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00:08I'm inviting my whole entire squad over today.
00:13She's a multi-millionaire YouTube star, and she's only 15.
00:18Three, two, one!
00:21There was the Mickey Mouse Club, and now there is the squad.
00:24There's groups of kids that work together to build these massive viral chains of videos.
00:31We have a whole squad.
00:32What's up, I'm Sawyer.
00:34What's up, I'm Hayden.
00:35I'm Gavin.
00:35I'm Piper.
00:36I'm Sophie.
00:37I'm Chris.
00:38We all filmed videos together that were, like, challenges.
00:42They're going to have to chug an entire glass of water in just seven seconds.
00:46The last stop eating challenge, yeah!
00:49Kids really seem to, like, like it and enjoy it.
00:53We've got four million views.
00:54Just want to put this in perspective, okay?
00:56CNN, in one week, has 2.2 million views.
01:00She is a superstar online.
01:02Piper Raquel is an incredibly popular child influencer.
01:06Some of you have been watching me since I was literally eight years old.
01:09Yeah, I know.
01:10Piper garnered billions of views and millions of dollars.
01:16Tiffany Smith, Piper's mother, is the momager.
01:19Get closer to the bars.
01:21Here we go.
01:23She took these kids to massive, viral fame.
01:28It seemed fun.
01:29It seemed so innocent, but it wasn't innocent at all.
01:42This young lady's amassed more than 10 million followers on YouTube shooting silly videos
01:47with her friends.
01:48Now some of those now former friends and their parents are suing, alleging they were exploited.
01:55I wouldn't be surprised if I worked 12 hours, and then we would go to bed and do it all
01:59over
01:59again.
02:02Tiffany would often put me in situations where I felt unsafe.
02:05Closer, closer, closer, closer.
02:07We were definitely directed to do stuff that isn't really right for an adult to be telling
02:12little kids to do.
02:13I basically have a job and I am a kid.
02:16It didn't really actually occur to me that there could be dangers.
02:20Flirt with the camera.
02:21This is where predators go to seek content of children.
02:26Calm down.
02:26Look at that.
02:27They make it seem like it's this fun, happy house when it's really a house of horror.
02:34Tiffany yelled and screamed at everybody.
02:36It was a very cult-like atmosphere.
02:39Tiffany was a complete monster.
02:42You are a disrespectful little bitch.
02:44Tiffany took our innocence and just destroyed it.
03:15Tiffany
03:26It does make me laugh when Frank comes on the screen.
03:28Yeah, Frank was hilarious.
03:34Dude, that was my first ever video that I was with everybody.
03:41So I was like so excited.
03:43You know, this was never, it was good and fun.
03:45And we just had fun filming them.
03:48Because Piper was somebody that I looked up to.
03:50She was our cousin.
03:51And I wanted to do, like, YouTube videos and stuff like that.
03:56The thing that I just miss the most is Piper.
03:59It's just really sad that she's not in my life at the moment.
04:03I see your smiles whenever you're with her.
04:05And you two act so silly.
04:07I miss seeing that.
04:08Yeah.
04:14Tiffany is my older sister.
04:16And Piper is my niece.
04:18We grew up in Canton, Georgia.
04:20When Piper was born, Tiffany was 26 years old.
04:24Piper's dad left Tiffany when she was pregnant.
04:27Tiffany lived at home with my parents.
04:29She started her own business, pet grooming.
04:32And she raised Piper by herself without Piper's dad.
04:37When she was super young, Piper was just an outgoing kid.
04:41Just dancing around, singing, smiling.
04:45You can just tell she has something special in her.
04:53Piper was probably three years old when she started pageants.
04:58She won her first one at three, and it was for Fourth of July.
05:03Her room is full of trophies.
05:05She was great.
05:06Like, perfect.
05:08I think Tiffany's drive for Piper's success was to show Piper's dad that she was worth something
05:16and that he's missing out on her life.
05:20Piper was definitely doing the bikinis, the spray tan, the hair.
05:25She practiced and learned all the dance moves.
05:31Piper loved the attention.
05:33People clapping for her, the trophies.
05:37Tiffany definitely wanted Piper to be the best.
05:40Tiffany was not happy with second place.
05:44When Tiffany began to see Piper become successful in pageants, she wanted to go ahead and see
05:50what she can do in social media.
05:53And this is the YSB Now podcast, and we have a very special guest here today.
05:57Hi, Brakel.
05:59When did you start kind of saying, oh, it would be fun to kind of start posting my life on
06:03social media?
06:04When I kind of got done with pageants, there was this app, Musical.ly.
06:07I started on there, and then that's when stuff kind of, like, started to happen, and people
06:11started to, like, become my friends, I guess.
06:14You couldn't do anything, they'll say that I was clever.
06:18Musical.ly was created around 2014, and it was a lip-sync app.
06:22Oh, it's a potato.
06:23Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.
06:24You could create these short, funny videos where you were essentially lip-syncing to a
06:28sound.
06:29This was so popular with children.
06:32You were supposed to be 13 to use it, but kids as young as 6, 7, 8 were really addicted
06:38to it, and I would say it's their parents posting content.
06:41Musical.ly eventually became TikTok, one of the most successful apps of all time.
06:45Ow, Charlie!
06:47Ow!
