#8passengers

[blogtaculous]

Love and light to the child who fled their home to seek help from a neighbor, thus finally bringing forth the full power of the state of Utah down on the human excrements that are Ruby and Kevin Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt.

I wish nothing but misery and misfortune on Ruby’s all star family of Mormon Influencers who acknowledge that they have know for years there was criminal abuse happening to their own nieces and nephews but chose to keep up appearances rather than seek justice. Ellie, Bonnie, and Julie can eat shit and die.

I wish further pain and suffering upon anyone who believes that informal, behind-the-scenes “church justice” is sufficient to address systemic abuses. Fuck you. It doesn’t work, it’s never worked, and choosing not to involve the proper authorities is why numerous children had to suffer in silence while the world applauded their abusers.

#ruby franke #8passengers #family vloggers #no conservative panic this time #still not a drag queen

[batiekear]

All Evidence in Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt’s Child Abuse Case

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#kevinfranke #rubyfranke #8passengers

[miriamrose1212]

8 Passengers YouTube Mom Ruby Franke's Shocking Court Appearance

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[puzziepoppin]

dad!rafe literally giving you a litter of children.

not four. not six. seven! (it's giving 8passengers/NotEnoughNelsons)

And purley the reason is because it was so may boys! Your first was a girl and then of course a boy as a second was fine, but both rafe and you wanted another and hopefully a girl. (i love girl dad rafe ((i also just want girls. self indulgence at its finest)))

so you have another boy; well two actually. and finally after 5 you guys are really about to loose hope but you both REALLY want another girl (and REALLY like having sex) and you pop another out that's finally a girl!

which of course gives you the courage to try one last time for another girl and whoever you pray to (or nobody we don't discriminate around here) answered your prayers and gave you a final baby girl.

after that you guys were done tho😭 seven kids is a LOT. good thing daddy rafe has cameron development to keep you guys afloat🤗

a/n: this was really just lots of self indulgence of what i've been thinking about the past few days. rafe playing football with all of his sons :( and when is yoingest baby girls get boo boos from falling too hard he's always there to comfort them. ofc he spoils his oldest because she was the first.

#obx #obx2 #obx3 #rafe cameron #rafe cameron x reader #dad!rafe #dad!rafe cameron #outer banks #rafe cameron drabble #rafe drabble #rafe x you #rafe cameron x you #outerbanks rafe #rafe outer banks #rafe x reader

[beardedmrbean]

Ruby Franke, the Utah mom behind the now-defunct family YouTube channel "8 Passengers," was arrested Wednesday on child abuse charges after authorities found a malnourished minor with open wounds and duct tape on their extremities, officials announced.

Franke's business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, was also arrested on the same charges. The two regularly collaborate on relationship and parenting advice videos for Hildebrandt's life counseling service ConneXions. ConneXions has been criticized in the past for its teachings about parenting, including prioritizing the organization's "principles of truth" over a person's children.

The Santa Clara-Ivins Public Safety Department said in a press release Thursday that it received a report about a juvenile in need of help at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday morning.

The juvenile was described as "emaciated and malnourished, with open wounds and duct tape around the extremities."

"The condition of the juvenile was so severe that they were seen by Santa Clara-Ivins EMS and transported to a local area hospital," the press release said.

Evidence led officers to a nearby home where another juvenile was found in similar condition and taken to a local hospital for treatment, the release said. Four minors were taken into the care of the Department of Child and Family Services following a search of the home where the emaciated juveniles were found.

Franke and Hildebrandt were then arrested in connection with the incident, the release said. The two are still in custody, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Department.

Representatives for Franke and Hildebrandt did not immediately respond to NBC News requests for comment. The Santa Clara-Ivins Public Safety Department and Washington County Sheriff’s Department also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Franke rose to prominence in 2015 through the 8 Passengers YouTube channel, which featured her husband Kevin and six children. The channel had a following of nearly 2.3 million subscribers before it was taken down earlier this year. It’s unclear why the channel was removed from YouTube.

The Frankes' strict parenting style has led some viewers to report them to authorities. In June 2020, some viewers called local child protective services on the parents after their then-15-year-old son Chad said in a video that he had slept on a beanbag for seven months, according to Insider. Ruby Franke told the outlet at the time that the sleeping arrangement was Chad's "choice" after being removed from his shared room with his younger brother for behavioral issues.

