kidfluencing

English

Etymology

Blend of kid +‎ influencing.

Noun

kidfluencing (uncountable)

1. Social media influencing as a child.
   • 2019 March 1, Jack Morse, “So it's come to this: An unborn baby 'kidfluencer' has 112,000 Instagram followers”, in Mashable‎^[1]:

     Putting aside the obvious questions regarding infant privacy, just who exactly are these kidfluencers supposed to be kidfluencing?

   • 2022 June 16, Munirat Suleiman, “Is Kidfluencing Child Labor?: How the Youngest Influencers Remain Legally Unprotected”, in Columbia Undergraduate Law Review‎^[2]:

     Parents tend to argue that they are the laborers behind kidfluencing through content creation and contracts, since the children alone are often too young to have their own accounts on these platforms.

   • 2024 May 20, Jessica Longbottom, Carla Hildebrandt and Dunja Karagic, “Inside the world of 'kidfluencers' where children make thousands from social media — at a cost”, in ABC News‎^[3]:

     One of the reasons Zoe is encouraging Ava's passions, like kidfluencing and cheerleading, is because her daughter finds reading and writing difficult.

Related terms

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