06:48In 2007, you had Charlie Bit My Finger, an early YouTube video that really took off.
06:54That's when you started to see the ascendance of these early social platforms.
06:59You started to see more people hop on there, talk about their lives, and kind of start
07:02uploading intentionally for small audiences.
07:05Hi, Mommy!
07:06Okay, what you want today?
07:08What toy you want today?
07:09What is your pick-
07:09By 2011, YouTube had millions and millions of users.
07:13This one!
07:13That one?
07:14Uh-huh.
07:15Oh!
07:15And some of the earliest viral stars were actually children.
07:19I would always watch those little, like, unboxing videos of, like, toys and stuff, and
07:24I was like, Mom, I want to do this.
07:26Hey, guys, it's Piper Rochelle.
07:29Today we are going to be making fluffy slime.
07:32You would have to get Elmer's glue, school glue.
07:36You can just look at Piper's fluffy slime video, which is completely different from the pageant
07:41world, and you can see how comfortable she is in front of the camera.
07:45She's just a natural.
07:48Tiffany was constantly filming something.
07:50It was part of the routine of what they were doing.
07:56The way that Tiffany was able to utilize these new media platforms was brilliant.
08:01Social media is everything.
08:03You can build a brand on there, you can make friends on there, and you can really connect
08:07with anybody globally.
08:08Tiffany saw an opportunity for her daughter, and she wanted to give her daughter an opportunity.
08:14At the same time that you had internet fame taking off, you also had television and traditional
08:20fame changing, where suddenly real-life people were being cast on these reality shows.
08:27And Piper has what I would consider her big break.
08:29She gets cast on Dance Twins, which is a popular reality show.
08:34Hi, I'm Tiffany, and this is my beautiful daughter, Piper.
08:39She's the fun mom.
08:41Like, every kid wants to hang out with her.
08:43You also see Tiffany for the first time and really get a peek behind her parenting style.
08:48You can see that Tiffany is pushing Piper.
08:52This is, like, a really good time for you to get first place.
08:56Okay.
08:57I would like that.
08:58You know?
08:58From a young age, Piper wanted to please her mother, making sure that she's constantly
09:03striving to be the best, that she was the top performer in the South.
09:10But Piper was not in school.
09:13When Piper was eight or so, Ashley said to Tiffany, you really need to get her in some
09:17kind of school.
09:18You know, it's her right to be able to learn.
09:20And that was a big fight.
09:22Her main focus was on Piper advancing socially.
09:26She could excel in performing and hold a conversation with an adult, go out and do these auditions.
09:34I didn't understand it, but, you know, I supported them in whatever they wanted to do.
09:41It was the year 2017, and my daughter, Corinne, and I got an invitation from a friend to go
09:48and audition to be a backup dancer for a girl named Piper Raquel.
09:54My friend told me that Piper was crowned on Musical.ly.
09:58It was so hard to get crowned on Musical.ly.
10:00So I was like, oh my gosh, like, okay, cool.
10:05Corinne was very interested in acting, singing, dancing, all that stuff.
10:10We were trying to do some more dancing gigs.
10:14So we took off school, and we went to audition.
10:17When we walked in, there was a camera crew there, and it was for a show called Dance Twins.
10:23Piper was really sweet.
10:25We clicked.
10:26We were talking to each other the whole time during the audition.
10:30After filming that day, we realized that we both lived in Georgia, 20 minutes away from each other.
10:35So, of course, the girls are like, we want to get together.
10:38We want to do more things together.
10:41Me and Tiffany kind of bonded over, you know, our kids want to do this, so we're going to help
10:45them.
10:46Tiffany told me that she was really interested in doing YouTube
10:49because she had seen all these new families come along
10:52and were really, you know, taking off kind of doing social media.
11:01That means I love you and goat.
11:02Hey, can you clean up your toy room here, please?
11:06Clean up.
11:07Let me see it.
11:08Okay, there's Emily.
11:10Oh, my word.
11:11Okay, Ava, your turn.
11:12Tiffany said to me, we could totally do that.
11:16Like, this could be really good.
11:17I had never filmed a video before, so I was like, seems cool.
11:23Tiffany seemed like she was very in touch with social media.
11:29Corinne!
11:29Yee-haw, girl!
11:31Harper!
11:32Yee-haw, girl!
11:33Yay!
11:33Tiffany put it up on YouTube.
11:36And she texted me.
11:37She said, do you see this?
11:38It's at 20,000 views.
11:40And I was like, wow, that's cool.
11:42Cool.
11:43I don't know.
11:44And she was like, now it's at 40.
11:46Now it's at 70.
11:48That video got, like, over a million views.
11:52I had never gotten this type of, like, attention on social media before.
11:57I was excited.
12:01After that, we just continued, and the videos did really well.
12:09After Dance Twins, Piper really starts to explode on social media.
12:14People start following her.
12:15They start getting more interested in her life.
12:17And so, in 2017, she moves to L.A.
12:22So, we're going to L.A. right now.
12:25Okay, just...
12:25We're heading to the airport.
12:27Well, yeah.
12:28We're heading to the airport.
12:29What are you trying to do, 13?
12:32You want to go out into oncoming traffic?
12:35Tiffany and Piper grabbed their things and a couple of their cats
12:39and went to L.A. to pursue something bigger.
