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Who Is Really Watching Kids Beauty Pageants?

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Who Is Really Watching Kids Beauty Pageants?

The rise of children's beauty pageants on platforms like TikTok has sparked significant concern due to the extreme and often dangerous measures parents and producers use to prepare young contestants. From fake teeth and spray tanning to Botox, cocaine, and tapeworms, these practices prioritize appearances over children's health and well-being. Children as young as eight months are subjected to intense preparation involving high levels of sugar, caffeine, and stimulants like "Go-Go Juice," which are known to cause hyperactivity and long-term health risks. Many kids report feeling insecure, unsupported, and emotionally harmed, with some even being punished for natural tiredness or sleep. Parents are often driven by a desire to win or achieve fame, treating their children as tools rather than individuals. The psychological trauma, combined with physical exhaustion and lack of proper medical oversight—such as doctors approving coffee for a nine-month-old—is deeply troubling. These practices not only endanger children's health but also undermine their emotional development and sense of self. Experts and advocates are calling for stricter regulations, with some suggesting that California may soon require a portion of pageant winnings to be placed in children’s savings accounts. The growing popularity of such content reflects a troubling cultural obsession with superficial beauty at the expense of children’s dignity, safety, and autonomy.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Lazy! Is it any kind of short? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. He's very short. He needs to be a lot taller. The booty needs to be way bigger, way bigger. Perfect. The legs, who the fuck are those legs? Yeah, they look so small. My buckle has bigger legs than that. Yeah, perfect. We look at his waist though. Why does it look so big? We move it. Wait, why is he standing like that? To help fix your spine? What in the dyslexia body condition? Oh my god, he looks so perfect. He's so natural. His body is eating. I wish I look like that. He's so gorgeous natural. Beauty Pages. Talented Tears was the most popular beauty pageant show for kids and it ran from 2019 to 2013, I believe. I never really watched the show because I didn't live here to begin with. And I had heard about it on the internet about how bad the show used to be. And I didn't really know how bad it actually was until I watched this video from a YouTuber called Ukrainian Squirrel. And although the hype of this show died when it ended and people weren't as interested in beauty pageant shows anymore. But for the past couple of years, that hype is back and there I say even bigger, especially on TikTok. The TV show might have died, but TikTok on the other hand is a whole different level. Do you want to know what the second most shown result for pageant is? Number one is pageant girls and number two, pageant kids. And you're like, okay, so what's wrong with that? It's just people looking up pageant kids. They want to see these pageant kids, right? Well, you get to the actual videos and the stats for these videos are wild. This shit has almost 400k saves, saves, and almost 600k shares, even though there's only like 90,000 comments. So I guess you're getting the hint here who's saving these videos, right? And as I'm scrolling through these modern looks of these pageant kids, I realized that the new looks are insane. If I had a child, I could never see my child giving them this outfit and putting that shit on the internet. And it's sad because as I was going through these videos to look at the saves, and obviously another video with almost 50,000 saves. I was looking at this girl's transformation. Okay, she looks old as hell. Like, what is the obsession with making them look so old? I don't really get it. And the reason why I showed you this video in particular is that I noticed they were using a filter to either make her cheeks bigger or highlight them or probably make her nose look a little smaller because look at this shit. Are you seeing there's a filter glitching here? Look, there's something glitching right here. Yeah. Or is that a no-wrinkle filter? There's some sort of weird filter going on in this approval. And I'm like, she's like six or seven years old and you're using a no-wrinkle filter on a seven-year-old? Like, why do we need beauty filters on kids? And when I say a lot of these outfits are suggestive, the mom doesn't even care because they're promoting it. On a clip from Tyler and Tierra's, one of the moms tells her daughter that she got to start shaking her booty. You're not a stripper, but shake your bed a little bit. Why would you even say that? Well, you know what I mean. She knows what I mean. Even the daughter noticed that nasty comment that you made. You're not a stripper, but shake your butt a little. Instead of saying, hey, you need to be a little more energetic. You compare your innocent child to a stripper. That was the best way to motivate her. You're not a stripper, but a shake your butt like a stripper. Eio, you're her mom. And what actually shocked me in this clip is that the producer asks her, who do you think the biggest supporter is? And because she's a child, I was 100% expecting her to say her mom because her mom is what pushes her to do everything. And in this clip, she says, I don't think I have any supporters. The broke my heart. My biggest supporter would be, um, I don't really have one. Like, how sad is that? A kid knowing that her mom is not a supporter. And by the way, not only was this show really horrible, it made a lot of these poor little girls feel insecure about her body. And I would understand this a little more if it was an adult or even a teenager that feels insecure about her body. But what do you have to do to your child to make a six year old feel insecure? Yes, I am beautiful. You said I was, he goes beautiful. I'm always beautiful. She's, she's thinking I'm not beautiful. So I think what happened here is that the director asks her if she thinks that she's looking beautiful. And I think she says no because her mom probably told her backstage or maybe her mom was upset with her. And she told her that she doesn't look perfect. So it just makes her sad. And even a more darker side to this is what these poor kids had to go through for these pageants. Because it's not like they would just put on a dress, put a little makeup and get on stage. Now the preparation that went behind this, I was speechless. Because a lot of these kids have missing teeth because they're kids. They used to