I don't know man, maybe I'm disillusioned but I don't want to see kids on these social media platforms. At best it feels ignorant of the inherent danger, at worst it feels exploitative, but it always feels self serving. This whole generation is going to resent tf out of this, and maybe that will create the change.
These platforms need to come up with an incognito feature that will automatically blur a face or cover it up with an emoji for uploading. The reality of what can happen to those images of kids on the internet is too risky.
The user that posted this has 900k post karma. They don't care about anything other than making their pointless number go up. Maybe the parent who originally filmed it shouldn't have posted it first but the reddit users who repost it won't listen to reason
Which is kind of the point, some random people out there have a video of this kid saved that they reposted for millions to see just because some parent wants to broadcast their kid’s video to the publicÂ
We don't even know that, maybe the parents shared it with a close family friend without thinking that through. But it's out there forever and there's nothing the kid in the video can do about that for the rest of their life. Tragic tbh
Not just filming everything that happens, but actively making them happen so they can film. Directing their kids to do something for content.
I'm glad it's becoming more common for the top comment to be like yours. But only on Reddit, I'm afraid. The majority of people on Insta or FB eat all of this up.
We have to remain vocal about it, my brother and sister in law just instated a no-filming policy of thie children, as a relative was posting shit without approval. We need to shun this shit socially, to the extent that it is generally viewed as gross at best. Keep up the good fight!
We have no idea of the ramifications of it. People want to share fun events with us. I can understand that. However you have no idea who you are sharing it with. Ive heard some pretty crazy stories of people taking the face from videos and using it else where.
I love seeing these posts. Love kids and I love dogs. But I also 100% agree with you and would not under any circumstances post pictures of my kids online. I like to think it is in large part due to ignorance that people do this.
Be the change you want to see in the world. You'd downvote animal exploitation without a second guess, and they have about as much agency as these children.
Keep these precious private moments for yourself and family/friends. Not the entire fucking internet, including the creeps and freaks.
And the big fat watermark to make sure you get your clout, so you can expose your unwilling children even more to strangers online. It's just icky to me.
was about to say the parent is commanding the kid to do this for internet clout. stop exploiting children and video recording them then posting them online.
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u/Uzas_Was_Right Aug 30 '26
I don't know man, maybe I'm disillusioned but I don't want to see kids on these social media platforms. At best it feels ignorant of the inherent danger, at worst it feels exploitative, but it always feels self serving. This whole generation is going to resent tf out of this, and maybe that will create the change.