The Mysterious Mr. Enter / Jonathan Rozanski's "Growing Around" - IndieGoGo Campaign Failed, John going off the deep end, "Turning Red" is ignorant about 9/11 (later retracted)

[World's Smallest Violin]

Well, he can’t take the chance that he’d get raped!

I feel bad for any woman that is willing to give the nigga the time of day, he promotes himself like he's high maintenance and choosy despite hardly being in any position to even be picky. I don't think he'd even fit in with the Moral Majority.

 

[CoconutCat]

He probably just stole the idea from The Simpsons episode “Behind the Laughter.”

At least it made sense in The Simpsons because it's a satirical take on American society and "documentary about the live action filming of an animated show" was literally the joke of the episode. What relevance does it have in Growing Around? Other than to deflect criticism, it doesn't even use the show's main premise, which is that kids run society.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

What relevance does it have in Growing Around?

It doesn’t have any relevance, it’s just Enter being a hack as usual.
Anyway, it’s also possible that he stole this idea from the planned Angry Beavers finale episode “Bye Bye Beavers.”

 

[CoconutCat]

It doesn’t have any relevance, it’s just Enter being a hack as usual.
Anyway, it’s also possible that he stole this idea from the planned Angry Beavers finale episode “Bye Bye Beavers.”

I've never watched Bye Bye Beavers, but a quick Google search tells me the plot is that the main characters learn they're in a cartoon. They don't pretend it's a different medium for no apparent reason just because they're lazy or they want to copy another show or whatever.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

I've never watched Bye Bye Beavers, but a quick Google search tells me the plot is that the main characters learn they're in a cartoon. They don't pretend it's a different medium for no apparent reason just because they're lazy or they want to copy another show or whatever.

My point is that Enter doesn’t come up with a clever idea like a meta episode on his own. He has to have stolen it from another cartoon.

 

[Doctor Placebo]

I feel bad for any woman that is willing to give the nigga the time of day, he promotes himself like he's high maintenance and choosy despite hardly being in any position to even be picky. I don't think he'd even fit in with the Moral Majority.

I'm pretty sure Mr. Enter still believes in his heart that girls have cooties.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

I heard the plot was probably stolen from an obscure Disney Channel short.

I'm pretty sure Enter straight up admitted it was. It was called... Flip Flopped, I think?

 

[Robert James]

I'm pretty sure Mr. Enter still believes in his heart that girls have cooties.

Nah, I've met way too many men like him in my field. They feel like they aren't good enough in some shape or form *cough* this nigger doesn't fucking brush his teeth *Cough* and aim way to high, he himself admits he has high standards. So instead of lowering his standards by going after a she-tard or improving himself so he could atract someone better he hides behind assexuality. He never has to fail, he never has try, and most importantly he never has to change.

 

[Delta Δ]

I briefly brought this up earlier, but I’m gonna bring it up again because I didn’t know the full extent of this until now.

In several previous Enter videos, he said he wanted to do an Animated Atrocity on an anime called ‘I My Me! Strawberry Eggs’ but didn’t feel he could until he researched LGBT rights in Japan. At first I thought this was interesting of him considering what we know now about his LGBT themed Growing Around episodes and his Madoka review, but looking into it, I found more interesting tidbits.

I’m just going to copy paste the Wikipedia synopsis for Strawberry Eggs because it tells you everything you need to know:

“Hibiki Amawa is an enthusiastic young man whose dream career is to be a professional teacher, having graduated from college with a certificate in athletics. When he is unable to pay his landlady, Lulu Sanjo, the monthly rent for his apartment, he rushes off to the nearby Seito Sannomiya Private School to apply for a position that is open, but is summarily denied employment because of his gender. Offended, and more determined than ever to have his way, Hibiki vows to demonstrate the merits of his educational philosophy to his detractors, and with offered help from Lulu, agrees to disguise himself by cross-dressing in order to deceive the school's female-only administration. With assistance from some gadgets Lulu engineered for this purpose, he disguises himself very convincingly. Following an initial demonstration of his merits as an educator, he is hired.”

Hmmmmm. You see how, knowing what we do about Growing Around, that this could be seen as suspicious?

 

[Icarus B. Nezzer]

I briefly brought this up earlier, but I’m gonna bring it up again because I didn’t know the full extent of this until now.

In several previous Enter videos, he said he wanted to do an Animated Atrocity on an anime called ‘I My Me! Strawberry Eggs’ but didn’t feel he could until he researched LGBT rights in Japan. At first I thought this was interesting of him considering what we know now about his LGBT themed Growing Around episodes and his Madoka review, but looking into it, I found more interesting tidbits.

