Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20180322113157/@comment-28951715-20180325041400

@Angel I have to admit, and I know I hold quite the unpopular opinion here on the Internet, but I honestly do not mind Teen Titans Go. I love how self-aware it is-- half the time it's not insulting the fans, but insulting themselves

Like they know they're bad and they run with it lolol// it's pretty cute, tbh. And I was watching some of the old Teen Titans when they aired it on tv a few weeks ago (!!) and I realized that there's a lot of similar, doofy humor in the original Teen Titans. Like if TTG were the same art style as TT, I guarantee it'd be a) hard to see a difference and b) people would care way less about its issues

Most of it stems from TTG being ugly but even then, it doesn't bother me. It's so much better than other horribly ugly shows (looking at you, Uncle Grandpa, Clarence and The Problem Solverz -does anyone remember this show? i watche da piece of an episode and had to swap to another channel bc my eyes were dying-)

It's really kid friendly, too, which is why it's so popular on tv. Tons of kids watch it, and a big reason is bc it's not political in any way. It's literally just "hey lets just be goofballs" and it works so well.

Steven Universe and Clarence started losing steam (mainly from parents I'm sure) when it started getting "political", or showing same sex ideology and promoting it in kids' shows (tho SU tends to just have more serious themes, like depression and family issues, death and etc). OK KO was doing really well bc of how light it was, and then they had an episode about gun control and I saw a ton of parents freak about that. All those shows did fairly well until they brought in controversy, and as a result lost chunks of audience.

Meanwhile, goofy Teen Titans Go hasn't touched any of that political stuff, or at least has been very very quiet about it, and it does fine.

Another example would be Amazing World of Gumball (which I adore), and it's p tongue in cheek about politics and that sort of thing; it's quick, witty and typically goes over kid's heads, unlike with shows like OK KO or SU where it's' very on the nose.

There's definitely a correlation between politics and success, which is a shame, bc there are a lot of things that kids should have the opportunity to learn about that are handled well. Tho I should mention I'm not just blaming politics for ratings or popularity dropping/rising. There are a host of other reasons.

With SU, at least, because it was the most popular show on CN for a little while, they wanted the Sugar team to start pumping out more episodes, and so they had the team storyboard for days at a time to produce tons of episodes (The steven bombs) instead of weekly episodes. But bc that's such a heavy workload, the team had to work harder for longer periods of time, hence the hiatuses. So again, lots at play.

BUt for the most part, I honestly prefer Teen Titans Go nowadays; if I ever need to escape from the stress and depression of the world and its nasty politics, I can go to TTG and groan about how bright the colors are or how obnoxious the humor is, instead of groaning about another poorly disguised metaphor for a biased debate.

Ggeeeez sorry this is so long- I'm trying to rival Angel in my comment lengths, apparently lolol

I love geeking out about cartoons, tho. Data like that is just so interesting to me///