Originally Posted by Astrophsx

It's the TV version of click bait. Anyone with half a brain would have their BS meter going off while watching it. Nowadays people call con men hustlers, which makes them look not as bad. Not sure what the laws are like in Australia, but I assume a 15 year old isn't getting credit card referral income? I'm not sure how one would make money down there as a blogger at that age. You can get ad rev on the site, but beyond that wouldn't doing an award booking service by your only other option?

I think there is a fine line on criticism or negative feedback you can give a 15 year old on here. I think it's fantastic that he has the motivation to create a blog and he seems to enjoy traveling. I think he just needs to be honest. There is a fairly popular YouTube channel of a 16/17 year old who has a line of exotic cars, drives them to his high school parking lot, and records the reactions and sometimes gets millions of views. He later says he paid for all the cars on his own through penny stocks and buying and reselling coins (his family lives in a fairly modest house). Turns out all the cars are part of an exotic car rental business the family owns.

People want to believe in these "stories" as they are entertainment and give the impression that anything is possible with hard work. This blog is an example of one of those stories in which they aren't telling you the truth.