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[Jonah Hill poster]

So in an interesting turn of events, the upcoming cartoon of Phoebe and her Unicorn has been cancelled.
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The minute she mentioned the words “transphobia” and “garden variety sexism” () on her long screed was the minute I realized that I turned into The Critic

 

[A Grey Cat]

Well we'll well look who decided to pipe in to the pheboe and her Unicorn debacle.

Does it ever occur to these retards that nickelodeon saw this show was terrible and had the baggage of being created by a Troon attached to so they wanted it gone before it could damage the company reputation, and the creator is just talking out his stinkditch?

 

[Urbicide]

Well we'll well look who decided to pipe in to the pheboe and her Unicorn debacle.

Does it ever occur to these retards that nickelodeon saw this show was terrible and had the baggage of being created by a Troon attached to so they wanted it gone before it could damage the company reputation, and the creator is just talking out his stinkditch?

This show was written by that guy who made the webcomic about the dog who got neutered for making out with her little boy owner right? Raine Dog?

Can't imagine why they didn't want to get involved with Dana...

 

[starborn427614]

I'm trying to think of a cartoon with a female protagonist that's doing OK these days and the only one that comes to mind is The Ghost and Molly Mcgee (second season this year btw). Maybe that should be the standard these artists aim for.

 

[Quijibo69]

Saw the new Puss in Boots movie. It was a big fat meh, ok not great. If I remember right the last one was like that too. The Big Bad Wolf was the best character but was hardly in the movie.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Well we'll well look who decided to pipe in to the pheboe and her Unicorn debacle.

Does it ever occur to these retards that nickelodeon saw this show was terrible and had the baggage of being created by a Troon attached to so they wanted it gone before it could damage the company reputation, and the creator is just talking out his stinkditch?

"No, don't you see the progressive tranny creative is always right and never wrong because oppression dynamics. Those Nick execs are bigots, I swear."

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

I'm trying to think of a cartoon with a female protagonist that's doing OK these days and the only one that comes to mind is The Ghost and Molly Mcgee (second season this year btw). Maybe that should be the standard these artists aim for.

The Miraculous Ladybug has that huge cult following. I checked, it is still going and on a 5th season.

 

[starborn427614]

The Miraculous Ladybug has that huge cult following. I checked, it is still going and on a 5th season.

Ah yeah, I guess that counts. It kind of slipped my mind because of the cat boy.

 

[KingLiberty76]

Well we'll well look who decided to pipe in to the pheboe and her Unicorn debacle.

Does it ever occur to these retards that nickelodeon saw this show was terrible and had the baggage of being created by a Troon attached to so they wanted it gone before it could damage the company reputation, and the creator is just talking out his stinkditch?

Nickelodeon already has a ton of troon and faggot shit need I remind everyone of this

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[garbanzobean]

I miss when cartoons were episodic and not trying to give a huge fuckin pretentious message. I miss shit like Billy and Mandy and wish shit like Steven Universe, Adventure Time and other modern "lore" cartoons fucked off.

Stop instilling these things on kids and let them be fucking kids.

 

[Trilby]

Nickelodeon already has a ton of troon and faggot shit need I remind everyone of this

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Lord knows those days are over for us 35 and up.

EDIT: And of course they have to restrict this. Shit.

 

[garbanzobean]

Lord knows those days are over for us 35 and up.

EDIT: And of course they have to restrict this. Shit.

I forgot about this jesus. I'm all for learning about yourself and exploring your sexuality/identity, but this is something that like 8th graders to high schoolers should be doing, not literal children. As a bisexual person, this shit just makes my stomach turn. Leave children out of this.

 

[Trilby]

I forgot about this jesus. I'm all for learning about yourself and exploring your sexuality/identity, but this is something that like 8th graders to high schoolers should be doing, not literal children. As a bisexual person, this shit just makes my stomach turn. Leave children out of this.

How I feel. I'm just glad my Catholic mother's not alive to see this.

 

[Executive Petrel]

 

[starborn427614]

I miss when cartoons were episodic and not trying to give a huge fuckin pretentious message. I miss shit like Billy and Mandy and wish shit like Steven Universe, Adventure Time and other modern "lore" cartoons fucked off.

