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The Horrific Exploitation of Children and Elders by TikTokers and YouTubers #abuse #narcissismAdded:
Hello everyone. This is criminal profiler Pat Brown and today I want to talk about something that has really been bothering me and it's just been building up and building up. It is the horrific exploitation of children and elders by Tik Tockers and YouTubers.
Uh they are using and abusing their own family for monetary gain, for fame, whatever.
And there is no informed consent for children, minors, and no informed consent for elders who have Alzheimer's and are dying.
This is outrageous. And the fact that some of these channels have a million or two million subscribers or followers is appalling. And I want to point this out to you folks who are watching these channels religiously that if you're doing that, you're participating in the exploitation of children and elders. And I know many people are going to say, "Oh, but I care about the children and I just love to see how how families work or I just I care about Alzheimer's pa uh patients because I mean I want to support people have Alzheimer's. No, you're supporting somebody making a crapload of money off of abusing their family members. Now, I want to talk about both of these. I'm going to start with elders just because I guess I qualify as an elder. I am now age 70.
Now, uh, I've seen so much on the internet, people showing, uh, photos or videos of their dying parents, their dying grandparents, looking as god- aful as they could possibly look in their entire lives, lying in a hospital bed trying to breathe, breathing their last. And somehow, this is something you're supposed to show the public. No, no.
This is a private moment.
A very private moment. I guarantee you I don't want anybody in my family putting a video of me dying on the internet. And if you do, my children or grandchildren, I'll come back and haunt the living hell out of you. Now, I was there for the death of my father who had a stroke.
And this man died in his 90s. This man was a proud man who was an electric electrical engineer, worked with the Department of Defense, raised three children, did well in life, was always there for me. He does not want his last moments to be seen on a video on YouTube or Tik Tok or me going, "Oh, there's daddy. It's okay."
As daddy is breathing his last. My sister died of ALS.
She struggled to maintain her dignity the very end. And when she was lying on that bed breathing her last, I don't think she would have appreciated it if I videotaped her and put her on the internet.
Who why are people doing this? And I'm going to say because they're highly narcissistic. It's all about them and what they're getting out of it and not what the person on the other side of the camera is getting because they're not getting anything but humiliated. So, let me go to the elder stuff here.
This person has uh this particular channel has almost two million followers on Tik Tok. I'm not going to get in the names of channels because there are more than one of them, but this one particularly bugged me because this woman appeared to be I don't know maybe near 90 quite emaciated.
And there's a claim out there that the the Tik Tocker says, "Oh, she gave me uh permission consent early on." Early on when when she already had Alzheimer's because once you have Alzheimer's, you cannot give confir informed consent.
That's a lie. and you making a crapload of money. Unless every single penny of that is going to some Alzheimer's organization, I pretty much think it you're in it for yourself. And so there's all these people out there going, "Oh my god, it's so sweet. Oh, look at look at look at her. She's chitty chit chatting with her. All she's doing is going to whatever assisted living place she's in a memory unit she's in and sits there every day and talks to her and makes a fortune off of it. And here's this in this woman who has no way to give consent who we don't know anything about who she was before this moment in time. And I'll tell you, my mother had Alzheimer's when she was in her 90s. And my mother once was an ice capes dancer. And my mother was a watercolor artist for half a century. And my mother raised three children. And my mother was a wife. And my mother was a human being and she had all these different parts of her life. And the what I shouldn't have shouldn't ever do to her and thank God I never did it to her and my sisters didn't do it to her was videotape her when she had Alzheimer's so we could all sit there and go oh look isn't she cute or oh that's such a shame or oh it's a pity we should do something about Alzheimer use her for that so I can make money because hey I was already well known when my mother had Alzheimer's. I could have jumped on the jumped on that train, but I would never do that to my mother. And if my kids ever do that to me, yes, I will come back and haunt them. And I'll haunt my granddaughter if she does that to me, too. Because here I am. I'm age 70 and I'm here of my own informed consent.
Now, I used to be on television. Well, most 15 years on television, 3,000 appearances, and I still am on television occasionally doing documentaries. I choose to be I chose to be on those shows and I look really good back then because we're talking about 20 years ago. I got hair and makeup. I look great. Some people sometimes look at me now on my YouTube channel and go, "Pat, why don't you get your hair done? Pat, why don't you get makeup done? Pat, why don't you get plastic surgery?"
Well, Pat, are you using a filter? Yeah, a little bit.
