The Ren & Stimpy thread - Separate from the John K. pedo thread

[Trilby]

I watched the ever loving hell out of this cartoon when I was young, but HO LEE SHIT my grandma hated it. Whenever she'd babysit us she'd get offended and grossed out when this show would come on, and once she flipped the fuck out and threatened to send a letter to Nickelodeon to complain. Apparently sending angry letters to Nickelodeon was a common thing back then, because I heard stories of other outraged parents doing so over different Nick shows.

That was very common in those pre-internet days.

Ironicaly nowadays it's the thing people who are so overly sensitive that they think they'll bleed out from a paper cut who get to get things they don't like cancelled. Just replace angry letters with angry tweets

And it certainly multiplied itself as well. I miss the days of being less connected.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

Ironicaly nowadays it's the thing people who are so overly sensitive that they think they'll bleed out from a paper cut who get to get things they don't like cancelled. Just replace angry letters with angry tweets

Mark my word: today's left-leaning Milllennials are the new religious right soccer mom Boomers of the '80s/'90s. Instead of middle aged parents being concerned with the Satanic Panic and Dungeons & Dragons, you have man-bun, genderfluid, soyboy libtards reading Vox, Verge, and VICE and being paranoid about "muh alt-right" and edgy boi dank memes. When I was a kid, it was "Heavy metal contains secret satanic messages that brainwash kids!"... and now it's "Does your child share images of a cartoon frog or use phrases like 'Gamers Rise up', 'Subscribe to Pewdiepie'? If so, they may be affiliated with the mysterious far-right Russian hacker group known as 4chan!"

 

[Dom Cruise]

I actually submitted Ren & Stumpy VS Rugrats for Celebrity Deathmatch on the official MTV site.

They were all owned by Viacom, so it could have worked.

Mark my word: today's left-leaning Milllennials are the new religious right soccer mom Boomers of the '80s/'90s. Instead of middle aged parents being concerned with the Satanic Panic and Dungeons & Dragons, you have man-bun, genderfluid, soyboy libtards reading Vox, Verge, and VICE and being paranoid about "muh alt-right" and edgy boi dank memes. When I was a kid, it was "Heavy metal contains secret satanic messages that brainwash kids!"... and now it's "Does your child share images of a cartoon frog or use phrases like 'Gamers Rise up', 'Subscribe to Pewdiepie'? If so, they may be affiliated with the mysterious far-right Russian hacker group known as 4chan!"

And what's weird is how many of those Milllennials are children of the 90s, you'd think the edginess of 90s culture would have rubbed off on them and edge would be something they'd like, like me.

But nope.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Maybe they all saw Adult Party Cartoon and decided it wasn't worth it?

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

And what's weird is how many of those Milllennials are children of the 90s, you'd think the edginess of 90s culture would have rubbed off on them and edge would be something they'd like, like me.

But nope.

The common Twitter rebuttal for Millennials being so PC is that they're just as edgy and humorous as other generations, except they know how to not be racist. Bitch, please: these fucking snowflakes consider Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Dave Chappelle to be "toxic and problematic", whilst they unironically think Big Bang Theory's "BAZINGA!" is comedy gold.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Maybe they all saw Adult Party Cartoon and decided it wasn't worth it?

You're actually on to something there.

The 2000s is when 90s style edge and cynicism was sometimes taken a bit too far.

People could be very flippant about everything and eventually it started to get a bit tiresome and it left a bad taste in people's mouths.

Now the 2010s has been a hilariously absurd overcorrection don't get me wrong, but that's American culture for you, people can't seem to strike a healthy balance with things, everything keeps flip flopping from one extreme to the other.

The common Twitter rebuttal for Millennials being so PC is that they're just as edgy and humorous as other generations, except they know how to not be racist. Bitch, please: these fucking snowflakes consider Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Dave Chappelle to be "toxic and problematic", whilst they unironically think Big Bang Theory's "BAZINGA!" is comedy gold.

They're idea of being edgy is to be blatantly racist and sexist against white men, because as we all know nothing is hipper and cooler than woeful hypocrisy and double standards.