![]() ![]() Wee Sing is far from the only 1990s children’s home entertainment phenomenon to have amassed an online cult following. ![]() When someone knows their audience, they are far more likely to hit their mark, and they did.” “ videos were made for the very young, and no one else. “Nowadays, there’s very little children’s programming that’s fun and educational while also being age-appropriate,” Mysterious Producer told me. After he posted the videos on YouTube, he discovered there was a “massive fanbase of Wee Singers.” Unlike me, Mysterious Producer has turned his nostalgia into a hobby. Like me, Mysterious Producer watched the videos as a toddler and didn’t think they had much of an audience until he rediscovered them as an adult. (His criticisms mostly consist of minute details like, “the effects didn’t really seem magical to me” and “ I hate these paper doll characters.”) Compared to other mid-1980s and early 1990s ephemera, like Saturday morning Disney cartoons, Wee Sing hasn't had quite the same online resurgence, but it has enjoyed a second life on YouTube, where a user who identifies himself as Mysterious Producer has posted full versions of the videos on his channel, as well as videos ranking the best and worst Wee Sing videos. Wee Sing in Sillyville was perfect entertainment for teenagers like Jessica and myself, who came of age during the the VHS home entertainment boom, because 16 was an interesting age: We still had vivid memories of our childhood, but we also had enough of a distance from our early memories to make snarky comments about them. ![]()
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