To be fair, CoComelon was always coming for your kids. That’s the whole point. Children’s programming is programming for children, though now they want to let your three-year-old know that cross dressing for two dads is entirely normal and good.
Cocomelon Lane: Season 1. (L to R) Kristen Princiotta as Mom, Hannah An as YoYo, Hannah An as TomTom, Ava Madison Gray as JJ, and Jake Turner as Dad in Cocomelon Lane: Season 1. Cr. NETFLIX © 2023
Netflix has said for years that they want to have everyone’s favorite show or movie. To that end they distributed Cuties, a movie about a young Muslim girl joining a troop of girls doing provocative dance routines. Seems when they said that want to have everyone’s favorite movie, they really did mean everyone.
Cocomelon Lane: Season 1. (L to R) Robert Knight as Kwame and Brody Yun as Cody in Cocomelon Lane: Season 1. Cr. NETFLIX © 2023
CoComelon started out in the very yearly days of YouTube making free educational content and it took years to build the brand in to the 168 million subscriber juggernaut it has become.
In the meantime, CoComelon was bought by a British company called Moonbug which in turn was bought by an American company called Candle Media which is owned by a couple of former Disney executives in Kevin A. Mayer and Thomas O. Staggs with close ties to TikTok.
Cocomelon Lane: Season 1. Alice Cho as Nina in Cocomelon Lane: Season 1. Cr. NETFLIX © 2023
I was introduced to CoComelon when my two-year-old kept finding hour and a half long videos of children’s songs with computer generated family scenes in bright colors. I honestly thought the whole thing was a brilliant click farming operation out of India or China. You may be aware that there are depressing content factories offshore. The original videos could easily be localized to any language since they featured little to no synchronized language, which is eventually what happened once the channel became a major success.
The new videos being licensed to Netflix will not be localized in their current form to areas outside the western liberal democracies. One song, “Just Be You” is sung by two grown men to a preschool boy dancing in a tutu. They sing it while he chooses between a tiara and a propeller cap.
The new CoComelon Lane on Netflix has a boy in a dress dance for his 2 gay dads
CoComelon is the most popular show for babies and toddlers ages 2+ pic.twitter.com/wSYyEZEzMJ
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The most natural read on the visuals is that the two men in the video are a gay couple raising a little boy and encouraging him to wear girl clothes. The whole thing is artfully crafted to be like an old fort.
If you object to grown men encouraging a boy to wear girl clothing then the producers can say that the boy makes his own decisions the men just accept his decisions. If you object to the gay couple in a show for the pull-ups crowd then the producers can say you’ve only made the assumption those men who keep standing close and touching each other are gay (then they can call you ignorant to boot).
Cocomelon Lane: Season 1. (L to R) Ava Madison Gray as JJ and Andrew Bazzi as TomTom in Cocomelon Lane: Season 1. Cr. NETFLIX © 2023
For all you parents out there, or the vanishing number of people who want to be parents, monitor the things your kids watch. While children are forming their identities it is the perfect time to slide in unusual concepts. There was a time when mass media indoctrinate with a set of shared beliefs supported by 95% of us all, but today those methods, perfected after decades of practice, are being used to produce a new shared belief system.
