Google sitting over there just like "sux to be you, dude".
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2026
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Google is insane about billing any random ass card you’ve ever used in any system adjacent to them. I had them bill a domain name fee to my fucking government travel card just because I’d set it up once to pay for a hotel or something. Completely not the card I’d put in to pay for the domain name - they just changed it on their own.
That's not what happended here though. Dad deliberately entered his business card and handed control if it to a child...
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The dad was a dummy. First, your little kid shouldn’t have a YouTube channel. Second, you don’t use a company card to buy Robux. That’s a moronic thing to do. Might have gone unnoticed but then he got careless with it and it came back to bite him. Bad parenting all around. Don’t blame the kid, blame the dad. Hopefully he learns a hard lesson and can find new work.
- 9 yo Kid is making vidya
- Doesn't have many viewers
- Want to make kid happy
- Spend 20 $ on ads
- maybe_a_couple_views.png
- Three weeks later
- I'm literally 118 009 $ in debt
MFW
Honestly, if you can't understand how absolutely debilitating this is over a tiny misstep, I hardly know what to say. People commit manslaughter and get off easier that this. It's in no way reasonable to say that "Oh, you shouldn't have used the company card to pay 20$ for your kid - you deserve life-ruining debt".
Yeah I'm with you.
An extra $100k debt as a young dad will absolutely change your retirement dramatically.
Yes this guy fucked up but the detrimental outcome is not commensurate with the fuck up.
It would be trivial for Google to detect that something is likely wrong with this account, and not doing so is predatory. I'm sure they make many millions in this way every year.
Allowing a child to associate their happiness with view counts is a terrible idea. Already too many sociopaths in "content creation" as it is.
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a tiny misstep
Multiple colossal missteps.
you shouldn't have used the company card to pay 20＄ for your kid
Correct. He should have spent $0 on a company credit card for his kid. He could have spent $20 from his own personal card, which presumably would have more reasonable limits. He should have ensured the card required a pin to use so that unauthorized charges couldn't accrue.
I feel bad for him, too, but he's incredibly stupid and I don't see why anyone else should have to cover his ass for his own fuckup.
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Blame the dad
Honestly, it shouldn't be legal to pull more than like 100 USD off a card without re-verifying the card holder. Fuck these companies that take you're card once and have no fucking limit on how much they'll pull from it without verifying it's you.
Sure, you should have a limit on your card. That doesn't make it okay for others to exploit you when you make an obvious mistake. Let's not pretend these companies aren't aware how much money they're making off people's kids spending more money than they're allowed to.
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Any company that issues its employees credit cards with six figure limits will have no issue reversing the charges trying to sue Google.
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"I left my son unsupervised with no controls or access restrictions, This is clearly someone else's fault!"
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Dave said he entered the company card himself to buy Robux for his son, and it then sat saved on the Google account that also carries his work email, calendar, and files. Dave did not say why he used the company card for that purchase.
Man steals from his employer, is surprised to get in trouble for it 🙄
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something tells me the dad is the one is behind the channel and used his son as a shield. a 9year old isnt going to know how to set up a ad campaign.
Pff. Kid probably has 8 years of experience using YouTube
if the child can read setting something like an ad campaing of can be pretty straigtforward.
A few years ago i found out that my reddit accound had some free credit and was thinking about using it for something silly and it was very very easy. (seems like companies like getting money for ads) The free credit was not much so they definetly wanted me to spend more
Dave said that after the boy complained about views, he set up a roughly $20 promotion and talked through the steps aloud: set a budget, select who sees the ads, hit run. The boy then created his own campaigns, and Dave said his son did not understand the $20 as a limit. “The credit card, it just says approved every single time,”
YT has a simplified interface to promote videos. It's not as complicated as a regular Google ad campaign setup
Something tells me you didn't read the article, because this is explained in the article.
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Seems odd that he made a new ad account and bypassed the spending limits.
At max, unless you're being invoiced by Google and have a line of credit, you can spend around $500/day. It's a lot of money, but it would still take months to hit $100,000.