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Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 143 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I watched Charlie's video on this and the dad takes a lot of the ownership of what happened and how having all your accounts connected via Google can backfire spectacularly when the only thing the kid really understands from this is, more money = more views, and "dad set a limit" so as long as the card clears, it must be good to go. Crazy story.

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  • [–] 84 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    The first failure was allowing his kid to have a YT channel at all, or at least not one that is heavily monitored and restricted by him or the other parent. The financial fuck up is the consequences of poor parenting.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    Parents are going up against multi-billion dollar companies, no one has sufficent parenting skills for this except the Amish.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Well sure but I mean, just don’t set up the YouTube channel for your 9 year old? Seems pretty simple to me.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    That would assume dad has the time and energy for that. In a world where both parents need to be working in order to survive. Most people have no clue how any of the digital world works, but we somehow expect everyone to master it all when they have children?

    Wild take, tbh.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    He knew enough to know that his 9 year old was posting videos on YouTube and gave him a credit card to buy ads. It's poor parenting and ignorance is a bullshit argument. You don't have to master the digital world to know that letting your prepubescent child post content online without strict oversight is bad. Again, he clearly knew this was happening because again, he funded it. Shit parenting.

    I know single working parents with multiple kids that are surely worse off than this guy that aren't this stupid and are better parents just by being attentive to their children's actions and hobbies.

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