User blog:WENth100/The Tumblr Age of Animation

So one day I showed my mother the image on the left and asked her this question:

"So, this is the original design, and this is the reboot design. Which do you think is better?"

Needless to say she picked the older one.

I suppose many of you will agree that the old She-Ra is better, as she actually looks like a woman, unlike the new Netflix reboot who appears to have underwent a highly unsuccessful transgender operation (which reminds me of another reboot), like a wannabe anime style that the Japanese will most likely scoff at. The difference between the two is like... how should I put it... like between a Koenigsegg CCX and an Entity XF ?

The things that perplex me more than "why so many reboots are popping up today" is "why western animation's style seems to be degrading so much"? First we have ''Teen Titans Go! and Thundercats Roar ''with its wannabe chibi style and now this. I think there's a name to this style: Tumblrist.

And needless to say, when it comes to Tumblr, there has to be SJWs, now various publications like Polygon and Mary Sue began defending this new art style, accusing the critics of being man-babies, incels and of course, perverts trying to make a children's cartoon character sexy (emphasis on children). So much for accusing us of toxicity...

You see, this is the problem I found with their argument:...animation is for children. I believe that one of the hallmarks of a successful children animation is that BOTH adults and children. Excusing it for being ugly because it's made for kids is not an excuse! It does not need to have top-notch animation quality but at least it should be visually appealing like Gravity Falls, Steven Universe or Star VS the Forces of Evil.

There are plenty of people who made fun of my mother for liking and watching animation at her age. I simply told her to ignore those people as they clearly have no idea what animation is. Claiming that animation is for kids is like judging a book by its cover or judging a fighter plane by the number of guns it has. As Mr. Enter puts it: "Animation is not merely a genre, it's a medium." Take anime for instance, it's animation for sure, but it has series for children and for adult, it has various genres like action, fantasy, horror, school, or #$@% (heck there's even racing!). Unlike modern day western where the animation doesn't even try to be animation, where all adult series have to look butt-ugly and be some form of comedy.

Another problem are the frequent reboots: why so many of them? Or a better question: WHY MAKE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE?! Is it because that you're running out of creativity? Or is it because you are simply to lazy to create something new? Classics are respected for a reason! Some of them are best left the way they are. Sure, rehashing the old stuff might be successful, but you can only get so far. And you always risk screwing up, since reboots mean some changes have to be made and touching the established core element is a bad idea (unfortunately that seems to be the preference of many reboot makers these days like Paul Feig or Rian Johnson).

TBH, this current trend of animation kind of reminds me again why I despise modern day social justice and feminism: they are basically get-out-of-jail-free cards for people's incompetence and laziness. Following the current trend is not always the correct choice! There are plenty of experienced professional artists out there, why not hire them instead to create something that's actually decent? Why not ask the fans about about what the like, or better, do they want this IN THE FIRST PLACE? Of course, you can deactivate your brain and call us "dead", but unless you have an extremely short memory span, you will be wise enough not to try it.

FYI: some of you may criticize me for taking that once frame too seriously, but here's my problem: I've seen the concept arts and they look perfectly nice, I've seen fanarts of new She-Ra and they look perfectly nice too. But here's the issue: concept arts and fanarts ARE NOT THE CARTOON, that frame IS. And the other frames don't look that nice either!