Outrage bait?
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2024
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What breaks my heart is knowing that people took parental advice from these channels.
I used to manage a team of low income women who were primarily first generation Americans. Many of them had tough moms who never hesitated to use βla chanclaβ on their many children.
Their sense of humor ended up pretty warped, and it was always my impression that it was a self defense thing to normalize the abuse they grew up with. By seeing that behavior as funny, it excuses similar things that were done to them.
I usually tried to ignore it without judging, but I always put a stop to it once they started sharing online videos at work. People are entitled to their own interpretation of their history, but there is no context where a video of a kid sobbing is funny to me.
Never heard of ether of them.
Be glad. I sadly have heard of them and know what abuse the kids went through (especially 8Passengers/Ruby Franke, but DaddyOFive is very bad too)
I wonder if the video essayists exaggerate how popular the channels were before becoming controversial, because you're not missing much.
DaddyOFive pretty much constantly screamed at his kids and made them cry for views, and while the worst of 8 Passengers happened off-camera, in the videos they still openly talked about shit like taking their teenage son's bed away.
Even setting aside the justified outrage, I can't imagine who enjoys it. It's just unpleasant and sad.
I don't actually know, but in my mind the audience most likely to watch those cruel "pranks" and find them funny are kids or teenagers themselves.