Why We Need Parents to Stop Posting Their Children Online
The movement inspired by Wren Eleanor, the 3-year-old influencer, should be a wake-up call
A TikTok mom has stirred quite a controversy lately, with many calling her out for exploiting her 3-year-old daughter Wren Eleanor.
Wren has a huge following of 17.3 million people on TikTok. Her clips are adorable — she plays with dolls, snuggles with stuffed animals, poses in different outfits, and does girlie stuff with her mom.
But then a Tiktok mom noticed that some of Wren’s videos were being saved by other users in large numbers.
Video of her wearing a cropped shirt was saved more than 45,000 times. One of her eating a hotdog, 345,000 times. A video of her washing her hair in a tub, 60,000 times.
And there were disturbingly inappropriate comments like these:
It gets worse.
Grown men are creating duets (videos of themselves reacting to another post) with videos of Wren. I won’t post an example because it’s creepy.
