ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses each text, by focusing on the way the text is meant to represent the creative production of a child. It focuses on two case studies of transmediated texts and the celebrity producers associated with each: Kid President/Robby Novak and Axe Cop/Malachai Nicolle. A comparison of these two texts and the child producer celebrities who are integral to their marketing and production indicates the way children are limited in their agency even when granted larger opportunities for producing mainstream media. Children are making comics, web series, television shows and even feature films. Ultimately, children are granted some agency by being credited with popular media productions, but at the same time they are silenced in their ability to critically reflect on their labour in that process. The disparity between the types of celebrity and representations of childhood Kid President and Axe Cop produce indicates the highly contested nature of the idealised child.
