/wzosDKcXQ0I she also speaks out about how messed up YT policies are and how they hurt people making genuine videos
She's done so much consistently good work at combating those hack videos, shame they don't gain as much traction as they should.
Does 5 Minute Crafts count as a famous internet person?
Anne Reardon has a whole series of videos debunking fake and often dangerous "craft" videos and 5 Minutes Crafts is a frequent topic in her videos
Anne Reardon is a treasure, I love her videos.
Wasn’t one of her videos removed when she was documenting and warning people about one of the most dangerous “crafts” that involved, I don’t remember exactly, but something like using electricity to do wood burning? It’s a “trick” that has an actual death toll - dozens of people have electrocuted themselves trying it, not to speak of people who tried it but weren’t linked to the YouTube trend, or “merely” got a shock instead of dying. And then YouTube removed HER video exposing the risk, but left up the videos saying “hey kids! Try this at home!”
You know who needs more support for her exposure of how awful 5 Minute Crafts is? Anne Reardon. Look her up on YouTube, her videos are fantastic.
I love her videos. Definitely a champion in this regard and especially cool for her very wise take on the promotion of often-times dangerous (like... physically) content. Her video on the lightning pattern in wood thing comes to mind. Now when my friends show me "life hacks" they found on TikTok, I cringe inside. I always tell them to be extra careful!
That's not a person, that's a definitely not shady ~~Russian~~ Cypriot company with ties to Russia which mass-produces this kind of throwaway to nonsensical clickbait content across more than a hundred channels in at least eight languages. They are one of the biggest companies creating content primarily for Youtube. Source: [documentary video by a trustworthy German Youtuber who is an OG from the time when you couldn't make money with Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tFO-7syXI)
So Baby Shark IS psychological warfare. I knew it.
Addison Raes dad
Just saw he was trying to start beef with Yung Gravy, we can't be having that. Gravy's response is golden.
I saw that. If words could kill Gravy delivered a fatality.
ace family. Using kids for money is the worst shit any parents could have done
I don't know who this family is, but in general I think the kids of influencers should, at minimum, be protected by the same laws child actors are. Limited work hours, and having a portion of earnings put away in a trust. I really hate the way these kids have their private business blasted for clout and cash. I keep my kid's social media presence very low key - the occasional non-public pic, and never embarrassing or overly intimate. Like, "we went to the park today," not, "here's a gross thing that happened during potty training."
Think about it this way though. Macaulay Culkin (of Home Alone fame) became super famous for playing Kevin McCallister a FICTIONAL CHARACTER that has nothing to do with his own personal life. He was on a set surrounded by adults as he pretended to be “Home Alone” Meanwhile a child of an influencer is famous for being THEMSELVES as their full real legal name. They don’t get to act or separate themselves from that! A title of a video could be “We Made Our Kids Think They Were Home Alone!!!” And then that kid could get famous for ACTUALLY BELIEVING and ACTUALLY CRYING that their real life parents left them home alone! Acting vs Trauma It shouldn’t be protected under the same laws it should be illegal
Good point. Influencer kids are less protected than actors. Which is why, at minimum, they should be as protected as actors.
I think the point of that comment is really that a child influencer can *never* have the same protections as a child actor due to the nature of their job. There is no way that you can adequately protect a child influencer.
The only way to protect a child influencer is to make it legally prohibitive to be one in the first place.
Ive been thinking about this for an hour now and yeah, i cant think of anything that would adequately protect them when the nature of the job is so conducive to exploitation. When your boss can ground you, things get weird.
Honestly, any family vlogging channel that involves kids. They're all exploitative. When these kids become adults, we're gonna see some pretty drastic changes unfold in the wake of major exposes and lawsuits.
While I hope—and cannot wait—to see these kids put their parents on blast, go NC, and/or take them to court, I’m honestly terrified to see the mental health repercussions we may see from many of these kids when they are teens/young adults It feels like we are awaiting the results of some really fucked up longitudinal study
Used to be a nanny for a family like this. It was like they had children just for internet points. I felt so bad for the kids and the weird stuff they’d have to go through.
How did they treat their kids at home? If you don't mind answering.
Indifferent. They weren’t abusive or anything but it was clear they didn’t care for the child raising part. If it wasn’t for internet point they didn’t care. It probably worked out better for social media because those kids wanted nothing more than their parents love and attention. So they’d do anything to get it.
