It used to be that people told kids horrifying fairytales, so they could exercise their brains, learn to discern good/bad strangers, and think about what they would do in dire situations. Now we pretend kids shouldn't see that stuff.😞 Do people really forget their own childhoods, and how early they started having complex, even dark, thoughts?
I hate the thought "it's intended for children, so it's allowed to be bad". When the Disney Renaissance happened, everyone was praising it for being so good that "parents who brought their kids to it weren't tearing their hair out, having to sit through it". That's why those movies deserved Oscar recognition. They were actual, very good movies. Now bad animated movies get Oscar nominations, just for being animated, even if they're just mediocre movies.🐂🌹🌻🪻⚘️ All because people don't expect cartoons to be good, because they expect it to be for "stupid kids"---and they expect kids to be stupid!💢
Animation doesn't get respected as legitimate storytelling, and then the olds wonder why all the kids are turning to anime instead. Because the medium can do great things, but in the West, it's still mostly limited to this "cartoons are kids' stuff, and kids' stuff doesn't have to be good" mentality. 😮💨
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