There was a time when everyone online collectively saw preschool cartoons as being the lowest form of entertainment, now you got adults watching Bluey and people making videos on the "lore" or Sid the Science Kid or some shit.
This is what happens when you stop bullying Naruto kids. You reap what you sow. Bring bullying back.
Zoomers are a manchild generation obsessed with nostalgia
>>155293391>manchild generation obsessed with nostalgiaThat's millennials
>>155293321Once upon a time these guys used to be kids like you and me.
>>155293405There’s not really a difference.
>>155293321I think the scary fact is adulthood as society once idealized it, the stoic men and women who took everything the world threw at them with a stiff upper lip and didn't have any cringe behaviors stopped with Gen x. Millennials and zoomers never really got a chance to do many of the "becoming an adult" rituals. Not saying this is good but might be one of those fabled recession indicators
It's cause they're pedophiles. It's not just adults who watch preschool cartoons though, it's adults who watch cartoons in general.
>>155293321How do these have so many views?
>>155293337>womanchild makeup-covered zoomer gets more than 100,000 views and makes a living off this garbage
>>155293477youtube monetization was a mistake
>>155293321>now/co/ was all about Dora
Sometimes people forget that the GoAnimate/Deviantart autism hating shit like Calliou, Dora, Barney, etc. didn’t come come from nowhere, even autists back then had standards and saw preschool shows as slop.
>>155293321stunted adults who can't handle adult cartoons or adult shows because they deal with real shit it's why to gravitate towards shit like digital circus
>>155293515/co/ wanted to fuck Dora and post porn of her, no one was seriously discussing Dora's "lore" besides the immensely autistic who didn't realize they were actually the odd ones out and everyone else was just a pervert.
>>155293321She looks like a female Charlie Kirk
I don't understand the concept of video reactions in general
>>155293477>>155293492Just say you're jealous
>>155293592>digital circusTheraphy shit > real shit
>>155293321Because they're cute, wholesome and generally have non-confrontational storylines?Also they're untapped goldmines for fetish material.
>>155293321Plenty of reasons anon:>"comfort shows">Repressed Pedophilia>Cutesy designs>autism>etc.It could be one or all or mixed btw
>>155293337What does Naruto have to do with anything?
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>>155293321Because lore videos and “the dark truth behind this cute thing“ get many views. I guess that preschool cartoons are mostly free avaible and much easier to use as footage?
>>155293742Anon still thinks its 2006
>>155293740Anyone whose seen her stuff knows its 4The real problem is just how much she fucking leans into it.How do I put it? Even as an autistic guy myself, I look at what she makes and it brims with insecurity and a need for validation. She goes past simply being "weird" and into the territory of "haha look how weird I am, does that bother you? You're not ready for this! Also please validate my nonconformity please notice that the stuff that got me bullied growing up is actually really zany and quirky."Literally scroll through her videos and look at the titles and you'll start seeing what I mean. It's like looking at Tumblr in human form. Not like the politics, but that weirdly stunted need to show what "look how much I'm NOT a normie!" thing that Tumblr has in-common with this website.She can't just review this shit and have it be the channel schtick. You, dear viewer, at all times, must know just how much of a hecking quirk chungus she is.Not entirely her fault, in the current landscape it's either that or constant self-deprecating. Aggressively quirky or cynical irony poisoning.This is the internet we created.
>>155294422I think she's just genuinely autistic and I don't like/watch the shows she covers but she's charming
>>155293321>Athena PImagine if her name was Anita heehee
There's literally no incentive to grow up anymore. There isn't even a social rite of passage to adulthood anymore, you're thrown into a river, sharing space with peers and adults alike as soon as you can navigate your iPad and YouTube.
>>155294448She is genuinely autistic but make no mistake, she still ultimately leans for the angle.
>>155293321The music is pretty good desu
>>155294422It’s easy to forget that animators and hardcore animation fans were always oddballs and social outcasts, this dates back to the golden age of animation, guys like Chuck Jones and Tex Avery had funny personalities as described by people who worked with them. This also goes for animators of the 90’s and 2000’s, they were the kinds to take pictures next to their own characters.But while they were a little autistic, they had actual taste and knew their shit about animation as an art form, cartoonists and cartoon fans of the 90’s despised lowbrow slop like baby spinoffs and 80s toy commercial shows. Nowadays animators and fans are just a bunch of consumerist manchildren, it’s like they know animation circles back then were full of odd people who showcased funny personalities but forget that they also had sense to them.
