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Hey all, I'm a friend of Lupa's from Discord ^^ Just call me Bridgette, its nice to meet yall!
@Lupaprinceromulus: So i'm not terribly knowledgeable about the era's of cartoon network history, but the common thread to me has always been moeny. They realized with Johnny Test that they could produce basically garbage as long as it was bright and flashy, and it would make them a truckton. I think there was some scandal at the production side of JT that shut it down, otherwise i doubt it would have stopped.' Teen Titans Go is their refined product for the Johnny Test prototype. Its colorful and bouncy, so it sells to children. They play it 600 times a day, because it will absolutely get watched, which means they make bank. -- and while, yes, a new season of OF teen titans was supposedly funded on TTG, that's not really the end goal from cartoon network administration.
IMO, when the last vestiges of "Fridays" died out, so did the last true good in CN. Its an uphill battle for creators who want something valuable to get funded and produced. Steven Universe had almost 2 seasons of nearly no character growth, plot, or critical topics (ie blatant lgbt and POC representation) before it actually got to the important parts. All because R. Sugar had to basically sneak it in under CN's nose so that her show wouldn't get cancelled before she could tell her story.
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