taakoposting:

Im just fucking sitting…. keep scrolling

bogleech:

bogleech:

bogleech:

Let’s put into perspective how far we’ve come and why!

1930’s-60’s: first theatrical cartoons, an entire new medium and industry created from the ground up. They evolve from simple, plotless musical sequences to a plethora of comedy, adventure and educational shorts. Many in the business were adults who grew up with no equivalent in existence but comic strips - it’s hard to even fathom that now, isn’t it? There was almost total freedom, and cartoons were made for all ages, often controversially political.

1940’s-1970’s: television slowly kills theatrical cartoons, Hannah-Barbera and imitators develop cheap techniques for mass production, flooding the world with shows like Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, Yogi Bear as an alligator, Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear as an Octopus, Space Ghost and Yogi Bear as a Different Bear. Our nation was coming out of World War II and more xenophobic than ever; cartoons were kept wholesome and rooted in American, Christian, Nuclear Family ideals. Superheroes weren’t even allowed to throw punches. A lot of these shows are only enjoyed now as unintentionally-funny “camp,” unlike the theatrical cartoons before them.

1980’s: Filmation’s He-Man pioneered the first cartoons that were also action-figure tie ins, changing the industry forever. Cartoon/toy team-ups raced to capitalize on the new opportunity with massive successes like G.I.Joe, Transformers, Care Bears, My Little Pony, Ghostbusters and Turtles, which lasted into the early 90’s. These shows were still under heavy content restriction, and most people who worked on the admitted they were just paid to write “elaborate commercials” that didn’t need to be too intelligent.

Early 1990’s: a new generation of animators and writers rebel hard against the squeaky-clean content they grew up with; sarcasm, rudeness and “edge” becomes the real moneymaker. Spielberg studios and Nicktoons bring slapstick back to kid’s television, dramatic and “gritty” superhero cartoons multiply like rabbits, the Simpsons is the most successful prime time cartoon in decades, and MTV causes major controversy with Beavis and Butthead and other “adult” toons. There is still significant pressure from watchdog groups to avoid violent or “demonic” themes. Cartoons are still seen as almost solely for children.

Later 1990’s: Cartoon Network becomes the industry giant and begins producing new, original shows by the boatload. Dexter, Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls, Courage…a few last even into the 2000’s. Radical ‘tude becomes a subject of pure mockery rather fast. South Park is the new big controversy in animation. The popularity of anime explodes, previously popular with only an obscure niche of geeks. I remember having never heard the word “anime” as recently as 1993 or 94.

2000’s: A mixed bag, the tail end of both Nicktoons and Cartoon Cartoons. Many ambitious efforts only last a season. Spongebob is the decade's  Mickey Mouse. Adult Swim starts catering a new wave of (mostly short, cheap, and tasteless) cartoons directly to teens and sub-adult stoners, shattering many of the TV industry’s preconceptions and raking in money from an untapped demographic.

Anime becomes so much more economical to import that original children’s series start dropping like flies, and the Saturday Morning cartoon block at last ceases to be profitable enough to justify its existence.

A giant asshole eventually pulls the plug on still-fairly-new CN series like Flapjack and Chowder to experiment with live action, and between the internet and video games, cartoons are struggling to make a profit.

2010’s: Adventure Time debuts on Cartoon Network after its 2007 pilot became a viral internet sensation. It makes so much money, so quickly that Cartoon Network fires the guy who made them produce game shows, makes the unspeakable move to bank on more than one Nielsen demographic per show and kicks off a race between networks to pick up bold ideas from unknown, freshly graduated cartoonists who would have been thrown out of a pitch meeting not that long ago. [Figure 1: an illuminati demon presents a child with deer teeth]

We’re now four years into a sort of new animation renaissance, where independent artists have a bigger shot than ever before, networks want radically weird and different ideas to experiment with, fandoms make their voices heard, and the internet is giving people a platform even when big corporations don’t.

The people making cartoons right now are people who put up with about fifty years worth of more corporate-driven bullshit and God does it show.

Hey this post is on my dash again and is now three years old.

That’s not enough time to have progressed to a new decade or “era” of animation but a lot sure has happened already in those three years; the success of things like Adventure Time and Gravity Falls really did open the door for still more ambitious, more story-driven content, with lots of more plot-focused cartoons either going strong or coming soon.

