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Yugoslav1945
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13 May 2024, 12:38 am

Disclaimer! This is not to promote some angsty chud ideology! This video is about corporate greed in Western animation and why children will never experience animation to the fullest like in the 2000s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHV5XcM3Tc4


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16 May 2024, 9:14 pm

Are there any good cartoons that are still being made?


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16 May 2024, 11:00 pm

That's the problem these days. It's all about money instead of art. Ideas don't come naturally anymore. It's all forced out to make a buck.


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17 May 2024, 3:34 am

Aspiegaming wrote:
It's all about money instead of art.
It's also about "Playing it Safe" while "Doing What We've Always Done".

The studio execs are so risk-averse that they stick to the same-old same-o for fear of otherwise losing money.

Sadly, there are few alternatives.  Anime studios have fallen into similar traps, when they haven't stooped to fanservice (or blatant pronz) to sell their products.

I'm re-reading "Watchmen" instead.