And this little earworm went Doot Doot Doot all the way home
August 27, 2018 10:22 PM Subscribe
Yeah, what greenmahoney said. I know I've heard variations on this and it's been YouTube related... What's going on here??
posted by biddeford at 11:04 PM on August 27, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by biddeford at 11:04 PM on August 27, 2018 [1 favorite]
This is the tune to Baby Shark, right?
posted by Bibliogeek at 11:31 PM on August 27, 2018 [11 favorites]
posted by Bibliogeek at 11:31 PM on August 27, 2018 [11 favorites]
I hate this song. After our daughter was born we started watching YouTube kids videos and this song (and all its creepy video incarnations) got the immediate Verbot.
posted by molecicco at 11:34 PM on August 27, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by molecicco at 11:34 PM on August 27, 2018 [1 favorite]
Deleting YouTube Kids from their iPads right now. It’s the only way to be sure.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 11:35 PM on August 27, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 11:35 PM on August 27, 2018 [7 favorites]
It has got be originating from India because these lyrics are a schoolyard favourite for decades.
posted by infini at 1:20 AM on August 28, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by infini at 1:20 AM on August 28, 2018 [6 favorites]
When my kids fell down this rabbit hole I did some research, and it did appear to be an Indian company with 3 or 4 employees that was composing endless variations of "yes papa", "daddy finger", and a couple of other weirdly atonal nonsensical songs that seemed to eschew any "normal" standard of songwriting or performance, accompanying animation-school-midyear-project level videos of the same few baby and parent 3D models doing improbable things. Over the last 6 months they've gotten a lot more sophisticated and re-branded and now they are everywhere. A few weeks ago I even overheard them bleating out of a phone a few rows back on the Cotai Water Jet from Hong Kong to Macau. They are everywhere. I had thought that I was safe on MeFi, but I was wrong.
posted by Daedalus612 at 2:00 AM on August 28, 2018 [9 favorites]
posted by Daedalus612 at 2:00 AM on August 28, 2018 [9 favorites]
The kids and I sing our own version. It goes much the same as this one except that we replace the final 'ha-ha-ha' with maniacal laughter.
posted by popcassady at 3:01 AM on August 28, 2018
posted by popcassady at 3:01 AM on August 28, 2018
Yeah, wow, this is off-brand Baby Shark, which is actually somewhat charming in its own way.
We had some Italian family visiting this weekend, and their daughters spoke no English, and mine no Italian, but they all laughed their heads off at Baby Shark and Baby Squalo.
Earworms are the universal language.
posted by uncleozzy at 3:06 AM on August 28, 2018
We had some Italian family visiting this weekend, and their daughters spoke no English, and mine no Italian, but they all laughed their heads off at Baby Shark and Baby Squalo.
Earworms are the universal language.
posted by uncleozzy at 3:06 AM on August 28, 2018
Help I'm stuck on Suzanne Vega. This is my life now doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot
posted by adept256 at 3:07 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by adept256 at 3:07 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
And we go doot. Doot doot.. Wish I could find the original video for this, which I saw once oh-so-many years ago on local TV, which was basically the band larking about at a garden party.
posted by Devonian at 3:44 AM on August 28, 2018
posted by Devonian at 3:44 AM on August 28, 2018
Johny Johny exists in the same universe as Elsa-Spiderman kiddie horror clips. It's the gateway drug, really.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 4:32 AM on August 28, 2018 [8 favorites]
posted by Foci for Analysis at 4:32 AM on August 28, 2018 [8 favorites]
If anyone needs an earworm cure, this always works
posted by thelonius at 4:53 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by thelonius at 4:53 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
Yeah, within the first few seconds I had picked up that this was something someone in India had done, it sort of hit all of the cultural beats I'm familiar with having grown up watching a fair bit of Indian television/Bollywood. A lot of the children's programing is like this.
