Paramount will be selling their kids cartoon IPs in an attempt to acquire Warner BrosWhat IPs do you think they are selling?
Why do two American companies need the EU's permission for a merger.
>>154083373Because they're both multinational and wish to continue operating and selling product in the EU.
>>154083349>willing to sell one of their most popular brands just to acquire a company saddled with billions of debt Paramount execs gotta be drinking themselves silly to cope with being run by a complete retard.
>>154083349A fire sale? Hell yeah.
How Jack Warner does it? Even dead he saves cartoons by acquiring SpongeBob, Danny Phantom, Rugrats without nothing. >>154083373Paramount thinks Yellowstone, Sonic, will keep it affloat
Not SpongeBob
>>154083349They'll end up selling to a holding company belonging to ellis who will then licence it back to paramount
>>154083349I don't understand this, if this was a decade and a half ago I could understand trying to stop this monopoly on kids networks, however nowadays nobody watches cable TV, kids are more into games, youtube and TikTok, and you would be merging 2 dying channels anyway
>>154083349Likely alot of third rate nick jr and nickelodeon fodder. Pretty much anything that isnt directly associated with them. Bubble Guppies, Blaze, Wubbzy.
>>154083349Disney owns Marvel, pixar, fox, doctor who, star wars and much more.But somehow paramount owning nickelodeon and cartoon network is too much
>>154083442The EU tends to be a bit stricter on that sort of thing than America.Though I wouldn't put it past selling CN to the Saudis.
>>154083429Correction.Yellowstone, Paw Patrol, Ninja Turtles, Spongebob, and Sonic.>>154083442Highly likely, though I could see them sell off a ton of cable assets too.
>>154083459Disney doesn't own Dr. Who or Bluey, they license those.
>>154083459Not that Disney doesn’t have a monopoly, but most of those brands were much smaller than an entire multinational corporation.How they were able to get away with 20th Century, though, I don’t know.
>>154083349All the live-action ones probably, since no child cares about those
>>154083349They're keeping Harry PotterDC comics Hanna Barbera Looney TunesTMNTRick and Morty SonicBasically anything that still makes money with merchEverything else is sold to FOX/Tubi
...who would buy it?Not even in a "lol Nick and CN are worthless" way, I mean, who would buy the IP of a kids network? Disney wouldn't, they make their own.I guess Netflix may be interested in a consolation prize. Or Amazon trying to be relevant in streaming with Hazbin ending and Boys ended.
>>154083508all the Live Action Nickelodeon IPs*
>>154083529Drake and Josh and iCarly are plenty popular still so I don’t know.
>>154083518Depends on what's dropped. Universal we all know want their own superhero universe, what if they were to aquire Blue Falcon, Space Ghost and Captain Planet. That would be a pretty good foundation to start with.
>>154083349This will not end well...
>>154083561Between Danny Phantom, MLAATR, The X's, and El Tigre (and to a lesser extent Welcome to the Wayne) I always thought Nick had the beginning of a decent superhero universe that I'm surprised they never really explored.Heck, toss in Avatar as a neighboring universe that crosses over.
>>154083619>inb4 Aang is frozen again and comes back as their captain america equivalent
>>154083392Anon, they want total media dominance and ability to control your thinking.That's all.They bought tiktok just for this purpose.
>>154083518This is another point, this sounds like the Ellisons are gonna say>take everything but SpongeBob, Dora the explorer and TMNTNickelodeon IPs are much, much more PROFITABLE than CN IPs, heck in fact with sole exception of Ben 10 none of the CN IPs can even compare to these 3 merch giants, yes that even includes PPG or Adventure Time, all these are gonna be cheap worthless IPs for the Elissons if it means they can get the rest of WB
>>154083619an edgy reboot of danny phantom where he's actually half-dead would print money. you'd need to put limits on the writers so they dont actually make him a tranny though.
>>154083671Obsessed
>>154083678have you actually looked in the danny phantom tag ever in your life? it's 90% tranny headcanons.
>>154083518Aside from the aforementioned answers like Amazon, Netflix, Tubi, etc you could probably see some smaller media entities like Ketchup Entertainment, Shout Factory, or a modern day equivalent to Harmony gold pick up what they can on the cheap. Lately I've mulled over the prospect of Paramount bunching up all their Warner animation boy's IP under the HB banner just to better distinguish it from DC, TMNT, and all the other shit they own. The sillier kiddy toons could then be bunched up under CN or Nick branding. If I had the money however I'd go out of my way to buy everything outright and do this myself.
>>154083640>they want total media dominance >they’re now forced to sell IPs and shows to another company that will have zero intention of selling it backDoesn’t feel like a sound plan to me.
>>154083671You just reminded me I drew art of exactly that. Not Danny as a troon, but Danny reimagined as a deadman styled supernatural hero.
>>154083349They should sell Invader Zim so it can finally be free from the cuck cage.
>>154083710Somehow I dont see them selling off the likes of Tak, Mr Meaty, or Little Bill as a major loss. Not to mention they're going to offload cable networks by the boatload.
>>154083529Adult Double Dare, Cuts and Legends of the Hidden Temple would instantly be the biggest 3 game shows on tv.
>>154083710Well, they're rich, not smart
>>154083730This is Johnen's chance to scrounge up the money and follow in the footsteps of the Megas XLR creators. If I was anybody in hollywood I'd be rushing to save my show right now. Warburton and Adams should do the same.
>>154083349At what point would it take to convince Ellison (or even big Paramount executives to try ousting him) that the merger is not worth it?
>>154083349Who are they going to sell Ren & Stimpy to, back to John K?
