TWO WEEKS UNTIL THE APOCALYPSEPIN THIS
Great. So the total amount of cartoons airing will be halved from its alresdy very low proportion.
Considering what this merger represents, I think the most appropriate cartoon mascot for this new company would be Invader Zim, a feeble minded wannabe destroyer of worlds.
>>155564474dear god, are they going to merge Nickelodeon with CN as another block?or separate channels?
>>155564532*quartered
>>155564474Cartoon NickworkCartoonelodeon
animation is deadlong live slopendlessslop
NickCartoonelodeon
>Chris-chan was right
>>155564474>Warner Bros-owned channel and a Paramount-owned network are becoming sister networks before they merge into one network, effectively shutting down both networksClose enough. Welcome back The WB and UPN.
>>155564474>>155564664Venom(Nick) suit Cartoon Network
>>155564664>implyingThey’ll probably call it something bland like Channel of Animation or Funtime Channel
>>155564474this could be an opportunity to play on this if they play their cards right
>>155564474Nickelodeon as well as most cartoons has been unwatchable crap for a while now. There's only so many peak foid queer female lead starred cartoons for girls and boy aimed aka foid and queer filled 'inclusive' cartoons you can make before the entire thing falls apart. GTA6 being exactly what everyone is afraid it will be is going to be the death of the western media market for the entire male half and much of the normie female aimed portion of the entertainment industry.
>>155564474Horrible, genuinly, but the DLC for nickleodeon all star brawl 3 is going to be insane.
>>155564474How long before Sony and Universal merge?
Why is everyone so obsessed with merging?
This wouldn't be a problem if Cartoon Network maintained a strong brand identity like it did in the 2000's. After Adventure Time, it started just being Nickelodeon's leftovers.
>>155564982Goku and Vegeta did it and every American company thought that was cool so they wanted to do it also
>>155564474I guess the war is over. The only funny thing would be Adventure Time airing on Nicktoons.
>>155564982something something rich people buying/sliding their way into companies they know nothing about sucking them dry of money then trying to make more money
>>155564866It really would. Oldfags would pick up cable/tv again just see this combo. Would become a novelty after the first couple of weeks though.
Who cares? Is there anyone who's actually expecting future media to be any good? Give your hope, people. There's no good coming, from anyone.
>>155564982late state capitalism demanding greater and greater profit
>>155564554It would be the guy that Steely Phil fought back in the 1940's.
The CN I knew died a long time agoBut among the many bad things to come from this, this is the final nail for CN and will be its final hours
>>155564474Oh boy! Now Nicktoons can air SpongeBob and Teen Titans Go back to back!
>>155564982Less competition means less cartoons. They're probably both gonna be feeding of one singular animation budget.Also Paramount has recently just been making dogshit decisions in general with their IPs and I doubt it'll get better. We're not Doubling in size. we're colluding to wholes into something more compact. There's no way we don't lose something in the merge.
>>155564982Something something private equity
>>155564782They should combine names again. Call it Nicktoons Network
>Everyone expects an epic crossover featuring the best the two channels have to offer>it just ends up being the Spongebob Teen Titans Go! channel
>>155565270I'm pretty certain they're not going to let TTG live any longer past 2027 after the merger
>>155564532They no longer need to compete with each other.
>>155565270lol noTTG is going down with a sinking ship and the Spongebob network is going to scavange for partsAt best you'll get Regular Show airing on Nick at Nite
You know at this point I'm certain nothing will improve until we have total societal collapse driving us back to the stone age.
>>155564474All these old legacy networks from the cable TV days need to be culled. They do more harm than good for the american animation industry. They only produce the bare minimum they are contractually obligated to produce to stay on cable packages.
>>155565307It's no longer each other they have to worry about
>>155565339Without cable, animation would be entirely reliant on streaming, and there are no positive incentives there.Parents who sign up for streaming services do not care about their kids getting to see good cartoons, they're perfectly happy with anything. So it's all IP tie ins like Camp Cretaceous (which was probably under contract), or preschool shows.
So what the fuck can be actually expected out of this? They're not gonna curate some of the networks most popular/liked shows from the past 2-3 decades and make several blocks for them, right? That was the first thing that came to mind, but then I realized we live in 2026 and nothing can be good.
>>155565270>Everyone expects an epic crossover featuring the best the two channels have to offerWho would think that?
>>155564982Everything that didn't survive the transition to streaming will eventually fold or get consolidated
>>155564474Let me guess. People are already hyping this up with unrealistic fantasies and they will all be eating their words once it all goes to poopy within a year. Like what happened with the Microsoft buyouts.
>>155565376Autists mostly
>>155565270Spongebob will outlast them both and get moved to Amazon or Disney or something.
