Front Burner

The dark side of family influencers


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Vanessa had her entire life put online during the 2000s “mommy blogger” era. She’s in her 20s now. And as she tells influence culture journalist Fortesa Latifi, her life was anything but glamorous.


The TikTok generation of child influencers is a multi-billion dollar industry. And with that money, comes concerns of exploitation.


Fortesa Latifi recently published a three part series and mini-doc for Cosmopolitan called “The Sharenting Reckoning”. She joins us to talk about it.

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