u/PyroxCrymson

I found this comment in part one of AniMat's takedown of the animation community's toxicity and it really astounds me how so much hypocrisy is in this comment as AniMat talks about how bad it is that people are waging into fan wars where fans of one studio are attacking Disney and here, we have one of his fanboys doing the same thing onto DreamWorks. Bear in mind that this fan is notorious for attacking DreamWorks while shilling for Disney like AniMat with Sony.

Tomorrow will be the inaugural day for this year's D23 and it'll be the first D23 Expo under the watch of Josh D'Amaro and with that, how are you guys feeling? Do you guys think we'll get some actual good stuff underway now that Bob Iger is gone or will it be more or less the same disappointments of before?

Bring in flowers, folks, because I have a feeling the show, despite the pomp and circumstances, is still on life support

I mean, you get a beautifully done Spider-Man sequel since Spider-Man 2 and all-around great animated movie but on the flipside, you get a horrific fan film done by a Spider-Man fan who hates Spider-Man and he, and two of the actors in the movie are awful people and all released in the same year

As it says on the tin, what is one major Hollywood studio that thanks to their treatment of animation, you guys feel they should just go away, not necessarily shutting them down but just not doing animation ever again?

As many of us know, Genndy Tartakovski's project Black Knight was put on ice because of how Sony was completely unsure of how to market it as either for kids or teens (like with Titan AE back in 2000) and with The Haunting of Hotel Transylvania coming up, I'm wondering that given how the Hotel Transylvania series is Genndy's brainchild, I was wondering if HT5 was a bargaining chip for Sony in the hopes Black Knight will see the light of day, as in Genndy offering Sony that 5th installment, along with the upcoming TV show, in the hopes for the movie to be made.

Maybe I'm looking to deep into it but what do you folks think?

If there was one news story that really did rock the animation community, it would be the cancelation of Afterworld, Matt Braly and Rebecca Sugar's project for Sony Pictures Animation about a young boy whose hospitalized for an illness as he needs to get an operation and goes into the Thai spirit realm to find a cure, only to find out there is none and has to live with it.

Yet, despite how everything seemed like smooth sailing, Sony canceled it as according to Matt, it wasn't commercial enough to produce and canceled it and many people were not only angry but betrayed given how they hit it big with Spider-Verse, Mitchells and KDH and were put on a high pedestal as the best animation studio out there and to cancel it made people feel that they were risk-averse and hate originality like any other animation studio, thus, proving why you should never put studios on high pedestals as they can unleash flaws you may not be prepared for or like.

But on another note, I was thinking about what exactly caused Sony to cancel the project as they sounded rather vague about and I believe that while unfortunate (and I'm not trying to defend Sony's actions), it's not as black and white as the animation community puts it as yes, many animation studios are risk averse but hating originality may not have been what killed Afterworld but rather the hospital setting, the fact that an actual illness was used as the framing device for the story and how the kid finds no cure to his illness, hence why to Sony's eyes, the movie was probably seen as a tragedy.

I do acknowledge that this story was based on Matt's personal life as he also has a chronic illness and it's not a terminal illness but to a studio out that wants to sell movies as escapism and just wants happy endings, they probably saw Afterworld as too real and too tragic to sell and pull the plug on it.

Thankfully, it was rescued by a Thai indie studio but to me, this story illustrates why sometimes, you shouldn't put studios on high pedestals but also how it's not that studios hate originality but they just want happy endings

I found another picture of the infamous flying statues of Downtown Plaza and I describe as the balancing guy's brother

For a future NC episode, I would love to see him cover this Steve Martin remake of the 1950 movie of the same name that despite having a legendary comedy star, it was not good enough to save this big mess

As we all know, Zerex has made three videos on AniMat and in AniMat's podcast about the trailers for Shrek 5 and Hexed, he left this rather long comment expressing his thoughts.

Like his videos, it's long, often repetitive, drawn out but nothing insulting, right?

Despite this, one of AniMat's most toxic fans, Jonathan Pinzon, came in with this rather hostile comment acting like his white knight and this is not the only time he's been so hostile.

I don't know if someone already did this but given how many people accepted that none of the characters are accurate to their book counterparts, here's something that's been on my mind: what if the book characters met their show counterparts? Would they be friends or enemies?

Let's start off with Annabeth. How would the two Annabeths think of each others?