>>154083748pfffbt /thread
>>154083762Ellison is a man on a mission. Someone told him "no" and that is an affront to him. It woukd have to be a stockholder revolt, because Ellison will happily burn everything down in a petty richoid tantrum
>>154083469I don't trust Avatar creators to be financially responsible enough for Aang despite children liking him over Korra.
>>154083349Meanwhile, Disney didn't need to sell anything to acquire Fox...
>>154083812If it were to happen I could see whoever's in charge booting the avatar veterans anyways.
>>154083827https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fox_by_DisneyWrong, one of the biggest things it needed to sell off was the Regional Sports Networks Fox controlled, which they eventually did
>>154083349The fuck? Haven't SpongeBob and Paw Patrol kept their TV stations on life support for the past two decades? Whichever company buys the entire Nickelodeon catalog (my money's on Universal) is going to be the luckiest fucker alive
>>154083827I think it's because FOX did not really have any presence in Europe, the Murdoch empire in Europe operates under another name and licences programs from Fox US while both Cartoon Network and Nick both operate as entities within the EU.
>>154083349Bye CN.
>>154083349https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-lawyer-warner-bros-merger-opponents-antisemitic-views-1236764997/...
>>154084145Using Judaism as a shield really does show slimeballs have no religion
Can they give the Transformers movies to someone else now? Please?
>>154084174>Using Judaism as a shield really does show slimeballs have no religionThat's their religion
>>154083812Chldren that liked Aang are old enough to have their own children now and "Bryke" weren't competent enough to world build and story craft to make it a semi-evergreen world like naruto.The Avatar brand is dead.
>>154083710Eh, probably a bunch of trash IPs they weren't even using outside of Nicktoons reruns. What they eant is control over Paramount Pictures & Warner Bros Music and Movies too so outside of Disney, every actor,singer, producer, writer, etc is going to have to kiss their kosher cock ring if they want to play ball in Hollywood.
>>154084174That's how all religious people are.Jews just do it more often because they know they can get away with it.
>>154084425Warner Music Group hasn't been owned by WB since 2004.
>>154084437>That's how all religious people are.Nope
>>154083349Fucking wow. They will sell SPONGEBOB to get Warner Bros? And Loud House is probably ultra mega super dead, or they'll butcher the characterization for "modern audiences" some more.
>>154083448EU bureaucrats are boomers
>>154084113>>154084583SpongeBob alone has supplied up to 5% of Viacom's revenue in the past. It would be silly to axe it
>>154083518>Disney wouldn't, they make their own.Disney bought the distribution/streaming rights to the new Gumball season and the new Adventure Time prequel show. They would at least be interested in acquiring those properties.
>>154084583>implying that it’s not already cookie-cutter shit
>>154084659It would be silly to merge with Warner Bros, but here we are.>>154084681It isn't, but you'll never know that considering you'll never watch more than two episodes of it. Anyways across the seasons they sanded off the edges of characters a lot and in the live action show one of the actresses pushed to make some characters bitchier because lol lmao.
>>154084705>It isn't, but you'll never know that considering you'll never watch more than two episodes of it.Yeah, I’m not that autistic.
>>154084705>It would be silly to merge with Warner Bros, but here we are.True. I guess the one silver lining behind all of this (assuming they don't shut it down) is that Warner Archive can finally, hopefully put together solid restorations of the Terrytoons library
>>154084659It's sillier to buy WB after AT&T and Discovery already used and disemboweled it.
most of these are dead IPs. The fuck you gonna do with El Tigre or Catscratch in 2026, yo.
>>154084982I don't know Jesse, you tell me.
>>154083349What IPs are getting the axe anons?
>>154083349does that mean there is a chance they sell Ben 10 and the original series gets a proper reboot and not another remake with an even more putrid shit artstyle?
>>154084982Looney Tunes was dead for 30 years but TV networks made a living rerunning those cartoons for years. Part of the business of owning IP is keeping them in the conversation. The moment kids stop engaging with your IP is the moment it dies. The problem is that nu-CEOs don't know how to (appropriately) reach kids so IP is kept alive with half-assed reboots and appeals to the 18+ crowd that already had cartoons years ago. The only ones that figured it out were Universal and DreamWorks, that's why Trolls and Minion merch still sells well.
>>154083349Anything not Spongebob and Avatar. I suspect most of the Nick Jr. stuff will get sold off.
>>154083429>Paramount thinks Yellowstone, Sonic, will keep it affloatDavid ellison is such a fucking manchild retard who will literally bankrupt himself to poverty because that nepo-baby bitch wants his own disney and wants it instantly like a whiney inpatient bratty child.
>>154083349None I assume, this seems to be more like they're selling the TV channels themselves, not the library of content.
>>154083518private equity to license it to streaming services
>>154084982El Tigre at least has potential especially since superheroes are big these days. For a Flash animated show I remember it had some pretty good action so if they just kept the same art style, it would most likely be cheap to make.
>>154083373They don't want to lose access to EU Markets. That's basically it. Although in my opinion, the EUs standards for a monopoly don't make any sense and don't seem to have any logical consistency because in general media companies can't really monopolize a market like say, a technology or oil company can. Being very big is not the same as being a monopoly because traditionally a monopoly would entail complete control over your entire supply chain and distribution networks, which isn't really possible with media companies, because it would imply owning things like the manufacture of AV equipment for example. The EU in general seems to be ran by zoomers on the principle of all feels no reelz, which is why they're the only retards willing to take the whole "stop killing games" autists seriously while everyone else is telling them to touch grass.
