Family Vlogger Arrested for Aggravated Child Abuse

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Ruby Franke, Popular Parenting YouTuber, Arrested for Alleged Child Abuse https://t.co/YBWXgM3NF5 pic.twitter.com/dUkeWVL2Tb
- Jezebel (@Jezebel) August 31, 2023
Ruby Franke, the mom behind the family YouTube channel 8 Passengers, has been arrested in Utah on two counts of aggravated child abuse. Franke is a Christian family influencer who frequently

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[xpirate_queenx]

Family Vloggers are a cancer onto this planet

[ponyboy]

family bloggers should be illegal

[euraylie]

Even if these vloggers aren’t abusive or questionable, which is not often the case, the kids have no say whether they want their lives, their childhoods plastered all over the internet where it will live forever

[aleksie]

Part of the issue is that the kids' lives are commodified and the constant need to create more and more content.

It reminds me of the Kardashians and how much time the kids spend being part of the content.

[swissbeauty23]

imo that in and of itself is abuse

[kawaiiairbender]

I'm glad that she and the business partner were arrested.

Um duct taping kids and making them sleep on the floor for months?! :(

[kerosene_pill]

So the story about the sleeping on the floor thing is actually so much worse

[kawaiiairbender]

That poor boy and all the kids. That's just horrorific. I hope they can be placed with some caring people and get counseling/help from social workers. :(

This is all so cruel and disturbing.

[swissbeauty23]

oh so she's into those abusive teen facilities that desperately need to be illegal. doesn't surprise me. truly hope this woman d*es.

[fauxkaren]

I hope the kids have some other family member that can step up and care for them because even if their dad wasn't arrested... was he complicit? idk.

[partyonyourhead]

I saw someone saying he was arrested, but it was in a different county, because he and Ruby split last year. Dunno if that's true.

[skyler_white_yo]

I’m surprised he wasn’t arrested too, unless he didn’t live in the home. Or if they are still gathering evidence, and I’m sure more will come out, and he’ll gets charges too.

[theactualworst]

Yeah I’m confused how the husband would not be culpable unless they were split up?

[peachypearl]

I don't trust family vloggers at allll. There is something deeply unsettling about the thought of children growing up only knowing what their parents look like behind a camera and having to play up every little thing for views. Everything is so amplified it's unhealthy.

Anyway let's not even begin to talk about safety concerns...

[insomniachobs]

I just always think - you're not giving your kid a chance to grow up and decide how they want to present themselves to the world before it's way too late, and everybody already has the permanent "kid" image in their head. It's hard enough for child actors who don't spend every waking moment of their actual lives on screen to get away from that image of themselves. Never mind a bunch of prospective friends, partners, employers who can just Google your childhood tantrums any time they feel like

[peachypearl]

Yeah I couldn't get all of my thoughts into a coherent message at all. There are just so many things that are truly despicable about this whole concept and new ones keep popping up into my head. This post could go on for 30 pages and we'd still be uncovering new things that will damage these kids for life.

[fauxkaren]

yep.

and the parents are making SO much money off of exploiting their kids. are their kids getting their cut?

you know they aren't.