The reason she sees it as HER RIGHT to post about her daughter is because she is a boring bitch with no personality outside:
Disabled
Hot (her opinion)
Mom
Which is why we got the hilarity of her blurting out I HAD A BABY AND I DISABLED to that poor tiktok normie.
Also anyone who their first reaction is to start saying ITS MY RIGHT AS A MOTHER when people express concern about their kid is like red flag central lol
I dont think it has made it through her dense head that these are not "false reports" to child services. If anyone is the slightest bit concerned, you can have a report made. It is not illegal to do so. She may not think the reports are worth being made, but there is no law being broken.
That being said, I do wish the poo touchers would stop. While I personaly don't agree with everything going on with Ari, and there have been a few questionable posts involving her, I don't think shes in immediate danger.
Does anyone else think its funny that Alex said the reason Noah isn't on the certificate was because "they didnt get around to it"? That makes no sense. In all my pregnancies, the form literally is just a space for parent number 1 and parent number 2. One person can fill it all out and just get a signature at the end from the other parent. It sounds more to me like she just never showed the paperwork to Noah and he was too high to ever think to ask about it.
Here you you just do it online. You fill it out, the dad gets a mail, accepts, send, done. You now have two parents on the birth certificate.
They're just retarded beyond belief.
And what's stopping them from doing it NOW? It's a few minutes and it's done, you can do it drunk.
Fucking white trash lovers. I'm so happy for the child that they stay w some responsible adults in all this. Not that Noah turned out great (a cripple fucking junkie) but at least Ari's not in the hands of just the two of them plus random tard wrangler.
I was thinking similarly about the Child Services reports; she noted that they're going in to a meeting with DFCS and that's not a thing that happens when everything is totally peachy. They aren't all huddling around a table with pictures on the wall of possible suspects, trying to deduce who is making these reports. That's not within their purview.
The meeting will be to discuss steps going forward and how to best protect Ari, which will, I'm guessing, include suggestions to not show Ari online if Alex feels the reports are not in good faith - and THAT is why I think she's so self-righteous about the "IT'S MUH RIGHT!" She wanted them to go full Charlie Day, but instead they shrugged and were like "idk, stop using her for content?"
I can empathize that for someone like Alex, it's probably intensely frustrating to be told she shouldn't do one of the few things she CAN do (post on IG and YouTube for asspats), but guess what? That's parenthood, babe. It's sacrificing of yourself for the sake of your child, and I'm sorry she's just now figuring it out after so many leisurely mornings with her iced coffee.
Edit to add: @GenociderCyo
I didn't mean to imply that it's just because of her social media presence at all - just that that would be her response to DCFS. "Oh I have a big following and haturz are hating" and to that they'd say "ok, well maybe try not showing her?"
The reports are being made anonymously so they could be Nana Smith as far as they know. But to cover that particular variable I could see DCFS suggesting strongly that she try not posting photos of Ari. Like a "let's see if it stops when you do this, since you say these reports are false."
I don't know if I think anything that's been shown since they've moved in with the Smiths could be construed as abuse. Some questionable shit, yes, but not DFCS level. They very well may have bigger concerns and have other issues they'd like Alex to address, but I think they told her a good step would be to consider not posting Ari and that got her up on her high horse.
It's not so much the social media thing though. I follow quite a few disabled parents who have their children on social media. There is even a quadraplegic woman who teaches how she is able to take care of her daughter even with her disability. If CPS is investigating to the degree they are having a meeting it probably involves something that goes beyond her social media presence.
She should never have posted about the child services visits/investigation. And she definitely should stop updating people about it.
I'm not saying the person(s) who reported them isn't doing this in good faith because they're genuinely concerned (yes I am, fucking poo molesters), but if they ARE just trying to fuck with her life she's giving them exactly what they want. She not only confirms that their report was heard, but that she's pissed off about it. Now I don't know much about the motivations of these folks, but that seems like it's the best thing they could hope for, short of Ari being wrestled from Alex's limp arms and marched out of the house. She's really not bright, this one.
