Urgent warning about Bluey parents need to know right now: ‘I switched it right off!’
- Parents discovered a Bluey ripoff on YouTube
- It includes scenes and themes inappropriate for kids
A mum has issued an urgent warning to Bluey fans after her husband accidentally put a very rude version of the kids’ show on for their daughter.
The ‘bootleg’ version of the popular children’s show starts with Bluey and Bingo crying and carry ‘odd’ story lines, according the shocked mum.
‘Honestly, I just turned it off ASAP so I don’t know what happens but Bluey and Bingo were crying in the first scene but it’s nothing like (Bluey). It’s on Kid’s YouTube, be careful,’ she said in her post on a Bluey fan page.
The characters have been reimagined with different colours but have the same names and animation style.
And it appears she isn’t the only mum to notice the rude version of the show, which can be found on Kids’ YouTube.
Parents have raised concerns about a ripoff version of Bluey on YouTube Kids for having ‘inappropriate’ content
One mum said she had to turn the bootleg Bluey off immediately after noticing a strange scene that had the Bluey and Bingo characters crying
Others came forward saying they had seen ‘odd’ story lines on the fake Bluey show including one where a character eats faeces and another where the parents were hitting the kids.
Many urged parents to be careful on YouTube as there are copies of a range of popular kids shows with ‘inappropriate’ content and suggested supervising children closely when using the video platform.
‘Has anyone seen this? My husband put it on for our daughter and it’s NOT Bluey,’ a woman wrote in a post to the Bluey Mums Facebook group.
The videos have been seen on YouTube Kids, a free, separate YouTube app with child-friendly videos and parental controls for mums and dads to filter and approve certain content.
However, many parents are saying questionable clips are slipping through the cracks.
‘There are so many of these animations for Bluey that are so inappropriate, I had to go through and block them all,’ one mum said.
Others came forward saying they had seen ‘odd’ story lines on the fake Bluey show including one where a character eats faeces and another where the parents were hitting the kids
‘Oh my god, I just saw yesterday one where Bingo was eating ‘s***’ and it was the poop emoji? I thought it was just me. It was actually suggested to me,’ another wrote.
‘I won’t let my kids watch this version, it’s odd and weird things happen. My three year old screamed and shut it off one day because the parents were hitting Bluey and Bingo and it freaked him out. That was the day YouTube got removed from the TVs,’ said a third.
One woman said she had seen copies of other shows on YouTube including Paw Patrol, Peppa Pig, Spongebob Squarepants and Blues Clues.
‘It’s ridiculous what they do to kid’s shows…All of these shows are turned into inappropriate, poorly animated videos, it’s disgusting,’ she added.
But not everyone was bothered by the replicas with one mum saying: ‘I don’t know why people are freaking out. Spoofs are made from everyday shows, even kids shows. Block the channel from your kiddos and that be that.’
