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lmfao roiland got caught not giving his animators proper payment nor benefits and threw a fucking fit

but hey yall

pickle rick or some shit

Yoooo so this is a really sensationalist article by resident shit-stirrer in the animation community Cartoon Brew. They were purposefully dragging Justin over the coals in this article…it was meant to make him look bad because that’s what Cartoon Brew does.

What REALLY HAPPENED was Justin was trying to get the R&M crew unionized and the union wasn’t complying. Giving them the run around, not returning their calls, generally being a pain in the ass to work with and Justin got really frustrated he couldn’t help out his crew as easily as he’d hoped. He probably shouldn’t have gone on a public rant about his frustrations with becoming unionized but yeah, just putting it out there. Cartoon Brew has a clear agenda and that’s to make anyone big in the industry look bad, because its a website run on jealousy and pettyness. The more you know~

Ah, good old Cartoon Brew.

Did you know it was one of such sensationalised articles that caused bronies to happen? Also that they leaked the name of the storyboarder at Cartoon Network who got sexually assaulted by the creator of Clarence before he got fired even though said storyboarder did not want their name revealed?

In other words yeah fuck CartoonBrew for out of control shit stirring OP what are you even doing on there

what do you mean they made bronies “happen”?

They posted a sensationist soapbox on how terrible the mere existence of a new MLP cartoon was for the entire animation industry and a few guys from /co/ started a thread intending to watch it for shits and giggles due to said article. It then turned out that they all liked it more than they thought they would and one of the posters jokingly and in a self-deprecating manner coined the term “bronies” for themselves. I actually saw the whole thing go down back in the day which still feels pretty crazy looking at it now.

I remember that article! It’s still up, you can read it here. The embedded video is long dead though.

The article went up about nine days after the first episode of Friendship is Magic aired in 2010, and at that time, it had only gotten a little bit of attention, but not much. Then along comes this article saying that creator-driven animation is officially dead, all thanks to Lauren Faust signing on to do this show. Never mind that she was a huge pony fan ever since she was a child, and it was her MLP fanart on DeviantArt that got Hasbro’s attention in the first place.

It was basically the “we need new and exciting ideas instead of recycling the same old shit” argument, except pushed to its logical extreme: that it’s impossible for creative, talented people to take an established property and make something new and inventive out of it.

What clearer death knell for creator-driven animation than the reemergence of Margaret Loesch. After running Hanna-Barbera and Marvel Productions in the 1980s, and Fox Kids through the mid-1990s, her influenced waned in animation during the height of the creator-driven movement, but now she is back in the driver’s seat as president and CEO of the Hub.

Watching names like Rob Renzetti and Lauren Faust pop up in the credits of a toy-based animated series like My Little Pony is an admission of defeat for the entire movement, a white flag-waving moment for the TV animation industry. The signs have been there for a long time, however, and the Hub is but one indicator in the precipitous decline of creator-driven content, whose demise was hurried along by Cartoon Network and its decision to relaunch with large amounts of live-action programming. The erosion of support for creator-driven animation happened gradually but surely, and today networks clearly prefer established properties over original ideas, and dislike dealing with individual artists who have a clear creative vision.

However, the article had the opposite intended effect. Seeing the credible name of Lauren Faust backing the show, people decided to give it a chance. And I’m willing to bet you know the rest.

Cartoon Brew is basically sensationalist news targeted to animation buffs, intending to stir shit up. It’s basically the animation version of Fox News.

Holy hell this is a ride