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    Parents are exploiting their children on YouTube for fame and easy money | Emma Brockes

    A mother was arrested this week for allegedly abusing her kids for ‘hilarious’ videos. Why are people watching this stuff?
    by Emma Brockes Mar 22, 2019 2 minutes
    ‘In the case of the most popular and successful channels, these kids are in essence child actors unprotected by labour laws, making their parents sizeable incomes.’ Photograph: Richard Vogel/AP

    When my twins were babies, I caught a short episode of them on video in which one leaned over and snatched the pacifier from the other one’s mouth and, for a second, I dreamed of putting it on YouTube and scoring one of those baby-does-hilarious-thing hits, in which the ad revenue rolls in

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