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HI KURTIS

You in a game theory video now

Hi kurtis I love your content and you always make my day

I love you

This isn't really related but once last year during an interview or something of a minor kpop group the host said something along the lines of "due to child labor laws the girls can't unfortunately work on the show" and i was like UNFORTUNATELY?!?!

It’s weird because in australia (at least my state) they changed the laws last year so that there’s now no minimum age requirement for working, it used to be 14 and 9 months so if anything were going in the opposite direction

Fr it's insane they should be worrying about homework not being forced to go live

Don't worry. They are getting updated. They are getting ROLLED BACK. New laws going through will allow 8th graders to drop out of school and work full-time. 😡😡😡😡😡😡

@@soulseobswait, which group was it? NewJeans?

this sounds so Black Mirror lol

I'm sorry but that'll be hilarious 😭

i have never laughed so hard at a comment LMFAO

PLEASE I WANT THIS TO HAPPEN LMAO

She WOULD… she clearly wants the attention to turn to her as they get older. She’ll have tons of plastic surgery, & kids’ll foot moms bill.💀😑

I’m just glad they seem to be relatively well-adjusted in spite of their mom being Like That™️.

I really hope one day they get away from her and don't look back

That makes me really sad

Holy shit its CZsWorld

Reality is even better He’s JD Scott and he hosts some weird show about carnivals or amusement parks on the country music channel 😂 I saw it once in a doctors office waiting room and had no idea he was the emo bro

Why do I see you everywhere. I’ve been watching you for years but now I see you in almost every KZfaq comment section. What the actual fuck?

Omg CZsWorld!!

CZ!! i loved your videos on the Saw movies

Thats the thing it's not just tik tok. It's all social media. Like KZfaq, Instagram, Facebook, etc

@@FukaiKokoroyeah I was gonna say, it’s everywhere. it was happening on youtube before tiktok was even a thing

not a documentary, but didn't drew do a video about a reality show with the d'amelio sisters where most of it is showing how overworked they are as minors?

ah yes cant wait for more 1 hour video essays on these guys.

I know several middle and high school teachers, the kids who had parents that constantly posted everything about them on facebook talk about how much they hate it and how it really messed up their sense of privacy. They talk about being out in public and a friend of their moms from high school they’ve never even met talking to them about how big they’ve gotten or referencing things like potty training, first periods, or other embarrassing things. Too many people don’t see kids as their own people who deserve dignity and privacy and it’s sickening. I have a son and most people on my social media don’t even know because I’ve never, and will never, post anything about him.

Yes lol, at least they live in Australia and there's not many people there, so im guessing its less probable to get harrassed, but still its fucking weird and dangerous, you never know what kind of creepos are out there

@@agathadelolmo5180out of touch teenage boys being recorded every fucking second of their lives? Anyone mentally fucked up enough in Australia can just track them if they wished because of the mom stating exactly where they're at She might as well say their address too bc Jesus christ

@@agathadelolmo5180 25 million people live in australia

@@agathadelolmo5180 I was gonna say at least in Australia, they don't have to worry about someone pulling up with a g*n like in the US 🙃

K fakes his vids at least I put actual effort into mine LOL

This is the second time I've heard him take a shot at AJR, and it hurts my heart a little bit each time 😢

same 💀

Was looking for this comment :(

SAMEEEE

yes im being exposed with every vid

mocking and imitation are two different things

Ok but he was clearly doing it to be funny and not accurate lmao

I love that he almost had it at one point but then went with kiwi instead

​@@murkrowo as an American I can't tell the difference lol

Exactly what I was thinking

I'm glad people are waking up to all of this child exploitation in media. Just because some of them end up rich and famous doesn't mean they weren't manipulated and abused their entire childhoods. Plus think of all the kids who went through this and didn't make it and have nothing to show for it but childhood trauma and a waiting job.

EXACTLY ever since i read that book i cant look at child fame the same ever again

Fr :(

i remember when folks missed the entire point of that book because they got offended by the title

Kurtis fakes his videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL

​@@ville__Please stop. You've been spamming the same comment in the hopes that people check out your content. It's annoying.

@@ville__ where are they.