12:43Los Angeles, I'm coming for you.
12:46The entire Kidfluencer space is centered around Los Angeles.
12:51It is where all of the talent managers are, all the big agencies.
12:55Tiffany wanted success for her daughter.
12:58And so, she's launched Piper's YouTube channel,
13:02developing a brand, becoming a personality online.
13:05Hey, guys.
13:06It's me and Hunter, my brother.
13:09Hunter and Tiffany and Piper met at a conference in L.A.
13:13when Hunter came down from Wyoming.
13:17Hunter became a character on Piper's channel.
13:21He was posed as her brother.
13:23Very interesting to us as the family members
13:25because we're thinking, what?
13:27What's up, guys?
13:28It's your boy, Regan Beast, here with Hunter.
13:31I met Hunter after doing some videos
13:33and going over to Piper's place to just do collabs and such.
13:36He was doing a lot of camera work, and he was their editor.
13:39Lerp it.
13:41Me being trans, I haven't had a lot of guy friends that aren't trans.
13:46Hunter was like an older brother.
13:48He made me feel safe.
13:49He was there for me.
13:51Oh, !
13:54There were jokes made by Hunter to me about,
13:56but, yeah, I get with Tiffany sometimes.
13:59I think you're pretty.
14:01It wasn't until after knowing Hunter,
14:04he was like, yeah, I'm Piper's brother on YouTube.
14:07On YouTube, we're siblings, but not biologically.
14:10Big brother always wins.
14:12He was Piper's brother off camera as well.
14:14Like, he really was this, like, guy that was there for Piper
14:17in this childish way, not in a stepfather way,
14:20but then I think secretly doing stuff with Tiffany.
14:24I was like, does Piper know that you have this relationship with her mom?
14:30Hunter was Tiffany's very much younger boyfriend.
14:36Hey, guys, so we're back home.
14:37I look like the Grinch right now.
14:39So does Pipes.
14:40So does Tiff.
14:42He was 19 or 20, and he moved in,
14:45and they were all just creating content.
14:47A lot of you guys requested my night routine
14:51because I already did a morning routine,
14:53so you're just going to know all my routine.
14:54Piper's personality was built to do social media.
14:57She could act in such a way
15:00and make it seem so real.
15:05Piper was cuter than a button.
15:07Everyone loved her.
15:08She had a way to draw people in
15:12that just felt so authentic.
15:16Tiffany built a very viable brand on normalcy
15:21from a kid's point of view.
15:23The more and more relevant Piper's brand became,
15:28Tiffany found an opportunity to make it bigger.
15:32What you doing?
15:34Making a sandwich.
15:35So, um, what kind of sleepover is this?
15:37Just a typical sleepover.
15:39You don't even hear us.
15:42Piper very quickly lands a spot
15:44on the show Manny, produced by Brat.
15:47Brat is essentially the Disney channel for the Internet.
15:50They've had really popular shows.
15:52Manny was a breakout hit on YouTube.
15:54Where do you think you're going?
15:56All nannies participate in the makeup hour.
15:58Well, there's Manny not.
15:59Manny don't do that.
16:01Manny was about this nanny who was a man,
16:04and Piper played a character named Skye on the show,
16:08and she was the preppy, rich kid.
16:10Welcome to Skye's four-step guide to popularity.
16:13Step one, read yourself from all bad vibes.
16:16I played the gothic emo girl.
16:19Anything that goth girl did,
16:22Piper would do the opposite.
16:23I had no idea who Piper was, like, at all.
16:27I didn't know she had a social media presence at all.
16:29Sophie didn't even have an Instagram account
16:32when she joined Manny.
16:33They all insisted she needed one
16:35if she was on this Brat show,
16:36because everyone on the Brat platform
16:39was pretty big on social media.
16:41Sophie got her first job on the show Manny
16:44as a background actor.
16:45They liked her character so much that it took off.
16:48We were black to disappear.
16:51We met Piper and Tiffany on set,
16:53and then after that, I, like, talked to Piper a lot.
16:57From there, Tiffany and Piper asked me
16:59to be in a YouTube video,
17:00and it was the Freaky Friday video,
17:03Piper and Raquel's character Skies,
17:05which is characters with goth girl.
17:07That was my first experience of getting to know them.
17:12Tiffany would always invite Sophie for, like, a sleepover,
17:15and then they would do a video.
17:17Time is it.
17:18It is 11.10.
17:20So it's getting a little late.
17:22At that point, I didn't know anything about YouTube.
17:25I just thought they were kids filming videos.
17:30Piper and Sophie hit it off instantly.
17:35We really connected.
17:38We started to grow closer on set.
17:41That's where we connected and found, like, a lot of similarities.
17:46I felt like no one understood me,
17:48and I feel like she was the only one
17:49who actually, like, put an effort
17:51and actually tried to get to know me.
17:54Anything that I was feeling,
17:56we would just talk about.
17:59We became best friends.
18:01I've never really had a best friend before.
18:04We literally are like sisters right now.
18:13We both did Manny for a while,
18:15and then there was the camp season,
18:20and that's when Tiffany was essentially mad
18:22that another character had gotten more lines than Piper.
18:26Tiffany came to set.
18:28She pulled Piper off the set,
18:31and she was screaming all about the place.
