Thanks for sharing that. He was spot on with so much! I wish they would watch and be able to really hear. But they have been vlogging for so long, it’s so blurred for them. They don’t realize that at one point they made a choice to be on camera and their son never did. He “seems” ok with it because it’s all he has ever known. But they’ve both recorded questionable things (the bath, the scary ride, his tantrum) because they can’t see right from wrong in that situation which normalizes it for their child that had no context for what is right and normal.
I remember my parents filming us and if something happened where we got hurt or didn’t want to be on camera, they stopped filming and put the camera down. There were lots of videos like that on America’s Funniest Videos. Recording ended or camera was dropped because they went to check on the people on the “funny” situation. People now just keep recording and it’s normalized for young people. Even more so for these family vlogs. No one thinks about whether or not they should be recording something. And then the sharing it all with thousands of people. To forever live on the internet. The parents doing this, never had this happen to them. They had privacy. And the agency to start vlogging as adults. Regulation on some level is needed but YouTube won’t until they have to.
I’m so glad he commented on the people watching and how sad and twisted/intertwined the lives of viewer and viewed become. Ugh. And pointed out how it’s exploitation of bad situations for kids for money.