In the peak years of home video, from the late 1990s through the late 2000s, a video series known as Baby Einstein was popular among the parents of children in the 0-3 age range. These videos contained sensory stimulation and educational material aimed primarily at infants, including footage of toys, puppets and everyday objects often set to classical music. These videos purported educational benefits when shown to children at a young age, including titles such as the debut "Language Nursery" which exposed infants to the sounds of foreign languages, "Baby Van Gogh" exposing infants to fine art, and "Baby Shakespeare" featuring classical poetry.Due to the popularity of Baby Einstein overlapping with the switch from VHS to DVD, the early Baby Einstein titles received a number of reissues, migrating to the new format and adding special features. However, some Baby Einstein titles received reissues very early in their lifespan - "Language Nursery" and "Baby Mozart" were reissued in late 1998, despite Baby Mozart only having been released at the start of that year and Language Nursery the year prior.With the Baby Einstein production company's origins as a small company founded by a stay-at-home mother, these early releases received very limited distribution, and were completely gone from the market by the time the brand was purchased by Disney in 2001. These early releases were produced in such small quantities that they are difficult to find even on the second-hand market, and some video collectors speculate that they may have only been distributed locally, or possibly recalled.
>>43132929While video collectors are not typically interested in media aimed at very young children, the early releases of Baby Einstein have gained somewhat of a cult status among hardcore VHS collectors due to their somewhat bizzare content, which was discarded in future releases and has never been acknowledged by the creators or current owners of the brand. While the videos appear similar to their later reissues on the surface, there are subtle differences in the choice of video clips and music, which some viewers have reported causing a trance-like state, and in extreme cases odd psychological symptoms such as panic attacks, unusual phobias, and in at least one unconfirmed report, death.Testimonies from mothers who purchased Baby Einstein tapes for their young children in 1997/1998 give a mixed and uncertain outlook on the product; while some reported being impressed with the footage and music choices and found the tapes to be effective distractions for their children, others reported similar psychological events, including some leading to apparent lifelong phobias and psychological quirks in their children, such as in the case of a boy who developed an extreme and ultimately debilitating aversion to the color green after watching a Baby Einstein tape unattended as an infant. Frequent themes of these 'quirks' included fear and panic responses to colors, mechanical toys, music boxes, and most commonly puppets. Notably, some children repeatedly viewed the tapes without incident, only for a subsequent viewing to suddenly provoke an extreme fear response, at which point any further exposure to the tape would incite a panic attack.
>>43132935The tape most frequently associated with these incidents was "Baby Mozart". According to an internal document obtained during the 2024 Disney server intrusion, 29 reports were gathered of parents who left their children unattended watching Baby Mozart, only to be startled by the sounds of what were often described as "bloodcurdling screams" made by their children. When returning to their children, the tape would be playing an innocuous scene of a mechanical toy, most often a train set; however, the children would be terrified of the tape, and would not tolerate any more showings of it. Some of the older children who were already capable of coherent speech would describe the offending section as "bla" or "blah"; while they were unable to specifically describe the content, they would indicate the sound "bla", often while sticking out their tongue. These children would typically request for the tape to be fast-forwarded to the train set scene, but would avert their eyes while this was happening, and most of them still became fearful of the tape and stopped watching it within weeks of the incident.Collectors who view first-run copies of Baby Mozart struggle to describe the contents of the early-mid section of the tape, from approximately 10 minutes runtime to 15 minutes runtime; the last scene described is typically a diagonal 3D rendering of piano keys, waving slowly as a piano rendition of the children's song "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman" (better known as the "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" melody) plays. After this, a scene featuring a train set and beginning with a loud train horn sound is described; the intermediary section seems to produce a trancelike or 'drugged up' state, which makes those who view it unable to describe or even remember its contents. However, some collectors have reported residual adverse effects from viewing this section of the tape, to the point where some community members advise not viewing the early sections of the tape.
>>43132939While "Language Nursery" is not as frequently implicated in severe events, there are persistent rumors that a rare Korean version of the tape has a sequence with an ability to incite "bla"-like psychological effects, resulting in lifelong trauma in at least 5 known cases. All of these individuals developed a fear of music boxes and music box songs, with one man developing a psychosis characterized by an extreme fear of being alone indoors, reporting a persistent auditory hallucination of the song "Pop! Goes The Weasel".While this section of "Language Nursery" can be digitized and viewed without any adverse effects, the "bla section" of Baby Mozart can seemingly only be viewed on an original copy of the tape, as any attempt to commit it to a digital recording simply results in a scrambled signal, with faint images of what appears to be a green hand puppet with inscrutable red tones appearing in-between flickering and static. This section uniquely contains an anomalous pattern of video synchronization pulses, which analog TVs of the period are typically able to handle but causes issues with digital equipment. Correspondingly, a symptom mentioned in many of the "bla" case reports is a lifelong fear of classic tube TVs, especially when powered off or displaying a black background.
