Forcing Your Kids to Become TikTok Stars
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HI KURTIS
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i think it'd be funny if they turned the tables one day out of nowhere and woke up their mom with 4 livestreaming cameras in her face and told her to do a silly dance
this sounds so Black Mirror lol
I'm sorry but that'll be hilarious 😭
i have never laughed so hard at a comment LMFAO
PLEASE I WANT THIS TO HAPPEN LMAO
She WOULD… she clearly wants the attention to turn to her as they get older. She’ll have tons of plastic surgery, & kids’ll foot moms bill.💀😑
Kurtis roasting his dad for his divorces is exactly what I came here for
Kurtis fakes his videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL
@@ville__Please stop. You've been spamming the same comment in the hopes that people check out your content. It's annoying.
@@ville__ where are they.
@BollywoodNewzz"stop promoting your own channel in the comments, its obnoxious unrelated and a bore, if you're promoting your own channel in the comments, well it's not really a comment anymore" - jacksfilms, message to all commenters
@@ville__you aswell
I met the aussie bro squad the other day when I was ice-skating with my friends, they were really sweet and let us and many other people take a picture or film TikToks with them. but their mother just wouldn't get out of their face. like 24/7 had a phone up against them yelling stuff to a livestream. it was mental.
I’m just glad they seem to be relatively well-adjusted in spite of their mom being Like That™️.
I really hope one day they get away from her and don't look back
That makes me really sad
Can we have a whole series about the emo property brother who listens to Sunny Day Real Estate?
Holy shit its CZsWorld
Reality is even better
He’s JD Scott and he hosts some weird show about carnivals or amusement parks on the country music channel
😂
I saw it once in a doctors office waiting room and had no idea he was the emo bro
Why do I see you everywhere. I’ve been watching you for years but now I see you in almost every TH-cam comment section. What the actual fuck?
Omg CZsWorld!!
CZ!! i loved your videos on the Saw movies
I love it when Kurtis talks about his childhood in his videos, it’s like a dad revealing lore to his kids
Kurtis fakes his videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL
@@ville__ 🤖
@@ville__ but Kurtis is Canadian and your not
We are both his citizens and his children.
@@literal-legend19sounds a bit like a cult 😮
there is nothing more terrifying to me than the idea of a parent posting the live locations of her children online
Yes lol, at least they live in Australia and there's not many people there, so im guessing its less probable to get harrassed, but still its fucking weird and dangerous, you never know what kind of creepos are out there
@@agatha004out of touch teenage boys being recorded every fucking second of their lives? Anyone mentally fucked up enough in Australia can just track them if they wished because of the mom stating exactly where they're at
She might as well say their address too bc Jesus christ
@@agatha004 25 million people live in australia
@@agatha004 I was gonna say at least in Australia, they don't have to worry about someone pulling up with a g*n like in the US 🙃
K fakes his vids at least I put actual effort into mine LOL
My siblings didn’t want to start a band we wanted to start a reality tv show. Every time something traumatic would happen we would cope by imagining there was dramatic reality tv music in the background
this is the best thing i’ve read all day
LOLLL
Thank god I wasn’t the only one
Are you okay??
whenever i see parents forcing their kids to be stars i always think of jennette mccurdy’s book and what they could be experiencing behind closed doors 😔
Exactly what I was thinking
I'm glad people are waking up to all of this child exploitation in media. Just because some of them end up rich and famous doesn't mean they weren't manipulated and abused their entire childhoods. Plus think of all the kids who went through this and didn't make it and have nothing to show for it but childhood trauma and a waiting job.
EXACTLY ever since i read that book i cant look at child fame the same ever again
Fr :(
i remember when folks missed the entire point of that book because they got offended by the title
The amount of documentaries we're gonna have in 10-20 years thanks to tiktok is insane
Thats the thing it's not just tik tok. It's all social media. Like TH-cam, Instagram, Facebook, etc
@@FukaiKokoroyeah I was gonna say, it’s everywhere. it was happening on youtube before tiktok was even a thing
not a documentary, but didn't drew do a video about a reality show with the d'amelio sisters where most of it is showing how overworked they are as minors?
ah yes cant wait for more 1 hour video essays on these guys.
I know several middle and high school teachers, the kids who had parents that constantly posted everything about them on facebook talk about how much they hate it and how it really messed up their sense of privacy. They talk about being out in public and a friend of their moms from high school they’ve never even met talking to them about how big they’ve gotten or referencing things like potty training, first periods, or other embarrassing things. Too many people don’t see kids as their own people who deserve dignity and privacy and it’s sickening. I have a son and most people on my social media don’t even know because I’ve never, and will never, post anything about him.
