In the United States there is a Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which requires that 13 be the minimum age to have an account on most social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. YouTube requests users who are over 18, but accepts users over 13 years old if they have the consent of their parents or if they are emancipated minors. But nobody really verifies a user's age. They simply ask users to report how old they are, and it is easy to lie on that subject. That's why we see many children with accounts in different social networks, some of them very famous.
For example, Ryan, of Ryan's Toy Reviews, made $ 11 million for his YouTube videos last year, according to the Washington Post. This internet star, who started his career at the age of 4, is one of the favorites of our 2-year-old grandson. Another popular channel of games and toys with more than 3.3 billion visits is Evan Tube, whose protagonist is a 12-year-old boy. On Instagram, the children's fashionistas Stella and Blaise began modeling at age 3. Even Justin Bieber was discovered in homemade YouTube videos that he published when he was 12 years old. These are some of the famous children of web 2.0.