*Helpful tip: I like to sing the lyrics and/or play Bob Dylan's 'Blowin' in the Wind'. The answer my friend...
posted by Fizz at 4:56 AM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
*Helpful tip: I like to sing the lyrics and/or play Bob Dylan's 'Blowin' in the Wind'. The answer my friend...
posted by Fizz at 4:56 AM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
After seeing the incredible amount and views on the children's stuff on Youtube, my wife and I decided we both chose the wrong careers and could have made a mint making this drek.
posted by Twain Device at 5:18 AM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by Twain Device at 5:18 AM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
NO! This brought on flashbacks to me babysitting a tiny relative and how her parents were practically training her on repetitive YouTube singalongs with mediocre animation quality. Now she's a toddler and wants to grab the nearest mobile device for YEW TOB. Sometimes she hums this song. I can't wait until death, personally
posted by Freeze Peach at 5:22 AM on August 28, 2018 [12 favorites]
posted by Freeze Peach at 5:22 AM on August 28, 2018 [12 favorites]
My niece's mother, who is from Ghana, sang this song to her baby to calm her down to change her diaper. It always worked! I always assumed her parents sang it to her.
posted by Eyeveex at 5:39 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Eyeveex at 5:39 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
Send an earworm to beat an earworm just means now you have a worse earworm, and eventually you wind up shouting, "Quick! What beats 'Yellow Submarine'?"
posted by Mogur at 5:41 AM on August 28, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by Mogur at 5:41 AM on August 28, 2018 [3 favorites]
True Detective season 25 is going to be weird as hell.
posted by evidenceofabsence at 5:42 AM on August 28, 2018 [17 favorites]
posted by evidenceofabsence at 5:42 AM on August 28, 2018 [17 favorites]
Having had no prior exposure to this nightmare, I clicked the link expecting a home video of a father and son being adorable. Instead I got these fucking uncanny valley monsters. So, thanks for that.
posted by smammy at 6:28 AM on August 28, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by smammy at 6:28 AM on August 28, 2018 [4 favorites]
To those whose children are in this phase: it gets worse. The algorithm will soon introduce them to a genre called Bros Playing Minecraft and Screaming Feigned Fear.
posted by condour75 at 6:43 AM on August 28, 2018 [8 favorites]
posted by condour75 at 6:43 AM on August 28, 2018 [8 favorites]
okay so
in the one where Johny's getting ready for school, he wakes up next to a sentient ice cream cone, who stays home with the family and waves goodbye
then Johny dreams the exact same situation and song, except featuring a family of sentient buses
and in that one Johny is sleeping in the bed exactly where the ice cream cone was, and he stays home with the family and waves goodbye
so it follows that Johny himself is the dream of the sentient ice cream cone, who is presumably the dream of something else again
also
when he opens his mouth he never has anything in it and he never gets punished
I can always find better music to get stuck in my head, but I can't stop wondering about these things
posted by Countess Elena at 7:19 AM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
in the one where Johny's getting ready for school, he wakes up next to a sentient ice cream cone, who stays home with the family and waves goodbye
then Johny dreams the exact same situation and song, except featuring a family of sentient buses
and in that one Johny is sleeping in the bed exactly where the ice cream cone was, and he stays home with the family and waves goodbye
so it follows that Johny himself is the dream of the sentient ice cream cone, who is presumably the dream of something else again
also
when he opens his mouth he never has anything in it and he never gets punished
I can always find better music to get stuck in my head, but I can't stop wondering about these things
posted by Countess Elena at 7:19 AM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
My baby sister used to make me play the Wallace and Gromit theme song on guitar before bed, again and again for like 20 minutes straight. I guess I have to grateful for her good taste.
posted by es_de_bah at 7:27 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by es_de_bah at 7:27 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
I'm not sure this is sending the message I'd prefer about, you know, lying...
posted by amtho at 7:34 AM on August 28, 2018
posted by amtho at 7:34 AM on August 28, 2018
I swear there was a video going around of a real little boy and his dad singing this, acting it out with different sweets - a year or two ago? Anybody remember that?