>>154085754Nah, if anything America isnt hard enough on media monopolies. This shit is pathetic the paramount/warner merger shouldn't happen at all and all the retards crying over netflix trying to buy WB should go fuck themselves for bringing this far worse merger on. The only consolation is that david elison is a moronic faggot who is bankrupting himself and paramount through this merger so he will suffer financially through this absolutely retarded and self destructive endeavor.
>>154083373The US is in Europe
>>154085754>The EU in general seems to be ran by zoomers on the principle of all feels no reelz, which is why they're the only retards willing to take the whole "stop killing games" autists seriously while everyone else is telling them to touch grass.Fuck off shill
>>154085754Sorry, that's just your retarded American concept of monopoly, where oil barons, railroad magnates, and The Big Five owning entire cinema chains barely applies to.
I feel like if you have to sell assets to buy something else, you really don't have the money to be considering buying something else.
>>154085978rich man's equivalent of "my savings are in the negatives but i'm gonna dine at a 5 star restaurant anyway"
>>154083448Thats the rules. Thats like saying someone killed a man with cancer but this man was already dead so it wasnt murder.
>>154085943The point my retarded European friend is that a company shouldn't be able to prevent competition. Being very big does not mean preventing competition, the problem is just that nobody cares enough to compete
>>154085943>>154086029The warner merger is a monopoly tho, you fags are retarded
>>154085978>I feel like if you have to sell assets to buy something else, you really don't have the money to be considering buying something else.Thats the whole point, he doesnt have enough
>>154086062Last I checked there are a lot of other media conglomerates out there besides Paramount and Warner so no
>>154083518I’ll buy the gay cartoons and make a gay channel
>>154086337Should buy gay cartoons and make them straight
They won
>>154083518I would. I would buy them all up just to sit on them and do nothing. Because that's what kids deserve. Fuck all. I want to go back to the days when children had nothing of their own and were expected to do as they're told and to keep quiet. Fuck cartoons for ruining those days.
>>154086525You are a seething faggot
>>154083349This will be the end of Nickelodeon and Warner Brothers cartoons.
>>154084671If they do they will force AT to drop the gay shit lmao
>>154086534Neither Nick or Warner has produced a new cartoon of value in over 10 years
>>154086534>>154085526I don’t think so
>>154085186Optimistic
>>154086552Wait, didn’t Nick confirm/approve that some of their characters are LGBTQ?
>>154085754You don't get to post dogs with retarded takes like that.
>>154086590That was before Ellison, they canned the FOP reboot once he arrived despite winning a GLAAD Awards
>>154086608K.
Panasonic is basically giving Disney a golden opportunity to win by doing absolutely nothing at this point by fracturing and spinning off competing animation studios, Disney basically has a chance to swoop in and start publishing these shows themselves
>>154083640>Anon, they want total media dominance and ability to control your thinking.They don't just want it, they're destined to get it. The death of free will is going to be the final step we take on the path to the eternal dystopian nightmare that Earth was always meant to be. Only our masters will be free, free to torture everyone forever.
>>15408465935%, not 5%, the rest are made up by Star Trek and South Park.
>>154086714So like any other day gotcha.
>>154086714They have quite a few roadblocks to "total media dominance" like you know, the whole internet thing for example, you melodramatic retard. If there's anyone to worry about regarding media dominance at this point it's technology companies like Google and Nvidia that want us all in some dystopian nightmare
>>154086714
>>154086714>free will
>>154083453Nickelodeon never owned Wubbzy though?
>>154084824Also more Fleischer Blu-Rays.
>>154086782Yes
>>154086753It is our destiny to allow unapologetically nihilistic sadism to devour the world. All of history has been leading up to the ultimate triumph of evil. Everything we have built was only built so a small group of rich, powerful, narcissistic, sociopathic sadists can have the fun of burning it all down. Whoever tortures the world to death first wins.
>>154086714Lol dork
>>154083640Only a very small percentage of it's US branch, the CCP still owns the majority of it.
>>154086804Paramount owns the Famous Studios library, right?
>>154086567if only we could see their vaulted intergalactic shorts program pilots
>>154087246Only up until 1949, NBC Universal owns the 50-59 library with some extras due to those shorts having Harveytoons characters in them.Post-59 is Paramount however.
This nigger would do anything to hijack someone else's achievements instead of just making a new cartoon
>>154087360Oh weird. Explains why Mighty Mouse anything never happens on Nick
>>154084538The Mormons are protecting a lego thief.
>>154083349Will they be able to sell the properties they bought but don't use like Camp Weedonwantcha?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBLwkxs0KWk
>>154083349assets are different to ips. just means stations they own not the underlying ips
>>154088945Translation: We're selling networks, not the IPs.
>>154086567They brought us The Patrick Star Show, which is kino
>>154086567Warner was involved with Green Eggs and Ham, so they get a pass.
>>154083349they wouldn't be selling the shows, just potentially the networks themselves, its kind of a reverse of how when Disney bought out 21st Century Fox they spun off most of the TV Broadcasting portions of Fox(aside from the FX networks which Disney kept) into the separate Fox Corporation, which they did because since Disney already owned ABC they wouldn't have been allowed to own another broadcast network because of FCC policy, however when they did that they kept all of the IP and production studios that had been 21st Century Fox's(hence Disney owning The Simpson's, Family Guy, American Dad, King of The Hill, Futurama, and Bob's Burgers)so if Paramount did sell off Nickelodeon they'd almost definitely be only selling off the actual cable network and not any of the IP, or vice versa if they were to instead sell off Cartoon Network after the acquisition
>>154089951Chinchy as fuck, you want actual quality, go watch The Great Piggy Bank Robbery.
