Oobi
When Oobi was still being played on TV, it had a cult following of Muppets fans and small filmmakers who made their own Oobi puppets. In 2003, the Boston Herald newspaper said that Oobi was "already very popular" with "those of the Muppet generation." A worker for Noggin, Tom Ascheim, said in the same article that Oobi "gets fan mail," and he thought it was an interesting idea for a show because "everybody has an Oobi in their hand." In 2004, the magazine The Melbourne Age said that "the show - the work of various Sesame Street alumni - is developing a strong cult following; the real Uma [Thurman] is said to be a fan of hand Uma." An internet catalog of Oobi puppets and eyes, OobiEyes.com, was online from 2006 to 2013. A small group of YouTube.com users who made fan films with Oobi puppets existed during the early years of the website, and OobiEyes.com held an advertising campaign with YouTube in 2008.