I'm not that familiar with how DCFS/CPS operates, but it seems feasible to me that they would take a closer look at Alex and her circumstances if you look at all the small things combined, like her recent drunken Tiktoks + her recent ankle sprain + her chair malfunctioning + Ari's eye having seemingly been neglected.
The South Florida DCFS made some devastating mistakes 10+ years ago with the case of Nubia Barahona (which Kate Farms Shill mentioned in the munchie thread recently- basically a little girl who died horrifically at her foster parents' hands while all the red flags went disregarded.) There was major uproar in Florida, everyone was angry. Florida media followed the case closely over the years, so it hasn't gone forgotten.
Maybe the DCFS is being heavily scrutinized still, and they're being more proactive to ensure they don't fuck up badly again? Especially since this case involves someone who has a degree of notoriety but not someone influential or relevant enough that anyone important will care if they make a fuss.
If Alex is legally Ari's guardian, then I'd think that getting drunk in the garage and having accidents would look especially bad when there's a helpless toddler involved, no matter how many capable adults are also living there. However, I also agree that there are more serious family situations that should be getting this attention.
I did wonder about them actually going in to the DCFS offices to talk. In the other visits in Florida, DCFS just came to the Smith house. I wonder if they're telling them they need a plan, and, if so, what's in it. Surely they'd suggest posting Ari less to social media, since Alex always blames the "haters" for the calls. I also wonder about required parenting classes (a perennial DCFS favorite): they'd be useless for Alex, but I do think they'd actually be a good thing for Noah. Of course, he'd probably end up soliciting some random single mom he met there, so maybe not.
Anyway: Alex is totally owning the DCFS-calling haters by spending absolutely all day posting pictures and videos of Ari to social media. This is actually unusual, because it's usually mostly pictures of herself. Today, though, every single piece of media she posted to Instagram features Ari. Take that, haters!
Also, Ari is now officially crawling. Let the games begin-- Alex has no clue how much things just changed.
Reddit is freaking out because the high chair is cheap and dirty (according to them), but I'm pretty sure they're in a restaurant and using one of the chairs they have there.
Outtakes from the Christmas photos she'd already posted:
Kid can't wait to start grabbing things off that tree:
Alex's face. I remind you that she does OnlyFans/porn:
Ari is too stinking cute for words:
Look at that kid. You know that people constantly tell her she's adorable, and Alex hates it:
Eating sweet potatoes:
She's crawling! Note that she uses her newfound skills to pivot away from Alex and crawl to her dad, who's off to the left side of the video (baking banana bread):
Hanging out in the garage with Ari, who is also in the "time to put everything that exists in my mouth" phase:
Garage part 2. Alex is shrieking "BEE!" because she swears Ari loves the B sound. Ari gives her a priceless "bitch, u serious?" look.
Christmas TikTok that she also posted to Instagram stories:
This last one is interesting. For one thing, she's really getting closer to standing unsupported, and Grandpa Smith (who knows what he's doing) is helping out. You can also watch Ari twist around to get a better look at her beloved grandpa-- all while ignoring her mother. The fluffy white dog is the one who decided it's her (his? I forgot) duty in life to watch out for Ari.
NOAH WATCH: lots of shots of his feet. He's around, and you can honestly usually tell where he is, because that's where Ari is looking or crawling off to. In spite of his many failings, he must be doing something right, because Ari adores him. She wouldn't react like that if they weren't spending quality time together.
Reddit is currently its own sideshow. I appreciate their archiving efforts, but some of the posters there flip out at anything and everything. I also raise an eyebrow at some of the stuff they're doing (get the kid to a pediatrician or allergist, for crying out loud), but some of this other stuff is no big deal. And, as ever, CPS is too busy rescuing children in Florida from meth trailers with untrained pit bulls and no heat or air conditioning. Do they think Ari would be better off in a hellhole foster home?
The very grimy foot of a social media influencer-boss babe with SMA who refuses to use her wheelchair's foot pads or do her prescribed physical therapy. It really kind of needs a trigger warning, doesn't it? Even Ari is like "fuck no, I'm not gonna crawl toward that."
Reddit is freaking out because the high chair is cheap and dirty (according to them), but I'm pretty sure they're in a restaurant and using one of the chairs they have there.