18:33You're not going to cut my daughter from the show.
18:36She created this show.
18:38She was the beginning of this.
18:41She was like, Sophie, you need to come with us,
18:43and I was like, I'm not going to come with you.
18:45That's not what I'm going to do
18:46because I'm being professional on a set
18:48because I don't believe in burning ridges.
18:51It started to get stressful.
18:54Tiffany was upset.
18:55She just was barely talking to me.
18:59She dragged her off set.
19:02The producers ran after her.
19:05They, I think, stopped him at a gas station.
19:07She did not come back at all.
19:09I stayed filming, and it took a toll on our friendship,
19:13so Piper and I essentially stopped being friends.
19:17I realized Tiffany was unstable
19:20and that you had to be careful
19:21in what you were doing around her.
19:24I never, like, expressed that to anyone.
19:27I just kind of kept that to myself.
19:33When Tiffany and Piper lived in L.A.,
19:35they would come back to Georgia
19:36and visit us for holidays and birthdays
19:38or just, you know, spend some time with my mom and dad.
19:42This is around the time that Piper
19:44started having a relationship with Claire.
19:50Piper is my cousin by marriage,
19:53and she is Patience's niece,
19:55and my mom is married to Patience.
19:58I was always obsessed with having something
20:01to do with the camera,
20:03whether it be behind the camera
20:04or in front of the camera.
20:05So it was crazy to think
20:07that I had some sort of relation to Piper.
20:10I looked up to her so much.
20:14I watched her before I really, really knew
20:17she was my cousin,
20:17so I was like, oh, my gosh.
20:19Like, I didn't believe it at first.
20:20I'm like, is there another person named Piper?
20:23The first time I met her, I was like, oh, my gosh.
20:25And, like, I was so happy.
20:26I was, like, literally blown away by that.
20:30The connection between Piper and Claire and Reese,
20:33we saw it as such an avenue
20:36for Tiffany and Patience to connect
20:39because they didn't have a relationship.
20:43Growing up, Tiffany and I were very close.
20:46She's four years older than I am.
20:48I always looked up to her,
20:49and we spent a lot of time with each other,
20:52and, you know, we got along really well.
20:56But all of us were affected by the divorce.
20:59That's when I began to definitely see a change in Tiffany.
21:02She definitely became more aggressive
21:04physically and verbally,
21:05and I chose not to speak to Tiffany.
21:09I pushed her in a way
21:11to try to have a much healthier relationship
21:14with her family.
21:15Make a wish and pull out the candles.
21:18I was excited to possibly have a connection
21:22with my sister again.
21:25Two moms, two sisters, you know, raising girls together.
21:33Hey, guys, what's up?
21:34Today we're gonna go spend $30
21:36and get ourselves the best costume.
21:38I made my first video with Piper in 2018.
21:41I did not know who she was.
21:43I thought this is another kid that does what I want to do
21:47and makes YouTube videos.
21:48This is great.
21:49I'm Piper Raquel, and I am in a pirate outfit.
21:53Both for me, guys.
21:54I'm Sawyer.
21:55This is my outfit.
21:56The very first video did all right,
21:59but Tiffany invited us back to make more videos.
22:02So today we are going to be getting
22:04super long acrylic nails.
22:06And as Piper's channel continued to skyrocket and climb,
22:10Tiffany and Piper start adding new people to the clique.
22:14We have Sawyer.
22:15Hey!
22:15Hey, I hated you!
22:17Hey, I'm Gavin!
22:19Tiffany wanted a group of kids,
22:21modeling it after Friends.
22:23Friends was highly successful.
22:25She knew it.
22:26She's like, we can get this group and keep growing it.
22:30She thought it would be a hit.
22:31All right, bye.
22:31Yeah, I'm going to hold the camera lower.
22:33Corinne had always wanted to do acting,
22:35so we moved to Hollywood.
22:38Very quickly when we got there,
22:39Tiffany asked if we could do a video.
22:42A few months after the whole Manny incident,
22:44Tiffany had reached out to, like, my mom apologizing,
22:48saying that Piper really missed me,
22:50and she was very sad about the entire situation.
22:53After that, we started filming a lot more together.
22:58They all got together one day to film,
22:59and people were like,
23:01oh, my gosh, it's a squad.
23:03And Tiffany just took that, ran, loved it.
23:07She's like, that's what we're going to call it,
23:08the squad.
23:09It's Piper! Go!
23:11I never went to public school,
23:13so I never really had, like, a big friend group.
23:16I was like, I need some help with YouTube channel,
23:18so I was like, do you want to do YouTube with me?
23:20And they started,
23:21and we kind of all just had this amazing bond.
23:25And so the squad was formed,
23:28a group of other child content creators
23:31that are built around Piper.
23:33It's like her supporting cast of characters.
23:37But make no mistake, she is always at the center.
23:40She is the star.
23:43I'm in love.
23:44Oh, my gosh.
23:44Tiffany wasn't the first person to think of a squad.
23:47Time to mess up our bodies some more.
23:49Oh!
23:49See what it's going to be.
23:51There was Jake Paul's team 10.
23:54Alex!
23:55David Dobrik's group was the Sidemen.
23:59Lots of other older people doing that
24:02out there on the Internet.
