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00:00It's Piper, go!
00:02Piper Raquel is an incredibly popular child influencer.
00:06This young lady's amassed more than 10 million followers on YouTube.
00:10Piper's mother, Tiffany Smith, is the momager.
00:13She took these kids to massive viral fame.
00:19It seemed so innocent,
00:21but it wasn't innocent at all.
00:25Tiffany finds people who want to be famous.
00:28She takes advantage of them.
00:30Things can get very muddy
00:32when kids are making an obscene amount of money.
00:35At her peak, Piper was earning between $300,000 and $500,000 a month.
00:41Young girls have very large numbers of adult men as followers.
00:47Tiffany would direct us to pose certain ways.
00:51Hugging a certain way in a clip.
00:53Closer, closer, closer, closer.
00:55We like over and over, sex sells, make it sexy.
00:58Smile. Start with the camera. There we go.
01:01Where's the line for Tiffany?
01:03I was 17 years old. We were on my live stream.
01:05Then the kiss happened.
01:08I woke up in the morning and it was gone.
01:10If someone could erase us from the internet,
01:12then what else could they get away with?
01:16Everything was controlled by Tiffany.
01:18We were filming like 10 to 15 videos a day.
01:20Okay, action.
01:21If you leave the squad, you're going to get blacklisted.
01:24She would start hate campaigns.
01:26It's like a cold or something, like you can't get out.
01:29You know all the consequences of even just crossing her.
01:34Stop.
01:35You didn't hear the way she spoke to me.
01:37People should be asking themselves,
01:39is it really okay for my child's vulnerabilities
01:41to be displayed to random strangers?
01:44Pull yourself together.
01:45It doesn't matter what happened to us,
01:47as long as they got it on camera.
01:49I remember being so scared.
01:52It's not just these kids.
01:54There's so many others.
01:57And if something isn't done,
01:59these won't be the last kids.
02:21You