>>155294200It should be.
>>155293742>What does Naruto have to do with anything?This is no different to how we used to call anime cringe and bully those who openly loved it. We should make nerd hobbies a tabboo again.
>>155293321It's on their intelligence level
Did any preschooler ever learn anything from those gay shows, I’m a 2005-born zoomer who watched 2009-early 2011 era PBS Kids and don’t recall learning shit.>ArthurI don’t think I’ve ever learned any social or friendship lessons from that show, if anything I found that show more entertaining and funny than educational>CyberchaseI don't think I ever processed any of the math that show depicted. I cared more about seeing their adventures.>Curious George and Clifford the Big Red DogI don’t even remember what those shows taught.>Sesame StreetI firmly believe that is the only good preschool show given how timeless it is, but I’m pretty sure I’ve learned my alphabet, counting, and spelling more from preschool and my parents than that show.The only ones that I’ve learned shit from were the nature related ones like Dinosaur Train, Wild Kratts, and that one poorly-animated Cat in the Hat show. It’s clear no other preschoolers and kindergartners learned any friendship lessons from that show given how rude as shit they were.
>>155293321I watch PBSKids and other preschool shows when i'm going through severe stress which is rare, but the predictability and softness helps my brain find comfort in a big world.
>>155293321money/views
>>155293321>grown ass adultsThat's a funny way to describe autists.
>>155293321Every IP in the sun has already been wrung thoroughly dry for content, YouTube parasites have to get esoteric sometime.
This is horse shows fault
>>155293457They never had any "becoming an adult" rituals because they were already treated as an adult at a young age. Many of these preschool show adults never had a normal childhood so they seek to indulge in something they never had.
>>155295104>they were already treated as an adult at a young ageHow? If anything millennials were coddled too much that when their boomer parents kicked them out at 18 they struggled to cope with the real world. I just figured consuming shit for kids was their escape from reality.
>>155295104Reminder that these high school freshman’s now were born in 2009-2010, the millennial parents who raised these late zoomers and Gen Alphaites either don’t give a shit or are too broke to afford new backpacks, it’ll only get worse from here.
>>155295104So glad I graduated from HS before everyone had a phone in their pocket.
>>155295128According to recent studies many boomers lacked emotional intelligence and perpetuate emotional neglect due to the science at the time believing that if you showed too much love to your child it would grow up spoiled so most boomers ignored them at a certain age.
>>155295128>>155295307You need to keep in mind the culture that millennials grew up in as well: the 90s and early 2000s were a great decade culturally, western animation was great, anime was great, music was great, movies were great, tv was great, everywhere outside was full of fun, the 80’s may be praised by Gen Xers but in reality that culture was a bunch of consumerist bullshit, cartoons were nothing but toy commercials, many movies have a cheesy datedness to them, tv shows were also cheesy and forgettable, the only good thing about that decade was the music, and as a result we got some Gen Xers who praise the 80s and some who fucking hate it. Millennials on the other hand were a "good times creates soft men" generation, they didn’t grow up with the hardships that other generations had to face and lived through a near perfect culture, becoming a bunch of manchildren as a result that now are fucking up entertainment and their own children.
I mean, at least some of em still hold up, Wubbzy and Backyardigans are two examples I'd use
>>155293321My guess is that girl is unironically autistic
>>155294448>>155294529>>155294825>>155295675girls can't have autism
>>155295674genuinely Wubbzy (at least season one) feels like a late 90's-early 2000's nick show that somehow slipped through the cracks and landed on Nick Jr, that's the best way I know how to describe it
>>155293578Modern deviantart autism is hardly any different from general internet culture of the 2000s
Episode for the one true king of todler kino when? The God Emperor of Discovery Kids himself.