>>154083349Why have big corporations gotten stupid as of late? Genuine question. Like I've seen corpos being stupid but lately around the mid-2010s and onwards they have gotten embarrassingly stupid. And with AI being used by these corps, it's just down right sad.
>>154090081Kys, Famicon
>>154083459Very much so. Paramount gutted cbs and 60 minutes to push a right-wing zionist agenda and lost millions of viewers since.
>>154090507Shinto agenda, not zionist.
>>154086085This is still too much of a conglomerate that needs to be broken up, fuck off paramount shill
>>154086573Its true tho, he literally doesnt have the funds for this merger
Reminder that Paramount spent more to buy WB than Disney spent on buying Hulu, Pixar, Marvel, Fox and Star Wars... combined. By about two billion dollars.Paramount can barely afford to keep the lights on. And now they're also saddled with all of WB's debt.I predict Netflix picking up the pieces in a fire sale two to five years from now.
>>154083640you're crazy
>>154090594For reference, the highest grossing media franchise in the world is Pokémon, with a lifetime revenue total of $115 billion. The amount of money Paramount spent on WB would take Pokémon ten years to make back, and it would be very close.
>>154090594NBC Universal, not Netflix.Even Disney is more likely then Netflix.
>>154090649$115 billion is how much Pokémon makes in a year, not in it's lifetime.
>>154087369He had a new cartoon at Netflix but they decided to stop paying for in house animation.
>>154090613That's what they want you to thinkBut they openly state it. They want media "friendly" to their way of thinking and can push their narratives.I don't understand how you can be on /co/ of all places and not understand how this works.
>>154085754>because in general media companies can't really monopolize a marketHa ha ha whatBro do you even ever learn about the Age of Yellow Journalism when like two guys owned all the newspapers and even kickstarted a war between American and Spain by amplifying lies? Media companies can absolutely be monopolies and they are the most deadly kind because they can control information, not just oil or railroads.
>>154090594Money isn't real and they are interested in controlling narratives, not making profits.
>>154090101because the old farts who care about profit over anything else are still in charge
>>154083466Not when a robber baron rabbi is control of a company. Sure the EU got Israel crying over Eurovision being meanies to their musical moshepits but when Shlomo starts shelling shekels, they cuck out harder than Keir Starmer did to his Labor Party Promises.>Ziobots in full force today.You think Starmer or the Ellisons care about you Ivans ,& Pajeets? They'll burn your ass like a klukva kurry kombo just to pinch a penny.
>>154083349Does not matter.The fact that a monopoly is happening uncontested is crazy
>>154083473I thought they produce Doctor Who now.
>>154087369Why /co/ has such a hateboner for Hirsch?
>>154085754The EU is ran by pinkos, you fuck.
>>154092462He is overrated and a one hit wonderHe also outplayed 4chan
>>154090101New dark age is coming, and the upper class is prepping. System's too rotted out to prevent the collapse of modern civilization.
>>154083349I still can't believe Warner bros is being bought. What a fuck up
>>154090101Extension of the trump coup
>>154092893Obsessed
>>154092902Looney Tunes, not Batman.And the earliest Looney Tunes (Bosko) is already in the public domain.
What would it take to make my own streaming network.Just somethingI can show old cheap or free to license cartoons and anime and old commercials on?
>>154085754>which isn't really possible with media companies, because it would imply owning things like the manufacture of AV equipment for example.Streaming services don't ring a bell at all for you? They hoard IPs and you can only access them through their subscription. With the death of physical media You have no other option to access these IPs. It doesn't matter if you device you access these homogenized services is not made by for example Disney because you are either in their ecosystem or you don't watch Disney. And Marvel. And...
>>154085943He's just a retarded /pol/ autist heavily baked into the "people I don't like like thing therefore thing bad and opposie thing good" brainworm shit.
>>154093076Solid media exists and has been making a comeback. With streaming being expensive and filled with media made by people who hate them and with messaging they don't like many people are giving up paid subscriptions and buying old solid media now.
Just came back to tell that one knob I was notified of your post but I didn't read it because I already knew you had nothing of value to say whatsoever. Show was good for 3 seasons and archetypes are in the DNA of caricatures aka cartoons, if you think this is criticism, you should stop talking about cartoons period. I only came back here to tell you I completely ignored you and will now return to doing so. 10 seasons lol cope harder.
>>154093076You're literally just describing Cable TV channels having exclusive content, that doesn't make a monopoly you retard. It would be a monopoly if they owned the exclusive rights to make streaming services in the first place.
>>154083373they do business in EU. Dont want permission? stop doing business there.
>>154090557Make me, ya little bitch boi. :^)
>>154092402Not anymore they don't. Doctor Who has been a disaster behind the scenes and Disney wants out, so they're letting their contract with the big british cock lapse.
>>154086826Man. Go and touch grass
>>154083529Who would want sloppy seconds?
>>154094564Pass on Miranda, but Jeanette McCurdy can get it.
>>154083349Crazy daisy ed
>>154093267With these constant mergers you don't need to own the hardware. You can make a Youtube competitor except you can't. You can make a phone not using Google or Apple except you can't.The future of every industry is one or two mega corporation owning everything in the space and while theoretically you can make a competitor but in reality you will have zero users because everyone has to deal with you. This is what the EU is concerned about but for some reason people like you can't see where things are going if it doesn't 100% fit in their definition.
