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Re:Kids Glory Members Profile (Updated!)

Re:Kids Glory Members Profile

Re:kids Glory (리키즈 글로리) is a child group under Retune Music (리튠뮤직). The lineup consists of Noah, Taehyung, Jiwoo, Yeonje and Jinwoo. They debuted on July 30, 2021 with the song ‘Don’t forget‘.

 Re:kids Glory Official Accounts:
Youtube: RE:KIDS 리키즈
FaceBook: Re:Kids
Instagram: @returnemusiclable
2nd Instagram: @official_rekids
Naver: Re:kids

Members Profile:
Yeonje

Stage Name: Yeonje (연제)
Birth Name: Seo Yeonje (서연제)
Position: –
Birthday: June, 2011 (?)
Height: –
Weight: –
Instagram: @myohwa.h (run by mom)

Yeonje Facts:
– He’s a actor and model.
– He can roller skate.

Jiwoo

Stage Name: Jiwoo (지우)
Birth Name: Yang Jiwoo (양지우)
Position: –
Birthday: September 25 (Year unknown)
Height: –
Weight: –
Instagram: @yu. na_12

Jiwoo Facts 
– He is a model and actor.

Taehyeong

Stage Name: Taehyeong (태형)
Birth Name: Kim Taehyeong (김태형)
Position: –
Birthday: August 27, 2013
Height:126cm (4’1″)
Weight: 33kg (72lbs)
Instagram: @kim_tae.hyeong (run by mom)

Taehyeong Facts:
– He is a model and actor.
– He has a sister.
– Taehyeong is also a member of Re:Kids Treasure.

Noah

Stage Name: Noah (노아)
Birth Name: Park Noah (박노아)
Position: –
Birthday: 2013 (?)
Height: –
Weight: –
Instagram: @_noahp_13 (run by mom)

Noah Facts: 
– He’s a actor and model.
– He used to be under SuperB Ent.
– He was a member of the group Candy Boy.
– In his free time, he likes to bike.

Jinwoo

Stage Name: Jinwoo (진우)
Birth Name: Kwak Jinwoo (곽진우)
Position: Maknae (?)
Birthday: May 2014
Height: 119cm (3’10”)
Weight: 23kg (50lbs)
Instagram: @kwakjinwoo2368 (run by mom)

Jinwoo Facts :
– He’s a model and actor.
– He does taekwondo.

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why young immune systems are still on top

Early last year, children’s hospitals across New York City had to pivot to deal with a catastrophic COVID-19 outbreak. “We all had to quickly learn — or semi-learn — how to take care of adults,” says Betsy Herold, a paediatric infectious-disease physician who heads a virology laboratory at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The reason: while hospitals across the city were bursting with patients, paediatric wards were relatively quiet. Children were somehow protected from the worst of the disease.

Data collected by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from hospitals across the country suggest that people under the age of 18 have accounted for less than 2% of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 — a total of 3,649 children between March 2020 and late August 2021. Some children do get very sick, and more than 420 have died in the United States, but the majority of those with severe illness have been adults — a trend that has been borne out in many parts of the world.

This makes SARS-CoV-2 somewhat anomalous. For most other viruses, from influenza to respiratory syncytial virus, young children and older adults are typically the most vulnerable; the risk of bad outcomes by age can be represented by a U-shaped curve. But with COVID-19, the younger end of that curve is largely chopped off. It’s “absolutely remarkable”, says Kawsar Talaat, an infectious-disease physician at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. “One of the few silver linings of this pandemic is that children are relatively spared. ”

The phenomenon was not entirely surprising to immunologists, however. With other viruses, adults have the advantage of experience. Through prior infection or vaccination, their immune systems have been trained to deal with similar-looking pathogens. The novelty of SARS-CoV-2 levelled the playing field, and showed that children are naturally better at controlling viral infections. “We always think of children as germ factories,” says Dusan Bogunovic, an immunologist and geneticist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City. But it’s not because their immune systems are ineffective; they’re just inexperienced, he says.

