Maybe the usual graffiti guys considered the wall sacred or something I dunno.
>all that graffiti
What’s really shocking is that wall stood for 20 years without minorities scribbling on it
Real answer, it was probably a 24/7 high traffic area, not fit for any real graffiti work. Now that it’s a construction zone, traffic is heavily cut down, likely almost non existent at night.
Also, temporary barriers are a lower risk thing to do graffiti on, and a higher chance of staying up for a long period of time. Most buildings and walls will have it power washed off within 24 hours
But only if they're enforcing my ideals, remember. You see, me good. And not me bad. And me is good because me is me. How could me possibly not be good? So forcing other people to be like me is good, because it means there's more me. But letting people be whatever they want is very very bad, because they choose to not be me. When everything is me, the world will be perfect. Everything that is not me has to go, so all of the me can be safe forever. Don't even bother arguing with me, because I'm right by default, on the grounds that I'm me, and everything I say is right because it's me saying it. MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
That's the problem with democracy. It only works as long as I agree with it!
(What's up with the captcha going overboard? There are like two more characters to type and extra white scratches everywhere)
And here's the extension from a few years later (only angle I've been able to find). The last one on the right is Too Many Cooks, which is where it stopped. As far as I can tell, they never continued it further.
2 years ago
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Found a slightly different angle, but it doesn't look much better.
2 years ago
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I like how they just gave up. Would have taken someone 10 minutes to stencil out MTM and the date but they just didn’t and now 8 years have passed
2 years ago
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>toonami >2012
the frick
2 years ago
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Late night Toonami started in May 2012
2 years ago
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Original Toonami wasn't on Adult Swim.
2 years ago
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Adult Swim resurrected Toonami on 5/26/2012
2 years ago
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>Mr Pickles, King Star King, and XRA got on the wall >Rick and Morty didnt
Based
2 years ago
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Yea they did dumbass, they are next to Bobs
2 years ago
Anonymous
Well there's something I've been meaning to tell you 'bout the college at the edge of the town...
No-one should ever go there. You know, it's bad-bad-bad.
It gets worse every school year, but man, the freaking teachers are rad.
2 years ago
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>superjail was 07
Was it really that old? I swear it came out in 09
2 years ago
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For some of them, they're counting pre-series pilot airings as the start date. Superjail's pilot aired in May 2007, but the series didn't officially start until September 2008.
2 years ago
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>Delocated
Wow, I forgot that piece of crap existed.
2 years ago
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Goodnight sweet sweet Saul of the Molemen
2 years ago
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Mah homie. Saul was the only good live action show they ever aired.
2 years ago
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>There was a mission underground >So they sent some explorers down >But the crewmen of any worth >Died on their way to the center of the Earth!
2 years ago
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There's my Chippy.
2 years ago
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>tim and eric
worth the whole wall being destroyed tbh
2 years ago
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This. The only solution was complete destruction
2 years ago
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This. The only solution was complete destruction
>Tim and Eric still pissing off Cinemaphile 15 years later
It's not healthy to hold grudges for such a long time
2 years ago
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Tim and eric gets btfo'd by the Eric Andre show.
2 years ago
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>Assy McGee >literally everything on this one
Post the hits or don't make art of it at all.
2 years ago
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I stopped watching Adult Swim way earlier then I thought.
Let's all be honest
The best parts of Inuyasha were the ending themes and stand-alone episodes
Whenever the actual story kicked in it turned to shit, should have just been an episodic series about finding the israeliteel shards with Naraku serving as the final boss
Early Inuyasha was where most of the series was episodic and Band of Seven was precisely where the series jumped the shark. I'm sorry that you have shit taste.
Anime has mostly moved away from that plodding, monster of the week no progress type of adaption. If your manga only has 24 episodes worth of material, that’s all the episodes it’s gonna get till there’s more to work with
Probably future proofing for space. It took a long time to fill the wall but would have been full much sooner if they included every anime they only aired for a few weeks before cancelling
Those were the anime that really put AS on the map, not just in terms of anime but in general. Early AS was actually pretty heavily reliant on its anime bloc and there's a reason they used to air anime every night of the week.
Kinda surprised GitS and FLCL aren’t in there. They did fund more of GitS and FLCL has long been cited as one of their favorite anime. And both are from that era of AS
Assy Mcgee and Minoriteam were original projects AS created. Bleach and Death Note were someone else’s property they aired for a time.
The only anime that should be on the wall are Big O and GitS. AS helped make new seasons of both. FLCL got new seasons too, but long after they stopped updating the wall
Those were the anime that really put AS on the map, not just in terms of anime but in general. Early AS was actually pretty heavily reliant on its anime bloc and there's a reason they used to air anime every night of the week.
>Trigun >FLCL >Bleach >Death Note
These should have made the Wall.
Because they had no money back then and shitty anime dubs were nearly free to air. It was a smart gamble though because airing a bunch of shit allowed them to find a few winners like Inuyasha that their audience actually wanted to tune in for
I don't remember anything about Witch Hunter Robin except for the fact it exists
>Blue Gender
At the time it was pretty cool and interesting to watch as a kid who never saw Gundam or Evangelion but did watch Starship Troopers for the giant bugs
But then the ending happens and yeah frick that show
So fricking nostalgia. I would stay up for hours past my bedtime as a kid and then be tired throughout the next day at school just to see these shows. Man, I miss TV sometimes, because you had to watch what they offered and you could find great gems if you knew where to watch.
