The real Christopher Robin also said that he was eventually able to look back and treasure the stories again.

@danmekeel7758

2 жыл бұрын

That is a True Blessing.

@StefonTV1

Жыл бұрын

Well no one can be mad or full of hate forever. I'm glad he eventually let it go and can look back on them in a better light.

Maybe It was because he felt his father did not pay enough attention to him and paid more attention to the story.

@MLBlue30

5 жыл бұрын

Sadly you are right, he he ad a bad relationship with his dad too.

@v44n7

4 жыл бұрын

@@MLBlue30 to be fair, his father went to hell & back in world war 1

@diecastcupseries7317

2 жыл бұрын

Kevin Clepps some of it your right about. According to Wikipedia Christopher Robin’s relationship with his father started to fall after World War II, but before that happened his father was able to help him get into the Royal Army of Engineers after he failed the medical examination. So some of Christopher and A. A. Milne’s relationship was close before and during WWII because they both served. His father was part of the Royal British Home Guard during the war. Winnie the Pooh wasn’t written until 1926 after Christopher got Edward Bear.

@diecastcupseries7317

2 жыл бұрын

v44n A. A. Milne also serves in World War II. He was a member of the Royal British Home Guard while Christopher was a member of the Royal British Engineers after he failed the medical examination. His father helped get him into the military following that, but their relationship began to fall after the war.

So sad. I didn’t know that. I’m glad he reconciled with Pooh. Wish he and his parents had as well. Love that silly old bear.

With all the Winnie the Pooh content disney has produced, I think it's always important to make sure your kids at least hear the originals. I'll certainly make sure I do it.

I took my son to go see Christopher Robin the weekend it came out we had so much fun and I got emotional remembering my childhood growing up with Winnie the Pooh this is awesome to see and it's sad to see how much the real Christopher Robin suffered because of it

Its not so much that C.R Mils hated the world of winnie the pooh, just the fame that was forced on him by the parents at least later in his life and the shadow it casted on him.

Well this one made me feel like Eeyore

My view of these wonderful books have changed. These books brought me so much joy and poor Christopher Robin so much pain. So sad!

Where have you been? I miss the channel when don't post! I watched some oldies but goodies, but missed new content from you! Best history teacher ever!

Clare had cerebral palsy. There’s no genetic component to that. Marrying your first cousin is unsavoury and ill-advised, but their daughter’s handicap was not the result of genetics.

@Madamemedusa1986

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe So but I would think that two people with the same DNA combining it together would cause a child to have problems

I don't get why he was teased about it. Every kid plays with toys. Also, why would you not hire someone based on that? Even if the stories would have been 100% true I'm pretty sure he'd be quite different from his 8 year old self by the time he was old enough to get a job

@pauldelgadillo1827

5 жыл бұрын

It was because his mother continually made it so that he would be forced to wear the page boy hair cut and look "cute" in front of photographers and others. A A Milne was a very cold man and the entire story about how the man rarely spent time with his son and he didn't like children wasn't told at all.

@wolftal1178

Ай бұрын

Kids can be cruel. If you’re public they will always take the Mickey out of you even if it’s a positive image. Pathetic people like to poke at anything to try and get a response because they have nothing better to do with their sad lives.

@wolftal1178

Ай бұрын

How did you force him to wear the same haircut? Was this just during his childhood?

@wolftal1178

Ай бұрын

Well, in way, because so many people grew up reading Winnie the Pooh. I suppose it would almost be like meeting an old friend as everyone felt they knew Christopher Robin, from when he was six years old which means he could’ve changed quite a bit. But also in the books Christopher Robin was always shown as being intelligent quickwitted and imaginative and adventurous. So obviously people will be expecting him to be quickwitted and intelligent on an adult level. That’s a lot of pressure to keep up.

This story reminds me of my childhood when I was a baby I got a book of Christer robin when I was born

Why didn't he just change his name? :(

@badideabearcub2747

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe it was difficult in the early 1900s. Anyway Christopher Robin is such a cool name.

