A twenty year old student told me they have been in the business a long time. I asked if they could send me links to their work; they did. True enough, a lot of content. Looked as though they were nine years old when the parents first started bringing them to contests or school talent shows. For me it was all imitation and next the algorithm brought me other children pretending doing the same thing, pretending to have certain adult emotions, especially pouting or being tough. Seemed like each performed variations of being sexual and adult. I wonder what the parents are thinking as they coach them? Frankie Lymon’s ghost floating in the room crying, taking heroin, lost.