'This is sick': Ghoulish TIME slammed for 'blatantly exploiting' 8-year-old boy's grief

Sarah D. | 4:09 PM on October 17, 2016

brb recording my reaction video to learning @time is going out of business https://t.co/JzAP2pH3p2

— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) October 17, 2016

https://twitter.com/VixenRogue/status/788102901876989953

Was this necessary? TIME seems to think so:

Watch an 8-year-old boy's heartbreaking reaction to learning his mom died from a drug overdose https://t.co/z0ykzKsCXj

— TIME (@TIME) October 17, 2016

Anything for a few clicks, right, TIME?

https://twitter.com/L_K_Richards/status/788096681862688773

Here’s just a small taste of the heat TIME is taking over this:

Time you can do better than to broadcast a poor child's heartbreak in such a public way. Not cool.

— TravelXena (@TravelXena) October 17, 2016

let's not

— Mark Clennon. (@thisismarkc) October 17, 2016

https://twitter.com/alisontheperson/status/788105323848478720

wtf. no.

— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) October 17, 2016

what in the F ???? delete your account and delete your magazine while you are at it.

— TheAmishTerp (@TheAmishTerp) October 17, 2016

what the fuck

— martin callahan (@makeitsnowondem) October 17, 2016

fuck off

— Ashley Holcomb (@ashleyxholcomb) October 17, 2016

-WTF.

— Summer Martin (@summergory) October 17, 2016

YOU ARE DISGUSTING

— WTF (@DitaKnights) October 17, 2016

Holy cow, that's barbaric.

— Neal Silvester (@NealSilvester) October 17, 2016

How about we don't? I'm a paid @time subscriber, and have been since I was 16. This makes me want to cancel my subscription. https://t.co/VIPZJrAW3m

— TurkeyMoJoe (@TVMoJoe) October 17, 2016