run by rapaciously exploitative parents ready to commodify their children; obsessed with performance (perhaps now of normalcy or health instead of freakishness); distinct uncanny aesthetics (circus tent replaced by a van or mcmansion, bold mismatched letterpress fonts replaced by pinterest cursive)
I just listened to a podcast that talked about a kid who grew up in a full time RV family where mom was a full time lifestyle instagrammer. They talked about a lack of identity because they only were allowed to express what was good for content, lack of privacy, poor schooling, no friends...
Now that they are becoming an adult, they don't know what to do- no place to go, because they've never stayed in one place more than a month, tough to get a job, because they were inadequately home schooled, no friends, etc. So it is going to be difficult for them to get out of the influencer life.
like!!! if you plucked this person from out of the past and told me they'd grown up as an itinerant juggler in a vaudeville troupe i think the story would still track!
i'd love to see a side by side comparison of the number of children who want to grow up to be full-time content makers now vs the ones who wanted to be lion-tamers back in the day
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