Harry Potter Mandrake Baby Reminds Us That It’s Not Abuse If It’s Viral

Bartertown mores were levels superior to the jaded exhibitionism culture of social media. It’s one thing to share your amazing salads. Your lunch, your call. Cosplaying with your newborn for that perfect viral photo seems short sighted.

Before Internet media, this staged Harry Potter homage would’ve had a Walgreen’s photo developer on the tip line with Children and Family Services. Now it receives fifty thousand likes. What would you say you like more about this? The on-point Chamber of Secrets visuals or the way your infant is screaming in discomfort?

Life was simpler when violent video games and rap music were killing polite society. Only the Chinese put their newborns in pots, and everybody there knows better than to take photos.

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