A new episode of the Netflix children&#8217;s show CoComelon Lane shows a small boy dressed in a tutu and tiara dancing for his two gay dads.
CoComelon Lane, a spinoff of the wildly popular animated CoComelon series, was released on Netflix on November 17. The show, which is geared toward toddlers, exploded on Netflix, quickly becoming the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C05DG4PPqr8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#1 kids show</a> on the streaming platform.
The controversial clip from episode eight of the show went viral this week and quickly prompted backlash from conservatives.
The episode shows Nico, a small boy, taking family portraits at a photo studio with his two dads.
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&#8220;Maybe I&#8217;ll be a bat or maybe a superhero,&#8221; Nico says as he looks at costumes. &#8220;Can you pick one for me? I want to look great.&#8221;
&#8220;We think the way you&#8217;ll look great is to just be yourself,&#8221; one of the dads responds.
&#8220;Who am I? I can&#8217;t decide,&#8221; Nico sings as he dresses up in a firefighter outfit and then a chef&#8217;s outfit.
&#8220;Something that we know about you, you love to get up and dance,&#8221; the dads sing in unison. &#8220;How about you break out those moves for your two biggest fans?&#8221;
Nico is then shown doing ballet moves in a tiara and tutu.
Nico holds the tiara and a propellor beanie trying to decide on one. He ends up wearing all the hats for the photo, including the tiara.
&#8220;I picked a lot of hats because I like to make people laugh,&#8221; Nico says.
The dads first appear in an earlier episode where Nico says, &#8220;One for Papa, and one for Daddy,&#8221; as he sets the dinner table with plates.
Several of The Daily Wire&#8217;s podcast hosts reacted to the viral clip of the show.
&#8220;Stop letting Hollywood indoctrinate your kids in gender garbage,&#8221; Ben Shapiro <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1737479788342788247?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X.
&#8220;Netflix needs the full Bud Light treatment for this,&#8221; Matt Walsh <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1737485333481087139" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s cofounder Jeremy Boreing commented as well, noting that scenes in children&#8217;s shows like this one are why The Daily Wire started creating kids content.
&#8220;This is why we built Bentkey.com. Parents need options. Bentkey is the way,&#8221; Boreing <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1737477629769351382" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>.
Earlier this week, The New York Times ran an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/arts/television/bluey-chip-chilla-dad.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> criticizing “Chip Chilla,” one of <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus-v3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bentkey</a>&#8216;s shows, saying it includes &#8220;weirdly present parents.&#8221;
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The show&#8217;s cartoon chinchilla father is a &#8220;highly involved father and unrelenting jokester who rarely seems to have to work,&#8221; the Times article said.
On Tuesday, Boreing slammed the Times article, which also criticized the father character in the Australian children’s series “Bluey.”
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There are two kids shows that stand out to the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> as problematic: Bentkey’s Chip Chilla and Bluey. And what’s so problematic? “Weirdly present” fathers.
Both fathers are derided as a “fantasy” for being so active and engaged with their children but, according to NYT, Chip… <a href="https://t.co/Y5E87h5x65">pic.twitter.com/Y5E87h5x65</a>
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&#8220;Both fathers are derided as a &#8216;fantasy&#8217; for being so active and engaged with their children but, according to NYT, Chip Chilla is the far more offensive of the two because Chum Chum teaches &#8216;lessons about dead white people&#8217; (read: George Washington, Ben Franklin, Neil Armstrong, etc.) and leads his kids in fun games and lessons as a way of establishing &#8216;male authority,&#8217; Boreing posted on X.
&#8220;The left not only wants to add its radical agenda to kids entertainment, they want to remove good values from kids entertainment,&#8221; Boreing added.

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The app for <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bentkey-kids-entertainment/id6468091444">Bentkey</a>, the Daily Wire’s new entertainment company, became the number one downloaded kids app on the Apple App store on Monday, the same day that Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing revealed the launch of the new venture.
