I n 2020, successful family vloggers Myka and James Stauffer made a startling announcement that would end her influencer career. They were ‘rehoming’ their autistic son , Huxley, nearly three years after adopting him from China. The boy had been front and center of many of their parenting and lifestyle videos before suddenly vanishing from their posts.
Many among their one million followers on Instagram and YouTube started asking why, which led to a jarring confession that prompted swift and widespread backlash. Now, four years later, they are the subject of a new three-part docuseries premiering at Tribeca Film Festival. An Update on Our Family , which takes its name from the title the Stauffers used on their infamous YouTube video in which they revealed Huxley’s fate, is directed by Rachel Mason and focuses on the YouTuber family from Ohio as it seeks to expose the “hidden-in-plain-sight, unregulated family vlogging industry”.
In a trailer for the forthcoming documentary, fellow vloggers detail the events leading up to Huxley’s disappearance from the Stauffer’s YouTube channel, while experts emphasize just how much money parents can make from posting content about their children online. Back in May 2020, Myka and James Stauffer revealed on YouTube that they had re-homed their four-year-old son nearly three years after they adopted him from China. According to the couple, who also have four biological children, they had seen numerous medical professionals regar.