>those kids wanted nothing more than their parents love and attention. Fuck, that made me tear up. To get *my* love and attention, my son has to simply exist.
Exactly. I owe him love and support, he owes me NOTHING. I made the choice to have him, I owe him the best life I can give him, that shouldn’t be contingent on what he can do for me.
Fuck man. I tried to explain this to my father when I was younger but he just didn’t care. Always acted like I owed him something as a child
Are you still in touch with them? Have their kids said something to you about family issues?
I follow them on Instagram but that’s it. I was working too much. They paid well actually but I still came in early and stayed late just so the children knew they were loved. At one point they even offered me a room because I was there so muchZ I mean kids are doing ok. Healthy, good education and care. But nothing can replace a parents love.
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The LaBrant family, too.
Any channel with “family” in the name probably
Makes sense. No kid in their right mind would find it cool to go to YT to start a family channel, so probably often inherently driven by dominant parents.
I second the Labrant family.
And every family blog channel trying to get views with shit like ’we called chuck e cheese at 3AM!’ And ‘Among us in real life gone wrong!?’
Don't forget all the tags after like OMG! and GONE SEXUAL!?!!?!!?!
And tons of emojis and red circles in the thumbnail.
*the red circle shows where the SEXUAL is*
"We called Chuck E. Cheese at 3am!" And got the automated recording that plays when they're closed? What about it?
They call a friend who is listed as Chuck E Cheese in their contacts and pretend like it's a Five Nights at Freddy's thing
those family youtube channel should get shutdown, it's disgusting
Oli London.
Oil London terrifies me so much 😭 Like does he really think he looks Korean rather than something out of uncanny valley
I lost more braincells than I would've imagined when they claimed their pronouns were Kor/ean. One guy on Twitter commented on that by saying, "Kor lost ean mind."
Not only does he think he looks Korean, but he thinks he looks like a Korean man known for being extremely attractive. Yikes. Double dose of being out of touch with reality.
Andrew Tate. Teaching young men to disrespect and abuse women. Horrible dude.
Eugenia Cooney needs to get off the internet asap
Eugenia is similar to Nikocado. We're just watching someone slowly kill themselves for internet views.
The same and yet polar opposites. One eating themselves to death the other starving themselves to death.
The internet has only enabled her, she’s needed help for far too long.
She wouldn't get it off the internet either since her mom seems to be enabling her just as bad as the internet.
She gets paid to make fetish content. Her mom doesn’t have to do anything to enable that. There was a livestream where she kept “accidentally” flashing her panties to the camera and every 10-15 minutes she’d make a show of struggling to move a chest. It’s disgusting.
This was my first thought too. I know you cannot help anyone with an eating disorder until they decide they want to help themselves and she clearly isn’t interested in getting that help and her mother is no better (I know EC is in her 20’s). If you want to make money off of your own eating disorder and feed (excuse the pun) the fetishists out there than so be it but do it on an adult only site where kids cannot be influenced.
I have seen a couple of her videos (I get them recommended to me randomly on YouTube) and it’s so upsetting to see the state she’s in. I am legitimately surprised that she is still alive.
I morbidly check her out every 6 months to see if she died or recovered
Honestly same. I always just hope she recovers. I know a girl who gained an eating disorder at the age of 14 because she watched her videos. Edit: This person has also stopped watching the videos and has been through therapy. They are much healthier now because they took the suggestions from the people around them who love them and cared about their well being. If only Eugenia could stick to that.
I find the comments on her video exhausting. Everyone is screaming at her to get help but it's obvious she doesn't want it. I used to be bulimic for 10 years and I can tell you, if you don't want to change no amount of pressure is going to get you to seek help. Her followers need to understand that this women doesn't want help.
And I’ve heard from other survivors of acute eating disorders that all these comments, praise, concern, and hate, all feed her disorder. They’re all triggers, and are sought out to maintain their ED. It’s so horribly sad. And people talk about her being evil for what she’s doing but really, she hasn’t been in control for most of her adult life. It’s so heartbreaking. I think the best thing people can do for her is ignore her. I’m glad you found your way out of your illness 💜
Literally every family youtube channel
Gabbie Hanna
but what if im the MONSTAAAAAAA
MONSTAAA^AAAA
Well, is she still around? I haven't heard of her in a while.
She is, and she’s one of the few on this list that probably needs to ‘disappear’ from the public eye for her own best interest rather than because she’s done something awful. But she’s built her life and income out of it so I doubt that will happen. I just hope she gets the support she needs and makes it through adulthood safely because she seems like she is struggling often.