​@@BollywoodNewzz"stop promoting your own channel in the comments, its obnoxious unrelated and a bore, if you're promoting your own channel in the comments, well it's not really a comment anymore" - jacksfilms, message to all commenters

​@@ville__you aswell

this is the best thing i’ve read all day

LOLLL

I feel that- I worked with a photographer in Nyc and she told me back in her city (midwest) parents would spend THOUSANDS on her 2 hour sessions to get really good curated photos of them; as they would hope acting and modeling agencies would notice and pick them up with these photos. She didn't care too much, she was the one collecting the check and its good money, but she said that some parent/kid combos left a bad taste in her mouth with their narcissism and pushiness to get thier child famous, by any means necessary.

At an event where I was asked to take pictures of the people attending, I can still recall someone still being unhappy with the result after 30 attempts. Turns out she was used to overexposing her smartphone and angling the camera down "because it makes me glow more with less wrinkles" (with the last part probably being her phone doing some smoothing or noise-reduction and taking up the wrinkles in it or something).

Most of the time would you say that the kids or the parents were driving it? If the parents are helping out their kid, who is the one actually steering it, that's very different.

In 50 years we're gonna be seeing recovery ads for "victims" of social media, and the host of bizarre mental illnesses past generations never even knew existed. Eventually further down the line, it'll become a gross, taboo thing(like cigarettes) and when people openly talk about checking accounts all day, everyone else will be silently thinking "yyyea..... no wonder you're such a nervous wreck all the time" It'll be a constant argument too. One group has so much fun with it, is too young to see it's impact, while the other is baffled how people who so clearly live out the damage, can refuse it even exists(look at any heroin addict saying "it's not THAT BAD")

Can still recall being a photographer and being at the yearly fair taking pictures of people in the rides, which eventually involves children enjoying the slower rides as well. I'm completely fine with parents being concerned and asking what it's for and not wanting pictures taken, but it never failed to surprise how dirt-stupid the parents in question were because more often than not, I saw the same people being rightfully concerned about the safety of their child taking a picture with their phone, and then hearing them make a remark to an acquintance saying "Oh that's a nice one, that one goes on Facebook." I never got that attitude... I am glad that some family members of indirect family are super, SUPER careful with pictures of their children and are not posting literally anything...

I hate when I’m scrolling through the comments on videos if content creators who actually respect their children’s privacy and I see a bunch of people literally begging to see their kids. “Why don’t you ever show your kids?!” “Do kids face reveal plz??” “Please let us see what your kid looks like!” I’ve seen people get offended and angry when the creator responds saying they don’t want to show their children out of respect for their privacy. It’s so creepy and weird to beg for that. You don’t really know them and they don’t know you, so why would they owe that to you? Why do you feel so entitled to it? Why is it so important to you that you see this child it changes literally NOTHING. I sometimes feel like people need to ask themselves “why?” more often.

Yeah. Most normal people do

I agree but they're like 17/18

come out as canadian lmao, i think we should use that wording more often

Huh?

​@@NotVille_HOW DOES HE FAKE IS VIDEO? WHAT IS THERE TO BE FAKED?

@@NotVille_ Go away.

He’s so brave

isn’t hecs a loan thing?

@@sophiagionis5394yeah it’s a loan but you dont need to pay anything back until you start earning a certain amount

@@sophiagionis5394yeah it’s a government loan, the payments get taken out of your pay once you start earning over a certain threshold

Yeah, you have to pay it back. Its not free ​@sophiagionis5394

yeah, that's not true hecs help is a student loan, it's just regulated by the government unlike the wild west that they have in the us. I had 85,000 in hecs-help when I finished my two degrees. It's just that you only start paying it back once you hit an earning threshold, so it feels 'free' at the time.

kurtis is australian!! i have proof! he has a mullet and canada is basically australia he has the build for afl and he talks funny!!

@@lacy.x0I hope your Australian

​@@oliverblakely9454you're*

Oh was that meant to be an Australian accent 😬

@@oliverblakely9454 yes i am dw

Kurtis fakes his videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL

@@ville__ 🤖

There are also legal protections for children in "traditional" media. If anyone abuses them (physically, financially, emotionally, etc.), they can sue. With these social media situations, there's no protections for their financial situation and it can be very difficult to go against parents for emotional/physical abuse because it becomes a "he said, she said" situation

So is the concept of "child star" tbh

in the entertainment industry, you go to set and come home at the end of the day. imagine your set IS home. it never ends.

when I was a little kid I used to beg and beg my parents for a KZfaq channel. they told me to wait until I was a teenager. I still want to start one but holy shit I am so grateful they made me wait because I was bullied in school, imagine how much worse it would have been if I had a bunch of bids online of me as a kid.

