A six-year-old South Korean YouTuber has bought a $7.
8 million (9.4 billion South Korean won) apartment.
The young star purchased the five-story apartment block with her parents in the Gangnam suburb on April 3, 2019 via the Boram Family company, a public real estate registration document revealed.
Boram is a YouTube sensation who makes over $3 million a month through her two YouTube channels – Boram Tube ToyReview which has 13.6m subscribers and Boram Tube Vlog which has another 17.5m.
Both her channels provide insight into the little star’s life, with the Toy channel reviewing toys and the Vlog channel looking into her day-to-day life.
The six-year-old is among the most popular YouTubers in South Korea, something which is evident from the number of views on his videos.
One of her vlogs has been viewed more than 376m times by her fans.
It shows the little girl making instant noodles using just her plastic toys before she eats it delightfully in front of the camera.
The young star says her videos are “making play and a fun kids’ playground video… cute and rewarding memories of everyday life.”
However, concerns have been raised for the little girl. A nonprofit organization, Save The Children, reported some of her videos containing disturbing content to cops.
The reported videos included clips showing Boram stealing from her parents and driving on a busy road. One of the clips even showed the little girl pretending to give birth.
According to the Korea Herald, the Seoul Family Court heard in 2017 that Boram’s parents were “gaining financial profit by putting the children in situations that could put them under mental distress and distributing the footage to the public, with a negative influence on underage viewers who watch the clips.”
Boram’s parents were also ordered by the court to complete a counseling course designed for preventing child abuse.
Child activists are concerned about the increasing trend of parents making money from YouTube videos by using their underage children.
A similar YouTube account FamilyOFive (formerly DaddyOFive) was removed from the streaming site after some of its videos sparked outrage on social media.
The controversial videos made by Maryland parents Heather and Mike Martin showed physical and mental abuse of their own kids in what they called were ‘pranks.’
“Content that endangers children is unacceptable to us,” YouTube said in a statement. “We have worked extensively alongside experts in child safety to make sure we have strict policies and are aggressively enforcing them.
“Given this channel owner’s previous strikes for violating our Guidelines prohibiting child endangerment, we’re removing all of his channels under our Terms of Service.”
The couple ended up losing custody of their children as well.