Chris Chan, because no one deserves that life.
I read all the other comments below and thought this was about Chris Chann, skateboarder and YouTuber. Needless to say I was in shock for about 5 minutes until I googled with the correct spelling.
Dude I was so confused until I read this comment. I was like how is he like this… he always seems so wholesome from what I’ve seen, especially bringing his family with him to battle at the berrics. This all makes so much more sense now.
Realistically Chris probably is “going away” due to their legal issues
The Behind the Bastards on Chris Chan was a sad march from one terrible thing to another.
I knew a bit about Chris Chan before that, but man, that story gets depressing. One of those commenters from Something awful was really on point about the child naïveté clashing so hard against their understanding of what being an adult is.
Nikocado Avocado. Somebody get that poor man off the internet and into a therapist's office.
I’m still reeling from the realization that it’s not an act in those videos, he’s really just a broken human being that’s eating himself to death for money.
Is this the dude who was stick thin, now huge and videos himself and him with other huge people eating huge amounts of food for huge amounts of money?…. Oh and huge amount of depression?
The more I hear about this guy, the more I pit him. He's honestly the perfect example of how fame and money at all costs can make you miserable.
Now from your post I have to assume it’s unintentional, but mixing up pity and pit with someone called avocado is pretty funny
Damn, wish I could claim that as my own idea!
I still find it very interesting that he claims its all a social experiment. He claimed it was all intentional, he is completely aware of how bad it looks, and that is the whole point.
Sounds like someone lying to himself.
And even if it's not a lie, it's still extremely physically and psychologically unhealthy for do to himself.
Reminds me of the guys who made Bumfights claiming they were using satire to raise awareness. I'll admit they succeeded in showing how vulnerable homeless people are and how shockingly numerous they are, especially in certain places, but it was much more by accident than by design.
YMS explained this guy's behavior as a result of a living out a sexual fantasy/fetish. It makes sense, guys. Nikacado knows what he's doing.
Of course he does. If he didn't, he wouldn't post explicit content on OnlyFans.
He... he does? Oh not this time morbid curiosity. Not this fucking time. Edit: for the love of christ would you stop describing what it looks like
He has an asshole the size of a rhinoceros'. Someone linked what I thought was something else and just blasted me with it. I wish it was just a Rick roll like usual, but nope.
However bad you think it is I assure you it's worse.
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I saw that guy’s asshole one time It was fucking terrible, idk if I ever recovered
What were you expecting to see when you went on his onlyfans?
No answer I give is an acceptable, valid answer.
And eugenia
Yes! I came here to mention her. It’s so upsetting to see her killing herself :( (I know this Nickocado guy is as well, by doing the opposite. But based on what I’ve seen, her life is in much more immediate danger than his is)
>her life is in much more immediate danger than his is That's the reality with these things — not eating will always kill you faster than eating too much. People are like "Why do people rag on Eugenia and not fat people for their weight?" and the answer is that Eugenia is dying much faster. Nickocado has many years of life ahead of him before he might die of complications from his diet, but Eugenia could drop dead quite literally any day now. She could die mid livestream, and no one would be shocked. It's frankly devastating how people's lives can be completely overtaken by something as simple as food. The worst part of it is that food is something we all need. It's not like drugs where you can remove it from your life and avoid triggers. With ED recovery, you have to face the thing that has been your biggest enemy every day, multiple times a day, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's exceedingly difficult to recover from an ED, and the people who have have developed incredible mental resilience. When you're as exhausted and worn out as Nick and Eugenia, it's hard to find the energy and resilience to face your enemy every day. And so they just don't.
Can she actually recover from this point, or would she have damaged her body beyond repair? Watching her videos is quite upsetting.
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Anorexia is also the most difficult of the eating disorders to recover from, and tends to have the lowest rates of recovery and highest rate of mortality. Not saying it's impossible, but it is a tough, tough battle.
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Lead is pretty easy to pronounce. Is that safe?
arsenic and mercury are also pretty easy to pronounce. yummy!
I can pronounce "methamphetamine," by her logic that means it can go in my food.
That is why I have Ketamine in my food. I don't feel so good...
I thought you mean Food ***Science*** Babe for a second, who is bascially the antithesis of this
Food *Science* Babe needs the spotlight. She debunks common food misconceptions.
WOACB Katie Joy.
