EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact
As Australia forges ahead with social media age verification laws, influencers who exploit their children for content are worried these new rules may impact their ability to make some coin.
Coming into effect this December, social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok will require users to prove they’re over the age of eighteen.
YouTube, which was initially set to be exempt from this ban, will now be included.
Search engines will also require proof of age to browse online, though it’s unknown how this will be implemented – likely through some form of identification.
This news has understandably rattled some mum influencers, who fear they will no longer be able to broadcast every detail about their child’s lives.
Chrissie Plemmings, who recently hit 300K followers after doing a touching carousel post about her daughter getting her period, says she’s concerned these new rules may impact her ability to ‘share the adventures of the Plemmings family.’
This statement is echoed by Betoota Heights mum, Tegan Wallis, who runs a 500k strong Instagram account for her ‘photogenic’ three year old daughter. She says these new rules could unfairly affect content creators.
Luckily for family influencers, it appears that these rules will only stop children from using social media, and not appearing on it.
That is until kids work out how to use VPNs, steal their parents drivers licence or whatever other ways they’re sure to figure out to bypass the system.
More to come.
