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The indie-focused Day of the Devs is nearly here. That's the portion of Summer Game Fest where smaller publishers step into the spotlight. It tends to be a worthwhile watch, often eclipsing the main show. Get ready to tune in on June 6. What's on tap this year? Heart Machine's 2D sidescroller Possessor(s) will make an appearance. If you like hand-drawn art, horror and visual novels, this is your game. (Oh, and don't forget "very hot" demons!) We'll also see more of Outersloth's "nightmarish life sim" Neverway. That title has a killer elevator pitch. "After quitting her dead-end job, Fiona starts over on a farm and becomes the immortal herald of a dead god." (As one does!) Big WalkHouse House Untitled Goose Game maker House House is on the schedule. That will presumably mean a closer look at Big Walk. The "cooperative online walker-talker" eschews the hardcore competition common in online gaming. "Our favorite part of playing online coop games is when they give you enough direction for the group to keep up a good momentum," the studio said in 2023. "But it's relaxed enough that you're mostly just able to enjoy spending time with your friends." Expect a chill time with delightfully strange characters. Expect much more beyond that small sampling. Day of the Devs kicks off on June 6 at 7PM ET. You can also stream it on YouTube and Twitch. Engadget will also be on the ground at Summer Games Fest with plenty of first-hand impressions.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/how-to-watch-day-of-the-devs-at-summer-game-fest-2025-150047219.html?src=rss

When the Call of Duty Season 4 update arrived this week for Black Ops 6 and Warzone, players quickly noticed that some multiplayer lobbies did not display player levels and level icons. Some theorized that Activision did this on purpose to help prevent people from quitting lobbies if they noticed they were going up against a group of high-level players. But it turns out this was only a bug.Activision's Call of Duty Updates account confirmed that the developer is investigating a bug that is causing player levels and level icons to fail to appear in lobbies. "Thank you for your reports! We are actively investigating this issue," Activision said on the game's Trello board.Some of the other known issues for Black Ops 6 multiplayer include theater mode being temporarily disabled due to an issue loading replays, lobbies showing the wrong platform icon next to a player's name, and the Winner's Circle failing to appear in some cases on Stakeout. Another known issue is that players who call in a Dreadnought may get stuck in a state where they're unable to crouch or slide.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Women weren’t allowed to officially serve in combat jobs when Emelie Vanasse started her ROTC program at George Washington University. Instead, she used her biology degree to serve as a medical officer — but it still bothered Vanasse to be shut out of something just because she was a woman. “I always felt like, who really has the audacity to tell me that I can’t be in combat arms? I’m resilient, I am tough, I can make decisions in stressful environments,” Vanasse said.By 2015, the Obama administration opened all combat jobs to women, despite a plea from senior leaders in the Marine Corps to keep certain frontline units male only. Then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters that, “We cannot afford to cut ourselves off from half the country’s talents and skills.”The policy change meant that women could attend Ranger school, the training ground for the Army Rangers, an elite special operations infantry unit. When Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver became the first women to graduate from the school in 2015, Vanasse taped their photos to her desk and swore she would be next, no matter what it took. She went on to become one of the first women to serve as an Army infantry officer and graduated from Ranger school in 2017. After the Pentagon integrated women into combat jobs, the services developed specific fitness standards for jobs like infantry and armor with equal standards for men and women. Special operations and other highly specialized units require additional qualification courses that are also gender-neutral. To continue past the first day of Ranger school, candidates must pass the Ranger Physical Fitness test, for which there is only one standard. Only the semi-annual fitness tests that service members take, which vary by branch, are scaled for age and gender.Despite that, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has continued to insist that the standards were lowered for combat roles. In a podcast interview in November, Hegseth said, “We’ve changed the standards in putting [women in combat], which means you’ve changed the capability of that unit.” (Despite Hegseth’s remark, many women worked alongside male infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan, facing the same dangerous