BrainPop

BrainPop (stylized as BrainPOP) is an edutainment website founded on December 31, 1999, by Avraham Kadar and Chanan Kadmon based in New York City. As of 2024, the websites host more than 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K–8 (ages 5 to 14), together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, math, engineering and technology, health, arts and music. In 2022, Kirkbi A/S, the private investment and holding company that owns a controlling stake in The Lego Group, acquired BrainPop. BrainPop is used in more than 25% of American schools and several other countries, where it offers videos in local languages that are designed for students in those countries. The site is available by subscription but has some free content, including a movie of the day, several movies from each topic area, educators' materials and games. Its content can also be accessed using its smartphone and tablet applications.

Characters

• Tim is a teenager and does most of the talking in, and narrates, the movies. He understands what Moby says. The design on his shirt usually matches the topic being covered. At the beginning of each video, Tim reads a letter from someone asking about the topic. Often at the end of the movies, Moby will humorously annoy Tim, or vice versa.

• Moby is an orange humanoid robot who communicates in beeping noises. The three lights on his chest light up when he beeps, and Tim typically translates what Moby says. Moby is Tim's friend but loves to annoy him.

Liberal bias

Much like PolitiFact, BrainPop has many liberal biases. For instance, they've made videos glorifying the homosexual agenda and transgender lifestyles. They made a video praising Harvey Milk despite the fact that he raped a teenaged boy. They've also praised the Marxist racist Black Lives Matter movement. BrainPOP has been turned into an indoctrination tool that pushes leftist ideologies like Critical Race Theory, sexuality and gender identity on children. Jonathan Koeppel, a Spanish teacher at St. Tammany Parish District in Louisiana, went before his school board to tell how the site indoctrinates kids about racism and gender. They defended Che Guevara in one of their videos and claimed that "Che wanted to help" while ignoring historical accounts of Che killing and jailing people, who were "enemies of the revolution."

External links

• BrainPOP