24:04This is that exact same formula, just with kids.
24:09That's it for today, folks.
24:11Hope you've enjoyed.
24:16Stop!
24:17Get this challenge started!
24:19Get the wheels!
24:20Why are you wearing my outfit?
24:22Why are you wearing my outfit?
24:23As these kids start to hit these massive numbers
24:26and going viral, viral, viral,
24:27building all of these followers,
24:29they became this massive success.
24:33And everyone's watching.
24:35How do you think they're going to react?
24:36Be-be-be-be-be-be!
24:39Oh, Piper!
24:40Being liked in the public eye,
24:43it will give you confidence,
24:45it will give you an ego boost,
24:46it'll make you feel good.
24:47And I think that's why people want it so bad.
24:51It makes you feel special.
24:53At one point, we were actually the top 11-year-olds
24:56in the world on, like, famous birthdays
24:58and all these different websites.
25:00We are going on tour!
25:03There were thousands of kids.
25:05Like, it was insane.
25:06Fight!
25:06Fight!
25:07Fight!
25:07Fight!
25:08There was a line wrapped around the block,
25:11and it made me more motivated.
25:13Like, wow, I want to keep going,
25:15I want this to do well,
25:16I want it to be amazing, all or nothing.
25:20Getting to see the subscribers
25:22and numbers go up was absolutely amazing.
25:26It was still one of the happiest moments of my life,
25:29getting to see that number hit a million.
25:30It was something that I had always dreamed about.
25:33Today I'm going to be showing you
25:34what's going on at my house.
25:36Hey, guys, I'm Piper Raquel,
25:38and I'm so excited to be here.
25:40I cannot believe that I hit a million on YouTube.
25:42You hit a million subscribers
25:43in a year and a half.
25:44That's insane.
25:45I know.
25:46She is an entrepreneur, a singer, a YouTube star.
25:49Piper Raquel is here to talk about her new song,
25:52Treat Myself.
25:53Treat Myself.
25:53I'm going to treat myself,
25:55treat myself, treat myself.
25:57I'm going to treat myself,
25:58treat myself tonight.
25:59Treat Myself was Piper's first music video
26:02about girls who had, like, a spa day,
26:04and they see, like, these cute guys outside,
26:07and then they want to get their phone numbers.
26:11Once the squad is established,
26:12Piper's YouTube fame skyrockets.
26:14And she starts earning tons of money.
26:18YouTube has a revenue share program
26:20with content creators
26:21that's radically different
26:22than all other platforms.
26:24If you haven't already,
26:25make sure you like, subscribe,
26:26and turn on those postal vacations.
26:28It's called monetizing their content.
26:30One is the direct money paid by YouTube.
26:34You upload content,
26:35YouTube puts some ads in there,
26:37and then you get a portion of that ad revenue.
26:40You also monetize by doing things like brand deals
26:43and partnerships
26:43and getting products and brands to pay you
26:47to promote them.
26:49Look how cute they are.
26:50They're so cute.
26:51Walmart is going pretty smooth.
26:53Thank you so much, Walmart.
26:53You can drive brand deals through exposure.
26:58Brands want to drop money
26:59so that they can get 50 million impressions
27:01in three days.
27:03That is what these influencers can do.
27:06Thank you so much, Mattel.
27:08I'm so excited to see what this Gleamer looks like.
27:10The market cap of the content creator industry
27:13is, I think, supposed to pass
27:14half a trillion by 2027.
27:16That honestly feels low.
27:17Where'd you get that disgusting hoodie?
27:19This disgusting hoodie?
27:21There's merch sales.
27:22There's touring tickets.
27:24All of these different revenue streams
27:25are almost beating each other
27:27to create this multi-platform,
27:29multi-million dollar business.
27:31There's kids that are making
27:33six figures a month in this space.
27:38Six figures a month.
27:41One Christmas,
27:42there was an Apple computer,
27:45brand new Canon camera.
27:47There was like a Louis Vuitton bag.
27:49That's when I realized
27:50this is bigger than I even know.
27:55I didn't really know
27:58about the monetization of YouTube.
28:01I wasn't clear in that.
28:03I was a single mom
28:04living in Hollywood with a kid.
28:07And Tiffany knew that.
28:09She knew the struggles.
28:10She told me that,
28:11you know, you can really
28:12make money at this.
28:14And I was like, oh, really?
28:16Like, she's like, oh, yeah.
28:18She makes a lot of money.
28:19Enough to handle all your bills.
28:21And I was like, oh,
28:23are the girls' videos making money?
28:26She's like, oh, yeah.
28:27And at that point,
28:29YouTube was just fun for Corrine.
28:32So we didn't really think about that aspect of it.
28:36My best friend is so much better than you.
28:39So then that's when I kind of just started thinking,
28:42if you're making all this money,
28:44you're telling me about the money now.
28:46Where's our money?
28:47You know, we weren't getting any money.
28:48And she's like, oh, she's getting exposure.
28:51People know her.
28:55You knew that they were making money off of your kid,
28:58but you also believe that your kid is growing
29:01and that they will,
29:03your kid will benefit
29:04by being able to get views himself
29:07and to get brand deals
29:08and to be a content creator himself.
29:11Nope.
29:11Mistletoe.
29:12Oh, a bow.