I’m just going to copy paste the Wikipedia synopsis for Strawberry Eggs because it tells you everything you need to know:

“Hibiki Amawa is an enthusiastic young man whose dream career is to be a professional teacher, having graduated from college with a certificate in athletics. When he is unable to pay his landlady, Lulu Sanjo, the monthly rent for his apartment, he rushes off to the nearby Seito Sannomiya Private School to apply for a position that is open, but is summarily denied employment because of his gender. Offended, and more determined than ever to have his way, Hibiki vows to demonstrate the merits of his educational philosophy to his detractors, and with offered help from Lulu, agrees to disguise himself by cross-dressing in order to deceive the school's female-only administration. With assistance from some gadgets Lulu engineered for this purpose, he disguises himself very convincingly. Following an initial demonstration of his merits as an educator, he is hired.”

Hmmmmm. You see how, knowing what we do about Growing Around, that this could be seen as suspicious?

Having never seen the anime myself, I'm going to assume he went rushing into it ready to verbally assault the show for it's disgusting fetishes (think Totally Spies,) but then as he kept watching, something awakened in him and suddenly, it didn't feel right to complain.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

I briefly brought this up earlier, but I’m gonna bring it up again because I didn’t know the full extent of this until now.

In several previous Enter videos, he said he wanted to do an Animated Atrocity on an anime called ‘I My Me! Strawberry Eggs’ but didn’t feel he could until he researched LGBT rights in Japan. At first I thought this was interesting of him considering what we know now about his LGBT themed Growing Around episodes and his Madoka review, but looking into it, I found more interesting tidbits.

I’m just going to copy paste the Wikipedia synopsis for Strawberry Eggs because it tells you everything you need to know:

“Hibiki Amawa is an enthusiastic young man whose dream career is to be a professional teacher, having graduated from college with a certificate in athletics. When he is unable to pay his landlady, Lulu Sanjo, the monthly rent for his apartment, he rushes off to the nearby Seito Sannomiya Private School to apply for a position that is open, but is summarily denied employment because of his gender. Offended, and more determined than ever to have his way, Hibiki vows to demonstrate the merits of his educational philosophy to his detractors, and with offered help from Lulu, agrees to disguise himself by cross-dressing in order to deceive the school's female-only administration. With assistance from some gadgets Lulu engineered for this purpose, he disguises himself very convincingly. Following an initial demonstration of his merits as an educator, he is hired.”

Hmmmmm. You see how, knowing what we do about Growing Around, that this could be seen as suspicious?

I've never seen the anime, but that doesn't sound like the kind of thing you need to do research on LGBT rights in Japan in order to review. The character is not trans, how well/poorly actual trans people in Japan are treated is irrelevant to the show. Unless there's something in there the synopsis doesn't cover.

 

[Icarus B. Nezzer]

I've never seen the anime, but that doesn't sound like the kind of thing you need to do research on LGBT rights in Japan in order to review. The character is not trans, how well/poorly actual trans people in Japan are treated is irrelevant to the show. Unless there's something in there the synopsis doesn't cover.

It's either a convenient excuse to procrastinate, or he's legitimately convinced that any and all crossdressing can be misconstrued as anti-LGBT and must be scrutinized accordingly. If it's the latter reason, he probably justifies all of GA's crossdressing by saying "Well, it's Max's fault for not embracing his feminine side. HE'S the bigot; not me. Blame the victim!"

By the way, Enter wrote a new pilot.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14MnBXLhr-Hm-grLX0KfPawkRKBz5HEdAH7RqPgghB-M/edit

I tried to play the "Ctrl+F dress" game, but got no worthwhile results. That's how you know it's not GA.

 

[Just_a_Bored_Guy]

I don't remember if he specified what kind of review he was going to give Strawberry Eggs. I've never seen it so I can't comment on it. I can say I assumed the review would lean on the positive side.

 

[Maurice Caine]

I briefly brought this up earlier, but I’m gonna bring it up again because I didn’t know the full extent of this until now.

In several previous Enter videos, he said he wanted to do an Animated Atrocity on an anime called ‘I My Me! Strawberry Eggs’ but didn’t feel he could until he researched LGBT rights in Japan. At first I thought this was interesting of him considering what we know now about his LGBT themed Growing Around episodes and his Madoka review, but looking into it, I found more interesting tidbits.

