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Split Screen: There Goes My Childhood

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What ever happened to some of the first girls to grow up – and blow up – on the internet?

In the late 2000s, YouTube gave rise to a new profession: kid-fluencer – kids making content for other kids, earning millions-strong audiences and massive paycheques. And for years, some of the most popular YouTube videos for girls lived on one channel: Seven Super Girls.

It featured a rotating cast of tween and teen girls uploading sketches, skits and vlogs daily. Host Lauren White was one of them. Over time, they gained billions of views, big-name sponsors, lineups of screaming fans and more money than a child would know what to do with.

But with their growing success, came new rules from the man in charge: their manager. He began as a mentor, a kind of father figure. Then, he began dictating how the girls had to look, dress and behave. Above all, they had to look as young as they could for as long as they could. And for years, the girls did as he said… until he was put behind bars for hurting one of their own.

Almost a decade after the YouTube empire they built collapsed, the girls are now old enough to tell their own stories for the first time – the fame, the fortune, the friendships and the man they trusted for far too long.

About Split Screen

Welcome to Split Screen, an examination of the utterly captivating, sometimes unsettling world of entertainment and pop culture. From reality TV gone awry, to the cult of celebrity, each season of Split Screen takes listeners on an evocative journey inside the world of showbiz. Ex-contestants, producers, and cultural critics uncover complicated truths behind TV’s carefully curated facades, and question what our entertainment reveals about us. Split Screen: sometimes reality is twisted.

Season 1 | Kid Nation: The true story behind one of reality TV’s most controversial experiments.

Season 2 | Thrill Seekers: A multi-million dollar media experiment. Would you fall for it?

Season 3 | Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Was the Canadian punk pop sensation replaced by a look-alike?

Season 4 | Bachelor of Buckingham Palace: The story behind one of the world’s most bizarre reality dating shows.

Afleveringen

  1. Introducing: There Goes My Childhood

    2 november 2026 · 2 min

    Afspelen
    What ever happened to the first kids to grow up – and blow up – on the internet? Lees meer

    Now old enough to tell their own stories for the first time, stars of one of YouTube's earliest and most popular kid-fluencer channels for girls share their experiences with fame, fortune, online predators… and the manager who controlled their lives for years, until he was put behind bars.

    Four episodes, releasing weekly starting Monday, November 9.

  2. Split Screen Introduces: The Big Bet

    13 oktober 2026 · 40 min

    Afspelen
    How did sports betting go from being illegal to being EVERYWHERE? The answer lies in the convergence of daily fantasy sports apps, a bombshell New York Times op-ed, and the potential of a multi-billion dollar payout. This episode of Understood: The Big Bet tells the story of how a pivotal Supreme Court ruling set the stage for one of the biggest scandals in sports history — one involving a Toronto Raptors bench player named Jontay Porter. Lees meer

    Understood takes you deep inside the seismic shifts reshaping our world right now. From online porn and crypto chaos to the rise of tech oligarchs, deepfake AI, and the broken promises of the internet — we explore the stories that define our digital age with hosts and characters embedded in the heart of the action.

    More episodes of The Big Bet are available wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/TBBxSS

  3. Bachelor of Buckingham Palace, Episode 6: In Reality

    15 december 2025 · 30 min

    Afspelen

    ’I Wanna Marry Harry’ makes its prime time debut. Things do not go as planned. Scott begins to question what we really mean when we call something “reality” TV?

  4. Bachelor of Buckingham Palace, Episode 5: Not So Happily Ever After

    8 december 2025 · 26 min

    Afspelen

    As filming wraps, the girls fly back home, and the producers have a surprise waiting for them when they land. As surprises go, this isn’t exactly a great one.

  5. Bachelor of Buckingham Palace, Episode 4: Princess Material

    1 december 2025 · 29 min

    Afspelen

    Who is Matt Hicks? A questionable Prince Harry lookalike… but also the man who might be able to tell us what was really going on behind-the-scenes. All we need to do now is find him.

  6. Bachelor of Buckingham Palace, Episode 3: The Believers

    24 november 2025 · 27 min

    Afspelen

    Film crews, cults and coercion. A handy guide on how to get people to believe what you want them to.

  7. Bachelor of Buckingham Palace, Episode 2: Fever Dream

    18 november 2025 · 29 min

    Afspelen

    Just whose idea was this anyway? And how did they intend to pull off such an absurd stunt? Scott needs answers. And he knows just who he needs to speak to. Danny Fenton — the creator of ‘I Wanna Marry Harry’.

  8. Bachelor of Buckingham Palace, Episode 1: The Fairytale

    10 november 2025 · 30 min

    Afspelen

    Kimberly and Meghan audition for a secret new reality dating show. Producers won’t tell them anything about where they’ll be going, what they’ll be doing, or who they’ll be dating. What could possibly go wrong?

  9. Introducing: Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace

    7 november 2025 · 1 min

    Afspelen

    This is the inside story of "I Wanna Marry Harry", one of the world’s most bizarre and ballsy reality dating shows. Coming soon, wherever you get your podcasts on Nov. 10.

  10. Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Episode 6: My Happy Ending

    10 maart 2025 · 33 min

    Afspelen
    Joanne is back Canada… she has something she really needs to tell Avril. After months of digging – Joanne has finally tracked down the source of this rumour. Lees meer

    SO Avril DEFINITELY didn’t get replaced. That just wasn’t true. Which is great… but it does beg the question, who WAS Melissa?

    Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally Investigates is a 6-part series produced by What’s The Story Sounds – for BBC Sounds and CBC.

    Split Screen: Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? is a 6-part series produced by What’s The Story Sounds – for BBC Sounds and CBC.

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Categorieën
Tv , Film , Recensies
Status
Loopt nog
Verschijnt
Elke week
Lengte
Meestal 30 min
Afleveringen
31
Laatste aflevering
2 november 2026
Eerste aflevering
4 april 2024
Taal
Engels