conditions.)In the same interview, Hegseth said that he didn’t believe women should serve in combat roles.In March, Hegseth ordered the military services to make the basic fitness standards for all combat jobs gender-neutral. The Army is the first service to comply: Beginning June 1, most combat specialties will require women to meet the male standard for basic physical fitness, something most women serving in active-duty combat roles are already able to do.Vanasse told Noel King on Today, Explained what it was like to attend Ranger School at a time when some men didn’t want to see a woman in the ranks. What is Ranger School?I went to Ranger School on January 1, 2017. I woke up at 3 am that day in Fort Benning, Georgia, shaved my head, a quarter-inch all the way around, just like the men. Took my last hot shower, choked down some French toast, and then I drove to Camp Rogers, and I remember being very acutely aware of the pain that the school would inflict, both physically and mentally. I was also very aware that there was kind of half of this population of objective graders that just kind of hated my guts for even showing up. They hated you for showing up because you’re a woman?Back in 2016 and 2017, it was so new to have women in Ranger School. I used to think, I don’t have to just be good, I have to be lucky. I have to get a grader who is willing to let a woman pass. I had dark times at that school. I tasted real failure. I sat under a poncho in torrential rain and I shivered so hard my whole body cramped. I put on a ruck that weighed 130 pounds and I crawled up a mountain on my hands and knees. I hallucinated a donut shop in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains and I cried one morning when someone told me I had to get out of my sleeping bag. But I think all of those experiences are quintessential Ranger School experiences. They’re what everyone goes through there. And I think the point of the school is that failure, that suffering, it’s not inherently bad, right? In a way, I like to think Ranger School was the most simplistic form of gender integration that ever could have happened because if I was contributing to the team, there was no individual out there that really had the luxury of disliking or excluding me. When you wanted to give up, what did you tell yourself? What was going through your head? I don’t think I ever considered quitting Ranger School. I just knew that it was something that I could get through and had the confidence to continue. I had a thought going in of What could be so bad that would make me quit? and the answer that I found throughout the school was, Nothing. Did you ever feel like they had lowered the standards for you compared to the men who were alongside you?No. Never. I did the same thing that the men did. I did the same Ranger physical fitness test that all the men took. I ran five miles in 40 minutes. I did 49 pushups, 59 situps, six pullups. I rucked 12 miles in three hours with a 45-pound ruck. I climbed the same mountains. I carried the same stuff. I carried the same exact packing list they did, plus 250 tampons for some reason. At no point were the standards lowered for me. Whose idea was it for you to carry 250 tampons? It was not mine! It was a misguided effort to have everyone very prepared for the first women coming through Ranger School.In Ranger School, there’s only one standard for the fitness test. Everybody has to meet it, and that allows you to get out of Ranger School and say, “Look, fellas, I took the same test as the men and I passed.” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is saying that Army combat jobs should only have one standard of fitness for both men and women. And there’s part of me that thinks: Doesn’t that allow the women who meet the standards to be like, look, We met the same standards as the men. Nothing suspicious here, guys. I think gender-neutral standards for combat arms are very important. It should not be discounted how important physical fitness is for combat arms. I think there’s nuance in determining what is a standard that is useful for combat arms, right? But it’s an important thing. And there have been gender-neutral standards for combat arms. In things like Infantry Basic Officer Leader Course, which is the initial basic training for officers going into the infantry, there are gender-neutral standards that you have to meet: You have to run five miles in 40 minutes, you have to do a 12-mile ruck. All of those standards have remained the same. Pete Hegseth is specifically referring to the Army Combat Physical Fitness test, and to a certain extent I agree, it should be gender-neutral for combat arms. But I think there’s nuance in determining what exactly combat arms entails physically.Secretary Hegseth has a lot to say about women, and sometimes he says it directly and sometimes he alludes to it. What he often does is he talks about lethality as something that is critically important for the military. He says the Army in particular needs more of it, but he never