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Research is beginning to reveal that the reason children have fared well against COVID-19 could lie in the innate immune response — the body’s crude but swift reaction to pathogens. Kids seem to have an innate response that’s “revved up and ready to go”, says Herold. But she adds that more studies are needed to fully support that hypothesis.

The emergence of the Delta variant has made finding answers more urgent. Reports suggest that in the United States and elsewhere, children are starting to make up a larger proportion of reported infections and hospitalizations. These trends might be due to Delta’s high transmission rate and the fact that many adults are now protected by vaccines.

For now, there is no clear evidence that children are more vulnerable to or more affected by Delta compared with earlier variants. But SARS-CoV-2, like all viruses, is constantly mutating and becoming better at evading host defences, and that could make understanding childhood’s protective benefits more important. “We haven’t paid much attention to age-related differences in immune responses because it hasn’t had huge clinical implications previously,” says Lael Yonker, a paediatric pulmonologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. “COVID-19 highlights that we need to better understand these differences.”

Brainstorming ideas

Why are children better than adults at controlling SARS-CoV-2? At first, researchers thought that children were simply not getting infected as often. But the data show that they are — at least nearly (children under age ten might be slightly less susceptible)¹.

The American Academy of Pediatrics found that, up until late last month, some 15% of all COVID-19 cases in the United States had been in individuals aged under 21 — that’s more than 4.8 million young people (see ‘Young and infected’). And a survey in India that tested people for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, which are produced after infection or vaccination, found that more than half of children aged 6–17 — and two-thirds of the population overall — had detectable antibodies.

Source: American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association

Clearly, children are getting infected. So maybe the virus can’t replicate in them as well as it does in adults. Some researchers proposed that children might have fewer ACE2 receptors, which the virus uses to enter and infect cells. There is conflicting evidence on age-related differences in ACE2 expression in the nose and lungs, but scientists who measured the ‘viral load’ — the concentration of viral particles — in people’s upper airways have seen no clear difference between children and adults².

In one analysis³ of 110 children, posted as a preprint on 3 June, researchers found that infants through to teenagers could have high viral loads, especially soon after being infected. “Not only is the virus there and detectable, but it’s live virus,” which means these individuals are also infectious, says Yonker, who led the study.

Another proposal is that children, who seem to be sniffling all year round, might be more exposed to other coronaviruses that cause the common cold, and therefore have a squad of antibodies at the ready with some ability to latch on to the pandemic coronavirus. But the weight of evidence suggests that adults also have this immunity. Strikingly, these ‘cross-reactive’ antibodies don’t offer any special protection — if anything, they could lead to a misguided response.

Having largely discounted these hypotheses, Herold and her colleagues set out to look at whether there was something specific in children’s immune response that gave them a benefit.

Some clues were circulating in the blood of those who have been infected. In a study⁴ comparing 65 individuals aged under 24 with 60 older people, Herold and her colleagues found that, overall, the younger patients (who had milder symptoms) produced similar levels of antibodies to the older cohort. But they had reduced levels of specialized antibodies and cells related to the adaptive immune response, the arm of the immune system that learns about a pathogen and helps to quickly quash it if it ever returns. Specifically, kids had lower levels of ‘neutralizing’ antibodies that block SARS-CoV-2 from infecting cells; antibodies that label infected cells to be gobbled up and destroyed by other cells; and white blood cells known as regulatory and helper T cells.

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By contrast, the children in the study had higher levels of the signalling proteins interferon-γ and interleukin-17, which alert the immune system to the arrival of a pathogen. These were probably produced by cells that line the airways, and are involved in mediating innate immunity. Herold suspected that the children mounted a less robust adaptive immune response because their innate response was more efficient at eliminating the threat. An overactive adaptive response in adults, she says, could be causing some of the complications in COVID-19.