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:45 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:45 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
We hated this song, understood it was some Indian company pumping out variations of it. We worried it was going to teach our kid to lie. Wondered how much we'd make pumping out kid videos on youtube.
Yesterday my almost 3 year old came to me singing Jonny jonny, except she was singing the dad part. It was fun, hahaha!
The version we heard first was from ChuChu, and it's got over a billion and a half hits since 2014. That channel is unavoidable if you do youtube kids. (Their color songs are worse, too.)
posted by Catblack at 7:54 AM on August 28, 2018
Yesterday my almost 3 year old came to me singing Jonny jonny, except she was singing the dad part. It was fun, hahaha!
The version we heard first was from ChuChu, and it's got over a billion and a half hits since 2014. That channel is unavoidable if you do youtube kids. (Their color songs are worse, too.)
posted by Catblack at 7:54 AM on August 28, 2018
Ah this is the live-humans version I was remembering - 2015, Funtastic Playhouse Johny Johny. But it looks like they're part of the same content-mill kind of thing, except with real humans rather than animations.
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:57 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:57 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
"Quick! What beats 'Yellow Submarine'?"
The theme from I Dream of Jeannie. (The second one, not the first one.)
posted by blurker at 7:59 AM on August 28, 2018
The theme from I Dream of Jeannie. (The second one, not the first one.)
posted by blurker at 7:59 AM on August 28, 2018
I submit this is the weirdest version of all. The minor key 90s slow jam soundtrack really sets it apart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gIxji28Zlg
posted by jonathanhughes at 8:01 AM on August 28, 2018 [9 favorites]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gIxji28Zlg
posted by jonathanhughes at 8:01 AM on August 28, 2018 [9 favorites]
I submit this is the weirdest version of all. The minor key 90s slow jam soundtrack really sets it apart.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? 😂
posted by Foci for Analysis at 8:11 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? 😂
posted by Foci for Analysis at 8:11 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
These make ChuChu seem like quality television, and Dave&Ava now seems like something that should win the Oscars in several categories.
posted by aramaic at 8:22 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by aramaic at 8:22 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
This was one my youngest daughters first songs to sing on her own (more than 3 years ago). I secretly love it. I find it funny.
posted by The_Vegetables at 8:25 AM on August 28, 2018
posted by The_Vegetables at 8:25 AM on August 28, 2018
Earworm-wise, Johny's got nothing on this duck, a video that the youngest hanov3r child used to luuuuurve with the fiery passion of many suns.
posted by hanov3r at 8:34 AM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by hanov3r at 8:34 AM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
aaaaaa Dave & Ava. Luckily I can distract little purr with Animal Crossing, and we don't often go to you tube kids. And if you you have internet, why not just switch them to the PBS video app? You get endless clips (and a few full episodes) of Curious George! (runs screaming)
posted by Hermeowne Grangepurr at 8:35 AM on August 28, 2018
posted by Hermeowne Grangepurr at 8:35 AM on August 28, 2018
I feel like I've probably fucked up my youtube home page for a while looking at these videos.
posted by KirTakat at 8:55 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by KirTakat at 8:55 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
I'm 6 months pregnant and this post makes no sense to me. I'd like to keep it this way. Is this possible or inevitable?
posted by like_neon at 8:58 AM on August 28, 2018
posted by like_neon at 8:58 AM on August 28, 2018
We've made it more than four years and my kid mostly knows of YouTube as a place to learn about animals and occasionally listen to music, so ... possible for now?
posted by uncleozzy at 9:09 AM on August 28, 2018
posted by uncleozzy at 9:09 AM on August 28, 2018
I'm 6 months pregnant and this post makes no sense to me. I'd like to keep it this way. Is this possible or inevitable?
To sort of explain it, it's a nursery rhyme that was animated and available on YouTube. That was then remixed like a song.
