Steve fromBlue's CluesGets Thousands of Responses After He Asks This Simple Question

Mar. 15, 2025

Steve Burns.Photo:Steve Burns/TikTok

Steve Burns/TikTok

Steve Burnsis taking another breather, and checking in.

In a videoposted to TikTokon Wednesday, Feb. 12, theBlue’s Clueshost offers a now-familiar, almost therapist-like ear to his 3.5 million followers.

“How you doing?” the star, 51, asks at the beginning of the one-minute clip.

He then stares into the camera nodding silently for 50 seconds, occasionally stopping to say, “yep,” as poignant music plays in the background.

“Yep, I hear you,” Burns says at the end of the video, nodding before saying: “You look great.”

Several commenters have remarked that Burns' videos call to mind another beloved fixture of children’s television, Mr. Rogers, who was well-known for offering something of a shoulder to cry on during even dark moments.

“Anyone else cry as soon as you saw him?” added another.

Burns' latest video comes months after a similar video posted to the platform, in which he“checks in” on his followers.

In anotherTikTok videoposted on Wednesday, Nov. 6 — just one day after the2024 presidential election— Burns brings out two mugs and places one down below the camera. He then sips from one of the mugs as he rests his arms on a fence.

Burns doesn’t say a thing in that approximately minute-long clip, instead nodding to the camera and taking a breath at the end of the video.

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Burns spoke toTodayin April about his decision to post the therapeutic videos, noting that they are his way of carrying on the “philosophy” of the beloved children’s seriesBlue’s Clues, which was “always about respect, and always about communicating with the home viewer from a place of understanding and without condescension," he said.

Steve Burns on an episode of ‘Blue’s Clues’ in 1996.© Nickelodeon Network

© Nickelodeon Network

“Blue’s Clueshad so much silence in it. I simply wanted to do that,” he continued. “I want to see if that was possible. None of us thought that it would have the impact that it did, and we were so surprised.”

“When we pay attention, we’re making an investment in someone else. And that’s the basis of compassion, in a lot of ways,” Burns toldToday.

In 2019,Josh Dela Cruznabbed the leading role for the revivalBlue’s Clues & You!and remains a part of the franchise, including starring in the Paramount+ feature film released in 2022.

source: people.com