Rich people always want to earn their own money while 9/5 daydream of never having to work again

Shouldn't this be a "Today I Found Out" video?

Winnie the Pooh Bear Will Always be one of my favorites I love these Characters Pooh Bear makes me happy he makes me feel emotions ♥️♥️♥️

I always thought it was a very sad story.. the saga of the Milne family. Truthfully I felt for Christopher. I always thought it was most likely the effect of the bullying he received at boarding school that turned him against his Father and the Pooh stories. He never had any problem with the stories until he started boarding school. He actually said the very day he started school is when his love-hate relationship with the stories began. Kids can be very cruel, and they can cause people life long problems, I know this only too well from my own school days. I recall reading him saying that the worst of all was the Vespers poem (That Christopher Robin is saying his prayers one). If I remember right he burnt and tore up copies into thousands of pieces.. that shows some major trauma. However, I don't think he "hated" Pooh at all, (how could anyone hate that bear?!) probably the opposite, just that his love for Pooh had been exploited in his mind.. everyone has a spot in their heart for their childhood soft toys. It was just that the privacy of that was stolen from him, and in turn, it was a source of embarrassment for him.. that something special like his childhood was publicised in such a intrusive way, world famous books. When he went to boarding school all the other boys mocked him for being Christopher Robin.. he resented his Father for writing the stories with him and his toys in them. They way he saw it, it was his Father's fault for writing about him, rather than the other boys who tormented him. I can somewhat relate to that.. when we get bullied we find ways to blame it on someone we love rather than the bullies. Ultimately, in Christopher's case.. it just wasn't his childhood anymore.. everyone knew about it. He never got a choice in the matter. His Father probably didn't mean any harm.. just naive likely thought what harm was he doing, writing a story about a little boy and his bear, just, like many parents he never thought about it from Christopher's point of view, at least not until it was too late and the books were world famous. After all, I'm glad he found peace with the Pooh stories in later years. I heard he sold the books from his bookshop. I once heard the original Winnie and the others were on display in a local pub, I think possibly AA Milne had given them to it.. probably kept there on display in a cabinet or shelf as sort of an attraction. The pub owner offered them back to Christopher when he visited the pub.. he said he would be glad to give them to him if he wanted them back.. which I thought was very nice of the pub owner. However Christopher declined. Who knows, maybe it was for the best.. they are still in existence (except for Roo I think, who sadly was lost sometime in the 20s) and on display in a museum I believe. They were recently restored.

@tracesprite6078

2 жыл бұрын

That was very interesting. Boarding schools were hellish experiences for many people in the olden days. My father went to a British boarding school. He said that the prefects used to be given the task of hitting the "bad" boys' bottoms with a wooden bat. The prefect would stand back and take a run so as to inflict the maximum pain. My father used to sometimes steal food off my plate to help me to learn not to trust anyone, because he had had to learn that lesson as a child. He tried hard to give us children a much happier childhood than he had had but the scars from his own experiences were still there.

@wolftal1178

Ай бұрын

@@tracesprite6078 my mother was the same she was forced to go into a boarding school. The first one she went into apparently was hellish. She said to me once years later she was driving through some of the countryside and suddenly had a very cold dark feeling over her. It wasn’t until later that she realised she was driving less than a mile or so from her old boarding school and somehow her body instinctively recognised the area . The honest truth is you’re right he should have blamed the bullies not his father but then again he could argue to himself that his father presented them with the weapons and ammunition to attack.

@tracesprite6078

Ай бұрын

@@wolftal1178 Yes, it was very sad. I'm glad that Christopher eventually was able to come to terms with the whole experience - but it did ruin his childhood. His poor father! What a mistake to make!

@wolftal1178

Ай бұрын

@@tracesprite6078 true but to say he was a bad father would be completely inaccurate considering at the time he didn’t realise what was happening.

@tracesprite6078

Ай бұрын

@@wolftal1178 His father wasn't deliberately being harmful, but he did indeed do a lot of harm because he hadn't taken the time to imagine how the stories might affect his son at school.

er (sanctimonious sneer) Winnie The Pooh... not Poo

@GigawingsVideo

5 жыл бұрын

I think it was intentional, because the kid ended up hating it.