If you want to avoid nursery rhymes with a young child, then you are basically SOL. If you want to avoid YouTube, then slightly more possible, but children's tv is equally terrible. If you want to avoid TV and videos, well good luck.
posted by The_Vegetables at 9:24 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
To sort of explain it, it's a nursery rhyme that was animated and available on YouTube. That was then remixed like a song.
If you want to avoid nursery rhymes with a young child, then you are basically SOL. If you want to avoid YouTube, then slightly more possible, but children's tv is equally terrible. If you want to avoid TV and videos, well good luck.
posted by The_Vegetables at 9:24 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
Youtube plumbs depths of terribleness that even a 72-hour Caillou marathon couldn't reach
posted by prize bull octorok at 9:33 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by prize bull octorok at 9:33 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
I have a highly sugar motivated six year old. This morning at 5:30am he climbed up on top of our stove and found a forgotten Nutella snack pack in a high cupboard, which he devoured. As I type I'm sitting next to a pack of 300 sour patch kids sweets he somehow managed to order on Amazon (restricted access with a code, but somehow he was able to bypass that and add it to our subscribe and save list without us noticing).
Long story short - this video needs a trigger warning for grumpy sleep deprived parents.....
posted by inflatablekiwi at 9:33 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
Long story short - this video needs a trigger warning for grumpy sleep deprived parents.....
posted by inflatablekiwi at 9:33 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
I can't help but think there's something sinister about these videos targeted at children. Or well, more sinister than advertising to kids is and more sinister than targeting kids for anything is. Actually, can we go back to that national conversation. It's wrong for advertisers and businesses to target children, full stop. Let's make it illegal again.
posted by GoblinHoney at 9:46 AM on August 28, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by GoblinHoney at 9:46 AM on August 28, 2018 [7 favorites]
children's tv is equally terrible
When I was a kid, children's TV was largely trash, with very little of any value and, of course, it was programmed, so if you missed the good stuff, you were out of luck.
Today there's a great variety of good TV for the preschool set on PBS (of the educational variety) and even the commercial stuff that's designed to sell toys is kinder and morally-instructive in a way that the commercial TV of 35 years ago wasn't. Plus it's streaming anytime, anywhere.
There's very little kids' TV that I really hate (Max & Ruby comes pretty close, though; Ruby is a horrible, horrible child).
posted by uncleozzy at 9:59 AM on August 28, 2018
When I was a kid, children's TV was largely trash, with very little of any value and, of course, it was programmed, so if you missed the good stuff, you were out of luck.
Today there's a great variety of good TV for the preschool set on PBS (of the educational variety) and even the commercial stuff that's designed to sell toys is kinder and morally-instructive in a way that the commercial TV of 35 years ago wasn't. Plus it's streaming anytime, anywhere.
There's very little kids' TV that I really hate (Max & Ruby comes pretty close, though; Ruby is a horrible, horrible child).
posted by uncleozzy at 9:59 AM on August 28, 2018
Youtube plumbs depths of terribleness that even a 72-hour Caillou marathon couldn't reach
Not sure about that. And in my opinion it keeps getting worse from there. Caillou is bad, but something like Jesse (disney live action) is even worse.
I honestly prefer some of the home made YouTube videos like Baby Alive Lucy and the kid with 50 Baby Alive dolls and the Australian kids who make Barbie and Ken talk. they have some real talent and are funny. The string seatbelt cozy coupe ride is funny.
I get that the PBS stuff is wholesome, but most is too milquetoast to keep a kids attention for too many years. And I loved Martha Speaks and some of the others, but there just weren't enough episodes of those. It's great when they are 2 and younger but kids watch Star Wars at 3-5 now, so I don't get the hate for YouTube violence. My kid is one of the few that hasn't seen the movies at 6 years old. All the boys have.
posted by The_Vegetables at 10:33 AM on August 28, 2018
Not sure about that. And in my opinion it keeps getting worse from there. Caillou is bad, but something like Jesse (disney live action) is even worse.