>>154093186>Solid media exists and has been making a comeback.Imagine beliving this. None of the stats back it up. None. Best you can pull is something like "digital adoption has slowed down". Music and video was completely obliterated by streaming and even Nintendo is phasing out physicals with a centralized effort. They will force you if they need to.
>>154090780Thanks for proving you're crazy.
>>154095403Anon.China has pulled out of america and they are designing their own phones and graphics cards.The EU has dropped both microsoft and google.No one is vibing with american media anymore either.You don't know how bad it is going to get for america. We don't produce anything. At all.Our people are sick and dying.Our military is broken with a bunch of out of touch rich lunatics being in complete control The stock market is no longer trusted. The dollar isn't the world currency anymore.We are in trouble.A lot of trouble.
>>154092627Society is not collapsing and a dark age is not coming because some stupid companies are merging.
>>154095463Kinda crazy how much damage could be done in so short of time. The majority of voting Americans got what they asked for. And it's going to fucking suck.
>>154086689Disney should have already won but they were stupid and lost a lot of money for being woke.
>>154095490>>154095463You've been brainwashed, stop watching CNN
>>154095439Force us how?We don't have to buy or consume any media they are creating and we don't have the money to waste on something we don't want made by people who hate us.It's not a need like water or air or food or companionship. If anything it will reignite local efforts to create media for small groups of people and pushe more people into buying older and indie media. Not "INDIE" indie but actual independent media. Ironlung came out of nowhere and did gangbusters in theaters. I'm not sure if you realize that the days of monolithic media empires is over. They can buy some means of digital distribution and social media platforms, but as long as the internet is mostly free and tech to create localized communication networks exist they are fucked.Their attempt to back "AI" did more damage to the very idea of them existing then they realize.
>>154095517>The majority of voting Americans got what they asked forfound one
>>154095637I'm not American and you proved you've been brainwashed
>muh votesAnyone who keeps bringing up this argument also keeps pretending that election works on the candidacy level. Quit using that word.
>>154095463CCP shill.
>>154086567Neither has Disney. Or literally anyone else. Cartoons are dead.
>>154085754you're not as smart as you think you are
>>154090101Gold rush mode, administration is lax on regulations, and so corpos are driven into a frenzy trying to take advantage of this window.
>>154085754>media companies can't really monopolize a market>yea bro, you shouldn't care about a handful of companies controlling the national conversation and political opinions that will have lasting effects for the generations aheadThis is either bait or Reddit-tier reasoning
>>154096358Look at all of that shit no one is watching. Anon, since streaming came into being 90% of that shit goes unwatched by anyone save for 60 year olds who don't have family who can turn on streaming or music channels on their smart devices.
>>154085754>in general media companies can't really monopolize a marketIt's probably about TV channels. There are 3 big kids cartoon channel networks in europe, Cartoon Network with Boomerang and Cartoonito, Disney Channel, XD, Junior and Nickelodeon, Nick Jr. Nicktoons, TeenNick. This merger would basically create a WB/Paramount and Disney dupol.
>>154090101dementia
>>154096374>since streaming came into being 90% of that shit goes unwatchedLiterally everything mainstream you read online is controlled and cherry picked by a select few companies. Doesn't matter if you're a 70 year old boomer watching Fox News or a zoomer watching Tiktoks.
>>154096475i wonder if we'll ever undergo a brand devolution when brands become meaningless to us. traditionally a trusted brand is a seal of quality assurance and values, and they aren't even that anymore to so many people.
>>154085754You really triggered the simpletons with that games remark lmao
>>154084671Thus begins the partition of CN IPs...
>>154096527Go back to Preddit
>>154083373They are multinational companies that film and release media around the world so they are subject to other countries regulations as well. It would be hilarious if the Ellisons did all that work to suck Trumps Dick and and throw massive public tantrums over Netflix all for the merger to still not happen because of Europe
>>154095463Also Japan never bothered with Microsoft and Google, if ASCII was better managed the MSX standard will still be alive and well. FUCK! If NEC was better managed and Windows XP onward was supported by the PC-9821 NEC will still be doing consumer hardware (except NEC would've made the PC-9864 just to support 64-Bit CPUs).The dollar is still the world's currency, it's not the most valued currency (that will be the the UK pound) but every normal country on earth still uses the US dollar for international trade.>No one is vibing with American media anymore either.Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker and Popeye are still worldwide kings in the media landscape.Fred Flintstone, Homer Simpson and SpongeBob for TV animation.>>154095974MeTV Toons and it's over 40 million views daily will like to have a word with you, there is still demand.>>154096516Disney already became this and it's depressing as fuck.
>>154090101Because the executives nowadays are getting greedier as well being full of themselves for thinking that they're the smartest executives in the world for making a right business decisions
>>154083392They don't give a shit about anything but owning all the news channels.
>>154097517They get greedier because they know the goverment will always step in to give them free bailouts and corporate welfare everytime they fail
>>154097908And what sad thing is that both parties will help this companies to give them bailouts and in return the companies will help fund the parties campaign while both far left and far right are fighting each other distracting of what's going on with their own politicians
>>154085754At least they're doing something. In the face of entropy every other multinational organization holds out their hands and goes "weeelp, nothing we can do, not our problem, how about you just get better nerd"
>>154092922Not wrong though, only reason the Ellison's want WB is to have CNN, buying paramount last year gave them CBS
>>154098270And by 2 to 3 years the TV networks will be sold off be piecemeal while the studios and IPs will be sold off to either Disney or Universal fore cheap.All they will keep is CNN.