29:14Tiffany's proposition was basically,
29:17I'm going to help you make this money.
29:21So, okay, now I'll see something
29:24for what we're doing.
29:25Guys, can I have some water?
29:27Oh, this is all right.
29:28Yeah, I have some water.
29:28I have some water.
29:29So we're doing the pyramid.
29:30Ah!
29:31Corrine!
29:32Oh, my God, are you okay?
29:34I need to go get her some water.
29:35Corrine, wake up!
29:39There's a lot of money to be made in this space.
29:43And in order to do that,
29:44you have to hit the algorithms.
29:45You have to get people to engage with you.
29:47The algorithm is built
29:49so that it can watch all of this footage
29:51and say, okay, person X,
29:53you want to see this content,
29:55so let's put it at the top of your page.
29:57And so it takes a lot of experience in this space
29:59to understand how can I get enough comments,
30:02enough likes, enough shares to go viral.
30:06So you guys might be wondering
30:07who edits these videos.
30:08It's obviously the editor,
30:09and, like, where does he edit the videos?
30:11Hunter is basically the one
30:13who helps the YouTube algorithm,
30:15suggests content times.
30:18He said he learned the sauce.
30:20How you got more views,
30:23how you got better ads,
30:25how you got the hashtags
30:27in the right places
30:28to draw people to your videos.
30:30It's basically optimizing your videos,
30:33making sure that most people saw them as possible.
30:36My first experience is, like,
30:38making social media and posting videos
30:41was when I was, like, eight or nine.
30:44I didn't understand the analytics of it
30:46and how that helped the video or anything.
30:49Today, I'm gonna go catch me some gold diggers.
30:51When we joined the squad,
30:52we had to hand over the channel to Hunter.
30:55We gave him the login and everything.
30:57And I was really excited for him
31:00to make the videos do even better.
31:03And, you know,
31:04it was a little bit hard to hand over something
31:06that I had worked so hard to create,
31:09but it seemed like a really good opportunity
31:11and the right thing to do at the time.
31:13Hey! Hey, hey!
31:15Do you want to go get lunch with me or something?
31:19Are you the old enough to drive?
31:21You can drive. Here. Let's go.
31:28We were randomly looking at open houses
31:30in the Hollywood Hills.
31:31It's everyone's dream to live in the Hollywood Hills
31:34when you move to California.
31:36It was a beautiful house, and it was huge.
31:39Tiffany and Hunter and Piper lived in an apartment,
31:42and we had an apartment.
31:44The house ended up being
31:46only a couple thousand more
31:48than all of us were paying.
31:50So we were like,
31:51if we combined,
31:52we could get a place to shoot content.
31:54Tiffany was really excited.
31:56My mom was pretty excited.
31:57And Hunter was excited.
31:59I did not want to move in.
32:01I always felt uneasy with Tiffany
32:03just because I knew that she wasn't stable.
32:05That was something that was, like, always in my mind.
32:08I honestly just really loved the house.
32:11And there was, like, a yard
32:13for the kids to run around,
32:14and it felt safe.
32:16And, uh, I had a new friend,
32:20somebody who understood
32:21the same situation I was in,
32:23a single mom trying to make it.
32:26Piper came to me about everything.
32:28She felt like she could just talk about
32:30the things she was struggling with.
32:32And she really got close with my mom, too.
32:36Piper had pulled my mom aside
32:38and asked her to come move in with her
32:42because she was like,
32:44I need a stable parent.
32:45I don't have that.
32:46She didn't really have a mother.
32:48She just had this person in her life
32:49who made her do content
32:51and wasn't really there in her best interest.
32:54I think that's kind of what made us say yes.
32:58Piper became like a second child.
33:01They became our family.
33:05Okay, so who are better?
33:07All right, judges,
33:08are you guys ready to vote?
33:09Yes.
33:10Yes.
33:10All right.
33:12Yes!
33:12So I am a sexist church!
33:16Making videos seems fun at first.
33:18It's not fun all the time.
33:20You don't always want to get up
33:22and put on a smile
33:23and sit there for hours
33:25in front of a camera talking.
33:26I have my orange and my olive oil.
33:29We were shooting for everyone's channel
33:32because Tiffany gave everyone a channel.
33:34Okay, whatever.
33:35So my name's Ramona.
33:36We were filming like 10 to 15 videos a day.
33:39Everyone had to be there at 11 a.m.
33:42and we would shoot till 1 a.m. to 2 a.m.-ish.
33:46So that's a long work day.
33:49And action, Sophie.
33:50All right, guys.
33:51So we really have to pee.
33:52So this is our morning.
33:53I would go to bed for like two to three hours,
33:55get up around like 6, 7-ish
33:58and do school.
33:59We need to go!
34:01Close my tablet
34:02and then I would have to get ready to film.
34:05And then do it all over again.
34:06And this was every day of the week.
34:08We did not get a break at all.
34:09Give me a call.
34:11I got it.
34:12Piper, to make out for it,
34:13just let me know if you want me
34:14to be your personal assistant today.
34:15Okay, action.
34:17Okay.
34:17Tiffany is the type of person
34:19who wanted to be in control
34:20of what Piper was doing
34:22and how the video went.
34:24There was frustration
34:25with her and her mom
34:26where she would say something wrong
34:28and her mom would yell at her.
