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Pay Up Parent Influencers

July 10, 2024
A new law pushes for payment for children of influencers.
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Illinois has introduced a groundbreaking law effective from July 1, requiring influencers who feature their children on social media to compensate them for their participation. This amendment to the state's Child Labor Law...
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Allowing to effect this week in Illinois requires influencers to pay their
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Children for appearing in their video content.
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They're looking out for that kid that can't go outside until he
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makes 10 unboxing videos.
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Dang it be like that.
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Huh? Yeah, be like that.
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Exactly. Sister. There's some influencers out there that make what
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maybe 20 K A video and their kids in it,
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but the kid might not even see a cut.
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So this new law mandates that kids under 16 must be compensated
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if they are at least in a third of the paid content
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that their parents make damn $20,000 per pod brother.
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Hey, I don't know.
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I'm just saying like I've heard man,
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I've made hundreds of videos for mito.
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Where's my chick? Someone put the clown emoji on my face
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I don't know about that sister.
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But you know what?
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So apparently with this new law,
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parents and caregivers must set aside money in a special bank account
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that limits access to the parents so the kids can access that
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money when they turn 18.
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Ok. Well, this is great news.
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Honestly, you always hear horror stories of parents taking advantage of
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child actors. No.
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Yeah, it's crazy.
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So that like money is part of it.
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But another point that people are bringing up is that it also
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kind of violates the kid's privacy.
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What if the kid doesn't even want to be put out there
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on display like that?
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Especially for money. Again,
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this is a step in the right direction.
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But people are also bringing up points that are valid of the
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privacy because I don't know,
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some people do go overboard.
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There's a way to kind of go about it,
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but there's a way that's kind of sketchy.
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And that's why I think this law is going to kind of
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tackle, ask the parents too.
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I know when I would shoot videos for Mitu too.
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You know, I would ask Michael Madre.
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Hey, can I post this video of Emma?
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And I mean, that little girl goes viral.
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Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead.
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They'd give me the,
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go ahead and post it and,
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but make sure you get approval.
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I feel that. So let's get these babies,
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their check brother, get these child of influencers paid.
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Yeah.