>>155564474i'm pretty sick of shit being defeated, blocked, and banned 6 or 7 times then 'oops it went through'
>>155564982It's the only thing the government WON'T regulate about your business, because it's the one thing the government SHOULD regulate about your business.
>>155565360The Teen Spongebob Go channel hasn't been about good cartoons for a while now.
>>155564474Setting up their own animation streaming service between the two would be enough to compete with Disney and Netflix in the animation department.
>>155565444Which one will win? Paramount+ or HBO Max?
>>155564982The people saying pursuit of profit are only half right. The rest is consolidation and control of multiple aspects of society under single corporations and their owners, so they can not only steer society as they see fit but make themselves virtually indestructible because if they collapse, the whole economy goes down with them. We're already living in the cyberpunk dystopia rule of the megacorps the government answers to rather than the other way around, it's just a lot less punk than we expected. Cyberslop would maybe be the more accurate term.
>>155564474We truly live at strange times, never in my life would have thought in the slightest cartoon network and nickelodeon would converge/be network brothers.
>>155564982Because both companies are failing and the merger is an attempt to salvage them by offloading debt to new shell companies and firing large sections of their workforce.Mergers = someone is getting fired
>>155564474>WAR IS OVER, IF YOU WANT IT, WAR IS OVER, NOOOOOW
>>155564474thats how megacorps start.
>>155565469so close to right, yet so very, very wrong
>>155565351After the kikes bought it it went down hill. They started farming it for LLMS and pushing AI/jeetslop. Worse they started to deplatform and lower the money the content creators made and use their liknesses nad content for LLM content twitter itself makes. There should be a massive lawsuit but the kikes are too strong. The only real hope is for the chinks are reds to make a new short content video platform ala vines and ban AI slop.
>>155564474oh fuck i can't wait to watch them reboot the living shit out of every good cartoon because they can't make anything new
They should sell every character to Disney, that would be very funny to see the fans losing their minds.
>>155565515the opposite. This is corporations last gasps
>>155565553They've already been doing this
>>155564474Think of the crossovers.
>>155565532You poor naive stupid child. Anon, money isn't real and it's not backed by anything. The Fed printing trillions of...nothing that was backed by the US govermnment's power and america's resources should have told you that. If you want to really see how little money actually means and how entirely broken and fake the economy is, look no further then the LLM hoax. The market has folded entirely. The corpo-government has stopped pretending and it's now just a free for all of nonsense and shenanigans.
>>155565535You act like any of that means jackshit to the children watching itYour average Tiktok gets more views than TTG does, and high TikToks and YT videos are talked about than the newest episodes of Spongebob
>>155564474Imagine seeing Cartoon Network shows and Nick shows together? It would be like mixing mint chocolate chip and orange juice.
>>155564474There's three ways I could see this going: >The CN shows will get worse and adopt a lot of the grossout humor and low-brow themes that Nick has >Nickelodeon will get better and try having more depth and linear stories like CN does >The two elements will cancel out and future shows that aren't already established IPs will be super boring.
>>155565599>Sheldon strapped into the Give Up Machine while Jenny waits on prospective johns
>>155565631You don't understand do you? Those views are all bots. The numbers of views of any piece of content right now has absolutely NOTHING to do with how many human beings actually watched it. Do you think mr.beast was actually getting billions of views or that the Paul brothers were getting tens of millions of views?Wake the fuck up. It's all rigged and has been for a very long goddamned time. The day the entire toy industry decided to float and push the idea that toys don't sell and the loser whiny bitch "auteur" cartoonist complained about toy commercials was the day cartoons completely lost all ability to sustain itself as an artform forever.
>>155565649Anon. CN's shows are going to fucking die, even TTG, this is their last legs. At best you can hope for nostalgia bait reboots with the Nick studio.
>the two networks that haven't made anything worth while in forever are merging So a bunch of nothing?
>>155565686That's some nice cope anon
>>155564474TWO SHOWSI DON'T KNOW WHY
>>155565698It's really more their parent companies merging that's the bigger issue. But sure, CN and Nick will be affected too, and by affected I mean CN is fucking dead now
>>155564782They did they same thing with Comedy Central until AOL forced them to sell it off
>>155565704What in that post is cope? It's common knowledge now.
>>155565607once again, you were SO close to an accurate post here. Then right at the end, you fucked up
>>155564782Really weird how UPN had better ratings then wb across the board with it's negro shows and hip white normie offierings, but they were forced to merge with wb and become a loser tween/foid network now mostly watched by oldsters.
>>155564982https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CTeLy3Ujxc
>>155564474AND NOW WE ARE ONE IN EVERLASTING PEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAACCCEEEEEEEEE
>>155565735The existence of bots doesn't change that Tiktok and Youtube and the content there is are more relevant than anything either CN or Nick have right nowWhy the fuck do you think this merger is happening? Because traditonal media as a whole has been on the decline and the old gaurd are losing money, and fast This isn't two mega corps flexing their muscles, it's two mega crops in their death wails and one is going to eat the other alive to force itself to say alive just a little longer, with both taking bites.
