Interestingly, Steve doesn’t even speak in the 59-second video, but appears to give viewers a comforting presence as he enters the outdoors shot and “offers them” a hot drink.
The video marks Steve’s first TikTok post since August, and the timing was not lost on his 3.3 million followers. Since it was uploaded 21 hours ago, it has been viewed more than five and a half million times, racking up one million likes and 30,000 comments in the process.
Steve has become renowned for the way that he still looks out for “the kids he raised” and consistently shows up for them when they need him most.
Meanwhile, Steve opened up about his decision to step away from Blue’s Clues in a 2022 interview with Variety, where he revealed that he was “struggling with severe clinical depression the whole time” he was on the show.
In recent years, the star has returned to the Blue’s Clues universe in a few ways, including appearing in a special Nick Jr. video for the show’s 25th anniversary in 2021, and in Paramount+’s revival series, Blue’s Clues and You.
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