The dark side of the kidfluencing ‘trailer

A new Netflix Docuseries is investigating allegations of the exploitation of children against the Momager Piper Rockelle, a child influencer who is too well known around 2017. The three -part series ,, Bad influence: the dark side of the children’s areaswill premiere on April 9th ​​on the platform.

The trailer shows rockelle’s origins as a fun-loving, free-spiritual tween, whose antes pulled more than 10 million YouTube supporters. It also shows her mother Tiffany Smith, who represent the filmmakers as a famous predator. “Tiffany finds people who want to be famous,” says one person in a voice -over. “She uses it. Things can get very muddy when children earn an obscene amount of money. “According to the trailer, Rockelle’s Networks moved up to half a million dollars a month. The clip claims that it is mainly a rockelle audience and that Smith encouraged the young members of Rockelle’s “squad” to “make it sexy”. (Smith denied all allegations.)

Other allegations in the trailer are that “everything was checked by Tiffany” and that the squad turned 10 to 15 videos a day. Some of the respondents also claimed that Smith began “hate campaigns” against squad members who violated their wishes. “It’s like a cult or as if you can’t get out,” says a woman.

Last year, Smith and her former friend Hunter Hill enclosed a lawsuit of 1.85 million US dollars with 11 young people and their guards in 2021, who claimed that she had used her “emotionally, physically and sometimes sexually”, according to the Los Angeles Times. The lawsuit claimed that Smith had not paid her for her work. She did not explain to Just, However, the newspaper reported that it denied the allegations. “I am happy and relieved for my customers,” said Matthew Sarelson, the lawyer of the squad, in a statement: “11 children who had an abusive environment and had the courage to speak publicly.”