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context: Can it be a problem, to the point of being abusive? Sure. Is it abuse by default? Nope. >
  
  It's definitely a problem in some cases but not all. I for one wish my parents did more to film me as a kid. So it's must be nice if, as a kid, you had a funny reaction to a cat or something and then you have footage for that. Or the kids that became accidental memes. 
  But yeah some of these family vlogs and children fronted channels definitely walk the line of abuse. Not only so much of the kids' time and energy goes into it, possibly not fully with their consent, but the ones that get a kick out of publicly scolding their kids' bad grades or just roasting them, or using them to sling products, like yeah I'd sue as soon as I put together what's going on. >
  
  I feel the same about putting children in airplanes. 
  Twenty years in the penn. >
  
  I agree. No one should post a picture of anyone else without consent, be it a child or an adult. Since children can’t understand the full concept of “yes”, they can’t consent to it.