“I don’t show my kids to monetize my account—god told me to!”
Collins“Misconceptions: That we do it for money. That’s a joke”
“Guys! Check out my non-profit Plexus!” 😅
I mean…..it is basically a non-profit endeavor for the sales reps 💀💀💀 for the company, not so much lol
PERFECT FOR PREGNANT ENERGY! THE ‘DO NOT TAKE WHILE PREGNANT’ IS A LIE, TOO!
“I’m not here to influence you to buy anything.”
Girl you literally shill plexus on your Instagram. How stupid do you think people are??
And all her affiliate links and crappy drop ship store.
"I don't even use filters" lmfao I've routinely seen her nose filtered right off her face but mmmkay hun
There wasn’t a filter on that HORRID Christmas sweater and she still made her kids white
Jesus that Christmas sweater debacle. I bet she still wears it in secret too.
Those are PRESETS!!! Totally different from a filter
Oops, my mistake! I'm clearly not a professional skin bleaching photographer like Kkkarissa.
Her kids always look patchy.
Look at the baby's face and compare it to his leg!
Omg! I missed that. What the?
It makes them look unnatural too. Straight up just… incorrect, uncanny valley level
😅😂🫠
Maybe the camera lens is dirty
In certain spots, only, though.
'Now I don't show them in a negative light'
No, but believe me, everytime I see one of your children, it puts you in a bad light.
Too many parents use their children as props, or extensions of themselves. They refuse to discipline them because that means they failed, but they also refuse to inspire and work with them because you lose control. How many parents sabotage their kids so they don't look bad by comparison?
You're a terrible mother Karissa, and your husband is no better. If there is a God, I hope he sends someone to save your beautiful children, and put you both in prison.
And she does show them in a negative light.. in almost every single one of her videos a kid looks like they just finished crying
That’s a whole lot of words for “I show their faces because I view them as property.”
"I show my children's faces because they're part of MY ministry."
She says it all in this sentence right here. It's HER ministry. Not "our", not "their", it's all her's, and that's all that matters.
Literally coming to say exactly this. Bravo. 💯
Exactly!
Children cannot be part of your ministry because they cannot consent ✨ children like this grow up and start to question if the things they believe is really what they believe or things are being forced to believe. when she reaches that stage she’s gonna flip out and lose her mind. Good luck.
The last time I went to church was when I was confirmed as a Catholic and finally was an “adult.” We moved the summer following and I decided I just wasn’t going to go anymore. Luckily my mom was like “thank god one less McDonald’s to buy.” It still wasn’t until 18-20 though that I started exploring what my faith was, if any. The Catholic guilt is real though and it lasts.
Karissa: I have a professional photography business! Look at how professional my pictures are!
Also Karissa: How dare you accuse me, a professional photographer, of using filters!
🙃
I don't get why she can't just admit it. Like, dude, I filter pics of EVERYTHING. The lighting and color are never right! I get an absolutely gorgeous A+++ pic of my dog and cat hugging it out, and my husband's freaking discarded boxers are in the background? Bye, boxers. I once even took my middle kid's head from one picture and stuck it on another because I couldn't get a shot of all three kids looking at the camera simultaneously 😂 No shame, it's photography, bro. Don't hate the player, hate the game!
I literally just did a version of that for work and our current billboard campaign. I’m still amazed it turned out as seamlessly as it did.
If all of this is true, then why even have "thecollinsKIDS" as your social media handle?
I’m convinced most of her fans don’t actually read her captions. She just makes them extremely long for algorithm purposes or something.
I bet if asked most of them would say ‘who tf is Yahuah?!’
Whenever I see that, I just think of a dated drag queen agreeing with someone named Wah.
yea I'll never get over the "yahuah" thing... especially "yah" lmfao
Well I know. And they’d traditionally spell it YHWH.
But I mean I don’t think her fans do. So her ‘spreading the message of Yahuah’ doesn’t seem to be catching on. She’s just shilling other crap instead.
She definitely sees them as herself, as they are not entities without her 🫠
Yep, even the profile picture is just her.
Yet the profile photo has only Karissa.
The Collins Kids are an old rockabilly duo who started recording when they were very young. I have no idea if Karissa knows that or if it influenced her choice of handle, but it will never cease to annoy me that she used their name.
THIS
"5 minutes a day, if that."
Um, sure Jan.
She has her kids perform songs with hand motions. So teach the kids the words and hand motions, film it (in one take I guess), edit, upload. In 5 minutes or less?
Mkay, crazy lady.
You couldn't even watch all her reels in 5 minutes a day.
They learn pretty quick when you spank them into submission
Ugh this is probably so accurate 😞
This must be like how a doctor will mentally double the number the drinks in their head that the patient says they consume in a day. So if she thinks less than five… it has to be an hour or so (or more?! I am unversed on reels timing irl)
Wait, doctors do that?! 😅😬 I’m always pretty honest in that question 🫠
Also, the “we only do this every few days.” Lady, you’re online 24/7.
