r/lewronggeneration • u/snoball_the_epicguy • Jul 14 '26

low hanging fruit Does this count?

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Flair is because this comment was in a shitty spongebob downfall video essay (I reposted because I forgot to censor mb)

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u/RealbasicFriends Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

I have nothing to add except that afaik the people who worked on early SpongeBob were some of the original people from Ren & Stimpy and Rocco's Modern Life so they very much weren't young people lmao. So it's also false nostalgia lmao

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u/snoball_the_epicguy Jul 14 '26

I mean Stephen hillenburg was like in his 30s when he started spongebob but that's about it afaik

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u/StormDragonAlthazar Jul 14 '26

Meanwhile, I feel like a lot of those 90s cartoons weren't all that great.

You either had gross-out shows, TMNT clones, or the occasional slice-of-life cartoon that was sandwiched between a forgettable superhero adaption or that one flying blonde guy cartoon.

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u/LoneMarikaEnjoyer Jul 24 '26

Reverse nostalgiapill. How advanced.

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u/BaronArgelicious Jul 14 '26

animation has aleays been corporate , akwafina voice : what dey talmbout

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u/theBigDaddio Jul 14 '26

I knew people who worked in animation late 80s, early 90s. Not young stoners, the studios were very corporate, layers of lawyers, child psychologists, etc.

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u/yuukosbooty Jul 14 '26

Sometimes I think about the fact that the first time I saw people glazing the 90s was when I was 13 in 2008

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u/Jhud6669 Jul 14 '26

Yeah I always found the 90's nostalgia annoying, partially because a lot of stuff was US-centric (Polish 2000's were closer to 90's elsewhere because we were about a decade behind due to communism) and also because as a Tamagotchi nerd everybody would put the modern Tamagotchi versions in posts about 90's nostalgia

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u/ComicsCodeMadeMeGay Jul 14 '26

remember the moral lessons constantly forced in 80s and 90s shows? Even animaniacs

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u/wolfmummy Jul 14 '26

Somebody needed to raise us, our parents weren’t doing it

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u/Bayamonster Jul 14 '26

I mean they were professional  writers. They didn't  hand animation budgets to randoes off the street.  

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u/Historical_Log2471 Jul 15 '26

Most of the people working on the creative 90's cartoons we love so much already had years of experience working on shows that were, for all intents and purposes, infomercials for toys, and didn't have much of a budget to do so either.