That's an IKEA highchair, the ANTILOP. It's inexpensive, but practical and easy to clean. The seat is just one bit of molded plastic and so is the table; just chuck it outside and hose it off if it gets grubby.
You see them more and more in restaurants with IKEAs nearby.
That's an IKEA highchair, the ANTILOP. It's inexpensive, but practical and easy to clean. The seat is just one bit of molded plastic and so is the table; just chuck it outside and hose it off if it gets grubby.
You see them more and more in restaurants with IKEAs nearby.
True redditors bring their own Tripp Trapp to every dinner out.
How dare you pur your kid in a perfectly fine high chair.
Only the finest Scandinavian wood for the redditors spawn.
Alex spent Saturday posting Ari videos to Instagram (again-- take that, haters!). Over on TikTok, she was clapping back much more directly and explicitly. In one of the TikTok videos, she comes for people who are concerned that she might drop Ari during a future loss-of-wheelchair control incident. In this video, Alex declares that she will hold "my FUCKING baby" whenever she wants to:
On Friday night, instead of the live from the garage TikToks we'd been getting, she just uploaded a clip of her feeding Ari some broccoli. She said she prepared it, people pointed out that she didn't actually prepare it, she claps back and called everyone an ableist.
Original video, posted Friday:
Clapping back the next day. She says several times that she's paying someone to do these things for her-- is she talking about Noah, someone else, or just lying?
Alex spent Saturday posting Ari videos to Instagram (again-- take that, haters!). Over on TikTok, she was clapping back much more directly and explicitly. In one of the TikTok videos, she comes for people who are concerned that she might drop Ari during a future loss-of-wheelchair control incident. In this video, Alex declares that she will hold "my FUCKING baby" whenever she wants to:
On Friday night, instead of the live from the garage TikToks we'd been getting, she just uploaded a clip of her feeding Ari some broccoli. She said she prepared it, people pointed out that she didn't actually prepare it, she claps back and called everyone an ableist.
Clapping back the next day. She says several times that she's paying someone to do these things for her-- is she talking about Noah, someone else, or just lying?
Its hard not to get alittle mati when she acts so cunty like in these videos. It's the smug, self worth that she displays, yet when she explains things, she comes off so incomprehensibly dumb. How can someone be so stupid and niave and yet feel so full of themselves?
So if Alex wasn't around to "facilitate" the broccoli and chicken, it never would have happened. Naturally, Ari would have starved to death if Alex hadn't been there. Without Alex, Ari won't survive. But in reality, it's more like... without Ari, Alex won't survive. Ari is Alex's bread and butter at this point--hence the "I'll post my fucking baby on the fucking internet whenever I fucking want to because I'm her fucking mother you fucking haters."
Because: what else does Alex have? What's propping up Alex's lifestyle? Her defunct OF? Oodles of sponsorships? Shitty merch? Nope. Alex is making money off her infant daughter while squatting with her ex's wealthy parents. Take Ari and Noah out of the equation and Alex is staring down the barrel of being a part-time Walmart greeter while living in a nursing home--if she's lucky.
So if Alex wasn't around to "facilitate" the broccoli and chicken, it never would have happened. Naturally, Ari would have starved to death if Alex hadn't been there. Without Alex, Ari won't survive. But in reality, it's more like... without Ari, Alex won't survive. Ari is Alex's bread and butter at this point--hence the "I'll post my fucking baby on the fucking internet whenever I fucking want to because I'm her fucking mother you fucking haters."
Because: what else does Alex have? What's propping up Alex's lifestyle? Her defunct OF? Oodles of sponsorships? Shitty merch? Nope. Alex is making money off her infant daughter while squatting with her ex's wealthy parents. Take Ari and Noah out of the equation and Alex is staring down the barrel of being a part-time Walmart greeter while living in a nursing home--if she's lucky.
Honestly, Alex's life has always been pretty bleak in pretty much every conceivable way. Even though I found her abominable as a person, I still felt somewhat sorry for her... until she crossed the moral event horizon by dropping a child right into the miserable mess.