@timmmahhhh

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed, the latter pertains to Mr. Hankey.

Well, there is a quote from the illustrator that says he wanted one of his Pooh and piglet drawings on his grave, so perhaps he liked it more than mentioned

@everynewdayisablessing8509

2 ай бұрын

Maybe he even was joking he doesn't like Pooh, knowing he was British anything is possible. Perhaps he jokinkgly said "that bloody bear" or sth and someone misunderstood his actual feelings about Pooh.

I enjoy your format immensely . I”m aware of how much time you put into researching the content . This leads me to my question. When were bicycles invented? I’ve heard in India there’s evidence that predates the early 1800’s . Thank you

Dude, just change your name. You could have been Nigel Peckingham or whatever floated your boat.

My mother wanted to name me Christopher Robin, but fortunately my father intervened

Love the new format

"The pooh fortune" 🤣🤣

Winnie the Pooh - over eating disorder piglet - anxiety disorder Mr. rabbit - obsessive-compulsive disorder Owl - narcissism Eeyore - extreme depressive disorder Tigger , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Christopher Robin - schizophrenia

@nathannn6584

5 жыл бұрын

Mr. Randall true

@ubermom

5 жыл бұрын

Owl was dyslexic, not narcissistic.

@RimWulf

5 жыл бұрын

@@ubermom Owl thought himself as very smart even when he was wrong, he he acted like he was never wrong. besides dyslexia isn't a psychological disorder it's a learning disability.

@lindalawrence9351

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao. There is some truth to that

@missmoxie9188

5 жыл бұрын

Oh lord

I did not like the Winnie the Pooh books until I became and adult. They have a deep philosophy.

Its interesting how creating an iconic character always seems to come back to bite that person in the backside later on. Everything else that's created after that is critiqued and compared to that one thing, and never really accepted as its own stand alone piece. It almost makes you wonder if making that creation was worth the effort, if it consumes the rest of your life and overshadows everything else you do from then on.

@GigawingsVideo

5 жыл бұрын

Well it was started as a gift to his wife and he probably expecting a simple book for children. The popularity is something he didn't expect.

@zenoblues7787

5 жыл бұрын

Sadly true, I especially find it tragic in cases were the creator in question does have other talents. It just locks them in a box were they're stuck making things for other people instead of themselves.

@Madamemedusa1986

2 жыл бұрын

But who needs other things when you do something that makes you rich I say if you can do something that'll make you rich stick with it you really don't need to do anything else in my opinion

@thc-thehiddenclout2263

2 жыл бұрын

Kishimoto with Naruto.🙃

@thc-thehiddenclout2263

2 жыл бұрын

@@Madamemedusa1986 buss it open I can make u rich

That was really sad. I have a feeling there is more to this story.

Fascinating. I knew a little of the real story but am amazed at all I didn’t know.

I don't know whether to smile or cry. ❤❤❤🧸

I like your new backround setting :)

Damn, Christopher Robin grew up and married his first cousin??? Oh bother...

@kaigreen5641

5 жыл бұрын

Fifth cousins, 3rd cousins, still weird.

@scottandrewhutchins

5 жыл бұрын

Your parents' cousins are your first cousins once removed.

@darkamora5123

5 жыл бұрын

@@oldenweery7510 heh I like to throw people off by telling them my cousins married. "They are each others cousin? " "No, brother and sister." "What?!" "My cousin divorced his wife. His son (my first cousin once removed) went away to college and started dating a girl. In their sophomore year there was a parent's weekend and her divorced mom met his divorced dad and hit it off. Skip to the kids senior year of college and my cousin married his son's girlfriend's mom. Two years later and my cousin's son married his girlfriend, who, because of their parent's marriage was now his sister (ok, ok stepsister)." It almost had to be though, imagine if the kids had not hit it off and married. Christmas dinner with your wife and your ex-girlfriend/ sister could be a nightmare. They HAD to get married. If she still liked you flirting would be horrible, and if she didn't embarrassing you with little snide intimate knowledge jokes might be worse.

