

The idea for Blippi came to John after moving back to Ellensburg and witnessing his then two-year-old nephew viewing low-quality videos on YouTube. When the video was unearthed by BuzzFeed News in 2019, John said, "at the time, I thought this sort of thing was funny, but really it was stupid and tasteless, and I regret having ever done it." John used DMCA takedown notices to remove the video from social media and internet search engines. In a 2013 video, John performed the Harlem Shake on a toilet and defecated on a naked friend. John started making gross out videos in 2013 under the persona of Steezy Grossman.
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John grew up "surrounded by tractors, cows, and horses" and has stated that as a child he wished to be a limousine driver and a fighter pilot. The Blippi character that John portrays has a childlike, energetic, and curious persona, and is always dressed in a blue and orange beanie cap, blue shirt, orange suspenders, and an orange bow tie. John (born May 27, 1988), better known by his alias Blippi, is an American children's entertainer on YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video. "The response has been so overwhelming," she said.Stevin W. "I'm glad it's showing the positive side of autism."

"I asked people to share the gifts about their kids because a lot of times, with kids with autism, it's just about the struggle," Newberger said. The response has been so overwhelming that Newberger created a separate Facebook page, " The Gift," as a place for parents of children with autism to share uplifting stories. The video of Sanchez giving Daniel the truck has gone viral, with more than 60,000 shares and 6,000 likes. "This was something he did absolutely on his own," company spokeswoman Nan Drake said of Sanchez, who has worked there for nearly a decade. Harrison and Sons, found out about their employee's good deed and gifted him with a gift certificate to a local restaurant.

"I said, 'He does want your truck,'" Newberger recalled, adding that Sanchez quickly got back into his truck after the exchange in order to finish his route. Newberger says that Sanchez jokingly asked Daniel, "Do you want this one too?," pointing to his real garbage truck. "That made it all the more incredible to us." "It was just amazing because it was the same one and Manuel had no idea," said Newberger, who captured the moment on her phone and posted it to Facebook.

The family was even more surprised when they realized it was the same toy truck that Daniel received at Christmas but accidentally broke it the same day. Sanchez, an employee of a private, family-owned trash collection company, got out of his truck and presented Daniel with a toy garbage truck of his own. On Monday, Daniel and his parents - Newberger and dad, David Mulligan - did their usual routine of waiting outside for the recyclables collector, Manuel Sanchez, to arrive, when Sanchez surprised them all. "We will literally be waiting outside for hours on trash day because he hears the truck in the neighborhood and can't focus on anything else." "He knows which trash can is going out on which day and notices them when we're driving and notices if they're out of line," Newberger said. A five-year-old boy from California obsessed with garbage trucks got the surprise of a lifetime from the garbage man he religiously greets at his family's home every Monday.ĭaniel Mulligan, of Ojai, Calif., became fascinated by garbage trucks as a toddler after his mother, Robin Newberger, showed him YouTube videos of garbage trucks as a way to ease his fear of the trucks' loud noise.ĭaniel, who has autism, is drawn to the order and precision that comes with the weekly trash pickup and the organization of the trash cans, his mother says.