>>155295738yeah, that first season has a vibe to it I honestly really enjoyseason 2 sucks ass though
>>155295104I’ve worked at a couple of summer camps before and I can just say that it’s pretty bleak that I’ve seen 4th-6th graders watching Bluey, a preschool show. When I was 9 everyone in my class would joke about preschool shows, we’d regularly make jokes mocking stuff like Barney and Caillou, nowadays kids love that shit.
>>155294863and bluey adults
Is nobody going to point out that OP posted a litteral tranny???
>>155293464Why are you here?
>>155293321Look at those views.I wouldn't be surprised if she's just doing it for the easy Youtube Kids revenue
>>155293337Naruto is a shonen geared towards like 13 year olds.That right there is for uh, you know. Toddlers.
>>155296364She’s trans? I thought she was just another autistic faggot
>>155296728>she’s trans?
>>155296364Ugly women exist, I also suspect that's why she's obsessed with preschoolerslop
>>155295717No, she has autism. Believe me when I say this. There's a litmus test. The problem here is that a lot of people see an autistic girl having a boyfriend and wonder how.What they fail to notice is the complete lack of irl friends that stretch beyond "acquaintance" half the time.Contrasted to the males who have often smaller but weirdly often closer friend groups due to masking less. The real key here is that Athena doesn't mask but as said before, tries to package the traits in the most "quirk chungus" way possible.
>>155298174So does this mean all quirk chunguses are just autists?
>>155298201All lizards are reptiles, but not all reptiles are lizards
>>155294696The best way to put it is that way too many people online or in these creative circles these days need to learn the difference between having a quirky nonconforming personality and just being a parody of yourself.>>155294519>>155295104>>155295128I'm just gonna fucking say it. Why do we never call a spade a spade when it comes to this "I'm a smol bean Bluey is my comfort show, I love floofy wholesome. Look at all my quirky fandom lingo scrimbo bimblo wooby floofy meow meow" shit.Constant cutesy gibberish? A fashion sense involving oversized hoodies and silly accessories? A bed covered in plushies/stuffies?It's fucking regression-play. It's a kawaii moe act with a tumblr quirky coat of paint.Like, if someone in real life acted this way, everyone would look at that person and call them out on the blatantly "cutesy regressed" act. And y'know? I'm fine with that. I don't judge. I just wish we could fucking acknowledge that because its so weird how its become the "default" for fandom culture.And the weirdest part is that they'll talk this way when discussing their horniest fanfics and shit which makes it feel even more like we're looking at some kinda freudian thinly veiled psychosexuality here
>>155296465tomatos tomatos
>>155298490>Like, if someone in real life acted this way, everyone would look at that person and call them out on the blatantly "cutesy regressed" act.Good one
>>155298593Don't believe me? Put a woman like this in a room of other women who aren't in the subculture. Watch them all avoid her like the fucking plague.And god forbid, a dude acting like this irl? Holy shit, watch that guy get verbally dogpiled and laughed out of the fucking bar.See, it's not even a matter of fandom. No one likes when grown adults try to act cutesy or childish because cute is inherently manipulative. That's what cute is. An evolutionary trait designed to manipulate others into orbiting you and caring for you.If the person in question is a grown ass adult, and isn't your significant other? You avoid "cutesy" behavior because if they're not cute, they're manipulative. If they are cute, they're manipulative with a success rate.
I never really thought I could be a grown up like my dad dad and grandfather were, but this era of adult infantilzation honestly makes me feel the most mature I've ever felt.
>>155295616>the 80’s may be praised by Gen Xers but in reality that culture was a bunch of consumerist bullshit, cartoons were nothing but toy commercials, many movies have a cheesy datedness to them, tv shows were also cheesy and forgettable, the only good thing about that decade was the music, andcould also apply to boomers childhoods in the 50s-60s. the music, yes, but media aside from that was lame.
>>155298734That behavior can still be part of sex averse autism.
>>155293321They don't "like" anything, they're aware of the metrics of youtube from however many parents are now leaving the youtube videos to babysit their children and are farming that for views, which is why they're also following Youtube's marketing suggested thumbnail format of your mildly expressive face with text and visual nonsense.>>155293649Social media extension, like hearing your friends talk about a show or movie they watch, viewers see their favorite content creator react to media and then talk in the comment section like a lunch tableI don't understand how all this shit became painfully transparent a decade ago yet we're still acting oblivious.Views, likes, (You)s, upvotes, shares, trending.
