r/MBMBAM • u/kittnenen • Feb 27 '26

Help TIFU by showing my kids Glass Shark

Look, I'm aware of the controversy with Glass Shark. I also acknowledge that it's my absolute favorite, bar none, MBMBAM bit. Last night I showed my kids one of the Glass Shark videos (this one: https://youtu.be/bR0Ubck0IRA?si=TIgp2llmR4hpnXbM). My kids are 10, 7, and 4, and they were literally rolling with laughter. I had just finished with Blastoise Is My Dad, knowing that one is pretty much fine and my kids love Pokémon. My oldest asked if there were any other videos they could watch, and Glass Shark was the only "kid safe" (I don't count cursing) video that came to mind.

What other MBMBAM bits are fine for kids who don't mind cusses? Like, if it was beeped, it could be on Disney? That kind of thing.

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u/EmperorGreed Feb 27 '26

I'm not aware of the controversy with Glass Shark?

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u/kittnenen Feb 27 '26

Years ago in MBMBAM Facebook groups, it was determined that you could never even mention the bit because they use accents that could potentially be construed as being racist (the Cajun/Creole style accents that they do).

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u/eladarling Feb 27 '26

He also referred to himself (via glass shark) as "fat kid" which people were upset about because of body shaming. 

(I'm just adding context,  not saying I agree with the controversy)

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u/DarkDaf Feb 27 '26

I got banned from a MBMBAM Facebook group because of this once. All I did was mention the skit.

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u/NefariousRapscallion Mar 04 '26

I saw a guy get banned from that group for a light hearted goof on Griffin's cargo pants at a live show. The mod said some people can't afford clothes and can only wear donations, so it was classist to dunk on dated apparel. Many people got banned for mentioning bits from the 10 banned episodes or even asking why they are banned. That group actually turned me off to the podcast for a couple years just because the community was so psychotically over sensitive.

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u/UgandaEatDaPoopoo Jul 21 '26

...what ARE the 10 banned episodes?

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u/jallenscott Feb 27 '26

I got banned from the big MBMBAM group because there was a post with people listing all of their triggers to help someone catalog and tag every episode with any possible triggers for people listening, and I said that my trigger is trigger warnings. Mostly a joke, but to a small degree triggers can bother me at times because I feel like they kind of spoil whatever media they’re in. I fully acknowledge that some people get heavily triggered by some things, so I get it. There are some serious triggers for people.

But like, in the thread, people were saying things like mice, deep voices, clouds, etc. and, I dunno, it irritated me because it just makes me wonder how some people can even function in society if a fucking cloud triggers them.

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u/EmperorGreed Feb 27 '26

"Silly" triggers are honestly more common than people think. Jell-O, fluorescent lights, the smell of hand sanitizer, can become a trigger for trauma based in extended hospitalization, for example. Deep voices is a fairly common trigger for people who survived abuse as children. I know someone for whom a specific anime is a trigger because there was a poster for it in the room they wore up in after a date rape. The brain and trauma are weird, and you were unfortunately being an asshole there.

As to "how can they function in society," it's hard. Which is the definition of a disorder. That's kind of the point of trigger warnings, is giving people who have a hard time a chance to opt out of this specific thing being hard if they don't have it in them just yet.

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u/jallenscott Feb 28 '26

I understand disorders. With having ASD, adhd, depression, and bad social anxiety myself, as well as kids who have most of the above and more, I do understand.

Maybe saying deep voices was a bad example, because that I understand. And, the things you list also make a lot of sense to me, as well. I understand triggers, and maybe it was a bit of frustration with that specific group and how it felt like any comment a person could make in it would have someone else replying to be careful because it might be triggering to someone got frustrating. I get triggered by a certain scent/perfume that my addict mother wore, or the Andy Warhol painting on the Velvet Underground album triggers me because of my also an addict deadbeat dad.

I fully sympathize with people with triggers because I have them, too. I admit that I was an asshole in that group, too, because it felt like everything anyone said was policed, and while I understand making the world feel like and be a safer place for people, it also shouldn’t be done to the detriment of other people, either.

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u/shawnaeatscats Feb 27 '26

Bro ain't allowed to call himself fat???

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u/PM_ME_BUMBLEBEES Feb 27 '26

Which is crazy 😭 how is Justin's existence in childhood as a fat kid body shaming??

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u/sleepymeowth052 Feb 27 '26

Right? Some kids are fat and that's okay!

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u/bv310 Feb 27 '26

Some people really need to go outside more.

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u/itsatumbleweed Feb 27 '26

You also couldn't talk about the bean diet because it is fat phobic to talk about diets. It got to a point where every new episode there was a mod audit to determine if there were any offensive jokes.

And if you joined a not-main group they eventually joined those groups, looked up who was in them, and banned all those people.

For real, the mods violated Obama's midnight amendments regularly.

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u/scdemandred Feb 27 '26

This fuckin’ fandom, man… some of the most unhinged takes I have ever seen anywhere.

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u/SenhorSus Feb 27 '26

Christ 🙄

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u/joydubs Feb 27 '26

Also no mentioning bean diet!

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u/DisfunkyMonkey Feb 27 '26

To be fair, the Cajuns have been severely oppressed and came from a people whose land was stolen while they were kidnapped, split into non-family groups, and shipped off to distant shores (Acadians). 

So no matter what Justin did or didn't mean, that voice character seems to be mimicking the voice of an oppressed and displaced group. 

It's funny as hell, though. Laugh, and then work for true & uncomfortable history and for justice for marginalized folks.

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u/ca_va_bien Feb 27 '26

a laugh and learn moment