>>155565690>At best you can hope for nostalgia bait reboots with the Nick studio.Considering the alternative is a bunch of poop joke shows, I think I can live with that.
>>155565307competition is good
>>155564474What about Nick At Nite and Adult Swim?
insider herethey already have a design doc with logos for some new thing they plan to launch when this goes through
>>155565885Bullshit.
>>155565885post it on litterbox
>>155564782Is THAT where the CW came from? I figured it was just WB rebranding
>>155565532Humour me then, Anon. What have I got wrong? Because I can already see the future where Blackrock owns all the housing, Amazon all the logistics and Palantir runs every government service and they're allowed to do so because their collapse would grind society to a shuddering halt. They're halfway there already.>>155565739Not the same anon. Notice they format their posts differently.
The slow dread of everything burning aside, I'd like some cool shit to come out of this at least.A Ben 10/TMNT crossover would be neat
>>155565599Is that Kathleen from Mouthwash Madness?
>>155565415>defeated, blocked, and banned 6 or 7 timesHaven't kept up with the activities of corporate animation/cartoon entities. They already tried to make this merger a thing, got rejected, but still forced it down people throats?
>>155565000heh
I feel like the world is becoming a bunch if psudo-monopolies.
>>155565599Source?
>>155565981>feel likeWith this merger, this is about to go down to 3.
>>155565981Nothing pseudo about it, they're just monopolies.
>>155564474THE MERGE IS HAPPENING
>>155566032Wait, how are Paramount and WB merging if they're owned by different companies?
>>155566037That implies either one is healthy enough to survive on its own, they aren't.
>>155565956>Paramount made an offer to merge with WB. >WB said no and was gonna merge with Netflix. >Paramount circumvented WB and went right to the investers for the aquisition.>They pushed WB to allow Paramount to bid. >Paramount outbid Netflix and Netflix dropped out.>Due to the issue of Monopolies several states were suing to block the merger.>The merger has existed in limbo for half a year>Now this.More or less everytime someone said "hey, This is a bad idea we shouldn't do this" they just sorta forced it through and now here we are.
>>155565022talking about bumpers and crossover character interaction; CN city
>the loud house was the last successful cartoon Nick will ever develop before it throws it's entire catalog out for CN propertiesWho would have thought.
>>155565104NIMBLE NEDBODACIOUS NEDAND LARRY LACKAPANTS ARKANASAS CHEESE MASTER
>>155564982>hey what if instead of half the money we could somehow get ALL the money
>>1555660546yo infographic. Warner Discovery was spun off AT&T in 2022. Viacom CBS became Paramount Skydance in 2019.
>>155566057Damn, we need some ambitions, motivated and competent finance autistics who care to become the rich investors of tomorrow.Maybe then we can see less of this.
>>155565240 That would be fun to see but making a new Brand/IP identity like the CW is not something modern corpos want to do. Most likely they just keep both signals while sharing shows
>>155565022>>155566069Modern CN and Nick don't have even a fraction of the soul they used to pull it off. Checkered Past was CN's attempt and it was an empty shell within a month, and while Nick Rewind fared better over the years, its only a shadow of what it used to be, let alone how Nick as a whole used to be.
>>155566073Other way around anon. We get a few CN reboots, about for the most part its scap to used for the fire on fueling Nickelodeon. Or do you really think Nick gives a fuck about Cow and Chicken and Billy and Mandy?
>>155566147I think they do a little, yeah. Consider that they have been winding down TLH for years, and all of their other shows have been shitcanned pretty quick. They have to know by now that they can't just run spongebob and paw patrol only and have it actually be profitable. I'm entirely certain they would lo-o-ove to have CN properties making money for them since they can't seem to think up anything that sticks anymore. I don't think they'll be doing much rebooting, just grab adventure time, TTG, Looney Tunes, MAYBE a DC show, that's probably it, and that'd be enough for them for another few years.
>>155565535>Belives da joos bought Tik Tok instead of creating it
>>155564474They're speed running this merger because major banks are failing to dump Oracle’s OpenAI debt. It's becoming increasingly obvious to everyone that Larry's going to be holding the bag when the AI bubble pops (and it seems the pop might happen sooner rather than later), and he's probably hoping to take down these media giants with him like some fucked up suicide pact.The real question is the fallout from all of this. Will these companies just split off, but with all of their debt dumped onto the Ellisons? Either way, it's going to be a shitshow of historic proportions.
