I want everyone to watch this video. Philip DeFranco is talking about a YouTube channel called DaddyOFive, ran by a man blogging about his family’s everyday life and regularly uploading “prank” videos. This man and his wife prank each other and their children, who are also made to prank each other for more material they put into monetized videos.
As you will see in this video, the way they treat their children (especially Cody, who I assume to be 7-9 years old) is outright horrid and abusive, though. Cody seems to be the only one of the children who gets visibly upset over his parents’ “pranks” fairly frequently, begging them to leave him alone and quit messing with him and yelling at them to stop.
In the first clip that’s shown in DeFranco’s video, the parents pour invisible ink all over the floor and blame Cody for it, filming his reaction. He is shown yelling and crying, nearly panicking and insisting that he has nothing to do with it, but they don’t stop. Instead, they keep yelling and cursing at him at the top of their lungs, only to tell him and his brother that it’s “just a prank” once they stopped crying.
Another clip shows the mother filming Cody and yelling at him for not being able to “take a joke”, manipulating him and putting all the blame on him instead of apologizing. They constantly follow him around with their camera, not giving him any personal space and filming as many of his reactions as possible to humiliate him in front of thousands of viewers.
But it gets worse than that. A different clip shows the father pushing Cody face first into a bookshelf. He is then shown crying on his bed, with a bleeding nose, next to a blood-stained pillow. His father then claimed that it was “red ink” and that he simply had a scrape underneath his nose.
On top of that, the man who runs this channel uploaded a video titled “BLOCKING ALL THE HATERS”, ranting about the people complaining about their videos and pointing out how horribly they treat their kids in front of his children, even making sure they listen to every word he says.
In DeFranco’s video, it becomes obvious that they constantly manipulate, emotionally abuse and physically abuse their children, egging them on and keeping them under control by making them say things like: “At least you don’t hit us like most parents!”
I encourage everyone to watch this video to get a better idea of the situation. If you can, that is.
Social services have been called on this family before, but no consequences have followed
I legit feel ill watching the short clips of the kids, but I still believe it should be broadcasted what pieces of garbage these parents are.
Fuck them. Fuck them and their greedy fucking souls.
Please please PLEASE do not watch the video if you are triggerd by any of the warnings. I personally am not, but even I found it incredibly hard and distrubing to watch.
I felt the same way. I will never understand how parents can treat and manipulate their children this way and never feel remorse.
Here’s an addition that shows just how much they terrorize them.
They pretend to destroy their children’s possessions and laugh at their reactions. That alone is enough to leave deep scars on anyone’s mental health, especially a child’s.
DeFranco mentioned that these people tend to terrorize Cody the most, but looking through their list of videos, I couldn’t believe just how many videos are about Cody.
They obviously enjoy humiliating their kids, but to me, it seems like they’re intentionally abusing Cody the most for not playing along as much as they wish he did. I also feel like this is just another tactic to keep their children under control and have them play along. An indirect way of saying “Don’t be as whiny and difficult as Cody, or else we’ll treat you the same way.”
When Cody yelled at them and said “You made me go through all this just for a stupid prank?!”, it broke my heart. These people don’t have a single shred of love or empathy for their children.
Another addition:
Apparently, they uploaded a video in which they made Cody think he was going to be put up for adoption, filming his reaction. As you can imagine, Cody was horrified, begging them to let him stay.
Supporters of his parents have used his reaction to try and prove that their kids are happy, claiming that Cody wouldn’t have fought so hard to stay if he was unhappy with his family. Of course, Mike Martin (the father) reblogged the tweets defending him.
These people publicly abuse and humiliate their children in exchange for money. That’s not an assumption, it’s a proven fact. It doesn’t matter whether the children are aware of the abuse or not, or how they feel about their parents’ “pranks”.
Of course the thought of being taken away from your home and the family you’ve known for your whole life would terrify a child as young as Cody. Their parents have manipulated them into thinking that they’re lucky to live with them and pressured them to play along with their “pranks” for several years. They’ve made their children think that this kind of life is normal and that they have nothing to complain about. They don’t know any better. A child’s horrified reaction to the thought of being placed into a completely unfamiliar home consisting of strangers they think they’ll be forced to live with for the rest of their life is not proof that a child is not being abused.
In fact, most children who live in abusive homes love their parents dearly and can’t imagine living without them because they are so emotionally dependent on them.
Ignoring that is incredibly dangerous.
Please share this. A lot of social media attention has helped before so why not help these children?
Yeah no these aren’t pranks that’s just assholes wanting money
I couldn’t watch past the first clip, this is just disgusting.
