You are essentially child traffickers if you do this, IMO. Pedos love that stuff according to a shrink friend of mine. Consider that: You think you're getting likes, but it's from *pedophiles*. Let kids be PEOPLE not PROPS

i hate family vloggers with a burning passion.

I don't understand how this is even legal. You don't own your children. Don't they have a right to privacy?

How is this any different from Child Beauty Pageants?? Just because it's in your house it's somehow okay?? You are shilling your kids out to make money! It's the same level of exploitative greed and approval/attention seeking for yourself and no one else. Ugh.

Why would any mentally stable person even be interested in the day to day goings on of another family? Sounds voyeuristic and boring to me.

I've always thought those were gross and just reaffirms my belief. Monetizing your children like this is just kind of perverse. No better than kiddie beauty pageants.

This is so toxic and creepy. Parents valued likes and attention from strangers over their kids mental health. I know that making money this "easy" way can be tempting, but really? Didn't they realize what they did to their children? Op said they regret it and they won't start vlogging again, but I find it hard to believe. She mentioned that someone tried to kidnap her sister and parents did not stop then. Hopefully I am wrong.

I hate Ryan's World for this very reason. Sure the kid is loaded, but I fully believe the only reason they had more kids was because Ryan will grow out of the age where kids want to watch him, so they'll move onto his younger siblings. The mom is so annoying, and I fully expect Ryan to act out a lot worse than someone like Justin Bieber did when he was a certain age.

What do you think of this: I was in a rut for what to pack my kids for lunch for school, so I turned to a YouTube channel called the Family Fudge with a series called "Bunches of Lunches." The beautiful mom packs beautiful, themed lunches with soothing narration, and when she's done with each lunch, she puts it in the themed lunch box, slides it across the table, and says, "And I'm going to hand this lunch off to my daughter, Lily," or whichever kid. Sometimes her children appear in the videos, too, to help choose, pack, or taste test. I think they might appear more often in other videos on the channel, but what do you think about appearing just in the lunch videos? It's not every day, it's not a terribly intimate topic, but it does share their real names and what they look like. Personally, I don't share any pics of my children online, and what OP's parents did was abominable, but lunch videos hover in an area where if it's in those parent's comfort zones, I don't judge them for it.

Every single time I see a family vlogger I keep scrolling unless it’s obviously a candid moment they just wanted to share bc it was funny or heartwarming. You can definitely tell the difference. I have a 13 month old and I limit how much I share of her online and will continue to as she gets older. Consent is a big thing with me and I don’t want to post anything she can’t consent to.

So much of this content is problematic. My wife spend a lot of time blocking YouTube channels. There are a few that i like to watch with my kids, (crafting and how to videos) and some that i find intolerable (people building stuff in Minecraft), but are otherwise safe. Those are fine, but the family life stuff is terrible. If just for the intense rampant commercialism. These kids spending their time opening toy after toy. It's as bad as porn for teenage boys. It builds these unrealistic views of the world that are just toxic. Then, on top of that, is the exploitation of these kids' lives.

8 passengers?

Each and every one of these "family" vlogging channels are all real world versions of TheTruman show but worse again as they are selling their own children x

There’s a great fiction book about this called Girl (in Real Life) by Tamsin Winter. It’s written for children but as a school librarian, I really enjoyed it.

When she mentioned her and her sister were filmed in the bath, they have grounds to press child pornography charges on their parents. Rightfully so. I would.

There is no other definition for this except abuse. It invalidates the person's feelings, stunts or distorts normal development, cause massive trust issues and more. Aside for needing to make this illegal, who are the viewers enabling these horrific parents?

It's exploitative and not fair to the children who don't have a say. That being said, I don't think all parents who do this are evil with a capital E. Some are horrible and are doing it for attention. But most, I think, are just trying to figure out how not to be poor. How to provide a life to their children that was better than theirs. I think it starts off as well-meaning, "maybe we can make some extra income and move to a better neighborhood. Send kids to a better school," etc. and then the money just sort of warps everything as it always does. Vanlife, boatlife, etc. They try to make a profit off their lives. I wish we could get to a point where regular jobs weren't so horrible that people are not willing to scar their kids in order to not be poor anymore. They made more money in a week than the guy made his entire year. You work so hard just to be poor. You get to a point where you'll do anything to change that so you start overlooking the toll it takes on your family.