Youtuber’s video on ‘adultization’ accelerated investigation into the activities of the Paraiban influencer, arrested on Friday morning, during Paraíba’s prosecutor’s operation
Youtuber Felipe Bressanim, known as, revealed that he spent a whole year researching and following the influencer’s content before publishing the video in which he accuses him of exploring children and adolescents to generate engagement. The statement was made during its participation in the program “Altas Horas”, TV Globowhich airs this Saturday (16). Felca explained that the motivation for the complaint came from a deep personal discomfort. “I was very agony, I saw the stories and gave me a stomach wrapping,” he said, citing videos in which Hytalo exposed smaller to procedures such as tattoos, piercings and plastic surgery. According to Youtuber, anguish led him to feel the responsibility of positioning himself publicly.
“The hardest thing was to gather this information, because part of the delay, and it took me a year to post the video, it was because it is such an aversive theme that if you have no cockroach blood you can’t,” he said. “I kept seeing those materials, and it was so agony, so much bitterness in my mouth, that by my mental health I thought ‘I’ll take a break from it, I will close the notebook and come back tomorrow’.”
The video denunciation, published by Felca, quickly viralized, accumulating millions of views and generating intense debate on social networks about the ethical boundaries of content creation involving minors, especially in the format of “family influencers”. Nonetheless, Felca says she is happy with the repercussions that her work has generated. “But the repercussion, as much as there is a lot happening at the same time, is very positive, I am very happy because if they are giving light to this cause, I think there can be changes,” he concluded.
Hytalo Santos was arrested on Friday (15), during, during the joint operation of (MPPB), Labor Prosecutor (MPT), Civil Police from Paraíba and São Paulo, Federal Highway Police and Ciberlab, of the National Secretariat of Public Security. She was also arrested Israel Nata Vicente, Hytalo’s husband. The warrants were issued by the 2nd Bayeux District Court.
In his defense, Hytalo Santos claims that the videos are “all combined” and has permission from parents to participate young people in their content. The influencer also claims to be the victim of a “defamatory campaign.”
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