force them and they still do, by the way, to wear these what they call flippers or like these fake teeth that they would glue on and then they would put them on their kids teeth to make them have like a perfect smile for the show. Doesn't look perfect but it'll have to do for now. Let's stay in. No. Fake teeth, they would shave their eyebrows, fake tanning. And some of these kids were so uncomfortable with this tanning thing because you have to go, it looks like one of those spraying guns and they're their kids, they're scared, you know? Okay, are you ready? One, two, three. Turn back around like this. Now turn. Turn back. Turn around, I would put off your back. Well she did a good job. I don't really understand why we need to spray tan kids for a beauty show. Like, what does this achieve exactly? I am so confused on why kids needed to be spray-tanned. And some parents were taking this to the extreme they wanted to win so badly. And one of the extreme stuff that they did happened in May 2011 when an eight-year-old girl from San Francisco has been taken into care after her mother injected her with Botox. What does an eight-year-old need Botox for? Keri Campbell said she gave her daughter Brittany the drug to make her look better in child beauty pageants. A lot of moms are giving their kids Botox and I'm not really the one who does it. A lot of moms are giving their kids cocaine to make them look better because I've seen this article from Chad GPT. It told me that if I give my kid cocaine it makes them look better. So that's why I did. I bought my kid cocaine because all the other moms were doing it so I wanted to do it as well. This is literally the expression if your friends jumped off of a bridge would you jump as well. All those moms should be arrested just because a lot of people did something illegal doesn't make it legal but like those other people did it so I want to do it as well. Okay then bitch go to jail. She said the treatment made her look way better, beautiful and pretty, all those nice words. I can't believe she's saying that about her child, like an eight-year-old child, that oh me giving her Botox and all these other treatments that she doesn't need it. It made her look so much better because she wasn't beautiful to like one mom says that about her own child. And the worst one that I've seen yes there was one worse than the Botox mom was mother fed her daughter tapeworms to make her skinny. These are these are not moms there is no way these moms love their kids enough to do this to them. And these moms want to win these beauty pageants so badly that they would literally do anything with all the examples that I've shown nothing should surprise you at this point. They're starting these beauty pageants as young as eight. I think I saw one that was eight months old and in this TikTok video this mom says she looks so excited she was so happy to do this and then you see the kids face and she looks upset. Number one this poster that she was clearly so excited about and even with that solar face all day she's still one seven hundred so excited so I was really happy for that. Let's rewind this real quick let's see that excited face she looks so excited that that definitely looks like a very exciting face wait hold up she may be talking about herself. Oh she looks inside if she's talking about herself. Yeah she's definitely excited but your daughter is upset not in just one picture poster that she's clearly so excited about and every one this one she doesn't look as depressed but she still looks like she's still one seven hundred and fifty dollars so I was really happy for that. Not a single picture where your daughter looks excited and I love how at the end she says she's still one seven hundred fifty dollars so I'm so excited for that she wants seven hundred fifty dollars you mean you want seven hundred what is an eight-year-old going to do with seven hundred fifty dollars girl they don't know shit about life money she wants that she's going to be so happy in fifty years when she learns that she wants seven hundred fifty dollars sweetie you want the money not her even if she knew what money was that money was still gonna go to your pocket. I think I think California's coming up with a law where they have to give at least 15 or 20% and put it in a kid's savings account so they can get it when they turn 18 or something. I cannot wait for that a lot to come into effect. Now we're going to move on to what I believe is stressing the hell out of these kids. So all this preparation takes a lot of time. And these kids, before it's their turn to come to the runway, you know, they go to the runway, they walk and whatever. It takes hours and hours for them to get ready in days, weeks and months. And obviously they're going to get really tired, just like a normal human being should. And the brutal ways that these parents came up with to keep them alive and energetic because you got to smile and be really energetic when you finally walk on that runway. And what do you think the one with the eight month old dead? How do you think she kept that eight month very active and keeping her away from falling asleep? Her backstage trying to get her pumped up because she just wasn't as happy as normal. And she got excited backstage, but then she got on stage and she did this. And she's tired. So she takes her baby and you might as well do a full swing on her, you know, like to keep her awake. What? What am I doing? My dad is a little tired right now and I got a wake up so I spend her brain to when she's almost about to pu that wakes her up a little bit and this gives her a lot more energy because she looks tired. She's been awake for weeks now, actually a couple of months. So I know this is my method on how I keep up. 3D? Are you okay? We need to win this page. We do not have time for… We do not have time for an injury right now. Let's go. Basically, they're overworked. Imagine being on eight month old and you're already working. How did I just come out and you're already making me work? And because I'm very tired, and one of these poor girls actually falls asleep on the floor while they were getting her ready. And do you think her mom let her sleep because she clearly needed some sleep and she was very tired? What do you think her mom will harass up instantly? She's taking a nap and I'm thinking, "Great, here we go, we got to wake up a little monster." What do you think? Calling her a little monster because she was tired and she fell asleep. Bitch, if you're calling a little daughter a monster because she wants to sleep, you will probably call me a demon because how much I love my sleep. Can we not? Can we let kids be kids and let them sleep because we need sleep to actually stay alive? But