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Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20

www.tomshardware.com/video-games/devastated-father-says-his-9-year-old-son-spent-usd118-000-on-youtube-ad-campaigns-for-his-minecraft-channel-using-a-company-credit-card-bill-racked-up-in-just-three-weeks-was-supposed-to-be-one-usd20-promotion

Replying to @⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩

The dad was a dummy. First, your little kid shouldn’t have a YouTube channel. Second, you don’t use a company card to buy Robux. That’s a moronic thing to do. Might have gone unnoticed but then he got careless with it and it came back to bite him. Bad parenting all around. Don’t blame the kid, blame the dad. Hopefully he learns a hard lesson and can find new work.

Replying to @⁨mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works⁩

  • 9 yo Kid is making vidya
  • Doesn’t have many viewers
  • Want to make kid happy
  • Spend 20 $ on ads
  • maybe_a_couple_views.png
  • Three weeks later
  • I’m literally 118 009 $ in debt

MFW

Honestly, if you can’t understand how absolutely debilitating this is over a tiny misstep, I hardly know what to say. People commit manslaughter and get off easier that this. It’s in no way reasonable to say that “Oh, you shouldn’t have used the company card to pay 20$ for your kid - you deserve life-ruining debt”.

Replying to an earlier post

Yeah I’m with you.

An extra $100k debt as a young dad will absolutely change your retirement dramatically.

Yes this guy fucked up but the detrimental outcome is not commensurate with the fuck up.

It would be trivial for Google to detect that something is likely wrong with this account, and not doing so is predatory. I’m sure they make many millions in this way every year.

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