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Little bird sesame street3/17/2024 ![]() ![]() “Wow!” the post reads, “Elmo is glad he asked! Elmo learned that it is important to ask a friend how they are doing. Speaking with Today, the writer behind Elmo’s X account, Christina Vittas, observed that when a warm, familiar presence like Elmo checks in on you, “You’re going to be a little more honest, because you know a caring friend is listening and genuinely wants to know.” As she saw it, “The foundation of friendship Elmo has with the world really resonated.”įaced with thousands of responses, Elmo posted a sweet follow-up message. Snarky as most of them might have been, the tsunami of bummer replies still felt like confirmation that Elmo had touched a deep wound in countless grown-up kids. I mean, you know things are bad when a suicide hotline is responding to a muppet. Many of the replies were genuinely funny memes, but at the same time, there seemed to be an acknowledgment of a collective truth: these were thousands of despondent inner children confessing to an old friend that in reality, things just don’t seem to be going that great in the grown-up world. Still, when a ticklish little guy named Elmo checked in to ask, “How is everybody doing?” he unleashed the floodgates in an unprecedented way, setting loose waves and waves of ambient trauma. Several Sesame Street characters have official accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, and their posts frequently attract more than 1,000 “likes” apiece. The show’s pop-culture parodies have long been the stuff of legends just two years ago, no one could stop talking about Elmo’s deeply relatable feud with his pet rock. To be clear, Sesame Street is no stranger to going viral. Given that awful, very adult truth, isn’t there a strange, surreal, bittersweet comfort in seeing Cookie Monster wish us all a happy Valentine’s Day-whether we have a partner or not? The world is on fire, and people are exhausted and, in many cases, drowning in debt. Even in the cynical dumpster fire that is X, the playful purity in these posts manages to cut through our hardened exteriors. It’s proof positive that while we all might age out of Sesame Street eventually, none of us ever leave it fully behind us.Įverything is absolutely not A-OK in the year of our lord 2024, and that might be precisely why these Sesame Street characters keep attracting eyeballs on X. Big Bird’s X takeover came with a specific, days-long story arc, but his friends’ posts are pretty basic expressions of love and support. Even more interesting is the nature of these newer viral moments. In the wake of Big Bird’s 15 minutes of internet fame, many of his friends-including Elmo, Grover, and the Cookie Monster-have been going viral with their own posts on X. Who among us could have guessed that Big Bird’s journey was just the beginning of a full-on Sesame Streetsocial media takeover? (How appropriate that Big Bird shared his dilemma on X, which, much like the yellow muppet himself, is no longer the big, beautiful bird it used to be.) Big Bird tweeted through it, and then, after seven days and seven nights, came a triumph of biblical proportions. Last month, Big Bird flew into a bit of an existential crisis: A humorously edited photo revealed that the usually sizable squawker was suddenly small. ![]()
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