Bad Influence is the latest in a number of projects exploring the murky world of social media fiefdoms predicated on videos about children, a list that includes Hulu’s An Update on Our Family ...

"Bad Influence," a new docuseries exploring teen YouTube star Piper Rockelle and the "shadowy world ... The rotating cast of tween friends Smith enlisted in 2018 to appear in her daughter's videos ...

My Takeaways from ‘Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing’ The show has already sparked a pretty intense discourse online and, for me personally, it has been a series that left me with ...

The kids in Bad Influence say the pranks were the most cruel. For one YouTube video, Piper pretended to break her leg and have a stroke and was carried away in a fake ambulance.

Piper Rockelle, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing Netflix. Piper is now 17, but she has been creating social media content with her mother's encouragement since she was eight years old.

Unfortunately, what Piper and her friends experienced isn’t an anomaly. Every day, thousands of parents exploit child “influencers” too young to run their own social media accounts.

Bad Influence extrapolates on the complaint 11 underage content creators filed against Smith in 2022, which accused her of "emotional, verbal, physical, and at times, sexual abuse" when they were ...

Piper Rockelle teases her desire to share her "own story" after "Bad Influence" on Netflix was released on April 9, 2025. ... a big friend group breaking up," she penned, ...