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Mr Blippi Creepy Energy Confirmed With Horrible Past Career

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Fastfad · 14/08/2024 12:03

Members of my family expressed unease with Mr Blippi a grown man in tight trousers and braces talking in a baby voice and walking children through playgrounds and spaces, talking to camera. I also felt this instinctively, something was off about it and tried to redirect my kid's attention away but the kid is hooked. Heavily branded (toys, games, you name it) it turns out he has a degree in marketing and used to put the vilest videos online as a character called Steezy Grossman, involving naked men and his own feces. He's worked hard to try and hide this part of his past, but what gets me the most is that his background is in marketing and search engine optimisation, not in education. He has no idea how to behave around kids and even before I knew a single thing about him, his show seems off to me. Look at how many times he spells out his name to children to memorise, or tells them to say his name over and over again as they wash their hands. He's feeding off our kids, admittedly all entertainment is doing that to some extent, but in this case, there's little else to it. It's parasitic and unwholesome.

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ZanyFox · 14/08/2024 12:09

Ah, thanks for clearing that up! Luckily no more young kids here. I definitely won't google him!!

silverhamster · 14/08/2024 12:08

For those who don't know, he does kids shows on YouTube

Eg

SarahWren · 14/08/2024 12:08

I agree. We watched the programme once on Netflix and never again. When he’s visiting places and talking to adults in that weird way, they look a bit bemused and it has the vibe he’s winding them up or something. There’s just something off about it and I wouldn’t let dd watch it.

silverhamster · 14/08/2024 12:06

Yeah I don't like him. Found him totally creepy when my DGC was watching.

His shows are quite educational though.

IncompleteSenten · 14/08/2024 12:06

ZanyFox · 14/08/2024 12:04

Sorry I have no idea who this person is, just posting in case anyone else does, lol.

Don't Google him.

Learn from my mistake.

itsgettingweird · 14/08/2024 12:06

This is like T Rex over again

IncompleteSenten · 14/08/2024 12:05

Well I had no idea who he was so I googled him and I miss my life ten seconds ago before I read about his adult videos.

FluentRubyDog · 14/08/2024 12:04

OP, are you OK?

ZanyFox · 14/08/2024 12:04

Sorry I have no idea who this person is, just posting in case anyone else does, lol.

ZanyFox · 14/08/2024 12:03

What?

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