YouTuber Myka Stauffer whined that her four-year-old autistic son she adopted from China was 'not returnable' before rehoming him

In 2020, parenting YouTuber Myka Stauffer and her hubby James made headlines crossed the satellite for giving up the four-year-old lad they adopted from China, astir 3 years aft welcoming him into their family.

At the time, the Ohio-based mates faced utmost backlash aft posting a tearful video saying they've decided to 'rehome' Huxley, who was diagnosed with autism, citing that 'there were a batch much peculiar needs that we were not alert of' arsenic their reasoning.

In a YouTube video posted earlier the adoption, she told viewers 'my kid is not returnable' and that they 'would love' the youngster, 'no substance what state' helium came to them successful - making what happened aboriginal adjacent much shocking. 

Now, 4 years later, the viral ungraded is being revisited successful a caller docuseries called An Update connected Our Family, which explores the couple's autumn from grace and includes clips from Myka's now-deleted YouTube videos, arsenic good arsenic diving into the household vlogging industry.

Here, MailOnline looks astatine what happened to the Stauffer family, aft the bid premiered yesterday at Tribeca 2024 Film Festival.

After the announcement of their determination to rehome Huxley successful May 2020 and the influx of hatred that followed, the Stauffers swiftly near YouTube and their transmission was deleted.

Myka had amassed 717,000 subscribers implicit the years connected her channel, wither a further 300,000 radical tuning into the family's vlog channel, 'The Staffer Life'.

Some of Myka's astir fashionable videos included, REAL Newborn Morning Routine 2019, What I Eat In A Day To Stay Healthy And Lean, and SURVIVE Quarantine similar a BOSS! THRIVE AND get your beingness BACK!

Her sponsor partners included big-name companies similar Big Lots, TJ Maxx and Danimals yogurt. Others brands she had worked with to beforehand their products included Fabletics, Suave, and Playtex Baby.

While each of their YouTube videos crossed some channels person been deleted, Myka's Instagram relationship remains, with its past station being an apology she posted successful 2020, wherever she penned that she 'takes afloat work for each of the hurt' she caused.

Her hubby James' 'Stauffer Garage' YouTube transmission remains progressive but with nary household content. The transmission is focused connected car flipping, detailing, and cleaning.

Aside from this, the Stauffer couple, who person 4 biologic children, person wholly disappeared from the net - Myka had archetypal began acceptable up her YouTube transmission successful 2014.

Between 2016 and 2020, the brace had extensively chronicled the travel of adopting Huxley - from choosing him, to raising money, to the time helium arrived.

While they were already fashionable online, it brought them a caller epoch of success, and their adoption video of Huxley was watched by much than 5 cardinal people.

Myka besides wrote astir Huxley's adoption and his peculiar needs. In a portion she had penned for Parade successful September 2020, she said that they were amazed erstwhile they came location with their adopted lad and realized his record was 'inaccurate.'

'Our lad ended up having a changeable successful utero, has level 3 autism, and sensory processing disorder,' she wrote. 'It took a batch of clip to process and to readjust to his caller diagnosis.'

She shared that Huxley received '30 hours of ABA [Applied Behavior Analysis] in-home therapy a week and went to to 'private preschool' to assistance with his needs.

'He is simply a large kid and his information doesn’t impact that overmuch wide care—all you request is simply a large bosom and signifier patience each day,' she said.

Myka featured Huxley connected her YouTube transmission and societal media pages until aboriginal 2020. 

Moments specified arsenic his archetypal Christmas with the family, bonding with his caller siblings, and household days retired were each shared online. 

One of Myka's past photos featuring her adopted lad was posted connected February 16, and successful the captions, she opened up astir however hard it tin beryllium to attraction for his peculiar needs. 

'We person hard days, tons of them. I privation autism and adoption trauma had a manual to nonstop you done it all,' she wrote.

After months of fans wondering what happened to Huxley, Myka and James shared a household 'update' connected her YouTube channel, saying their adopted lad has a caller 'forever family' that is amended equipped to instrumentality connected his peculiar needs.

'With planetary adoption, sometimes determination are unknowns and things that are not transparent connected files,' James said. 'Once Huxley came home, determination was a batch much peculiar needs that we weren't alert of, and that we were not told.'

Myka added that an adoption bureau had helped spot Huxley with his 'forever family' - helium has present besides been renamed.

'He's thriving, he's doing truly well, and his caller mommy has medical, nonrecreational training,' she added.

The backlash was swift, with galore critics accusing the mates of adopting Huxley arsenic a stunt to summation viewers. 

After facing a barrage of disapproval connected societal media, Myka allegedly responded successful the comments, saying Huxley 'wanted this determination 100 per cent' - it was deleted soon after.

She added: 'Multiple scary things happened wrong the location towards our different children, and if these events happened with 1 of my biologic kids, aft each the assistance and aft the behaviors we witnessed sadly we would person nary different prime past to question assistance and get their needs met.'

The caller docuseries, An Update On Our Family, gained its sanction from the notorious video that was posted by the Stauffer's to denote they had rehomed Huxley. 

In the trailer, different vloggers sermon what happened, including the events starring up to the child's disapparance from their YouTube transmission and however overmuch wealth household YouTubers tin marque by posting astir their kids online 

Its statement reads: 'Myka and James Stauffer were the representation of the 21st period American Dream: blessed marriage, beauteous kids, and a self-built YouTube vlogging empire. 

'At the halfway of it each was Huxley, an adorable young lad they adopted from China. Huxley was much than conscionable their prima — helium was their son. Until 1 day, helium wasn’t. 

'A provocative three-part series, An Update On Our Family exposes the hidden-in-plain-sight, unregulated household vlogging industry.'

An Update connected Our Family premiered astatine Tribeca Film Festival 2024 connected Thursday June 6