Karissa is not, in and of herself, interesting. She knows this. She also knows that her kids are the real moneymakers. Unfortunately for her, the time when the world was fascinated with huge families ended around the time period where Josh Duggar got arrested.
Without her kids, she’d be just another garden variety Plexus selling nutjob.
True. The fascination with big families is over and they are only viewed like freak shows now. Especially now that so much info has been revealed about all of the abuse, incest, grooming of young girls, parentificqtion of older girls, poor education, social isolation…
And honestly, even with all the blathering she does, Karissa really doesn’t want me to have more than three kids. I’d raise kids 4-11 to be liberal and accepting, just like the first three, and that must never be.
Yet the kids will never see a dime of the money that gets made. She probably rationalizes that buying matching outfits they’ll wear or landing sponsored products they’ll play with is totally the same as reserving it for their future benefit.
Eventually, all those kids will do the same as every other influencer kid- they’ll age out.
I’ve been fascinated with the Gosselins for a long time- not in a parasocial way, more as an anthropological experiment. Jon and Kate had such a contentious divorce that only six of the kids still speak to each other, apparently. The one thing all eight of them appear to have in common is that they all would have been better off if the television cameras had been turned off when they were still in single digits- and that seems to be a common theme with all influencer kids.
A child is very rarely done a favor when they’re the reason their family survives.
I have the same fascination with the Gosselins and everything that happened with Collin :(
He seems to be doing well in spite of it all. It’s strange but…I watched that kid learn how to walk, and I hope he knows there are people out there rooting for him.
I was just listening to a story on NBC News about states that have proposed legislation to protect children of social media influencers. It made me think of Karissa and MaBus. Of course, Texas is not among those states who cares about things like that.
This is the darkest I've seen the youngest girl, which is so sad and completely contradicts her statement. They're all beautiful kids, but that I had to count, thinking no way that was Anythym.
Crazy how the center of their faces is always so much lighter…but sure, no filters eye roll.
yeah, it was a slight relief to see the kids’ skin not lightened as much as Karissa usually does
If you don’t use filters then I need to re-examine everything I know in life. Like the colour of the sky, the way the sun rises in the morning, how water runs downhill…..
WE WERE CREATED TO NOT PULL OUT 💀💀💀
Not trying to influence you to buy anything, but check out the link in my bio!
And to claim she doesn't use filters is fucking delusional.
How many different ways are there to spell Yahweh?
She seems to be obsessed with “alternate” spellings per her kids names 🥴
“that’s how we were created. to not pull out”
🤢 why did she END it with that?!?!
“I’m not here to influence you”
Except she’s always pushing either Plexus or her “trust God with your womb” “ministry.” I’m pretty sure God doesn’t like lying.
Pro-tip from Karissa: “your kids will never ask for consent if you never teach them what consent is.”
“They do get a say”
In WHAT?? Whether they turn their face to the right or to the left when forcing a fake smile or song??
She's lying so hard with that. We've seen several kids crying
Karissa, stop so obviously pandering to the pedophiles following you and please have all your children wear all their clothing, please. Like the bare minimum of safety.
She has such blonde/blue eyed children /s
Notice how it's "I don't use filters because I have my hands full and I'm an untalented photographer!" and not, "I don't use filters because I'd never think of editing my child, I love everything about them."
Telling on yourself a bit there, aren't ya KKKarissa?
Yikes 😬 didn’t even notice this
Daaaaamn good catch!
Jesus doesn’t like liars, Karissa.
“Family unplanning” is maybe the most horrible thing I’ve heard this week. What about wisdom and being smart with money? Family unplanning. Pshh. What a retched concept to encourage others in. This is how we wind up with families full of kids that don’t get their needs met. My parents version of Christianity would say that they are “stewards of gods money.” Meaning they should plan, save, and be responsible with what gods blessed them with (their opinions and how I was taught as a child.) And do you owe your living children nothing? Does the Bible say to keep having babies- even if you can’t provide for the kids you already have? It’s almost too difficult to watch this go down. And of course the far right kneels to and caters to these people… why, look at all the potential voters! (😣)
Thank you all for TLDRing her screeds. Blathering on is her MinIStRY.
I’ve never seen the youngest child appear joyful or happy.
Hubs can't pull out in general it seems.
Exactly. Karissa is a problem but she'd be much less of one without Mandrae continually inseminating her. He's married to a convenient pussy and leaves the rest up to her.
What I don’t get is Karissa has claimed they ONLY have sex for procreation and I believe has either implied or said outright that they don’t have sex when she’s pregnant. She’s pregnant most of most years, which means more often than not, Mandrae isn’t getting any (from her at least).
