An Update On Our Family

[DanaK]

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HBO 3-part doc series premieres Wednesday January 15 2025, time TBA and streams on Max

Logline: AN UPDATE ON OUR FAMILY explores the complex and symbiotic world of family vlogging - a phenomenon in which parents post a steady stream of lifestyle videos on their social media channels to be consumed by loyal subscribers whose views in turn generate money for the vloggers themselves. After controversy around former family vloggers Myka and James Stauffer went public, new scrutiny arose around the industry. The documentary raises questions about what motivates vloggers to expose their lives to the world and examines the issues surrounding making their children's lives public. The three-part series exposes the hidden-in-plain-sight, unregulated family vlogging industry.

 

[DanaK]

Time will be 9pm ET per HBO's schedule

[DanaK]

Full press release http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2025/01/07/hbo-original-three-part-documentary-series-an-update-on-our-family-debuts-january-15-734311/20250107hbo02/

Trailer

 

[DanaK]

Interesting first episode. First, I think once a family blogger earns a lot of money, brings in sponsors and turns the thing into a business, it’s no longer real (or maybe that happens when sponsors/brands come into it). Second, it’s one thing to blog about yourself and take away your own privacy, but parents shouldn’t be involving their kids because they are too young to consent. Also, viewers who keep wanting more and more are responsible as well for the bloggers losing all privacy and taking things too far into things probably no longer being real and of course exposing their kids without their consent

We’ll see how the rest of the episodes go, especially in regards to adopted child Huxley

[IntrovertRed]

First thoughts;  the idea of having to vlog everyday sounds exhausting. And if you have to constantly be creative to come up with ideas, record yourself, then edit, etc., when do you actually have time to focus on the children and actually be an actual involved parent?

I get bad vibes from The Earl family. 

[Quilt Fairy]

5 hours ago, IntrovertRed said:

the idea of having to vlog everyday sounds exhausting. And if you have to constantly be creative to come up with ideas, record yourself, then edit, etc., when do you actually have time to focus on the children and actually be an actual involved parent?

I'm just disappointed that all these women seem to focus exclusively on pumping out babies and being SuperMom.  

Also, I don't know who is in charge of documentaries at HBO these days, but they seem to be paying by the minute.  Just like the excruciatingly boring Hot Yoga one, the producers are taking multiple episodes to drag out a story that Dateline or 20/20 could tell in 45 minutes plus commercials. 

[bilgistic]

I am going to sound like an old person, but I hate that random nobodies are given airtime to "report" on other random nobodies. I also hate that I wasted an hour(?) of my life in this crap.