‘An Update on Our Family’ highlights how the dangers of family vlogging go beyond exploitation
New Docuseries HBO, Update to our familyThe Stauffer family controversy, and in this process, highlights how family blogging risk may exceed the exploitation of children.
Myka and James Stauffer began overcoming marital life and paternity in 2014. The Myka autonomous channel soon exploded, growing to more than 700,000 subscribers at its peak. The husband also invented a family channel, The Stauffer Life, where they published family blogs with their three children. In 2016, the couple announced that they were adopting a child from China. Over the next two years, they photographed the entire operation, leaving the viewers waiting for new updates to the child, who announced that they would call Huxley. They photographed the first moment they met in China, his first words, and the first magnetic resonance imaging, and their reaction to the diagnosis of autism. The star of the Stauffer life has become in multiple care and every mini -image and address on the channel. However, Stauffers YouTube fame overnight in 2020 when they released the video “update to our family”, where they revealed their decision to return Hoxley’s heads.
Five years later, documents Update to our family It returns to Staufers, Huxley, and the extremist response on the Internet, and what the accident means for family manipulation.
What Update to our family He says about the family code
Update to our family It is briefly touched by the world of the family blog, noting that the family children such as Huxley are “the first generation that lives on social media”. Reporter Stephanie McNeel noted that the next contract is likely to shine because these children from family blogs become adults and talk about their experiences because “we simply do not know how these children will feel.” Update to our family It explicitly questions the effect of family settlement on children, but I feel indirectly raises the issue of its impact on parents. What Do A Blog family doing psychologically to parents? For their ruling? To sympathize?
The first episode of Update to our family It describes how myka found Youtube’s fame. One aspect of her fame was pregnancy. The birth trips were documented for both the two children with whom they participated with James; Each views of the stunning newspaper headlines got “living births” and “home births”. Pregnancy situations are perfect for moving attention and leading to check -ups because they come with a preliminary primary advertisement in addition to this event. While countless families were depicting births, Stauffers found something more unique: adoption. Watch the viewers in the actual time as the family went through the international adoption process and its entire investment has become a task of bringing Huxley to the house. In the end, one of my producer Update to our family The final issue is asked about whether Stauffers adopt HUXLY for views. Hana Zhou, one of the former fans, admits that YouTube was likely to be at least one of the reasons for adoption.
The problem with Staffer is that they got Vitriol for a wrong reason. in Update to our familyand The author of Reddit topic “I am a child myka staffer’d last year, Ama,” indicates Do It occurs and the parents ’mistake always occurs. The most important Stauffer crime was that it was its adoption, but they resolved it after The exploitation of their adopted child to fame. If they were not photographing Huxley at all, they are likely that they did not receive the intensive bottle they did to re -re -re -re -rearcese. However, this raises another scenario. If they did not enter YouTube, would they adopt it in the first place?
Family blogging can be an incentive for weak parenting options
As I see it, the problem with the Blossing family is two parts. First, there is a clear exploitation of children who cannot agree to photography. Second, there is a risk that the blog is a incentive for something darker. After all, there is strong evidence that opinions have inspired myka to hurry with the authority to adopt a child. After that, after adopting, when opinions began to flow, it was immediately last A child although she was already struggling with her newly adopted son’s demands and three other children. It should go without saying that YouTube is not a good reason for a person to make a decision that changes life by generating a child or adopting a child. If Vlogging can affect one of the parents to take this choice, what can aroused the attention of the parents?
In the case of Stauffer, it is fortunate that dissolved adoption is the result and not offending because there is evidence that blogging can be an incentive to abuse as well. Staffers emphasized that Vlogging can inspire a parent to adopt a child, but another channel, Daddyofive, has proven that it can inspire abuse as well. Daddyofive was a family channel floundering, where Mike and Martin participated their lives with their five children. Things turned into dark when the husband began photographing a rough joke on two smaller children and encouraged the battles between children for the content. Docuated abuse led to Martins losing the custody of their young children.
There is more than an example of parents taking reckless decisions and even endangering their children to social media views. This really reminds us that we do not know what the blog is doing for parents. In order for the father to enter even in this exploitative practice, one feels that there must be some basic narcissism or non -sympathy. After that, there is a fact that few of us know what is like getting a million views, or a million subscribers, or getting enough youtube money To buy a Cartier bracelet worth $ 6000. We do not know what parents do to experience pressure or euphoria to win the YouTube lottery and make it big. We know that may Inspiration of the decisions of impulsive life, naivety, or abusive joke, but no one can say to what extent will these fathers go. The most surprising thing is that many negative viewers or legislators are simply waiting to find an answer to this question.