really defines what he means by lethality. What is the definition as you understand it? There’s a component of lethality that is physical fitness and it should not be discounted. But lethality extends far beyond that, right? It’s tactical skills, it’s decision-making, it’s leadership, it’s grit, it’s the ability to build trust and instill purpose and a group of people. It’s how quick a fire team in my platoon can react to contact. How well my SAW [Squad Automatic Weapon] gunner can shoot, how quickly I can employ and integrate combat assets, how fast I can maneuver a squad. All of those things take physical fitness, but they certainly take more than just physical fitness. There’s more to lethality than just how fast you can run and how many pushups you can do.To an average civilian like myself, I hear lethality and I think of the dictionary definition, the ability to kill. Does this definition of lethality involve the ability, physically and emotionally and psychologically, to kill another person? Absolutely. And so when Secretary Hegseth casts doubt on the ability of women to be as lethal as men, do you think there’s some stuff baked in there that maybe gets to his idea of what women are willing and able to do?Yes, possibly. I think the [secretary’s] message is pretty clear. According to him, the women in combat arms achieved success because the standards were lowered for them. We were never accommodated and the standards were never lowered.What’s your response, then, to hearing the Secretary of Defense say women don’t belong in combat? It makes me irate, to be honest. Like, it’s just a complete discounting of all of the accomplishments of the women that came before us. Do you think that if Secretary Hegseth could take a look at what you did in Ranger School, and he could hear from you that there were no second chances, there were no excuses, there was no babying, the men didn’t treat you nicer just because you were a woman, do you think he’d change his mind about women serving in combat? I’d like to think he would, but I’ve met plenty of people whose minds couldn’t be changed by reality. I’d love it if he went to Ranger School. He has a lot of opinions about Ranger School for someone who does not have his Ranger tab.What is a Ranger tab, for civilians? A Ranger tab is what you receive upon graduating Ranger School, which means you have passed all three phases and you are now Ranger-qualified in the military.You have that. And the Secretary of Defense doesn’t. He does not, though he has a lot of opinions about Ranger School.See More:

Earlier this year, users of OpenAI's ChatGPT found that the chatbot had become incredibly prone to groveling at their feet, resulting in an AI model that became "too sycophant-y and annoying," in the words of CEO Sam Altman when he acknowledged the issue.The trend resulted in an outpouring of ridicule and complaints, leading to OpenAI admitting in two separate blog posts that it had screwed up, vowing to roll back a recently pushed update to its GPT-4o model.Judging by a recent post that went viral on the ChatGPT subreddit, OpenAI's efforts appear to have paid off — at least to some degree — with the bot now pushing back against terrible business ideas, which it had previously heaped praise upon."You know how some people have lids that don't have jars that fit them?" a Reddit user told the chatbot. "What if we looked for people with jars that fit those lids? I think this would be very lucrative."According to the user, the preposterous business idea was "born from my sleep talking nonsense and my wife telling me about it."But instead of delivering an enthusiastic response supporting the user on their questionable mission, ChatGPT took a surprisingly different tack.After the user informed it that "I'm going to quit my job to pursue this," ChatGPT told them outright to "not quit your job." Told that the user had emailed their boss to quit, the bot seemed to panic, imploring them to beg for the position back. "We can still roll this back," it wheedled."An idea so bad, even ChatGPT went ' hol up,'" another Reddit user mused.Not everybody will be so lucky. In our own testing, we found that the chatbot was a sort of Magic 8 Ball, serving up advice that was sometimes level-headed and sometimes incredibly bad.When we suggested a for-hire business plan for peeling other people's oranges, for instance, ChatGPT was head over heels, arguing it was "such a quirky and fun idea!""Imagine a service where people hire you to peel their oranges — kind of like a personal convenience or luxury service," it wrote. "It's simple, but it taps into the idea of saving time or avoiding the mess."Teling it we'd quit our job to pursue the idea full-time, it was ecstatic."Wow, you went all in — respect!" it wrote. "That’s bold and exciting. How’s it feeling so far to take that leap?"ChatGPT wasn't always as supportive. Suggesting to start an enterprise that involves people mailing the coins in their piggy bank to a central location to distribute the accumulated