I’m just going to copy paste the Wikipedia synopsis for Strawberry Eggs because it tells you everything you need to know:

“Hibiki Amawa is an enthusiastic young man whose dream career is to be a professional teacher, having graduated from college with a certificate in athletics. When he is unable to pay his landlady, Lulu Sanjo, the monthly rent for his apartment, he rushes off to the nearby Seito Sannomiya Private School to apply for a position that is open, but is summarily denied employment because of his gender. Offended, and more determined than ever to have his way, Hibiki vows to demonstrate the merits of his educational philosophy to his detractors, and with offered help from Lulu, agrees to disguise himself by cross-dressing in order to deceive the school's female-only administration. With assistance from some gadgets Lulu engineered for this purpose, he disguises himself very convincingly. Following an initial demonstration of his merits as an educator, he is hired.”

Hmmmmm. You see how, knowing what we do about Growing Around, that this could be seen as suspicious?

I saw Strawberry Eggs back in the day and it was meh, dropped it on episode 1

 

[Mr. Giggles]

I'm pretty sure Enter straight up admitted it was. It was called... Flip Flopped, I think?

Correct. This was already discussed at various times on this thread, so I'll make it as brief as I can.

A long time ago, Enter reviewed "Shorty McShorts' Shorts", Disney's rather mediocre and failed attempt at creating their own version of Oh Yeah! Cartoons/What a Cartoon. One of the shorts was "Flip-Flopped", where, you've probably guessed it, adults are kids and kids are adults. Enter thought it was a "fantastic" idea done badly on the short, so he decided that "I can do it better" and that's how Growing Around was born. No, really. He even making a video flatly stating that he took Flip-Flopped and "retooled it" to create GA.

Ironically enough, a lot of the issues that Enter criticized Flip-Flopped for are present or even magnified on Growing Around, especially how he called one of the adults sucking his thumb "creepy" or how the logistics of such a world would be confusing. Yet while the original creator of Flip-Flopped abandoned the concept after SMS failed, Enter is still desperately sticking with the concept years after the Indiegogo failed and he and GA became a laughing stock. "Nothing sadder than wasted potential" indeed.

 

[SheerHeartAttack]

Out of all the Shorts to take in an autistic attempt to "do it right", it had to be the one with the least potential.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Out of all the Shorts to take in an autistic attempt to "do it right", it had to be the one with the least potential.

I've always wondered if he would have tried doing Shezow "right" if it hadn't been the one to actually be given a show. It seems to be the one most tailored to Enter's "interests".

 

[Be patient I have lurkism]

I briefly brought this up earlier, but I’m gonna bring it up again because I didn’t know the full extent of this until now.

In several previous Enter videos, he said he wanted to do an Animated Atrocity on an anime called ‘I My Me! Strawberry Eggs’ but didn’t feel he could until he researched LGBT rights in Japan. At first I thought this was interesting of him considering what we know now about his LGBT themed Growing Around episodes and his Madoka review, but looking into it, I found more interesting tidbits.

I’m just going to copy paste the Wikipedia synopsis for Strawberry Eggs because it tells you everything you need to know:

“Hibiki Amawa is an enthusiastic young man whose dream career is to be a professional teacher, having graduated from college with a certificate in athletics. When he is unable to pay his landlady, Lulu Sanjo, the monthly rent for his apartment, he rushes off to the nearby Seito Sannomiya Private School to apply for a position that is open, but is summarily denied employment because of his gender. Offended, and more determined than ever to have his way, Hibiki vows to demonstrate the merits of his educational philosophy to his detractors, and with offered help from Lulu, agrees to disguise himself by cross-dressing in order to deceive the school's female-only administration. With assistance from some gadgets Lulu engineered for this purpose, he disguises himself very convincingly. Following an initial demonstration of his merits as an educator, he is hired.”

Hmmmmm. You see how, knowing what we do about Growing Around, that this could be seen as suspicious?

So I take it we missed an opportunity to see how Growing Around does crossdressing but right?

 

[World's Smallest Violin]

So I take it we missed an opportunity to see how Growing Around does crossdressing but right?

Whatever network that decides to pitch it would probably have some seriously low standards if none at all.

 

[Mr. Giggles]

Whatever network that decides to pitch it would probably have some seriously low standards if none at all.

Knowing Mr. Enter and his rants about Nickelodeon, he probably does think that all the kiddie networks have little to no standards. And I bet that even Nick at its worst would reject Growing Around just for the reputation of its creator alone, and he'll treat it as another reason why the networks have no standards.