even the 'success stories' of teenage stardom often have issues related to being thrust into all of this attention at such a young age. i get the impression that taylor swift is still trying to mentally untangle that over a decade later, and she actually chose to do it. i can't imagine that being put on random teens involuntarily :|

Me and my brother always wanted to film ourselves playing Minecraft and post it, but we weren't allowed to. I'm very glad about that now, I don't want to be online except for stuff related to my theatre career lol

I was a strong singer as a child, and in middle school I really thought I wanted to go into a singing/acting career, so in like 7th grade, I signed up behind my parents' back for a Disney audition. I ended up regretting it knowing I would get in trouble lmao, but my parents never yelled at me for doing it, just said they didn't really want to take me and that was that. Same when my sister and I were approached at a store and asked if we had ever considered modeling. That one my sister and I both wanted to do, but they wanted my parents to pay some crazy amount for them to manage us, so nothing came of it. In hindsight, my parents were abusive, but they at least did that right for me. I already struggled so badly with anxiety and body image issues, and developed an ED even without ever going into acting or modeling. I couldn't fathom what being in the entertainment industry would have done to me as a teen. And at the time, I really thought it was what I wanted. Idk I just feel so bad for these guys, and hope that they can realize what their mom is doing to them.

@@themelnova As someone who had the same wish and actually went through with making the KZfaq channel and having their channel exposed in school, I wish my parents would've prevented me from it cos they could've saved me from a lot of bullying :/

Came to the comments mid vid to see what the other Australians thought about that 😂

it’s practically a kiwi accent 😭

Congrats on getting in the community post lmao

@@YourJapanic I just saw that, amazing lmao. I've reached my peak

💀 what ​@@ville__

For real, I had an acquaintance who posted a photo of her daughter on her PUBLIC IG profile on her first day of school. She hashtagged her daughter’s name, grade, school, and teacher. This was years ago and I still think about how bananas that is to do 🙁

Istg some parents need a class on online safety

@@yuki97kira Some parents need a class on parenting 😐

There has been situations where people tagged locations on social media posts and had their homes robbed because people knew they weren't home. It's crazy how little risk assessment is done on social media.

I think about this with car decals. People put their little stick families, their kid's sports team and jersey number AND their name, their last name, etc. I've seen a few where I'm like, dude anyone could walk up to your kid and convince them they're a family friend.

I've also somehow never heard of these guys, like ever

but can you, as an australian tell me what the song that plays at 1:59 is called????? i'm desperate

@@Asa-ss9ot Men At Work - Down Under

@@chrissametrinequartz9389 thank you sooo much

I'm so sorry to hear that. However, on behalf on England, we regret to inform that we will not be accepting him here and pass him onto America for consideration.

come to brazil

they breached containment

@@Random-sk6hm The council has mulled over this offer and on behalf of America we will be passing them on to Mexico for consideration.

@@Random-sk6hmus has enough nonsense going on we decline 😭

Kurtis fakes his videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL

@@ville__ 🤖

@@ville__ but Kurtis is Canadian and your not

We are both his citizens and his children.

@@literal-legend19sounds a bit like a cult 😮

​@@NotVille_maybe put effort into not commenting the same thing on 46 kurtis videos

@@erinesser6658it’s a bot. They tend to do that

Kurtis fakes her videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL,

​​​@@ville__woah I can't believe Kurtis fakes her videos

HOW CAN YOU DISTINGUISH BETWEEN CANADIAN AND AMERICAN ACCENTS

My cousins are twins (and it was an absolute miracle because my aunt was an older mother and had to have the eggs put in her so they put two just in case one yknow didn’t make it but both did) and as babies they dress the same and as kids/toddlers. But I feel like at that age it’s okay because they’re little and can’t dress themselves or choose to dress otherwise. They’re both 11 now (almost 12) and now dress completely different.

LMFAOOOO my mom used to do this when I had a twin and a mom… but she was just weird in general, used to cut my hair and use it to make dolls

@@german-swedish-americanvin6164If your aunt had IVF, it's really not a miracle she had twins. Multiples are one of the side effects of IVF.

​@@hospitable_ghost the twins wasn't the miracle part sherlock

​@hospitable_ghost you're very smart

Or the commenter you saw is lying

It's possible that comment could be lying but it would be easier to get more verified information since their mom likes to broadcast their entire lives so much.