Stop instilling these things on kids and let them be fucking kids.

The problem is unless your cartoon has some gimmick (or is extremely easy to write comedy for) kids aren't going to give a shit either way. They might not be flocking to the lore-based cartoons like the older viewers are, but it's not like ratings are much better for the episodic shows. It's simply a different landscape to when we grew up and kids have so many more choices beyond Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney channel.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

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Rainbows but I like to remain in the belief that he said this because he knows how much trauma and parental abuse mixed with drugs can eventually and ultimately destroy family units.

 

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

I miss when cartoons were episodic and not trying to give a huge fuckin pretentious message. I miss shit like Billy and Mandy and wish shit like Steven Universe, Adventure Time and other modern "lore" cartoons fucked off.

Stop instilling these things on kids and let them be fucking kids.

I remember when these same people complained how Boomers and older generations used to put religious and traditional family messages in everything. It's amusing to see they have become what they hate. Both groups might do it for different reasons; but it's all for the same thing... propaganda.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

I miss when cartoons were episodic and not trying to give a huge fuckin pretentious message. I miss shit like Billy and Mandy and wish shit like Steven Universe, Adventure Time and other modern "lore" cartoons fucked off.

Stop instilling these things on kids and let them be fucking kids.

They are still there.

Honestly, I take things such as Steven or AT as remnants of a destroyed genre. Action shows used to hold overarching stories and lore, but since they got eradicated during the early 2010s, now we have comedies larping as them. Some are good, some are bad, but maybe we really just need the action cartoons to come back and fulfill their purpose again. I know Netflix and other streaming places have a few, but I honestly couldn’t tell you what anymore. We need another DCAU or Avatar, hell even a Generator Rex or Ben 10 would do.

 

[starborn427614]

They are still there.

Honestly, I take things such as Steven or AT as remnants of a destroyed genre. Action shows used to hold overarching stories and lore, but since they got eradicated during the early 2010s, now we have comedies larping as them. Some are good, some are bad, but maybe we really just need the action cartoons to come back and fulfill their purpose again. I know Netflix and other streaming places have a few, but I honestly couldn’t tell you what anymore. We need another DCAU or Avatar, hell even a Generator Rex or Ben 10 would do.

There's plenty of Avatar content coming (whether we like it or not) and a live-action Ben 10 movie is in the works, but yeah we need something akin to Justice League or JLU. They could always do story arcs along with episodic stories.

 

[TopCat]

Vulture: 16 Seasons of Looney Tunes Vamoose From HBO Max

HBO Max has said “Good-bye, my baby / Good-bye, my honey / Good-bye, my ragtime gal” to 256 classic Looney Tunes shorts. On December 31, the streaming service dragged half of its 511-episode Looney library off the platform with an oversize hook, sparing seasons one through 15 (spanning toons from 1930 to 1949). Those deletions cover shorts released from 1950 to 2004, including such classics as What’s Opera, Doc?, Feed the Kitty, Rabbit of Seville, Duck Amuck, and One Froggy Evening. These removals come after a year of high-profile culling of content from the platform, which disproportionately affected animated titles such as Infinity Train, Summer Camp Island, OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes, and a planned, original Batman series.

Under the consolidations and cost cutting of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, many series were taken off as part of a post-merger accounting strategy, while some flagship series like Westworld will be licensed to free, ad-supported, streaming television platforms. The Looney Tunes cuts are unrelated to these other examples of off-loading, Vulture confirms; HBO Max’s license for the Warner Bros. shorts had simply expired, and the streaming platform chose not to renew it. No word was given on the fate of the other 15 seasons nor where the deleted shorts may stream in the future. When HBO Max launched in 2020, it touted its back catalogue of beloved Warner Bros. library properties with Looney Tunes featuring heavily in the promotion. Apparently, these were still being licensed to the streamer itself.

The good news? In eight years, these shorts will start entering the public domain. Until then? Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service really makes an excellent case for getting back into DVDs. That’s all, folks!