Okay, time for some more thoughts on family vloggers. Like I mentioned in my last blog on family vloggers, it is extremely common for these guys to use trauma for content. Their son was bullied at the playground? Film it. The car got vandalized? Film it. Their daughter got into a car accident? Film the damaged car and make multiple videos about any injuries/recovery she had to deal with. It'll wind up as a series on their playlists.

Crazy, right?

Youtube has created it's own culture and that culture is in the pits. Drama, pain, and suffering is what gets the most views, comments, and attention. As a result, family vloggers are DESPERATE for something bad to happen to them. They know that is what will get them the most clicks. I think this is why many of them film almost every single day and take the camera everywhere they go. They are hoping and praying that something bad will happen and they can get it on camera. These folks will film something as mundane as shopping. SHOPPING! Literally in the supermarket, at Cotsco, at Target, at Walmart, with their camera in hand filming EVERYTHING. I truly think that they are hoping, someone will be rude to them, or they'll have a confrontation, or someone will yell at their kids; anything. All they need is the most minor of semi-annoying interactions, then they can make a thumbnail with a giant arrow pointing at the perpetrator, their kids crying, themself looking shocked or sad, and topped off with a eye catching title like "We were SHOCKED this happened at the store today!!!!!".

Hell, absolutely NOTHING could happen and they'll still blow up a minor interaction and pretend something went wrong just to get those clicks. Clickbait is like a sport on Youtube and family channels do it all the time. They'll pretend their house burned down by putting a picture of a huge fire on the thumbnail with the title "FIRE AT OUR HOUSE?!" In actuality, they were grilling weenies out back and maybe added a bit too much gas, so the amount of smoke and fire increased for a few seconds and they had to turn down. The 'fire' lasts all of 2 minutes of the video, it wasn't in the home but instead in the backyard, and it amounts to nothing. This is typical for family channels. Overexaggerated or straight up fake thumbnails where the main thing you came to see does't happen until 20 minutes into the 30 minute long video and only lasts a minute or so. Because a title like 'happy day grilling hot dogs', isn't interesting enough. All they need is to lure you in with that scary thumbnail and they've succeeded.

But don't worry, they don't even need to go out for horrible things to happen. Maybe they'll fall down the stairs or slip in the pool or choke on breakfast Cherrios. Again, this is why they film all the time. If there's a chance for something to go wrong, their hope is that it will go wrong. Why else would they film the kids eating breakfast? So if they do choke or accidentally knock over their milk, it can be on camera. Otherwise, the content is boring. But as long as something bad happens, they can overexaggerate the severity of the situation and pick their title; "She almost CHOKED?" He could have DROWNED!!!!!!" "We thought he broke his leg after falling down the stairs :( " Any of those would get great clicks.

To give an exampke of what I mean, it is also common for family vloggers to take their cameras when they go out to eat at a restraunt. I've always found this strange, the idea of people eating a meal and occassionally talking to a camera instead of focusing on their family and meal. Why do this? I mean, what's more interesting? Going to eat and having a plesant meal with no issues and all smiles? Or going out to eat with your 10 kids and the waiter yells at your kids and insults and berates you as parents and makes the kids cry and the baby spills food all over the floor and to top it off, the card is declined?  Family vloggers go out expecting the first scenario, but hope for the second. Yes, you read that right. They WANT someone to yell at their kids and make them cry because that. is. content. Again, why else film yourself going out to dinner? They want a confrontation with a waiter or the manager, maybe even another customer. It doesn't matter who causes the issue, it just needs to happen on film.

See how crazy that is? I can't imagine being a child of a family vlogger. These kids don't even know that their parents want them to be hurt or upset, since that will bring in the views. I watched a clip recently from a family vlogger where a little girl accidentally cut her finger and her parents made sure to go grab their camera (since they weren't filming in that moment crazily enough), place the camera on the floor to make sure they got a good angle of her crying her eyes out, and then later filmed the blood all over the floor while the child was still bleeding and crying. That is so horrific and infuriating. A normal parent would have immediatley went to assit their child and focused on them until they stopped crying, not grab a camera. But that video got them MILLIONS of views, so of course they were gonna film it. They're probably glad they chose to get the camera as their child was wailing on the floor just to get them juicy clicks.

It must be so stressful to run a family chanel and having to constantly hope for bad things to happen to you and your kids, just for some attention online.