My exact thoughts as well. The two images together might be funny, but underneath is someone who used their hands to lock that door and then decided to take a picture of the crying girl instead of helping her out. That’s fucked up.
Admittedly, “hey Janet, can you jump into the kitty crate and pretend to cry for a half a sec for views” is probably not the child abuse situation outlined above.
I fucking hate it but wr do have a generation of not even influencers, but casual social media parents looming for a funny angle to send their friends and social networks etc.
I’ve never understood the obsession people have of plastering their child’s image and embarrassing moments all over social media for a fleeting but if attention. I will share my child’s pictures privately with friends, but I am rather strict on letting their image go out on public stuff outside of school or something.
It’s the child’s choice to share that sort of thing, and they’re too young to make an informed choice, so I can definitely see how you could make the argument that it’s a form of abuse, given that you can put something out about your kid that can be around basically forever and haunt them later in life. But I’m also pretty much against social media tied to my IRL identity, so I’m not exactly a normal person on that front.
My exact thoughts as well. The two images together might be funny, but underneath is someone who used their hands to lock that door and then decided to take a picture of the crying girl instead of helping her out. That’s fucked up.
Admittedly, “hey Janet, can you jump into the kitty crate and pretend to cry for a half a sec for views” is probably not the child abuse situation outlined above.
I fucking hate it but wr do have a generation of not even influencers, but casual social media parents looming for a funny angle to send their friends and social networks etc.
Assuming she’s pretend crying. The shit I’ve seen from imfluencer-parents would not have me surprised this girl is actually crying.
And the effects on children raised like this is beginning to get studied:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-dangers-of-parents-sharing-their-childrens-lives-on-social-media
Sure, but I’d also be unsurprised if the parents just asked the kid to pretend cry for clicks.
Edit: I dunno, just seems a wild jump to declare this photo could only happen through child abuse.
I consider both scenarios to be child abuse, albeit one is clearly worse than the other
I’ve never understood the obsession people have of plastering their child’s image and embarrassing moments all over social media for a fleeting but if attention. I will share my child’s pictures privately with friends, but I am rather strict on letting their image go out on public stuff outside of school or something.
It’s the child’s choice to share that sort of thing, and they’re too young to make an informed choice, so I can definitely see how you could make the argument that it’s a form of abuse, given that you can put something out about your kid that can be around basically forever and haunt them later in life. But I’m also pretty much against social media tied to my IRL identity, so I’m not exactly a normal person on that front.
We may not be normal, but we are likely right
Yeah it fucked up. I thought YouTube banned those type of accounts? But I saw documentary on that. Fucked up.