Regardless of if that commenter is lying, I think they do mention the two younger boys being dropped off at school in one of the clips Kurtis showed. The fact that they're absent for school and that they were dropped off leads me to believe they are at least not homeschooled, but that doesn't rule out the possibility of a conservative Christian private school or something similar.

defiantly. the mum has some sort of mental issues

Actually there’s loads of people who have or go to school with them, the older two the twins are already graduated and the younger ones are in school apparently are very normal. It might be a load of shit but lots of people are coming about it and all the stories very similar

And famous and wealthy, which I gather is the mum's end goal.

Being famous and wealthy doesn't mean much when during your devloping stages are ruined and you're a very mentally unwell adult.

this is like 99% of child stars

​@@FukaiKokoro dunno if they were saying it didnt but rather pointing out the greed of the adults in their lives that did that to them

@@It-is-me...MelsieActually the olsen twins mom didnt really want this, but it was their dad who did, later on the mom divorced him, after he forced Mary-kate to go to that thing cuz of her ed/anorexia, he also didnt let the olsen twins use their own money unless they did chores, and even when they did he wouldnt give them more than 30$, so dont blame their mom, she is actually a really sweet person. (Also the, going on full house wasnt really her choice, and the producers and other people forced the mom not to be there)

Double divorced dad*

Not to draw attention or anything, but my father is in the same situuation, bro messed up

​ @atinyevil1383 Who cares anyway. But I made a video about a girl dylng and she was crying in pain(try not to Laugh video). ❤

I’m a product of third marriage (and subsequent divorce.) Woop soop multiple divorce gang

My friend’s parents have been divorced 4 times and remarried 4 times. its painful to watch

If someone uses content creation as their main source of income, like on taxes and shit, could it then be considered child labour??

Plus it's scammy because the parents take all the money. And don't start a fund for them. Imo there should be a law that parents can only take 15% of the income created off their children.

18 year olds DEFINITELY still feel like children dependent on their parents. I still asked my mom before I did anything when I was 18 and it took me some time and her saying every time “I don’t know you’re an adult now it’s your choice” and me being very confused before I could grow from that. So, if she’s still treating them like they’re minors, they’re going to respond like they are.

​​@@maxbracegirdle9990I was thinking the exact same thing after the eight passengers situation happened...

Actually some countries have and I believe I just read that one state was putting this into law and some other states were looking to follow suit. Meanwhile other states are lowering the age kids can go to work... It's like one step forward, give steps back

LOLLLL

That sounds extremely creepy to be honest.

This is the real life Black Mirror

Idk why i read that as you somehow ended up in their backyard in the middle of the night and saw all this go down irl, instead of the non-insane explanation of u just watching the live stream

@@AnythingButMeee this made me laugh sooo hard hahahahahah

@@AnythingButMeeeno same though ... i was like 'ur crazy why u watching them in they back yard at 6am' lmao for real though that's so gross, the wording of "he couldn't be bothered" makes her sound so bitter, as if he owes it to her or something... i am so worried for those kids

Kurtis fakes his videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL

@@ville__shut up. Nobody cares about your channel

​@@ville__my Man i even looked into your channel to give you a chance but you Dont got no videos lol

​@@ville__WHAT VIDEOS???

@@user-xu4xw6jm7d Why did you even look? How could you not know to fall for that. Those annoying spammers are always under Kurtis's and almost every other famous KZfaqr's videos. Don't feed the spammers - do the right thing and report them. I never cease to be amazed at the gullibility of some people.

I can also confirm that children in Aus are raised dancing - and yes, we are upside down.

@@pinecous2910 knew it

as a fellow Kiwi, this is so true

I like NZ very much, on the list of countries I might try to move to, but one real, actual question, is New Zealand oceania's Wales?

@@Gustoberg Not quite that bad.

it was more english and kiwi than aussie 😭

@@beematthewswood better then when most people who try 😭

@@beematthewswoodthat’s what I was saying sounds more kiwi

i'm obsessed with it never sounding australian at all. couldn't even do the naur /lhj

Imagine a Roadman Kurtis 😭

What a core memory you've shared

I am the biggest ASK sisters fan

ASK sisters reunion when???

Where can I get tickets for the reunion tour Melbourne show?

need the ASK sisters tickets now

i giggle and blush too

REAL

Kurtis inspires me.. My parents said if i get 70K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..

Teehee!

Same

Kurtis inspires me.. My parents said if i get 70K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..

@@namantherockstarNa, man

had a stroke reading this

@@noodian3268literally had to rub my eyes like a fucking cartoon character until they made squeaking sounds bro bc what

no bc what does it say ​@@secondskn

I love the B1 pfp

Agree completely. I wrote a long comment about sketchy parents pushing/forcing their kids into a sketchy industry but you summed it up perfectly.

