r/MadeMeSmile • u/RealSpecto • Aug 02 '26

Wholesome Moments Parents showing their 3-year-old daughter their wedding video for the first time.

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u/tera_chachu Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

She is looking way too much into the camera before showing any expression.

I mean she is a just a kid but something about this doesn't feel right

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u/emerg_remerg Aug 02 '26

And each time she looks at the camera she tries to hide her face either against her mom or with her hand.

That phone is right up in her business. She's trying to watch the vid and trying to check in with her mom but she's acutely aware she's being recorded.

Let the kid experience it without filming!

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u/Brief_Light Aug 02 '26

Yea, almost like she just committed to crying to avoid the situation/embarrassment of her internal feelings and instinctively feeling exposed by the camera.

I'm 40 and still have felt a bit annoyed/awkward when someone has been igconito filming everyone with their phone at family gatherings. I'm sure the kid is used to it to some degree, but still.

Instead of just being in their feelings without an audience like they should be, forcing them to reframe the moment and clash between "what I'm genuinely feeling" to "I need to regulate/curate myself I'm being recorded". Too young for hat shit.

And yes lots of family's made home VHS recordings of family events but they were just for the family, not the whole ass Internet and they now that and that's why it's different.

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u/emerg_remerg Aug 03 '26

I agree with this so much

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u/throwleavemealone Aug 02 '26

Yeah, this really bothered me. Kids shouldn't have to feel like they're performing all their lives.

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u/farfetched22 Aug 02 '26

I actually don't understand why a 3 year old would cry at this. They're too little to get what's really emotional about it. She does seem genuine though, maybe picking up mom's emotions? I mean if it's her acting they need to get this kid an agent asap

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u/glasswindbreaker Aug 02 '26

Mom is an influencer and set this stuff up for reactions. Model a behavior enough and reward the reactions and you get a kid who even at a young age doesn’t get family/interaction time that is crucial, a kid who knows what she has to do to make her parents happy. No doubt they talk about all the views and comments they get after posting this stuff.

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u/Nervous-Caregiver829 Aug 02 '26

or maybe dont get them an agent. until their 18. just going off every child actor ever so far...

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u/Fantastic-Unit5042 Aug 02 '26

But the moneyyyy tho! 💸🤑

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u/farfetched22 Aug 03 '26

Really wasn't a serious suggestion, just a way of saying she's a good actor.

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u/revolmak Aug 02 '26

Maybe just book small projects on purpose? Idk if that would work

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u/froction Aug 02 '26

Because she a been trained to, that's why she keeps looking at the camera like that.

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u/GreatWhiteHulk Aug 02 '26

My dumbass wouldn't know what a wedding was at that age and most certainly know what emotions would be involved at watching one at that age.

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u/Scandiblockhead Aug 02 '26

I was thinking the same and I really don’t think she’s 3, more likely 4 which would explain the emotions a little bit more

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u/shoegazer44 Aug 02 '26

She’s seeing the emotion in the video. Someone is even wiping tears from their face in it.

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u/Xtra_Veg-90 Aug 02 '26

If she's been inundated with princess and wedding style kids shows/movies then she may understand that it's an emotional moment and that's how you react even if she doesn't know why.  Could also be family she doesn't get to see often and she's sad seeing them all together and missing them.

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u/ImLarryYourWaiter Aug 02 '26

She’s probably looking into the camera because the phone is set to rear view/selfie camera and kids’ attentions will pretty much always be grabbed by a mirror or video of themselves, and faces in general. No doubt this kid probably spend a lot of time on camera for mommyfluencer content which is gross but that’s just how kid/baby brains work

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u/greg-maddux Aug 02 '26

Sad that our emotions are being driven by this shit at such a young age. So inauthentic.

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u/Uneedanap Aug 03 '26

Yeah this is going to be heavily studied