>>155295913I don't think anyone ever hated Blue's Clues but stuff like Franklin was always the butt of jokes.>wtf man? turtles can't take off their shells. what kind of bullshit is this?
>>155299128That was true, TV in the 50s-60s was mostly a babysitter for little kids and housewives. A handful of exceptions like The Twilight Zone but mostly it was crap.
>>155293321They trying to argue that Little Einstein was actually a postmodern deconstruction of capitalist society?
>>155293321if you want to do a Youtube essay on your own childhood shows like Eureka's Castle or the first three Thomas the Tank Engine seasons, whatever, fine, you have a nostalgia excuse for that, but this...this...
>>155295616>the only good thing about that decade was the music, andsome of the cars were kind of cool i guess
>>155299234I think I’ve seen some Franklin episodes when I was like 4 but I don’t remember anybody joking about Franklin that much (maybe Franklin jokes are just a Canadian thing), I do remember kids would often talk about how they’d shout "NOOOO" when Mickey asks them to come inside his clubhouse.
>>155299358This person was born in 2005.
>>155299425I’d argue Vaporwave/Synthwave was a good aesthetic before it was driven into the ground.
>>155295913remember that old joke? "The best Christmas present for a 3-5 year old is a toy that says Ages 8-11 on the box. The best Christmas present for an 8-11 year old is cash or his own apartment."
>>155299514that was a made-up thing that never existed in the actual 80s
>>155295104>Many of these preschool show adults never had a normal childhood so they seek to indulge in something they never hadWhat do you mean you never watched any preschool shows when you were 3?
>>155299173Gonna be real with you as an autist. And no one likes to bring up this lore.The number of sex-averse autists I've seen having weirdly blatant psychosexual "interests" in things like tickling, "squishing" a belly, ageplay, et cetera? Sex averse isn't "no sex drive" and is usually related to sensory issues. A lot of them are also really obsessed with being wholesome and will portray a barely disguised kink/fetish as "fluff"
People are heavily plugged into nostalgia. Part of this is modern shit is is being made less with less creative control on average. This is also with the average adult being less intelligent yesr after year where they must justify older material they grew up as deeper as they do not wish to move to a deeper understanding of culture. They only wish to explore the waters they know as they have been told the world is scary, but nostalgia is good.
>>155299646I mean the childhood aspect. Preschool shows create a non existent fantasy of loving parents and healthy friendships.
I’m trying to sit through that Little Einsteins video and it’s just this reddit humored theater kid bitch overanalyzing shit. She’s talking about how the kids control the world or something because of how they played a drum to make the sun rise and befriend a hippo with music and also said how that black kid has absolute mastery over instruments and played all them perfectly on his first try and also theorizing how living instrument reproduction works and how the sentient Rocket hiccups and whatever. Like bitch, it’s a shitty cartoon made for toddlers, go watch a Ralph Bakshi film or something.I blame cinemasins for popularizing this kind of nitpicky overanalyzing.
>>155299822I highly doubt a lot of the adults watching these kid's shows all had shit parents and no friends.
>>155299837George Lucas hates you too.
>>155299843Have you asked them?
>>155296364Who the fuck gives a fuck about trannies faggot
>>155293337>Bring bullying back.I swear to god dude words cannot describe how much I absolutely despise this stupid ass argument. I myself was bullied frequently both irl and online for my interests, and there was never NOT ONE SINGLE TIME that it ever made me stop liking them. For example, I was heavily bullied for liking Nintendo games as a kid, and it made me feel a lot of guilt, and I even sold my Switch and replaced it with a PS4 out of embarrassment.But what happened after that? I played Crash Bandicoot for a month, got bored as hell of it, and decided to learn emulation so that I could be able to play those "kiddy" Nintendo games again without spending money on them. This included Switch emulation too, along with PS1 and PS2 classics that were far more engaging and fun for me than anything that my bullies recommended.The point I'm trying to get here is that none of that shit from back in the day actually worked; all it did was make the victims of said bullying hate themselves and proceed to hate you. Their actual love of the hobby doesn't meaningfully deplete in any way unless they were never really big fans of it to begin with. The only reason why retards like you say this shit is either because you're a privileged fuckwit who never experienced any actual bullying or bullying was literally the only thing you had any skill at because you were a follower of mindless mainstream trends. Either way, that makes a normie retard and therefore just as much as part of the problem as the subject of this thread.