@billyannisha4539

5 жыл бұрын

Ehemm... SWEET HOME ALABAMA!!!

@pyromania1018

2 жыл бұрын

Well, she saw him for who he was rather than a character from a book, a quality he was DESPERATELY looking for in a spouse.

wow i never knew Xi jin ping had such a villian arc story.

Thank you for doing this biographical piece. I sent you a message (to your Biographics channel) to suggest this very topic. :)

Pooh: I can’t believe you hate me Christopher Robin

"Ooooooh, BOTHER!"~

While i love Winnie the Pooh, i will always feel bad for poor Christopher Robin, who jusy wanted to be normal but his father unintentionally robbed him of that, he is a posterboy of why child stars shudnt exist

I visited Ashdown forrest a few times, even played Sticks on the Poo bridge, but never knew that the real story is kinda sad :/

@philthy122

5 жыл бұрын

I too have visited Poo Bridge, but unfortunately didn't quite understand the rules of the game....I'm now banned from the 100 acre wood and had to pay for the cleaning of a duck :(

Bullying at school is terrible and has it been eliminated yet? Without the school bullying, he probably would have had a much better life

@marywilliams9858

5 жыл бұрын

Aunty Googol The older boys best the younger ones with switches. Read Roald Dahl's books. What a horrible way to treat children.

This feels like it's on the wrong channel.

Very interesting! I had no idea he was real at all!

The cutest cartoon ever! Always makes me cry. I don’t know why

Quality material.

I love winnie the pooh with all my heart.😪😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@JameyLeanneCooper

Жыл бұрын

Me too my heart broke watching Goodbye Christopher Robin 😭💔

To be fair his cousin was pretty hot. You can't blame him really.

I wish I had not watched this, I always liked Christopher Robin stories when I was a child, so sad !

Great video Simon, but I have heard conflicting accounts about AA Milne and his conduct as a father? Can you shed some light?

Sigh...there goes the innocence of my childhood :(

Chris, i hated Winnie the Pooh too... I'm with ya.. Nightmares

So tragic... I love it!

Wish I was the real Christopher Robin's that story would have went a whole lot different LOL

7:08 Damn you 1996, RIP Kevin Gilbert (The King of Nothing).

I am glad you had somewhat of a cheerful ending. I was getting bummed out There for awhile.

I just watched the movie and was heartbroken...I didnt cry so much in ny lifee..

I would like to know about the cartoonist's political jokes "That would never stand the test of time." I want to know if they were right.

@GigawingsVideo

5 жыл бұрын

Joke on that guy, old political cartoons are much more staler than Bastille's prisoner breads.

@kaigreen5641

5 жыл бұрын

Hence why you avoid them if you want your material to stand the test of time. Even "Yes, Minister" a sitcom about a government minister avoided doing jokes about current politics and instead used broad themes about government and politics that are universal, similar to the West Wing.

Sad story,,, nice setup.

Your infobox isn’t updated 💕

I loved Winnie the Poo as a child.

Please leave them alone about the absent "h" in the title. They probably do not want Disney to sue them for copyright infringement since they make money off of these videos. I too was thrown off at first but we are all smart enough to understand what they meant and to know what this video is about.

@RimWulf

5 жыл бұрын

Disney purchased the ownership.

@AnimalFacts

5 жыл бұрын

Relatively sure this video would fall well within the guidelines of fair use. But, it is a clever way to get more comments ;-)

probably gonna want to change that title.

@GigawingsVideo

5 жыл бұрын

It's probably intentional

@Silkendrum

5 жыл бұрын

It deflects casual copyright infringement searches. Disney can be brutal.

Brian Jones, of The Rolling Stones, was a fan of Milne’s house.

I think they forgot to edit the video description.

Christopher Robin died from myasthenia gravis.

No hard feelings. You still make some of the best quality and interesting content out there, vs including on tv. Having your own opinion makes it better because it makes it more human.

