“And anybody on these social media platforms - especially if your, if your page is public - Anybody in the entire world can view and consume the content that you’re putting out there and…” “But parents have to understand that when you’re putting this information out to the public, you’re opening up your world to the entire outside world,” Walsh said. Mom’s warning about disturbing TikTok accounts ‘watching your children’Ĭalahan Walsh, executive director of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and son of “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh, told Fox News Digital that while social media has become “such a pervasive part of our lives,” people who use social platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and others “are drawn into this false sense of security” due to the positive interactions they have with friends, family and strangers who follow their accounts with good intentions. Musick was both surprised and unsurprised by the concern over Wren’s account because she has “always known there were sick people in the world that do these kinds of things.” She looks at social media in a different light now and “won’t be posting” her daughter’s content on social media “until she’s way older.” I took the initiative to remove her photos before anything like Wren’s situation could happen to my own daughter.” My duty as her mother is to protect her from things like this. “So, I decided to remove my own daughter’s photos from anyone who is not close family/close friends. “Wren’s story brought a lot of light to all the sick people in the world,” the mother explained in an interview with Fox News Digital. Musick said that while she does not have anywhere near the following that Wren Eleanor’s account has, it is her job as a mother to protect her daughter from any potential online predators. Since users took note of the abnormal activity on Wren’s account, some moms, like Musick, have taken it upon themselves to delete photos of their children on public social media #wren #protectourkids #protectthekids #itsnotokay #nottoday #nottodaysatan ♬ original sound – o v e r. Similar popular searches for Wren appeared on Google.Īnd not only can videos and photos be saved on TikTok and other social media accounts, but predators can also use a smartphone’s screen-recording feature to record or screenshot content directly to their phones without being traced. She also highlighted unsettling comments on Wren’s videos and pointed out that popular searches for Wren’s account included phrases like “Wren Eleanor hotdog” or “Wren Eleanor pickle,” meaning users were frequently searching for videos of the three-year-old eating a hotdog or pickle. A video of Wren eating a hotdog was saved nearly 375,000 times. One user, noted that a video of Wren wearing a cropped, orange shirt was saved more than 45,000 times.
A video of Wren Eleanor eating a hot dog was saved 375,000 times. The “save” feature allows users to tag videos, so they are easier to find and refer back to. The account consists of seemingly innocent photos and videos of Wren - a blonde-haired, rosy-cheeked toddler doing normal toddler activities - as well as some sponsored content.īut Wren’s mother began deleting some content once her followers and other TikTok sleuths noticed that certain videos were being saved by other users in numbers that sparked concern. The 3-year-old TikTok star at the center of the movement, with the username has more than 17 million followers on the short-form video app run by her mother, Jacquelyn. “I just saw the posts on Tiktok and was absolutely appalled by the story and had decided that I needed to protect my daughter,” she told Fox News Digital.
Makayla Musick is one of many mothers who have recently informed their followers that they are done sharing public content of their kids online.
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