The app, which is available now with over 150 episodes of 18 shows — including four Bentkey originals, was the most downloaded free app for kids from Apple’s store, beating out other apps like YouTubeKids and Paw Patrol Academy.
Streaming now on the Bentkey app are original shows like “A Wonderful Day with Mabel Maclay,” “Chip Chilla,” and “Kid Fit Go!” as well as a library of other curated licensed content. New episodes will arrive every Saturday morning, and new series will be added to the platform on an ongoing basis.
The announcement comes at a tumultuous time for Disney, with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-disneys-favorability-plummets-with-conservatives-after-snow-white-controversy">plummeting favorability ratings</a> as the company becomes more and more openly political. <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508912865293619202">Leaked footage</a> in early 2022 revealed company executives advocating for more “queerness” and radical racial messages in kids content, and viral videos this year show Disney’s live action “Snow White” star Rachel Zegler condemning the iconic Disney story that launched the company into what it is today.
“While Disney still uses Walt’s name, they have all but abandoned his legacy,” said Boreing in a pre-recorded address from Lake Bled in Slovenia. Boreing is on a leave of absence from his role as co-CEO at The Daily Wire while he is <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/07/daily-wire-jeremy-boreing-tv-series-pendragon-cycle-filming-september-1235450484/">directing</a> DailyWire+’s “Pendragon” series in Hungary and Italy. “Walt Disney loved America. The company he founded seems to think America is systemically racist, and beyond just their content Disney as a corporation pushes all the worst excesses of the woke Left … It would be impossible to overstate just how big a loss this is for Americans who believe in basic reality. Disney controls the greatest content library ever created.”
Boreing also announced on Monday that the first live-action film to be brought to Bentkey would be &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl9LZiB0oao" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Snow White and the Evil Queen</a>&#8221; featuring Daily Wire YouTube star Brett Cooper.
<a href="https://www.bentkey.com/launch/">Bentkey</a> — a nod to the bent key Boreing has worn around his neck every day for the past 28 years — was named and launched separately from the main DailyWire+ app because, according to Boreing, unlike Daily Wire’s heavy emphasis on hot-button political and cultural controversies, “Bentkey isn’t about teaching kids politics. It’s about childhood and wonder and adventure … [and is] dedicated to creating the next generation of timeless stories that transport kids into a world of imagination and joy, a world of content and characters that families will love and parents can trust.”
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And as for an upstart daring to take on one of the biggest and most iconic studios in the history of the world, Boreing had this to say: “It’s taken 100 years to build Disney. We know we aren’t what Disney is today, but we hope in time we might become what they were, once upon a time: a little studio with big ideas and the courage to chase them.”
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It&#8217;s been just one year since Disney, the most powerful entertainment company in the world, was caught saying the quiet part out loud, namely that they were using their brand — a brand parents had been trusting with their children for generations — to indoctrinate those children into the LGBTQIA cult.
In a leaked video, one of Disney&#8217;s executive producers said she&#8217;s implementing a “not at all secret gay agenda” and is regularly adding queerness to her kids shows. And it&#8217;s not just the queerness Disney is promoting. In the show “The Proud Family,” Disney stirs racial division with songs like “Slaves Built This Country,” where kids rap about descendants of slaves earning reparations for every minute they spend submerged in “systematic prejudice, racism and white supremacy.” 
Walt Disney loved America. The company he founded seems to think America is systemically racist, and beyond just their content, Disney as a corporation pushes all the worst excesses of the woke Left — paying for its employees to travel for abortions, promoting “anti-racism” indoctrination of its employees, and going to war on behalf of radical Left-wing social policy in Florida.
It would be impossible to overstate just how big a loss this is for Americans who believe in basic reality. Disney controls the greatest content library ever created. Their cultural reach, particularly with children, is beyond anything that&#8217;s ever existed.
