WikiPop's Pick · February 28, 2025
Ruby Franke
American vlogger and convicted child abuser (born 1982)
On February 28, 2025, the most-viewed article on Wikipedia was Gene Hackman, with 1,289,541 views. It and #2, Michelle Trachtenberg, were both WikiPop's picks in the past 30 days, and we don't repeat an article that soon. So WikiPop's pick is #3, Ruby Franke, with 193,216 views.
Ruby Franke is an American former family vlogger and convicted child abuser who ran the now defunct YouTube channel 8 Passengers. On August 30, 2023, Franke and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt were arrested in Washington County, Utah, and charged with six counts of felony aggravated child abuse of two of Franke's children. Franke ultimately pleaded guilty to four counts and on February 20, 2024, was sentenced to serve between four and thirty years in prison.
