The idea for the bill was raised in 2022 by a then 15-year-old high schooler from Normal, Ill., named Shreya Nallamothu, who wasn’t even a creator herself. A few years earlier, she had seen a resurfaced video by vloggers The LaBrant Fam (12.9 million YouTube followers) in which a couple played an April Fools’ prank on their daughter by telling her they were giving their dog away, and filmed her reaction. “It made me really upset, because she’s obviously too young to really understand the ramifications of what’s being done to her,” Nallamothu says.
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