34:31Like, Piper, like, you know better.
34:33Like, do this better.
34:33And she'd be like,
34:34okay, like, I'm trying,
34:35like, and stuff like that.
34:37Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys.
34:39It doesn't even look weird.
34:40Like, Sawyer, here,
34:41let's do this better.
34:42Sawyer, turn around.
34:43Eventually it became,
34:44you're just being told what to do
34:45like you're a puppet.
34:46Come on!
34:48Enough stalling.
34:48Let's get this done.
34:50Okay, so Sawyer,
34:51standing how Piper is,
34:52facing that direction.
34:53Facing that direction.
34:54Good.
34:54Yeah, standing back.
34:55It's work.
34:56Maybe one out of 50 videos you filmed
34:59you actually enjoyed
35:00and were yourself in,
35:01but it was a lot of faking it
35:04to try and make a good video.
35:09With Corinne actually doing real acting,
35:11real dancing, real jobs,
35:13we knew you're supposed
35:15to have a teacher on set.
35:17We had to do school.
35:19Six hours of school.
35:22We knew you're supposed to have hours
35:24you're supposed to work.
35:25You're supposed to have food.
35:28You're supposed to have all those things.
35:31Traditional child entertainers
35:33are subject to a bunch of rules
35:34that frankly took decades
35:36to be put in place.
35:37You had this reckoning
35:39in the early half of the 1900s
35:42around famous child stars
35:43of yesteryear that were not paid,
35:46they were exploited.
35:47And so you saw these laws form
35:50that were meant to protect
35:51these child stars.
35:52Unfortunately,
35:53when it comes to new forms of work
35:55and new media,
35:56there are no labor protections.
35:58Ladies, guys,
35:59we're supposed to be filming
36:00Sophie's YouTube video right now.
36:01We are?
36:01We are.
36:02Yeah, right now.
36:02Why is she...
36:03Sophie?
36:05Shelby!
36:05Shelby!
36:06Because Tiffany and Hunter
36:09were doing YouTube videos,
36:11they believed that they were
36:13outside of the arena
36:15where those laws applied.
36:17All right, Sophie!
36:18Wake up right now!
36:19We're supposed to be filming
36:19your YouTube video!
36:20Why are you sleeping?
36:21Because we're going to be
36:22doing a video.
36:23Pull yourself together!
36:24That's intense!
36:30We went to Bombay Beach,
36:32and if you don't know
36:33what Bombay Beach is,
36:34it's an abandoned town,
36:35and we catch cats there.
36:37It's just a lot of fun.
36:39Originally, Tiffany and Piper
36:41had two cats.
36:43Then we started rescuing
36:44more and more cats,
36:45and we rescued so many
36:48that we had 36 cats
36:50throughout the house.
36:52Growing up,
36:53we had 20, 30 cats at a time.
36:55They weren't indoors,
36:57they were outside.
36:58It was cold out,
36:58we'd let them come in the basement.
37:01It's very similar
37:02to how Tiffany lives her life still.
37:06You'd have to feed all the cats,
37:07but I don't know
37:08if you've ever fed 30 cats.
37:10It's quite an experience.
37:13Sometimes the trash can
37:14out by the street
37:16would be so heavy
37:17with litter,
37:17they wouldn't take the trash can.
37:19Oh, I like the camera!
37:22Because we accumulated
37:23about 60 cats,
37:25it became Tiffany's obsession
37:26to clean for two hours
37:28with bleach water
37:29and with a janitor-style
37:31industrial bucket
37:32every night.
37:34Look at Diego,
37:35wants out, look at him.
37:36We finished a video
37:36around 1 a.m.
37:38I was cleaning
37:39until around, like, 3 a.m.
37:43Sophie and Piper
37:44fell asleep
37:45at the top of the stairs
37:46bleaching the walls.
37:47I was like,
37:48shh, I won't tell anyone,
37:49just go to bed,
37:50and then Piper told on me
37:52and I got yelled at.
37:54At that time,
37:54it was definitely
37:56bad
37:57and weird
37:58and unfun
38:00to do videos.
38:02What are the odds,
38:03Coco,
38:03that you would
38:03lick that off the floor?
38:05Do you want me to do it?
38:06I mean,
38:07I guess I dare you.
38:10Oh my gosh,
38:12she did it.
38:12Piper,
38:13are you going to do it?
38:14Once the squad
38:14started really making money,
38:16it became about
38:17the numbers.
38:18How many people
38:19can we get to watch?
38:21We're doing bathing suits
38:22like we did last time.
38:23How come I always end up
38:25in a bathing suit
38:25when I'm here?
38:26They're going to do
38:26what they have to do
38:27in order to make that happen.
38:32That's when you have kids
38:33that are forced
38:34into situations
38:34that they might otherwise
38:36be uncomfortable with.
38:37I need every single one of you.
38:39You have to be really,
38:39really mean to Simone.
38:41We were actually told
38:42to be mean to Simone,
38:44to ignore her,
38:45to not wish her
38:46a happy birthday.
38:48Simone!
38:49Hi, you're vlogging today?
38:50Yeah, we're,
38:51it's a squad a year late.
38:53Before,
38:53it was just kind of for fun,
38:55and now seemed
38:56a little cutthroat.