Another study⁵, by researchers in Hong Kong, of adults and children infected with SARS-CoV-2 also found that the adaptive response — specifically that of T-cells — was less potent in children, suggesting that something was happening early on that triggered the difference, says study co-author Sophie Valkenburg at the University of Hong Kong.

But, she says, other factors such as reduced inflammation and a more targeted adaptive response could also be important. The researchers found that infected children had lower levels of cells known as monocytes, including inflammatory monocytes, which act as a bridge between the innate and adaptive immune systems. But these children did have higher levels of T follicular helper cells, which are important for making an early antibody response.

First responders

Herold and her colleagues have since tried to measure more directly the innate response in children. They took nose and throat swabs from people arriving at the emergency department, including 12 children with milder disease and 27 adults, some of whom died. The children had higher levels of signalling proteins such as interferons and interleukins, and higher expression of the genes that code for such proteins².

One broad category of immune cells that could be playing an important part in children, says Yonker, are innate lymphoid cells, which are among the first to detect tissue damage and secrete signalling proteins that help to regulate the innate and adaptive immune responses. In one study⁶ posted as a preprint on 4 July, Yonker and her colleagues found that the number of innate lymphoid cells in the blood of people who did not have COVID-19 declined with age and was lower in men — mirroring the greater risk of severe disease observed in older men. Adults with severe disease and children with symptoms also had reduced levels of these cells.

Compared with adults, children recently infected with SARS-CoV-2 have also been found to have higher levels of activated neutrophils, cells that are on the front line in the response to unfamiliar invaders⁷. Neutrophils ingest viral particles before they have a chance to replicate, says Melanie Neeland, an immunologist at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne, who led the work. Furthermore, they become less effective with age.

Epithelial cells that line the insides of the nose could also be coordinating the quick response. In children, these cells are flush with receptors that can recognize molecules commonly found in pathogens; specifically, researchers have found that children have significantly higher expression of genes encoding MDA5, a receptor known to recognize SARS-CoV-2, than do adults⁸. After spotting the viral intruder, these cells immediately trigger the production of interferons. “For us adults, it takes two days to ramp up the viral defence system to a level that we see from day zero with children,” says study co-author Roland Eils, a scientist in computational genomics at the Berlin Institute of Health. “It’s the time lag which makes the difference between children and adults.”

Studies of rare, inherited, immune disorders also point to a predominant role for innate immunity in thwarting respiratory pathogens such as influenza.

A child receives treatment for COVID-19 in Istanbul, Turkey in April.Credit: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency/Getty

Isabelle Meyts, a paediatric immunologist and physician at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, regularly sees children with immune disorders. When the pandemic hit, she prepared a plan to protect them. “The patients I was most scared for were actually the patients who have innate immune defects,” says Meyts.

Her hunch has so far proved correct. Children with disorders affecting their adaptive immune response — those who don’t produce antibodies or have faulty B-cell and T-cell production, for example — did not encounter problems when infected with SARS-CoV-2. Among those that became severely ill were children with shortcomings in their innate immune response, she says. “It’s not really the adaptive immune system that is helping you to beat this virus.”

A study in adults⁹ also found that a small number of people with severe COVID-19 have mutations that disrupt type 1 interferon activity, which plays a part in the innate immune response to viruses. Separate analyses found that one in ten people with life-threatening COVID-19 produced antibodies that blocked the activity of these interferons¹⁰, and that the prevalence of such antibodies increases with age in people who have not previously been infected with the coronavirus¹¹.

But, an overactive innate response might be detrimental as well. People with Down’s syndrome, for example, are more at risk of severe COVID-19, which Meyts says could be because the extra chromosome they have contains several genes involved in the type 1 interferon response. There is an intriguing balance to be struck between a deficient initial response and an excessive one, says Meyts. “It needs to be exactly right on the spot, and the timing needs to be perfect.”

Tickling bad memories

Innate immunity is hardly the whole story, say researchers, especially given how interconnected it is with the adaptive response.