"She just donated a hot dog. Give her a dance"
😪💃🏻
For one thing, I do like how Kurtis is kind enough to admit that a lot of his claims are assumptions (unlike most other commentary channels) and is not harsh with his jokes.
This convinces me that child labor laws are in desperate need of updating to stop this rampant exploitation of children particularly from their parents.
This isn't really related but once last year during an interview or something of a minor kpop group the host said something along the lines of "due to child labor laws the girls can't unfortunately work on the show" and i was like UNFORTUNATELY?!?!
It’s weird because in australia (at least my state) they changed the laws last year so that there’s now no minimum age requirement for working, it used to be 14 and 9 months so if anything were going in the opposite direction
Fr it's insane they should be worrying about homework not being forced to go live
Don't worry. They are getting updated. They are getting ROLLED BACK.
New laws going through will allow 8th graders to drop out of school and work full-time.
😡😡😡😡😡😡
@@soulseobswait, which group was it? NewJeans?
If Kurtis didn't openly come out of the closet as canadian we would all think he could be any nationality
come out as canadian lmao, i think we should use that wording more often
Huh?
@NotVille_HOW DOES HE FAKE IS VIDEO? WHAT IS THERE TO BE FAKED?
@NotVille_ Go away.
He’s so brave
My cousins and I tried to start a band in the 2000s, we were called the Space Monkeys and had a total of one successful concerts in our aunt's basement before the band split up.
Lowkey Space Monkeys kinda slaps
I fell asleep while watching his videos and him screaming "ABS" at the end of the video scared me so bad i almost passed out
Serves you right for falling asleep
giggling at the mom consistently having an australian accent while the kids just have kurtis's regular speaking voice in every skit
kurtis is australian!! i have proof! he has a mullet and canada is basically australia he has the build for afl and he talks funny!!
@@lacy.x0I hope your Australian
@@oliverblakely9454you're*
Oh was that meant to be an Australian accent 😬
@@oliverblakely9454 yes i am dw
i commented on their live "let kurtis conner join the aussie bro squad" and the mum said "ruby get ur friend to email through! we'll see what we can do"
LOLLLL
We need to start normalizing respecting the privacy of children. Not just your children, but all of them.
In 50 years we're gonna be seeing recovery ads for "victims" of social media, and the host of bizarre mental illnesses past generations never even knew existed.
Eventually further down the line, it'll become a gross, taboo thing(like cigarettes) and when people openly talk about checking accounts all day, everyone else will be silently thinking "yyyea..... no wonder you're such a nervous wreck all the time"
It'll be a constant argument too.
One group has so much fun with it, is too young to see it's impact, while the other is baffled how people who so clearly live out the damage, can refuse it even exists(look at any heroin addict saying "it's not THAT BAD")
Can still recall being a photographer and being at the yearly fair taking pictures of people in the rides, which eventually involves children enjoying the slower rides as well.
I'm completely fine with parents being concerned and asking what it's for and not wanting pictures taken, but it never failed to surprise how dirt-stupid the parents in question were because more often than not, I saw the same people being rightfully concerned about the safety of their child taking a picture with their phone, and then hearing them make a remark to an acquintance saying "Oh that's a nice one, that one goes on Facebook."
I never got that attitude...
I am glad that some family members of indirect family are super, SUPER careful with pictures of their children and are not posting literally anything...
I hate when I’m scrolling through the comments on videos if content creators who actually respect their children’s privacy and I see a bunch of people literally begging to see their kids. “Why don’t you ever show your kids?!”
“Do kids face reveal plz??”
“Please let us see what your kid looks like!”
I’ve seen people get offended and angry when the creator responds saying they don’t want to show their children out of respect for their privacy. It’s so creepy and weird to beg for that. You don’t really know them and they don’t know you, so why would they owe that to you? Why do you feel so entitled to it? Why is it so important to you that you see this child it changes literally NOTHING. I sometimes feel like people need to ask themselves “why?” more often.
Yeah. Most normal people do
I agree but they're like 17/18
The alleged situation with the ABS is just the most extreme form of an unfortunate, pervasive reality with parents and social media.
As someone who leaned more introverted when I was younger, it bothered me that my mother would not only tag her location whenever she went out, but she would also tag those of us who were with her, thereby tagging our locations. Still does. Some parents don't realize how frighteningly easy they make it for others to stalk their children.