Ruby Franke has also faced backlash for videos in which she refused to bring her then-6-year-old lunch after the child forgot to pack food and threatened to throw away her children's prized possessions.

Eldest daughter Shari Franke, 20, posted about her mother's arrest to her Instagram Story on Wednesday night. Shari Franke, who previously posted that she was not in contact with her immediate family, shared an image of police officers with the caption, "Finally."

In another Instagram Story post, Shari Franke wrote, “Hi all. Today has been a big day. Me and my family are so glad justice is being served. We’ve been trying to tell the police and CPS for years about this, and so glad they finally decided to step up."

"Kids are safe, but there's a long road ahead," she continued in her post. "Please keep them in your prayers and also respect their privacy."

She also posted a request to her followers to share "any questionable or concerning ConneXions or 8Passengers videos" with her on Thursday. Shari Franke did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Elle Mechem, Julie Griffiths Deru and Bonnie Hoellein, three women who say they are Ruby Franke’s sisters and who are also family influencers, shared a joint Instagram post saying her arrest “needed to happen.”

“For the past 3 years, we have kept quiet on the subject of our sister Ruby Franke for the sake of her children,” the post read. “Behind the public scene we have done everything we could to try and make sure the kids were safe.” 

Mechem, Deru and Hoellein did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In Utah, aggravated child abuse is defined as an act that "inflicts upon a child serious physical injury" or "causes or permits another to inflict serious physical injury upon a child."

CORRECTION (Aug. 31, 2023, 3:45 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated the name of an agency. It is the Santa Clara-Ivins Public Safety Department, not Santa Clara-Ivans Public Safety Department. _________________

Finally, now to go after the rest of the people doing this crap

#nunyas news #cw: child abuse

[ilhoonftw]

8passengers mom got arrested for mistreating her kids, big day for family channels haters and anti-lds crowd

[peachyteabuck]

hi all i took an edible at like 5:30 and it has NOT kicked in, but i don't feel like laying in bed and waiting to see if it ever does. here's what im gonna try and complete tonight while i watch the fundie fridays/jordan and mckay video on 8passengers!!

(list of 10 structure bc why not)

journal

spent 10 mins looking at study books

put away laundry

writing sprint!!

text R about squishes

plan for tomorrow!! do a bujo spread probably

prep laundry for tomorrow

do the gf's oats for tomorrow

thaw chicken for sunday

to do list for the gf

#lukis has things to do

[sinsiriuslyemo]

So... this was my day:

6am: *wakes up and checks twitter/helps kiddo get ready*

7:15am: *gets home from taking kiddo to school* "I'm gonna finish that Drexyl fic today! 😈"

10am: *gets halfway through, takes a nap*

11am: *wakes up and scrolls through twitter while I eat*

"Damn it authortwitter, can we please have ONE month off?"

12pm: *switches to tumblr cause twitter is annoying lately*

12:30pm: *watches a youtube reaction video of Homeward Bound*

1pm: *does a load of laundry*

2pm: *goes with hubs to pick up kiddo from school*

2:15pm: *goes grocery shopping with the fam*

3:45pm: *gets home, puts groceries away and scrolls twitter again*

"Now there's fucking agents acting wild, too? Bro, what happens in this timeline?"

5pm: "Okay, I'm gonna go get dinner, find a youtube video to watch and then finish up with Drexyl after I eat 😈"

7pm: *opens youtube and sees a 6 hour video dissertation about 8Passengers, but it's from Cruel World Happy Mind*

"... I'm sorry Drexyl, but I have to watch this."

Seriously, such a well put together, factual doc that as always is led with empathy for the victims involved and did not exploit the situation in my opinion. I know six hours is a committment, and it is a committment, I literally just did it 💀 but bro, it gives you a complete break down of a distinct pattern that is an example of the absolutely worst thing that can happen with a family vlog channel. I'm not saying that all family vlog channels are bad, but I think a conversation worth continuing is should influencers that categorize themselves as being a family channel (or insta or whatever) be held to the same standard as kids who work outside the home (like, for example child actors, models, artists hell even little siblings of artists and actors, etc)? Is it exploitation for parents to constantly vlog about their lives and heavily feature their kids?

