How did South Park lose its cultural relevance? Was it literally just because of shitting on Trump?
>>155229346Show hasn't been good in nearly 15 years Should have ended with You're Getting Old and just stuck to video games/movies after that
>>155229346No, it was internet culture. It was around 2017 when people stopped giving a fuck, because shitposting did what South Park does better than South Park and at an infinitely higher volume.
>>155229346I wouldn't say it's completely lost, but news now comes and goes way faster than just a week so it's hard for them to keep up with current events
>>155229423That's a good observation. Reminds me of how 1984 touted as "eye-opening", and I suppose at some point it was for the sheltered people out there, but these days everyone knows the core concepts and messages it set out to deliver from social media talking about IRL politics. South Park is a similar story, it was all about being irreverent and making fun of everything, but then the internet became available in every third world shithole and people all over the world casually adopted that mentality, making SP no longer special compared to a million ironic memes on any given contemporary subject matter that are more in-touch and sometimes funnier.
It lost its edge. They don't call anyone gay or retards anymore, their "both sides thing" is just one side getting hit with baby gloves and them wasting entire seasons on the other, and there's just too many current event episodes.
>>155229346>cultural relevanceWhy you talk like a fucking bot?
>>155229346By Heidi abusing Cartman and being a notorious antisemite, the true evil in their relationship with her ability to follow through and double down.
>>155229346Pretty much. They exposed themselves.
>>155230351Literally this
For starters, its sporadic release schedule means it’s always behind the trends now. One of the main gimmicks of this show was how close to a trend it could have an episode. Now it’s making episodes about 6 7 a year after kids stopped saying that. It rounded off a lot of its edges. With how sanitized it’s gotten, I’m surprised CC even airs its older episodes Lastly, the core demographic for this show has always been at the oldest, middle school kids. Way too many episodes revolve around politics now, which kids don’t care about.
>>155230625Kids care about politics, they just get groomed and indoctrinated by trannies on Discord into unquestioningly being radical left that gets offended at everything.
>>155229346The news cycle moves too fast for it now. Back in the day, a trend or significant event would linger around for months. These days, trends die in a week, and noteworthy shit happens every day. There are things in the news cycle in 2026 that would have been talked about for YEARS a decade ago, that are now forgotten in a week.
>>155230635>kids care about politics. No they don’t. They care about the absolute surface level parts that adults around them do. If a discord tranny says “blumpf bad” then drops a dissertation on why, kids are only gonna hang on that first part
>guy sings about how he ate his song for a blue ray player.Fine, I won't watch it anymore. Sheesh, that's rude.
>>155229346Simple, normies discovered the internet. When South Park was at its peak relevance, there was still a debate on whether it was “meme” or “me-me” because that word was never spoken aloud. Many things of that era comparable to memes came from South Park, I still remember how often the gay fish joke was repeated when I was in high school, every person saying it with absolute confidence they were the first. Now people get their trends on twitter, including South Park itself
>>155229346They forgot their own words>Half the kids in the class didn't vote for your nephew, so what about them? You don't give a crap about them because they're not on your side! People like you preach tolerance and open-mindedness all the time, but when it comes to Middle America, you think we're all evil and stupid country yokels who need your political enlightenment! Well, just because you're on TV doesn't mean you know crap about the government! Now get your ass back on first class and respect this class's right to make up their own minds!
In its prime, South Park was by far the edgiest thing a kid could get their hands on. Even if you ignore Matt and Trey turning into woke, liberal retards, there is way edgier content that is easily accessible that the teenage demographic gravitates towards now.
>>155229346I wish i knew, maybe they too much politics and in reality i personally prefer dumb shenanigans with the political theme told indirectly like the turd and douche. The other thing is also my opinion, the world has gotten more absurd every year and i think it's a hard thing to make parody when everything is so shitty.
>>155231511Too much Trump, man
>>155230990Basically this
>>155229346they used to cut through the bullshit of the mainstream narrativesnow they just watch the news and repeat what it says without questioning any of it>>155230635that, and also other kids are indoctrinated into a manufactured 'alt right' by those very same people, because that does their work for them.
>>155232819Legit just this
>>155230351"both sides thing" is retarded when one side is demonstrably worse than the other in every way
>>155233512South Park doesn't "both sides" anymore
>>155229346People realized being counterculture becomes ironic after a while and it's better to ignore the illogical corners of culture than acknowledge/perpetuate it and that being shocking doesn't equal strength. Same happened to Stewie who evolved from impractical schemes to not caring.
>>155230261I remember some guy on Toonzone (maybe the Brainatra weirdo?) was aggressively anti-South Park and claimed its fans must think it edgy and subversive but that they were all being led by their noses like prize bulls to the slaughter. He must feel vindicated by now.
