Meanings
- uncountableSocial media influencing as a child.
Putting aside the obvious questions regarding infant privacy, just who exactly are these kidfluencers supposed to be kidfluencing?
2019 January 3, Jack Morse, “So it's come to this: An unborn baby 'kidfluencer' has 112,000 Instagram followers”, in Mashable2 more examples
Parents tend to argue that they are the laborers behind kidfluencing through content creation and contracts, since the children alone are often too young to have their own accounts on these platforms.
2022 June 16, Munirat Suleiman, “Is Kidfluencing Child Labor?: How the Youngest Influencers Remain Legally Unprotected”, in Columbia Undergraduate Law ReviewOne of the reasons Zoe is encouraging Ava's passions, like kidfluencing and cheerleading, is because her daughter finds reading and writing difficult.
2024 May 20, Jessica Longbottom, Carla Hildebrandt and Dunja Karagic, “Inside the world of 'kidfluencers' where children make thousands from social media — at a cost”, in ABC News
Origin
Blend of kid + influencing.
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kidfluencing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kidfluencing
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