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So as the parent of a child born in a post- YouTube world, there has been no escape from cocoa melon.

Even if their content isn't exactly to your taste...

No, no, I don't like it, ew.

Something involving this entertainment behemoth has likely crossed your feed before.

Believe it or not, but this right here is the third most subscribed channel on YouTube right now.

And who knows? It might very well be primed to take the number one spot someday.

In fact, the meteoric rise of Cocoa Mellon sparked a bit of a feud with PewDiePie back in the day

when they were about to surpass him in subscribers

He actually made a disc track about Cocoa Mellon when they were in a neck-and-neck race for subscribers

Which then got removed from YouTube for cyberbullying and child safety. It's really funny. I'm not gonna lie. That said, if somehow you've managed to dodge this series. Please tell me how. Please, please, please get it to leave me alone. Anyway, Cocoa Mellon is a, um, a show, network, collection of nursery songs.

Basically, it's like the infant version of MTV right here on YouTube.com,

where the cast of animated characters sing nursery rhymes to children and promote good habits,

like eating vegetables, and saying please and thank you.

Time to wear your shoes. Yes, thank you. Time to wear your shoes.

Yes, yes, I want to wear my shoes.

Rividing, he said, obviously not riveted.

Believe it or not, but Cocoa Mellon's actually been around in one form or another since 2006.

When a filmmaker named Jay Gian and his wife, a cartoonist, started making simple animated

videos to educate their kids, teaching them stuff like their ABCs.

They uploaded these videos onto their YouTube channel, which eventually evolved into ABC Kid TV, and they started focusing on 3D animations.

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