“The idea that the immunologic tone is different in children seems likely,” says Laura Vella, an immunologist and paediatric infectious-diseases researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “But what’s contributing to that difference?” It could be many things working together, she says.

Some researchers propose that years of exposure to other human coronaviruses could mean that adult immune systems approach SARS-CoV-2 the way they would those other viruses, resulting in a less effective response — a concept known as original antigenic sin. By contrast, kids could be producing a fresh, more finely tuned response to a brand-new virus.

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Amy Chung, an immunologist at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne, Australia, has seen some evidence of this in an expansive study¹² of antibodies in the blood of a few hundred children and adults, including 50 infected with SARS-CoV-2. She and her colleagues found that adults had more cross-reactive antibodies targeted at parts of SARS-CoV-2 that were similar to bits of other coronaviruses, whereas children tended to produce a broader range of antibodies against all sections of the virus.

Researchers are also looking at other factors that are known to worsen with age, such as the ability to control inflammation and heal damaged tissue. Children are less prone to clots forming in blood vessels, and this could offer some protection, says Vera Ignjatovic, a biochemist who studies paediatric haematology at the MCRI.

Of course, not all children have asymptomatic or mild infection. Some, many of whom have underlying conditions such as chronic heart disease or cancer, get serious pneumonia. And estimates vary widely for the prevalence of ‘long COVID’, in which symptoms persist for months or more. A recent preprint suggested that up to 14% of young people who test positive for COVID-19 have multiple symptoms three months after the diagnosis¹³. And a small group of otherwise healthy children — some 3 out of 10,000 infected individuals aged under 21 — experience a condition known as multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). They generally respond well to the initial infection, but about a month later are admitted to hospital with a host of symptoms, from heart failure to abdominal pain and conjunctivitis, with minimal damage to the lungs. “It’s a sick group of kids,” says Vella.

Michael Levin, a paediatrician and infectious-diseases physician at Imperial College London, thinks MIS-C is probably the result of an outsized antibody or T-cell reaction to the infection. But despite hundreds of papers on the topic, “exactly what distinguishes children who get MIS-C from the rest of the child population is completely unknown”, says Levin.

As the pandemic wears on, researchers worry that the virus could evolve in ways that thwart some part of kids’ innate protection. Some researchers have found that the Alpha variant, which was dominant in some parts of the world for a time, developed tricks that allowed it to suppress the body’s innate immune response. They worry that Delta could do the same. For now, increased hospitalizations of children in regions where Delta is circulating seem to be the result of its enhanced infectivity across all ages, coupled with the fact that many adults are vaccinated or have already been infected with SARS-CoV-2. But researchers are watching carefully.

“Almost all viruses have developed ways of evading the innate immune system, and COVID-19 is no exception to that rule,” says Herold. “Right now — knock on wood — the kids are still winning with their innate immunity.” But for how much longer? “We don’t know.”

The 8 Worst Things Parents Can Teach Children

There is nothing surprising in the fact that a child imitates their parents: they are authority, care, protect and love. It’s just that adults sometimes behave inappropriately in the company of a child, completely forgetting that a child copies absolutely everything, and not just the good. By their example, moms and dads show what is permissible, even if actions differ from words. What is the worst thing parents can teach children?

1. Do not love or value yourself

If the mother constantly cries when she looks at herself in the mirror, and the father wears the same clothes for weeks, not paying attention to their condition, how will this affect the baby? Most likely, he will remember this behavior. Parents constantly criticize themselves, limit everything and have little rest? These habits will definitely become part of the life of a growing person. Even if unconsciously, adults will teach the child not to love himself. Is it possible to be happy with low self-esteem? nine0003

2. Swearing

The habit of swearing or using strong language in speech is acquired by children mainly from their parents. Photo © Freepik

Adults want to believe that the child brought all these bad words from school, from the street or from a bad group of friends. It is not excluded, of course. But the child learns most of the swear words in the house. Because parents rarely think about the consequences of using strong expressions in their speech. Especially if mom and dad are in a quarrel. So it turns out that the baby begins to swear, having learned from relatives. nine0003

3. Eat wrong

It may seem that the habit of eating right is not very important and that the child’s addiction to sweets or chips has appeared due to intrusive advertising. No, everything comes from the parents. If they neglect a balanced diet, then the baby will do the same when he grows up. And healthy food is extremely important for a person.

