Lilly Davis of Dear and Darling on TikTok responds to spreadsheet controversy, says she has ADHD

TikTok’s Dear and Darling embroiled in controversy

Dear and Darling’s content creators took to their TikTok account yesterday to address the accusation of family vlogging against them by KC Davis on her personal account @domesticblisters.

Lilly and Paul were prompted to respond after newspapers and other media outlets reached out to them for comments when the controversy blew up. For the unversed, in one of her videos Davis spoke against the practice of family vlogging, as it involves filming children for the sake of content.

Without naming the Dear and Darling stars, Davis features one of Lilly’s videos with her husband’s brainstorming spreadsheet on it, depicting video ideas for the day. The author says she personally counted the tasks mentioned on the sheet and counted as many as 40.

This led the content creator to believe the couple had planned on filming their children during their vacation at Disneyland, which Lilly says couldn’t have been “further from the truth”.

Davis argues family vlogging is unethical, regardless of the number of videos the children are a part of. In a video shared on her account following Lily’s response, the author has addressed “hate comments” directed at her for trying to “ruin” Dear and Darling’s reputation.

Davis defended herself by saying it doesn’t matter whether the content creators consider themselves family vloggers or not, but the mere fact that they “made the decision to make a list of how they are going to film their children for content while they are in vacation” is found to be problematic by the author.

Lilly responds to KC Davis’s spreadsheet accusation

Lilly denied the accusation by saying that anybody who is aware of their content “knows that they are not family vloggers.”

The Dear and Darling’s content creators have denied that they film their children for content during holidays, most of which are in Disneyland as the couple is into Disneybouding – a cosplay inspired by specific fictional characters without the actual costume.

Lilly said their channel is predominantly about her and occasionally her children participate in the videos too, “which is rare.”

“Just to paint a picture of how rare, before the last family trip, out of the 250 videos we’ve done, only 14 included our children,” explained the TikTok creator.

Even if her children were depicted in the videos, Lilly says it only showed slices of their lives as they were seen in the background. She argues the TikTok channel would be unaffected if all the videos featuring their children were taken down, because the children aren’t the focus.

The content creator said her six children make their own decisions, even with respect to the costumes they choose to wear while on the trip, and they volunteer to be filmed in some instances.

While addressing the issue with the spreadsheet, Lilly claimed she suffers from ADHD and depression, so the spreadsheet was created by Paul to help her organize her tasks, which she finds difficult to do on her own as they “don’t come easy to her.”

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