The amount of content online that's focused on the private lives of families with children is staggering.

There are YouTube channels devoted to six-year-olds making slime and 13-year-olds with elaborate

skincare routines.

TikTok accounts spotlighting the struggles of teen moms.

Instagram feeds are filled with intimate stories of families battling infertility or grappling

with a difficult medical diagnosis.

And here's the thing.

We are completely along for the ride. We're in the bedroom,

at the kitchen table, perched on the side of the hospital bed. Everything is filmed and shared.

From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Courtney Collins in for Chris Boyd. Why is this kind of content king? Why do we even watch?

And how do the parent and kid creators feel about living out so many personal moments on the

internet's giant unrelenting stage? For Tesla Latifi explores all this and more in her new book,

it's called Like, Follow, Subscribe, Influencer Kids, and the cost

of a childhood online. And she joins us now to talk about it. For Tessa, welcome to think.

Hi, thank you for having me. So before we get deep into the world of modern family vlogging,

we have to kind of talk about the origin story. And it kind of, it all started with a TV

show in the 70s, right, called an American family. Yeah. So an American family was really the first

kind of reality show as we conceive of it today. And it was a cinema verite type show where a PBS

producer sent a camera crew along with this family for about a year.

And when they aired it on PBS, there were 10 million viewers.

And this is, it was a pretty kind of straight look inside the family, right?

There wasn't like a gimmick or something very specific

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