Making Money off Children’s Pain: Family Vloggers | Corporate Casket

iilluminaughtii

Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Go to http://mintmobile.com/CASKET to cut your wireless bill to $15 a month. Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a semiweekly series where bad businesses go to die. We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide. Family vlogging is so much more than a cute, home video—it’s become extremely profitable and can mean a camera in a child’s face on a daily basis. The ethics of this have been questioned for a while, especially after some massive controversies. Between refusing to adopt due to social media requirements or even rehoming children after a lack of proper research and education, these family vloggers have profited off some pretty gross and disturbing stuff. Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii Sources: https://justpaste.it/2brgx Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do you remember America's funniest home videos? Like, yeah, they're still around and
0:14.2	their videos are still pretty popular. But before YouTube and Tik-talk, they were
0:18.1	the go-to place to post mildly humiliating videos of your family members or kids getting up to no good.
0:24.0	Hi everybody, hello, welcome to America's funniest home videos.
0:28.0	I feel like just about everyone has a video like that somewhere,
0:31.0	whether it's deep in the bowels of the internet or on a dusty VHS in your parents
0:34.4	addict.
0:35.4	We've all got those childhood memories we don't want the world to see.
0:39.4	Maybe it was the first time you tried a whole-ass lime and made a disgusted face before shrieking and
0:44.0	chucking it into the sink. Maybe you tripped up the stairs at a school recital and
0:47.6	managed to fall on your clarinet in front of the whole class. Yep, great memories
0:51.2	right? Now imagine that all of those memories had millions of views,
0:55.8	that the internet was watching you grow up in real time,
0:58.5	and there was absolutely nothing you could do to stop it.
1:01.8	Well, this is the unfortunate concept behind family
1:04.9	vlogging. If you can't tell from this introduction, I don't support the entire
1:08.8	genre as a whole. Even without being familiar with family vlogging, just a quick glance at a few popular family
1:14.1	vloggers will give you a hint as to why so many people don't approve.
1:17.2	Hey Ace Family!
1:20.4	The Ace Family has about 18 million subscribers on YouTube and in the past two months as of writing this they've had two episodes based on Catherine the mother of the family saying she was leaving them.
1:32.0	So anyways, so I'm going to be doing a prank today on Austin.
1:36.6	One video is called That's that I'm leaving and the other is Catherine is leaving us.
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