How the fuck can people be this cruel!? Those poor kids!
I was reading the Facebook comments on another video about those disgusting redneck hicks who abuse their children on Youtube for money and came across a petition that was posted a few months ago. It says that the two youngest ones (who get the brunt of that bullshit) were taken from their mother… I mean, I don’t know how true it is but considering the way they’re treated in that house I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised. But allegedly Cody and Emma (the two young kids) are the biological kids of the dad, but not the mom (I think the parents’ names are Mike and Heather or something idk) and when they went to stay with the dad and stepmom they never came home and the mom was falsely accused of something (idk what) and the dad forged legal documents or something, idk. Either way the whole thing is so fucked up. And now those horrible people are trying to say that the videos are all scripted and fake and that’s such a load of bullshit… those are REAL tears and REAL reactions.
And I had posted yesterday about that video where it appears Cody is self harming, and these assholes posted a video yesterday or two days ago idk that says they’re going to Disney but leaving Cody behind because of “behavioral problems” which eventually were revealed to be him smearing shit on the walls or something similar which can be another sign of depression and anxiety or other issues that need attending to. No, these parents decided that they would sit and call him “crazy” for a Youtube video and say there’s something wrong with him instead of thinking that maybe they should take their child to a psychiatrist to have him evaluated to see if there’s an underlying issue or condition.
There are people who can’t have children and would be amazing parents and these pieces of shit have five… disgraceful.
In case anyone is interested, someone alleges to have found a police report from October 2016. Their bio mom reported the case to her state’s CPS (North Carolina) who agreed it WAS child abuse. When Maryland CPS (where the children currently live) reviewed the case, they said there wasn’t any child abuse. https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/854511351515029505
My heart goes out to the kids who are no doubt being conditioned to believe this is normal treatment.
The shit smearing thing, to clarify; in the interview Keemstar did with DaddyOFive and his wife/the stepmother, Cody did not actually do this. He simply had the toilet overflow, and they, “didn’t want to embarrass him” by telling the truth of what happened. Either way, in both videos (their going to Disney vlog and Keemstar’s garbage interview), you can clearly tell the stepmother picks on Cody more than her own biological children.
Well, that’s a relief actually that he isn’t actually smearing his shit, that means he’s still somewhat okay (the arm scraping still has me concerned for his mental health). I’ll have to watch the interview (although I’m sure it’ll piss me off since I haaate these parents).
but omg how could they leave him behind on vacation for simply overflowing the toilet. I 100% agree about the mom, she definitely targets him. tbh I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if it was because she doesn’t see him as her actual “son” or something.
What the hell is wrong with these parents?! They’re abusing their kids just for goddamn YouTube money. How petty.
“Petty” doesn’t even begin to describe it. This is.. far, far worse than “petty”.
I hope those kids are taken to a better home. I’ve seen the videos and they treat Cody and Emma like complete shit.
I was reading the Facebook comments on another video about those disgusting redneck hicks who abuse their children on Youtube for money and came across a petition that was posted a few months ago. It says that the two youngest ones (who get the brunt of that bullshit) were taken from their mother… I mean, I don’t know how true it is but considering the way they’re treated in that house I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised. But allegedly Cody and Emma (the two young kids) are the biological kids of the dad, but not the mom (I think the parents’ names are Mike and Heather or something idk) and when they went to stay with the dad and stepmom they never came home and the mom was falsely accused of something (idk what) and the dad forged legal documents or something, idk. Either way the whole thing is so fucked up. And now those horrible people are trying to say that the videos are all scripted and fake and that’s such a load of bullshit… those are REAL tears and REAL reactions.
And I had posted yesterday about that video where it appears Cody is self harming, and these assholes posted a video yesterday or two days ago idk that says they’re going to Disney but leaving Cody behind because of “behavioral problems” which eventually were revealed to be him smearing shit on the walls or something similar which can be another sign of depression and anxiety or other issues that need attending to. No, these parents decided that they would sit and call him “crazy” for a Youtube video and say there’s something wrong with him instead of thinking that maybe they should take their child to a psychiatrist to have him evaluated to see if there’s an underlying issue or condition.
There are people who can’t have children and would be amazing parents and these pieces of shit have five… disgraceful.
In case anyone is interested, someone alleges to have found a police report from October 2016. Their bio mom reported the case to her state’s CPS (North Carolina) who agreed it WAS child abuse. When Maryland CPS (where the children currently live) reviewed the case, they said there wasn’t any child abuse. https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/854511351515029505
My heart goes out to the kids who are no doubt being conditioned to believe this is normal treatment.
