u/Weird_donut

Clips of the finale have been leaked in Brazilian Portuguese, and they can't be AI because they look so real. SPOILER WARNING:

>!JAX CHOKES POMNI. HE LITERALLY CHOKES HER. And then says something like "haha we can't die here." this is DOMESTIC ABUSE. but his delusional fans and the Funnybunny shippers will go "OMG THIS IS TWU WUV!!!111!" And then there's a very lengthy scene where Pomni and Jax hug and they cry and then Jax goes crazy and then he abstracts apparently. !<

.....what?

One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness, it was a world of fear, it was the age of Gargoyles. Stone by day, warriors by night, we were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken and we live again! We are defenders of the night, we are Gargoyles!

I am not sure if any of this is Goomba Fallacy, but it is worth mentioning.

I despise Twitter and don't use it, but my friend still does, and sent me a discourse tweet regarding Planetronika. In case you missed it, it's a new pilot inspired by 2000s cartoons, it feels like something you would see on Nicktoons Network. It garnered a lot of praise, but of course Twitter hates everything. They called it "y2kslop goonbait." Apparently, y2k aesthetics are bad now, and the MC having a big ass is evil for some reason because Twitter hates anything with a smidgen of sex appeal; ironically the OP of the inciting tweet is an account dedicated to hornyposting about Lord Dominator from Wander Over Yonder.

People also criticize it for not being "deep" enough or having grand epic lore. What's wrong with just making a fun, lighthearted cartoon? Why does everything have to have trauma and DEEPEST LORE?

Actually the whole conversation around indie animation these days is extremely annoying. Like I said, this might be goomba fallacy, but people don't know what they want and just hate everything. They hate Glitch, they hate the Hellaverse, they hate object shows, they hate Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to Be a Magical Girl, they hate Lackadaisy, they hate Wastelandia, they hate Catching Up, and now Planetronika. Heck, even ToonrificTariq's cartoon Hey is getting hate just because of its art style, because black people can't make art anymore without it getting scrutinized.

Planetronika's creator has been blocking lots of people, but honestly, I sympathize with him given how people are just being so mean to his fun little cartoon. I'm not saying you can't criticize it or any other indie show, but honestly, at this point people are just nitpicking.

What do people even want? Do they want a big grand plot? Do they want something fun? Do they want something TV-quality or more amateurish? Ugh, Twitter just hates everything.

Some people say that the Cartoon Cartoons program will go on a hiatus after this since there's no more privatized videos on their playlist, but they keep saying to tune in every Monday for a new short. We still have a few shorts left. But I decided to rank the first 15 of them, best to worst.

1. Buttons' Gamezone - Easily my favorite, it's a cartoon that remembers to actually be funny first and foremost, and to enjoy being a cartoon. All the drawings were so grotesque and insane. This is the one I want to see turn into a show the most, we need more artist-driven creativity like this.
2. Duck - Although Buttons' Gamezone is my favorite, Duck is the best so far, since it is very dark and filled with gore. Remember kids, don't punch old people. I think this could legitimately be submitted to the Oscars for best animated short film.
3. Accordions Geoffrey & Mary Melodica - A funny, charming, and creative short, I like how everyone speaks in musical instruments, and the claymation-like animation. I think this would work best as a series of shorts that play in between shows.
4. I Love You, Jocelyn - a beautifully animated and drawn, culturally specific magical girl short, I loved it.
5. Foools - This one is more for younger kids, but it's cute and cozy. The weird fake language they speak might be confusing for some people, but I think you can still understand the plot just by the visuals alone.
6. A For Angel - The art style is very derivative but it does have a creative, interesting premise. This one I could see getting a Tumblr fandom.
7. ISCREAM - I ended up quite liking how this was animated and drawn. Very much in the spirit of OK KO. But if this ended up becoming a show, it would have the most obnoxious fandom.
8. Fruitstand at the End of the World - Not much to say about this one, the art was beautiful but it felt weirdly short; I don't think this would hold up as a full series, but maybe it could become a fancy prestige short film or something.
9. Bird & Squirrel - a very typical "adventurous guy and nervous guy" buddy cartoon, but I could see younger kids liking these, especially since it is based on graphic novels. The art is decent but the animation could have been better.
10. Greetings From Samson - I mean, it's okay, I guess. A few jokes did make me laugh, like this one gross close-up of Samson's face. I think it would be better if it had more jokes like that.
11. Harmony in Despair - The actual short is fine, but Andrew Dickman's controversies slightly taint it for me. Just watch Wander Over Yonder instead, since this short is clearly copying WOY.
12. Dang! It's Dracula - It felt longer than it actually was, and Dracula was more annoying than funny. It feels like it was tailor-made to gain a yaoi fandom.
13. Hungy Ghost - I did not enjoy this one at all, it felt like a "le heckin doggo quirk chungus" type of millennial webcomic in cartoon form, if you know what I mean.
14. Madison and Skyler - again, another "heckin doggo" quirk chungus millennial webcomic type of cartoon, that type of writing/humor really grates on me. At least this one had pretty good animation.
15. Afternoon Super - This one wasn't for me. The art style is very ugly and the whole thing was just boring.