>>155229346zoomers don't watch anything scripted or anything over 2 minutes. They don't stream anything either. They just watch weird slop on tiktok and youtube shorts.
>>155235075Thats gen alpha
>>155229346Nothing is culturally relevant anymore since we have access to everything now
>>155235378Can't tell the difference
>>1552302611984 might not even be a good comparison because it’s at least a good story with universal themes that can help people identify aspects of totalitarianism in their lives. South Park is/was known as the “current events” show, one that was entirely self-inflicted and stopped being relevant in tandem with 24-hourcable news channels.>>155233512It’s more “brazenly worse” rather than “demonstrably”.
>>155235743Gen-Zers are the pseuds who behave like mini politicians with their commie opinions masked as liberal opinions.Gen-alphas are the ones who genuinely don't give a fuck about anything and screech like animals at a zoo being thrown peanuts at. And millennials are the ones who deliver 33% of what gen-X delivered while stealing gen-Z's girlfriends cause at least millennials' 33% left of testosterone is like 3333% more testosterone compared to what gen-Z will ever have... all while still being approachable to gen-Z retarded sensibilities and lack of maturity ... before they get dumped and are forced to date gen-Z again cause not even millennials can stand a woman that's 10 years younger than them.
>>155236207Very informative
It was relevant only in its first 10 years, and actually at its peak in the very early years.When it first came out, it was an instant hit and got very popular because it was very original and shocking at the time. Its biggest ratings are actually from the first season. Everyone was talking about it, it was constantly referenced in talk shows, you'd see drawings of it in WWF matches, etc. It was the edgiest thing for kids to watch. It was the first "adult cartoon" to be popular after the Simpsons years earlier. It was offensive and tackled touchy subjects in a crude and vulgar way. It quickly lost relevance afterwards, around 2000, after the movie. Other vulgar cartoons became popular (Family Guy, Adult Swim in general), and the internet happened. Things online could be way more edgy and vulgar than anything on cable TV. The internet in the early 2000s was way more offensive and vulgar than it is today. South Park then became just one of many vulgar comedy entertainment. What distinguished it for a while was the fact that it produced good funny episodes that touched on very recent topical events, and its satire was somewhat interesting in its time. But even that was eventually surpassed by online content. In its early years, South Park was watched by many people from different backgrounds. I'd say the last time it was sorta relevant was around season 10: the WoW episode got a lot of traction with the internet and gamers, and the Cartoon Wars got popular for satirizing Family Guy but also Muhammad, which got it in the news. Then, it gradually got less popular (the quality also kept dropping). It ended up being just another comedy show for 18-24 yo male demographic of stoners and gamers. It became very niche so only retards like myself kept watching because they were fans. But ask any random person and the reaction is usually "omg, this show is still going on?" Last year's Trump memes gave it a bit of relevance again but it was mostly fake and pushed by boomer media
>>155229346They take forever to do episodes now. Trey and Matt were rapid fire in the 90s, 2000s, and most of the 2010s and still managed to balance other projects. Also we haven't gotten a Goth Kids episode in forever and it pisses me off
>>155229346south park just ran out of things to talk about. a lot of the bullshit people deal with today, we were dealing with 20 years ago and there's only so many times you can do a squeaky sadam hussein voice before it stops being funny.i actually think that south park started doing very well once it stopped focusing on the four boys and had more season-long arcs. i liked the troll trace one for example. unfortunately, the new season with trump has no B plot and in the end they epsteined the antichrist and went back to square 1 instead of moving on to the next arc.>>155230261such is the case with all great 20th century literature. i read both "1984" and thoreau's "walden" in college and you can basically boil down the entire book into "government bad" or "nature good"it was important literature for the time when communication and education were more top-down and you didn't learn anything that wasn't in a book, on radio, or from the word of your neighbors, but nowadays i think most people gravitate towards characters rather than themes and settings. they don't want an entire franchise that can be boiled down to one core idea, it just doesn't feel "alive".capeshit and scifi are both extremely popular character-based genres that cover a lot of the same aesops without much of the simplicity. or, even if it is simple, you can go read a micro-series about a character you really like and develop an emotional connection to their plight. also, cool lasers and shit definitely help sell it.>>1552294232017 is about a year into trump's first term and the novelty of a meme president had already worn off. there wasn't anything south park could parody that couldn't possibly come out of the president's twitter account.
>>155229380>hasn't been good in nearly 15 years calmdown
>>155237390>Last year's Trump memes gave it a bit of relevance again but it was mostly fake and pushed by boomer mediaI think it's stopped by now but a few years back I saw an odd phenomenon on xitter where anti-woke accounts would post clips from the 2016 PC Principal episodes and generic MAGAs and the like acted as if those were new and fresh
>>155238716I remember those. Pretty stupid
>>155229346Shitting on trump while having nothing interesting to say. Do they think they were clever going after the low hanging fruit after ignoring all the shitty presidents that came before him? It's a little late for the overt political posturing when you already have 25 seasons behind you.
