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  • extraterrestrial5 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Remember this? https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/youtube-myka-james-stauffer-huxley-adoption.html

    Un-Adopted: YouTubers Myka and James Stauffer shared every step of their parenting journey. Except the last.

    Myka began framing the couple’s decision as a step they were being called to take, saying she was “so excited to open our hearts and see what the Good Lord has in store for us” — a sentiment frequently echoed by the often white and Christian community of adoption influencers. Adoption, Myka said, was “something that we really want to be part of our story.” After speaking with adoption agencies, they decided to focus their search on China.

    later she did a Will Menaker:

    An online petition with more than 154,000 supporters demanded that Myka’s monetized videos with Huxley be removed from YouTube. Followers appeared angry not only on behalf of Huxley but also because Myka had committed the ultimate influencer sin: ghosting on those who’d become invested in her story right when the plot twisted.

    After their announcement, Myka changed her social-media profiles to reflect that she is the mother of four kids, not five, and then deleted content featuring Huxley.

    • inky [she/her,any]
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      4 years ago

      There’s a part in the article taking about “family vloggers” in general , who title videos shit like “shopping for her first bra!”/“my first shave!” featuring their preteen daughters and that’s just so fucking grotesque. These kids are gonna need so much therapy when they grow up.

      Edit: Here’s the quote:

      In marketing their videos, the Riches were perhaps simply chasing the same formula other family vloggers were exploiting. Ruby and Kevin Franke, considered in the top tier of family vloggers with 2.44 million subscribers to their channel, 8 Passengers, earned almost 2 million views on a video titled “My First Shave,” which includes an image of their tween daughter on the edge of a bathtub with shaving cream on her bare legs; a video of their son named “Officially Hit PUBERTY,” with a description advertising “voice cracking and sprouting,” has almost 3 million views. (According to YouTube, the videos do not violate the company’s community guidelines.)

    • Deadend [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Fuck.

      I really wonder if she would have tried to adopt a child if she wasn't an Influencer.

      I hope to whatever is out there that if Youtube and vlogging wasn't involved, things would have turned out the same.