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Watch the Trailer for Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing

Name: Watch the Trailer for Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing
Uploaded: 2025-03-13T13:30:00.000Z
Duration: 2 min 11 s
Description: Through firsthand accounts from kidfluencer Piper Rockelle's Squad of teens and their families, the docuseries details the claims of exploitation and abuse made against Piper’s momager, Tiffany, and explores the unregulated world of kidfluencing.

Piper Rockelle is a massively popular young social media superstar with more than 25 million followers. She films pranks, challenges, and “crush content” with her friend group, The Squad. For aspiring tween influencers, joining them could unlock hundreds of thousands of followers and big-budget brand deals. But a bombshell lawsuit by former Squad members and their families could be the end of her multimillion-dollar empire.

Through deeply affecting firsthand accounts from the teens and their families, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing details the explosive claims of exploitation and abuse made against Piper’s momager, Tiffany. In the process, the docuseries explores the increasingly blurred line between parent and producer in the digital age and the dangers of the unregulated world of kidfluencing.

Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing premieres April 9 on Netflix.

To learn more about this docuseries, click here.

March 13, 2025

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Transcript

It's Piper. Go!

[woman 1] Piper Rockelle is an incredibly popular child influencer.

[reporter] This young lady's amassed more than ten million followers on YouTube.

[woman 2] Piper's mother, Tiffany Smith, is the momager.

[man] She took these kids to massive viral fame. It seemed so innocent. But it wasn't innocent at all.

[dark music plays]

[woman 3] Tiffany finds people who want to be famous. She takes advantage of them. Things can get very muddy when kids are making an obscene amount of money.

[woman 1] At her peak, Piper was earning between $300,000 and $500,000 a month.

[woman 4] Young girls have very large numbers of adult men as followers.

[girl 1] Tiffany would direct us to pose certain ways. Hugging a certain way in a clip.

[boy 1] Closer, closer.

[woman 5] She would be like, over and over, "Sex sells. Make it sexy."

[woman 7] Smile. Flirt with the camera.

There we go.

[woman 3] Where's the line for Tiffany? I was 17. We were on my live stream. Then the kiss happened. I woke up in the morning, and it was gone. If someone could erase this from the Internet, then what else could they get away with?

[boy 1] Everything was controlled by Tiffany.

We were filming 10 to 15 videos a day.

Okay, action.

[girl 2] If you leave The Squad, you're going to get blacklisted.

[woman 6] She would start a hate campaign. It's like a cult or something. You can't get out. You know all the consequences of even just crossing her.

[boy 2] Stop!

You didn't hear the way she spoke to me!

[woman 8] People should be asking themselves, "Is it really okay for my child's vulnerabilities to be displayed to random strangers?"

[boy 2] Pull yourself together!

[girl 1] It doesn't matter what happened to us as long as they got it on camera. I remember being so scared.

[woman 9] It's not just these kids. There's so many others. And if something isn't done, these won't be the last kids.

[music swells]