Since his kids hilariously disrupted his interview segment, Kelly hasn’t actually discussed the incident publically very much. Most of his public statements are about the sorts of thing that one might expect a Korean politics professor to talk about: Korea mainly. Still, Kelly doesn’t seem to lament the experience and actually has more fun stories than bizarre ones. His post-viral year-in-review post starts by addressing some of the most burning questions and ridiculous accusations he’s been faced with since the video of his interview went viral. Kelly finds his family’s notoriety shocking, but not altogether negative. Fans of the video often stop Kelly and his family just to get proof that they’ve seen or met him. He may be the only person to make the C-list by accident. Some go-getters in Brooklyn even made an utterly pointless cartoon based his family life. Kelly is dad-chill about all of it. Usually, people who go viral spend the following months or years just kind of riding that wave, but the biggest upside for the Kelly has very little to do with money and more to do with his occupation. In fact, in the post, he made it abundantly clear how little money the video specifically has made for his family. Kelly wrote that he’s thankful that, unlike most viral videos where the person in the video is being humiliated, hurt, or scared, his video went viral for something “positive.” Still, he did admit that “the politics of it” have been strange. Kelly closed his post by talking about the overwhelmingly positive response that other parents have shown him in the wake of the video. Though getting an update on BBC dad is surely fun for fans of the video, Kelly said that the blog post will likely be his last public statement about the incident. “Peak interest in it has passed,” Kelly wrote ruefully, “making way for the next dancing cat video
