Friday, March 29, 2024

Netflix Pulls Children’s Cartoon After Penis Drawing Discovered on Tree Trunk

Screenshot of "Maya the Bee" episode with apparent penis etching.
Screenshot of “Maya the Bee” episode with apparent penis etching.

*Netflix has pulled an episode of a children’s show “Maya the Bee” after a viewer noticed what looked like a drawing of a penis on a tree trunk in one of the scenes.

Screen caps of the tree with the phallic image went viral earlier this week, prompting the streaming service to take action.

Chey Robinson, a concerned mother, appears to have been the first to share a clip from the show, writing on Facebook, “Please be mindful of what your kids are watching. I did NOT edit any images whatsoever, this is ‘Maya the Bee,’ Season 1, Episode 35. I know I’m not going crazy and I know that something like this shouldn’t be in a kids’ show whatsoever. I’m extremely disgusted by it, there should be no reason my kids have to see something like this. I don’t know if they’re gonna do something about this or what, but there’s no reasons why this should be in this show.”

Netflix has yet to make a statement about the penis drawing or the removal of the episode. It’s also unclear whether Netflix will re-edit the scene and return it to the lineup.

“Maya the Bee,” based on a German children’s book series first published in 1912, debuted in 2012. It was created by Studio 100 Animation and Netflix is only a distributor.

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