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Anonymous (0e7e)
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And the probability of becoming a blockbuster movie star, hitting the lottery, making money gambling, etc is very low and yet huge industries with billions of dollars and people lining up to try still do it. You get my point, human nature is to believe we are all exceptional and different, as long as that possibility exists to be the next Bjerken or Bratayley or D'Amelio there will be people putting their children up for this stuff.I am a millennial who spent a lot of time on social media when I was younger. This was back when the average consumer was naïve to the business model of Facebook and algorithms that drive it. Things have changed now. We all know the mechanics of social media platforms. Some people enjoy gaming the algorithm to make money. Some people chose content creation as a legitimate career or supplementary source of income.
To the poster who said “I dont like it, but there is real money, like generational changing money, to be made if one is so fortunate to hit the right mix.” This is almost a good counter argument against the majority consensus in this thread…except for three points:
1. The probability of making a significant income from being an influencer is quite low. The median wage of an influencer is $22 an hour. [1]
2. The probability of child model attracting pedophiles is hard to measure, but definitely higher than we would care to admit (as discussed in the NYT piece).
3. The accountability of social media platforms and brand agencies in protecting children from sex predators is close to zero.
This is a very high risk and low reward scenario in my opinion. Do you really want part of your $22/hr wage be funded by pedophiles? Do you really want to expose your child to even the possibility of being groomed? I can think of a lot of careers and side hustles that don’t involve soft core prostituting a child. They have the rest of their adult life to go into the sex industry if that is what they want to do when they grow up.
[1] https://www.franklin.edu/career-gui...y-markers/how-much-salary-do-influencers-make