>>154083349Cartoon Network will be sold, they are the lesser known brand and lower performing channel. They aren’t selling the rights to SpongeBob which trounces all CN content.They will keep Looney Tunes, HB, T&J, and DC content (and associated content). CN and its original will be sold. Good chance the channel dies but the IP and show catalog is what is desired for streaming
>>154099705They already killed off Nick, moved it's network operations to CBS and moved the animation department to Warner Bros Animation.https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXE-ncrjFEy/?igsh=MXZjZDFyamVhb3phbA==Nick is the one getting sold if it still exists as a shell network, blame Dan.
>>154095463>Our people
>>154083691So..."Tranny Phantom", if you will...
>>154098069Because they’re relentlessly funding the fight incentives too lol
>>154097357You have no clue how much and how fast things are about to change.
>>154102669They won't, Bugs Bunny will always remain supreme.
Whoever buys them wouldn't be getting any IPs, just a network station. Paramount would still retain all of the IPs
>>154083349I’m really trying to not be anti semitic out here, but “they” don’t make it easy
>>154083705Ben 10 being there makes me feel ancient
>>154097357
>>154104150No, these are facts.
>>154083459I thought Doctor who was BBC produced?
>>154104211It is, Disney just isn't renewing the license is all.
>>154098270It's why the US government is working so hard to pushing it through (they've outright said so) but CNN wasn't part of the Netflix proposal (they were going to split the networks and the IP like when Fox was sold to Disney) so if that was it there would be no reason for the Ellisons to throw such a huge tantrum over it.
>>154104550Only to sell the studios and IPs to either Disney or Universal in 2 to 3 years anyway.All the Ellisons want is CNN, strictly.
>>154087360>Only up until 1949The public domain will consume it under 18 years, everything up to 1931 will go public next years.
>>154090675No retard, that is how much is has made in its lifetime, not even Japan is retarded enough to buy $115 Billion dollars of Pokemon merch a year
>>154095517t. FOX News watcher
>>154107759Not the case, if thats how much Pokémon made in it's lifetime it wouldn't be the current number 1 IP right now.Also other countries buy Pokémon stuff, Japan only counts for $3 billion out of the $115 billion.https://www.gonintendo.com/contents/61584-pokemon-co-sees-its-best-fiscal-year-ever
>>154090101You mostly confuse stupidity with desperation
>>154083349I'll buy Making Fiends from them for $1 and give it back to the creator.
>>154107843You are a fucking retard! It’s 3 Billion for the entire year!For fucking reference, the entire Disney Company makes 94.4 Billion Dollars in revenue a year!
>>154083349Bro the reports of Skydance making Nickelodeon Animation Studios just be "Spongebob Studios" turned to be true..https://knightedgemedia.com/2026/06/is-paramount-considering-selling-their-avatar-the-last-airbender-rights-to-another-studio/?fsp_sid=13066
>>154090649>>154090675>>154107759Ironic beacuse Disney sangged the license to air Pókemon on their networks and streaming services even they know that those two are dead than ever....https://x.com/DTVANews/status/2063376251151118798
>>154083561Universal already has their own capeshit IP; they just refuse to do fucking anything with it lmaoGold Key didn't die and fade into oblivion just for Universal to constantly forget they have IP only to remember any time the deadline to renew the copyright for the Turok IP comes around
>>154109108Guessing the Netflix projects are likely cancelled or reworked for Disney+. Sad the anime is stuck on Disney XD again, especially as viewership took a nose dive since Sun and Moon ended.>>154109080>Avatar may become a Disney property, not knowing Disney already has a franchise going by that name, meaning new future projects gets the boot by the mouse.A horrible predicament for Avatar and possibly TMNT. If the Ninja Turtles also gets in the hand of Disney, the treatment will be like what happened to the other serialized shows on Disney Channel.
>>154085754>The EU in general seems to be ran by zoomers on the principle of all feels no reelz, which is why they're the only retards willing to take the whole "stop killing games" autists seriously while everyone else is telling them to touch grass.I agree with this but replace zoomers with boomers.EU countries don't have a bill of rights and an actually solid constitution that gives people clear rights. Legislation goes by feeling and targeting individual cases. Like they have a personal hate boner for Apple and Elon M*sk so they just make laws fo fuck with them even when they don't actually cause any issue line with USB C.
>>154109237>steam anime.
>>154109072Just in Japan.>>154109080Nick Animation is being absorbed into Warner Bros Animation, only to kill off SpongeBob just to make MORE Teen Titans Go.>>154109108Only in America, but Disney wants to stream anime and has even produced a few like OLM's Summer Time Reading and E&H's Bullet/Bullet.>>154109274The typo has been fixed.
>>154109301THANKS FOR GIVING ME THAT DELETED REPLY ON MY OWN POST ANXIETY, NIGGACOM!!! I HATE YOU, I HATE DELETED REPLIES, AND I HATE THAT MODS HATE ANONS CALLING OUT SCHIZOS, BUT NOT FAGGOT BOTS AND FAGGOT SCHIZOS LIKE YOU!!!
>>154083349They are going to sell Avatar to Netflix
>>154109080>HAVE NO FEARS WE'VE GOT STORIES FOR YEARS, BUBBLE BASS BECOMES A ROBOT, PLANKTON GETS A SHELLPHONE AND PATRICK GETS A SEABEAR, HOW ABOUT A CRAZY WEDDING AND SOMETHING HAPPENS DOO DOO DOO DOO
>>154109108They saw them adding The Weekenders and Gamefreak couldn't stand their actual killer being popular again
>>154109080Wish I could be born into success like those retards.
