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I feel so bad for her. This is why child influencers need legal protections.

The case of Lil Tay's exploitation, ever since she was only nine years old, is uncomfortably common for the internet.

Her brother is horrible. I get that he was a teenager at the time, but he’s an adult now and is still trying to exploit his baby sister. Horrible.

I'm not accusing her former manager of the hoax, but he is 100% guilty of being a total clown for promoting cryptocurrency in the year 2023 🥴

I feel so bad for Lil Tay honestly; being used by the people who are supposed to ensure your wellbeing in such a public way is a nightmare.

It sounds like every single adult with even an ounce of responsibility in her life decided “fuck that, we’re gonna endanger a CHILD”

The fact so many people ate up a CHILD acting like that is highly concerning.

please do an update!!! she just released a music video and she's definitely still getting used for profit. She went live and "exposed" her father. Whole thing is sus and uncomfortable.

Child influencers are this generation's child stars, and it's heartbreaking

Despite her controversial past I literally teared up thinking about a young exploited kid being taken from this earth without being able to live her life for herself. But to find out it was fake? That’s so evil I just hope she’s safe tbh

As a family law attorney, the dad was likely waiting to make any sort of statement until he’d fully investigated the matter and decided whether or not to file something on the custody case. That part makes complete sense to me. Nothing else about this situation does though 😂

I hope when Tay grows up, she'll come forward and press charges against the people who have stripped her childhood from her. Tbh I never cared for her internet persona, and the announcement felt scammy to me when I first heard the news, so I didn't care. I hope she gets justice as soon as she's able. She doesn't deserve this.

I think we won't learn her truths until she becomes an adult and finally gets away from all those people infkuencing her.

Knowing that there are parents in this world that will willingly destroy their children's lives for something as simple as fame and money will forever disgust me.

All of Jason's "proof" vacation photos were posted in 2013-2015, years before lil tay was even an idea. Jason's a liar I don't trust that kid at all

Tbh when I read Snoop's tweet I didn't think he was calling out Tay herself, but more the brother because he mntioned the coaching video in the tweet. I read it more as she needs to be out being a normal little girl and not being taught to act like a rude "flexer".

I hope this opens an investigation with the parents because this is disturbing for a child to endure and that child needs to be in a safe environment.

Child "influencers" need legal protections and labor laws so bad. The way family blogs use their kids for content always rubbed me the wrong way, they are too young to consent to having their whole childhood posted for millions of people. Unfortunately anything meaningful happening at the national level is unlikely right now. Change cannot come soon enough for these poor kids.

as someone who was in the middle of my parents very messy divorce i can say that if one of my parents kept posting about it it would wreck me tbh. I just feel incredibly bad for this kid

Katya once proposed that children should simply not be allowed to appear in media, no matter how much their parents assert that it’s their dream, etc etc. Great, like, let them dream about it then, until they’re of age. There’s just practically no way for a child to be a star without it being exploitation, from their family, the studio/label/platform, etc. If the worst outcome is that it becomes harder to create media appearing to feature children, I’d say that’s a much smaller price to pay than damaging actual kids in situations like this.

This poor girl. Thank God her father is a lawyer because this whole hoax smells criminal 🤢

I feel bad for her. She was controlled by her horrible family. Like family channels and instagram influencers, they were objectifying her for clout. Also, her 16 year old brother was an asshole. Im sorry to say that about him, but what he did was completely wrong. Now he or her mother (who is also in the wrong) use her in an almost terrifying way is just sad.

As a child abuse survivor with a psychology degree, I come down firmly on the side that Tay's situation (and the majority of family channels) was a case of child abuse. And I really think the term "child abuse" needs to be brought up more when we discuss these situations because these kids are gonna grow up with trauma and with mental health issues, and they desperately need help. And it's sad that Tay's situation has one of the happier endings. Hopefully, Tay's father intervening will have shielded her from a lot of the trauma she might have faced and she'll be able to heal. But even then, POS Harry Singh is there to exploit her likeness for his cryptocoin 🙃💀

I feel so bad for this little girl. At the time she was being taught to say and do things that aren't okay, she probably wasnt even old enough to even grasp WHY they were bad. And having grown ass adults harassing her online and even recording her in public makes me sick. She's a little girl at the end of the day, only just being a teenager recently. I wish her mother and brother the worst for exploiting this little girl and allowing her to be bombarded with hate at as young as NINE years old. I will never forgive people who couldn't see this was a little girl being exploited for views and money and just bullied, harassed and demonized her, again a nine year old, and made constant videos and posts on her.

