Why Are Modern Cartoons Getting Worse?

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If you are watching this video, there is a good chance that cartoons played a good part of your childhood. Depending on when and where you grew up, there were cartoons that were entertaining to watch by yourself or with the family. But now the general consensus on modern cartoons is that they are trash. You may be wondering how vakid these claims were so I put them into a video and I hope you enjoy.

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[leesydreamy]

As a kid I loved plot driven cartoons mixed with humor. Today, people think stupidity, gross out and mean spirited humor is what entertains kids. I don't understand it. Not to mention some kids shows get way too political these days.

I know there were some mean spirited humor in the 90s and early 2000s, but at least there was balance and done in a way I could enjoy it. Nowadays, it's become too in your face.

[KeyleeTamirian]

Adult humor in old cartoons: Subtle humor about economics, pop culture trends that are silly.
Adult humor in modern cartoons: in your face references to stuff that was popular during childhood of an adult who's watching it.

To put it simply: In old cartoons, adult humor was made for... actual working adults with mature mindsets. Modern adult humor is aimed at kidult geeks.

[sarasibaja]

Animation is such a scary career to take as it is extremely demanding for a project that is almost garanteed to be disliked by its audience. Ive worked in animation a few times before and it really gets me wondering « whats the point of working for this if no ones gonna like it? »

[blasterxt]

I still miss Samurai Jack and ben 10 and generator Rex old animated shows are amazing.

[galacticmaui]

Part of the problem is everything looks the same. In the 2000s show all looked different and unique.

[katanaseppuku]

it's weird how even though art has progressed to such a high quality. it's like they started over when they switched to digital over hand drawn animation. it's like right when they finally started perfecting animation and art, they said this is too good. let's do something different. and now they've reverted back to early animation levels of quality imo

[Channel-bxlm]

It is surprising that approximately the same situation occurred half a century ago. Previously, animation of the 1940s and early 1950s was considered a benchmark. Younger children watched good fairy-tale Disney cartoons. And teenagers and adults loved to watch Looney Tunes because of the presence of adult black humor and cruel crazy toons. However, then televisions came into fashion, which is why studios began to promote their cartoons there. Looney Tunes got the most: because of their harsh humor on TV, small children could now see it, and as a result, their mothers began to complain massively about them. As a result, by the end of the 1950s, inappropriate jokes had to be censored and cut out. In the first half of the 1960s, the situation worsened when after the civil rights protests, the US invasion of Vietnam, the popularity of the Beatles, hippie fashion, sexual revolution, and so on. All this provoked a new culture and, at the same time, the beginning of economic problems in the country, because of which there was now total censorship in cartoons, and at the same time huge budget cuts for animation and mass layoffs of employees. That's why animation has become so cheap and minimalistic in everything. Because of this, teenagers and adults stopped watching them, which is why Looney Tunes had to close in 1969 after 40 years of existence. Disney had no problems with censorship because of their children's fairy tales, but they also had to cut animation funding and fire employees so that soon new cartoons were practically not created. So from the 1960s to the late 1980s, there was a dark era of animation. At this time in the West in the 1980s, for the first time there was a boom in Japanese animation, which in the West began to be broadcast on TV and on cassettes. At that time, she was distinguished by her highly developed animation and adult humor and plot, which is why everyone began to fear that the Japanese would destroy Western animation with their culture and take over the whole world with their culture. This to some extent served as an incentive for the future revival of Western animation. Everything changed when in 1988 the cartoon Who Framed Roger Rabbit was released, on which Disney and the Warner Brothers worked. This cartoon managed to play on the nostalgia of those who watched old cartoons as a child. As a result, Disney fans created the Little Mermaid who had a box office success, and then Aladdin and so on. And Looney Tunes fans began to create adult cartoons where censorship had disappeared by that time, and as a result, cartoons with black humor such as Ren and Stimpy, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, and so on appeared. And for younger children, a Cartoon Network was launched where Dexter's Laboratory, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Samurai Jack, and so on appeared. And also revived cartoons on superheroes such as Spider-Man or Batman, where the animation quality was already at the level of the Japanese. This new silver age of animation lasted from the 1990s until the end of the 2000s, the consequences of the 2008 economic crisis adversely affected the entire global economy, which is why animation was cut back and employees were dismissed en masse. And although it became easier for animators to draw on a computer, it did not help them to improve it because of overwork and tight deadlines. Also, a new cultural trend in the first half of the 2010s influenced cartoons where total censorship on any humor that could somehow hurt someone appeared again, not only for children's but also for adult cartoons. Politics has gone deep into new cartoons promoting LGBT, feminism, and people with mental disorders. So cartoons not only began to look cheap, but also ugly, and it's okay if they looked caricatured as they did in the 1990s or 1940s, now new cartoons look like a fantasy of a 5-year-old child where everything is so pink and harmless. Probably that's why today's youth began to stop watching Western cartoons and replaced them with watching anime. And animation studios have become either absorbed by Disney or closed down, as the Cartoon Network recently closed, repeating the fate of Looney Tunes. And now, this time, the Japanese campaign still managed to crush Western animation by bringing their own figure into our lives, this can be seen by the fact that every second anime has avatars, and now anyone has watched anime at least once. Anime styles and mascots are also popular in advertisements now. However, I would not like the dominance of anime, there are good things in it, as in the works of the same Miyazaki, but otherwise the anime is a solid jerky animation with eternally emotional, psychotic characters, as well as the themes of sex and girly underpants. And I'm really sorry that Western animation has been failing for more than 10 years. I grew up on it all my childhood and every year it was hard for me to see how what was a symbol of your childhood gradually degrades and dies before your eyes. It remains to be hoped that sooner or later in 10-20 years, the so-called "new Roger Rabbit" will appear, which will launch a new renaissance in Western animation, giving it a bright future😢