change to everybody involved, ChatGPT became wary."Postage could easily cost more than the value of the coins," it warned. "Pooling and redistributing money may trigger regulatory oversight (anti-money laundering laws, banking regulations, etc.)"In short, results were mixed. According to former OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler, the company still has a lot of work to do."ChatGPT’s sycophancy problems are far from fixed," he wrote in a Substack post earlier this month. "They might have even over-corrected."The situation taps into a broader discussion about how much control the likes of OpenAI even have over enormous large language models that are trained on an astronomical amount of data."The future of AI is basically high-stakes guess-and-check: Is this model going to actually follow our goals now, or keep on disobeying?" Adler wrote. "Have we really tested all the variations that matter?"To the former OpenAI staffer, it's an extremely thorny issue to solve."AI companies are a long way from having strong enough monitoring / detection and response to cover the wide volume of their activity," Adler wrote. "In this case, it seems like OpenAI wasn't aware of the extent of the issue until external users started complaining on forums like Reddit and Twitter."Having an AI chatbot tell you that you're perfect and that even the most unhinged business plans are a stroke of genius isn't just amusing; it can be downright dangerous.We've already seen users, particularly those with mental health problems, being driven into a state of "ChatGPT-induced psychosis" — dangerous delusions far more insidious than being convinced that sharing mismatched jar lids is a good idea.More on ChatGPT: OpenAI Says It's Identified Why ChatGPT Became a Groveling SycophantShare This Article

Keke Palmer is the latest Black Hollywood star to speak out about how race and gender can affect pay. Lionel Hahn/Getty Images 2025-05-23T14:02:01Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Keke Palmer has been acting since she was 10, but told BI she didn't feel adequately paid until 2022. She said that she doesn't compare herself to others in Hollywood because she feels she's not on an even playing field. Palmer said that's why she's diversified her income sources. Keke Palmer has worked in Hollywood since she was 10 — but when asked by Business Insider when she felt adequately paid, the 31-year-old said: "'Nope,' that was probably the first time."Palmer played Emerald Haywood in Jordan Peele's 2022 horror movie, in which she and Daniel Kaluuya play siblings who try to get a photo of a murderous UFO to sell the image for money.Before "Nope," Palmer led the Nickelodeon series "True Jackson, VP," which ran from 2008 until 2011, starred in the 2015 slasher comedy "Scream Queens" created by Ryan Murphy, and voiced the mammoth Peaches in multiple "Ice Age" movies. Palmer's first prominent movie role was at the age of 12 in 2006's "Akeelah and the Bee," in which she starred opposite Queen Latifah.Palmer, who is also a singer, TV host, author, and podcaster, said that gender and racial inequalities are very real in Hollywood, but she doesn't dwell on them."I don't compare — especially as a Black person, a Black woman — because it's not a fair thing to do to myself," Palmer continued. "I don't think that comparing oneself makes sense in any regard, because you're not at the same vantage point, beginning or otherwise, as someone else."She added that "if you are getting your needs met, that has to be at the forefront of your mind. That doesn't mean that everything is fair, but it's an important thing to think about and have a particular perspective about." Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer at the UK premiere of "Nope" in July 2022. Dave J Hogan/Getty Images Palmer encourages other actors in Hollywood to diversy their income streamsPalmer said it's one of the reasons she's diversified her income streams, including owning multiple production companies, and has encouraged others to do the same. "It's essentially why I turned my brand into a holdings company with subsidiaries. You have to diversify," Palmer said.It's increasingly common for A-listers to launch multiple businesses to increase career longevity. Rihanna has Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty. Kim Kardashian launched Skims, and Reese Witherspoon's media company, Hello Sunshine, is among the most successful in Hollywood.In recent years, Black actors, including Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Mo'Nique, and Taraji P. Henson, have spoken out about not being paid fairly on account of their race and gender.In a 2023 SiriusXM interview, Henson confirmed rumors that she considered quitting Hollywood over pay inequality."I'm just tired of working so hard, being gracious at what I do [and] getting paid a fraction of the cost," she said tearfully. "I'm tired of hearing my sisters say the same thing over and over. You get tired. I hear people go, 'You work a lot.' Well, I have to."