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4. Be cruel

If domestic violence thrives in a family, there is a high probability that the child will become violent in the future. Because all childhood saw a vivid example of the fact that you can get what you want by force. At first, the child will select toys and fight on the playground, then he will go along a crooked path in adolescence. And he will not feel any guilt for violence against others. Because I saw this model of behavior among adults in my environment and the fact that no one tried to fight it.

5. Paying off other people

A kid comes up to his mother and asks to play, and she puts a tablet in his hands while she watches a series on TV. Or an example of a father who, instead of a healthy heart-to-heart talk with his wife – upset, sad, sometimes crying – holds out a beloved bouquet of flowers and a cake. The reluctance to solve problems, have awkward conversations, or simply be distracted from their studies for a while due to someone’s requests becomes the norm for a child. The main thing is to give something “nice” at the right moment. This is how children learn to pay off. nine0003

6. Whining and complaining about everything

If the parents in the family are constantly whining and complaining about everything, there is a good chance that the child will do the same. Photo © Freepik

What other bad example is contagious? Self-pity and constant whining. It’s one thing to sometimes rant to relatives or a partner when it boils, but try to solve problems. Another is to simply complain about life and others, without making an attempt to somehow change the situation. Therefore, if adults, surrounded by a baby, complain and whine to each other day after day, this habit will be developed in the child. By the way, in adulthood, because of her, he will face a huge number of difficulties. nine0003

7. Avoiding Responsibility

What other terrible thing can parents teach their child? For example, avoidance of responsibility. Blaming anyone, but not yourself beloved – such tactics will be used by a person who grew up in a family where no one took responsibility for their actions. Do not pay bills on time, lose your job again and again, refuse words and even “change shoes”, accepting an opinion that is convenient for most people in your circle. Such a life awaits a child who grew up with parents who avoid responsibility. nine0003

8. Hiding feelings

Adults resort to silence to avoid conflict. Completely forgetting that if you swallow resentment and anger, unexpressed feelings will not go anywhere. They just settle somewhere inside, like scale in a teapot. Suppressing emotions is also dangerous because, having exhausted the limit of patience (each has its own), at one moment a person will not be able to stand it and will express to others even what he would like to keep silent about. And such a quarrel will be destructive to the relationship. If parents constantly behave like this, then the child will learn to be silent and endure, and then explode. nine0003

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  The phrase “nepo baby” gained a lot of popularity at the end of 2022 and even became the subject of a separate issue of New York Magazine – all thanks to the debate on social networks about whether the popularity of parents affects the successful career of their children. Forbes Life tells how a new branch of nepotism in the media industry works their loved ones. Thus, from the very beginning of the 20th century, entire dynasties were formed, in which each new generation connected its life with the film industry. Some of these examples are the Baldwin and Skarsgaard brothers, and the Barrymore and Coppola families. At the end of 2022, social media users drew attention to this interesting “hereditary” detail: based on their discussions, Vulture journalists created a visual “non-universe” of modern stars who took their places in Hollywood not only due to talent, but also, apparently , fame and connections of their parents. nine0003

  The Hollywood Nepo-Verse illustrated guide was created by graphic designer and deputy art director of New York Magazine, Suzanne Hayward. According to her, the development of the universe took several months – in order to visualize a schematic world of 500 people, it took the entire editorial staff, including writing authors, editors and heads of entire departments. Creating visual content, Hayward and her colleagues simplified the complex idea of ​​the non-universe to a minimum: “We decided to make a family tree for each “non-child”, designed as if it were taken from an animal world or history textbook and at the same time remained scientific, educational,” says the designer. The final result really looks like a classic family tree made by a child: the faces of the stars that got into the “universe” seem to be cut out of paper, and each of them is accompanied by a brief biography of a celebrity and her family. nine0003 Screenshot of the Hollywood Nepo-Verse guide

