While the clip is no longer available to watch, as both the Steezy Grossman and Harlem Shake Poop's websites have been taken offline, there is still a whole genre of YouTube reaction videos showing people's disgust at watching it, similar to the reaction vids of the archetypical gross-out video of the internet age, "2 Girls 1 Cup."Īccording to Mashable, John came up with the idea for Blippi in 2013 after seeing the type of low-budget YouTube videos his 2-year-old nephew was hooked on, and deciding he could do better. "I've grown up a lot since then, and I trust people will see me as the person I am now, not the idiot I was back then," John added. "At the time, I thought this sort of thing was funny, but really it was stupid and tasteless, and I regret having ever done it. "Yes, I did make a gross-out comedy video when I was in my early twenties, long before I started Blippi," John told BuzzFeed News. Much like previous popular trends the Ice Bucket Challenge or the Mannequin Challenge, thousands of versions of the Harlem Shake were posted online, including ones carried out by celebrities and sports teams.Īs reported by Buzzfeed News, the 2013 video from Grossman culminates with him standing on a toilet seat and consensually defecating all over his friend, who is lying naked on the floor with his legs in the air.
The online challenge from 2013 consisted of one person dancing alone to song "Harlem Shake" by Baauer, until the beat drops and the video cuts to several more people, usually wearing costumes or props, wildly dancing along too. One video in particular, entitled, "Harlem Shake Poop," shows Grossman taking part in a particularly nasty version of the popular internet meme from several years ago. The report reveals how John's Grossman character featured in a number of adult-themed comedy skits and videos with names such as "Turdboy" and "Underwear Man." A YouTube star whose educational videos are hugely popular with young children once achieved viral fame by filming himself defecating on a friend.Īccording to an explosive report by Buzzfeed News, Stevin John, the man behind the children's presenter Blippi-who currently has more than 3.5 million subscribers on YouTube and whose videos frequently achieve tens of millions of views-had a previous incarnation as a gross-out comedian named Steezy Grossman.
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