The shit smearing thing, to clarify; in the interview Keemstar did with DaddyOFive and his wife/the stepmother, Cody did not actually do this. He simply had the toilet overflow, and they, “didn’t want to embarrass him” by telling the truth of what happened. Either way, in both videos (their going to Disney vlog and Keemstar’s garbage interview), you can clearly tell the stepmother picks on Cody more than her own biological children.
Well, that’s a relief actually that he isn’t actually smearing his shit, that means he’s still somewhat okay (the arm scraping still has me concerned for his mental health). I’ll have to watch the interview (although I’m sure it’ll piss me off since I haaate these parents).
but omg how could they leave him behind on vacation for simply overflowing the toilet. I 100% agree about the mom, she definitely targets him. tbh I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if it was because she doesn’t see him as her actual “son” or something.
What the hell is wrong with these parents?! They’re abusing their kids just for goddamn YouTube money. How petty.
“Petty” doesn’t even begin to describe it. This is.. far, far worse than “petty”.
As a person who was emotionally and physically abused as a child (even at Cody’s age), I am disgusted these people are profiting off of their child’s abuse and I’m even more disgusted that people are egging this on. I’m livid that Cody has to go through this day in and day out, yet people don’t see a problem with it? There’s a fine line between swatting your child’s bum (not even hard) for a last resort of punishment than fucking pushing your child face first into a shelf while making him bleed. If they put that in camera, what are they doing behind the scenes? I’ve never felt so disgusted in my life. How can people cheer them on and think this okay? These parents deserve to be behind bars and have their children placed in a better home. Absolutely sick with how people think this behavior is okay.
there’s this horrible video that i won’t link because it made me sick and i refuse to look it up again (it was called “Cody Was Bad In School”) where the little one, Cody, got a letter from his teacher that he was scraping his arms and drawing blood at school instead of doing his work. instead of being concerned that his clearly VERY YOUNG child was showing what could be signs of self harm, anxiety, or depression (or all three), that piece of shit who had the nerve to call himself a father chose to record himself screaming at his son, cursing at him, and making his son feel like shit (and he started scraping his arms again, causing his father to scream even more). the video was practically 30 minutes of this shit. 30 minutes of a man screaming at and berating his little child so that he could get views on youtube. sure, sometimes kids need to be scolded, but for something like that? and then filming it to put online for hundreds upon thousands of strangers to watch? it’s sick. and to top it off, this asshole put fucking music behind it. like he edited it to give it a damn soundtrack while he documents himself screaming at and cursing at his kid for having obvious anxiety issues.
there is nothing even remotely amusing about any of the videos on that disgraceful channel. there is nothing funny or cute about watching little kids cry while their parents (and older siblings) scream at, yell at, curse at, hit, and shove them, and then continue humiliating and scolding them when they’re rightfully upset about being made miserable for the sake of a “joke” and honestly if they really were investigated by CPS and nothing was found to be out of the ordinary after seeing those fucking videos, CPS is trash.
I was reading the Facebook comments on another video about those disgusting redneck hicks who abuse their children on Youtube for money and came across a petition that was posted a few months ago. It says that the two youngest ones (who get the brunt of that bullshit) were taken from their mother… I mean, I don’t know how true it is but considering the way they’re treated in that house I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised. But allegedly Cody and Emma (the two young kids) are the biological kids of the dad, but not the mom (I think the parents’ names are Mike and Heather or something idk) and when they went to stay with the dad and stepmom they never came home and the mom was falsely accused of something (idk what) and the dad forged legal documents or something, idk. Either way the whole thing is so fucked up. And now those horrible people are trying to say that the videos are all scripted and fake and that’s such a load of bullshit… those are REAL tears and REAL reactions.
And I had posted yesterday about that video where it appears Cody is self harming, and these assholes posted a video yesterday or two days ago idk that says they’re going to Disney but leaving Cody behind because of “behavioral problems” which eventually were revealed to be him smearing shit on the walls or something similar which can be another sign of depression and anxiety or other issues that need attending to. No, these parents decided that they would sit and call him “crazy” for a Youtube video and say there’s something wrong with him instead of thinking that maybe they should take their child to a psychiatrist to have him evaluated to see if there’s an underlying issue or condition.
There are people who can’t have children and would be amazing parents and these pieces of shit have five… disgraceful.
