The Dutch government wants to ban “kidfluencers,” children under the age of 16 who make commercial content for social media, such as unboxing videos and videos by family vloggers. Children being systematically used as a revenue model is effectively child labor and must be treated as such, Minister Thierry Aartsen of Work & Participation said in a letter to parliament, RTL Nieuws reports.
It always blew my mind how parents were allowed to make bucket loads of money by exploiting their children in social media advertising.
TBF, it isn’t unlike parents
pimping(ahem) “managing” their kids in music, film, and TVIt used to be less accessible and visible, I don’t think a lot of people really thought how weird and disgusting it is to do this to children. Was the consensus that child actors in the 1980s were systematically exploited? At least from mainstream media archives you wouldn’t think so.