Katie Banks

Katie Banks (b. February 24, 1986) is an American ATBW Blogger who first joined on April 16, 2002. She has four sisters including Lauren McMurphy, who is known for writing the song Time To Do This for the California City Show episode The Dreams Of Graduation.

Career
Banks has been using ATBW Blog since April 16, 2002 and she routinely makes videos on her channel.

History
Banks was born to a family in 1986 to three older sisters and her mom who worked as an insurance agent. Her mom however divorced her husband shortly after her youngest sister was born in 1990 when she was only four years old. As a result of the divorce, they moved into a smaller house and her eldest sister Cyndal (b. 1979) had to help her mom by being a second parent towards her and her other sisters in the early 1990's. Their mom divorced because of repeated quarrels, and she hated her ex-husband so much that she prohibited any of them from ever mentioning their father again, and they would be severely punished if they ever did so. She also quit her job since moving in and began working at a 7-Eleven.

Banks and her older sisters began developing anxiety and depression and some of them even sheded tears due to their father's absence and their mother's insane behavior towards him. Sometime at the age of nine, she would become stubborn against her mom due to her treatment of her and her sisters as well as them not ever being allowed to mention about their father. Her eldest sister was always constantly punished for allowing her and other sisters to misbehave against her and she too became stubborn and rebellious because of how her mom treated them. Her mom also never left the house except for work while the kids were at school, and she would always lay down on her couch watching TV and eating junk food.

Sometime after Cyndal graduated from high school in June of 1997, she bought her own house and went back to their mom's house to pick up her sisters sometime at around 2:00 AM without their mom knowing. Since then, Katie along with her sisters began losing their anxiety and depression and they began having better lives, but it did lead to all five sisters fighting with each other though it was only brief as they got their own mattresses back. When their mom woke up at around 7:30 AM that day, she discovered that she could not find any of her daughters and immediately assumed her ex-husband kidnapped them, leading to a verbal fight over the phone. Since then, she became more erratic and angrier and even threatened to kill her ex on June 24, 1997. She was eventually arrested and was placed on ten years' probation shortly after.

In 2002, Katie banks began ATBW Blog and met Louis Banks around that time. She had her daughter Avery Banks on March 22, 2004 while still a senior in High School and both moved to a good home shortly after graduation. They got married in 2006 and they had their son Tyler on July 12, 2011 and then their second son Maverick on June 11, 2021. Her sister Lauren moved into the house on the left beside her in 2002 and she herself also has three kids named Daniel (June 24, 2004), Benjamin (March 7, 2015), and Matthew on July 8, 2018.

Controversy
Katie Banks has been criticized several times for being very rude and toxic towards viewers who leave comments on her channel, even ones that don't intentionally insult her. She has also been criticized for being spoiled and reliant on her daughter to watch the kids and she often punished her if they did something wrong, even if she didn't do anything. Avery recalled on her ATBW Blog account that her mom grounded her for a month when she was 10 because she was picking quarrels and causing trouble, though in actuality, it was actually her brother Tyler who was three at the time who was causing trouble by playing on the couch and she was trying to get him to stop before anything happened but ended in her getting punished even though Tyler was the culprit.

Banks has also been criticized for yelling towards those who defended her daughter and supported her, while calling banks the worst mom ever. On February 19, 2015 in response to people complaining about her treatment towards Avery as seen on one of her videos being punished for instigating despite trying to stop Tyler from misbehaving, Banks shut off all comments on all of her videos for three months, and censored all comments that have to do with Avery.