Mauvaise influence: Les dérives du kidfluencing

This documentary offers a sobering look at the dark side of family content creation on YouTube, highlighting how easily people can become consumed by the pursuit of fame and money. It reveals the alarming greed of certain parents, the disturbing ease with which others look the other way, and the profound, lasting damage inflicted on the children involved. The emotional and psychological toll is both eye-opening and heartbreaking. If you're a parent, aunt, uncle, or have any teens in your life, this is an essential watch. It's also clear that the filmmakers intentionally left out some of the most horrific details-likely to protect the children-which makes what they do show all the more chilling and powerful.

I work in influencer marketing, so this was incredibly relevant for me. We have to be careful when we're working with family focused creators because we absolutely want to avoid situations like this where the kids are being manipulated and exploited.

This story goes even further than just financial and emotional exploitation sadly. I hope more stories start coming out about similar situations because I know they're out there, and the more we can do to protect children from this kind of mess the better. It really drops the facade of these kids all having fun and doing it on their own and shows you how manipulated and puppeted they were to make money for the mother. Gross!

I watched it at one go just a while ago. A must watch for parents and alike to understand how vulnerable we all are to virtual fame and the easy money. Exposing kids to camera, filming, sharing, looking for validation and endorsements is selling the childhood of the kids to others. It's nothing less than the child labor exploiting emotional and physical health of the kids. No amount of justifications for such parenting activities is acceptable. It's about time Govt came up with some laws and started implementing it!

The old adage 'A picture speaks thousands words' no longer holds true. Every single picture is fabricated and manipulated for reasons beyond the comprehension of the consumer of the content!

Well if you know Lethal Weapon, you know where I was going with this (though I imagine even without knowing it most will be able to guess) ... that said and as always: no pun intended. The show shines a light on a phenomena ... I mean to me kid beauty shows are a monstrosity ... so there is that ... but this is about influencer.

Not easy to watch - and while those accused did not respond to many requests, I think we can all make up our own minds what that is telling us ... or the world. There are quite the serious allegations and accusations hurled and thrown ... even if only half of it is true ... crazy I'd say.

The world is changing - but as parents eveyone is still meant to protect their kids ... and not make money off of them ... well not at every price/cost (again no pun intended) ... just saying ... and it's also what this docu show is saying.

"Bad Influence" is a grim 3-part Netflix docuseries about kidfluencers and the awful parents who monetize their childhoods for clicks. It's well-produced, but the whole thing feels exploitative, invasive, and downright icky. I'm grateful we don't have children; I can't imagine raising a kid in an age where everyone has the attention span of a gnat. AND where kids take life advice from someone like Piper Rockelle, who I only know because she did a cursed collab with the witless Katy Perry, who recently rode Bezos' penis rocket into space cosplay with Gayle King (who is now shocked, shocked!, by backlash). This series rightly lays blame on the momagers, the platforms, and the adult enablers, especially the legions of creepy men who follow these minors and collect photos like they're Pokémon cards. I may not be a digital native (I still remember our first VCR), but I do know this: nothing about this influencer economy feels safe, decent, or sane.