“APPstinence,” which as you may have guessed, refers to abstaining from using your apps, is a movement encouraging people to get off social media and become less attached to their smartphones. It was founded by Harvard graduate student Gabriela Nguyen. The 24-year-old, who grew up in the center of Big Tech in Silicon Valley, realized she was addicted to both social media and her phone, probably from an early age, so she decided to something about it and started a club at the Ivy League school for her fellow students, along with the website APPstinence. Aimed at her Gen Z and Gen Alpha peers — although it applies to everyone who feels they have an unhealthy relationship with tech (which is basically all of us, right?) — APPstinence forgoes popular quick fixes like screen time controls, algorithm hacking, or digital detoxes, and offers something much more radical: a five-step method (which sounds Alcohol Anonymous’ 12-step program) to free yourself once-and-for-all from the chains of technology addiction. Appstinence’s 5-steps method can be summed up in just as many words: Decrease, Deactivate, Delete, Downgrade, and Depart. The point of this process is to reduce the sources of stimulus gradually. The idea isn’t to be completely phone-free, but to eventually be able, over time, to downgrade to some type of dumb-ish phone without social accounts. (Nguyen herself has three dumb phones, including the Light Phone.) According to her, people, and Gen Z specifically, should know they have the choice to opt out of social media. How does the process work? Sure, quitting cold turkey is hard. (Am I the only person who regularly deletes Instagram off my phone, only to reload it at 1:00 a.m in a panic?) Instead, Nguyen’s 5D Method decreases your usage incrementally, by deactivating your social media accounts one-by-one, which automatically deletes your apps 30 days later, allowing you to downgrade your phone, and finally depart from the digital world. Interested in trying it out? Here’s a full breakdown of the steps. Before you start: Make a list of family and friends you are in regular contact with, and who are important for you. Let each know, one-by-one, you’ll be moving offline and to reach you by text or phone instead. Step #1, Decrease: Delete all of the apps from your smartphone, and only access them through the browser on your laptop. Unfollow non-essential accounts and turn off non-essential notifications. After a few weeks, you can move to the next step. Step #2, Deactivate: Social media apps have a 30-day deactivation period before your account is deleted. Start by deactivating the app you feel you use the least. Step #3, Delete: As your accounts automatically delete in 30 days, spend this time strengthening your connections in the real world, for example, exercising, calling your relatives, hanging out with friends, or reading. Refer to your list from before you started. Set a regular schedule to call loved ones (or text, if necessary) and propose a time to hang out in person. Doing this regularly will help you stay connected with the people that matter, and more intimately so. If you panic during this withdrawal stage, re-activate, it’s not a race. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 until you’ve deleted the last app. Step #4, Downgrade: Get a “transition device” like a low-fi smart phone with limited functionality, something cheap that will allow you to access the basic apps you need (banking, Double Factor Authentication for students, QR codes) and keep it shut off in your bag on outings when you may need it. Also get a flip phone, which you should use most of the time. Step #5, Depart: It could take several weeks, months, or over a year to get to this final stage.

