Why do you consume entertainment designed for kids, Sup Forums?
For me, it's because I find their messages usually to be more positive than the trash on "regular" TV, and because I can't deal with adult reality so brightly-coloured children's tales help me cope with life.
I like art and animation. I find most live action stuff boring.
Cartoons can do stuff life action can't because of budget.
Entertainment "for adults" tends to be the most soulless, assembly line crafted, paint by numbers, formulaic, repetitious, lowest common denominator, watered down, executive meddled, completely stripped of all artistic merit, chewed up goulash that's designed to appeal the stupid masses
With children's entertainment, creators sometimes get more of a free hand to do what they want to do.
I consume a lot of media in general. Cartoons are one of them. I think it is very interesting to see how many people here hate live action stuff.
Like this guy: That opinion is interesting to me, if he really can't come up with any live action shows he considers good.
"regular" TV is legitimate trash
HBO live-action drams and animated kids shows are the only things on TV worth watching
I like animation because of its ability to tell a story without necessarily following the constraints of reality. There's not much you can't do in the realm of animation, so the possibilities are endless. Honestly, my big gripe about western animation is how shallow it tends to be. 90% of everything that's shown on TV doesn't really seem to mean anything. It's mostly action-oriented and the humor tends to be either stale or absurd. I'm fine with things being happy and uplifting, though.
I guess my bigger gripe is with "adult" cartoons. Anything that isn't cape is almost always revolting to a point that it's barely watchable, e.g. heavy violence or gross humor every other second.
where the fuck does this idea that "bright colors" or "Sweet flavor" is for kids come from? that has never, ever been true. ever. it implies that somehow sensory stimulation itself is immature.
well for me it's the humor, sometimes it makes you have to think
compare cartoons to even shows like the Big Bang Theory where it boils down to
>girls are dummies bad at videogame and science
>nerds no good at socializing
Sometimes settings in a cartoon allows for life outside of the same sitcom sofa, or speak about things no one else thinks about because they aren't in a cartoon.
also
cartoon characters are allowed to dwell in an abstract medium and it's funnier.
Like the scene in Gumball where Richard rips a window off a wall, or anything Ed does in Edd Ed n Eddy. Those make me genuinely laugh more than lame stunts in sitcoms where the punchline is a character getting "hurt" by a foam prop.
I think most live action takes it's way to seriously
Even TV cartoons are more likely to have a better art direction than the vast majority of live action TV shows. It's a little bizarre and fascinating. Breaks from reality in cartoons are less immersion breaking or annoying because they're no less real than "normal" scenes. Fantasy or adventure shows end up looking bizarre in live action, in part because it's so hard to get an actor that looks exactly perfect for a role, whereas animation allows you to create exactly the kind of character needed to visually fit a role from scratch.
Also what this user says. You can get any kind of story told with greater visual quality than hollywood movie trash offers, so it's sort of a selector for good stuff in some ways.
OP here. This thread has actually been kinda illuminating. I was kinda beating myself up for being so into them, but what you guys have said about the greater creative flexibility makes a lot of sense.
In a way, it kind of feels like kid's shows (not just cartoons) are where creativity truly flourishes, because they have to have both a relevant message as well as keep it digestible for kids. When you take those two away, you end up with all sorts of the shallow, cheap, indulgent and nihilistic shit directed towards adults, which often provide little more than a distraction from reality or ego-fantasies.
Well one thing, there is not enough variety in adult cartoons. For every Spawn or Æon Flux out there, there's about a million Family Guys that follow.
Also, some "kids'" cartoons can get pretty adult. Shows like Rocko's Modern Life actually get better when you grow up.
Animation allows for more sublimity. It's also usually less pretentious. Events are harder to empathize with yet at the same time feel more universal. Granted, I think that years of thinking through this mindset have forced animators to assume they have to be specific to get a message across, which I don't think is the case. Animators *should* be taking more time to understand the great cinema directors of history than I believe they do.
Also I'd probably say I like my favorite live-action movie (8½) more than I like my favorite animated movie (Fantasia).
What are you saying??? That cookie-cutter animated sitcoms that grotesquely mock contemporary politics and society whilst offering little in the way of heart or resolution aren't shows worthy of watching??
Pretty much this really, live action can be boring and dull but you can make cartoons do anything you want and expand your imagination.
Yeah, kinda.
Got sick of guns, rape and various crime shows. Adult sitcoms are pathetically unfunny and their premises are getting duller and duller. Fantasy shows are often made too edgy for my liking. Sci-fi is sometimes fun, but rarely all that good, and also tends to go the edgy route. Most everything else is meh to me.
I do love me some housing, decor and construction shows though. Tiny House Nation fucking enthralls me.
Frankly though, I don't even watch many cartoons these days. But I definitely watch them more than I watch other "regular" entertainment.
I'm honestly a pleb with shit taste and I watch a bunch of Let's Plays in my free time. Please don't hate me.
>I think it is very interesting to see how many people here hate live action stuff.
Not that guy but I don't think it's that people hate live action. It's just that we hate the notion that live action stuff that is ostensibly for adults has the exact same potential to be shallow trash as kids' stuff, but it's still seen as more legitimate.
I don't remember the link but after the newest Harry Potter book came out there was an article written about how it's baffling that adults not only read it but that the book was below their expectations. There's a bunch of legitimate reasons for adults to be disappointed in the book, but the author of the article boiled it down to "It's for kids and you're not a kid. That's why you didn't like it."
Then the writer went on to talk about how fantasy is for kiddies and realistic stories are inherently more mature and have more depth. BITCH 80% of everything is shit, and 80% of realistic "adult" stuff is bullshit like Two and a Half Men or Adam Sandler movies.
*We the notion that live action stuff that is ostensibly for adults is more legitimate, when in reality it has the exact same potential to be shallow trash as kids' stuff.
From what I'm getting in this thread is Sup Forums has serious trouble empathizing with other people so they resort drawings.
Pretty much what I watch it for
Because I'm a man child who's never quite grown up.
The only honest answer
I'm immature and don't seek to change my tastes. Also I'm an artist and like art.
Porn of it is easier to find and usually higher quality than MSPaint headswaps.
Yeah, didn't expect people to literally reject other things.
I would have thought enjoying both Sup Forums and non-Sup Forums content wasn't such a crazy idea.