Characters are meant for everyone and meant to spread wholesomness, right? Their purpose can be anything, and what's better than them serving for good
Therefore, we can take any characters and use them for good. This is my idea (also kudos to everyone who drew CC's dad as gay etc.! I love all the fanart like that).
That's right, some people (alt-right) just do not deserve such cuteness, but good people do.
And I'm sure all characters would be kind and accepting of innocent people such as LGBTQ+ if characters were real. They mustn't repeat sins of their creators (*note, I mean only DailyWire+ representatives, not artists behind Chip Chilla and others). And so we should be kind and welcoming to minorities, too.
I did the same with Moonzy and Cheburashka - these guys would be officially stated as diverse if only they'd belong to other people. The latter 'but' is sad, but at least us fans can do something too.
copied from twitter with a bit of added stuff and formatted a bit better i hope: taking one for the team by watching through the entirety of chip chilla and by god this show is so far, and i hate to say it, Fine
im saying this now but then im gonna load up the next episode and they're going to just straight up call for the death of a minority group or something. but in all seriousness it had a few moments that made me chuckle and it's not written so unnaturally like a lot of ripoffs are. it's SO MUCH more boring and sterile compared to bluey and the artstyle is obv copying it especially in the backgrounds. but it's not completely devoid of substance...
which isn't too unexpected. they DID get some crew members with actual veteran experience in the industry. one of the exec producers of the show (and is doing more at the dw) was the showrunner for that tangled series on disney channel that people really seemed to like. which is wild to see next to ben shapiro in the credits
the way they ripped off the little "games" that bluey does are pretty hit or miss, like a frankenstein play seemed like ??? weird choice but then the next episode is like oh parents and children switch roles and like ok yea that makes more sense to just think of off the bat. morals are whatever. i don't know. it's not like ben shapiro came in on a greenscreen like "remember kids donate to the gop or you'll go to hell" they're just normal kid show morals, and like the games they're pretty hit or miss but nothing like egregiously bad
i like the intro. obvious rip off bluey music but the visual design is nice. why is it sO CUTE SCREW YOU SCREW YOU SCREW YOU
i also should point out the dad is voiced by rob schneider. do with that information what you will.
still want to point out however that this show is still awful on principle, if you have any sort of support for any sort of minority group please do not support this show in any way it's really not worth your time in the slightest! im extra mad bc their daily wire kids platform has paid for distrib rights for some actually good international shows like tish tash and billy the cowboy hamster and augh im going to kill someone
It says so much about Ben Shapword as a person that he was threatened enough by Bluey to greenlight Chip-Chilla.
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but nothing about Bluey is striving for being ''progressive'', at least not by rightwing standards. It's no Owl House or Steven Universe. Outside of the ep where Bluey makes a French friend and the Heelers celebrating Easter I can't ever recall the concept of religion, ethnicity or heritage being important in the series. Don't think I've ever seen a gay couple or pride flag in the background, neither. Obviously I don't think the show being made for little kids and/or about anthro dogs means you can't talk about concepts like that, it's just that Bluey doesn't even attempt that. In fact because it IS made for and about small children I would argue that's the reason there's no big talk about money problems in the show and all the characters seem well-off.
My point is, unless Steiner/Waldorf schools became a tool of the left when I wasn't looking (they're not; Waldorf schools teach pseudo science and are sometimes antivax. Hopefully not in Calypso's class but yeah now you know what to look for when you google 'waldorf school controversies'), Bluey is about as 'woke' as modern day Peanuts or Illumination. It's inherently nonthreatening and non-confrontational of bigger concepts outside of what's universal to kids and the kid characters. It'd be interesting if they had a LGBTQ character or a talk about (dog?)race and culture, but overall the show seems 'safe' from that stuff that makes conservatives cringe. So at first glance you think Chip-chilla is just a "want to cash in/draw people away from sinful mass media"-thing. Still disgusting but honestly par for the course. Christian programing meant to be a 'safe' alternative to nasty secular shows isn't new.
And then, it dawns on you:
Bluey gets confused for a boy by those who don't watch the show, kind of like how people misgender Bambi, Tweety or Peppermint Patty sometimes.
Chili and Bandit both work and have equal time to be the at-home parent with their kids.
Dailywire is offput by a girl character not being definitively feminine from first glance. Dailywire can't stand the idea of a man being a home husband. They not only see these standard lifestyles as threatening, but that this alone is trying to 'push' something on them when it's just, you know, trying to depict accurate home life of most kids.
What hope do trans people have even existing in the world when a cis girl without eyelashes is a threat to you? What kind of person looks at a dad (who isn't even a fulltime homehusband) having a nurturing relationship with his kids and thinks "DEGENERATE!"
I don't have to answer. You all know the kind of person.
On a happier note: I'm very curious how Bluey would go about addressing that real world representation I was talking about. I think that could be done well but, considering how the exercising episode was received by some adults, no doubt there'd be controversy. And I mean controversy inside the communities they're talking about, not pundits like Ben who'd have a heartattack over a progress flag being in the background that's never even addressed by anyone. I can see an adult character walking off with their same-sex partner or maybe a new classmate who's muslim and wears a hijab just being there and some people being concerned they're not handling it right/well enough. Which is probably why the writers just have steer cleared of it, I think.
If there's one gift Benny boy gives us all it's making us realize that that kind of discourse is always preferable the one where garbage people have no care for others.
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