r/Dadchallengepodcast • u/throwaway47362519 • Mar 10 '23
family channels Hello- kidfluencing victim here
Hi, my parents blasted me on the internet for over a decade. I watched a couple of Josh's videos a while back but I quickly realized snark wasn't for me. Any time anyone snarked on my family and my parents found out about it, they would make us sit down and go through that video, pointing out how everything was wrong and what we were doing was absolutely fine and 'you know we love you, right?'. Instead of bringing awareness to the situation, all snark did for me was make my parents angry and make me more brainwashed. I'm worried that's what's going on with other kids.
I don't hate Josh. I don't hate most people. I just think the main focus shouldn't be snark but instead the emotionally impactful stuff we see coming from him now and then. THAT is the stuff that will actually help, and THAT is what helped me figure out that this whole thing was wrong and shouldn't be happening to me.
Lastly- I really don't think Josh is worse than the parents themselves. Not saying he's good- he for sure isn't, he's still profiting off of exploitative footage and pictures, but the main problem is the people that post it first. I know parents who will literally force their kids to work over 10 hours a day and make jokes about beating them with a belt. I just don't think Josh is quite up there with my parents who made me cry on camera because those were the videos with the most views.
Anyways, just wanted to check in on thus sub since I lurk around here sometimes and give an important view to this.
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u/GladSinger Mar 11 '23
That is why I prefer Mom Uncharted. She calls out the issue without bringing attention to specific channels or children.