Mother accused of ‘exploiting’ her 6 children by forcing them create at least 40 TikToks on a family holiday – and monitoring them with a spreadsheet
A mother has been accused of “exploiting” her children by forcing them to create 40 social networks while on holiday and tracking their progress on a spreadsheet.
Disney enthusiasts Lilly Davis and her husband Paul of Salt Lake City took their six children on a trip to Disneyland.
Each child was allegedly asked to create themed content for their mother’s social media channels, with a goal of creating 40 videos between them, with Lilly insisting she didn’t want them to “overwhelm” themselves during the trip.
According to Lilly’s Collabstr website, parents can make a huge profit of $2,150 per sponsored photo post or reel on Instagram and $1,150 per video on TikTok.
However, the mother was criticized online by professional adviser KC Davis, who said Lilly was “exploiting” her children for content. The post has since been deleted.
KS video It initially received over two million views, with many taking to the comments section to express concern.
Lilly Davis (pictured) has come under fire on social media for asking her children to create social media content while on holiday.
On TikTok, KC said that using family vlogs amounted to “supporting child exploitation.”
She explained: “I don’t know this woman and I don’t have any personal animosity towards her and I’m not trying to make her hate me.”
KC then used a video of Lilly where she explained that she didn’t want her family to be overworked during the holidays, so the kids were only required to record a minimal amount of content.
Lilly shared an excerpt detailing each child’s assignment.
“We don’t even see the whole table, but there are at least 71 rows,” said K.S.
She added: “I went back and counted and it’s 40 videos and that’s not even the whole list.”
“The idea of their kids not working is to create 40 videos, and as you can see, they are carefully planned, and I know some of these trends; They’re in no hurry to do it… there will be reshoots, there will be takes.”
KC urged viewers to see the alternative reality behind the video. She said, “If you have this idea in your head that… family vlog channels or family influencers are just living their real lives and recording things as they think about it, I want that to be imprinted in your brain – that’s not what what’s happening. ‘
KC Davis (pictured), a professional counselor from the US, accused Lilly of exploiting her children.
Lilly and her husband (pictured center right) invited their six children (pictured) to go to Disneyland.
KC said the lifestyle of influencers could have potentially detrimental effects on children.
She said: “It’s every aspect of your child’s life where they put a camera in and categorize it and think about how it can be packaged.”
“It’s not, ‘You did something funny, let’s get it on camera,’ it’s, ‘Okay, now everyone go to the living room because we need to do this transition, okay, now do it again, reshoot.’
She added: “It’s mom walking into the bathroom in the morning and saying, ‘Well, you’re on our list to get ready, so I’m going to point the camera in your face while you get ready.’
The consultant concluded, “If 40+ videos are what they give their kids on vacation, can you imagine how many videos families like this and other family vloggers force their kids to show?”
KC warned others against viewing such family channels on social media as it distorts reality and is unfair to children.
“This is the saddest thing I’ve seen in a long time,” KC added in the caption.
The video has garnered more than two million views, with many more revealing issues with family influencers.
One said: “If my parents had done this to me as a child after I turned 18, I would never have spoken to them again.”
A second added: “Those poor kids.”
A third wrote: “I can’t even imagine how these kids are treated behind the scenes when they refuse to cooperate.”
Social media users shared their thoughts on KC’s video, and many agreed with her take on the family vlog.
A fourth said: “The amount of energy it takes to take multiple family photos is already so much – I can’t imagine it.”
Another added: “It’s going to be so exciting when these kids start growing up and speaking out.”
A sixth wrote: “My kid doesn’t like making a video so only we can remember it.
“If she sees it, she’ll say, ‘No, please.’ So we don’t… I can’t imagine.
Lilly has since responded to the criticism via Instagram. She said: “A very large TikTok account made an outrageous video that reached millions of people with truly egregious and, more importantly, false claims, and as a result we are being attacked from many different angles.
“In the video, the creator encourages her viewers not to support family vlogs because they are exploiting their children, and then she used my face and my video as a perfect example of a family content creator who is exploiting their children and forcing them to perform.”
“This couldn’t be further from the truth.”
“Anyone who follows our channel knows that we are not family vloggers and that this channel is not about my family, but about me. My husband supports me and often participates, and sometimes our children participate too, but this is rare.”
“Just to paint a picture of how rare this is. Before this latest family trip, of the last 250 videos we’ve made, only 14 included our kids, with the exception of our oldest Maggie, who’s in college, and a lot of them were just slice-of-life videos where they were in the background.”
“From the very beginning, our children have chosen to be on our channel…we absolutely do not require children to ever appear in our videos.”