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Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story

Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story (2025)

Documentary | 100 minutes
2,71 47 votes
3 comments

Genre: Documentary / Crime

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Skye Borgman

IMDb score: 6,2 (4.920)

Releasedate: 30 December 2025

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Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story plot

Explores the true story of Jodi Hildebrandt, a former licensed therapist from Utah, and renowned YouTuber Ruby Franke, the family vlogger behind the popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers. The two were arrested following allegations of child abuse by Franke's children. This documentary delves into Hildebrandt's role in this abuse case. It explores the relationship between Hildebrandt and Franke, the events leading to their arrests and convictions, and the escalation of manipulation and strict parenting practices behind the scenes.

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lang pee

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1 January at 15:25

There's also a documentary about the same story on Disney Plus. It's a terrible story, but honestly, it really annoyed me.

I wonder if there is such backwardness and gullibility in the air?

Horrible people, in a horrible environment...

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mrklm

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6 January at 12:05

On August 20, 2023, the Santa Clara-Ivins Police Department in Utah responded to a malnourished, abused young man who was going door to door asking for food and water. He was one of the six children of Ruby Franke, who, for a long time, ran a successful YouTube channel with her husband, Kevin, documenting their family life with six children. The boy had escaped from the home of Jodi Hildebrant, a "life coach" who was a close friend of the Franke family. All the key players in the subsequent investigation contributed to this documentary. This included people who joined "ConeXions Classroom," an initiative Ruby and Jodi launched to resolve relationship problems. Borgman even gained access to recordings of phone calls Ruby and Jodi made from jail and footage of their arrest and interrogation. This honest documentary indirectly casts a critical eye on the deeply religious community in Utah, and that of followers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in particular.

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MonkeyMaffia

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18 January at 11:06

Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story seems primarily intended to prove that you can make a perfectly good documentary with enough archive footage without offering a single new insight. Everything presented here was already convincingly and more comprehensively covered in Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke. But apparently, the filmmakers felt that repackaging known information also counts as "new material."

What you get is a stretched-out summary of facts that the internet, Reddit, and Devil in the Family spewed out months ago. No new perspectives, no depth, no journalism, just noise.

In short: no new facts. Simply a waste of time.

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