I’ve been reading this thread with interest since it all kicked off on Instagram and have joined just to clear something up. It was my post on the Moral Queens page re the disabled child but I’m not the mother of the child that PTWM is referring to in her Facebook post. God only knows what that poor mum has done to warrant being all but named and shamed to hundreds of thousands of followers. My experience is that I was with my son, who has ASC, at a local country park last summer and PTWM, Josh & the boys were also there. The eldest ripped the piss out of my boy in a truly vile way until I intervened and shamed him into sodding off. PTWM did nothing. Watched it happen. So this bullying thing really grinds my gears!! I grew up in the area and remain local. I also work in the safeguarding arena. I deleted my post when I started getting the responses I did on Insta - after suggesting that perhaps her ‘crew’ were behaving in a worse way than any of the behaviour she was calling out, and that perhaps she wouldn’t care because she was also guilty of doing far worse in her insta stories, I realised that although my page is private, I’m easily identifiable and I don’t need the hassle. My issues with PTWM are largely my own. I grew up here, I know the main players and I know there are three sides to every story. I also have no issue with her making money via blogging - don’t hate the player hate the game. And if people are silly enough to buy into it and donate money without considering or caring how it’s spent, that’s their lookout. I do have an issue with bloggers in general who pimp their kids out without their consent. To me that is a safeguarding issue. Current guidance doesn’t cover it as one and so I’m going to write to Anne Longfield, the Childrens Commissioner, to consider this new field of exploitation. For that it what it is, pure and simple.
I’m so sorry your son had to experience such bullying that’s truly awful and I hope he’s ok now. I think that’s a great idea with regards to the children’s commissioner as sad as it is this current influencer isn’t the only one to profit from their children.
With regards to other bloggers/influencers etc slinging out the tattle should be banned line they’re lucky they’ve not seen Reddit/MumsNet. I think if you live life online it will be scrutinised and commented on because it invites opinion. A bit of emotional resilience and acceptance of free speech is part of it surely?