DADDY OF FIVE, EVER HEARD OF HIM?
WELL, HE RUNS A YOUTUBE CHANNEL ALONG WITH HIS WIFE, HIS
NAME IS MIKE, AND HER NAME IS HEATHER, AND IT IS A PRANK
YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
AND WHO DO THEY PULL PRANKS ON?
THEIR KIDS.
THEY HAVE FIVE CHILDREN'S, AND THEY HAVE PULLED PRANKS ON
THEM AND RAISED THEIR FOLLOWING TO 800,000 SUBSCRIBERS.
PEOPLE WHO IS SENSIBLY JUST WANT TO WATCH KIDS SUFFER.
THEY CAN'T ñ
THEY CLING TO THE IDEA THAT IT WAS ALL JUST PRANKS, DELETE
RECENT PRANK WENT TOO FAR, WE WILL SHOW YOU THAT LATER.
YOUTUBE SUSPENDED A LOT OF THEIR VIDEOS, TOOK THEM DOWN.
THEY APOLOGIZED, BUT NOW THE DADDY OF FIVE HAS LOST
CUSTODY OF TWO OF THE KIDS.
AND RESPONSE TO LOSING CUSTODY, WHICH WENT TO THE BIRTHMOTHERS
ñ WHAT TO THEIR BIRTH MOTHER, THIS IS THE VIDEO THEY RELEASED
APOLOGIZING AND UPDATING FOLKS ON THE SITUATION NOW.
THIS HAS BEEN THE ABSOLUTE WORST MOMENT OF OUR LIFE, AND WE
HAVE REALIZED THAT WE HAVE MADE SOME TERRIBLE PARENTING
DECISIONS, AND WE JUST WANT TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT.
I DO AGREE THAT WE PUT THINGS ON THE INTERNET THAT SHOULD
NOT BE THERE, WE DID THINGS THAT WE SHOULD NOT DO.
THEY KIND OF FEEL LIKE SOME OF IT IS THEIR FAULT, AND IT IS NOT
THEIR FAULT, IT'S NOT, WE ARE THE PARENTS, AND WE SHOULD
HAVE MADE BETTER DECISIONS.
WE ARE NOW IN FAMILY COUNSELING BECAUSE WE NEED IT.
YEAH YOU DO.
THE ORIGINAL VIDEO THAT WENT AROUND, THAT EVENTUALLY WENT TOO
FAR, AFTER A LOT OF THEIR VIDEOS WENT TOO FAR, HERE IS THE
CLIP, IT IS WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT, THAT LATER
THEY KIND OF TRY TO EXCUSE AS COMEDY.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE ORIGINAL VIDEO THAT STARTED IT ALL.
[ INAUDIBLE]
GET YOUR FUCKING ASS UP THERE!!
WHAT DID YOU DO?!
WHAT?
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!
I DIDN'T DO THAT.
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
WHAT IS THIS?
YOU TELL ME!
CODY!
YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU DID.
I SWEAR TO GOD I DIDN'T DO THAT.
I DIDN'T DO THAT, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO COLOR WITH.
ON THE CARPET.
GET OUT OF HERE.
I DIDN'T DO THAT!
MOMMY, DAD, I DIDN'T ñ
OH MY GOD!
OH MY GOD!!
YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT --
I DIDN'T DO IT, I SWEAR.
WE GOT YOU.
YOU ARE INNOCENT BYSTANDER.
YOU JUST GOT OWNED.
IT'S JUST A PRANK, BRUH.
LOOK AT THAT KIDS FACE.
THAT WAS SO PAINFUL TO WATCH.
I'LL ASCRIBE THE FIRST TIME I WATCH THAT THROUGH.
THAT ONE?
YEAH, I'VE WATCHED A FEW OF THEIR VIDEOS, OR A
COMPILATION, AND SOME OF THE WAYS THAT THEY HAVE THREATENED
THIS KID, THE YOUNGEST, CODY, AND I WAS TEARING UP, IT IS
SO BEYOND PAINFUL TO WATCH, THE WAY THAT THEY ARE TALKING
TO THIS KID, AND THE WAY THAT THEY TREAT THEIR KIDS.
SO I'M GLAD THAT THEY LOST CUSTODY.
YEAH, AND IF THERE IS A TWEET GOING AROUND, OF A PHOTO OF THE
TWO KIDS WHO WERE TAKEN TO THEIR BIOLOGICAL MOTHER'S HOUSE,
AND THEY LOOK HAPPY AND THEY ARE SMILING.
BUT WHAT A TERM ATTIC THING TO PUT YOUR KIDS THROUGH.
THIS IS SUCH A TEXTBOOK EMOTIONAL ABUSE.
NOT ALL ABUSE IS HITTING YOUR CHILD.
HOWEVER, THAT KID, IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE VIDEOS IT
LOOKED LIKE HIS DAD SLAMMED HIS HEAD INTO THE SHELF ñ
INTO A SHELF, IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS EGGING ON SOME OF THE
OTHER KIDS TO PUNCH AND HIT HIM.
THIS IS MESSED UP.
I THINK THIS BECAME POPULAR AFTER PHILIP DIFRANCO POINTED
THIS OUT, AND GOOD FOR HIM FOR POINTING THIS OUT BECAUSE THIS
HAS TO STOP, AND THE JUSTIFICATION OF, THIS IS JUST A
PRANK, BRAH, FUCK OFF.
