The videos of family content creators, parent lifestyle, and how to raise your children are very popular on social networks. There are thousands of videos about respectful parenting, the best foods for your kids, and content about families living in modified vehicles. In reality, behind many of these vlogs is that your children may have no privacy, be forced to live in cramped spaces, or have many limitations while their parents earn money. So, in the USA, more states are joining against child exploitation. However, in this Reddit video, an influencer discovered that more and more family content creators are opting to move from California to Tennessee. Sadly, this is more than just a change of scenery.
Redditor Chocolat3City shared on r/TikTokCringe a video of TikTok influencer hellokalliemarie. In this video, hellokalliemarie talks about how many family and parenting content creators are moving from California to Tennessee. At first, it seems that because Tennessee is a conservative state, these vloggers have more values aligned with those in those states. However, hellokalliemarie explains how it’s a deeper problem. The reality is that as of January 1st, 2025, a law passed in California whereby family vloggers whose children appear in more than 30% of their videos must deposit 65% of their children’s gross earnings into a trust fund that they will receive when they reach the age of majority. Before this change, parents had to pay only 15%, so these movers seem to be more about parents not wanting to pay more to their children.
Omg this is the coogan account!! I’ve been saying this needs to be a NATIONAL law for so long.
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Here’s an example of heavy exploitation and thievery: Mama June and Honey Boo Boo. That child was in Toddlers & Tiaras and then they got their own reality show. Her entire childhood was in front of the camera. The only money that was guaranteed hers was when she was on Dancing with the Stars. Why? Because the show takes place in California. Otherwise, that Georgia mama blew all that money on drugs and men. Honey Boo Boo had nothing when she reached adulthood other than that little bit of money from DWTS. She doesn’t even have enough to get her through college.
Make the Coogan law a national thing!!
If you are unfamiliar with Coogan Law, it originated because of the actor Jackie Coogan, better known as Uncle Fester, in 1966’s The Addams Family. Jackie Coogan acted as a child, but when he turned 21, and his father died, he realized he had absolutely nothing. He spent so many years of his life working to realize that his parents had just exploited him, so he sued his mother and agent. This is how the Coogan Law originated: to prevent child exploitation.