For real, I had an acquaintance who posted a photo of her daughter on her PUBLIC IG profile on her first day of school. She hashtagged her daughter’s name, grade, school, and teacher. This was years ago and I still think about how bananas that is to do 🙁
Istg some parents need a class on online safety
@@yuki97kira Some parents need a class on parenting 😐
There has been situations where people tagged locations on social media posts and had their homes robbed because people knew they weren't home. It's crazy how little risk assessment is done on social media.
I think about this with car decals. People put their little stick families, their kid's sports team and jersey number AND their name, their last name, etc. I've seen a few where I'm like, dude anyone could walk up to your kid and convince them they're a family friend.
as an australian this has been on my mind for so long and it’s so weird and confusing how this even happened? i’m pretty sure there was someone who went to school with them who said they admitted to hating having to do this so i’m pretty sure their mum is just mental.
I've also somehow never heard of these guys, like ever
but can you, as an australian tell me what the song that plays at 1:59 is called????? i'm desperate
@@Asa-ss9ot Men At Work - Down Under
@@chrissametrinequartz9389 thank you sooo much
Trying his hardest to do an Australian accent and yet Kurtis still says sorry like a Canadian
@NotVille_maybe put effort into not commenting the same thing on 46 kurtis videos
@@erinesser6658it’s a bot. They tend to do that
Kurtis
fakes her videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL,
@@ville__woah I can't believe
Kurtis
fakes her videos
HOW CAN YOU DISTINGUISH BETWEEN CANADIAN AND AMERICAN ACCENTS
As an Australian who just did my own mini deep dive, I would have to agree with the Reddit commenter who said that it is highly likely that the family is conservative/religious and the boys are probably home schooled. Most Aussie boys their age wouldn't be caught dead doing that, along with the fact that if they attended regular school, they would get horribly bullied for it. Their mum is definitely exploiting them and she definitely gives me off vibes ('boy mum').
Edit: just saw a comment of someone saying they went to school with them and that they don't like it at all - my new assumption is that their mum is abusive and insane
Or the commenter you saw is lying
It's possible that comment could be lying but it would be easier to get more verified information since their mom likes to broadcast their entire lives so much.
Regardless of if that commenter is lying, I think they do mention the two younger boys being dropped off at school in one of the clips Kurtis showed. The fact that they're absent for school and that they were dropped off leads me to believe they are at least not homeschooled, but that doesn't rule out the possibility of a conservative Christian private school or something similar.
defiantly. the mum has some sort of mental issues
Actually there’s loads of people who have or go to school with them, the older two the twins are already graduated and the younger ones are in school apparently are very normal. It might be a load of shit but lots of people are coming about it and all the stories very similar
I can’t even get my boys to stop arguing bickering and farting on each other, and clean their room, let alone make them dance for me 💀
Well, at least you’re no weird enough to do that!
This is the most dystopian thing I’ve seen in a while my god
as an australian im so glad that the insanity of aussie bro squad has gone international
I'm so sorry to hear that. However, on behalf on England, we regret to inform that we will not be accepting him here and pass him onto America for consideration.
come to brazil
they breached containment
@@Random-sk6hm The council has mulled over this offer and on behalf of America we will be passing them on to Mexico for consideration.
@@Random-sk6hmus has enough nonsense going on we decline 😭
Kurtis throwing out passive-aggressive jabs to his divorced dad is very relatable lmao
Double divorced dad*
Not to draw attention or anything, but my father is in the same situuation, bro messed up
@atinyevil1383 Who cares anyway. But I made a video about a girl dylng and she was crying in pain(try not to Laugh video). ❤
I’m a product of third marriage (and subsequent divorce.) Woop soop multiple divorce gang
My friend’s parents have been divorced 4 times and remarried 4 times. its painful to watch
I joined first accidentally on one of their live while scrolling and I was immediately hit is "Hey Sav! How are you? what did you do today?"
Boiiii have I been waiting for this.
Watched a Q&A live, someone asked where they would like to travel. All 4 boys just stood there gauntless for a good 3 seconds. Mum laughs and says “The boys probably don’t know”. I’ll be waiting for when they’re on 20/20.