Last night I watched a different video essay by Shanspeare called Using Kids for Clout: The Downfall of Familt Channels and while none of the others that I've heard of are nearly as horrific as 8P (at least as far as we know) it's still worth asking, where's the limit with these forms of income as far as the kids are concerned and when is it considered labor?

Both of these are definitely worth a watch. Those two creators are pretty fucking awesome too, you shoukd check out their other content. So... anyway, how was ya'll's day?

#my bad #i thought I could have it done by today to post tonight #i should be able to finish it tomorrow #8 passengers #jodi hildebrandt #ruby franke #holy shit #pretty sure they got the max #consequetive #good #Youtube

[lhs3020b]

Regarding the ongoing uBlock-vs-YouTube arms race, it's interesting how, in a way, it showcases Google/Doubleclick/whatever-they-call-themselves-now's slow downfall.

It's hard to remember now, but in the 2000s, people actually non-ironically liked Google. Even as late as 2014, you could still see pro-Google takes even in Leftist and semi-Left spaces. In 2014-19, for all its flaws you could still say Google services were useful, so they had that very-practical point in their favour.

Then the 2020s began and search became increasingly-useless.

(These days, I bookmark anything I need on the web, because goodness knows if I'll be able to find it twice).

YouTube's slide appears to be well under way. It's not new, certainly they've had problems for a while - crap moderation, reams of problematic content, an algorithm that pushes far-Right influencers apparently over all other videos, and then there is the sheer propensity of YT content-creators for scandal. (Just to think of a few recent examples of the latter, let's see ... there's the 8Passengers case, there's the ongoing illuminaughtii situation, and now there's the Sssniperwolf [just how many "S"'s does she need?] debacle. And they're not the only examples I can think of, just off the top of my head. If you dug, you could certainly find many, many more. Youtuber implosions aren't rare.)

Now the platform iself is going to war with its users.

That ... rarely ends well for platforms. (*cough* LiveJournal *cough*)

As to what's going on in the background, obviously I don't know for a fact, but we can take some guesses. They may involve the words "money", "managers" and possibly "venture capital". The venture capital model that supported many internet endeavours in the 2010s seems to have gone pop, likely as a side-effect of the pandemic-rebound inflation surge. Previously, with interest rates sat up against the zero lower bound for an entire decade, VC types could borrow huge amounts of money at little-to-no cost, and they would only need a handful of investments to pay off to recoup their costs elsewhere. Now, that's no longer true. Suddenly, the VC types can quickly find themselves dangerously overextended on debt, hence some of the desperation to claw back any pennies they can.

Though, it should be noted, this point perhaps doesn't fit YouTube so well. Google/Doubleclick have no shortage of money, and were apparently quite happy to run YT as a loss-leader throughout the late 2000s and all of the 2010s. Why did they suddenly panic this year?

I have a suspicion that the answer may lie in the word "management".

As for managers, both platform and business, one thing I've noticed is that managerial culture seems to have fallen off a cliff during and "after" (insofar as there is an "after") the pandemic. Lockdown seems to have messed them up; it does appear that a lot of them fear and resent the loss of minute-to-minute control over their staf that they had when everything was default-in-the-office-full-time. (One thing I've wondered about is what is the true ratio between people who go into management for the money and people who do it because actually, they don't care about the cash and are just a control freak acting out?) The authoritarian, hierarchical nature of the modern corporate internal structure means these people are incentivised to kick down at every opportunity.

Certainly, purely from personal experience, my own workplace has got a lot worse during and after the pandemic, and most of that seems to be coming down from the top.

Viewed in the light of this model, YouTube's platform dictats make slightly more sense - basically, managers seeing users doing something they don't like, and said managers then having a tantrum. Probably they're using the VC business model issue as their justification for their behaviour, and who knows, maybe some of them even believe it.

Anyway, we'll see how this all plays out, but perhaps this is a sign we all need less Google in our lives.