then again, staying alive means like absolutely nothing if you don't win that page and show. And at the end of the day, these girls are so tired that they can't stand straight or let alone sit straight. It's like they were running a marathon for a few weeks and they didn't get to rest for even five minutes. Like, there's this clip where the interviewer asks this girl a question, so like, "How are you feeling?" And she's like, "Mm, I'm tired." And then she ends up falling for her chair. And when you don't end up cooperating with your mom who's also using you as a pet, they're gonna end up punishing you. And I feel like I've seen pet owners treat their pets better than these pageant moms. Time out, time out, time out, time out, time out. I love you, I'll be right back. Sorry. What? So, she put her daughter on time out because she was incorporating with her, but you can tell that the mom loves her so much. Sorry, sorry, I'm putting you on time out. Thank you, sweetie. You might as well body slammer at that point. Can someone let me know in three minutes? What the fuck? So, you're putting your daughter on time out because she's not being a good slave right now, so you lock her in a room which you can clearly tell that stressing her even more. Like the little fingers on the door that broke me. How can you lock your daughter? You see that she's so stressed and it's stressing her even more, and that was your best solution? You know how they keep these kids energized because they have to stay awake for a long time. When I first saw some of these clips, I thought I saw someone who does drugs, get fed even more drugs. So, it's basically just a bunch of sugar and caffeine, and I love how they get creative with these names. Like, she had her tinker tea, she had her boo-boo 9000. What was boo-boo 9000? This is just red boo, but I call it red boo-boo 9000. You can tell in the same clip, this girl is so high on sugar that she says that her nose etches and she gets crazy hyped. The most popular energy drink for these girls was the infamous honey boo-boo girl she had this drink called go-go juice, and it was later on exposed that this drink was basically just mountain dew mixed with red bull. And both drinks have a lot of sugar and caffeine, so you give an insane amount of sugar and caffeine to a child that would affect an adult, a big ass bitch like me, let alone a child. So, the entire time that they're getting prepped, all these girls are doing is drinking sugar and caffeine, and as you can tell, it's clearly making them twitch, like the other girl who said her nose was stingly because of all the sugar and caffeine she had. And honey boo-boo's mom tries to come up with an excuse like oh, I'm not hurting my child. Hi my hurting my child, all I'm doing is giving her excess caffeine and sugar, but like that's not doing her any harm, right sweetie? Keep drinking it though. We have tried the pixie sticks that call pageant crack. We have, we were with the 15 bags on one badge, and I just don't do anything for her. It's on sugar. You just need to give her that extra off, so whatever works for your child, use it. Whatever works for your child, use it. This is the exact mentality, as that woman who gave her Botox, the other woman who gave her child a tapeworm to make her skinny, hey anything to win. It literally is just mom trying to live their dreams through their child, like to be popular, to be famous to win these beauty badges, because I guess they couldn't win them, and if you can't win it, send your daughter. Where do you draw the line though, when does your daughter stop being a tool that you could use? It's like she's been drinking a lot of alcohol. How many go-go juices did they give to my poor girl? She was tweaking on the first one that she had. Imagine drinking Mountain Dew and Red Bull the entire day. How many of these children are now on Adderall or I don't know, meth? And now, the studies that show that sugar hyperactivity isn't even a thing, so they're giving kids diabetes, not energy. Well, that Red Bull though. Open up. Well, the bottom line is, straight sugar just gives you instant energy, whereas candy is a lot of other things that, you know, it's going to take time to digest. So, straight sugar to get straight energy. Oh my god, the poor child. Might as well give her some drugs, give her some math or some shit to give her some energy. If you want to give her energy, inject some caffeine in her body. And since we're talking about caffeine and energy drinks, I saw a mom who was giving her nine-month-old, keep this in mind not even a one-year-old. She was giving her coffee for breakfast, and this wasn't even like, they weren't doing any competition or whatever. This was just for breakfast because I'm guessing her daughter was so used to caffeine that she couldn't give it up. Is that cream or? Yeah, so her excuse is, it's only one glass. I mean, she started drinking it when she was like, nine months old, but because she got so addicted to caffeine. Now I just can't stop it, so I don't want to stop it. Why would I want to stop it? I have a competition to win. She needs to be the winner, and I'm going to do everything. I want to give her tapeworms. So, caffeine is. She goes to checkups, her doctors are completely fine with it. Her doctors are completely, I doubt it. Press X to doubt right now, press that X button right now. Your doctors are completely fine with it. Fuck, was that look at the end? Why did you have that weird look at the end? Tell me that you're lying without telling me that you're lying. Doctors are fine with giving your 9 months old coffee? Anyways, let me know what you think about kids' pageants because they are back at full force. I mean, these are kids. Leg kids be kids. If that's their passion, sure, but if that's your passion on the other hand, kids can consent. 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Modern beauty pageant content, especially on TikTok, promotes extreme and often harmful transformations of young children, including fake teeth, spray tanning, Botox, and even tapeworms, all in an attempt to create a "perfect" appearance.
  2. Parents and producers subject children as young as eight months to grueling preparation routines involving excessive caffeine, sugar, and stimulants like "Go-Go Juice" (a mix of Mountain Dew and Red Bull), which can lead to hyperactivity, sleep deprivation, and potential health risks such as diabetes or addiction.
  3. The emotional and psychological toll on children is severe—many report feeling insecure about their bodies, lack of support from parents, and being treated as tools rather than individuals, with some even being punished for falling asleep or not performing adequately, leading to trauma and stress.