>>154109080The only one who would benefit from this will be Tom Kenny
>>154109450https://knightedgemedia.com/2026/06/is-paramount-considering-selling-their-avatar-the-last-airbender-rights-to-another-studio/?fsp_sid=13066 says otherwise, Warner Bros Animation will be the surviving company.>HAVE NO FEARS WE'VE GOT STORIES FOR YEARS, CYBORG BECOMES A PURE ROBOT, STARFIRE GETS A CELLPHONE AND BEAST BOY GETS A SEABEAR, HOW ABOUT A CRAZY WEDDING AND SOMETHING HAPPENS DOO DOO DOO DOO
>>154083349So EU have a problem with children TV assets but not the film studios?
Ellison's dad is in the Epstein files btw
>>154109701TV networks, not the IPs.They're selling off the networks anyway (excluding CNN).
>>154085754>The EU in general seems to be ran by zoomers on the principle of all feels no reelz,The EU is concerned with the practical reality of a media monopoly, that a corp can say well our domination and control didn't utilize any underhanded tactics, and theoretically the possibility of competition still exists doesn't mean much.
>>154083349Watch Disney buy all of it and become the kids programming monopoly instead of a Paramount Disney duopoly.
>>154110364It's them or Universal 2 to 3 years from now.
the Hub Network dying led to this
>>154083668nah anon I'd argue Powerpuff can rival Spongebob and outmatch Dora
>>154110433like quite literally if we factor in Japan, Powerpuff absolutely mogs every nick IP ever made, they fucking ADORE PPG over there and they still get exclusive merch TO THIS DAY, PPG absolutely BTFOs TMNT and Dora and evenly matched with Spongebob
>>154086567*20 years
>>154110448...is Powerpuff still producing new episodes to this day?
>>154083448Nigga laws are outdated and take 30 years to catchup to the basics of understanding what technology.Realistically they could just go the fuck ahead and the EU isn't going to do shit because blocking one of the biggest streaming services will receive backlash from the public.. The most they can do is block paramount within the region but paramount themselves can bypass that and users in the EU could as well.
>>154110479even without that I'd still argue it matches Spongebob in popularity
>>154110541you're saying that because you jerk off to one of them aren't you
>>154110575. . .Buttercup.
>>154109989Proof?
>>154110595fuckin knew it, get in the corner of shame, now
>>154110448Except SpongeBob, My Life As A Teenage Robot, Avatar and Paw Patrol.Also Dora has a completely different meaning in Japan then it does in the west (in Japan Dora means Doraemon).
>>154086826Retarded line of thinking, they will not succeed
>>154110448>like quite literally if we factor in JapanWho cares about Japan? SpongeBob is still a bigger franchise globally than all of CN IPs except Ben 10
>>154111078PPG, not Ben 10.
>>154111111Wasted
>>154109217>A horrible predicament for Avatar and possibly TMNT. If the NinjaImagine comparing a billion dollar franchise like TMNT which constantly gets new fans every new series to Avatar which is popular only in the US and whose fanbse median age is 25
>>154111111Ben 10 is CN's highest grossing franchise. The reboot was global hit and lasted 5 years. The PPG reboot lasted for like what a year or something?
>>154111161PPG made more money and is far more respected.The reboot was just shit.
>>154111195>PPG made more moneyLmao it didn't what fuck are you talking about?Ben 10 made over 10 billion dollars in revenue
>>154111220No, that was PPG.Ben 10 didn't even crack $100 million in LIFETIME worldwide revenue, I don't care how much you want to plow Gwen, Ben 10 wasn't mainstream, PPG was.
>>154111256https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises#cite_ref-411Ben 10 without the updated revenue data is still ranked higher than PPG
>>154111334Says nothing about Ben 10.
>>154111337No need to be in denial anon
>>154111357No, you are, what you're saying is the devil's speak.We are not going back to the darkest days of the 80s.
>>154111377What's wrong with the 80s?
>>154111388Nothing was design to entertain for the sake of entertaining, everything was a ad for something nobody wanted.
>>154111256>Ben 10 wasn't mainstreamboomer take
>>154111412Anon, they were selling you stuff.In order for you to buy the stuff it had to be entertaining to begin with.Do you think buy shit from ugly and boring stuff?Tell me which show right now is here only to entertain us at this moment? Everything is a marketable Funko or print in a shirt or coffee mug these days, if writers had to work their asses to sell us cool dudes doing cool shit against a cool villain with cool shit you can buy things would actually improve.
>>154111420That is the case.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises#cite_ref-411according to this, Spongebob has made more money than The Simpsons, Ben 10, PPG, Gundam, and hilariously, Hamtaro... which came out in 1997. meaning that the hamster girl is not a 2000's character.
>>154111466Laura was created for the Hamtaro anime, Hamtaro had a different owner in the mangas and pilot.So yes, Laura does count as 2000s.
>>154111476Spongebob's still 5x more valuable.
>>154111483Then that hamster.Laura on the other hand is 5x more valuable then Pokémon, but because Laura stopped getting content (and barely has any merch) Pokemon takes the spot as of now.But that can change.
>>154111496Are you retarded?Pokemon can shit the worst product imaginable and people will buy it.I have yet to see any kind of global profitability like that from almost anything that isn't Sanrio.
>>154111503Not the case, case in point Pokémon Gen 9 where everyone avoided after launch after seeing how buggy it was.
>>154111503he is in fact, that retarded.
>>154111520Have you seen how much it sold in spite of being a buggy mess?You underestimate how many casuals must have their Pokemon, it's just like fifa or what call of duty was but for normies and a lot of women.Fuck it man even the cards for scalpers for the scalpers because of how many retarded people overpay for them.No matter how you twist it, they may sell you shit on a plate, call it Pikachu and it will be sold out immediately by scalpers and resold at three times it's value to children and financially irresponsible people.