THAT IS NOT HOW YOU TREAT CHILDREN, AND THAT IS NOT HOW
YOU JUSTIFY GOD-AWFUL BEHAVIOR BY SAYING, IT'S A PRANK, BRAH.
IT IS RIDICULOUS, IT IS STUPID, IT IS IGNORANT AND SO DAMAGING
TO THESE KIDS, AND IT WILL HAVE LASTING DAMAGE TO THEM.
THAT'S THE REAL RUB HERE, IS THAT IT IS GOING TO HAVE REAL
LASTING DAMAGE, AND THE KID ñ
THE PARENTS ARE DOING SO TO HAVE SOME SORT OF YOUTUBE SUCCESS.
THERE IS THIS THING CALLED ADVERSE CHILDHOOD
EXPERIENCES, WHICH IS BASICALLY ANYTHING FROM DEALING WITH
LIKE, PARENTS GETTING SEPARATED OR DIVORCED, TO THIS EMOTIONAL
ABUSE, WITNESSING ANY SORT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE, PHYSICAL
ABUSE, WHATEVER IT MAY BE, AND IT DOES HAVE LASTING EFFECTS.
CAN MANIFEST IN THINGS LIKE DISABILITY AND DISEASE,
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS, AND EVEN EARLY DEATH.
THEY ARE TRYING TO DO A PRANK ON THEIR KID, THE KID IS
CLEARLY, SIZED IN THIS SITUATION.
THEY DID A FOLLOW-UP VIDEO WHERE THEY WERE RESPONDING TO THE
HATERS, AS THEY CALL IT.
I'M SORRY IF HATER IS ANYBODY AGAINST CHILD ABUSE, THEN
CALL ME A HATER EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK.
THAT VIDEO GOT TAKEN DOWN.
WHAT HAPPENED WAS, THEY HAD ALL THEIR VIDEOS UP, DIFRANCO DID
HIS VIDEO, THEY ALL GOT TAKEN DOWN AND THEY PUT THE VIDEO UP
THAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT ñ THAT YOU WERE TALKING
ABOUT, AND YOU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT, TOTALLY TONE DEAF.
THEY ARE SAYING, I DON'T UNDERSTAND, FOR ALL THE
HATERS OUT THERE, I LABELED IT COMEDY, IT IS A PRANK.
IF YOU DON'T WANT ME TO DO COMEDY...
THAT'S NOT COMEDY, YOU ASSHOLE.
YOU'RE JUST BEING AN ASSHOLE, ASSHOLE.
AND THEY HAD THE KIDS ON SAYING SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF,
AT LEAST YOU DON'T BEAT US LIKE OTHER PARENTS.
WHAT?
FIRST OF ALL, THAT SHOULD NOT BE YOUR BAR FOR PARENTING, AND
ALSO THE FACT THAT THEY THINK OTHER PARENTS MEANS THAT
THEY HAVE SUCH A SKEWED VISION OF WHAT PARENTING LOOKS LIKE.
THEY SAID LIKE, THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND, IT'S A PRANK,
I'M NOT TRAUMATIZED EVEN THOUGH I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT
THAT WORD MEANS, OF COURSE YOU WANT TO RAT OUT YOUR PARENTS.
THESE KIDS HAVE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME.
YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RAT OUT YOUR PARENTS ON THE VIDEO RIGHT
IN FRONT OF THEM, YOU ARE PROBABLY SCARED TO DEATH.
THESE PARENTS HAVE SITE ñ IT'S WEIRD HOW THESE PARENTS HAVE
PRIORITIZED THEIR SUBSCRIBER TOTALS OVER EVERYTHING ELSE.
THEY ARE LIKE, THE KIDS LOVE THE YOUTUBE, THEY THINK IT'S
AWESOME, IT'S THE ONE THING THEY LOOK FORWARD TO THE MOST.
AND NOW THIS KID IS GOING TO FEEL SO GUILTY.
HE PROBABLY THINKS HIS REACTION IS WHAT TRIGGERED THIS ALL.
THAT IS SO DEVASTATING.
ESPECIALLY FOR THE KID, HE SAYS IN ONE CLIP, YOU KNOW I HAVE TO
VLOG MY LIFE.
SO HE HAS A PRANK CHANNEL, BUT HE IS TELLING HIS KIDS THAT IT
IS A VLOG.
I'M SORRY, EVEN IF IT IS A VLOG, IF YOU RESPONDED TO YOUR KIDS
GETTING MARKER ON THE CARPET, LITTLE CHILDREN, BY SAYING WHAT
THE F, AND SCREAMING AT THEM LIKE THAT, YOU SHOULD NOT
BE A PARENT.
EVEN IF IT IS NOT A PRANK, THAT IS NOT OKAY.
SOMETHING ELSE THAT KILLS ME IS THAT 800,000
PEOPLE SUBSCRIBED.
I'M GLAD THAT THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO LOOK FOR, BECAUSE I
DID, I CLICKED THROUGH IT.
IS MOMMY OF FIVE STILL UP?
SHE HAS ONE TOO?
HEATHER, I HOPE NOT, I ASSUME IT'S BEEN TAKEN DOWN.