>>40561670>>40561595Early Glory: Mostly older H-B cartoons, early Toonami before anime.
Golden Era: The beginning Cartoon-Cartoon era. Toonami finds its feet and starts showing anime.
Late Era: More expensive and risky Cartoon-Cartoons. Toonami is noticeably on the decline, but there's some compensation with the late night anime block.
Malaise Era: There's still some good original cartoons - stuff like Billy and Mandy - but they're increasingly being crowded out by cheap garbage (TTG) or live action content no one wanted, because their boss at the time is on record as hating cartoons. Adult Swim is performing well, having finally grown out of 'lmao it's shit on purpose' programming completely.
Fall of the Empire: CN proper is nothing but blocs of TTG broken up by putrescent trash like Steven Universe and the occasional gasp of fresh air from the likes of Gumball, which is good when the animators aren't randomly inserting polemics about /current year/ politics. Adult Swim is in tatters, the Toonami bloc is too late to get enough millennial eyeballs (they have jobs now) or zoomer ones (they don't really care about these old anime). It also lost the rights to King of the Hill. Finally, CN is no longer basic cable.
I hope some day CN returns to an age of glory. To this day they own the largest library of cartoons on the planet. You could build entire programming blocks out of 90s and 2000s Cartoon-Cartoon reruns and they'd still hold up, to say nothing of their even older stuff which is good. But they'd rather just give money to some fujo to make 1 episode about a fat jew crying every six months.