YouTube Is Very Confused By Bray Wyatt's Firefly Fun House
Parody kids show appearing on kids-only app.
Bray Wyatt's Firefly Fun House really has been one of the very few chinks of light breaking through the darkness that is Raw and SmackDown recently, and just about one of the only reasons for the increasing pool of lapsing fans to tune in.
Just as The Eater of Worlds' ironic Mr Rogers' parody is proving popular amongst older viewers, so too has it been attracting a much younger audience - though not by design.
Thanks to its bright, pre-school aesthetic, the Firefly Fun House has been confusing the f*ck out of YouTube Kids, a child-friendly version of the app ostensibly designed to filter safe content for an infant audience.
By necessity - as silly as it sounds - the app vets content reactively rather than proactively, relying on parent reports to eliminate inappropriate videos which slip through the net. It's for this reason that Bray Wyatt's vignettes have been able to accidentally turned up on playlists.
This week's edition featured a stuffed rabbit meeting its violent demise at the hands of Bray, so it's not, erm, ideal.
Obviously it's a simple algorithmical error and the Firefly Fun House will be taken out of the YouTube Kids circulation promptly. It's a bit of a shame for WWE though: this could have finally solved their perennial problem of creating young new fans.