When a child’s life becomes a family business

Around this time, “there was one more thing I had to deal with,” Evan told me. We sat in the study room at the Loyola Marymount library. Long, wide windows skipped palm colonnade. Evan has the same deep dummies and unwavering eye contact as his younger self, but he wears long and shaggy hair, and his clothes are tanned and size, like a character in a skater comic. He remembered that in the junior high school haters in the comments called him “broken”, and people told him that he had never considered before. His parents “used” him, said or “used you for the money,” Evan told me. “It definitely made me feel unhappy. Depressed alangation.” He began to tell his parents that he no longer wanted to browse toys and withdrew to his room.

Children as “goods”

Evan Lee takes place when all parents seem to publish their children’s videos online, an indescribable number in the hope of making money. The current Titan of the Kid introducing, inspired by Evantube, is a 13-year-old named Ryan who began to unpack the toys when he was 3 years aged. His world brand Ryan had ads with dinners and Legoand, a line of goods – pajamas and backpacks decorated with the image of Ryan – and Nickelodeon television program. Conservative estimates reduce Ryan profits to $ 25 million a year. And although posters on Reddit Rally around Ryan, saying that he is used by his parents and deserves a shot in a normal life, his colleagues do not agree.

In the influential economy – which McKinsey values With over $ 21 billion around the world-the crystal clear brand of children or family can change life. In cases of the greatest successes of children’s children, “their great -grandchildren are set for life,” said Chris Williams, general director of Pocketwatch, who cooperates with both the world of Ryan and Evantube to conclude contracts with content and licensing.

Ryan is obviously protruding. Influences from would -be children significantly exceed the number of successes; Even the most charismatic children and entrepreneurial parents have no idea how challenging it is to earn on the internet, talents of talent tale. In my own social channels, I have never met dance, sing and drop wisdom like mini-philosophists. Their parents manage their pages, which also sell bows and connect Donkey Kong video games. I am hypnotized by them, but also move away in a secret exchange of guts for cash, perhaps because the basis of the transaction seems to be blocked: are these children authentically themselves? Or maybe they play an amazing version of authenticity?

Modern documentaries emphasize the terrifying abuse: parents who starved and tied their children, forced children to kiss on the screen, adopted a child and Then He gave him back. The incidence of children’s predators who follow children online, is well documented, just like the collusion of parents who sell pornographic photos of their children, and even their used online tribards. Train wrecks pay attention, so parents publish movies about their youthful children throwing anger, potty training and disciplined or punished.