>>154111466Ben 10 revenue data hasn't been updated since 2017 and it's a much recent franchise compared to SpongeBob
>>154111530Didn't mattered since most of the copies were returned.Pokémon's market is mostly male, as for every fujo doujinshi of Ash X Gary there are millions of May X Dawn yuri doujins that are made for straight horny men.People are smart enough to not get suckered into buying broken products.
>>154085754You're fucking retarded. A monopoly on entertainment means a monopoly on information. Information is the key to power.
>>154111525Read >>154111520
>>154111442It sold a lot of toys
>>154111557Which normies didn't want.
>>154111543Son, the company still gets the money.You must be pretty damn stupid if you believe that many people bothered returning it.Well I'll concede you something, the mega leak from years ago kinda confirmed that as quality has gone down pokemon hasn't sold as much dlc content as they would have wanted considering the millions of copies sold.We also know that pokemon development is dirt cheap(what a surprise) so cheap in fact the marketing can be 10x more expensive as the development costs and still turn to millions in profit.If you look around the leaks you can find the hard data on it, it's pretty funny to have this shit confirmed.
>>154111570Yea, after a month when they can't do returns on said product.Everything else you said is 100% fake.
>>154111564Sales data says the opposite, even during the year gap between Omniverse and the reboot the franchise still generated half a billion dollars in revenue. That's how strong the brand is.
>>154111552see >>154104150 for your sources.
>>154111582Not the case, Ben 10 made less then $100 million in it's entire life.Even Adventure Time made more money then Ben 10.
Ben 10's lifetime sales is less than 100 million. wonder where the crackhead pulled that number from.
>>154111577Son, you are pretty dumb if you think the leaks were fake.There were game builds in them and a lot of shit that wasn't shared around on top of the reginosis shit and other nonsense.How could you fake entire game builds and dev data that precise?Well this ain't /vp/ nor /v/ to go full numbers over shit that doesn't matter anyways, pokemon is a merch titan that doesn't count revenue in millions but billions. It's retarded to argue it isn't profitable to a point the games selling don't even matter anymore.
>>154111594OG alone made more than 4 billion dollars I'm sorry if the fact bothers you anon
>>154111605That is the right number.>>154111606And Gen 9 almost killed it, having the mainline games be biyearly is what saved it.>>154111608DEBUNKED!!!!
>>154111613>DEBUNKED!!!!Stop coping anon even in terms of viewership Ben 10 surpasses PPG
>>154111623That never happened, normies HATE toyetic crap, it's why John K entered the industry to shop shit like this.
>>154111626>normies HATE toyetic crapYeah they hate it so much that they buy it a give it to their kids
>>1541116132022 they registered 11.2 billion in profits2023 they registered 10.8 billion in profitsI mean there's a drop in gen 9, but that's still nearly 11 billion in profit after taxes.We are playing with the big boys now~
looks like TMSfag/Laurapedo is starting to crack.
>>154111639That has never happened.You're delulu, seek help.>>154111641That was just in the US, and it would've been more if Gen 9 wasn't broken.>>154111645He is not a pedo, we been through this before.
>>154111675>You're delulu, seek help.Projection
>>154111718No, that is the case.You're delulu, seek help.
>>154111726Are you arguing with yourself?Because this fucking reads like it dude.
>>154111743No.
>>154111753Yes, Famicon
>>154085754Americans are abhorrent creatures.
>>154111726Anon we have the salea data on Wikipedia... Why do you keep embarrassing yourself?
>>154111770You're just lying at this point.>>154111762That isn't Famicom.
>took on tons of debt and foreign oil money to yank WB away from netflix>Even if a netflix deal is widely hated, everyone on /co/ fully expected another round of layoffs and cancellations on CN from any merger either way, All hope was lost, most people know animation isn't very profitable. Bevause of the deep debt hole Paramount got into, they would fully prioritize franchises and movies over any /co/ shows but would never sell off the kids IPs knowing how valuable they are to just air rerun of Spongebob and TTG til the end of time->Somehow both CN and Nick might be sold off unmolested because of the damn EU of all places, Wow. That's some real snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, somehow /co/ won and /tv/ lost.
>>154111802Keep living in fantasy world
>>154111882No, thats you.
>>154111912Lmao you literally tried to argue that Pokémon isn't profitable, I hope for your sake that you are a troll
>>154111938Pokémon almost stop being profitable, going biyearly is what saved them.
>>154112073The games don't even matter, merch sells enough to outclass some countries economies.The games development being slowed down doesn't really change much.
>>154083561As if the odds of getting an Exo-squad reboot weren't astronomical already....
>>154112273Dude I forgot exo squad existed, I would love to see that.
>>154112073Look like that anon was correct is in his assessment about you.You are dumb
Man. Everyone posting in this thread cannot tell the difference between what's a real fact and what's not. Surprising jannies still hadn't take this thread down if they take down those cringy Death Battle threads.
what?
>>154097357Famicom why are you such a delusional schizophrenic boomer
>>154111466I'd argue that even with that shit PPG at it's biggest evenly rivaled the bob
>>154115167also Ben 10 is an IP that dips in popularity, one year it's insanely popular, the next year nobody gives a shit, PPG's kept it's steady popularity over the years even when there was nothing to promote, they're still making those fuckin Bubbles popsicles for a reason
>>154112316every thread for the past month has been like this. i suspect its due to that flavor of the month pilot spam here that brought a lot of shitter users
