The thought passed my early on in viewing this as to whether there was, honestly, anything other than a bad side to kidfluencilng. By the end, I was coming to the view that there probably was not.
From the start is disconcerting, to put it mildly, to see how many of the continued to support their childs’ online life, even when they had left the toxically criminal group that was the focus of the series. One boy did take a self-imposed break but the implication was that he had now returned. This point was particularly emphasized in the final part of the series.
People who had studied this particular case and that whole world made some impressive and disconcerting comments. Academics and reporters who had immersed themselves in this world were clear-eyed about its toxicity but as they said, it is still a will/d west out there. This is very largely because law-makers and those in power have allowed themselves to remain in ignorance or have just totally believed the lies, excuses and specious arguments fed to them by the purveyors of such material, from Zuckerberg downwards.
I am not sure to what extent the situation explored in the film has been solved or resolved. The main culprits are still doing what they did. While some (financial) comfort could be taken from the lawsuit, the fact that it did not actually go to trial remains profoundly depressing. The fact that the perpetrators could end up by apparently ‘not taking any sense of guilt or responsibility (part of the agreement, it seemed) remains profoundly depressing and anger-inducing.