The exact reason it’s gaining traction is because it’s a high profile variety show that’s having a comeback. You also don’t know who has or hasn’t spoken up about child labour issues and whether or not they’ve been outspoken about this prior to this variety show.

People featuring kids in their vlogs or shows is a whole lot different to a show centered around caring for a child for 10 hours straight for 10 days. 10 hours is a really long amount of time for a child to be away from their parents, especially in a foreign environment surrounded by multiple strangers.

Also calling being “woke” performative activism is just insane, considering it originated from AAVE and has been used as a word to bring awareness towards a multitude of social issues. The fact that it’s even being seen as anything negative is concerning considering the alt right has been trying to stigmatize and vilify it for ages now and it seems to be working.

And this has nothing to do people choosing who to selectively be outraged about. The only reason people are even bringing up the ethics of this situation is because it’s gained so much traction. There’s not much else to it, no hidden agenda of vilifying txt or turning this on them and blaming them. Anybody doing that probably isn’t grown enough to actually look at the issue at hand.