I was the same age as her brother back when these videos were made, and even I had the common sense to realize what he was doing was wrong. being 16 or 17 isn't a excuse for what he was doing, at that age you know better, he wasn't a child SHE was the child. Edit: y’all need to stop playing dumb, you know what I meant by what I said and I’m not going to continue arguing pointless semantics with you on whether a 16-17 year old is a child or not. I’ve been pretty clear about where I stand on this and I don’t care if you agree with me or not.

This is a really great example of how media these days would rather be "first" than "right." Its kind of disgusting actually.

D'Angelo: I'll give you 3 guesses what "smoking P" refers to. Me: Oh no. D'Angelo: That's right, Methamphetamine. Me: Oh. Oh, that's actually not nearly as bad as I was thinking.

The guy shouting at a little girl to "flex" while filming her is beyond repulsive

i knew about lil’ tay for a while and when my friend called me to tell me she had died, i almost started crying. i remember thinking that she was young and that she had already gone through so much, and this hoax wasnt an exception. like honestly, people need to leave this child alone and just let her at least try to live a normal life.

I feel so so bad for her :( I hope she's safe with her dad and that she never falls back into the claws of her mother and brother...

here for an updated video essay on the situation after her wild and outrageous tiktok live commentary of her own printed powerpoint presentation

Can we all make a pact to not mock Tay when she becomes an adult and inevitably starts dealing with all this childhood trauma and the mental health difficulties it has caused? We've had too many child stars get laughed at for the psychological dysfunction their abusive childhood caused. This is how she's being taught to interact with the world, it takes a LOT to undo that damage.

It's really upsetting how people, especially on twitter (no surprise honestly) believe that the father was actually the abusive one in this situation. He tried so hard to keep Tay away from the exploitation and with the claims coming from her brother, who's only goal was to use his sister, it's highly unlikely that they're true.

I remember when I first saw the post it struck me as really weird that it read as "Lil Tay is dead, it's tragic and depressing. Oh and also her brother" where normally it would be more like "we're very sad to share that Tay and her brother Jason have died" -- both given equal respect. That said I would never have conceived of this as a hoax (because who does something like that?), I just thought it was odd

What's the saddest thing isn't that she was exploited (although that IS awful), it's that so many people - aka "followers" - signed up to watch her behaving like that. It wasn't ever "funny" - it was clearly exploitative - so perhaps the "followers" ought to look in the mirror for their part in all of this.

kinda feel like we need an update

when d'angelo says someone's "turned out to be one of the sleaziest people i've ever brought up on this channel" you know it's gonna be something extremely fucked up because that title has a lot of competition

All kids deserve parents but not all parents deserve kids. This is so sick and disgusting

It really seems like her father is the only one who had her best interests at heart. I honestly thought her brother was behind the posts, but with the manager's videos and now her mom even chiming in, I'm thinking that they're all working together to get a piece of that pie again

What's more baffling is how the media reported it immediately without absolute confirmation

I feel so bad for her, a child should never be exploited like this.

Those fucking vultures treating Claire like she's a prop. I can't imagine how overwhelming it must be for a kid to deal with what must seem like the whole world thinking she's a brat when it's a character her mom and brother made her play act. I'm glad her dad stepped up to protect her. The exploitation she endured is so upsetting.

this is ridiculous and so sad honestly. I think, ultimately, if Lil Tay does come back, and *she's* the one to want to do this, all herself, it should be viewed from the lens of this 100% being a child still and that her actions and views are of someone who's been through a *lot* and may be struggling to come to terms with it all. I mean, she was manipulated, abused, caught in a major court case, and had her *death faked online* and she's only 14-15. she doesn't deserve any of this and if she's still a little ignorant because she's a child, we shouldn't attack her over it

