The idea that he pushed her into using footage of her "child alter" doesn't make sense.
She claimed he said something like “Do what you want but I think it was really powerful and raw and it might be important for viewers to see this side of DID.”
But I think NoWords is right, it was probably just a ploy to get access to the footage to make sure she looked authentic.
Edit: Quoting in an edit is weird so imma treat this like reddit.
Horrorshow:
I basically believed her cause I used to be interested in the whole DIDtuber world cause it’s interesting, and anytime shit seemed fake,
(Jade always gave it away to me and a lot of the public shit was weird. Like, she claims she can completely fool ANYBODY to thinking she’s normal and then goes into public, and during intense stress completely switches out to an obnoxious alter.)
She usually had some lukewarm explanation I bought cause I generally give the benefit of the doubt.
I kinda just wrote it off as “Obviously this is bullshit, but these people make up backstories and personas for their alters to try and have more control of their mental state when they dissociate and it’s just a cutesy therapy tool to break the amnesia.”
this whole scandal with Trisha and now this kiwifarms thread really opened my eyes. The fact they there are blatant and provable lies in these stories makes it way easier to discredit.
TLDR: I trusted them because why not, and assumed they were just trying to visualize the way their brain worked. I never believed alters were actual fully fledged people, and the community made it hard to ever even ask questions that seemed critical.