'Most hated mom' Casey Anthony 'cashing in' with lucrative side hustle: expert

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"America's astir hated mom," Casey Anthony, is present raking successful wealth successful her latest lucrative task arsenic a subscription-based blogger.

Anthony was accused of sidesplitting her two-year-old daughter, Caylee, successful 2008 but was recovered not blameworthy successful 2011.

As the 39-year-old works to found a caller identity, she has turned to Substack, a level that allows followers to wage to subscribe to idiosyncratic writings, videos, and different communications.

"It has been much than 16 years since my sanction became a household one," Anthony wrote successful her Substack bio. "Everyone seems to person an sentiment — astir me, and astir my life. I americium an advocate, a researcher. These are my words, this is my REAL life."

‘MOST-HATED MOM’ CASEY ANTHONY RETURNS TO NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT AFTER ACQUITAL IN DAUGHTER'S MURDER

A divided  representation  of Casey Anthony successful  tribunal  successful  2011 and Casey sitting connected  a sofa  with her daughter, Caylee, earlier  Caylee's murder.

A divided representation of Casey Anthony successful tribunal successful 2011 and Casey sitting connected a sofa with her daughter, Caylee, earlier Caylee's murder. (Joe Burbank, Orlando Sentinel via Getty Images)

In Anthony's case, subscription prices commencement astatine $10 a period and tin ascent arsenic precocious arsenic $250 per year. The subscription terms volition let followers to interact with Anthony.

The 39-year-old has implicit 5,000 subscribers to her Substack.

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Substack's logo (Substack)

Fox News Digital spoke with Ari Lightman, a integer media and selling prof astatine Carnegie Mellon University, connected Anthony's latest venture.

He emphasized however platforms similar TikTok, which didn't beryllium during Anthony's trial, present let nationalist figures to reintroduce themselves to a caller procreation that is mostly unaware of past controversies. 

"It's an accidental for this idiosyncratic and this property to bash a refresh wrong the U.S. nationalist and reinvent herself," helium said.

Lightman noted the emergence successful engaging successful contented that radical are opposed to, besides known arsenic "hate clicking."

"People bask hate-clicking connected things oregon hate-reading and are fascinated with either the enigma oregon what they're up to now," helium noted.

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Casey Anthony cries adjacent  to her lawyer  Jose Baez (L), aft  she was acquitted connected  archetypal  grade  execution  charges of her girl  Caylee astatine  the Orange County Courthouse Orlando, Florida July 5, 2011. REUTERS/Red Huber/Pool (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW) - GM1E7760CJW01

Casey Anthony cries adjacent to her attorney, Jose Baez (L), aft she was acquitted connected first-degree execution charges of her girl Caylee astatine the Orange County Courthouse Orlando, Florida, July 5, 2011. (Reuters)

On March 1, Anthony launched her TikTok relationship and rapidly garnered thousands of followers.

"This is my archetypal of astir apt galore recordings connected a bid I americium starting," Anthony said successful a March 1 video posted to TikTok. "I americium a ineligible advocate. I americium a researcher. I person been successful the ineligible tract since 2011, and successful this capacity, I consciousness that it's indispensable if I'm going to proceed to run appropriately arsenic a ineligible advocator that I commencement to advocator for myself and besides advocator for my daughter."

She continued: "For those of you who don't know, my sanction is Casey Anthony. My girl is Caylee Anthony. My parents are George and Cindy Anthony. This is not astir them. This is not successful effect to thing that they person said oregon done. . . .The full constituent of this is for maine to statesman to reintroduce myself."

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Lightman wondered whether Anthony's quality to nett from her fame — adjacent though it stems from ungraded — volition animate much radical to effort to go famous.

"The question I would person is: Are we going to spot this hap much and much often? This provides an illustration of radical cashing successful connected their fandom. Does that connote that radical volition deliberately effort to make fame — by immoderate means indispensable — whether positive, which is overmuch harder to achieve, oregon done scandal, which is overmuch easier?"

Caylee Anthony

Caylee Anthony was two-years-old erstwhile she vanished successful June 2008.  (AP)

In 2008, Casey was charged with the execution of Caylee aft the small miss was reported missing and aboriginal recovered dormant successful Orlando, Florida. 

The prosecution claimed that Casey had intentionally killed her girl to escaped herself from parental responsibilities, portion the defence argued that Caylee had accidentally drowned and that Casey’s begetter had helped to screen it up. 

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In 2011, aft a highly publicized trial, Casey Anthony was acquitted of the astir superior charges, including first-degree murder, but was recovered blameworthy connected 4 counts of providing mendacious accusation to instrumentality enforcement.

The verdict sparked wide outrage and debate, and Casey has remained a arguable fig ever since.

Fox News Digital's Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.

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