I don’t care who says I’m too sensitive or WHATEVER, but I was absolutely deeply disturbed and devastated when I heard the “news.” It truly knocked the wind out of me because while I did not know her personally and hadn’t even thought about her in a few years, I was genuinely grieving the future this exploited little girl was never going to get to have. The redemption story I was never going to get to read. The fact that there was no use in rooting for her to grow up and get away from her abusers because that chance would now never come. It was a very real, very emotional and genuinely dark experience, and while my immediate feeling was TREMENDOUS joy and relief that it wasn’t true, I just can’t even wrap my head around who would inflict this legitimate trauma on people. It just makes me even sicker to think about the people she is / was surrounded by and how her mental and physical safety could be at risk. She is very much still a child and her family has absolutely trashed the public reputation she’s far too young to even have in the first place. It’s so despicable from top to bottom. There doesn’t feel like there is a word strong enough, other than simply “evil.”

I honestly feel so bad for her.

When I first heard about lil tay's death my brain immediately went "that's fake". What's the internet done too me man, AND I WAS RIGHT!

7:43 The look on her face when that grown ass man rolled down his window to mock her is heartbreaking. We all just normalized that type of ish back then. As if an 8yr child had any understanding of the consequences of her actions. It's not just her mother and brother who are to blame for exploiting her and stealing her childhood. It's all of us. How many horror stories do we need to hear from child actors before we start taking their trauma seriously. Where ever she is these days, I hope she is happy and feels loved.

Just to imagine what that kid did to his 9 year old sister is disturbing. It made me realize more how lucky I am to have my older brother. Rest in peace Kuya Justin.

You know it’s serious when D’Angelo covers it. Time to pour up a drink and watch this.

lil tay's whole history on the internet is so sad. i rmbr when she was first coming out and everybody was just hating on her. every video, every comment ever covering her was just pure hate and looking back, it was disgusting how everybody dog piled on such a young girl. hearing that she had died actually made me sad but to hear it was fake made me worried, because this proves her exploitation hasn't been put to an end

I just finished the live and omg my boy D’Angelo hunch was right about the cryptocurrency

The worst thing about this situation is how news outlets behaved. They didn't even try to ensure if this whole thing was real or fake. It's just lazy reporting, zero professionalism.

Her mom saying she’s having a comeback now that she has custody is very troubling. Side note: the set up is perfect! Simple but beautiful. And as always: the fit is fire.

I would 100% blame her mother

Oooh my heart- that footage of her brother “directing” her is literally heartbreaking. This poor child!

As a mother I can’t even imagine doing this like she shouldn’t have been on instagram at all let alone posting content and what her mother did is truly disgusting mothers are supposed to protect there kids not throw them to the wolves for money

Had this kept going, I wouldn’t be surprised if her brother forced her to be sexualized as she grew older, pretty much becoming her pimp.

I just sincerely hope she can be a kid and do what she loves instead of being manipulated by others and literally put in danger

I’m so confused as to how her mother had the time to resign before being fired. There’s no way her boss didn’t recognize his own cars and his own clients homes in these massively viral videos. I feel so bad for her and I *know* this death hoax is going to reignite a lot of the same turmoil for her.

update video coming soon??😭

Its actually so crazy how much her family uses her. Its a sad part of the internet, because shes not the only kid this shit happens to

finally a parent that saw another Bhad Bhabie in the making and instead of hitting the gas decided to pump the brakes.

I only knew of Lil Tay in passing, my heart literally breaks for her hearing all that's happened to her in her life, and she's still so young. Mad respect to her dad who protected her and got her out of that situation, her mom and brother should be absolutely disgusted with themselves. Literally how revolting that two grown adults could try to profit off of a child like that.

I literally got push notifications on my phone about her "death. " that's how I found out. I spent a lot of time defending her dad bc ppl were blaming him when he was the one who got her away from her mom and Jason's control and let her live a normal life. I'm glad she is still alive.

This situation was so insane, thank you for covering it!

