Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing | Serial Streamers TV Club

MURDERISH

Cloud10

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Serial Streamers Jami recaps the Netflix docuseries, “Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing.” This documentary shows viewers the dark side of child influencers and what can go wrong when minors are pushed to produce content and income. Piper Rockelle’s YouTube channel, featuring her “squad,” was wildly successful and earning hundreds of thousands of dollars each month. Over time, members of the squad and their parents came to see Piper’s mother, Tiffany Smith, as problematic, exploitative and a master manipulator. Video footage in the documentary shows Tiffany exhibiting disturbing behavior toward the children, and even forcing herself onto one of the minor squad members. In 2022, 11 former squad members filed a lawsuit against Tiffany Smith and her much younger boyfriend, Hunter Hill. The plaintiffs alleged that Tiffany and Hunter sabotaged their YouTube channels, and claimed Tiffany abused them. Jami gets into all the details of this cringey and disturbing documentary, providing all of her personal hot takes along the way. Follow Jami on Instagram & TikTok @JamiOnAir and join the Serial Streamers true crime TV club! Serial Streamers club members “meet” in the comments on Jami’s Instagram, TikTok and YouTube channel and share their thoughts and opinions about the documentaries we’re watching. Watch Serial Streamers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jamionair and subscribe so you don’t miss out on the latest documentary recaps. Check out Jami’s other podcast: Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-money-moves-women-in-white-collar-crime/id1619521092. Want to advertise on this podcast? We’ve partnered with Cloud10 Media to handle our advertising requests. If you’re interested in advertising on MURDERISH, send an email to Sahiba Krieger [email protected] with a copy to [email protected]. Visit Murderish.com for more info about the show and Creator/Host, Jami Rice. Remember, cults are stupid, Ted’s Bundy is ugly, scammers suck at life ...and binge-watching true crime documentaries IS self care! Stay safe out there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Amarikofer, and I'm the host of the show Black Girl Gone. In this podcast, I tell the stories of missing and murdered black women and women of color in America.
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0:48.6	Welcome to another episode of serial streamers. And if you're wondering what is Serial Streamers? Who am I?
0:55.7	Who's this woman in front of my screen? Well, Serial Streamers is a virtual true crime TV club that I
1:01.8	created because I'm out here watching all these wild true crime documentaries. And I know all of you
1:07.5	are as well. But a lot of times we don't have somebody to talk about it with.
1:11.5	Maybe we have a partner or a bestie who's, you know, willing to talk about it for a couple of
1:16.6	minutes, but they're not as into true crime content as we are.
1:19.7	So that is what serial streamers, the virtual TV club is.
1:24.2	We are out here watching these documentaries.
1:26.4	I do a recap on my YouTube channel at Jamie
1:29.5	on air as well as on my podcast, Murderish, which is available in all podcast players. So I do the
1:36.5	recap and then I quickly go to my social media, post clips, and then we talk about it in the
1:41.6	comments. We talk about these wild documentaries. I give all my
1:45.1	hot takes, my unpopular opinions, thoughts, theories. And I want you to do the same in my social media
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