Mum and child influencers

What’s everybody’s thoughts on them? Don’t want this to be a negative post as I see both sides, just curious on the general view about them. Part of me likes them, I love watching content that’s similar to my life, especially with kids the same age. I also think it’s great that mums can end up making it their living, and social media especially TikTok can really make a difference to their lives. I even thought about doing it myself, for a split second but I am very anxious and all of the negatives took over and I realised that actually, children shouldn’t be on the internet, I don’t think it’s right for your main content to be your child (especially very young). The world should be a good place, and we should be able to do innocent things like make family videos and profit from it but the world isn’t a good place, it is FULL of weirdos. I’ve just unfollowed one woman, she’s only young so maybe she’s just naive . She has the cutest daughter who’s the same age as my girl, and her content is very lovely but I notice she takes a lot of photos of her daughter asleep, laid on the bed, also vlogs her girl in bed. She also use to outfit/nappy change videos as her main “thing” and although you couldn’t see any private areas, it all seemed too intimate. Especially as a lot of mums are doing this from birth now. Again, I try my best not to judge these mums as they are making money and at the same time get to spend time with their children BUT, there’s always going to be something off about putting your child on such a huge platform. You will never ever ever be able to stop predators watching, and even if they aren’t physically doing anything. It would still make me anxious

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I agree with you. I don’t have TikTok but do follow some on instagram. I think it’s ok to post the odd photo/reel of their child but i’m not sure i agree with these children having their lives plastered all over the internet when they can’t consent to it.

A couple of baby/child sleep accounts I follow get asked about this. They have toddlers the same age as ours. They say they share images/reels now while children are small and still have that baby look. But will obscure face when they're older. They have older children and their faces are never shown. But I agree, I'm uncomfortable with it.

I like some parenting tips accounts but the ones I follow don’t actually show their children fully (like they’re not in the frame, or you only see the back of their head occasionally). Like teachtalkinspire and mama_nous on Insta. I don’t have TikTok. So I think it’s totally possible to make useful and relatable content without sacrificing privacy. That’s different to what influencers want to do though, and I don’t have a lot of time for that tbh.

@vicky yes exactly, even taking away the creepy predators aspect… at some point these kids are going to grow up and realise their lives are all over the internet! It’ll be bully fuel when they’re at school x

@Rachael I kind of get that, a lot of babies look similar so wouldn’t be easily recognisable. It’s still concerning though, especially when they have lots of followers

@Ruth yes it shows it can be done, I follow a couple of women who do the same but I don’t think a lot are willing to do that as they know cute kids = more views. I do think Instagram /tiktok should stop influencers whose main content is their child. Often the age is around 14? I think for kids to have an account themselves so it makes no sense to allow it

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