In case anyone is interested, someone alleges to have found a police report from October 2016. Their bio mom reported the case to her state’s CPS (North Carolina) who agreed it WAS child abuse. When Maryland CPS (where the children currently live) reviewed the case, they said there wasn’t any child abuse. https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/854511351515029505
My heart goes out to the kids who are no doubt being conditioned to believe this is normal treatment.
The shit smearing thing, to clarify; in the interview Keemstar did with DaddyOFive and his wife/the stepmother, Cody did not actually do this. He simply had the toilet overflow, and they, “didn’t want to embarrass him” by telling the truth of what happened. Either way, in both videos (their going to Disney vlog and Keemstar’s garbage interview), you can clearly tell the stepmother picks on Cody more than her own biological children.
Well, that’s a relief actually that he isn’t actually smearing his shit, that means he’s still somewhat okay (the arm scraping still has me concerned for his mental health). I’ll have to watch the interview (although I’m sure it’ll piss me off since I haaate these parents).
but omg how could they leave him behind on vacation for simply overflowing the toilet. I 100% agree about the mom, she definitely targets him. tbh I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if it was because she doesn’t see him as her actual “son” or something.
I was reading the Facebook comments on another video about those disgusting redneck hicks who abuse their children on Youtube for money and came across a petition that was posted a few months ago. It says that the two youngest ones (who get the brunt of that bullshit) were taken from their mother… I mean, I don’t know how true it is but considering the way they’re treated in that house I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised. But allegedly Cody and Emma (the two young kids) are the biological kids of the dad, but not the mom (I think the parents’ names are Mike and Heather or something idk) and when they went to stay with the dad and stepmom they never came home and the mom was falsely accused of something (idk what) and the dad forged legal documents or something, idk. Either way the whole thing is so fucked up. And now those horrible people are trying to say that the videos are all scripted and fake and that’s such a load of bullshit… those are REAL tears and REAL reactions.
And I had posted yesterday about that video where it appears Cody is self harming, and these assholes posted a video yesterday or two days ago idk that says they’re going to Disney but leaving Cody behind because of “behavioral problems” which eventually were revealed to be him smearing shit on the walls or something similar which can be another sign of depression and anxiety or other issues that need attending to. No, these parents decided that they would sit and call him “crazy” for a Youtube video and say there’s something wrong with him instead of thinking that maybe they should take their child to a psychiatrist to have him evaluated to see if there’s an underlying issue or condition.
There are people who can’t have children and would be amazing parents and these pieces of shit have five… disgraceful.
That fuckstain of a dad looks like every podunk loser I went to high school with, down to the shitty vacant expression, goatee, and pierced ear.
Even based on the ‘it’s fake’ video there seems to be a lot of just… not lies, but ‘I am too stupid to understand what the problem is.’
Like, he says ‘we ask the kids for prank ideas’ but that doesn’t mean they get all the kids to agree on the videos. “We ask the oldest one for a prank idea and he says we should bully the shit out of the little one” is ‘asking the kids for an idea.’ It doesn’t mean the other kids are in on it.
And that seems to be what’s happening. Because kids – especially young kids – are not good actors, and these kids are genuinely terrified and upset in some of these videos. So it might be ‘fake’ in the sense of ‘everyone except for Cody knows what’s going on, because it’s Joshs’ turn to make the prank, and he picked Cody’ but they’re not ‘fake’ in the sense of ‘the kids know that it’s a prank on them.’
It’s pretty fucking easy to tell when a 6 year old is legitimately or fake crying, they’re 6. They’re not good actors.
The ‘fake’ ones are the ones where the parents get pranked, for sure.
wheres all the support for the emotional abuse victims
no, seriously. victims of emotional abuse have it hard because they do not have the physical marks or the records to “prove” to someone they were hurt and are hurting. most people will not take emotional abuse as seriously as physical abuse, saying “you should get over it” or “sticks and stones”. thats fucking bullshit.
emotional abuse victims who have been forced to do or say or be things you never wanted to, i love you.
emotional abuse victims who have been gaslighted and manipulated to the point where you no longer know what is real, i care for you.
emotional abuse victims who are told they will never be loved by anyone else and they are not a good person, you are amazing.
emotional abuse victims who feel manipulative and often catch themselves mirroring actions of their abusers and feel sick to their stomachs because theyre “turning into them”, you are not them and never will be. you are so much better than that.
emotional abuse victims who have to live every day suffering because nobody understands how messed up you are from what they said or did or made you do, you arent alone.
anyone who reads this, i care for you. please support all victims of abuse every single day because they deserve it just like they deserve the love and care those in the past have failed to provide them
ifesbob 