This is the aspect that bothers me most about 'influencers' / you tubers /vloggers / instagrammers using their children.
If you are attracting followers for your own content - fashion, beauty, fitness, travel.... whatever ! well that is fine. It may be your chosen career and your followers may include the occasional stalker / obsessed fan but that is a risk that as an adult you assess and take appropriate steps to minimise the risk of someone turning up at your doorstep, or worse.
If you decide to constantly include images in the public domain of your children and have tens of thousands of followers then you have potentially lost control. All that matters to some of these influencers is the numbers of followers, views, clicks, likes, £££ regardless of who is lurking in the background harvesting images.
All you need to do is google phrases such as "Do you know where you childs image is" "paedophiles using child images" etc and read the evidence. Blindly thinking 'only happens to someone else' isn't good enough when it is your child. It doesn't only happen to other people - waken up folks!
A close friend in America is a very talented professional photographer and has three beautiful children. Her instagram following was over 100K and as such she was approached by several companies to 'review' their products as although she never shared clients children on her site, she did photograph her own children very occasionally to showcase her work. Around a year ago she received information that harvested images had been manipulated and found on more than one child abuse sharing sites. One had been very professionally altered to photoshop her daughters head onto a naked childs body, another of her eating an ice-cream ........., her sons photo had also been taken.
I have personal experience of an image that permission was given for to used for charitable purposes being taken by someone that had no right to it - I cannot elaborate on that as it became a police matter and as far as I am aware the image had not been shared.
The thought of anyone sitting in front of their computer 'indulging' themselves over an image of their child and trading it with others of a like mind should surely be enough for any parent to re-assess their online presence and security.
If influencers and their families do read this site, I am not at all interested in what colour you paint your kitchen , who did it, why or when. I don't give a monkey's about whether tans are natural, spray on, rub on or filters. If you as an adult have chosen this as your job, do it professionally with integrity and like other career minded adults....don't take your kids to work every day.