A Malaysian content creator who first rose to fame by posting playful classroom videos as a teacher with her young students is once again under scrutiny, this time for what social media users describe as a double life of children-focused branding and adult-themed promotional imagery.
The former private school teacher, who built her early audience through content featuring children has long faced criticism for her portrayal of minors online. She has now moved to full time content creation with YouTube video titles such as “Kids Choose Their Teacher’s Date”, “Kids Control Their Teacher’s First Date”, “Sneaking Into Sunway International School as a Fake Student”, and “6 Kids Fight 1 Teacher for Illegal Prize”. She has also recently started volunteering as a teacher at a school for refugee children.
Early backlash: Featuring children in content and staged rummaging through students’ bags for paid promo
Her first major wave of backlash came when she had a paid partnership with a supplements brand and filmed herself rummaging through her students’ school bags to find vitamin gummies. The stunt, which she has apologised for, was widely condemned as inappropriate, with many accusing her of overstepping boundaries and exploiting her authority as a teacher.
Netizens also raised concerns over the visibility of children’s faces in her content. In response, she asserted that both the school and parents had granted her permission to post. Eventually, she removed much of her older student-related content from her social media platforms.
New controversy: Borderline sexualised “teacher” imagery at studio launch
Image credit: Reddit post
A recent post on the subreddit r/malaysia has reignited criticism on the content creator. One Redditor shared images from what appeared to be the launch of her new content studio, where she dressed as a teacher and posed spanking several influencers. One image featured an influencer in an extremely short skirt, prompting commenters to question the appropriateness of the theme — especially given her continued branding as a “teacher” and her ongoing production of videos featuring children.
That Redditor wrote:
“These are pictures from a shoot where she spanks a bunch of other girls in a sexual manner, promoting the studio she’s going to do her future shows.
Her content has always rubbed me the wrong way because either they were overly sexual and if there are kids involved she sometimes sneaks in a sexual innuendo or two. But this is the worst I’ve seen. She poses with a little child in the same album and for obvious reasons I’m not going to post it.”
Netizen concerns: “Exploitation”, boundary issues and past incidents
Many comments focused on what they describe as a longstanding pattern of poor judgment:
- “From those two pictures alone I can say her videos aren’t appropriate for my children.”
- “She’s the type that uses kids for content… in her version, tunggang kanak-kanak.”
- “I’ve called her out many times for using children in her posts. Just because you had access to a school you can’t take pictures and videos of the students for your social media skits. There are specific rules in other countries that prohibit this completely to protect children from predators.”
- “Yeah from what I remember she took advantage of her position as a teacher and used young children as content for her own personal ig/tiktok WITHOUT their parent’s permission. Later the parents and online people voiced out their concerns she stop showing their faces but still use them as content. Finally now once she has a bunch of followers by exploiting those children and her position, she stop her job as a teacher and now doing full time cc (content creation).”
- “I think her initial target audience was school children/teacher and parents? (maybe) because that was her existing profession.
But she pivoted away that didn’t mean that the school children that were her main viewer base stopped watching/supporting her and then whatever ts is freaked everyone tf out and obviously it’s not good for the children and I’ve got no clue how she is gon redirect and switch into a completely new following that isn’t her old pupils and what not.”
One Redditor referenced a past “tiffin box incident”, where she was criticised for eating a student’s lunch on camera — an incident that they alleged had led to her temporary hiatus from posting.
Some defend Her: “Creators evolve”, “not grooming”, “studio has no link to kids”
Amid the backlash, several Redditors defended her right to evolve her content:
- “She started off doing some kiddy involved stuff, but she’s clearly pivoted away from it. No one has to be pigeonholed into doing content, not everyone has to be Miss Rachel.
Taylor Swift went from cutesy teenager signing about adolescent love to some much darker shit right now. People grow and change, you can like it or not but to expect someone to stay in a lane because that’s what you’re used to is dumb.” - “It’s a studio anyone can rent. It’s not connected to her work with kids.”
- “They’re not trying to groom children — they’re exploiting the YouTube algorithm. Borderline sexual or fetish-coded content performs well, and the algorithm behind Elsagate still exists.”
Some argued that comparing her earlier family-friendly career to her current style was unfair, drawing parallels to celebrities who reinvent their image.
Ongoing debate about boundaries between child and adult content
The controversy touches on broader concerns about online child safety, blurred boundaries, and how former educators navigate the shift from classroom authority to internet entertainment.
While the creator continues to brand herself as a teacher and to feature children in some of her videos, her move into adult-themed promotional material has reignited debates on what is considered ethical, responsible, and safe in the world of influencer content creation.
As discussions unfold across social platforms, many Malaysians appear to agree on at least one thing: the line between children’s entertainment and adult-oriented content — especially when presented by the same personality — warrants far greater caution.
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