Fortesa Latifi

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221 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 9 Apr

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Marketplace All-in-One · Why do parents turn their kids into influencers? · 9 Apr 2026 podcast

And then she got on TikTok.

She reached the monetization threshold, which is 10,000 followers.

And then by the time I talked to her, she said that in the past month she had made $500 and it was her first month being monetized.

And I was just thinking about how many hours that would have taken me working at Jamba Juice in high school, you know, and that's just the beginning.

I mean, adults can't afford daycare.

And that's just the beginning of the teen mom TikTok kind of world.

Because I talked to some young women, like Mary Claire was one of the people that I talked to.

She told me that she makes between $10,000 and $30,000 monthly from social media.

Wow.

And she's looking to buy a house.

And it's like, I can't buy a house, you know?

Same.

Yes, it's just the new version of Teen Mom.

Totally.

I mean, the parents definitely had misgivings.

I don't think there was a creator that I talked to who did not have misgivings.

I think the question is how the scales tip.

And so when you're looking at the possibility of being completely financially solvent and successful versus privacy, you can understand how the scales tip, especially for moms and parents who come from more vulnerable situations.

If you're sitting there thinking,

I can go to work for $12 an hour and be away from my kid 40 plus hours a week and not even be making that much money after paying for daycare.

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