Its always the ones who take the most abuse that are the ones speaking up. The ones who are doing the damage are often the ones *IN* positions of power, or the favorites. They are often protected and use "its just a joke" energy style excuses to justify the toxicity they add to the environment.

This industry is still such a boys club, and that mindset is ripe within. Casual misogyny and homo/transphobia behind meeting doors is common depending on how many of 'the guys' get together. The culture of 'this is how it is' is still prevalent. People are taught from day one to not speak up.

Hollywood is the largest export of western culture and the root of that system is rotted from bigotry. its always gone on.. but this is the first time people have seen the censorship in real time - like the episodes that featured trans characters were cut (moon girl devil dinosaur/ win/or/lose)

People are always surprised when I tell them that there is constant push back against actual representation and this idea that they are somehow 'woke' is the biggest eyeroll BS ever. For every representation you see, there are endless artists that have been left and stories been snuffed out.

Why do so many folks on the interwebs continue to parrot that WB is "done" with Looney Tunes and is "treating the franchise like garbage" when they put LT out there and do stuff with them all the time? Why do these people consider Tubi and MeTV Toons to be a demotion? I don't get it at all.

Fuck AI

On this day 14 years ago, an anonymous 4chan user posted a RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 thread showing a 30,696-foot coaster that took four in-game years to finish, complete with riders screaming “I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride” and a looping exit where “the ride never ends.” youtu.be/y3lANHeZey0

There is semi-joke that the Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) has more historically authentic costuming than pretty much anything "medieval" that has come out of Hollywood in ages, because in it the rich wear some colours.

Movies are also a huge problem. The grungy dirt and booger filters slapped on everything from superhero films to "live-action" Disney animation adaptations make it clear that color is for BABIES. Real adults only watch movies that look/feel like depression. Color just isn't believable as "real life"

Companies make everything the same basic colors- red/blue/black/grey. Cars, kitchenware- they stick to those four basics because they're cost-effective and sell faster. Unique color items often suffer a color tax. They cost more despite being the same product, so poor people have fewer color options

The idea that bright, wild color is something you outgrow is a damaging lie society tells us. This unspoken rule, that enjoying intense, clashing colors makes you childish, is pure bullshit. The depression palette trend has only gotten worse because it saves corpos money. We gotta end it.

the steven spielberg extended universe

The PBS DOCUMENTARIES YouTube channel launches today w/ features, shorts and science/history specials. The goal is to "amplify storytelling from PBS stations, production partners and independent filmmakers" w/ 100+ new videos annually—incl. premieres and originals. www.pbs.org/about/about-... #PBS

The next time they say this shit is inevitable show them this headline

Apparently Bob Iger has a private instagram account and you are not prepared for what name he’s using

This is an original Garfield appreciation zone

That's another thing - by 2000, kids blocks on Big Four network affiliates (Fox included) were increasingly seen as just an obligation to meet FCC E/I requirements. When Power Rangers was on ABC it was pre-empted in half the country. Big groups like Sinclair and Hearst did not want to air it.

True, but by the 2010s ABC Kids was a shambling zombie. They largely stopped investing in Saturday morning around 2002. I think Fillmore was the last thing produced specifically for ABC? (Leaving out Power Rangers because that was being made for Jetix Europe by then)

At the same time, it wasn't making much sense for the legacy networks to stay in the Saturday morning race, not with the rising competition. NBC jumped out and found a niche with Saturday Today and TNBC. CBS followed suit in 1997. Had Disney not bought ABC, they probably would have joined them.

Here is a minute and 15 seconds of "Mistakes Will Happen," the best segment of Garfield and Friends. Dedicated to fake "animation errors," this episode went way over budget (the overseas studio kept animating it too correctly) but it's so densely packed with jokes, it's insane.

Due to his unique transformation requiring him to have one, Zig Zag is one of if not the only Gobot to have a waist swivel.

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Don't waste your time with terrible AI fruit videos when you can watch Mickey Rooney lead an orchestra of fruits, featuring practical effects by the great George Pal.

Hey, I know this toon has been around for ‘bout 2 years or so but, if you get the chance, please check out @nonsenseisland.bsky.social’s Klickbait Kat cartoon, it not only is super funny, but well animated and well written too! really perfect 2D animated satire!!! youtu.be/xIhWfUiRHEU?...

going to @spacehunterm.bsky.social ‘s YouTube channel and seeing the words “Showa Era Scooby-Doo…” just god dammit I *hate* how absolutely perfect that idea sounds

Here's the whole thread on my honest thoughts about Hanna-Barbera. There's a reason why I'm a H-B diehard and it not just because I grew up with their stuff.

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

That too - Fox Kids' rise came largely at CBS' expense. If you look at CBS during that 1993-95 period, they were trying *hard* to outdo Fox. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, WildCATS, the "red sky" era Ninja Turtles.

And as Evanier notes in his blog, when Garfield and Friends watched it was in a world where ABC, CBS, and NBC were basically the only choices on Saturday morning. By the time it ended, NBC had dropped out, Fox had jumped in and was dominating, and Nickelodeon was just about to explode with Rugrats.

The thing is, you can't even really blame CBS. 1994-95 was probably the roughest stretch of CBS' near-century long history. They lost the NFL, which led to them losing a LOT of affiliates in major cities, and on top of that they were not doing well with primetime and news.

This episode has just a beautiful example of smash cutting. 10/10 no notes.

Evanier has a good summary of what happened on his blog (which I've linked) but tl;dr - the show was still doing well but had gotten expensive to make, CBS wanted to cut the amount it paid for it by two thirds, and everyone involved with the show chose to walk away instead of compromising.

What absolute fucking idiots lol. Good for them.

"Thing But Bad Actually" also applies to so many indie video games too.

full version, the vocal samples from the original were getting too big for the SNES memory restrictions so i had to improvise lol

Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

The hard to accept fact for TLTS Lola is that she's perfect for a sitcom, but I'm not sure how her humor specific to Kristen Wig would work in a classic style short? Part of what makes her funny is she stands out as the only real wacky character in a grounded world

BTW the original deadline link is an OPINION PIECE about why regulators SHOULD reject the deal, not that they HAVE rejected the deal. I know none of us want this merger to happen, but please don't resort to lies and clickbait over it.

Happy 78th birthday to legendary artist José Luis García-López, born March 26, 1948.

I said it last year, I'll say it again, José Luis García-López was the standard bearer at DC Comics. If you grew up in the 1980s & early 1990s, chances are if you consumed any DC medium or bought any product, his DNA was all over it. His work made me a fan of DC for life & for that, I'm grateful.

OKAY -but I was thinking how Superheroes HAVE to exist in the Roger Rabbit Universe but assuming they follow the same cultural norms and beauty standards as the other toons, you'd have these buff 6foot tall supermen trying to woo a cartoon lady who's "out of their league".

A Rodger Rabbit and Jessica Rabbit scenario but reversed so the guys a heart-throb and he’s married to a little scrimblo cartoon lady

like this

Nazi shit

it’s like when you hear a tree start to creak before it topples over

oh.

25 years ago today

I thought they'd go for the cinematic universe cameo pull in the first Mario movie and even gave it flowers when they didn't. Aw, well. Time for Fox to tell Mario about the Smash Bros Initiative.

The great animators learned from watching great comedians. That’s the whole idea behind my book, Comedy for Animators.