Child Influencer Scandals with Fortesa Latifi
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn
Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In honor of her new book Like, Follow, Subscribe, Fortesa Latifi joins Gabe to talk about something Gabe hates: child influencers and family vlogging.
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Reporter Fortesa Latifi joins Gabe to discuss the origins of mommy blogging and child influencers, what has come out since these children have grown up, and what these families are actually selling. Plus, the dangers and problems of selling exclusive content of your children, turning your home and their safe space into a "set," and strangers being a fan of your child. What laws can be put into place to protect the children in these online famous families?
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| 0:00.0 | You had told a lot of lies about achievement. |
| 0:03.4 | They called you when they got you to believe it. |
| 0:06.0 | Thumb and finger held to their foreheads in an L ship trapped in a capital of salescape. |
| 0:10.0 | Let's buy back in have some talks about class and the massive costs of the disasters brought to fascists and nonsense. |
| 0:17.0 | Fat cats and Fox. |
| 0:19.0 | It's a thousand natural shocks. |
| 0:21.2 | A Bad With Money podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello and welcome to A Thousand Natural Shocks, A Bad With Money Podcast. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm your host, Gabe S. Dunn. |
| 0:29.4 | And today is the day that For Tessa Latifi's book comes out called Like, Comment, Subscribe. |
| 0:34.9 | It is about family vloggers and child influencers. If you've ever listened to |
| 0:38.7 | the show, you know that my number two out of my top five enemies in the world are family vloggers and |
| 0:46.1 | child influencers, not on the part of the children, but on the part of the parents and families who |
| 0:51.4 | force these kids. Force in the sense that I don't know that they can |
| 0:55.0 | meaningfully consent and then also force in terms of force children to be the forefront of |
| 1:00.8 | internet content. I'm also hosting her book event tonight at Skylight Books if you happen to hear |
| 1:06.6 | this in time in Los Angeles. But For Tessa's book was incredibly interesting and also |
| 1:12.3 | disturbing to me. I have a lot of feelings about children's privacy and children's autonomy as |
| 1:19.2 | human beings. A lot of this stuff, even if, you know, I was never a child blogger, my parents |
| 1:25.7 | never put anything of me on the internet in that way. I do feel a lot |
| 1:29.4 | of protectiveness over what they shared even within their friend group about me in my life growing up |
| 1:36.8 | and a lot of what can be used as bullying material later. And I think parents have to be more |
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