Panic move, had CN waited for a hot minute and this would all go away in a spam of a month. Roiland ain't Johnny Depp to milk this drama far enough, and twitter is already going after the next cancellation.
Roiland isn't going anywhere, and he is very well connected, he will land somewhere else after the dust settles.
But by kicking out Roiland from Rick and Morty, CN just made it impossible for this whole thing to go "away", because whenever new episodes of R&M come out, whoever they get to do a impression of the Roiland studder will be a constant reminder of what happened, and regardless if the fanbase gets behind the new voice or not, they just made sure the stain will never go away.
And that fucks up the real way cartoon and shit make money: licencing and merchandising. Rick and Morty is just about the only original IP they have that does lend to multi media shit, from t-shirts to fortnite skins, cartoon are in dire situattion right now that they can't reach the tiktok generation, once kids grow out of Peppa Pig, they go on social media apps and never come back, and Rick and Morty is one of the few that managed to be in the public eye.
I couldn't give a hot fuck about Roiland and Rock and Morty personally, I'm just impressed on how fast a channel that is struggling to keep the lights on is when it comes to kill their golden goose.
And for what? to keep twitter happy... Hope it was worth it.