The only thing worse than a parent exploting their kids for views is KURT'S AUSTRALIAN ACCENT
Came to the comments mid vid to see what the other Australians thought about that 😂
it’s practically a kiwi accent 😭
Congrats on getting in the community post lmao
@@YourJapanic I just saw that, amazing lmao. I've reached my peak
💀 what @@ville__
God, I feel so bad even for the kids who WANT to go into the industry, let alone the ones who don't. They just have no idea what they're signing up for.
when I was a little kid I used to beg and beg my parents for a TH-cam channel. they told me to wait until I was a teenager. I still want to start one but holy shit I am so grateful they made me wait because I was bullied in school, imagine how much worse it would have been if I had a bunch of bids online of me as a kid.
even the 'success stories' of teenage stardom often have issues related to being thrust into all of this attention at such a young age. i get the impression that taylor swift is still trying to mentally untangle that over a decade later, and she actually chose to do it. i can't imagine that being put on random teens involuntarily :|
Me and my brother always wanted to film ourselves playing Minecraft and post it, but we weren't allowed to. I'm very glad about that now, I don't want to be online except for stuff related to my theatre career lol
I was a strong singer as a child, and in middle school I really thought I wanted to go into a singing/acting career, so in like 7th grade, I signed up behind my parents' back for a Disney audition. I ended up regretting it knowing I would get in trouble lmao, but my parents never yelled at me for doing it, just said they didn't really want to take me and that was that. Same when my sister and I were approached at a store and asked if we had ever considered modeling. That one my sister and I both wanted to do, but they wanted my parents to pay some crazy amount for them to manage us, so nothing came of it.
In hindsight, my parents were abusive, but they at least did that right for me. I already struggled so badly with anxiety and body image issues, and developed an ED even without ever going into acting or modeling. I couldn't fathom what being in the entertainment industry would have done to me as a teen. And at the time, I really thought it was what I wanted. Idk I just feel so bad for these guys, and hope that they can realize what their mom is doing to them.
@@themelnova As someone who had the same wish and actually went through with making the TH-cam channel and having their channel exposed in school, I wish my parents would've prevented me from it cos they could've saved me from a lot of bullying :/
im an australian and i get up at like 5am for work and one time i saw them live at 5:30 and it was still dark out. i scrolled through tik tok before bed and they were live again
15:00 I only just noticed that the red X animation you used was one that I made and posted on an alt! I have never felt more honored to have a greenscreen asset I made featured in a Kurtis Conner video.
The child labor laws created for show business seriously need to catch up to content creators. Broadcasting every moment of a child's life to the world while forcing them to play a character or otherwise entertain is unhealthy, nevermind that the wealth created by their work rarely becomes theirs.
As for the adult half of ABS, I hope they actually enjoy this and don't just feeling pigeonholed into it. Parents still hold a lot of control in the minds of 18 year olds.
If someone uses content creation as their main source of income, like on taxes and shit, could it then be considered child labour??
Plus it's scammy because the parents take all the money. And don't start a fund for them. Imo there should be a law that parents can only take 15% of the income created off their children.
18 year olds DEFINITELY still feel like children dependent on their parents. I still asked my mom before I did anything when I was 18 and it took me some time and her saying every time “I don’t know you’re an adult now it’s your choice” and me being very confused before I could grow from that. So, if she’s still treating them like they’re minors, they’re going to respond like they are.
@@maxbracegirdle9990I was thinking the exact same thing after the eight passengers situation happened...
Actually some countries have and I believe I just read that one state was putting this into law and some other states were looking to follow suit. Meanwhile other states are lowering the age kids can go to work... It's like one step forward, give steps back
Social media “child stars” is a scary concept. Kids in the entertainment industry (even with supposed oversight and established working conditions) can suffer so much abuse. Kids put on social media seem to have no one looking out for them.
Kurtis fakes his videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL
@@ville__ 🤖
There are also legal protections for children in "traditional" media. If anyone abuses them (physically, financially, emotionally, etc.), they can sue. With these social media situations, there's no protections for their financial situation and it can be very difficult to go against parents for emotional/physical abuse because it becomes a "he said, she said" situation
So is the concept of "child star" tbh
in the entertainment industry, you go to set and come home at the end of the day. imagine your set IS home. it never ends.
I watch the Aussie bro squad make tiktoks outside of my work and basically a man has a container full of different clothes and they change for every second video and change locations. There’s a woman (presumably a mum) filming them and they dance to almost silence.
14:40 Truly thought he said
b o n e l e s s Jonas
I can't believe the mother can just push through all the abusive comments directed at her kids and move on like "Alice said you guys ate! Thanks Alice! :D"
"Ignore the critics'" taken to 11 lol
Pat?!?!?