She was and still is a child. From my old perspective, she always broke my heart. Its like a toddler. You know? The one's that cuss, bc they are told to by a parent, older sibling, etc. They parrot what they are told to say. It was evident to me that she was being treated the same way. Coached, told what to say/ do. It didn't seem "natural"... I feel bad for her. .

Wow. Good on her father for being an actual human being and keeping her out of the spotlight after the exploitation she was subjected to. The poor girl is going to have so much trauma from this added on to what she already has.

D’Angelo: Harry Singh seems like a pretty decent guy Also D’Angelo: Harry Singh is one of the sleaziest people ever to be featured on this channel.

Not me having PTSD from DAngelo’s background reminding of that old jumpscare video of that car driving in the woods. You know the one.

The fit today is just absolutely immaculate

everyone failed her. not only her family obviously but also it's alarming how many people on the internet were braindead enough to believe a 9 year old was doing this of her own volition, not to mention calling her out on the street. she was NINE.

would love to see an update on this with her new Instagram live and allegations against her father

I'm pretty sure that she had no idea what she was doing during her 'career'. She just did what she was told to do.

Parents of child influencers don’t ruin their child’s professional reputation before the age of 18 challenge🤩🤩

i live in the neighbourhood she grew up in and her mother was one of my friends real estate agent in like 2015. she scammed my friend and never even ended up selling the house. she didnt even bring in anyone to see the house she didnt do her job what so ever. shes completely insane and i have no doubt she was behind this.

A documentary about lil Tay would have been way more impactful and interesting than The Idol

What’s crazy to me is I thought she was older than 14, when she was blowing up she was 9? I thought she was like 12, so my second biggest shock out of all of this is her age lol

Thank you for addressing the fact that it is most likely not her, but someone older behind these stunts.

Remember when exploited children were like the Jackson 5? The exploitation hasn’t changed, but the victims are so random now.

Thank God she at least has a father who cares about her and took action on her behalf to keep her safe. That’s a real father right there

What shocks me most about this story is not a single Journalist checked or verified a single fact except TMZ. RIP journalism.

When pt2 dropping

Every time she speaks in aave I die further inside

The utter relief I felt upon opening this video and you immediately setting the stage that the video would be focused on the adults instigating and controlling this situation and not Tay herself, whooo.

She deserves so much better, I hope she’ll get away from the people who exploit her soon

As someone who has lost a child, I felt really guilty for having doubts that the death reports were true, then I felt furious when it came out that they weren't. It's not something to joke about, it's not cute or clever. My heart breaks for Lil Tay. The way she was used, especially by grown ass people, will always just be sad. 😩

LIL TAY JUST CAME BACK D’ANGELO YOU GOTTA MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT IT

please do a follow up now that she's back!

I was having a bad day when i heard about her "passing" and i instantly believed it and actually cried lmao. The thought of a child who was exploited and then passed young got to me, im so glad it wasnt true. I hope whoever did it is held accountable

Oh that video of her brother yelling at her about getting the script right broke my heart. She seemed so sad. I hate her family and I hope her dad is truly the good person he seems to be for her

Something interesting that i learned about because of this controversy is that tmz is the publication to go to to confirm deaths. They stayed quiet during this, and i saw people doubting this before because of tmz. Apparently they have contacts and actually checked before writing anything

I am baffled by the people that were claiming she did this for attention and clout. Um...the girl hasn't been on social media in 5 years. I don't think she's clout hungry. I wish people would leave the poor girl alone

I can only imagine what kind of antics her parents are putting her through. 😞

So sad. Honestly, there’s going to be a whole branch of psychology needed for all the kids who were forced into being content for their parents social media accounts 💔

I don’t care if Lil Tay’s brother is a minor, he is an evil human being and is old enough to understand the consequence of what he’s doing.

the sad fact about this entire thing is that it happens a lot in the industry and this is one of the only cases we might get that has a lot of evidence and there is still not a lot happening to help her :/

d'angelo living like a whimsical forest spirit i love it

Would love to see her speak on this maybe 10-15 years into the future where she's hopefully free from the horrible adults using her as an pawn, but I'd be equally fine with not hearing from her again as long as she gets to live on her terms

We need an update now that she’s made a comeback