I honestly prefer some of the home made YouTube videos like Baby Alive Lucy and the kid with 50 Baby Alive dolls and the Australian kids who make Barbie and Ken talk. they have some real talent and are funny. The string seatbelt cozy coupe ride is funny.
I get that the PBS stuff is wholesome, but most is too milquetoast to keep a kids attention for too many years. And I loved Martha Speaks and some of the others, but there just weren't enough episodes of those. It's great when they are 2 and younger but kids watch Star Wars at 3-5 now, so I don't get the hate for YouTube violence. My kid is one of the few that hasn't seen the movies at 6 years old. All the boys have.
posted by The_Vegetables at 10:33 AM on August 28, 2018
I can't help but think there's something sinister about these videos targeted at childre
Something is wrong on the Internet, previously on MeFi.
posted by nicebookrack at 10:45 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
Something is wrong on the Internet, previously on MeFi.
posted by nicebookrack at 10:45 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
I'm having flashbacks from all the links. My kids loved this stuff when they were younger than 2, and I certainly didn't search for "mass-produced 3d rendered Indian nursery rhymes". (My nephews loved KidsTV123 at that age, which was soporific folk songs about the alphabet. I guess ChuChuTV gets recommended as part of the YT kids bubble?)
I've been touring preschools for my youngest. You walk around, talk to the teacher, see the facilities, then get a creeping sense of dread. Gently in the distance... BABY SHARK DOO DOO DOO BABY SHARK.
All we need now is a popular Christmas Baby Shark song, and November/December will be a special kind of hell.
posted by Anonymous Function at 11:10 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
I've been touring preschools for my youngest. You walk around, talk to the teacher, see the facilities, then get a creeping sense of dread. Gently in the distance... BABY SHARK DOO DOO DOO BABY SHARK.
All we need now is a popular Christmas Baby Shark song, and November/December will be a special kind of hell.
posted by Anonymous Function at 11:10 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
All we need now is a popular Christmas Baby Shark song
Baby Reindeer ... jingle-jingle-jing ...
I'll get right on that.
posted by uncleozzy at 11:13 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
Baby Reindeer ... jingle-jingle-jing ...
I'll get right on that.
posted by uncleozzy at 11:13 AM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
The food riots began in earnest in July of 2049, spurred on by the relentless summer heat. Thousands of starving, ragged people surrounded the compound of Elon Musk, first acting CEO of the Corporate States of America. The armed paramilitary guards tried everything to disperse the crowds; first tear gas, then flash grenades, and finally, sprays of indiscriminate gunfire. But there was madness in the air; it seemed that nothing would stop the crowds from trying to scale the razorwire-tipped walls. There was no other choice. The guards, now wearing ear protection, rolled out carts fitted with giant loudspeakers, and soon a familiar song began to echo across the distance.
"Doot-doot-doot-doot-doot-doot-doot Johny..."
An eerie silence fell over the crowd as a million collective eyes glazed over, hollow and rapturous, as if some subliminal switch had been thrown from deep within their psyches. They were still there the following morning, and the next, standing there like living corpses as the terrible music played on.
posted by dephlogisticated at 11:31 AM on August 28, 2018 [4 favorites]
"Doot-doot-doot-doot-doot-doot-doot Johny..."
An eerie silence fell over the crowd as a million collective eyes glazed over, hollow and rapturous, as if some subliminal switch had been thrown from deep within their psyches. They were still there the following morning, and the next, standing there like living corpses as the terrible music played on.
posted by dephlogisticated at 11:31 AM on August 28, 2018 [4 favorites]
I'm 6 months pregnant and this post makes no sense to me. I'd like to keep it this way. Is this possible or inevitable?
I'm sorry but it's inevitable if you ever let your child see YouTube on your phone, or access any remotes linked to YT, like even a couple of times.
