https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvoLmsXKkYM

I don't have words.

There is no way that is not both physical and mental abuse. Those people should be in jail.

Heli wrote:I don't have words.

There is no way that is not both physical and mental abuse. Those people should be in jail.

yes. yes they should be.

and... it just spirals downward...

https://youtu.be/mrilDQugeME?t=351

I'm sure glad to hear that CPS apparently already checked them out and said they're fine. Good to know the government is keeping kids safe in healthy environments like that.

Wow, that's disturbing. Even if some of the abuse is fake (scripted) and I think it is, at least a fair portion certainly is not. And monetizing this is... scary. That kid in the glasses is going to be so screwed in the head, even if he thinks it's safe because he's being coached in some parts.

If Youtube had any scruples, they would ban the channel and turn all video over to the police.

Social media garbage is biased beyond repair. They'll force users to remove vitally important public documents and video, and ban your ass for intellectually and peacefully discussing important issues that are politically uncomfortable to the corrupt status quo, but they'll happily host users wanting to say how they're into child abuse, pedophilia, extreme violent racism, Islamic terrorism, etc..

I think they want us to be distracted in the soup of 'human filth', as opposed to being upright, conscientious people ready to fix this shyt.

That is horrible! They are massively bullying that one boy (Cody) just to achieve fame and fortune and then justifying it by buying their kids stuff. And to defend it by saying adults pull vicious pranks on other adults?!?!

EDIT: The parents have issued what seems to be a legit tear-filled apology and claim to be in family counseling. They claim they got caught up in being able to live a larger life and thought they were doing right by their kids by making a life where they could buy them more. To their credit, they (particularly the mom) completely own up to their failings and say they were wrong.

Is it legit or more acting? Who can say? It has a bunch of weird dissolve edits that are admittedly questionable, but for all I know, they just got too emotional or too personal in the edited portions to leave them in. I pray they follow through, and this family gets a much-needed new start away from all the reality YouTube crap and bullying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoYTdYRPPpw

EDIT 2: The family got a PR coach, and he may have been behind the apology. That doesn't make it fake necessarily, but it is certainly not helping people's opinions of the case. And apparently investigators are looking into it, but the "privated" videos are making it difficult. De Franco discusses it in the first few minutes of yesterday's video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brabrV8fLWM

Latest update... Judge ordered emergency removal of Cody and Emma and given them over to their biological mother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=516eTGhxLmw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd6Y2qHQhNg

I hope it's a better situation.

However, given judges' tendency to side with the mother in custody issues, I wonder if they'll just be moving to a different bad situation.