Summary:

The rise of children's beauty pageants on platforms like TikTok has sparked significant concern due to the extreme and often dangerous measures parents and producers use to prepare young contestants. From fake teeth and spray tanning to Botox, cocaine, and tapeworms, these practices prioritize appearances over children's health and well-being. Children as young as eight months are subjected to intense preparation involving high levels of sugar, caffeine, and stimulants like "Go-Go Juice," which are known to cause hyperactivity and long-term health risks.

Many kids report feeling insecure, unsupported, and emotionally harmed, with some even being punished for natural tiredness or sleep. Parents are often driven by a desire to win or achieve fame, treating their children as tools rather than individuals. The psychological trauma, combined with physical exhaustion and lack of proper medical oversight—such as doctors approving coffee for a nine-month-old—is deeply troubling.

These practices not only endanger children's health but also undermine their emotional development and sense of self. Experts and advocates are calling for stricter regulations, with some suggesting that California may soon require a portion of pageant winnings to be placed in children’s savings accounts. The growing popularity of such content reflects a troubling cultural obsession with superficial beauty at the expense of children’s dignity, safety, and autonomy.

FAQs

Filters like no-wrinkle or cheek-enhancing ones are used to alter a child's appearance, which is inappropriate and can make young children look unnatural. This practice goes against the natural development of children and can contribute to body insecurity.

Parents have used extreme and harmful measures such as Botox injections, cocaine, tapeworms, fake teeth, shaving eyebrows, and spray tanning to make their children look more 'perfect' in pageants, often without regard for the child's health or wellbeing.

These drinks, often made from Mountain Dew and Red Bull, are given to children to keep them awake and energized for long rehearsals. However, they contain high levels of sugar and caffeine, which can be dangerous and unhealthy for young kids.

Yes, children often spend days or weeks preparing for pageants, undergoing long hours of practice, and are kept awake with caffeine, sugar, and stimulants. This leads to extreme fatigue and emotional distress, with some children falling asleep or crying during preparation.

Such language reflects a lack of empathy and turns a child's natural need for rest into punishment. It shows that the child is seen as a tool to win, not as a person with emotional needs.

These practices often make children feel insecure about their bodies and appearance, especially when they are compared to adults or told to act like strippers, which can damage their sense of self-worth at a young age.

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