"Angry Parents Are Demanding Refunds For YouTube Star Blippi's Live Show".
Rogers, John wished to portray Blippi as educational but also as thinking and acting as a child would.
Taking inspiration from children's educators and entertainers before him, such as Mr. The first Blippi video was published on January 27, 2014, with John starring as Blippi and doing all of the filming, editing and graphics himself on the initial videos. Blippi has been described as "an adult human man who dresses up in bright clothes and dances around America’s deserted soft play centres for the benefit of YouTube". The idea for Blippi came to John after moving back to Ellensburg and witnessing his then two-year-old nephew viewing low-quality videos on YouTube.