YouTuber Myka Stauffer rose to fame for her wholesome adoption story in which she and her husband adopted their baby son, Huxley, from China back in 2017 and documented the entire process via regular YouTube videos. However, the popular YouTuber has now found herself in some off-the-rails, Karen-level drama after announcing she and her husband have rehomed the toddler after years of using him for content.
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After announcing that she and her husband were adopting Huxley from China back in 2016, the young boy was placed at the forefront of Myka Stauffer’s YouTube videos as she documented her “adoption journey” in a *checks notes* 27-part video series and constant video updates about life with her adopted son.
Myka Stauffer’s adoption story made her something of a pseudo-spokesperson about parenting while capturing people’s sympathies with her experiences living with Huxley and how she copes with his “brain tumour,” “brain damage,” and his “level 3 autism.”
Since she’s an influencer, it’s no surprise that she parlayed all this attention into YouTube fame and some big-money sponsorships, all while using Huxley in some way or another for her content.
All in all, Myka raked in a crapload of YouTube subscribers (currently sitting at 716K at the time of writing) and followers on her social media channels while racking up millions of views for her videos, the most popular one featuring her meeting Huxley in China for the first time.
This continued on until around late 2019 to early 2020 when viewers noticed that Huxley was nowhere to be seen in Myka’s videos and the YouTuber had suddenly stopped mentioning or updating fans about her adopted son.
Her last video featuring Huxley was uploaded in September 2019 while her last Instagram post Huxley-related was dated February 16, 2020, and it discussed the difficulties about raising a son with special needs.
After silence on Huxley’s whereabouts for months, Myka and her husband posted a video update titled “an update on our family” in which the Stauffers revealed that they had removed Huxley from their home and rehomed him with another family.
Like a Karen getting rid of an unwanted puppy.
Myka and her husband explained that they did it for Huxley’s emotional well-being and it was a decision taken after “multiple assessments” and “multiple evaluations” with medical professionals. The YouTuber says she stayed silent for formerly-adopted son’s privacy reasons before adding how “99 percent of the struggles” were never turned into content for the same reason. How sweet.
Unsurprisingly, this update on Huxley drummed up a wild shitstorm of epic proportions on the internet and influencer communities. One just needs to look up “Myka Stauffer” on Twitter to see a wave of drama and backlash that’s almost unheard of for a YouTuber.
Debates were had about the rights of children on social media and exploiting their lives. However, much of this criticism basically revolved around Myka being an unethical POS who adopted poor Huxley and monetised the crap out of him for her own gain before dumping him with another family when things got too tough, all while positioning herself as some sort of adoption advocate when in reality she is nothing but a Karen.
Karen Myka Stauffer has yet to respond to all the backlash but for what it’s worth, all her videos involving Huxley are still up on her YouTube channel. Guess that says more than any half-arsed apology or statement written on the Notes app ever will.
Influencers have done some disgusting and messed up things for clout and money, but adopting a special needs toddler from China and exploiting his life for financial gain? That easily makes Myka Stauffer and her husband frontrunners for the “biggest pieces of shit who call themselves influencers” award.
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