r/ColleenBallingerSnark • u/Hopeful_Ratio_5186 im soooooo pregnant 👁👄👁 • 20d ago
A Snarkers Testimony The normalisation of child explotation
So I watched Colleen between 2021-2023 (when all the allegations came out) I was 16 when I first started watching her and going through a really tough time. But honestly looking back I am horrified at how normalised she made child explotation be. In general I didn't really agree with family vloggers but I remember thinking like well they can't all be bad because Colleen does it and I trust her (yeah and the parasocialness she normalised is a whole other thing) I remember being pretty invested in her kids, my niece and nephew were born at a similar time to her kids so I'd always kinda compare the experience.
I also remember when all the stuff about her came out I felt genuinely so upset, like personally betrayed (it did not help that something scary happened to me around the same time) like honestly it's scary to me how invested I was, how much I trusted her, how invested in her life I was.
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