How's it going my gumdrops? Looks like more readers were interested in yesterday's Q&A blog. This is fantastic. I spent all last week working on these Q&A blogs mainly yesterday's. Hopefully, new readers learned something informative.
In case you missed yesterday's Q&A, you can read it HERE.
Song Saturday will resume on September 30th and Cartoon Sunday on October 1st.
Speaking of cartoons, I think about how younger Millennials and Generation Z got shafted as children sometimes.
Younger Millennials and Generation Z don't necessarily know what it was like as children to watch all their favorite cartoons on local networks in a block before going to school in the morning, racing home to watch all their favorite cartoons after school, and watching more of them on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
By the time I attended high school during the late '90s, most local channels removed cartoons and other programming for minors.
More families began paying for cable and local programming for children and teenagers was replaced with Court and Daytime Talk Shows.
In 1996, Cartoon Network became nationwide on cable, as opposed to remaining in only SELECT cities in certain states. Then, 1 year later, the network launched Toonami.
Local networks stopped caring about their younger viewers because all their programming was sent to cable. Basically, children's local programming became obsolete.
Those same local networks assumed that everybody had cable 20 years ago, just like most people today assume that everyone has Internet access and want to watch online streams of shows rather than watching TV.
It's Not All Gumdrops & Unicorns Q&A 2017 [Part 2]
Today is Part 2 of my Q&A blog. Because there was only 1 last person to ask me a question, today's Q&A is all about answering Victor's question. He asks:
I have found a recent rare interview with Stuart Snyder from 2017. I have been listening to the podcast and it's a very interesting insect on the man himself.
What are your thoughts about this podcast? Here's a link to it:
WGN Radio: The Business Behind Cartoons
Victor, I listened to this podcast last Sunday night. From the sounds of the podcaster, she seemed to be gushing over her interview with Stuart Snyder.
It is understandable why she would be because he is best known for running Cartoon Network.
However, this is the SAME man, who is notorious for DESTROYING Cartoon Network by launching boy-centric Reality TV Shows and sexist programming in general as Toonami's replacement, 9 years ago.
For Snyder to say, that Toonami tanked in the ratings, it was mostly due to airing some of the WORST Action Anime, the network could find.
Last I remembered, Stuart Snyder was and still is the most hated president of Cartoon Network.
Who in their right mind wanted to sit through watching something as low brow as Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo?
I mean, really? C'mon! Even One Piece isn't that dumb.
Not that I was severely heartbroken over Toonami's cancellation like most fans were. I always cherry picked, which cartoons I watched from both Cartoon Network and Adult Swim.
The podcaster and Stuart Snyder did make some valid points about Cartoon Network needing to air more child friendly cartoons.
At the same time, Snyder RUINED quality animation with his tendency to air the most dimwitted cartoons such as Chowder and The Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack.
You may be rolling your eyes, scoffing, and thinking, "This is coming from the same lady, who still thinks Beavis and Butt-Head is hilarious."
See, there's the whole "so stupid, that it is hilarious." Then, there is mind numbingly stupid, that you can feel your IQ dropping kind of stupid.
It also did not help that by 2005, Cartoon Network started airing more live action movies. It was named "Cartoon Network" for a reason. Cartoon Network and Adult Swim should return to airing animation ONLY.
Both networks are mostly garbage programming. Therefore, more people both young and old are forced to watch online streams of shows. If Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and all cable/satellite networks still had some level of integrity left, they would stop patronizing, insulting, dumbing down, politicizing, and dictating what viewers want to watch.
I believe more viewers would spend less time watching shows online and more time watching TV again, if creators tried being original. When I say original, I mean stop remaking/rebooting classic shows ad nauseam and come up with their own ideas.
How about TV networks and Hollywood entertainers make entertainment FUN, again?
Victor, I hope I answered your question.
This concludes It's Not All Gumdrops & Unicorns' 2017 Q&A blog. Let me know what you think!
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