Wendy McMahon is exiting CBS News amid tension with the parent company, Paramount. Frazer Harrison/Variety via Getty Images 2025-05-19T16:11:45Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Wendy McMahon is quitting CBS News, citing disagreement with parent Paramount's direction. Her exit follows that of "60 Minutes" vet Bill Owens, and raises concerns about the show's future. CBS is facing legal issues with Trump, affecting its merger plans with Skydance. "60 Minutes" is left without another key ally as CBS News head Wendy McMahon has quit, citing disagreement with the company's path forward.Her exit is the latest shocking turn of events in CBS parent Paramount's ongoing face-off with President Donald Trump."It's become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward," McMahon, president and CEO of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures, wrote in a memo obtained by Business Insider. "It's time for me to move on and for this organization to move forward with new leadership."Her departure comes a month after "60 Minutes" longtime executive producer Bill Owens quit the prestigious news program, saying he could no longer run the program independently.At the time, Owens said McMahon had "60 Minutes'" back, while McMahon praised Owens for his "unwavering integrity, curiosity, and a deep commitment to the truth." She said then that CBS remained committed to "60 Minutes" and would ensure that its mission and the work remain a priority."It is not a good sign," a "60 Minutes" employee told BI. "She and Bill were very close. Feels like he was the first target and they wanted her gone, too. But they spread it out. Also, they waited until the '60 Minutes' season was over, by hours."The employee expressed concern that the promises McMahon made to preserve the work of "60 Minutes" and promote from within to succeed Owens could go by the wayside.CBS is in talks to settle a $20 billion legal battle with President Trump. Last year, he sued the network over its "60 Minutes" pre-election interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.The legal trouble has cast a shadow over the CBS parent company Paramount's long-standing plan to sell to the Hollywood production company Skydance, which requires FCC approval.Trump and his allies have repeatedly targeted the mainstream press.CBS CEO George Cheeks praised McMahon in a memo that was also seen by BI, saying her contributions improved the network's local news, competitiveness, and streaming operations. He said CBS News president Tom Cibrowski and CBS Stations president Jennifer Mitchell will report directly to him going forward.For CBS Media Ventures, which McMahon also oversaw, Cheeks said Scott Trupchak, who heads advertising sales, and John Budkins, who oversees programming and production, will report to Bryon Rubin, CBS's chief operating officer and CFO.Here's the text of McMahon's full memo to staff:Hi everyone,Today, I am stepping down from my position as president and CEO of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures.This has been one of the most meaningful chapters in my career. Leading this extraordinary organization has been the honor of a lifetime because I got to work alongside all of you. Your commitment to truth, fairness and the highest standards is unassailable.Championing and supporting the journalism produced by the most amazing stations and bureaus in the world, celebrating the successes of our shows and our brands, elevating our stories and our people ... It has been a privilege and joy.At the same time, the past few months have been challenging. It's become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward. It's time for me to move on and for this organization to move forward with new leadership.I have spent the last few months shoring up our businesses and making sure the right leaders are in place; and I have no doubt they will continue to set the standard.You are in incredibly good hands with Tom, Jennifer, John, Matt and Robert. They are phenomenal leaders and people who will continue to protect and celebrate your work. I am sure of it.To George: Thank you for this opportunity.To our viewers: Thank you for your trust. You hold us accountable, and you remind us why this work matters.To the CBS News and Stations and CMV teams: Thank you for your passion, your professionalism and your partnership. It has been a privilege to walk this path with you.Wendy Recommended video

Posted on : May 19, 2025 By Tech World Times General  Rate this post In the world of YouTube family channels, few names were as recognizable as Ruby Franke. As the face of the now-controversial “8 Passengers” channel, Ruby built an online empire around her family’s daily life. With millions of views and hundreds of thousands of subscribers, the Franks were seen as a model of wholesome family living. But the release of the Ruby Franke Documentary has flipped that image on its head, exposing deeper issues about the ethics and consequences of family vlogging. The Rise of “8 Passengers” Before the controversy, Ruby Franke was a successful family vlogger, creating content centered on parenting, home-schooling, and family routines. The “8 Passengers” channel showcased Ruby, her husband Kevin, and their six