It sounds like that'd be simple to do, but ... man, they see you using phones all the time (because modern life), and even before they understand what a phone is, it's still clearly the Most! Interesting! Thing! In! The! Room! (all that interactivity! lights and colors!). And once the phone is in your parental toolkit it's nearly impossible to retract it, because it's soooooo effective. Need to keep your kid immobile while huffing medicine from a nebulizer? Phone. Need to quiet them down on a 7-hour plane ride? Phone. Need to wrestle your writhing 8-month-old into submission so you can change their diaper without them doing a barrel-roll into the blowout? Phone; and within seconds they subside into a drooling but blessedly-quiescent state of semi-zombification. It's both awe-inspiring and awful.
When we started we ONLY let her watch Super Simple Songs (which I still approve) but the YT algorithm is relentless and it's impossible to curate in any meaningful way. Once the baby learned to swipe and jab (way, WAY earlier than you'd expect), the weirdo videos start rolling in and they just. don't. stop.
posted by alleycat01 at 1:19 PM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
I'm sorry but it's inevitable if you ever let your child see YouTube on your phone, or access any remotes linked to YT, like even a couple of times.
It sounds like that'd be simple to do, but ... man, they see you using phones all the time (because modern life), and even before they understand what a phone is, it's still clearly the Most! Interesting! Thing! In! The! Room! (all that interactivity! lights and colors!). And once the phone is in your parental toolkit it's nearly impossible to retract it, because it's soooooo effective. Need to keep your kid immobile while huffing medicine from a nebulizer? Phone. Need to quiet them down on a 7-hour plane ride? Phone. Need to wrestle your writhing 8-month-old into submission so you can change their diaper without them doing a barrel-roll into the blowout? Phone; and within seconds they subside into a drooling but blessedly-quiescent state of semi-zombification. It's both awe-inspiring and awful.
When we started we ONLY let her watch Super Simple Songs (which I still approve) but the YT algorithm is relentless and it's impossible to curate in any meaningful way. Once the baby learned to swipe and jab (way, WAY earlier than you'd expect), the weirdo videos start rolling in and they just. don't. stop.
posted by alleycat01 at 1:19 PM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
There's a video out there that has an Indian version of "Wheels on the Bus" that is superior to the western version but because it is different everyone in my house insists it is wrong. They also have a version of "Row row row" that is different on the same 50+ minute video.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 1:30 PM on August 28, 2018
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 1:30 PM on August 28, 2018
Yeah, wow, this is off-brand Baby Shark, which is actually somewhat charming in its own way.
I'm pretty sure this predates Baby Shark by at least a year. Source: I am a dad of a toddler.
I always assumed this song (Johnny Johnny) was some old nursery rhyme that I had somehow never heard as a child, but it sounds like it's of Indian origin and that's why we in the west never heard of it until 10,000 versions appears on YouTube. Is that right?
posted by asnider at 1:31 PM on August 28, 2018
I'm pretty sure this predates Baby Shark by at least a year. Source: I am a dad of a toddler.
I always assumed this song (Johnny Johnny) was some old nursery rhyme that I had somehow never heard as a child, but it sounds like it's of Indian origin and that's why we in the west never heard of it until 10,000 versions appears on YouTube. Is that right?
posted by asnider at 1:31 PM on August 28, 2018
Baby Shark is cute, harmless, and eminently listenable compared to the rest of the dreck that pops up in the YT suggestions.
I'm talking the many versions of Daddy Finger, oh my god. And all the ones with poorly rendered animals jerkily stalking through waterfalls/pools/swimming lanes of paint? Or the ones that saunter out without their heads as part of "matching" game??? And does anyone know the one where, like, the video shape-matches Play-Doh-colored Oreos in shapes like hearts, circles, and squares to holes in a box, and when it succeeds, the box falls open and inside is an eerily-smooth mannikin whose head is the Oreo, and then it opens its eyes [IT HAS EYES ! ! !] and starts dancing and giggling like the world's biggest creeper???
