40 h. ago Brooklyn Beckham and Prince Harry are the canaries in the coalmine. The children of Instagram will be next | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

A generation of overexposed children are being used by their parents for social media clout. What happens when they start to speak out?A child is born. Before they even landed “Earthside”, in the language of Instagram, a scan of them as a foetus in utero was uploaded to a waiting audience. The room in which they will sleep – the pale pastel paintwork, the carefully curated nursery furniture – is all there, ready, waiting: an advertorial empty of its model. Then comes the photo of the baby being born, held aloft to their audience while still covered in vernix, eyes not yet open, their mother smiling, hair perfect.From now on, their every moment and milestone is documented for the camera and monetised. That first smile, first word, first step, all mediated by a device and sent to an audience of strangers, many of whom have formed a parasocial relationship with that mother, that father, that child. The child comes to know and understand the black mirror that is regularly put in front o...

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53 h. ago The moment I knew: ‘He put down the camera and asked permission to kiss me’

Susan Hayes and Craig got to know each other through an online game. When they finally met in person, it felt like a real-life romance novelFind more stories from the moment I knew seriesWhen 2023 rolled around, I was ready for a change. I’d spent the Covid years locked down in Victoria, Canada. I had quit my day job at the end of 2019 to write full-time and travel, only for the world to shut down.During those long, lonely years, I kept myself distracted by playing an online game. Nothing fancy, just a phone game about surviving a zombie apocalypse. It was a bit of fun and a way to connect with people from around the world. One of those people was a fellow named Craig. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Cheating husband on trial for killing wife sobs in court as he's forced to rewatch moment he was told she was dead

Brendan Banfield, 40, was seen breaking down in tears in court on Wednesday as body camera footage played showing the moment he was told his wife, Christine, 37, was dead.

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5 d. ago Amazon Crime: Shocking moment delivery driver STEALS pet cat caught on doorbell camera

Carl Crowther was looking for his cat all day before he discovered the footage on his doorbell camera

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5 d. ago Michael Carrick moment caught on camera hinted at plan for Manchester United star

Man Utd secured a stunning victory against Man City last weekend and Michael Carrick made big selection decisions.

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8 d. ago 'Disgusting and violent' moment of madness caught on camera as fans demand footballer 'banned for life'

Furious football fans were left calling for a lifetime ban for one Trearddur Bay player on Saturday, as he was caught on camera seemingly knocking out a CPD Porthmadog talent with a violent elbow

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1 week ago Gordon Ramsay bursts into tears during intimate moment caught on camera

Gordon Ramsay has been filmed crying and wiping tears away from his eyes in a new video shared by his daughter Holly Ramsay, who shared a heartfelt message to her father

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1 week ago Moment killer drink driver’s web of lies exposed as camera catches him dancing, playing rugby and carrying beers

A drink-driver who exaggerated the extent of his injuries in an attempt to avoid prosecution after causing a fatal car crash was later caught on camera dancing, playing rugby and buying drinks in pubs.

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2 w. ago My favourite family photo: ‘We’re plainly not allergic to our mother here, as her legend always had it’

Our politically engaged mother loved deriding me and my sister for being stroppy and delinquent. This picture tells another story – and is a testament to our sunny dispositionsMy mother, Gwen, liked to describe things in broad brush strokes. Me and my sister’s teenage years, mid-80s to early 90s, she’d cover with: “Zoe was delinquent, couldn’t get a word of sense out of her.” Or: “1986? That was the year Stacey was awful.” Going through photo albums to make a montage for her funeral, all her pictures from that era were testament to our ill-behaviour: me, sniffing a geranium, sarcastically; Stace, outside a cafe in an indeterminable European city where you can almost lip-read her stroppy “piss off” to camera in the still moment.Gwen was politically engaged – you’d come downstairs on a Wednesday morning to find a handwritten letter starting, “Dear Pérez de Cuéllar, I cannot deplore enough your silence on the matter of the Western Sahara” – and heavily involved in progressive politics:...

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2 w. ago Preschool teacher arrested after TV interview criticizing Trump for recent attacks against Venezuela

This is the moment a preschool teacher was arrested on camera after criticizing Trump for recent attacks against Venezuela.

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2 w. ago Deep sea explorers capture incredible footage of rare giant phantom jellyfish off the coast of Argentina

This is the moment deep sea explorers captured an incredibly elusive creature on camera - the giant phantom jellyfish.

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