{"id":2230487,"date":"2026-01-11T15:44:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2230487"},"modified":"2026-01-11T15:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:44:03","slug":"my-first-experience-with-ms-rachel-was-on-youtube-entertainment-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/my-first-experience-with-ms-rachel-was-on-youtube-entertainment-life\/","title":{"rendered":"My first experience with Ms. Rachel was on YouTube | Entertainment\/Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-breakout=\"1\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>I\u2019ve started 2026 with a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZizzobSlWkg\" target=\"_blank\">song<\/a>\u00a0loved by millions. It\u2019s new to me, but it\u2019s now chiseled into my brain.<\/p>\n<p>One verse goes like this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIcky sticky sticky sticky sticky bubble gum, bubble gum, bubble gum<\/p>\n<p>Icky sticky sticky sticky sticky bubble gum, bubble gum, bubble gum<\/p>\n<p>Makes your hands stick to your head<\/p>\n<p>And you pull \u2019em, and you pull \u2019em, and you pull\u00a0\u2019em away!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that bubble gum also sticks to your elbows, tummy, ears, knees, mouth and other body parts. Who knew? Apparently 68 million people\u00a0\u2014 that\u2019s how many times the video has been viewed in its five years on YouTube. This same singer\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@msrachel\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0has amassed 13.5 billion views. Yes, that\u2019s billion with a B.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"2\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-html  subscriber-hide tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-html tnt-inline-relation-sibling tnt-inline-presentation-html tnt-inline-width-full\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Icky Sticky Bubble Gum Song with Ms Rachel + More Nursery Rhymes &amp; Kids Songs\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZizzobSlWkg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Folks who keep track of such things estimate the creator&#8217;s net worth is between $10 million and $50 million. Perhaps it\u2019s time to dust off my accordion and come up with some icky sticky zydeco.<\/p>\n<p>The bubble gum song was my introduction to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msrachel.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOoqAY0hXPfQ9J-FZGzQmW1Fz8ggecVvLppgBNLSi10P1X5OJBl_J\" target=\"_blank\">Ms. Rachel<\/a>, a beloved educator and entertainer for babies, toddlers and their parents. Credit for the revelation goes to Tatum, my grandson who just turned 1.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum\u2019s vocabulary is limited to \u201cyah\u201d and \u201cdah\u201d right now. But I bet he\u2019ll be saying \u201cicky sticky\u201d right after he starts walking.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum\u2019s world stops when Ms. Rachel is on TV. There\u2019s no crying. His bottle can wait.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"3\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>All eyes are Ms. Rachel, who is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/ms-rachel-women-of-the-year-2025\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Griffin Accurso<\/a>, a modern-day \u201cMister Rogers.\u201d She and her husband Aron created nursery rhymes, puppets and skits that have earned them 18.5 million YouTube subscribers and a Netflix series.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-square  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-right tnt-inline-width-half\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-square hover-expand letterbox-style-white\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-c85063f1-4fdb-4ec8-9939-1da4c519e288\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-d5021b88-9e9e-445b-b1aa-100315f927ba-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-d5021b88-9e9e-445b-b1aa-100315f927ba\"><br \/>\n                <span class=\"fas tnt-expand\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-c85063f1-4fdb-4ec8-9939-1da4c519e288\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-d5021b88-9e9e-445b-b1aa-100315f927ba-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-d5021b88-9e9e-445b-b1aa-100315f927ba\">\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n            <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1440\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1440\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/theadvocate.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/c\/85\/c85063f1-4fdb-4ec8-9939-1da4c519e288\/695d973abd688.image.jpg?resize=1396%2C1396\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/theadvocate.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/c\/85\/c85063f1-4fdb-4ec8-9939-1da4c519e288\/695d973abd688.image.jpg?resize=1396%2C1396\"\/><br \/>\n                        \n            <\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>A page from Ms. Rachel&#8217;s &#8220;100 First Words&#8221; book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n                                    <span itemprop=\"author\" class=\"tnt-byline\">PROVIDED PHOTO BY AMAZON<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Her songs and movements aren\u2019t random. Based on child development research, her presentations are designed to teach children letters, numbers, colors, shapes, animals and more.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Rachel and her husband were inspired by their son, Thomas, who did not speak until he was 2 years old. With little helpful media available, they created a YouTube channel to fill in the gap.<\/p>\n<p>I admit I\u2019ve totally missed the Ms. Rachel train. My children, now grown, came up with \u201cBlue\u2019s Clues,\u201d SpongeBob Square Pants and Barney, the \u201cI love you, you love me\u201d dinosaur. Even Barney generated $500 million in retail sales back in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"4\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>The field remains lucrative and crowded. Tatum\u2019s eyes were also glued to Lenny Pearce, who uses electronic dance music to teach toddlers about fingers, shoulders, knees, toes and \u201cRow Row Row Your Boat.\u201d He\u2019s got 161,000 YouTube subscribers and an upcoming Toddler Techno Tour of Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Wait. Where\u2019s my accordion?<\/p>\n<p><em>Herman Fuselier is executive director of the St. Landry Parish Tourist Commission. A longtime journalist covering Louisiana music and culture, he lives in Opelousas. His \u201cZydeco Stomp\u201d show airs at noon Saturdays on KRVS 88.7 FM.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.theadvocate.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve started 2026 with a song\u00a0loved by millions. It\u2019s new to me, but it\u2019s now chiseled into my brain. One verse goes like this: \u201cIcky sticky sticky sticky sticky bubble gum, bubble gum, bubble gum Icky sticky sticky sticky sticky bubble gum, bubble gum, bubble gum Makes your hands stick to your head And you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2230488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/My-first-experience-with-Ms-Rachel-was-on-YouTube.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230489,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230487\/revisions\/2230489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}