Everytime Kurtis posts, I kick my feet a little bit
i giggle and blush too
REAL
Kurtis inspires me.. My parents said if i get 70K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally
Begging..
Teehee!
Same
Something that blew my mind was that when one of my best friends and I were about 7 or so, we started a band together called SC3 (very close to KC3), which is a little bit of a coincidence, but even more so given that neither of our initials were anywhere close to S.C.
All of us '94 babies felt it in our souls when he said "I'm going to be 30 this year" 💀
I am Australian and I remember waking up super early a few weeks ago, like I’m talkin 6 AM, and they were dancing in their backyard in the dark. Someone asked where the 1 was because he was missing, and she said “he couldn’t be bothered getting out of bed” or something of that nature. While the others just kept smiling and dancing, it was just weird.
That sounds extremely creepy to be honest.
This is the real life Black Mirror
Idk why i read that as you somehow ended up in their backyard in the middle of the night and saw all this go down irl, instead of the non-insane explanation of u just watching the live stream
@@AnythingButMeee this made me laugh sooo hard hahahahahah
@@AnythingButMeeeno same though ... i was like 'ur crazy why u watching them in they back yard at 6am' lmao
for real though that's so gross, the wording of "he couldn't be bothered" makes her sound so bitter, as if he owes it to her or something... i am so worried for those kids
OF COURSE two of them are twins. Having twins seems to do something to people's brains, like they can't treat them like children or even human beings, but HAVE TO make a spectacle out of them - dressing them up all the time (in the same exact outfit, of course), teaching them some weird shtick and forcing them to perform in talent shows, filming them non stop and monetizing it on the internet, you name it.
My cousins are twins (and it was an absolute miracle because my aunt was an older mother and had to have the eggs put in her so they put two just in case one yknow didn’t make it but both did) and as babies they dress the same and as kids/toddlers. But I feel like at that age it’s okay because they’re little and can’t dress themselves or choose to dress otherwise. They’re both 11 now (almost 12) and now dress completely different.
LMFAOOOO my mom used to do this when I had a twin and a mom… but she was just weird in general, used to cut my hair and use it to make dolls
@@german-swedish-americanvin6164If your aunt had IVF, it's really not a miracle she had twins. Multiples are one of the side effects of IVF.
@@hospitable_ghost the twins wasn't the miracle part sherlock
@hospitable_ghost you're very smart
as an Australian, would just like to say that the concept of a "collage fund" sounds pretty funny bc here collage is most commonly used to describe aussie high school (year 7-12) and uni students usually just spend their lives in thousands of dollar of HECS debt
"The most important thing is you got to give the people what they want. Even if it kills you, even if it empties you out until there's nothing left to empty. No matter what happens, no matter how much it hurts, you don't stop dancing, and you don't stop smiling, and you give those people what they want." - Bojack Horseman
There will be a lot of therapy and lawsuits in these children’s futures. It is not normal or healthy for kids to be displayed and forced to perform online. I hope kids sue their parents for wages and emotional distress…maybe it will deter other parents from exploiting their kids.
Kurtis fakes his videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL
@@ville__shut up. Nobody cares about your channel
@@ville__my Man i even looked into your channel to give you a chance but you Dont got no videos lol
@@ville__WHAT VIDEOS???
@@user-xu4xw6jm7d Why did you even look? How could you not know to fall for that. Those annoying spammers are always under Kurtis's and almost every other famous TH-camr's videos. Don't feed the spammers - do the right thing and report them.
I never cease to be amazed at the gullibility of some people.
I went to primary school and high school with the Aussie Bro Squad and Tyler is in my year and he does not like it at all but the horrible mother does not care and the other 3 brothers would definitely not like it either. It is really sad.
One of my friends lived across from ABS and we did ding dong ditch years ago and she chased after us and got super angry and explained how "her boys" had a very tight schedule...
Jesus, that sucks.
hope they ditch her when they're old enough
Sure, buddy
@pap-fr BuDdY, these people aren't aliens who just landed on earth. They know people and people know them. There's no reason this couldn't be true. This attitude of 'nothing ever is real' is kinda ridiculous.
The mum is a psycho.
