ICYMI - Protecting Child Influencers From Their Parents
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🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim are joined by writer and journalist Fortesa Latifi who has been reporting extensively on child influencer legislation for Teen Vogue. In August 2023, the governor of Illinois passed an amendment to the state’s child labor law that would require parents to compensate their children for their appearances in monetized content. Drawing comparisons to the Coogan Law, several states have followed suit and proposed their own legislation to finally address the privacy and monetary concerns that former children influencers have started speaking up about.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candace Lim. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to Icy Y-M-I. |
| 0:19.0 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:20.0 | Slates Podcasts about internet culture. |
| 0:23.0 | And usually we do a little bit of silly bantry here, |
| 0:27.0 | but today we wanted to start by saying |
| 0:29.0 | that for the first 10 or so minutes of this episode, |
| 0:32.0 | we will be discussing child abuse so feel free to |
| 0:36.0 | skip to our conversation with for Tesla Tifi after the break if that is not something |
| 0:41.1 | you want to hear. So, today we are talking about a story that's been bubbling up for a while and has now reached the halls of state |
| 0:55.0 | legislation. |
| 0:56.2 | Back in August of 2023, Illinois passed a child influencer law that would compensate and |
| 1:01.1 | protect children under the age of 16, |
| 1:03.6 | whose parents have made money off them via social media content, |
| 1:07.2 | YouTube blogs, anything online that accrues revenue. |
| 1:11.1 | And since then, six more states have proposed legislation with similar |
| 1:14.8 | tenants but we're having this conversation because there's been a recent |
| 1:18.7 | scandal surrounding a vlogger family in Utah that I think we should talk about. |
| 1:23.0 | Right, so the same month that Illinois passed their child influencer law, Ruby |
| 1:28.0 | Frankie, a family blogger in Utah, was arrested on child abuse charges. She was arrested with her friend Jody Hildebrand |
| 1:35.6 | who was watching Frankie's kids when Frankie's 12-year-old son escaped from a window in |
| 1:41.5 | Hildebrand's home. |
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