>>155565535It was always terrible only retarded normies like shittok fuck that gay ass app i will never know how anyone with a functioning brain can like that shit
>>155566265I love CN's classic catalog as much as the next guy, I really do. But it is not even a fraction as relevant or influential as Nick's, and I say that as someone who much pefers CNs. Sure they might might toy witht the idea of reboots of some of the bigger more relevant names, your PPGs, your Ben 10s, your ATs, your Scooby Doos, your LTs, and DC. But the rest? Never to be touched again I would bet, mere streaming fodder at best. You might get a few odd ducks here and there, namely Camp Lazlo and Chowder due to their connections to Nick already, and maybe Nick might do something with OTGW's seasonal popularity. But I really doubt they'll make use of CN's catalog the way some people might think
>>155566353I can agree with that. I'm not sure Ben 10 will come back to be honest. The reboot was really, really lame, the comic was neat, but it's almost 30 years old and it was played out when omniverse had ben recreate the universe and vilgax run away from some fat alien redneck cunt.
>>155564474>Nick will be reserved on live action kidcoms.>Nick's cartoons will move to Cartoon Network.>Nick's animation department will be absorbed into Warner Bros Animation (it's already in the prosses of doing so).>>155564982Playing catch up with Disney, and all Paramount lost was Beavis and Butt-Head.>>155565351Never been a issue, different targeted market.>>155565535They bought less then 2% in shares, China still controls it.
>>155566320As long as the US does not commit the same mistake of bailing out the Banks I don't care which means they will.
People still watch tv?
>>155566385>I'm not sure Ben 10 will come back to be honestOh, it will. Just in the most retarded way possible, again.The hype for the comic has winded down a little bit because the non-alien art is atrocious and there's a rumor that it's gonna be a beanmouth reboot with aliens based off the Chinese zodiac.
>>155566477Yes, case in point.
>>155566456>Never been a issue, different targeted market.If wasn't an issue, their parent companies wouldn't be merging at all Traditional media is losing to the internet age and hard, and it's bleeding them dry. Even though Netflix didn't get the merger, they're still going to "win" in the end of all this
>>155566477The severely autistic people of /co/ have never left cable. Literally everyone else already jumped ship entirely since the start of the mid-2010s but them.
>>155566517They're merging because Disney merged with Fox, they want to play catch up with Disney.
>>155566509Nta, he should've specified CABLE TV outside of News and Live Sports
>consolwar faggotry>but cartoonswat
>>155566456>Nick's animation department will be absorbed into Warner Bros Animation (it's already in the prosses of doing so).Good god say it aint so. I really hate a lot of CN's newer stuff. All the nick shows being done like that.... fuck. There won't be a silly cartoon left untouched. This shit really makes me upset.
>>155564474The antitrust laws, they do nothing.
>>155566478>based off the Chinese zodiacOooof course. I hate China dude I wish someone would just glass the fuckin place already. Nothing good out of that country for the past 100 years, even the American food is fake.
>>155566603SpongeBob and The Patrick Star Show will still exist, just produced by Warner Bros Animation is all.
>>155566604Somewhere, Teddy is fucking fuming.
>>155566603>There won't be a silly cartoon left untouchedYou don't watch ttg?
>>155565115I moved on...though I hope [as] remains untouched.
>>155566645Eeeeeeugh. EEEEEEEEUGH!>>155566664Sorry, I meant one that isn't complete dogshit. I like the DNA of Nick cartoons more, it's hard to explain but the networks have never felt quite the same. I don't want the leadership of Nick with the production staff of CN. If I had to sacrifice one into the void I'd go with modern CN.
>>155566622China and India go to war with eachother. The survivor will finally be acknowledged as human by the rest of the world.
>>155566509I hope this survives even when the merger goes through.
>>155566669Everyone who had worked the OG shows like ATHF and it's siblings had left years ago and doing small outside projects, it's time to close the books
Everything is dying. There are no children. There are no cartoons.
>>155566694In what world do you live? Old style nick cartoons died before the 2010s. 2010s nick was just nuSpongeBob and LH.
>>155566622>Nothing good out of that countryExcept all consumer products.
>>155566816Yeah but Nick was willing to try fun, goofy shit still that wasn't Sidekicks (dogshit cartoon) with a Teen Titans coat of paint. CN for the most part makes soft weird baby shit like Clarence and Summer Camp Island. >>155566817Mexico and South America could do it but that would mean keeping jobs down and therefore immigrants over there.
>>155566789It will.
>>155566462They'd want to, but won't be able to because this bubble is orders of magnitudes larger than the 08 bubble. There's literally not enough money to pay off all this debt.
Will Paramount try to cancel Lars of the Stars?
>>155564474Where are the cool crossovers?
>>155566880Can't cancel what was never real.
>>155564474Yeah, that's pretty demonic. I guess I'm officially in the future now.
>>155566869TO WHOM?! If everyone is in debt then who tf was lending the money?
>>155566869>>155566934Trump will pay off the debt.