10:26 why does he just know the jonas brothers moms name? i googled it
her name is denise
The Ke$ha cameo is peak comedy. Well played 😂
The emo property brother bit is definitely one of the best he's ever done, holy shit that got me 💀
he sounds like kip from Napoleon Dynamite too, it’s so good
I had to watch that twice. It reminded me of Lucas Cruikshank's short "Emo Flooring" which is also top-tier
Ive literally been laughing for 10 minutes hysterically
same, and all the emo music references were amazing
@@morganr9129 Was actively looking for a comment that also shared this realization.😭
When my siblings and I were younger, we decided to make a band. We called ourselves the ASK sisters because our first initials, in age orders, formed the word ask which we thought was so cool at the time. We came up with a song, including a chorus wed sing together and each of us got a solo verse. We worked on the song for a few days and then went out to the front yard and "performed" it like on repeat for about an hour. We were young enough that our "instruments" consisted of a clip board with lettered squares drawn on it that the youngest was hitting with a broken piece of a clothes hanger, something rigged up to be like a makeshift guitar with another hanger and some rubber bands, stuff like that. Btw, the entire song was about how we were called the ASK sisters and that we were a band. After that one day on summer break, we never did anything like that again.
What a core memory you've shared
I am the biggest ASK sisters fan
ASK sisters reunion when???
Where can I get tickets for the reunion tour Melbourne show?
need the ASK sisters tickets now
"And she donated a hot dog"😅😅😅😅
I've gotta catch your performance man!
i love that emo Kurtis is just Napoleon Dynamite
Let's not forget what happened to the Olsen twins. Stardom was forced upon them as kids, and they were robbed of their childhood.
And famous and wealthy, which I gather is the mum's end goal.
Being famous and wealthy doesn't mean much when during your devloping stages are ruined and you're a very mentally unwell adult.
this is like 99% of child stars
@@FukaiKokoro dunno if they were saying it didnt but rather pointing out the greed of the adults in their lives that did that to them
@@It-is-me...MelsieActually the olsen twins mom didnt really want this, but it was their dad who did, later on the mom divorced him, after he forced Mary-kate to go to that thing cuz of her ed/anorexia, he also didnt let the olsen twins use their own money unless they did chores, and even when they did he wouldnt give them more than 30$, so dont blame their mom, she is actually a really sweet person. (Also the, going on full house wasnt really her choice, and the producers and other people forced the mom not to be there)
This gives the same vibes as a dad who failed in high school football and force their son to play it, or the moms who have some sort of insecurity issues and force their daughter to do pageants.
Forced vicarious living via your child ahould be a crime
I love the B1 pfp
Agree completely. I wrote a long comment about sketchy parents pushing/forcing their kids into a sketchy industry but you summed it up perfectly.
My brother was really, really good at baseball. My dad took this as a personal mission and made him go to the batting cages and spend his free time practicing his skills. I was average and he did not GAF about me and baseball one way or the other. My brother's reaction was to quit baseball and instead play soccer his senior year. My dad never really got over it and it just became another excuse for him to drink.
kurtis conner being 30 is unsettling. he is the most gen-z millenial of all time
3:44 as someone named alice i had a mini heart attack when i heard this part
Im obsessed with Kurtis’ Australian accent consistently slipping into like a dirty North English farm lad
it was more english and kiwi than aussie 😭
@@beematthewswood better then when most people who try 😭
@@beematthewswoodthat’s what I was saying sounds more kiwi
i'm obsessed with it never sounding australian at all. couldn't even do the naur /lhj
Imagine a Roadman Kurtis 😭
i am from Aotearoa/NZ so this may be inaccurate, but here i can confirm we actually raise all our children by forcing them to dance everyday. Sometimes they even dance with the sheep.
I can also confirm that children in Aus are raised dancing - and yes, we are upside down.
@@pinecous2910 knew it
as a fellow Kiwi, this is so true
I like NZ very much, on the list of countries I might try to move to, but one real, actual question, is New Zealand oceania's Wales?
@@Gustoberg Not quite that bad.
Everytime Kurtis mentions AJR is like a jumpscare, because they're literally my favourite band lmao
If she turned her phone 90° she could fit all 4 in at once
It’s not too late . Make the Conner sibling band make a comeback!!!
Kurtis fakes his videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL
@@hotdoggitydig conner
Okay
@@ville__how can he fake his videos? Like what DO you fake?
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It’s weird that generations that grew up with rampant amounts of cybercrime and abused child stars you think they would be hyper aware or more inclined to protect children from the internet.
Kurtis inspires me.. My parents said if i get 70K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally
Begging..
@@namantherockstarNa, man
had a stroke reading this
@@noodian3268literally had to rub my eyes like a fucking cartoon character until they made squeaking sounds bro bc what
no bc what does it say @@secondskn
I have been laughing for like 30 minutes straight over "Bonus Jonas" I fucking can not
these kids always come up on my tik tok live and I feel so bad for them!