  Almost immediately after its publication, “the Universe” became the basis for hundreds of memes, but the competition in the sharpness of humor in social networks is not the only consequence of the scrupulous work of journalists. Their investigation into celebrity relationships includes many Hollywood actors, including prestigious award nominees and up-and-coming young stars, whose films and series collect millions of dollars and hours of viewing on streaming. All this has led to a broad conversation about a more serious problem: is there a place in the film industry for people without connections, or is it already taken by the heirs of acting dynasties? nine0003

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  “In an industry built on reboots, a well-known last name can be valuable intellectual property,” writes Vulture journalist and non-universe co-creator Nate Jones. In his opinion, celebrity children are “an easy marketing ploy”, which inevitably gives popularity to film projects in social networks and, as a result, at the box office. Jones also emphasizes that in modern Internet culture the very concept of “non-child” can be blurred – and in this regard, he suggests looking at the phenomenon of hereditary nepotism as a spectrum or pyramid, consisting of three parts. nine0003

  At their peak, according to Jones, are the children of stars – the heirs of famous acting families, who decided to continue the professional dynasty. Among them are Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey, daughter of actress Melanie Griffith), Maya Hawke (Robin from Stranger Things and Linda from Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Uma Thurman’s daughter) and Jack Quaid (known from the films ” The Hunger Games” and the TV series “The Boys”, the son of acting couple Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid). Next come those who were helped to succeed by the connections of their parents, even if they were not quite known to the general public. In this category, Jones includes the star of the comedy series “Girls” from HBO Lena Dunham and Kristen Stewart, who played Princess Diana in Pablo Lorraine’s hit movie “Spencer”. The children of “very” rich parents close this three – for example, Paris Hilton, who never became the heiress of the Hilton hotel chain, but thanks to her family’s media exposure and privileged status, has built a successful career and is recognized as a symbol of the pop culture of the zero. nine0003

  However, the list of non-children is actually much wider than the examples given by the journalist: these are Zoe Kravitz (daughter of singer Lenny Kravitz), and Kate Hudson (adoptive daughter of Kurt Russell), as well as Jamie Lee Curtis (daughter of actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis) and Gwyneth Paltrow, whose parents are actress and two-time Emmy winner Blythe Danner and producer Bruce Paltrow. By the way, several non-children can be seen at once in the anthology series American Horror Story, which starred Emma Roberts, Billy Lourd and Lily Rabe. For example, Roberts is the niece of Pretty Woman star Julia Roberts, Lourdes is the daughter of Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the iconic Star Wars, and Reib’s parents are actress Jill Clayberg and playwright David Rabe. nine0003 Timothée Chalamet’s entire family is connected in one way or another with the film business (Photo by AP·TASS)

  Among the young stars, Timothée Chalamet also managed to get into the list of nepo babies, the attention to which has grown sharply after an unsuccessful tweet by his agent Brian Swordstrom. The rep publicly denied rumors that Chalamet was casting for a role in the sequel to Gladiator — and at the same time said that the 27-year-old Oscar nominee “has not participated in auditions for seven years.” This statement caused a wide resonance: social media users studied the biography of the young actor and found out that almost all of his family is somehow connected with the film business: uncle Chalamet is director Rodman Flender, maternal grandfather is writer and screenwriter Harold Flender, and mother, Nicole Flender , acted in films back in the nineties. According to critics, Uncle Timothy’s profession “opens many doors for him” in the industry, and Hollywood itself “treats him in a special way” – in particular, it gives privileges through connections, thanks to which Chalamet, unlike lesser-known actors, does not even have to participate in auditions for any role. nine0003

