So the issue is: "is it okay to employ young girls to communicate messages in the media, regardless of whether those messages are true or not?"
Let's accept that, in some circumstances, and particularly in circumstances where the message they're asked to communicate is true, it's okay to use young girls for this purpose. Otherwise we're into a debate about whether young girls should be allowed to communicate anything by video to the wider world - which is probably a pointless debate.
So really there's only one issue: "should young girls be used as a means of communicating untrue information to the world?"
And I suppose the answer to that, for most people, would be "no."
That's pretty easy so far.
The problem most will have though is determining which situation we're looking at here: young girls being used to communicate true information to the world (OK), or young girls being used to communicate information that is not true (not OK).
So the issue itself requires one to take a position on whether the information presented by the young girls is true or not.
And that, I'm afraid, is just too much darned work.
Unless, of course, we trust the Kool-aid skull's video. Which we don't, because he's a talking, voice-anonymized, Kool-aid skull.
This leaves us with a lot of info to dig up and verify ourselves, which we're just not interested in doing because oh god I'm already bored with my own analysis to this point.
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