Recognizing the scope of this loss, The Daily Wire announced we would spend $100 million over three years to begin our own kids entertainment company. And today, on the 100th anniversary of the day Walt Disney founded his company, I&#8217;m proud to announce the launch of ours.
Introducing <a href="https://www.bentkey.com/launch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bentkey</a>, an entirely new company from The Daily Wire, a company dedicated to creating the next generation of timeless stories that transport kids into a world of adventure, imagination and joy.
Why the name Bentkey? Why not D.W. kids, as we&#8217;ve been calling the initiative for the last year? Well, put simply: D.W. Kids is just too political. Bentkey isn&#8217;t about teaching kids politics. It&#8217;s about childhood and wonder and adventure. It&#8217;s about values and all of the things on which politics are built later. 
We didn&#8217;t just come up with a new name, though. We built an entirely new app that&#8217;s available on all the most popular devices. There are over 150 episodes available right now today on the app, and there will be new episodes released every single Saturday morning. That&#8217;s right, we&#8217;re bringing back Saturday morning cartoons. Here&#8217;s a preview:
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Download <a href="https://www.bentkey.com/launch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the new app</a>, and here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll find: Over the last year, we&#8217;ve produced four original series that we&#8217;re calling Bentkey Adventures. 
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The first one is called “A Wonderful Day with Mabel Maclay,” and it&#8217;s about a wonderful character named Mabel and her trusty sidekick, Jasper, her pup. And they get into all kinds of adventures — they sing songs, they read books, they build gadgets, they meet neighbors. They encourage kids in this fast-paced world to slow down and take a minute to wonder.
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We have “Chip Chilla,” the first show we ever announced for the platform now fully realized. “Chip Chilla” is about a family of chinchillas who homeschool — a mom and a dad who create a world of excitement where little Chip and Charla and baby Chubby discover everything from world history to classic books and how to care for others. It&#8217;s a celebration of a deeply loving family that has a blast learning all of life&#8217;s lessons.
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Then there&#8217;s “Kid Fit Go!,” a dynamic and exciting take on fitness. Kids can join our kid instructors for a fun approach to exercise. And in “Kid Explorer,” Broadcast Cal explores the people and events that have shaped the modern world in an accessible way for kids of all ages, using humor and animation and costumes.
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You&#8217;re going to love these shows. So will your kids. 
While that&#8217;s a lot of original content for a brand new studio, we want to make sure that our offering was robust and that kids had even more to enjoy. So we built a team to curate content from all around the world that we would trust our kids with. 
It&#8217;s taken tens of millions of dollars to get us here and countless hours from our entire team. But we&#8217;re just getting started and, like all for-profit endeavors, will only be able to continue if you find value in the offering and buy it. Many of you already have. 
For all of our DailyWire+ members who&#8217;ve been with us for years or even those who joined us recently, thank you. This wouldn&#8217;t be possible without your support. And now, with your annual membership to DailyWire+ you&#8217;ll also get access to the entire world of Bentkey for no extra charge. Just download the app and use the same DailyWire+ login that you already use. And your family can start enjoying all this brand new content right now. 
Bentkey is also available as a standalone purchase for just $99 a year. That&#8217;s $99 to help us build the future we all want to see; $99 to build an alternative that we can trust; $99 for great content that your kids will love to watch. You can get Bentkey now at <a href="https://www.bentkey.com/">Bentkey.com</a> or download our app just about anywhere. 
It’s taken 100 years to build Disney. We know we aren’t what Disney is today, but we hope in time we might become what they were, once upon a time: a little studio with big ideas and the courage to chase them. 
Walt Disney embodied the American spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation. He risked everything to build his dream. One of his greatest risks and greatest achievements was “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Critics at the time called it “Disney&#8217;s Folly.” They were certain it would be a flop. It was 400% over budget, and it would have bankrupted the entire company if it didn&#8217;t succeed. But it did succeed. It went on to become one of the top-grossing films of all time. 