Even before the merger they've been moving production to LA for years. I'm about 99% sure that it's just a matter of time before they announce that the corporate offices will be movies as well.
Entertainment supply and networking chains that have compounded over a century since LA became a major center of radio and film. Basically everyone lives there, so the infrastructure is built around supplying things there, which means it's optimal from a business perspective to just do everything there. Once an industry gets entrenched in a city like that it's really hard to remove it unless another similarly optimal location emerges on its own.
its mostly tax incentives and to be near other production teams isnt it? I mean, that matters more for film where you can want to use studios and sets and stuff, not so much animation.
Atlanta is pobably the most liberal city in the south. Just because it's not San Francisco or Seattle liberal doesn't mean it's some conservative hodunk town.
2 years ago
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Not that's Austin because of the amount of people moving in from the west coast.
>It's literally more expensive to live there than anywhere else in the country.
They are rich liberals...they are moving to a rich liberal playground where they can see the poor working class and the homeless on the streets and get a smug fat hard on and jerk off knowing that their lives are so much better than ours.
Watch this video and tell me how much "work" this girl did.
This moron would have a stroke if he saw how yuppies lived in the 80s
2 years ago
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Gundamn grew up poor in the 1980's and was actually participated in gang turf wars as a child. He worked lots of shit jobs before YouTube.
Also in the past, rich people knew they were rich and acted as such, they don't spend half a million on clothes that makes them look like they robbed a homeless man and then pretend they are normal people like us.
People need to know their place, that includes the rich.
If you care to learn, it was tradition in the British Navy to keep the ranks separated to encourage mor comradery and cut down on jealousy.
High ranking officers should not mingle with the enlisted.
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Sadly it seems his life experiences taught him nothing, since he looks at a very clear divide between rich & poor and somehow comes out thinking its a generational problem. Every generation has their Lumberghs and Batemans, useless middle manager types coasting by off of their familial wealth and connections while the average man toils away. But since Mr. Eceleb has an audience of moronic culture warriors who're too young to watch fox news, he simply panders to the lowest common denominator of mouth breathing partisans by sucking out all of the nuance to make content thats one step removed from "SJW pwned compilation number 1488."
I enjoy listening to Gundam for background noise. That said, 90% of jobs are nothing more than adult daycares in some aspect. Take note of how the majority of the all-hands meeting were women. As a former IT Manager for a global spanning company. My team and I weren't able to attend all-hands as we were too busy actually working. The same can be said of other necessary departments like Finance.
The people that get to mess around as the tiktok video showcased work in marketing, HR, and maybe customer service (depending on their role).
This moron would have a stroke if he saw how yuppies lived in the 80s
My father worked for a large company in the 80s and has admitted that cocaine and other substances would help the higher-ups get through long days. It wasn't until the mid-90s that those people started experiencing complications from the heavy drug abuses of the 80s. Forcing them to either retire or die.
The main reason is what I'll call "legacy networking" yes, we live in an age of instant communication and really, lots of work can be done at home via computers, however, there are lots of rich, famous, influential and powerful people who won't care who you are unless you "accidently" run into them shopping and have lunch with them.
It's the old studio producer execs and the celebrities who live in a bubble.
Sure, you could become a famous movie maker, animator or musician/singer, thanks to technology, but the old money likes living in one town and are too lazy to travel more than an hour.
There are lots of celebrities who live in LA but won't take the time to travel to San Diego for Comic Con for panels/signings but will go to the Anaheim Convention Center because it's closer.
Silicon Valley is a perfect example. All of the heads of social media and tech literally are all neighbors who shop at the same stores and eat at the same restaurants.
The Railroad and Oil Barons of the gilded era weren't as rich and powerful as tech giants these days and at least those pioneers of industry had to get their hands dirty at first or were smart engineers.
There are some tech employees that honestly do nothing but live in the lap of luxury.
blame thomas edison and his thugs. He chased them off the east coast with his violent patent enforcement and the early entertainment industry grew around the west coast including its supply chains and networks of workers/creatives that the state adapted to house it.
less christcuck influence
there's been little reason to move out of LA in the last few decades because it's been established as the go to place for entertainment
sure its expensive but is it really cheaper to go to another city, move all your workers, move all your schools, and try to start from the ground up somewhere else?
In the long run, yes, and frankly that long run is getting shorter all the time the more California leans on its ultra-wealthy to cover its bloated, corrupt-ass government spending.
It's why Elon saw the writing on the wall and bounced.
Same reason you have hubs of industry, easy logistics
Though the rise of the internet is quickly making the need for centralized entertainment structures obsolete
>It's literally more expensive to live there than anywhere else in the country.
