Sorry if this is irrelevant, but my friend was telling me about Tyson Gardner ( Father of Quadruplets from Utah, Gardner Quad Squad on YT) caught messaging young girls one of whom was 17. It caused a huge scandal a few weeks back. But what blew my mind over is how similar this casw is to our very own in house creep, Sir Noncelot! Some notable similarities--
1) Both families using online platforms to scam people by running 'businesses' aka looting their fanbase
2)Husbands caught texting teens/young adults and wives trying to cover up by victim shaming and threatening the girls who found courage to open up
3) Amount of vulnerable children/adults for whom these people are absolute heroes who they think help them cope up with depression, make them filled loved etc all the while actually playing on their insecurities
While I know this is nothing new and family vloggers have been outted in the past too..this just struck me as weirdly similar . When my friend was telling this to me I was almost confused which family she is talking about -Inghams or Gardners
I don't know what kick these middle aged dad vloggers get out of messaging younger fans or indeed why these fans have such devotion towards them. This seems to be a deeper issue, unfortunately not limited to a small fanbase of adults and honestly this makes me scared, frustrated and angry.
Once again sorry for this long essay.