The Marketing Bestie Podcast with zoeunlimited - what happens when pick me grows up?

Episode Date: December 18, 2025

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Learn more at aboutamazon.ca. Imagine the most toxic narcissist you see on TikTok turning into parents. Selfish bit. Welcome to TikTok parenting, where moms can't get over their sons. Ew, mom! Run. Pickmies, raise picmies. People eat me.

And wealth has been generated. by putting your iPad kids in front of the camera. Because he doesn't need a wife when he has me. How this works. Look, I'm not a parent, but somehow the TikTok algorithm loves helping me expand my horizons by showing me mind-broadening content. From the 60th influencer talking about the Alex Earl Light, to the best sandwich in Italy to parents on TikTok.

Now that would be fine had these been boring, vanilla, normal parents. parents. But they do not exist. At least on TikTok. I just had a baby and the doctor's like, you have to take it home now. Take it home and do what? Hang out with it. I don't even know her.

What do I know about parenting? Well, I am a certified plant mom with only three deaths so far, so absolutely nothing. But dare I say anyone who's ever had three hours of human interaction can tell that being overly obsessed with your son in an incestuous lover way. That's his mom. That's his girlfriend. That's his mom. Hating on your own daughter and seeing her as competition.

Crazy! Or monetizing views on your barely crawling kids who may or may not want unsolicited internet comments. Feels off. All right, sweetie. You're ready to get some new notebooks and protractors and slack? I want blue jeans. You're getting slacks!

So today, let's get into the toxic world of TikTok parenting. Because as the pic-pictors, Me's age and become parents, we will only start to see a bigger wave of problematic people contaminating the future generation. Making iPad kids more illiterate, addicted, and narcissistic. I might not have Botox and lip fillers, but I do make a mean green bean casserole. You better get in the kitchen and hang on to your man real tight before he starts coming home to me for dinner. Pick me moms. Ever imagine Pick Me's attorney into parents? Neither have I. But what my imagination lacks is made up by the reality that yes, pygmy mothers do exist and they either turn into aggressive competitors with their daughters.

I see a strong, confident, beautiful young lady. Oh look, you're here too. Mother knows best. Or become overly obsessed with their sons. I'll always be the first woman in his life. She's just his little girlfriend. He'll always love me more than he loves her. First of all, what is a pick me girl? Urban Dictionary defines it as a girl who seeks male validation by indirectly or directly insinuating that she is quote unquote not like the other girls someone with a lot of internalized misogyny and actions driven by wanting men to quote unquote pick them so pick me choose me love me there is a clear distinction i want to draw here as social animals it is completely normal to want to be picked aka being liked and find belonging the

pick me behavior is only problematic when in doing so a woman puts a woman puts a another woman down in order to win attention or affection. A pick me boy, on the other hand, is a guy who uses self-deprecation in order to seek approval from women to obtain the emotional stroking from the woman he likes. A pick-me boy calls out his own perceived weaknesses or differences. Although neither are healthy behaviors,

a pygmy girl usually puts down other women instead of putting down themselves for attention. They say that you're a homeschooled jungle freak, who's a less hot version of me. Which is why a pick-me girl turned parents arguably could have more destructive impacts. Especially when they give birth to girls will grow into women they see to be future competitors. Think the evil queen in Snow White. I don't think the story would have been the same had Snow White been a dude.

The narcissistic queen would have turned into a TikTok boy mom hungry for male attention. Which is the perfect sideway to boy moms on TikTok. Actually, before we get into it, to toxic boy mom behaviors. There is a much healthier habit to pick up this year, thanks to your sponsor, Audible. My favorite thing to do during a walk or a lunch by myself is listening to Audible,

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At a glance, boy mom seems to be an innocuous term. For being a parent to either gender shouldn't be about ascribing gender norms to children. However, Urban Dictionary and hashtag boy mom culture on TikTok says otherwise. Boy mom, according to urban dictionary, is quote, a mother who is emotionally incestuous with her sons. For instance, Anna Saccone describing herself as a toxic mom and exemplifies the quote, I'm in love with my son obsession. When I think about my son's wedding, I want to cry. Even when her son hits or punches his sisters, he hits his sisters, punches them.