I have additional lore for u kurtis. I went into a deep dive cause I saw them dancing in my local maccas. If you go onto their merch website, it’s actually a website that’s a car parts shop that just has a section for Aussie Bro Squad shirts. Like there’s nothing on the website that is related to them except a tiny tab of their shirts. It’s so weird I reckon that’s their family busienss
Just looked at the TikTok with the merch link and the tab labeled Aussie Bro Squad Merch on the main page comes back as a 404 not found. Weird.
Sketch as fuck
well one of the videos here does have them dancing in the back of a store with a bunch of piled up tires or wheels
as both a citizen of Kurtistown and an AJR fan, I have recently discovered the meaning of "conflict of interest"
This is the second time I've heard him take a shot at AJR, and it hurts my heart a little bit each time 😢
same 💀
Was looking for this comment :(
SAMEEEE
yes im being exposed with every vid
Why do I only ever get tampon ads on Kurtis’s videos
I love CBT (Conner Brothers Team) 🔥🔥🔥
Being the only Canadian citizen must be super hard he’s so brave
Kurtis isn't a perpetrator, he's a survivor
The juxtaposition of Curtis mocking our accent but pairing it with “oot and aboot” was peak comedy
mocking and imitation are two different things
Ok but he was clearly doing it to be funny and not accurate lmao
I love that he almost had it at one point but then went with kiwi instead
@@murkrowo as an American I can't tell the difference lol
Canada is basically the cold version of Australia and vise versa
At my job we work with people with disabilities and some are kids we take online privacy so so seriously. I was a child victim of online grooming and I take that shit to heart. I wish every parent understood the dangers and took time to learn. I wish parents took that shit seriously, educators should as well. If you’re around kids you should always be doing the best you can to keep them safe, and the internet is INSANE.
Ok but Kurtis’s audition for the Aussie bro squad was like borderline psychological horror
The Emo Property Brother segment is honestly the best skit Kurtis has ever done
Indeed
I also loved that he sounded like Kip from Napoleon Dynamite
@@slimshadeyyy that’s exactly what I was thinking!
I know, he actually represented the subculture so well while being funny. I watched it Thrice ;)
There were so many missed opportunities tho. "This is the living room. I'd rather call it the dead room cause I'd never be caught dead living in here..." I'm sure there are others but I have a short memory.
after someone uses the word "off-putting", I like to say "off-pudding? That's my favorite flavor!" And then everyone groans and I feel my job is done.
i have an aunt from australia who pretty much exploits her kids as well, making accs for my cousins and post some really weird shit of their daughter… i think the acc was deleted (prob bcs of predators ima be honest) but other accs still run, there is one cousin tho who just said he doesn’t want to participate in this bs and u never hear my aunt talk of him or even mention him. Maybe a theme with australians? Idk anyways i hope these kids realize how wrong this all is and that this isn’t normal at all.
I don't think it's a theme of Australians it's just a coincidence lol
@@dailyremindertoshutup3670 was more of a joke but yeah
I don’t ever recall a time where my brother and I got along. I feel like our band would have just been known for stage violence.
That didn't stop Oasis!
@@bonbonnybon lmao. I forgot about them.
This is my exact thought. I can't fathom the idea of people liking their siblings and not spending every waking moment making each others' lives worse in a constant violent battle.
Apparently i bullied my sister so hard she turned lesbian
@@Random-sk6hm Sparks is a band of brothers and they've been together for literal decades now with hundreds of albums behind them
"Oh cool what's a police officer! Is that a new tiktok gift?" Was so clever it knocked the wind out of me, thankyou Kurtis
This really reminds me of family vlog videos/channels with the complete lack of privacy and exploitation of the kids.
"i only got this job because i listen to sunny day real estate" amazing
I was a department store photographer for a couple years (US, East Coast) and I would have parents of young kids come in ALL THE TIME for profile pictures and "personality shoots". A lot of the time the kids fell into three categories: shy/unwilling, bratty/demanding, or theater kid in the making. A lot of the time they would try to video the sessions and make content off of it. A lot of the time it was for TH-cam channels FOR THE CHILD - not even family channels. Just the kids. It made me sad because no matter what group of kids there were, you could see the damage right in front of your eyes.
I feel that- I worked with a photographer in Nyc and she told me back in her city (midwest) parents would spend THOUSANDS on her 2 hour sessions to get really good curated photos of them; as they would hope acting and modeling agencies would notice and pick them up with these photos. She didn't care too much, she was the one collecting the check and its good money, but she said that some parent/kid combos left a bad taste in her mouth with their narcissism and pushiness to get thier child famous, by any means necessary.