Damn I'm old 🤦🏾♂️ Who are these people?!?!
TIL that I don't follow people who are internet famous. I am okay with that.
Thank fuck, I didn’t recognize a single name in this thread apart from Jake Paul. And that’s bad enough as it is.
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I follow a tiktok channel called contradictions of Trish and holy hell she can't keep a story straight.
My ex used to watch her "oh she's awful, she walks the line but never gets cancelled, she's making so much money how is that possible?" etc. It's possible because you're watching her. She makes tonnes of money so no one's shutting her down unless it gets to legal issues level. Just ignore her. The more people rage watch the worse she's going to get because it makes her more money.
Onision and shane dawson
Never heard of Onision so had to google. In the ‘people also search for’ I get Chris Hansen lol That can’t be good, right?
IIRC, Onision let a 16-year-old girl move in with him (when he was, like, 30), had her live with him for years, and had sex with her the day she turned 18. Really scummy behavior and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Chris Hansen (yes, the Dateline guy who catches pdos) came in and tried to have him apprehended for that + a bunch of other stuff.
Don't forget his private discord where he encouraged 12 year old girls to send him their underwear selfies so he could tell them how attractive they are for "body positivity."
The Right Opinion has a three-part video series about him and everything he's done. I had already been exposed to quite a lot of it beforehand so I was aware of how problematic Onision really is but watching that series really made it easy to properly comprehend and take in. The fact that all three parts are over an hour long each should tell you something.
Onision I've heard of because he pissed off Linkara, but I haven't the slightest clue who he is. Edit: mixed him up with OneyPlays. I don't think the other two ever had anything between them. My mistake.
He used to be famous for a song about bananas, but now he's famous for having young fans move in with him.
A fairly popular YouTuber from the late 2000s to the early 2010s, but he fell into a lot of controversy over the years, the big ones being allegations of abuse from former partners and allegations of grooming minors. That pretty much only scratches the surface with him. Plenty of videos on this guy go into more detail if you're interested.
james charles, a literal predator
James Charles
Everything about that guy just screams urgh!
That Vegan Teacher
My first exposure to her was the video of her showing a black ragdoll and using the N-word as an acronym to spell out positive traits, like, "N is for nice, I is for intelligent," and summing it up with how that makes the N-word OK to say. What the what!
Racism is fixed now, where's my Nobel prize?
As a representative of the Nobel Prize committee. Congratulations, you have been nominated. However, we regret to inform you that you did not submit the paperwork in time and are now disqualified.
I think the worst she's ever done was saying that the 9/11 attacks were a good thing because a lot of meat eaters died in the world trade center. This has to just be for attention at this point, no one in their right mind would say something like that
oh fuck yes, what a horrid woman.
She’s my one exception to the “not calling people crusty old bitches” rule.
Keemstar
I fucking hate that guy. dudes like 40 and trying to stir teenage internet drama
It's the easiest way to make money on youtube when you don't actually create anything.
precisely. keemstar makes money because being hated gets views
EDP445. He just can’t accept that he got exposed
"Even before this weight loss shit, I never was a huge cupcake eater" -EDP before the exposure.
The inventor of the pink sauce
Someone should have gone back in time and stopped them
Eugenia Cooney, and the family that are enabling and profiting off her extreme and life threatening illness.
Trisha Paytas & James Charles..
Jake Paul
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All he needs to do is fight one actual, current, ranked boxer, and we'll never hear from him again.
I wish that were the case. The dude is like a cockroach and has enough followers that he’s just going to be in the spotlight no matter what. He can behave like an absolute dick and doesn’t stop being relevant. So I think unfortunately losing a boxing match wouldn’t do it either.
It was more of a tongue-in-cheek joke that if he actually fought someone worth a shit, he'd never be able to speak again.
Amberlynn Reid
Hey didn't expect to see our gorl name dropped
Andrew Tate, Fresh & Fit, both of the Paul brothers, any redpilled douchebag spouting misogyny and hate toward women.
Andrew tate
That avocado cunt
He’s incredibly strange that guy.. I thought he was just mentally Ill or depressed or down shit, but then I saw a clip of this multimillion dollar suite he got where he talked about how he enjoyed watching poor people suffer from the window. Fucked up man.
Someone who sits and watches others suffering for their own pleasure is not a mentally healthy person.
Nickocado Avocado
This is how I know I’m old… I don’t know 90% of the names on here besides kardashians and Andrew Tate. I just turned 33…..