Happy Birthday to Lynda Anderson
From my Lavalles Island family to hers. Excuse me if her age is wrong.
From my Lavalles Island family to hers. Excuse me if her age is wrong.
I'm obsessed with her lately, so I just had to make her into a Mii for my island!
I've never actually watched this show or read a single DC comic in my life. But even as a total outsider, as soon as her character design dropped, I knew I was flushing red. Just look at her! The seductive voice, the curvy build, and that chaotic, madly obsessive energy.
For a so-called giantess, I'd let her "Snu-Snu" me anytime she likes.
People are blaming the G4 reboot's failure entirely on controversies and personalities, so I wrote a deep dive into the actual structural disaster. Comcast threw $30 million for a fake internet vaudeville act.
Here is why its fundamental "Architectural Mismatch" doomed it from day one.
This alone took me four hours to make with just the pixel brush and zero breaks.
After posting here recently about short-lived shows that continue to gain vocal fanbases—using Netflix's Inside Job as an example—I saw a lot of comments lamenting its cancellation and lack of marketing. While it's true the show wasn't prioritized compared to their monster hits, there is a deeper metric at play that drives these decisions.
Netflix rely heavily on completion rates—the percentage of viewers who actually finish a season within a specific timeframe (usually 28 days), rather than just total hours viewed. New shows generally need to hit a sweet spot of around 60% to secure a renewal. This is why Squid Game and Heartstopper became instant sensations, while Inside Job fell short. Not enough people finished it fast enough. Today, streamers expect new titles to become overnight hits, essentially threatening viewers to watch immediately or face cancellation. Even if a show gets renewed, there's no guarantee the audience returns for season two, and the cycle just repeats. As the old saying goes, "Rome wasn't built in a day."
I think the root cause of this issue, including the lack of marketing, is the binge-release model. What started as a casual, liberated viewing experience (like sitting back to watch endless episodes of Friends) has become a rigid metric for success. Netflix's serialized shows like Inside Job, The OA, 1899, and Warrior Nun are much better suited for a weekly release. Dumping an entire season at once kills the most important marketing tool a new show has: word-of-mouth. Historically, great shows took time to find their footing and audience. Comedies like Seinfeld and The Office were ratings underperformers early on before growing into mainstream hits. Even dramas like Breaking Bad took years to become the cultural phenomenon it is today. All of this was driven by weekly watercooler discussions at work, at school, or on social media. While a weekly release won't save every show, it gives them a fighting chance compared to a weekend binge that people forget about a week later.
Overall, the binge model is a poor strategy for ongoing, serialized stories. It defeats the purpose of word-of-mouth marketing and leaves potential fans completely unaware of a show's existence until it's already too late. Netflix should take a page from Amazon and Apple's playbook and pivot to weekly releases for new, ongoing series. The binge model should be reserved for completed library content, miniseries, or foreign acquisitions.
Take Netflix's Inside Job, for example. The show only ran for one season (18 episodes split into two parts) and was initially renewed for a second season before Netflix famously pulled a UNO reverse card and canceled it anyway.
Normally, a show with that kind of track record would be forgotten within a year or two. Yet, it still has incredible staying power. It constantly gets a healthy stream of fan art, fan fiction, TikTok edits, and active community discussions. Even though I haven't watched the show myself, I see fan art of Reagan out in the wild all the time.
If you think about it, it's basically the Firefly of modern cartoons. It just won't die.
For example, look at Netflix's Inside Job. The show only ran for one season (18 episodes split into two parts) and was initially renewed for a second season before Netflix famously pulled a UNO reverse card on it.
Normally, a show with that track record would be forgotten within a year or two. Yet, it still has incredible staying power. It constantly gets a healthy stream of fan art, fan fiction, TikTok edits, and active community discussions. Even though I don't watch the show myself, I see fanarts of Reagan out in the wild all the time.
If you think about it, it's basically the Firefly of modern cartoons. It just won't die.
I decided to post my animated crushes—or characters I have the hots for—every week, just to see if anybody else feels me on these.
What do you think of my feelings for her?
For example, recently I've found myself really attracted to CeCe Ryder from the Netflix show Agent Elvis. I haven't actually watched the show, so I don't know much about her, but I read she's a stoner and just a perfect mix of cute and hot.
Plus, I definitely have a weakness for a woman in tight leather.
After spending a few months with just my Affiong Harris Mii on the island, I decided it was time to start building out the rest of the RDC crew. First up is Aff's fathe...I mean, first is Ben Skinner!
I tried to get his features and style down as close as possible. What do you guys think? Who should I try to add next?
Does anyone remember this overlooked cartoon starring Quinta Brunson? It was a 10-minute magical girl anime spoof that aired during SYFY's short-lived TZGZ animation block. The plot followed two twentysomethings turned mystical warriors, guided by a talking baby panda. I discovered it through a RebelTaxi video and checked it out, only to find it technically awful. The comedy relied on cringey, dated Gen Z tropes and pop culture references, the storylines made no sense, and the main characters were bland and generic. While it tried to mock millennial culture, it mostly just fell back on lazy stereotypes.
Surprisingly, I loved it anyway. The sheer absurdity made it highly entertaining upon repeat viewings. It was disappointing when the programming block crashed and the cartoon vanished into obscurity. Frankly, it was ahead of its time. If it had debuted on a better network like Adult Swim, right around the time Quinta gained massive fame for Abbott Elementary, it probably would have succeeded.
He was stressed out heavy after the argument, so you know I had to hook him up with the vacation.
The characters pictured are Lemon Chiffon and Goldiva from Super Drags.
Who are some of your favorites?
Spent the past couple of months crafting a few Adult Swim residents for my island, Lavalles.
I've made Trophy and Pete Fantasy representing Teenage Euthanasia, alongside Gaz Digzy and Duleena from Ballmastrz: 9009.
What do you guys think?