TV review If your vlog parents do not protect you, Tim Hofman will intervene
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What if parents leave their child in the bath for 24 hours? Or encourage their daughter to harass her brother for 24 hours? Or if parents taunt their daughter because she has to undergo an MRI scan in the hospital? Call child protection, I would say. But you can also subscribe to their YouTube channel and enjoy this children’s suffering.
In the new episode of ANGRY (NPO Start, YouTube) Tim Hofman takes vlog families such as the Bellingas and the bakers on the grain. The parents earn their money by filming for YouTube of the daily lives of their children. The largest five have 300,000 to 800,000 subscribers.
According to the experts who consults Hofman, there are major risks. It is child labor and privacy violation that can be accompanied by child abuse, a distorted self -image, all kinds of fears. The children no longer have a safe home port because the camera always runs. And the parents, who are supposed to protect their children, become their employers, with other interests.
To bind the viewers, the parents come up with challenges And other things to keep the videos exciting. For example, they make the children cry, they wake them up in the middle of the night, or they try to push them over the edge in a different way. In the comments under the videos, the children are confronted with a flood of hatred. Furthermore, they become the target of pedophiles who eagerly record recordings of children in swimwear, and children who play with sticky substances, preferably white.
Hofman asked the vlog families for a response. Only father Ruben Koet from the Koetlife canal speaks to Hofman, although I doubt that he knows that his telephone conversation will be in the broadcast. Koet finds the criticism nonsense because his children really like filming. He is « very busy with the well -being » of his children. He says about the hate comments and the dubious challenges: « They must also be able to handle something, they have to create thick skin. »
Shock of shock
When the vlog parents involved feel bad after this broadcast, they can look at Bad influence. This three -part Netflix documentary shows that it can be much worse. Bad influence Is about the case against the American vlog mother Tiffany Smith who earned millions with Youtube movies from her daughter Piper Rockelle. She created an entourage from other child fluencers to her daughter, whom she all let live together in her villa. They had to record videos for about fourteen hours a day.
Smith understood that sexualization could greatly increase the viewing figures, so they made crush videos in which Piper had to kiss with fake friends. The stylist was instructed to dress the young teenager ‘whoreer’: « She has to show more. » One of the mothers says that Smith used used underpants from Piper sold to viewers.
According to the parents of fled influencers, Smith led a shock of terror about the children where she also went sexually about the wrote. In a video you see the mother kissing a minor boy full on the mouth. Whoever fled the villa was hit by Smith’s hate campaigns.
In the US nor in the Netherlands, the government is doing something against exploiting children on YouTube and other social media. According to an expert in Bad influence This is a new and therefore unregulated area of the entertainment industry. State Secretary Jurgen Nobel (Participation and Integration, VVD) says in the broadcast that legislation is difficult because it concerns home videos. According to him, it is not clear whether it is about work or a hobby. Hint for Nobel: if you make money with it, the work is.
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