The pitfalls of being the child of a parenting influencer
Marketplace Tech
Marketplace
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🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
We’re so used to it by now — people sharing every little detail of their lives online. And when it comes to content about parenting, it’s basically a whole industry. You can find “momfluencers” and family channels for any style of parenting or worldview you can think of, to the point that there’s now a generation of kids who have grown up in the social media eye. And, as you might imagine. not all of them are thrilled about it. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Fortesa Latifi, features reporter for Teen Vogue, who recently dove into this culture and its effects on the children involved.
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| 0:00.0 | You know those kids who've had their childhoods turned into content? |
| 0:05.6 | Yeah, they got something to say about it now. |
| 0:08.9 | From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Megan McCarty-Karino. |
| 0:13.6 | We're so used to it by now. |
| 0:25.0 | People sharing every little detail of their lives online. |
| 0:29.8 | And when it comes to content about parenting, it's basically a whole industry. |
| 0:34.7 | You can find mom-fluencers and family channels for any style of parenting or worldview you |
| 0:42.2 | can think of. |
| 0:43.7 | To the point, there's now a generation of kids who have grown up in the social media |
| 0:48.9 | eye. |
| 0:49.9 | And, as you might imagine, not all of them are thrilled about it. |
| 0:54.2 | For Tessa Latifi, recently dove into this, she's a features reporter for Teen Vogue. |
| 1:00.8 | There are kids nearing adulthood now, nearing the age of 18, whose entire lives have been |
| 1:08.5 | documented and in some cases monetized from birth or even in some cases from before birth. |
| 1:16.9 | And you spoke to one such child influencer who is now a teenager. |
| 1:22.4 | In your piece, you referred to her as Claire. |
| 1:25.3 | What has her experience been like? |
| 1:27.1 | Sure. |
| 1:28.1 | So, Claire went viral for the first time when she was just a few years old and she has |
| 1:36.9 | lived her entire life on YouTube. |
| 1:40.1 | YouTube has become the family business, neither of her parents work outside of the home. |
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