Glove and Boots is the first YouTube channel I had ever watched on YouTube. It all started when I was 5, and my mom showed me their product testing review on the Ronco Rotisserie Oven. They, alongside TNTMan93 were the first channels I ever consistently watched on YouTube.

     Yet, despite my first experience with the channel coming through my mom, that only came after me begging to see it out of pure curiosity. As for the majority of my early time on YouTube, my parents did not like me watching these videos, on the ground that G&B is inappropriate. And looking back, these are some of the absolute tamest videos I have ever seen on YouTube. The worst these puppet wiggas would say is damn or hell, and barely ever say shit or fuck. Compare this to something like Jeffy, another puppet show that was really popular among kids my age, and this shit is not even close. I feel like my parents just hated the notion of me being on any social media platform in any capacity.

     But regardless I still kept watching Glove and Boots and watch them grow and evolve. That was until 2017, when due to the adpocalypse and puppet/animation content becoming completely unsustainable under YouTube’s new algorithm, Bento Box chose to cancel the series. While Glove and Boots had sustained long hiatuses in the past, they had never straight up announced their departure. But they did eventually come back, and the wait wasn’t even that long, they would be back to posting videos by the end of 2018. However, all of this would come at a cost.
     When Glove and Boots returned in the Fall of 2018, Moonbug Entertainment had acquired the rights to put the series out, a company that specializes exclusively in children's entertainment. And these wiggas absolutely sucked the life out of the series. Even as an 11 year old boy, I still thought this shit was ass. Now while the original series could certainly be watched by kids, it never felt as if they were just pandering to them. I can still watch the classic videos from 2011-2017, and sure there’s still some corny bits of millennial humor here and there, but they are still funny and hold up really well. None of that shit is evident with the revival, where it is turned into just another generic YT Kids puppet show.
     But after Glove and Boots’ “2020 New Years’ Eve Special”, they suddenly stopped making videos. Moonbug must’ve dropped the series and left G&B in limbo. And since then, since everything that has happened in the world since then, nothing. Hardly a word on the creators, a revival, Bento Box, Moonbug, anything. And even if the series never chooses to return again, there will always be their older videos that, even despite their faults, still forever and now will always have their own special place in my heart as some of my first memories on YouTube.