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Inside the world of 'kidfluencers' where children make thousands from social media — at a cost (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly that shit should be banned. It's the same fucking story over and over again - exploitative parents and a trail of slavering pedos

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How dare you call her exploitative! She explained social media and modeling in detail to her 4 year old who can barely speak and he clearly understood everything and consented! And if the kids change their mind later and decide the parents massively invaded their privacy, it's no big deal - everyone knows it's extremely easy to delete things from the internet forever! It's not like the exact same parents were also complaining about multiple people downloading photos of their children and then re-uploading them on websites and accounts outside of the parent's control...

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 7 points 5 months ago

I like how one of the mums pulls out this argument:

When we ask Kym whether she thinks she contributed to sexualising Bobbi, she says no.

"Do you watch the Olympics? They do gymnastics, they do swimming. Bobbi, a lot of the time, is more covered than that," she says.

"It's like telling a woman, 'You shouldn't go out in public dressed like that because you could get raped.'

Only difference is the olympians made an informed decision as adults to go to the olympics (I do agree that there are some sleezebags who try to make women's sport uniforms and rules overly sexualised), while you daughter had her account created at 7 and it was probably not explained what the consequences could be.