• Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    ITT: person deserves life changing debt and losing his job because he made a mistake

    Cmon yall, you can be critical of someone’s actions while also recognizing 6 figures of debt is absurd and not a reasonable outcome of this.

    What really should be the case is that the dad learns his lesson, loses company card access, kid learns his lesson, google writes it off, and the kid’s account is permanently banned.

    We don’t need to ruin someone’s life for this

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      Legally, the kid wasn’t old enough to contract the ads.

      It would not stand in court.

      I question using his work card to pay for some robucks for his kid.

      I question that his credit card was saved for Robucks, but was able to be used on Google Ads.

      I would not be surprised if he lost his job. I think that’s not unreasonable though the economy sucks.

  • warm@kbin.earth
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    1 month ago

    I’m sorry, why is a 9 year old even allowed to post to YouTube? There’s a lot of mistakes the Dad made to lead up to this, hard life lesson for him mainly.

    • Neondragon25@piefed.social
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      1 month ago

      I watched Charlie’s video on this and the dad takes a lot of the ownership of what happened and how having all your accounts connected via Google can backfire spectacularly when the only thing the kid really understands from this is, more money = more views, and “dad set a limit” so as long as the card clears, it must be good to go. Crazy story.

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        The first failure was allowing his kid to have a YT channel at all, or at least not one that is heavily monitored and restricted by him or the other parent. The financial fuck up is the consequences of poor parenting.