Hello and welcome back to the Cycle Legal Pop podcast.

This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist.

I'm the therapist, Tess Brigham.

And I'm Brooke Brigham.

I'm the attorney.

And we are back.

We are covering a new Netflix three-part documentary called Bad Influence,

the Dark Side of Kid Fluensing.

It's very hard word to say.

Kid fluencing.

Kid fluencing.

Yeah.

And so we have a, we have a quick synopsis to kind of give people a sense of it,

and then we're going to we're going to be

talking about it and different themes and such so okay so this is actually from an

article in the guardian okay the three part documentary focuses on the rise and, if not fall,

then a forcible diversification of child, then teen, social media star Piper Raquel,

and her mother and manager Tiffany Smith.

After Raquel's success within the bizarre American phenomenon that is the toddler and child pageantry circuit, Smith took her on to social media.

To increase her daughter's appeal and her YouTube channel views and follower numbers, Smith gradually added other children, friends, performers, to Raquel's videos, and they became known and loved by their ever-growing

audience as The Squad.

Smith's much younger boyfriend, Hunter Hill, would film the videos as she directed.

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