>>6362906here's something I wonder about:
I grew up during the era when that cartoon was on TV - I probably watched that very episode, as well as nearly every other cartoon that existed at the time. Saturday morning cartoons used to be a big deal, and there was no shortage of channels to watch them on.
now these same channels have barely anything on them that would be interesting for children. lots of them have been put on Youtube, but with the profusion of total nonsense and garbage like this:
>>6362909...I wonder about the mental, moral, and emotional development of kids growing up on lowest common denominator content like this. even the lowest-grade cartoon product created just to sell toys at least contained a narrative arc each episode, with different plot points, characters, and settings each week. and they were regulated by what they could show by the FCC (CRTC for Syrupland-dwellers), in terms of how much violence could be shown, what educational content was included, and a whole bunch of other aspects I probably never knew about.
say what you will about an era with only 50 TV channels - it was a walled garden, and an ideal place to enjoy a lot of content that even at its most mediocre, at least had a baseline level of narrative content, character design, and some quaint moral message at the end of the episode.
this will be the first generation raised outside that sort of protected media ecosystem, having their earliest memories and encounters with content that is completely unregulated. it's an experiment to see what adults will be created if as kids they grew up with content that has no attempt given at embedding a moral or deeper meaning inside it, zero narrative or character content - just brightly-coloured clickbait mindrot
