00:00Let's pick up all the dirty diapers I have lying around my house right now.
00:03This TikTok mom faced extreme backlash for posting about the 17 dirty diapers
00:08she let pile up around her house.
00:10Now, the mom is under investigation with Child Protective Services
00:13after dozens of viewers reported her.
00:15The scandal marks a growing trend across social media,
00:18where viewers feel entitled to police mommy content creators
00:22and attack them for any potential wrongdoing, no matter how big or small.
00:26But are people being way too hard on the moms of social media?
00:29For sharing their brutally honest lives?
00:32Or are viewers concerned for all the right reasons?
00:34Hannah Hyatt, better known as Nurse Hannah,
00:37to her almost 500,000 followers on TikTok,
00:40is just one creator who went super viral for a controversial parenting post.
00:44Her diaper TikTok appalled many viewers,
00:47in which she casually admitted to tossing her newborn
00:49and toddler's diapers behind her couch, on her coffee table,
00:52next to her bed, and picking them all up at the end of the day.
00:55I don't want a diaper pail or a diaper genie or whatever they're called.
00:58They just kind of get thrown around my house.
00:59While some empathized with Hannah's dirty diaper disaster as a postpartum struggle,
01:04others attacked her for being an irresponsible, neglectful parent.
01:07But Nurse Hannah isn't the only popular creator to come under fire
01:10for her questionable parenting posts.
01:12KC Davis, who posts mommy content as domestic blisters on TikTok,
01:17became the target of harsh criticism for admitting
01:19that she doesn't enjoy playing with her kids.
01:21The reason I can go and read a book while they play,
01:24that they're able to play independently,
01:26is because I just said no to them
01:28every single time they asked me to play with them for years.
01:32And eventually they stopped asking.
01:34KC anticipated the mom shamers and added,
01:37I'm not saying don't spend time with your kids.
01:40I'm not saying don't be playful with your kids.
01:43I'm not saying don't connect with them.
01:45I'm saying that I established a culture in my house
01:48that adults do not play with toys.
01:50Adults do not pretend to play.
01:52And sure, some of these controversial parenting posts
01:55have people understanding both sides.
01:58But other mom shamers are taking things totally overboard.
02:01For example, chef and mommy blogger Graca Walters
02:04received an outpouring of harassment
02:06for introducing her toddler to African and Caribbean cuisine.
02:10In one video, where Walters prepares lamb curry for her daughter,
02:14commenters spewed racist threats
02:16about the cruelty of feeding children spices.
02:19Another mommy content creator,
02:2126-year-old single mother Alexandra Sobol,
02:23got tons of backlash for one video
02:25where she served her one-year-old
02:27a breakfast of powdered donuts and applesauce.
02:2939,000 commenters left replies like,
02:32so just sugar.
02:33Wow, what kind of breakfast is this?
02:36And this breaks my heart.
02:37While TikTok's army of self-appointed food critics
02:40slammed Alexandra's choice,
02:42other moms kindly pointed out
02:44how realistic the donut scenario actually is
02:46for busy parents with picky children.
02:48In some cases, however,
02:50the collective policing of social media accounts
02:52that center families with small children is a good thing.
02:55And even potentially life-saving,
02:56Ruby Frankie, a mommy vlogger
02:59who ran a popular YouTube channel called 8 Passengers,
03:02was exposed for heinous acts of child abuse
03:04toward her six children
03:05and is facing up to 30 years in prison.
03:08Viewers of the 8 Passengers vlog
03:10became concerned with Ruby's extreme disciplinary methods,
03:13but it was ultimately Ruby's 12-year-old son
03:16who escaped through a window and was saved by a neighbor,
03:18triggering police to uncover her abuse.
03:21Five months after her arrest,
03:22Ruby Frankie has pleaded guilty to felony child abuse.
03:27Her YouTube channel, 8 Passengers,
03:29had over 2 million subscribers
03:31showcasing Ruby's controversial parenting style.
03:34So should parenting content creators
03:36pack it up and call it quits
03:38for fear of being shamed online?
03:40The answer is probably.
03:42The term sharenting,
03:42which describes parents who overshare sensitive moments
03:45with their children,
03:46has been called a violation to kids' privacy rights.
03:49But sharenting fans say
03:50the content is meant to share the joys of parenting.
03:53No matter what these mommy vloggers say
03:55in defense of the content they create,
03:57there's only one question that really matters.
04:00Is anyone thinking about what's best for the children?
04:03Won't somebody please think of the children?
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