Netflix ‘s new docuseries, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing , explores the exploitation and lack of protection embedded into child internet stardom, focusing on mega kid influencer Piper Rockelle and the Squad that took the internet by storm from 2017 to 2021. Led by her mother and manager, Tiffany Smith, and Hunter Hill, Smith’s boyfriend, who shot and edited the majority of the content, Piper and her “Squad” raked in billions of views and millions of dollars . But not everyone enjoyed the riches, and as they rose to fame, some allegedly suffered psychological and sexual abuse by Smith, as detailed in a 2022 lawsuit filed by former members of the Squad. Here’s the true story behind Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing . Piper Rockelle joined YouTube in 2016 in hopes of becoming an actor According to Time , Rockelle joined YouTube in 2016 and often posted videos of her life in Los Angeles as an aspiring actor. She’d regularly share videos of her playing around...