The practice of face painting white actors with black face paint was well-accepted in Dutch society until the late 2000s. However, in the early 2010s, in the wake of the
zwartepietendiscussie,
De club van Sinterklaas became one of the first Dutch television series to stop this practice and introduced the 'soot' version of the character in 2017. As the debate continued, RTL decided to remove the older series from its streaming platform
Videoland as well as removing all the content prior to 2017 from
De club van Sinterklaas YouTube channel. Earlier on,
VEVO had removed all the music videos from the SinterklaasVEVO channel. == Cast ==