What happened to countdown?

*Johny Sins* explaining cartoon history, enough internet for today 😅

Did you upload this video to the wrong channel?! Also, is that a Simon Whistler mug?! 👍

My father ( Harvard 50 BA. Midevil English literature) wouldn't read us night time stories that bored him and so he/we had all the Winnie the Pooh books!

@briancrawford8751

5 жыл бұрын

It's "medieval!"

@CologneCarter

5 жыл бұрын

@Brian How would you know? Maybe was studying mid evil literature. ;)

@floridapmi

5 жыл бұрын

My son when he was young only wanted Poo stories.

Sad story really

I’ve always loved Winnie the Pooh,!

I like this it's like a mini biographic

Interesting story, thank you TopTenz for that. So well researched & produced. Not much interested in the Disney version.

This was very interesting i use 2 watch winnie the pooh all the time then i saw this video and im scared of toys nw so i gave them al away but i still watch movies about Christopher robin even though the toys in there scare me ALOT!

You realize that Christoper robin is a storybook character and Christopher Milne a person.

@JameyLeanneCooper

Жыл бұрын

Christopher Robin Milne

It’s sad to think that. And it’s even sad to think his relationship with his parents were so damaged. Especially his mother as at least he spoke with his father. I think, if his father not used his sons name it might’ve been easier for Christopher Robin if he wasn’t teased so much he could’ve actually looked back and realised that his father was writing about him not just because of money but because he was his inspiration. Why were the stuffed animals though donated to the New York museum? They were a British story shouldn’t they be in the London museum?

Why wasn't this the movie?

@professorrosenstock5026

5 жыл бұрын

Not as pleasant

@GigawingsVideo

5 жыл бұрын

It's Disney, of course they going to lie about its impact toward the real Chris.

@callumhemmings5215

5 жыл бұрын

They did make a biopic called Goodbye Christopher Robin but it wasnt as faithful, Disney will never let a tale like this come out of there production machine

@GreenAppelPie

5 жыл бұрын

It’s called make believe for a reason.

@willlyon7129

5 жыл бұрын

Callum hemmings Disney is a pack of corporate lies that inordinate and brain washes the young minds. Making each generation more and more stupid.

Thumbnail is missing it’s just a screenshot of the video :/

That's because Pooh was always stealing his damn honey.

rather sad backstory...

Well thats a lovely story.

The animated Pooh and Piglet character voices make me want to slap them.

Welp, I still liked the movie that came out this year.

Poor boy. Hey, have you already bought my latest book "Adventures of Mick TestaCabeza and his amazing stuffed toys?"

You should clean your cup lol. It's all i could stare at

not the first cousin-

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace Christopher Robin went down with Alice

Sora meets Chritopher Robin

Thanks for the spelling correction.

Why does the real Christopher Robin look like Sheldon's cousin from The Big bang theory.

How depressing.

Once more, Disney tells the happier story.

What did we learn?

I always thought that Christopher Robin went down on Alice..?

Says Christopher Robin died in 1996 but earlier Disney bought all the rights in 2001 for 350 million and he refused to take the money. How can you take the money if he was already deceased? Who did Disney purchase the rights from?

@johnspera8369

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah that threw me too; thought i missed something. Thanks.

@notthatyouasked6656

5 жыл бұрын

Prior to 2001, the rights were merely licensed. In 2001, the rights were sold outright by the estate.

@nise5281

5 жыл бұрын

Some who was a little more on the uptake then CR evidently!

Christopher Robin was a spoiled little brat.

Shouldn't this have been a video on Today I Found Out?

Kids shouldn't be so expose to the public

Why doesn’t this have automatic subtitles enabled?

@bigchungus7050

5 жыл бұрын

Why would it have automatic subtitles? Are you so dumb you can't comprehend an English accent?

@bigchungus7050

5 жыл бұрын

If you're def I'm sorry

Damb adult Christopher Robin was so sexy

So... Christopher Robin was a Cousin Kisser??? SWEET HOME ALABAMA!!!!!!!