gen 3 Venus McFlytrap clears so hard

i love monster high but the direction it's going genuinely makes me soooo sad. monster high was created with purpose, every ghoul had such developed personalities whether it was seen in the show or in "diary" entries on their website. they all had reasons to act the way they did, to form relationships with certain ghouls or to dislike certain ghouls, how they would act or speak... it all made sense on a level that followed the lore, for the characters and just in monstology. they all had behaviors that made sense to what kind of monster they were, and even had designs that would tell you about them and how they became that monster.

a few examples:

frankie stein is introduced to us as the "new girl" which is so legitimate because she's literally new. she's 16 DAYS old when we meet her because she's the daughter of frankensteins monster. so she's a little socially awkward, doesn't know a lot about how school works, really wants to make friends but doesn't know how to navigate interactions too well. frankie was literally brand new, so it makes sense that she was naive.

draculaura was turned into a vampire due to survival reasons. her parents died from the plague, so dracula adopts her and turns her in order to save her from disease. that's why, even being a vampire, she still has her human personality because she's really only a vampire due to circumstances. she's remains a vegetarian, is scared of the sight of blood, and continues to try and use mirrors even though she can't see herself in them.

rochelle goyle wrote in her diary that she had a crush on deuce, the son of medusa, but never acted on it because he was always involved with cleo de nile. even so, rochelle explains that they get along and she's the only one who would ever be able to gaze into his eyes without turning into stone. SHES A GARGOYLE!!!

there's so much more, but now monster high is in the hands of people who DONT CARE about those details. people who don't know the lore and the relationships of all the monsters and why they have their personalities and why they interact the way they do. the designs keep getting uglier and keep moving away from the original darker, more gothic aesthetic they used to have. people didn't get into monster high because it was just like barbie, people like monster high because of its fun twist on classic monsters that had dolls that looked like nothing we had seen before. it makes me so MAD that mattel and nickolodeon are doing so much damage to the brand, because we're getting so far away from what we actually want (and they don't care because they think they'll make more money by appealing to a younger audience). they changed the personalities of so many monsters and it just doesn't make sense. no one has their accents anymore, despite location being a HUGE part in monster lore in general, they erased wlw representation by making clawdeen involved with deuce for some reason, ghoulia can speak even though it MADE SENSE why she couldn't talk originally, cleo doesn't even look like a mummy anymore, and draculaura is weird and rude and for some reason a witch now?