>>155238634No hes right. The Randy Marsh show is fucking ass
>>155233512That leads to stuff the left do getting ignored. And there are people on the left who will take advantage of that.
>>155239641You mean the Trump show?
>>155229346It was never relevant to cultureIt just sometimes parodied shit thatr the faggots think was 'an attack' against whatever the dislikedUltimately outside of teens and young adults getting stoned in college, nobody really watched itThe only 'big' thing it did was the movie solely for the 'wow it's uncensored they say fuck' now
>>155229346Shitting on Trump is culturally relevant, he's the president of the United States.
>>155229346Kys retard
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>>155229346>How did South Park lose its cultural relevance?The actual, real answer to this question is the one nobody wants to hear because it's really simple and it's also true for a shitload of other shows and franchises as well - it's just too old. It's stale and meaningless because it's old. Same goes for everything from capeshit to Simpsons and beyond. The limit where South Park and all those other franchises could tell a story or hold any meaning has long past. Effectively all American media is just legacy franchises with no more life in them.
>>155240240Should've been Wendy
>>155239678Am very curious about this stuff the left do, like loving each other even when the right don't like it
>South Park>cultural relevanceWhen was it ever culturally relevant? At the very beginning, it was deeply embedded in the zeitgeist, but after the shock of Kenny deaths wore off, nobody gave a halfpenny fingerfuck about South Park anymore. So that's when it lost relevance. Very few people actually watch it. Let's compare: the April Fool's prank episode Not Without My Anus is the most watched episode in SP history at 6.3 million TVs tuned in. By contrast, Bart gets an F had over 33 million televisions set to Fox watching it that night.Even Family Guy beats it, the premiere getting 22 million viewers, the revival premiere getting 11.85 viewers and Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High at 9.9mil.South Park is utterly irrelevant today. Even their Trump bashing season only got 5.9mil at their most watched episode.Clearly, nobody really gives a shit.>>155229380It hasn't been good since season two or three.
>>155240865Sounds like you care to me, TNTjax
>>155240880You are not very smart.
>>155240890TNTjax, you are comparing network television ratings to cable ratings from a time you don't seem to be from. South Park and Simpsons also had much different audiences from each other. I was allowed to watch the Simpsons when it came out, but my parents did not approve of South Park. This was true of most households from what i experienced. Don't be so fucking retarded, TNTjax.
South Park being an offensive and edgy cartoon in the past are what helped it become relevant in the first place. They used to piss off scientologists and people like Tom Cruise. Remember how they made fun of Muslims in the Cartoon Wars episode? Remember Randy’s wheel of fortune incident? They’ve refrained from doing anything edgy and daring like that for a long time and then the show gradually declined in relevance.
>>155240887I wanted Miko to win but am ok with results
>>155241075What about Band In China?
>>155229346But shitting on Trump is culturally relevant. Trump himself said that 90% of people on tv shit on him.
>>155241255As they should
>>155240947Dear me, you're even less intelligent that I originally estimated. Truly amazing.And on top of being unintelligent, you grew up poor. But then, I suppose those two go hand in hand, don't they?
i would only say its losing its relevance bc normies dont even know where to watch it anymore outside of clips
>>155229346>How did South Park lose its cultural relevance? Was it literally just because of shitting on Trump?No, it is for something worse.This movie has a uniquely protected status.
Things change so fast and more and more fucked up shit keeps happening daily that puts any joke Matt or Trey could come up with.
>>155241230I was about to sayI remember hearing about that episode on the internet a lot
>>155229423When the fujoshi side of the fandom become the more respectable side of the fandom, the fandom is fucked.
>>155241075>They used to piss off scientologists and people like Tom CruiseThey’re still capable of pissing people off from time to time. Right now they’re busy pissing off the MAGAts.
>>155241754If they’re truly daring, then next they should make fun of democrats, feminists, Kamala, and pro-vaxxers.
>>155241754Did anyone in the Trump fanbase even get mad at It? Most MAGA people are either too old (Boomers and older gen X) to care or even know about south park, or too new (younger zoomers and gen alpha) to even like south park much or give it cultural importance like millenials do I can only remember kristi noem running with it and some no name rageslop merchants reporting on it
>>155241812It won’t happen because the likes of Jimmy Kimmel are who they sold out to.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y2IhrZH4mL8&pp=ygUXdHJleSBhbmQgbWF0IGtpbWVsIGxpdmXSBwkJiwKjtWo3m0M%3D&ra=m
>>155241957Yeah, a majority of Trump voters don’t even watch or care about South Park, especially the boomers
>>155241957To this day I can't feel anon's rage when I say muh jerbs
>>155241754I can smell that image from here
South Park has struggled to keep up with the insanity of the real world.