He seems like the type to have multiple families if you know what I mean. And Karissa might even know about it/ be ok with it. Gotta have a quiver full! (🤢🤓)
“He can’t even pull out of a driveway”
Oh dear god. Save me from the horror in my brain that is summoned by the words of this spitefully fecund harpy
🤮
It’s not just that you share their faces, Karelessa, is that their full names, dates of birth, and general location are all available for public consumption. Might as well just throw their SSNs out there and be done with it.
Big of you to think they all have SSNs 😅🫠
Maam you show your kids because you need to exploit them for money don't lie
I love how her response to the accusation that she lightens her kids skin in pictures wasn't "I love the way my kids look because they're beautiful humans created in God's image - why would I change that?" Her answer definitely had an undertone of "if I could I would." (Also sounded like overcompensating because of guilt to me, given how much wordier the defense was.)
“I don’t use filters” Yahua hears your lies hun
Dry this out and fertilize my garden with it.
😂🤣😂
"I don't even use FILTERS" 😂🤣💀💀💀💀💀💀 Omg guys. Stop. I can't...
“They do get a say in it. Especially as they get older.” says to me that they DEFINITELY don’t get a say in it when they’re younger.
Literally not possible to consent to it when you’re a baby or a child :(
Kid directly in front of her looks like she bites people
She also says she’s not trying to tell anyone what to do but the other day she was saying how everyone has to have more kids.
There are some angry faces there!
What’s the difference between “influencing” and “inspiring”?
they’re a part of my ministry…
Fucking Jesus. Im clergy, and I have a lot of friends who are clergy parents or clergy kids. Being part of the “exemplar family” that a whole community looks up to and scrutinized can FUCK YOU UP. It’s something this generation of clergy is actively working to AVOID. I don’t yet have kids, and I talk about those boundaries with my husband all the time, both the boundaries he wants for himself and the boundaries we both want for our future kids.
Family unplanning would be a great euphemism for abortion!
I have been reading some fun euphemisms for abortion this week in one of my herbalism books while prepping for a class I am teaching (not on abortion, but this is a great opportunity to buy and read new books lol). Amazing how different cultures would discuss restarting their menstrual cycles with herbs and the concept of "quickening" was key.
Including American culture before it was made illegal in the 1800s!
Due, in good measure, to concerns about a dip in the white birth rate.
Okay MAYBE you don’t lighten their skin, but you DO emphasize the ones who have lighter complexions and lighter eyes. She is so far up her own ass it’s crazy.
Count the lies
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"I show my children's faces because they're part of my ministry"
"This ministry God has called us to is not just mine but ours"
What?
Dawg, she’s losing it lol
Thanks to the internet, all I see is...
YA-HUAH! Spit on that thang!
Something tells me she’s going to encourage her children eventually to have a “quiver full” with only white partners…
I'm not here to.... convince you to be someone you don't want to be.
Honey, I don't want to be any of the things you represent
LOLOLOL five minutes a day my ass
They look so uncanny somehow
Popping in to just say once again that my friend who is a Hebrew teacher says the word "Yahuah" is gibberish. It not a historical name for God or Jesus. "Yah" is a thing but it's usually built into other words (ex. Hallelujah)
TIL! I never put that together about the word Hallelujah.
It never stops being weird/lowkey funny that these people call their instagram accounts “ministries.”
How else would they get the tax write-off? 🫠
The baby's arm is a full shade darker than his face
She’s still denying lightning their skin when we have pics of little Armor white as can be with black feet 🤦🏻♀️
‘My ministry’ what, pray tell, is her ministry? Plexus?
So the young kids have to suck it up? Karissa young kids normally don't know how to advocate for themselves. Hence why parents are choosing to go faceless with their kids.
Edit missing words 🤦
I am very selective of any photos I put on my sm accts of my niece and nephew. All Of my accts are private so it’s a very small audience of mostly friends and family. I would never put a pic of them in a public acct that anyone could see.
"I'm not here to influence you to buy anything or convince you to be someone you don't want to be."
doubt
Talking abt not pulling out is insane 😭
"It's a ministry". Gah. Duggars redux.
while obviously lying about never lightening her kids skin, the way she phrases it like “who would have the time, or the talent” is very telling lmao
i CANNOT be the only one who thinks her children all look facetuned and photoshopped
Just look at her account name. Exploiting her kids is by design, not accident. Sadly, she's just one of many god guided Instagram moms like this.
I’ve honestly reached the point where I don’t think it’s safe to post photos of children online at all. I spoke with a social worker recently who said AI p*rn of minors is rampant right now, and many pedos will create explicit material from something as innocuous at pictures on social media.
We’ve banned family from posting unblocked pictures of our kids’ faces. I wonder if people like Karissa, Jill, and Mother Bus know the kind of dangers they’re opening their children up to. Or if they even care as long as they’re getting their online engagement.
She doesn't use filters? I have literally never seen a photo shes posted that she hasn't messed with her kids skin tones
When you just decide whatever God says and go with it 😆
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