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Post by Azuki<3 on Jun 13, 2024 22:07:23 GMT

Jun 7, 2024 5:41:21 GMT WuTangShogun said:

I thought and still think early-mid 2010s Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network was heat. Overlook TTG and it was all good and well.

Yeah people sometimes forget how "dark" the age was before 2010. 2009, Cartoon Network didn't even debut a single new cartoon for god's sake.

On that note, mentioned by another reviewer, while the 90s gets a lot of praise for its "amazing animation scene" and it WAS great, a fair number of the shows/movies associated with it are more so 80s or 00s shows. The 90s had its own "dead zone" times too, like when everyone was trying to copy the Disney style, a bunch of copycat gross out shows, cheap celebrity tie in cartoons, etc. Outrights duds of shows that got hushed away quickly. People just watch stuff as kid and associate it with THEIR time, even if it came out earlier than their time, or even got really popular after THEIR time.

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Jun 7, 2024 14:15:29 GMT kinnikubuster said:

Jun 7, 2024 5:03:28 GMT darkrage6 said:

Yeah i'm real sick of adults gushing over Bluey at this point just like I was sick of Bronies in the days of MLP FIM.

I only find myself watching Bluey for the comfort factor of it, but it's something I don't really gush over or obsess over. I just think it's a cute little show that is most deserved for this younger generation in the age of colorful garbage like CocoMelon who's only purpose is to keep kids distracted. It makes me wish I had something similar to it when I was growing up.

Does not help the fact that I'm pretty sure kids who like Bluey are experiencing the same things I witnessed when I was a young fan of My Little Pony.

Don't remember where I mentioned it, but I think the main appeal of Bluey it is CALMNESS in comparison to other shows aimed at kids. ESPECIALLY in the age of streaming and Youtube, like so much is flashing, quick, color overload, mindless brainrot, and Bluey isn't afraid to just BE slow. Chill. Take its time. Just like shows Mils/Gen Z would remember watching when they were younger.

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Post by Azuki<3 on Jun 13, 2024 22:10:35 GMT

Jun 9, 2024 4:51:28 GMT rowler said:

Jun 9, 2024 2:59:33 GMT @puppybunny67 said:

Nowadays negativity = views unfortunately. Just look at how much anti-woke channels get popular just by making lazy videos with twisting people's words, using click bait and buzz words, and encouraging harassment (but then when they get called out, they say it "wasn't harassment" and it was "just constructive criticism/joke/an opinion")

Whatever happened to the internet just being a place for funny cat videos, random humor, and lets plays? Now it's just hating minorities and being a jerk to everybody

I guess over the years, the worse parts of past internet has been forgotten. I feel like people have always been super negative. You can probably find ancient memes that are in bad taste or just cruel. Even in the LP community, there was a lot of bullying and targeting people who were "cringe".

With Cr1tikal, someone who my sister would watch and I used to watch with her, he often talks about random topics or current events. His videos don't go into depth researching these topics and he usually just says what is off the top of his head. This can sometimes be annoying because he will make claims and comments on things he doesn't really fully understand. Like the whole idubbbz situation, his quick take on it wasn't great.

His videos are simply too short to really "say anything" in my opinion. Which doesn't work for a fair number of things.

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Jun 9, 2024 5:08:03 GMT darkrage6 said:

Someone else brought up pride month, I got nothing against that at all, but I DO have a problem with corporations like Bud Light and Target paying lip service to LGBTQ folks during pride month only to back down when right-wing nutjobs whine like manchildren about non-straight people merely existing and they respond by trying to pander to those same shitheads and basically giving non-straight people a giant middle finger in the process, and then the rest of the year they don't give a shit about LGBTQ people.

Yeah, like Disney proudly proclaiming diversity only to hide and censor the heck out of it for overseas countries and audiences. Seems to be less so now with the major loss of the CHYNA (and to a lesser extent, RUSKI) box office but still.

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Post by Azuki<3 on Jun 13, 2024 22:16:29 GMT

Jun 9, 2024 2:56:30 GMT @puppybunny67 said:

Children's sitcoms are actually really funny and entertaining, and they're even better than a lot of adult shows. Kid sitcoms either have a unique concet, whether it's fantasy/sci-fi concept (Best Friends Whenever, The Wizards Of Waverly Place, Lab Rats, Mighty Med, Pair of Kings) or realistic (Liv and Maddie, Jessie, Shake It Up)

On that note, as touched on earlier, it's OKAY to just like something because it's cheesy lighthearted fun, no matter what age you are (I just finished the Kirby show and Sonic X and had a blast with both). If you feel happy watching it, no shame! You do you!

Not everything needs to be a super deep and "exceptional" experience.
EDIT: I would also rather watch most family/kids sitcoms over the adult sitcoms who think that yet another "oooh, that's a naughty word" is the HEIGHT of comedy.

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Jun 10, 2024 20:43:28 GMT lostmedia1975 said:

And to be honest, I kinda expected more people to be all “get over it” when I bring up the weather, mainly because for years it often felt like one of those very small things not worth lamenting about, but as it turns out, it seems my 7-year old self was right all along.

I wish I grew up in a different state, this one robbed me of so much, and when I finally do get to experience snow, I’ll already be a miserable adult who will see it as a nuisance.

We just had to be born in Florida of all places. We just had to. (Trust me, I have way more issues than just this one, but this one came to thought more recently. It’s really depressing to think about.)

