Influencer Culture: How Commodifying People Fuels Child and Teen Exploitation Online

As influencer culture glamorizes provocative content and rebrands exploitation as empowerment, children and teens are increasingly pressured to commodify themselves online. This blog explores how social media is fueling self-exploitation, normalizing harmful behaviors, and creating new vulnerabilities for predators to exploit. Learn about the real impact of these trends on our youth and what we can do to shift the narrative toward valuing people for who they are, not what they can sell.