Anti-Woke Crowd Turns On Cocomelon After It Shows Two Dads Encouraging Their Son To Be Himself
As a year that saw a whole host of brands become the center of 'going woke' accusations draws to a close, one final "woke controversy" has hit the internet. The target this time is Cocomelon.
A scene from the Netflix children's television show CoComelon Lane was reposted by the popular conservative account @EndWokeness. In the scene, two dads are singing to their son about choosing to do things he wants to do. This leads to a scene where the boy wears a tiara and a tutu and does a brief ballet dance.
The snippet comes from a longer number where the son expresses he doesn't know what to wear. This leads the dads to sing about things they know the boy likes to do, which leads him to try on costumes for various professions. First, they sing about how he likes to help people, so he wears a fireman's outfit; next they sing about how he likes to cook, so he puts on a chef outfit; finally they sing about how he likes to dance, leading to the ballet bit. Ultimately, he wears all the hats and all three take silly pictures together.
Only the ballet bit was reposted on X, followed by a backlash led by some conservative accounts on the platform. The sentiments shared were similar to those posted when the Baymax! TV series featured a trans man and when Pizza Hut included a book involving drag in a kids' reading list.
The backlash to the backlash started in full force as well, as several commenters opined there was nothing offensive about the short snippet. Others felt it was weird to see such a visceral reaction to a show for toddlers.
Netflix has yet to comment on the growing controversy surrounding the CoComelon Lane scene. In what may be a coincidence, many of the people voicing their outrage over the scene are also promoting Bentkey, which is a children's programming subscription service started by the conservative company The Daily Wire that launched two months ago.
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Fatboy66
Not surprising "Know Your Meme"'s news pages are memes
Commodore V
Cocomelon has fallen
Billions must be raised on Smartphones
Boykisser
So people are upset at this cartoon because uh, this thirty second scene shows parents supporting their child's hobbies, a couple that is interracial and the parents are two fathers which is somehow still shocking people in this day and age because ?? I'll never get people who are conservative or whatever, they seem to just clearly have evil hearts and usually know it too in the sense that they don't want to accept or love people if they don't fit into their tiny box of ideas of how a human should think, dress and act all their lives and never change and some people live by really old ideas and still believe them to be perfect.
Fatboy66
crossdressing is a great hobby for boys
Revic
I don't think you get to have opinions on children's media when you're famous for going on about how unreasonable current age-of-consent laws are.
Gumshoe
"This would be illegal once I am king"
It's amazing how quickly the right will drop the facade of pretending to care at all about free speech or cancel culture once they find something they don't like like. Like, sure, it's not like there's nothing to the idea that there are leftist "snowflake" types who excessively freak out over things, but the stuff the right freaks out about is so consistnetly trivial and banal that it really just takes it to a whole new level.
SSmotzer
I thought it was millennials who killed Bud-Light back in, like, 2014.
Is Matt really saying the decades long decent in BUD stocks is because Kid Rock shot some cases of beer?
Pokejoseph64
This just sounds like right-winging bait
Like it was designed SPECIFICALLY to piss them off
Luckily I don’t care about right-wingers
Gumshoe
It kind of does. Like it all the predictable right wing buttons by having a gay couple, who is also inter-racial, and then a boy kid doing ballet with a tiara and dress on.
But the thing is, this isn't even some kind of actual attack or political statement. These things are just window dressing that exist in the cartoon. It's not making an actual political statement about any of it, the only statement is "just be yourself" which is so bland that it's borderline meanignless.
ArcadeTwo
The main audience? You mean toddlers?
Captain Alliance
Once again, the "anti-woke" crowds showing who the real snowflakes are.
Lord DIO
And today on who gives a shit…