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  Sometimes the Internet debate even goes too far – and not everyone is as lucky as Timothée Chalamet, whose loyal fan base outshone the critics and whose defense of the actor saved him from having to refute the allegations. So, the public caught Lily-Rose Depp, daughter of Johnny Depp and supermodel Vanessa Paradis, in nepotism: the girl starred in several films and at the age of 16 managed to become the face of the Chanel brand – and the last achievement became a trigger for Internet users. In their opinion, Depp, who is now in her early twenties, achieved such success not due to skills or talent, but due to popularity and the connections of her father and mother. For Lily-Rose herself, such accusations, as she notes in an interview, are puzzling: “heredity,” she assures, does not affect what profession a person decides to do and how good he will be in it. “If someone’s parents are doctors and their child also becomes a doctor, no one will blame him for the fact that he received his specialty thanks to mom and dad,” Depp argues, also noting that for many professions, despite connections, it is necessary experience and education, and nepotism tends to be blamed more on women than on men. nine0003 Actress Vanessa Paradis and her daughter Lily-Rose Depp before the presentation of the Chanel spring-summer 2021 collection (AP TASS photo) skills of an individual. The popularity of parents rather gives impetus to a quick start – this is also mentioned by Nate Jones: children with well-known surnames have several attempts to start their own career, even when they have no skills at all, and not always from the very bottom. One such example is Brooklyn, the son of David and Victoria Beckham: for 23 years, the young man managed to work as a bartender, cook, football player, model and even a writer, and although each of his new attempts to find himself and do something significant attracts the attention of social networks and a huge fan base, it usually ends in failure – but there is always a spare chance to try something else, thanks to the connections of the parents and their capital. Those who start from scratch and do not have an airbag in the form of parents from the modeling or film business, whose name has been on the covers of glossy media for decades, do not have such input data. nine0003

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  “We love them, we hate them, we don’t respect them, we adore them” – with this motto, Vulture journalists raised the problem of nepotism to an objectively new level of discussion, in which hatred and love for the children of the rich and famous finally mixed up . The very existence of non-children, however, is not so much a problem as a reminder of the inequality of opportunities in the modern world and, consequently, different conditions for starting an independent career. While some are forced to achieve success on their own, relying only on their own skills and luck, non-children often do not even have to think about it: they have not only money and connections, but also the opportunity to grow up in an “exclusive space” in direct contact with those who can become their role model and give clues in their future career. nine0003

  The problematic of nepotism in the modern media industry is connected not only with debates in social networks, but also with the behavior of the star children themselves: often, instead of taking their own privileges seriously, they try to hide them or even present them as an additional life test. For example, Kendall Jenner went this way, saying that she was prevented from building a career in the modeling business by participating in the reality show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, which in a few years became a full-fledged family media product with a multi-million audience. Others, having received the title of not a child, are trying to completely earn a new audience from this, deliberately attracting attention, like model Hailey Bieber, the niece of actor Alec Baldwin, who put on a T-shirt with the inscription “Nepo Baby” and got into the lenses of photojournalists. nine0003 Hailey Bieber in a ‘Nepo Baby’ T-shirt (Photo by Rachpoot Bauer-Griffin GC Images) it was impossible to liquidate the industry with one denial or ridicule – and it is unlikely that it will be possible to do this in general, given that this tradition appeared practically along with Hollywood itself and other epicenters of mass culture, and the phenomenon itself arose even earlier. Despite this, non-children still cause a mixed reaction from the public. A universal answer to this question can be considered the position of The Culture Paper journalist Phoebe Igoroff, who considered that the concept of “nepo baby” in itself ceases to be “just a term”. “Calling someone a non-child is our way of venting our dissatisfaction with systems of power in which some are privileged and others are oppressed,” writes Igoroff, convinced that the public sees in non-children an easy success story, to which everyone aspires and which for many, for various reasons, remains inaccessible – unless, of course, he has good connections.