>>155298174Girls can have autism.Other women avoid us like we’re diseased so we come here and say “C’mon guys, Athena isn’t that bad” because even if we don’t like the same stuff, she’s just some random lady who isn’t hurting anyone
>>155293337>narutoyeah blame anime for westerns watching western slop, could you be anymore retarded
>>155300396melty
>>155300396I was bullied a lot too and all it did was make me not want to be around people. I still liked what I liked, but what people don't realize is that bullies will make lives hell for the dumbest shit, like if you have your hair done in a way they don't like or you look at their direction unsolicited.
>>155299598no shit
>>155293321Any video essayist who posts their face in the thumbnail of their slop should be permabanned from YouTube
>>155295616>good times creates soft men"You are a fucking moron.
>>155298201There is a co-morbidity, because it's a good survival tactic. If our awkwardness amuses neurotypicals they don't start talking about electrocuting us into maintaining eye contact for an hour and a half.
>>155299837>the stupid preschool cartoon has stupid worldbuildingWow, who would’ve thought, surprising
I like how we're talking about this as if it isn't half of /co/.
>>155293405>no uZoomers have always scapegoated millennials for your own embarrassing shit.
>>155300396You weren't bullied enough.
>>155293321that's the joke. these are inoffensive little baby shows and she just goes thru them overblowing their plot like they're supposed to be moreit's part of the fun.
>>155295616>Millennials on the other hand were a "good times creates soft men" generation, they didn’t grow up with the hardships that other generations had to face and lived through a near perfect culture,You're a fucking retard, boomers lived through the easiest times in history then kicked down the ladder beneath them. Why are zoomers such spiteful little shits that you need to make up reasons to hate us?
>>155300456The point is that we should bully nerds.
>>155296364she isn't tho
>>155298174>The problem here is that a lot of people see an autistic girl having a boyfriend and wonder how.Not really, men aren't hyper judgemental towards the opposite sex the way women are so being autistic doesn't disqualify a woman from romantic success.
>>155293321>nowthere's a whole board dedicated to the horse show
>>155293321Anon the zoomers of today can't get jobs or pay bills and the ones that try society or rather the old men with power won't let them work were struggling to live and the last like 3 presidents have sucked and turned a shithole into the ultimate shit disaster land. At least when everything is shit and everyone is mean and sad and we don't know when we're going to die or if we'll live another day we have something to make us happy. For some people that is preschool entertainment.
>>155304488That show is the route of our problems
>>155293321When the world is cruel and unfulfilling, when the people around you are crabs in a bucket pulling each other down, when even our leaders proudly flaunt a lack of shame or empathy, the depiction of simple kindness and cooperation becomes a luxury.
>>155293405No those are Zoomers, millennials want things made decades before they were born.>>1552934641928-1967 will like to have a word with you, back then cartoons were made for movie going normie adults.>>155293492China (who sponsors 90% of YouTube through 2 companies, those being PCBWay and JLCPCB) pays YouTubers well.>>155295128Not the case, millennials handeled the real world just fine as they made the Covid-19 vaccine.They were never coddled.>>155295616Nothing you said is true.>>155295913Because they STOPPED making anything for the 9-12 market that isn't a hyper long runner.They should've never created Haruhi Suzumiya.>>155296364I watched her Great Wolf Lodge video (really the Great Wolf Lodge ice cream theme spa video), she is a cis woman.
>>155295307I don't think zoomies understand what you're saying.Millennials were raised in a society where "let them cry it out" was the prevailing advice for dealing with infants. What does that mean, exactly?It means when the infant is crying you ignore it until it gives up on the concept of communicating its pain/needs. This results in a baby that indeed cries a whole lot less, but also grows up with a deep-seated subconscious assumption that no human being will ever care about or address their needs.It was widespread emotional abuse at a key developmental stage, loudly recommended by pop psychology fucksticks that basically everyone born in the 80's or early 90's was exposed to.
