DaddyoFive is a channel that supposedly posts videos of pranks that parents conduct on their children, but really it is emotional abuse with an ever-surfacing undercurrent of violence.
The Father gaslights Cody, blames him for whatever he doesn't do, gets angry at him for self-harming because of all this, constantly says things like he will put him up for adoption, then sums it all up as a 'prank' just so he can escape responsibility.
It is heartbreaking that Cody should say something like 'You've ruined my life', or 'None of you love me, none of you ever did', or that Emma should say that 'I don't want you guys terrorizing me today'.
The children join in because there's this culture of 'bully or be bullied', generating a culture of survival of the fittest in that household.
The mother while not a main contributor is the silent bully in this,
Where she pulls out fake sobs and tears whenever required to shirk responsibility while the father sits beside her, frowning because it is a calculated, manipulative emotion used to depict guilt- Only, it isn't actually present.
This is especially clear in how he refers to you tubers who make videos about the ongoing child abuse, calling out for help, awareness, as 'haters'. When that doesn't work, he and his wife gradually slips into an act of feeling responsible, releasing an apology video that couldn't be more insincere.
Listen, no one sobs at being wronged, or guilt
The same way that Heather does: Staring into the camera without looking away, eyes rimmed with tears but no occasional lapses into sobs or a change in tone, or even a change in expression from a new wave of emotion, or realization.
That, is acting.
And it's very bad acting.
Besides that, she is the one that remains silent as the father yells at, hits, and jeers at his son for reflecting the damage done upon him, and she is the one to provide snarky comments to add on to the unloved feeling that Cody and Emma feel.
To tie it all up, she sobs openly for the camera in a Twitter video, and forces those two children to comfort her out of obligation.
Talk about hypocrisy, true repulsiveness, and a pig-like figure, and you get someone like that.
Clearly, the abuse in his videos isn't staged, nor is Cody or Emma acting upset; they ARE.
If you watch any of the reuploaded videos you'd see that they constantly choke up with emotion, and because the dad is a regular screamer, Cody shuts him out by either holding onto his safety blanket, or crying so hard that he only ever stops to take in deep gulps of air, too agitated to calm down or phrase his words properly. The only way he knows to cope is to cover his ears and yell out 'blah blah blah' in order to protect himself from verbal attacks, and this further manifests itself in how he chooses to bully Emma sometimes instead of the usual protection that he provides, because that's the only way he'll receive praise or at least, have attention directed away from him.
At the end of the videos, when his dad asks him
'Was it fun?'
He'll nod, because there's no way he couldn't.
'Was it fun-ny?'
He'll again, nod, face blank of emotion, heart soft and loving and open and hurt,
Because he still wants approval, he still wants to feel accepted and loved
But he is the scapegoat child, and he has to face all that.
But no child should have to;
This is messed up, it is wrong,
And that man is disgusting to his core. If you sliced him up what lies on the inside wouldn't be a black core,
It'd be a black hole,
One that seeks to destroy,
One that laughs at his son's breakdown, who swears at him and yells at him so much because he can feel the power it holds over Cody,
One that revels in his son's urgent hyperventilating sobs and trembling clutch to his baby blue blanket,
One that sucks all the love and kindness out of a pure, budding, soul.
I'm so relieved that Emma and Cody are out of that hell hole now,
But learning about this right now has really, really, upset me.
That is not something a human would do to a child,
And self-harming shouldn't be something that people do,
Much less a child.
This is so messed up and ugly. :(
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