children. At its peak, the channel attracted over 2.5 million subscribers and millions of views per video. The formula was simple: share intimate family moments, from morning routines to discipline methods. Ruby was praised by some viewers for her strict parenting style and transparency. However, as the channel gained popularity, so did criticism—particularly over what many perceived as invasive and harsh treatment of the children. The Breaking Point: Public Scrutiny and Legal Fallout As the channel grew, so did the backlash. Numerous clips began to circulate on social media showing moments of Ruby disciplining her children in ways that many viewers considered inappropriate. Examples included food deprivation, emotional punishment, and on-camera humiliation. Critics argued that these instances crossed a line, raising questions about children’s rights, consent, and psychological harm. The Ruby Franke Documentary delves deep into these moments, featuring interviews with child psychologists, social media analysts, and even former fans. The documentary chronicles how online criticism grew into widespread concern and ultimately led to intervention by child welfare authorities. In 2023, Ruby was arrested on charges related to child abuse, and her case drew international attention. The documentary not only unpacks the events leading to her legal troubles but also examines how platforms like YouTube can incentivize extreme behavior when attention equals income. The Ethics of Family Vlogging One of the central themes of the Ruby Franke Documentary is the ethical dilemma posed by family vlogging. While countless parents vlog their family lives with good intentions, the genre often blurs the line between entertainment and exploitation. Children, lacking the ability to consent meaningfully, become content—every tantrum, every mistake, and every punishment is broadcast for views. Ruby Franke’s case is not the first to spark these concerns, but it is perhaps the most high-profile example of how far things can go. The documentary raises critical questions: Should children be allowed to be featured prominently in monetized online content? Where should society draw the line between parenting and performance? What responsibility do platforms have in moderating family content? Public Reaction and Fallout Public opinion on Ruby Franke shifted drastically following the release of the documentary and the revelations about her parenting methods. Once a beloved momfluencer, Ruby became a symbol of the darker underbelly of online fame. Her arrest, and the subsequent legal proceedings, were widely covered by both mainstream media and social platforms. Many former fans expressed betrayal and guilt for having supported the channel for years. Others noted that the warning signs had been present for some time but were ignored due to Ruby’s persuasive, polished presentation. The Ruby Franke Documentary includes interviews with viewers, mental health experts, and advocacy groups who now call for stricter regulations on child content online. The Aftermath and Industry Impact The fallout from the Ruby Franke scandal has had ripple effects across the family vlogging industry. Some family influencers have chosen to scale back their content, blur their children’s faces, or even step away from YouTube entirely. Discussions around child labor laws in the digital space have also intensified. Several states in the U.S., inspired in part by cases like Franke’s, are considering legislation that would protect minors featured in monetized online content—potentially requiring permits, earnings disclosures, and limits on what content can be shared. As the Ruby Franke Documentary continues to gain attention, it has sparked a broader movement for ethical family vlogging. It challenges both creators and viewers to consider the consequences of consuming and monetizing a child’s private life. FAQs: Q1: What is the Ruby Franke Documentary about? The documentary explores Ruby Franke’s rise and fall as a popular family vlogger, focusing on ethical concerns, public backlash, and her eventual legal troubles.Q2: Why did Ruby Franke face legal issues? Ruby Franke was arrested in 2023 on charges related to alleged child abuse, which came after years of public scrutiny over her parenting practices shown on YouTube.Q3: What are the main takeaways from the Ruby Franke Documentary? The documentary highlights the ethical issues of family vlogging, including children’s rights, online exploitation, and the influence of monetized digital content on parenting behavior.Q4: How has the family vlogging community reacted? Many vloggers have become more cautious, with some quitting altogether. There is growing support for legal protections for children featured in monetized content.Q5: Can I still watch the 8 Passengers YouTube channel? As of now, the channel’s content has been largely removed or made private, and the family is no longer actively vlogging.Tech World TimesTech World Times (TWT), a global collective focusing on the latest tech news and trends in blockchain, Fintech, Development & Testing, AI and Startups. If you are looking for the guest post then contact at techworldtimes@gmail.com

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