{"id":17553,"date":"2025-01-30T22:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/an-update-on-our-family-review-these-influencers-murky-tale-makes-you-long-to-end-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T22:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:38:13","slug":"an-update-on-our-family-review-these-influencers-murky-tale-makes-you-long-to-end-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/an-update-on-our-family-review-these-influencers-murky-tale-makes-you-long-to-end-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"An Update on Our Family review \u2013 these influencers\u2019 murky tale makes you long to end the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Mason\u2019s three-part documentary about parents who put their lives online to make big money asks questions about entitlement, child safety, relationships with followers and more<\/p>\n

Those of you who already feel that the world is too much would be best advised to stay well away from all three parts of the documentary An Update on Our Family<\/a>. The family in question are the Stauffers \u2013 married couple Myka and James and their children \u2013 who were, until very recently, colossally successful family vloggers.<\/p>\n

Director Rachel Mason\u2019s series starts slowly, spending most of the first hour introducing the uninitiated to the world of YouTubers who specialise in filling their channels with videos of their gorgeous homes, gorgeous children and perfect lives, and to the fans who glom on to these affectless yet somehow intimate and generally wildly aspirational portraits of domestic bliss. \u201cI was literally a part of their life every day,\u201d says former devotee Hannah Cho. She and around 700,000 subscribers to The Stauffer Life channel watched as Myka revealed positive pregnancy tests, had babies, a miscarriage, gave house cleaning tips, appraisals of her post-partum body and altogether so much desirable content that she began to accumulate sponsorship deals and the family\u2019s videos became the family\u2019s (very) lucrative business.<\/p>\n

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\nRachel Mason\u2019s three-part documentary about parents who put their lives online to make big money asks questions about entitlement, child safety, relationships with followers and more
\nThose of you who already feel that the world is too much would be best advised to stay well away from all three parts of the documentary An Update on Our Family. The family in question are the Stauffers \u2013 married couple Myka and James and their children \u2013 who were, until very recently, colossally successful family vloggers.
\nDirector Rachel Mason\u2019s series starts slowly, spending most of the first hour introducing the uninitiated to the world of YouTubers who specialise in filling their channels with videos of their gorgeous homes, gorgeous children and perfect lives, and to the fans who glom on to these affectless yet somehow intimate and generally wildly aspirational portraits of domestic bliss. \u201cI was literally a part of their life every day,\u201d says former devotee Hannah Cho. She and around 700,000 subscribers to The Stauffer Life channel watched as Myka revealed positive pregnancy tests, had babies, a miscarriage, gave house cleaning tips, appraisals of her post-partum body and altogether so much desirable content that she began to accumulate sponsorship deals and the family\u2019s videos became the family\u2019s (very) lucrative business. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rachel Mason\u2019s three-part documentary about parents who put their lives online to make big money asks questions about entitlement, child safety, relationships with followers and more Those of you who already feel that the world is too much would be best advised to stay well away from all three parts of the documentary An Update …<\/p>\n

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