This heavy focus on story, character and worldbuilding also seems to coincide with a bigger burst of both female showrunners and female main characters than we’ve seen pretty much in the entire time I’ve been alive, and I’m not even seeing the level of whining about that from the usual crowd because I guess the shows just look that cool.

There is still an undeniable sameyness in artistic style that some people have pointed out. Is it really just Calarts fault? They’re still nicely animated, beautifully colored and interesting shows so far. I definitely wish we saw more experimentation with visuals and signature creator styles again, but I’m pretty excited to see how all this new focus on plot-driven fantasy adventure continues to pan out!

Meanwhile, the widely divisive Teen Titans Go just proved to all of Hollywood that 2-d animation is still a viable money-making theatrical medium, so, THAT’S interesting as hell.

I didn’t realize all the hype had quieted down for the last two series seen here. You couldn’t avoid it a few months ago!

Amphibia and The Owl House are both by crew from Gravity Falls and are set to premiere on Disney in 2019.

lordxeras:

boostergold78:

the-art-of-yoga:

I didn’t know Mr. T pityed fool’s that weren’t woke, but that’s awesome. #respect

“I think about my father being called ‘boy’, my uncle being called ‘boy’, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called ‘boy’. So I questioned myself: “What does a black man have to do before he’s given the respect as a man?” So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody’s mouth is “Mr.” That’s a sign of respect that my father didn’t get, that my brother didn’t get, that my mother didn’t get.“

-Mr. T on the subject of his name

drzedzworth:

I was close to being homeless..

So. You know why i made that goal?

Internet-100

Phone-150

Electricity-200

But the worst part is.

Mortage-1030$

I had until

Tomorrow

To pay this bill! and if not. I go homeless.

And not just me. My mom too. But you know what’s really fucked up?

I haven’t had a single commission. Or plushy sale. I raised most of that money on my own!

NOW I HAVE NOTHING!

I have literally no money because i haven’t sold any paypal commissions!

I didn’t have time to stream cuz the thing i was doing, was earning money and investing my time on that, because if i fail to pay 1k, the bank takes the house. And everything else in there..

I was so lucky to make this money. If not. I won’t be able to even do art.

I just…can’t believe it..i don’t even have enough to pay my other bills..

kingantlion:

writing-prompt-s:

hotcereals:

purgethebots:

Tumblr is in an epidemic. The porn bot apocalypse is here. And it’s really, really, really, really, really annoying. Even more annoying than me saying really five times in a row because let’s face it:

• To check more video, clcik here.
  
• Click here to find onenight stands
  
• For more more private stuff, come here.
  
• Looking for fun? Join me here.
  
• Howdy guy, more private stuff here.
  
• Howdy bro, my profile here.
  

Lately the probability of finding a comment like this in the notes has gone up from 100% to a 10000% and it’s seriously impacting our user experience.

I have been here since 2010, @staff. Started out as wolf blog and in 2012 I used to share my poetry and made eight super good friends to which I am still talking today! But now what?

It’s pretty safe to say that there are a number of bot networks active on this website. The one asking for bitcoin and the aforementioned ‘looking for fun’ one for example. The bots follow a pattern and because it’s a network it should be easy to roll up.

I know we always point at @staff to fix this, but honestly, it’s not an easy fix. I know many people block bots, but do we also report and flag them? How does staff respond to flags?

Anyway, here is what I and 10,000 other people who started following this blog over the last 24 hours propose:

We purge the bots. The porn bots. All of them. This is going to be one big COORDINATED effort to destroy the bots!

For one month we are going to report and flag those blogs, and make sure we cut their profits so they don’t make enough money to support their bot network.

It’s very important that we do this as a community. This is a movement. Everyone has to join so we can limit the outcome of this battle to only two possibilities:

1. We win this battle
   
2. @staff really doesn’t give a shit
   

Let’s go get them! Join the army @purgethebots

This is war. Let’s FIGHT! Follow @purgethebots and turn on notifications to help destroy the p*rn bots 

Viva la revolution!

For the sake of our notes, please boost this.

monkeysaysficus:

bornite:

boomsomeknowledge:

learnjp:

when did the Japanese start eating eggs? a long たまご.

for dumbasses like me who don’t speak Japanese

@monkeysaysficus

OH MY GOD

isa-ghost:

BUCKLE UP KIDDOS, THIS IS A REALLY LONG POST/THEORY AND YOU SHOULD READ IT.

This took me SIX FUCKING HOURS to write out, holy shit.

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