>>43132943One of the most concerning "bla"-related testimonies comes from a video collector who revisited Baby Mozart despite having negative memories of viewing it as a child. After obtaining an original copy of the tape, he was able to provide the only known physical description of the 'bla' section, describing a green puppet with a 'perforated, forked, snakelike tongue' which it stuck out at an angle while an extremely loud sound played. Shortly after this viewing, he reported intense anxiety and an inability to clear the 'bla' imagery from his mind, followed by a recurrence of a childhood nightmare where the puppet from the 'bla' scene would stalk him through a powered-off TV screen, imposing and threatening him before waking him up in a cold sweat as the puppet began to stick its tongue out. As he updated others with news of these nightmares over the course of weeks, he reported that their severity was such that he was seeking psychiatric medication - antipsychotic drugs did not lessen the occurence of the nightmares, and the man's condition deteriorated, leading up to an incident where he woke up screaming in the middle of the night before dying of a sudden cardiac event.
>>43132947Such nightmares, to varying degrees of severity, have been described by many who viewed the 'bla' section as children, often featuring shared themes of the 'bla' entity stalking the subject through powered-off TV screens, odd noises corresponding to what is recalled of 'bla's appearance in the video, and reports of highly disturbing, mutilated versions of the 'bla' puppet which cannot be clearly recalled by the viewer. In almost every case of these nightmares, the subject would awaken immediately before the puppet is to make its signature loud noise, a trait which is recalled by all those who remember traces of the 'bla' section. This noise has been variously described as animalistic, screeching, and primal in nature - it is suspected to be the 'bla' vocalization through which the scene is so often described, and those who have seen it retain an instinctual shock response to 'bla' sounds spoken out loud.Some videos uploaded by children on YouTube show recreations of these nightmares, which may approximate the physical appearance of the 'bla' puppet and other traits of the infamous scene.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a91pLkSP3k8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG3NBCPqWM0
>>43132949In later-run releases of both "Language Nursery" and "Baby Mozart", the offending sections have been cut from the video. Notably, "Baby Mozart"'s revised version includes a section which features a puppet similar in appearance to the 'bla' puppet winking at the camera, preceding a scene which shows a slideshow of various fruits - it cuts directly from this to the train set, with the interim period provoking terror and apparent flashbacks in those who have viewed the original.However, this is not the end of the story. The Baby Einstein videos were re-released numerous times, and anecdotes continue to surface of later-run VHS and DVD copies of Baby Mozart and Language Nursery which have part or all of the offending scenes. If you have an old copy of a Baby Einstein video and a device to play it on, pop it in, roll the wheel and who knows? Maybe you'll learn the secret for yourself.
>>43132929assuming this isn't a gay ass larp which it very likely is, this just sounds like children being children. I remember Crank Yankers came out when I was about 8-9, I discovered it through my mom and step-dad buying the first or second CD release for me because I guess they weren't aware of it and thought it was at worst Jerky Boys type stuff but it had puppets so couldn't be that bad or whateverAnyway I didn't see the show until I'd listened to the CD a couple times and when I did, I was TERRIFIED of them for whatever reason, often looking out of my bedroom door at various times through the day panicking that Elmer would come around the corner of the cabinet into my room, and my mind's eye could vividly see it happening in these episodes which would occur when I was doing regular child stuff like playing with DBZ or Marvel Legends toys, videogames etc. To be fair, I was also obsessively playing Twisted Metal Black around this time as well, specifically to watch the cutscenes and once I'd unlocked everything I'd often just watch them all back to back like a movie without even playing the game so I'm sure my mind was already fucked from things like that. My point being children's minds are already wired to be weird due to being new to the world, and they frequently warp perfectly innocent things into horrors, as I've witnessed firsthand through my own experiences and watching my son grow.
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>>43132929The sounds remind me of when they torture that newborn in a serbian filmAll media is extremely satanic, the logo at the start of these videos is literally the eastern star masonic lodge symbol and the woman in the instructions sounds like she is seducing and is probably orgasming behind cameraIts not a coincidence that this is aimed at children, they probably remix the sounds of tortured people, children and animals and include them in the video as sound effects and such
>>43134083link?
i let my pets watch this shit it is peak af.
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>>43132949>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG3NBCPqWM0no joke, i must confess.he really did give me a little start at the end there. good job.