TBF a lot of the Florida population are the elderly and/or retired who are super sensitive to the cold at their age, and/or don't have the physical stamina to snowy weather anymore. So them, yeah, the heat probably isn't that bad. To everyone else like me and you...yeah <_<

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Jun 13, 2024 22:12:29 GMT Azuki<3 said:

Jun 9, 2024 5:08:03 GMT darkrage6 said:

Someone else brought up pride month, I got nothing against that at all, but I DO have a problem with corporations like Bud Light and Target paying lip service to LGBTQ folks during pride month only to back down when right-wing nutjobs whine like manchildren about non-straight people merely existing and they respond by trying to pander to those same shitheads and basically giving non-straight people a giant middle finger in the process, and then the rest of the year they don't give a shit about LGBTQ people.

Yeah, like Disney proudly proclaiming diversity only to hide and censor the heck out of it for overseas countries and audiences. Seems to be less so now with the major loss of the CHYNA (and to a lesser extent, RUSKI) box office but still.

Disney is kinda hit and miss on that, on the one hand they actually didn't edit out the kiss and LGBTQ stuff in Rise of Skywalker or Lightyear even overseas(and that did cost them money with the latter film)on the other hand it has done been with other stuff.

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Jun 13, 2024 22:23:02 GMT Azuki<3 said:

Jun 10, 2024 20:43:28 GMT lostmedia1975 said:

And to be honest, I kinda expected more people to be all “get over it” when I bring up the weather, mainly because for years it often felt like one of those very small things not worth lamenting about, but as it turns out, it seems my 7-year old self was right all along.

I wish I grew up in a different state, this one robbed me of so much, and when I finally do get to experience snow, I’ll already be a miserable adult who will see it as a nuisance.

We just had to be born in Florida of all places. We just had to. (Trust me, I have way more issues than just this one, but this one came to thought more recently. It’s really depressing to think about.)

TBF a lot of the Florida population are the elderly and/or retired who are super sensitive to the cold at their age, and/or don't have the physical stamina to snowy weather anymore. So them, yeah, the heat probably isn't that bad. To everyone else like me and you...yeah <_<

I'll gladly take heat over snow personally, at least with the heat you can always go somewhere else to cool off, but with snow you can be trapped indoors and i'm not a fan of that at all.

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Jun 13, 2024 22:16:29 GMT Azuki<3 said:

Jun 9, 2024 2:56:30 GMT @puppybunny67 said:

Children's sitcoms are actually really funny and entertaining, and they're even better than a lot of adult shows. Kid sitcoms either have a unique concet, whether it's fantasy/sci-fi concept (Best Friends Whenever, The Wizards Of Waverly Place, Lab Rats, Mighty Med, Pair of Kings) or realistic (Liv and Maddie, Jessie, Shake It Up)

On that note, as touched on earlier, it's OKAY to just like something because it's cheesy lighthearted fun, no matter what age you are (I just finished the Kirby show and Sonic X and had a blast with both). If you feel happy watching it, no shame! You do you!

Not everything needs to be a super deep and "exceptional" experience.
EDIT: I would also rather watch most family/kids sitcoms over the adult sitcoms who think that yet another "oooh, that's a naughty word" is the HEIGHT of comedy.

Speaking of adult sitcoms i'm personally kind of over the notion of sitcoms not having laugh tracks/studio audiences. Like it was kinda novel in the late 80s to the early 2000s when it only occasionally happened with shows like Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, and Malcolm in the Middle, but once "The Office" remake became a big hit it seems like many sitcoms suddenly became allergic to the very idea of laugh tracks and it resulted in many of them feeling very samey(annoying Youtubers trying to be clever by doing things like removing laugh tracks from shows like Big Bang Theory didn't help, I truly don't get the point of that shit, like you're not being clever or insightful by doing that your just clickbaiting)as a result of trying to copy the formula of The Office(which I find kinda overrated in it's own right TBH, half the time i'm not even sure when i'm supposed to be laughing at it).

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Jun 13, 2024 22:09:18 GMT Azuki<3 said:

Jun 7, 2024 14:15:29 GMT kinnikubuster said:

I only find myself watching Bluey for the comfort factor of it, but it's something I don't really gush over or obsess over. I just think it's a cute little show that is most deserved for this younger generation in the age of colorful garbage like CocoMelon who's only purpose is to keep kids distracted. It makes me wish I had something similar to it when I was growing up.

Does not help the fact that I'm pretty sure kids who like Bluey are experiencing the same things I witnessed when I was a young fan of My Little Pony.

Don't remember where I mentioned it, but I think the main appeal of Bluey it is CALMNESS in comparison to other shows aimed at kids. ESPECIALLY in the age of streaming and Youtube, like so much is flashing, quick, color overload, mindless brainrot, and Bluey isn't afraid to just BE slow. Chill. Take its time. Just like shows Mils/Gen Z would remember watching when they were younger.

I don't really associate the show with that kinda stuff personally, it just does not grab me for whatever reason. I actually kinda prefer a lot of those forgotten 90s shows like Life With Louie, yeah it was a celebrity tie-in cartoon but it was a well done one with genuine heart, same with Bobby's World.

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Jun 13, 2024 20:41:40 GMT SeventhRing said:

Phineas and Ferb isn't that good

So I'm not the only one who never liked this show. I thought it was because I was an adult when it was airing but I knew people my age who loved it.

Maybe it's just the Disney Channel humor and style that I didn't like. The only shows I liked on there as a kid was Kim Possible and the Proud Family.

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