My brother was really, really good at baseball. My dad took this as a personal mission and made him go to the batting cages and spend his free time practicing his skills. I was average and he did not GAF about me and baseball one way or the other. My brother's reaction was to quit baseball and instead play soccer his senior year. My dad never really got over it and it just became another excuse for him to drink.

he sounds like kip from Napoleon Dynamite too, it’s so good

I had to watch that twice. It reminded me of Lucas Cruikshank's short "Emo Flooring" which is also top-tier

Ive literally been laughing for 10 minutes hysterically

same, and all the emo music references were amazing

@@morganr9129 Was actively looking for a comment that also shared this realization.😭

Kurtis fakes his videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL

​@@hotdoggitydig conner

Okay

​@@ville__how can he fake his videos? Like what DO you fake?

@@crunchylettuceconga line

i assumed he meant that as why he got recommended their videos in the first place but i prefer this order of events

Jesus, that sucks.

hope they ditch her when they're old enough

Sure, buddy

@pap-fr BuDdY, these people aren't aliens who just landed on earth. They know people and people know them. There's no reason this couldn't be true. This attitude of 'nothing ever is real' is kinda ridiculous.

The mum is a psycho.

Kurtis isn't a perpetrator, he's a survivor

Bluey us by far the best current generation children's show, I love watching it with my son

One thing about Bluey I love is the VAs for Bluey and her sister are anonymous to avoid any celebrity attachment to their names

drinkin a fackin vee bee

this comment holy shit

Kurtis fakes her videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL,

That didn't stop Oasis!

@@bonbonnybon lmao. I forgot about them.

This is my exact thought. I can't fathom the idea of people liking their siblings and not spending every waking moment making each others' lives worse in a constant violent battle.

Apparently i bullied my sister so hard she turned lesbian

@@Random-sk6hm Sparks is a band of brothers and they've been together for literal decades now with hundreds of albums behind them

Indeed

I also loved that he sounded like Kip from Napoleon Dynamite

@@slimshadeyyy that’s exactly what I was thinking!

I know, he actually represented the subculture so well while being funny. I watched it Thrice ;)

There were so many missed opportunities tho. "This is the living room. I'd rather call it the dead room cause I'd never be caught dead living in here..." I'm sure there are others but I have a short memory.

yeah i came here to see if anyone else had commented about this, also our HECS debt is usually only like $30,000 AUD which is super manageable to pay off, I dont even notice the repayments because they come out of tax its sooo good Also uni is on break from november to march! so these boys could be studying and just on uni break

i think this same scheme is also used in the uk

This is how student loans work in the UK aswell. All British citizens are guaranteed a student loan that is only paid back after you graduate and are earning above a certain threshold (Currently £27, 295 and rising every year). You pay it back in a small instalment (usually less than a mobile phone bill) that is automatically taken at the same time as you pay taxes. As long as you earn underneath the threshold, you don't pay back a single penny, and after 30 years the debt is automatically wiped (regardless of how much you've paid). The vast majority of people will never pay it back completely unless they're earning a very high amount. It's very affordable and people usually refer to it as a 'graduation tax' rather than a student loan.

Just looked at the TikTok with the merch link and the tab labeled Aussie Bro Squad Merch on the main page comes back as a 404 not found. Weird.

Sketch as fuck

do u know tht where tiny guitar clip is from when they first get mentioned around 14:51 ? i think u might know, its on the tip of my mind

@@abominati0nits emily by first to last

emo the chosen property brother

I laughed extra hard because I listened to most of those bands back in highschool and remember seeing all the emo memes she shared when they were new. and Thursday still slaps.

@@Zectifin rawr means I love you in dinosaur XD

i know lots of people who go to school with them and ive seen them in real life, so im pretty sure the coemments saying they have are legit. its a public highschool and allat so

yeah they go to a public school on the nsw coast. they're on the school website and everything, the twins graduated 2023.

It's incredible. I'm saur jealous 😢

He sounds more like a New Zealander, which is apparently harder than an Aussie accent

He sounds cockney 😂 its hilarious but Australian (or kiwi) it is not

Im not sure if ur talking ab the one in the middle of the video or the end that sounds real (the voice over) but i think its actually liam Thompson speaking at the end. It's driving me crazy not knowing for sure lol. He is from new Zealand which would explain why it sounds that way

He's an Australian born in London and raised in NZ for half his life.