I am willing though to be here at the age of 70 looking not as good as I used to look because I choose to educate people. So I choose to be here informed consent. But 20 years from now, if I'm in a some kind of memory unit with Alzheimer's, I'm going to be really ticked off if somebody thinks it's okay to videotape me looking 20 years older than this and babbling and not understanding what's going on and saying things that people think are interesting and amusing and sweet and all that kind of crap. That's not a way I want to be remembered. I want to be remembered being theoretically co my cognitive abilities are still here. This is where I choose to still be seen. And once I get past the point of where I really want to be seen, I I would prefer nobody be videotaping me and throwing me on on Tik Tok or YouTube. And I think it's despicable.
And so any of you YouTubers and Tik Tockers who are doing this to your family, I think you suffer from some level of narcissism. You are abusing people who cannot give informed consent.
So, anybody who's videotaping their loved ones and putting them on YouTube and Tik Tok in the worst condition they've ever been in. Shame on you. Disgust me. Absolutely disgust me. All right, let's go to the children.
Children can't give informed consent. We we all, you know, oh, you know, the child who's 14 years old can't give informed consent to have sex with a 20-year-old, but the parents can abuse the heck out of their children by videotaping every moment of their lives and putting it on Tik Tok and YouTube.
And the they're making a heck of a lot of money. This this particular one here, um, this this mother was rolling out all her children. Every one of them had they she had them in a line. You can see the line here rolling out. Okay, tell me what it means. Blah blah blah blah blah.
And this this kid comes out and he's like there there's meaning in my mistakes. He didn't look happy. Why didn't he look happy? Well, I guess because he was being forced to do something he didn't want to do. And I saw another video, different channel, uh different Tik Tocker who was taking his son by the ear into a store and having him apologize to the the the person behind the counter that he had done something rude. Now, hey, I don't have an objection to a parent doing that.
That's great. If your kid was rude or stole some crap from the store, you make them take it back and and admit it and apologize. I'm all for that. But not being videotaped forever and ever and ever. That kid has to grow up with that being a public thing. That's disgusting.
Do you remember? I don't know. I remember that when I was when I was like a like 20, teen, whatever. I remember people my age, um, teens or early 20s, getting upset that their parents, if they were like dating someone, would show them a baby picture, a naked baby picture. They were like, "Oh my god, don't show that."
That was what we got upset about. One naked baby picture. Can you imagine what these kids have to live through? They're they're put on camera every single day of their lives. They are they are forced. They're embarrassed. They're humiliated. They they have they parents go into the room and say, "Oh my god, why don't you clean up your room?" Hey, I didn't clean up my room too well either. But nobody videotaped that when I was a kid.
And these kids have to have be humiliated day after day after day. I think that is massive child abuse. And I don't understand how social services will go after certain parents for child abuse, but never these. And I think this is one of the worst ma amount of uh worst kinds of child abuse I've ever seen. And if you're doing that to your kids, shame on you. I think you're a massive narcissist. Maybe even worse.
You might be a psychopath to do that to your own children. Yeah, sure you make extra money. Sure, you can make have a bigger house in a swimming pool, but that's not okay. Your children are underage. They cannot give consent to constantly be on on video to the entire freaking world. And if you got like two million followers, that many people are seeing those children in their daily lives and they can never have a normal daily life because just screwing them over.
All right. I think I'll I'll end with that because I I just I just really upsets me and I I think I've always been bothered by reality TV uh where or or talk shows where where parents brought their teen kids on, you know, these disgusting talk shows where then the the host of the talk show says to the teenager, "So why is your mom mad?" And she goes, "Cuz I'm doing this and this." And the mom is like, "Yeah, cuz you're a little slut."
I I think that's child abuse and should never have been permitted. And I think once that the the networks allowing that it's horrifying. Parents allowing that is horrifying. But somehow that was allowed. This is allowed. This is allowed. And people even applaud this kind of abuse. I want your thoughts below. I appreciate that. Um and uh if you're new to the channel, I do have a channel and I am an educational channel.
So I do try to survive because we have the the AI stuff just destroying a lot of uh uh channels that are actually doing educational work and that's what I do for the most part. I do crime scene analysis and I'm try that I try to help people understand how cases are analyzed. I don't try to exploit cases.
Uh I don't exploit cases and so I do appreciate your support. So please do subscribe to the channel and uh put your thoughts below.
Yeah. Bye.
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