>>155304279Anon learn to read between the linesThat anon is just racist
>>155305251>Famicoms seething at millennials being insultedlol, lmao even
>>155293321There's no middle ground. In the past these baby cartoon reviewers would be making lore videos about Teen Titans and X-Men Evolution. Nowadays there's only toddler cartoons and "what if super heroes said FUCK" goreslop shows.
>>155305251Aw shit famicom is here, thread over
>>155305286So basically gentle parenting is the overeaction to the boomers raising them to try and tough everything out? A lot of stuff makes sense now.
>>155304295I wouldn't want to marry a woman obsessed with a preschool show or anything like that, comes off as mentally challenged and I don't want my kids being retarded. Gaslighting her that I'm into her to get sex on the other hand....
>>155295303So glad I grew up as a theatre kid before Discord and tranny groomers were invented
>>155305972You dodged a bullet anon.
>>155305251faggot
>>155300396Underage
>>155306193Doubt: bullying doesn't exist in zoomer classrooms
>>155306193Switch came out in 2017, so provided that anon is the bare minimum legal to post he could have at the very least have been born 2008.
>>155306209Don't know any zoomers IRL to vouch but they bully each other all the time on social media.
>>155306221I use tiktok and holy fuck are they vicious
>>155306209>I get my information from out of touch boomers btw
>>155305251shut up famicom
>>155293321The original Blue's Clues is fucking great. Classic Sesame Street too. Sometimes you don't need graphic gore scenes or sex to be good.
>>155307469>Sometimes you don't need graphic gore scenes or sex to be goodNobody said this though
She had big tits that she shows off sometimes and is a Zoomlinial who watched these shows as a kid.This is what Nostalgia Critic and AVGN looked like to anyone born in the 70s.
>>155305769He is a millennial, he knows what his kind likes.And what his kind likes is stuff made between 1928-1967.
>>155305846>So basically gentle parenting is the overeaction to the boomers raising them to try and tough everything out? Well no, if you really wanted to say gentle parenting is related it would be from the effects of cry it out abuse; namely a disconnect from one's own emotions and needs and a hyperfocus on the needs and emotions of others.Also cry it out had nothing to do with boomers trying to "toughen up" their kids, it was billed as a way to stop all that annoying crying infants do. It was purely selfishly motivated
>>155310167Debunked.
>>155307469ok dobson
>>155307592>she had big titsPost them
>>155307592>This is what Nostalgia Critic and AVGN looked like to anyone born in the 70s.wut
>>155293321I blame the horse show. It wasn't the first preschool show to be popular with manchildren, but it popularized the trend.
>>155310636The nostalgia critic popularized bitching about kids shows and movies online. To any person born before the 90s, he was extremely annoying and cringeworthy.
>>155310787Not at first, the problem was he got money hungry.
>>155310623https://youtu.be/i0Rc7Dy59EAShe may has well just have them completely out in this video.>>155310636Younger Boomers find Gen X and Millennials still clamoring over Transformers, GI Joe, and Video Games as weird as we find Zoomers clamoring over Nick Jr. and Disney Channel shows.
>>155293391>autists megaobsessed with toddler and preschool shows on /co/ and other shitholes like deviantart are all in their 30s, sometimes even early 40s>UM ITZ DA ZOOMERS ASHULLYShut this site down Hiro. Just shut it the fuck down.
>>155310907No, no. You see, when WE do it, we're chronicling the industry and being good stewards to the media that helps shape our culture.When the CHILDREN do it, it's cringe-worthy nostalgia googles bullshit that's embarrassing to participate int.
>>155310907MollyHaleIsMyFriend is a zoomer, actually. People born in 1980 are zoomers, you know.How? I just extended to range to fit any argument I make, of course. :)
>>155310852Millennials are clamoring over Looney Tunes and 1957-1963 Hanna Barbera, not Transformers and GI Joe.
>>155295776>The God Emperor of Discovery Kids himself.That's not Splat!