I'm like, maybe he's having a hard day. babies having a hard day. There are no consequences. He must be having a bad day. And then there's also the quote, Boys Will Be Boys genre of boy mom culture, showing sons following the leads of their fathers or behaving badly, such as smacking their mother's butt and other disrespectful behaviors,

normalizing inappropriate interactions between the boys and their moms. Boys will be boys! That by no surprise, would progress into ways that these boys treat other women in their lives. in their lives. Consent and mutual respect are learned behaviors. And if young boys learn that no matter how terrible they treat their mothers and sisters, they could get away with it because they're being just boys, they will know nothing about boundaries and respect between genders. And when a 2018 study found that 81% of American women experienced some form of sexual harassment in their lifetime, the likelihood of that number decreasing is minuscule with the rise of boy moms on TikTok.

Pigmy girls turn moms not only pick on their own daughters as they see them as competitors, but also on the future girlfriends of their four-month-old sons. For instance, teaching their sons to cook so, quote, he is not impressed by your frozen pizza daughter. I'm teaching my son how to cook so that he will show up for his future wife as though she's his partner and not his servant. Or your dusty daughters take-out skills. The behaviors and incestuous obsession of the boy moms or pig-me moms might be difficult to understand. But everything becomes clear through the lens of narcissism.

A narcissistic mother may exemplify the following three top traits. First, treats her children as an extension of herself, aka unhealthy attachment to her children and attributing everything good in her kids as a reflection of her. Second, place her children against one another, definitely available on TikTok for the world to see. And third, petty rivalry with her own children. For instance, being a pick-me mom and degrading her own daughter. I'm bigger and I'm faster. I will always beat you. Then I'm not gonna play with you anymore, ever!

All three traits were found on my hashtag mom talk search. So pick me, choose me, love me. But what reigns most universally true on most moms on TikTok is number one. See your children as an extension of yourself. And thus, monetizing views on your children. Let's go swimming! C2 pops Monetizing children

The topic of monetizing children through views is often quite controversial. On one hand, it's just part of someone sharing an organic part of their life. While on the other, there could be great monetary incentives to show your kids as a parent influencer, either without the consent of your kids to be in your viral videos or that they don't have the capacity to give an informed consent. Personally, I think it's a very great. where people can get away with a lot of shady things without mature laws and regulations. For instance, Illinois made history a few months ago as the first state to pass a law

to protect the earnings of children of influencers, requiring parents to put a percentage of gross earnings into a trust. But before the legislation and still in the 49 rest of the states, children are not even entitled to the money they help earn. Especially for the stage content on not just TikTok, but also across social media, it is hard to say to what extent the kids want to be part of the act versus the parents do. We do not do it for the money. We do it because he loves what he does. I mean, this kid is I am. He has so much charisma. All you have to say is thank you so much.

And it is not easy to distinguish between a hobby and family pastime with forced child labor. This is very concerning for the up and rising millennial and Genzi parents who grew up chronically online and are used to oversharing everything. It is one thing to overshare everything from your breakfast cereals sync dosage to your ex's rising moon sign, but it is another to expose your iPad kids in front of millions of strangers on the internet, which will never get erased once uploaded. With a boom of narcissistic tendencies of the internet generation, being the center of attention online is no longer enough.

Seeing your kids as extensions of yourself exacerbates the rise of Gen Alpha and Beta Influencers who did not even have a say in becoming attention bates and cash cows for their narcissistic parents. Parents also started controlling their toddler's weight. This mother posted her two-year-old's picture and said that dad is concerned about her belly. Another mother shared the video of her daughter stepping on the scale after a meal. It is just scary to imagine what the future generation will look like being raised by TikTok parents. But hopefully, the more aware we're being born. become, the farther we steer away from the manipulation and self-centeredness of the TikTok parents.

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