Sesame Street's Library is Coming to YouTube (and my Subsequent Thoughts)

So, yesterday, Sesame Street posted an exciting announcement to their Instagram account. I’m sure you probably already know what it is if you’re reading this (or just looked at the title of this post), but just in case you don’t, here’s the picture they shared. Pretty exciting, right? But of course, there’s still a lot to unpack here, especially with the announcement being rather ambiguous about which episodes will be uploaded. While many are hoping for classic episodes, Shane Keating wrote in a ToughPigs article about this development that “classic” Sesame Street could refer to a more recent time frame than one might assume… Long story short, this got me thinking about what counts as “classic” Sesame Street these days, and that turned into a conversation about the evolution of online discussion about the show, which eventually caused me to go off the rails on a crazy train. And since I like to have discussions with myself as if I’m talking to an audience, I figured I might ...