Euuughhhh *shivers*
posted by alleycat01 at 1:33 PM on August 28, 2018
I'm talking the many versions of Daddy Finger, oh my god. And all the ones with poorly rendered animals jerkily stalking through waterfalls/pools/swimming lanes of paint? Or the ones that saunter out without their heads as part of "matching" game??? And does anyone know the one where, like, the video shape-matches Play-Doh-colored Oreos in shapes like hearts, circles, and squares to holes in a box, and when it succeeds, the box falls open and inside is an eerily-smooth mannikin whose head is the Oreo, and then it opens its eyes [IT HAS EYES ! ! !] and starts dancing and giggling like the world's biggest creeper???
Euuughhhh *shivers*
posted by alleycat01 at 1:33 PM on August 28, 2018
I will not leave my child alone with YouTube and actually removed YouTube Kids from my phone. There's just too much weird shit. If I really must leave her in front of the TV unsupervised, it's either Netflix or a curated YouTube playlist with autoplay turned OFF.
posted by asnider at 2:01 PM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by asnider at 2:01 PM on August 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
Anyone who is a parent of a toddler must appreciate the new Wreck it Ralph trailer where he goes overboard on the bunny-pancakes, cat-milkshake game. I knew the punchline of the joke and it still gets me every single time.
posted by Hermeowne Grangepurr at 2:05 PM on August 28, 2018
posted by Hermeowne Grangepurr at 2:05 PM on August 28, 2018
I have learned so much from this thread!
(Is it too late to un-post it?)
posted by Atom Eyes at 2:28 PM on August 28, 2018
(Is it too late to un-post it?)
posted by Atom Eyes at 2:28 PM on August 28, 2018
just a reminder to open all links in this thread in a private window with no tracking lest you want your history to ruin all related videos recommendations and have to spend some time scrubbing the history list
posted by numaner at 3:57 PM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by numaner at 3:57 PM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
asnider: "I'm pretty sure this predates Baby Shark by at least a year. Source: I am a dad of a toddler."
I was taught Baby Shark in the early 2000s so I think the rabbit hole goes much, much deeper. (I mean, infini says Johny's been around for "decades" upthread...)
posted by capricorn at 5:12 PM on August 28, 2018
I was taught Baby Shark in the early 2000s so I think the rabbit hole goes much, much deeper. (I mean, infini says Johny's been around for "decades" upthread...)
posted by capricorn at 5:12 PM on August 28, 2018
There's a short write up about where the video comes from here.
posted by Sibrax at 5:39 PM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by Sibrax at 5:39 PM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
Here's a Kannadiga movie (from the Bengaluru region) of the same name
an adult variation from 2014
And, finally, evidence that its considered a nursery rhyme in India
posted by infini at 9:19 PM on August 28, 2018
an adult variation from 2014
And, finally, evidence that its considered a nursery rhyme in India
posted by infini at 9:19 PM on August 28, 2018
My comment's odd framing is due to not finding evidence of its decades old existence in India thus coming up with other variations as documentation, then finally stumbling on a wallchart with the poem
posted by infini at 9:20 PM on August 28, 2018
posted by infini at 9:20 PM on August 28, 2018
Christ. I thought this was just going to be the sufficiently awful version I frequently run across in the 'Dave and Ava' channel I play for my niece and nephew. It rips off Twinkle Twinkle and has the same dull lyrics: I see someone somehow found a way to make it even worse, visually AND aurally. Super. (Still cannot complete with baby shark, though)
posted by genuinely curious at 12:44 AM on August 29, 2018
posted by genuinely curious at 12:44 AM on August 29, 2018
All the internet sleuthing to figure out the history here is why I love Mefi.
posted by capricorn at 12:36 PM on August 31, 2018
posted by capricorn at 12:36 PM on August 31, 2018
Now That It's A Meme, The Creators Behind The 'Johny Johny Yes Papa' Video Are Firing Off Tons Of DMCA Takedowns
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:56 PM on August 31, 2018
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:56 PM on August 31, 2018
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