#LHS witters #Youtube #thoughts #idle speculation

[kyleclothesblog]

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When scrolling through tik-tok I didn’t really find anything too interesting. Than I came across a woman named Ruby Frankey from 8 Passengers was allegedly arrested for six counts of child abuse. Allegedly she was not feeding her children and the children had several openedwounds, they were also covered in duct tape as well. I found this to be kinda off because I’ve seen a handful of videos a few years ago and thefamily seemed to be happy and not displaying any signs of problems. The video on tik-tok was from the daily is what I think is a reliable source but what I’ve learned from taking this course. The first thing I did was check the popular youtube channel to see if there was anything about the situation coming from ruby herself, unfortunately this was a dead end because the youtube channel has removed from youtube. My next step is to search on google about the situation at hand. I found an article on fox news talking about the situation, every detail was the same except for one, this being that there was six counts of child abuse but the article only said that there was two. I decided to look at an article published a few days after the fox article was released and it states that she is being charged with six counts of child neglect due to evidence from her vlogging channel that was located on youtube. The last thing that I did to make sure that this information was correct way to go on to a fact checking website called “washington post fact checker”. The provided an article posting about the details of the case, every detail that was in the video and the websites seem to be true.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/01/ruby-franke-youtube-8passengers-child-abuse/

https://www.fox13now.com/news/crime/child-climbing-out-window-for-help-leads-to-arrest-of-8-passengers-mother-for-abuse

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/06/1197833521/ruby-franke-charges-youtube-child-abuse

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8jAxqQq/

[heystephen]

saw your tags and the family channel mom that got arrested was ruby from 8passengers who once took her son’s room away as punishment for a prank he pulled on his younger brother and who also may or may not have started a cult. also the details of the arrest are very upsetting but according to the older siblings the two kids are both safe now but I just feel so bad for all of them I hope they’ll be able to somehow heal

that’s so fucking insane. i hope those children heal and find normalcy in their lives now

#i got mail* #anonymous

[blogtaculous]

Jodi and Ruby are fucking sick. Oh my god. The diary entries betray a sickness of spirit that cannot be cured. I had no idea it was this bad. I’m so disgusted. I’m so appalled. I cannot imagine what these children felt or even begin to understand the depths of their suffering. Oh god what a horror show. Fuck the church, in all forms.

#jodi hildebrandt #ruby franke #I am also aware Kevin and Ruby split because of porn. hilarious. #8passengers

[batiekear]

The END of 8 Passengers Mom Ruby Franke: She Has ALWAYS Been This Way | ...

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[miriamrose1212]

Neighbors Speak Out: NEW Concerns Arise After YouTuber Ruby Franke's Arr...

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[therealcrimediary]

Authorities in Utah discovered a "panic room" in the $5.3 million desert home of parenting bloggers Jodi Hildebrandt and Ruby Franke. The two bloggers, known for their joint YouTube channel called ConneXions Classrooms, pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated child abuse, with the abuse being linked to religious extremism. The investigation found that the abuse was motivated by the belief that it was necessary to teach the children to repent for imagined sins and cast out evil spirits. A police report detailed the discovery of malnourished children, one of whom had escaped through a window and sought help from a neighbor. Upon searching the home, police were unable to access the panic room located in the basement, which was found to contain a Murphy bed, cabinets, a refrigerator, a sink, and other essentials. The abuse inflicted by Hildebrandt and Franke included physical labor, food restriction, binding of a child's hands and feet, and emotional abuse. The blogger's children were told that they were evil and needed to be punished. After rescuing Franke's youngest children from Hildebrandt's home, police began the search for her other four children, who were eventually located at another adult's residence in American Fork, Utah. The children were living in a work-camp-like setting and were apparently being punished for various perceived transgressions. The bloggers had previously posted videos where they offered parenting advice to other parents in a calm manner, but behind the scenes, they referred to children as "spawns of Satan" and inflicted various forms of punishment. Ruby Franke's husband, Kevin, whom she had been separated from since July 2023, told police that he was unaware of the abuse and attributed the separation to issues related to pornography addiction. Franke had previously run a blog called 8Passengers, representing her family of six children and two parents. In some of her controversial videos, she discussed withholding Christmas presents from her children and using food and sleep deprivation as forms of punishment. Franke and Hildebrandt's abusive behavior towards the children was documented in various calls, videos, and documents, painting a dark picture of the abuse they inflicted. The case of Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt underscores the dangers of extremist beliefs and abusive behavior under the guise of parenting advice. The investigation revealed the disturbing treatment of children in the care of these bloggers, with evidence pointing towards physical abuse, food deprivation, and emotional torment. The discovery of a panic room and the details surrounding the abuse shed light on the severity of the situation. Authorities worked to rescue the children and investigate the bloggers, leading to their guilty pleas and revelations of the abuse they inflicted on the vulnerable children in their care.

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