At an event where I was asked to take pictures of the people attending, I can still recall someone still being unhappy with the result after 30 attempts. Turns out she was used to overexposing her smartphone and angling the camera down "because it makes me glow more with less wrinkles" (with the last part probably being her phone doing some smoothing or noise-reduction and taking up the wrinkles in it or something).
Most of the time would you say that the kids or the parents were driving it? If the parents are helping out their kid, who is the one actually steering it, that's very different.
I love that Kurtis assumes he's being shown Australian tiktoks not because he searched "aussiebros" but because he looks Australian.
i assumed he meant that as why he got recommended their videos in the first place but i prefer this order of events
putting numbers in band names is still around and kicking in Brazil! One of my favorite Brazilian pop bands is Banda AL9
The reddit comment from MellyVvV sounds like the beginning of a creepypasta
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I'm not gonna lie, this is probably one of the funniest episode Kurtis has done so far. The Emo Property Brother skit is so dumb and had me dying.😂
do u know tht where tiny guitar clip is from when they first get mentioned around 14:51 ? i think u might know, its on the tip of my mind
@@abominati0nits emily by first to last
emo the chosen property brother
I laughed extra hard because I listened to most of those bands back in highschool and remember seeing all the emo memes she shared when they were new.
and Thursday still slaps.
@@Zectifin rawr means I love you in dinosaur XD
Kurtis portrayed the emo property brother way too naturally
Love the accent at 4:16 kurtis🧡
We don't have creator fund in Australia so they would literally only be making money off Live gifts
I saw these kids in the shopping center when I was out with my mum one day. They were filming in public and kept doing it over and over. It was quite awful to see. I looked them up later and I couldn’t help but feel bad.
Genuinely feel bad for kids like them. Imagine becoming an adult only to realize your parents used you as nothing more than an exploitable accessory for views. Some people really shouldn’t be allowed to have children.
can say as an aussie my whole life is live streamed and i non-stop dance 🥰
The jumping at 17:08 gave me Mr. Noodle energy from Elmo and I love it
Hi Kurtis, So in Australia you don't need to save for a college fund because our government runs a scheme where we pay back our university bills really slowly through our taxes if we earn enough. We also don't always go off to college like North Americans, a lot of Aussies live at home with their folks whilst they go to university and just commute. So they could definitely be going to university still and just living at home whilst they go.
Also his accent is almost a New Zealand accent which is apparently harder to get right than an Aussie one lols
yeah i came here to see if anyone else had commented about this, also our HECS debt is usually only like $30,000 AUD which is super manageable to pay off, I dont even notice the repayments because they come out of tax its sooo good
Also uni is on break from november to march! so these boys could be studying and just on uni break
i think this same scheme is also used in the uk
This is how student loans work in the UK aswell. All British citizens are guaranteed a student loan that is only paid back after you graduate and are earning above a certain threshold (Currently £27, 295 and rising every year). You pay it back in a small instalment (usually less than a mobile phone bill) that is automatically taken at the same time as you pay taxes. As long as you earn underneath the threshold, you don't pay back a single penny, and after 30 years the debt is automatically wiped (regardless of how much you've paid). The vast majority of people will never pay it back completely unless they're earning a very high amount. It's very affordable and people usually refer to it as a 'graduation tax' rather than a student loan.
the band comment was interesting because the jackson 5 were in a similar (with the technology at the time) situation in terms of exploitation by parents and abusive home life. their father was incredibly authoritarian and forced them to work ridiculously hard considering they were children, both in music/dance and punishment in the form of physical labor. i think more could be said about the similarities between the jackson 5 and the aussie bro squad.
I’m fully convinced that they aren’t her real children and that they’ve been like traffics or something
kurtis doing his aussie accent but still said SOURRY lmaooo
the emo property brother should 100% be a guest star to design rooms for angsty teens
i've been watching a lot of bluey, so thank you kurtis for the reminder that not all austrailian parents are good
Bluey us by far the best current generation children's show, I love watching it with my son
One thing about Bluey I love is the VAs for Bluey and her sister are anonymous to avoid any celebrity attachment to their names
drinkin a fackin vee bee
this comment holy shit
Kurtis
fakes her videos and I put actual effort into my videos LOL,
Thea skits you do in between are hilarious. Poo live next week is crazy😭😭