[JonatasAdoM]

The shows nowadays have a weird similarly.

It's as if it's all made by the team or computer that rendered the Simpsons and Futurama.


Remember back when Cartoons had their signature?

You could tell you were watching Nickelodeon for their design for example.

I could tell from the moment I saw Milo Murphy's Law that it was from the makers of Phineas and Ferb - Yet I could still see somehow a sharp drop in the quality.


It looks like the cartoon shows that didn't have much budget in the past.

Maybe the studios realized that if those could make money, there was no need to invest or give the animators time.

[magnetoonproductions]

Nowadays, people think that random things, gross out gags and screaming is the only way to be funny.

[hristomir-zwbg]

Unfortunately because of greed a lot of talented animators can't show there talent and are forced to create low quality shows. This also btw affects Anime but in more story wise way if you watch Naruto and then Boruto or read the mangas you will understand that so much effort and care was put in the production in Naruto only to be scratch in the end

[Willchannel]

Cartoons are nice, but modern years where they are having production issues.

[BoReads]

I remember between like the mid 2000s to the early 2010s a lot of good series were wrapping up and there was a dearth of good stuff. We're going through another dip for sure.

[davidginyard]

I’d Choose Looney Tunes Over Modern Cartoons
Because Looney Tunes have Fresh Flair and The Slapstick Comedy Is Just straight up Gold and Animators during the Golden Years at Warner Bros. Studios have Their Own Characters and Looney Tunes had Writing and Animation. But To Modern Cartoons are Immoral and they don’t Have Innovation

[jamesharding]

The Bruce Timm glory days DCAU and renaissance-era Disney will always be the best

[Lastbourne]

I'm just glad Blue Eye Samurai came out in November 2023. It was a breath of air that was much better than oxygen

[aqilazhar]

Especially the streaming culture today, it really puts pressure to animators.

[RIGHTS]

i realised this recently, its not the shows, its the whole thing, having multiple channels and options (nick, disney, cartoon network, kids wb weekdays/weekends, saturday disney/disney one, toonami, jetix, cartoon cartoon fridays) on top of the fact every school holidays would mean more cartoons and themed episodes and blocks for halloween and christmas ect...
being excited for certain days or when the halloween marathons would start airing themed cartoons for that holiday. the ads even, yea ik how its preying on kids with ads but something about those ads just adds more nostalgia since alot of the things we had growing up, its not just cartoons its the whole thing. cartoons wouldnt be the same with todays ads imo, its why nick and cn are still popping cause their ads are kinda similar to how they used to be albeit following the new laws on ads ect. but saturday morning cartoons are dead, weekday cartoons are dead. you cant just go on a free to air channel and find a cool cartoon block airing anymore. they got rid of them all. multiple things was what made the cartoons/time good.


we didnt know how good we had it. i miss those days but with streaming now, its probably never coming back.

[Ihatemyusernamemore]

This is why I pretty much only watch anime when it comes to cartoons. My VPN went down and I saw the western version of Netflix and the recommended section was full of UGLY ass cartoons, and stale premises, not even getting started on the constant remakes. It's easy to see why, lots of great anime stories just wouldn't be given a chance by an American studio, they'd just be like "that's too weird, let's just do another reboot of a classic show instead" like they don't wanna take risks and they don't wanna put in effort, stale stories, overworked animators being directed to draw ugly characters, unlikable characters that lack depth. There are some good Western shows so like I'm not trying to be a hater but the industry seems to have gotten stuck in a major rut lately and needs a good shaking up.

[NatsuDragneel-pics]

As a newbie animator I understand why they might go simplistic on the art style since animation is more time consuming but they make it look easy when it takes days, months, years for perfection

[erenjeager]

I miss the Cartoons from 80s 90s and 00s modern cartoons are garbage.