“
You are a monster, how can someone like you have children?
» ;
“
You give the sheaf, I hope the little ones will stay with their dads forever
". Messages of this caliber, Maëva Frossard, followed under the name of Mavachou by 150,000 subscribers on YouTube and 90,000 on Instagram, received several hundred a day. Influencer specializing in parenting since 2015 - they were, with her ex-husband, among the first to launch a family "vlog", a diary in the form of videos, where they showed themselves doing the dishes, caressing their dog… -, the mother of 4 children has gathered a large number of virtual admirers. But also despisers. Profusely. On December 22, Maëva Frossard committed suicide and an investigation for moral harassment was opened. On January 9, one of those who had harassed the young woman testified to the Parisian: “
I may have left judgments that I did not have to allow myself on the education of children.
I didn't realize there were real people behind it.
»
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Within the small universe of parenthood on social networks, the death of Mavachou has created a cataclysm.
"
The first video from a family channel that I saw was his
," recalls Fabien Blot, founder with his wife Amélie Cosneau of Famille Épanouie (52,000 subscribers on Instagram, 77,000 on YouTube), a channel that transmits "
techniques
" to "
exhausted parents
".
If the gesture of the young woman saddened him, the hostility directed against her did not surprise this "coach" in parenting.
“
What is happening with parenting influencers is extremely serious.
Many receive similar messages and feel like Mavachou.
»
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