Everything you see today from Disney was made possible by “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” So there&#8217;s no better example of Disney&#8217;s disregard for their own heritage or their disregard for their own audience than their current remake of their own classic film. Walt once said about “Snow White,” 
<blockquote>&#8230;to me I thought it was a perfect story. I had the sympathetic dwarfs… I had the Prince and the girl, the romance … I just thought it was a perfect story.</blockquote>
Unfortunately, the company Disney founded doesn&#8217;t agree with their founder and visionary. They&#8217;re remaking their own iconic film. Nearly 100 years later, they&#8217;ve decided to make some key changes. Their lead actress, the new Snow White, Rachel Zegler, has summed it up, saying,
<blockquote>I just mean that it&#8217;s no longer 1937. We absolutely wrote a &#8216;Snow White&#8217; [who&#8217;s] not going to be saved by the prince, and she&#8217;s not going to be dreaming about true love; she&#8217;s going to be dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be, and the leader that her late father told her she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true.</blockquote>
While Disney still uses Walt&#8217;s name, they&#8217;ve all but abandoned his legacy. Instead of telling stories about timeless truth, what the ancient fairy tales were all about, Disney&#8217;s new “Snow White” is an apology for their past and will expose children to the popular but destructive lies of the current moment. 
Which is why, in addition to announcing the launch of our Kids Entertainment company, I also want to announce today the company&#8217;s first live action feature film. It&#8217;s a story about a princess and a prince, about beauty and vanity, about love and its power to raise us from death to life. It&#8217;s our own adaptation of an ancient fairy tale. It&#8217;s coming in 2024, and it&#8217;s called “Snow White and the Evil Queen.”
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Daily Wire co-founder and co-CEO Jeremy Boreing said that the push to create conservative children’s content to compete with Disney is “the most important fight that we’re in.”
Boreing appeared on Megyn Kelly’s SiriusXM show on Monday to discuss The Daily Wire’s recent expansions into products such as shaving kits and children’s content.
Last month, Boreing announced that one of The Daily Wire’s next moves is creating programming for children that parents will not have to pre-screen ahead of time for ideas they may be uncomfortable introducing to their child at such a young age. The announcement came on the heels of leaked footage from a Disney all-hands meeting in which one executive producer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-at-all-secret-gay-agenda-disney-employees-break-down-adding-queerness-to-shows-and-degenderizing-theme-parks">discussed</a> her “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and &#8220;adding queerness&#8221; to children&#8217;s shows.
Boreing told Kelly that The Daily Wire is building an “alternative to Disney.”
“You know, we’ve been working on kids’ content over here at The Daily Wire for the last three months. We’ve been developing a couple of animated shows. We weren’t going to announce them until, you know, the end of the year and we get passed the election and all of the politics of the moment, but Chris Rufo leaked those unbelievable tapes from Disney of people saying, yeah, we have a not-so-secret gay agenda, and, you know, we’re going to put many, many, many more examples of content aimed at incredibly small children,” Boreing said.
“We thought, welp, we can’t sit on this anymore. Somebody’s got to get out there and say something, and we are doing something so let’s announce it,” he continued. “We announced that we were starting our DW Kids program to sort of coincide with all the entertainment we’ve been making since 2020. And the reception is unbelievable.”
“I think this is a far more important fight than Jeremy’s Razors, as much as I love the razor company,” Boreing said. “This is the most important fight that we’re in. This is the fight for, you know, our ability to raise our kids in a safe environment where we don’t have to pre-screen everything. We don’t have to explain how their own eyes lie to them, how the historic combined wisdom of every single human who has ever walked the face of the earth was wrong, and only the ideas that have been cooked up by gender studies majors could possibly be right.”
“So, I think the most important thing we’re doing is this kids’ offering and I think people are going to love it,” he said.
Watch Boreing’s full appearance on “The Megyn Kelly Show” here:
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