38:58Oh, was that a bad take?
38:59Yeah, it was like
39:00something on the screen,
39:01it just, it was...
39:01Oh, something was in this,
39:02like on the lens, maybe?
39:03Yeah, it was something
39:04kind of ugly.
39:04Oh.
39:05They did things
39:06that made us uncomfortable
39:07and that were hurtful.
39:11Tiffany absolutely wanted
39:12to do more questionable content
39:14to get more views and likes.
39:15I know why
39:16there's no independence
39:17on the ground.
39:17Why?
39:18To not get down
39:19because I'm not really
39:20friends in the...
39:21It progressively got worse
39:23and worse.
39:24She knew that.
39:26No, I'm not a loser, Frank.
39:28Frank the Pug
39:29is Tiffany
39:30holding the dog,
39:32saying these things
39:33in a weird voice.
39:34He would bully you,
39:35he would degrade you,
39:36he would say things
39:37that Tiffany probably
39:38couldn't get away
39:39with saying
39:40in her normal voice.
39:41You're kidding.
39:43Like...
39:44Frank hated Sophie.
39:46Like, would pick on her
39:47all the time.
39:48It's time to film,
39:49what are you doing?
39:50I'm singing it now.
39:51Yeah, now she gets
39:52for the top of the lesson.
39:53She's messing.
39:54She's everywhere.
39:55She's...
39:56It became a very
39:57stressful environment.
39:59I didn't know how to,
40:00like, say stop
40:01at all.
40:05Today, I am a...
40:08A-hole!
40:09Tiffany, she was just
40:10being mean.
40:11A little bit of a...
40:12And she was having
40:13outbursts and just
40:14weirder situations
40:16that started happening.
40:17Let's bring in
40:18our first player,
40:19my favorite,
40:20Gavin!
40:22Gavin's not here.
40:24What?
40:24He's sick,
40:25he can't come.
40:26What?
40:27Tiffany really
40:28had, like,
40:29a fascination with Gavin.
40:30Like, not in just
40:31a friend way,
40:31in, like,
40:32a creepy way.
40:33Lick it.
40:34Lick it.
40:35If I'm not gonna lick it.
40:36If I'm gonna lick it.
40:38I'm not gonna lick it.
40:39Tiffany would flirt with him.
40:41That was very weird.
40:43She would say,
40:44do you have a boner
40:44for him looking at me
40:45to Gavin?
40:46At this time,
40:47he's probably 12, 13.
40:48Let me turn that up for ya.
40:50Let me turn that up for ya.
40:51Let me turn that up for ya.
40:52I don't know what I do with it.
40:54Gavin would try
40:55to laugh about it,
40:56brush it off,
40:56because he didn't really
40:57understand what she was saying.
40:58I had no idea
41:00what she was saying.
41:00But she wouldn't do this
41:02around parents.
41:04Corinne cries
41:04when she comes home.
41:06She started revealing
41:07more and more things to me
41:08that were going on
41:10at Tiffany's house.
41:12When people ask me about it
41:14and, like, hear,
41:15I don't talk about it.
41:17I was at the end
41:18of my rope
41:18with some of the things
41:20that I'd heard,
41:21some of the things
41:22that were transpiring.
41:22That was it.
41:23We were done.
41:24We left.
41:26And I get these
41:27angry texts.
41:31Corinne got kicked
41:32from the group
41:33in a group text.
41:36I'd never seen
41:37anything like that,
41:38and it did kind of
41:39make me feel
41:39a little like,
41:40what?
41:41It wasn't our idea
41:43to do that.
41:44It was completely
41:45controlled by Tiffany,
41:47out of spite.
41:49Corinne's trying
41:50to text them
41:51and, like,
41:51ask what's going on,
41:52and Sawyer said,
41:54I'm so sorry, Corinne.
41:56I love you,
41:57but if I don't,
41:57I can't be in videos.
42:01She had people
42:02on social media
42:03hate on me, too.
42:05Calling Corinne
42:06a piece of shit
42:06on the bottom
42:07of their shoe
42:07and, like,
42:08Corinne was a backstabber
42:10and Corinne
42:10was a bad friend.
42:13I basically
42:14got blacklisted
42:15after leaving.
42:17Nobody said anything
42:19because we were,
42:20like, really scared,
42:21like, well,
42:21what if she does
42:22that to me?
42:24Tiffany finds people
42:26who want to be famous.
42:28She knows who to find.
42:30She knows who
42:32to talk to.
42:34She knows how
42:35to talk to you.
42:36She takes advantage
42:37of them.
42:40We hung out a lot,
42:42Hunter, Piper,
42:43and Tiffany.
42:44There were some occasions
42:46where Tiffany was drinking
42:47and she just has no filter,
42:48and she would say things
42:49to me,
42:49especially around Piper.
42:50She's like,
42:51you're going to be so sexy,
42:52like, when you're,
42:53like, a little bit older.
42:55So we were on my livestream
42:56having a good time,
42:59and then it took
43:00a really unexpected turn.
43:03She forced herself
43:04off on me.
43:06I was shocked.
43:09I was shocked.
44:04I was shocked.
44:04I was shocked.
44:16To be continued...
45:01To be continued...
45:33To be continued...
45:43To be continued...
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