Lmao, imagine actually thinking that liberals give a shit about their employees. It's just like teachers, who are constantly complaining about not being paid a living wage, but when it comes time to up the school's budget - where does the money go? Straight to the salary of the superintendent and other administrators. Teachers only see pennies, and like good little footsoldiers they go back and start demanding MORE MONEY FOR SCHOOLS. More like more money for the bourgeois.
Administration and offices are all that is in Atlanta anyway. Outside of that, some stuff is made over at Awesome Inc a few blocks down the street but that's an independent studio.
If we're talking about southern monuments that need to be demolished. When will Atlanta have a nuke dropped on it?
Have you ever been there? It would be a saving grace to the state to wipe it off the map.
Well, it's more like discovery cannot give a flying frick about AS, or any broadcast channel at all. They only continue to exist because of momentum. Everyone is looking to streaming only these days and only the old guard at the channels hanging on are keeping those alive.
The discovery and AT&T buyout was the worst thing to happen to WB. Most of these mergers are bullshit. The only one that doesn't appear to be a clusterfrick is Viacom/CBS but they've always worked together to some extent.
Nah, this was actually a good thing. Without Lazzo, the new people immediately started to turn the network into something it wasn’t. I’d rather see Discovery kill it than it persist on with a focus on female viewers
The new people cancelled Venture Bros so they could fund another season of Tuca and Birdie after it had already failed on streaming. The frick are you talking about? It became firmly more female targeted after the buyout.
Not sure if Birdgirl started production before or after the buyout though.
VB was fricked the second Lazzo left. He was literally the only reason it was allowed to run for 14 years (with only 7 seasons). Lazzo was known to
1. Play favorites
2. Cancel shows simply because he felt like it
>The discovery and AT&T buyout was the worst thing to happen to WB
Nah, mercy killing all of their modern animated media is the best we could hope for now.
Everyone knew that it went to shit, really hard, it’s just a byproduct of the same regime since AT&T was heavily responsible for why WB shat the bed really hard, by canceling or altering certain shows, as to the point that they spend a good few years, trying to get the hold of TW and create a streaming service based off of a channel that’s be established decades back, only for that to fail and then have morons like Discovery to continue raping the dead horse by continually mutilate it
Everyone was aware but by then AS was kind of shit and on air tv is dying anyway so not a lot to be too depressed about. It was inevitable that AS would be dead before 2030.
Discovery is one of those really cheap companies. They think their model of spending $100,000 or less per episode on reality shows of pointing cameras at fat people can work for animation and HBO tier dramas
It simply cannot
I don’t disagree but it doesn’t change what I said. Adult Swim has no future. If they didn’t pull of a miracle and land KotH and Futurama just to fill in time they probably would be off the air already.
Adult Swim was ran in a unique way when Lazzo was around. If he liked something, he didn’t care if it wasn’t very profitable. That was a fine attitude to have when Family Guy was paying all their bills. But now Lazzo is gone and his replacement are people who expect business to make money, and AS can’t achieve that as it is, which is why they have been slowly weening people into expecting shows on HBO Max
Isn’t Toonami shutting down soon? I imagine that’s the biggest money sink they have on the network right now
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Nothing official has been stated but it sure feels like it is. Apparently their budget is “frozen” until Discovery decides what they want to do with it. Been that way since April at least and no progress has been made on the matter. Because of that, it’s forcing them to burn through Naruto faster, just like in 08.
There’s also the matter of Crunchyroll refusing to sell anything to the block, and they hold a huge chunk of the dubbed anime market. Discovery may feel it’s just best to retire the block rather than attempt to navigate an unfriendly market
2 years ago
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>burn through Naruto faster
That sounds like a good thing though
2 years ago
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For the audience, absolutely. For the block though, it’s just accelerating a problem. They are struggling to get any shows at all, so losing a piece of anchor content they have had since 2014 leaves yet another void to fill.
As of this Saturday, Toonami has exactly 100 episodes of Shippuden left to air. If the double up doesn’t stop, at around this time next year Shippuden will finish its Toonami run. And who knows, maybe that’s what Discovery wants so they can have TOM sign off for good when it’s finished
2 years ago
Anonymous
2012 revival Toonami never made money. It was always a for the fans kind of thing.
2 years ago
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Which doesn't bode well for its continued existence under the new management.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You are moronic. Toonami made a ton of money, that’s the entire reason AS didn’t outright drop anime. Once it started to struggle to acquire shows is when it started to fade profit wise
2 years ago
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And I'm sure you have sources to back this claim up
2 years ago
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I’m sure you have sources to back up that it was a money pit. Because the first 5 or so years of the revival it had pretty healthy ratings and a steady stream of new content. Lazzo may have liked vanity projects but he didn’t let Toonami exist for 8 years before retiring if I wasn’t making some kind of money
2 years ago
Anonymous
Either back your claim or shut the frick up homosexual. you have no idea what you are talking about.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You made your claim first. Post sources it doesn’t make money
2 years ago
Anonymous
So you can't back up shit, frick off then.
2 years ago
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Why won’t you post your proof?
2 years ago
Anonymous
It was outright stated in 2012 that Toonami was a temporary experiment and if it didn’t make money it was getting canned again. And it’s 10 years later now and it’s still on the lineup so it’s safe to assume it made some money
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This. ASA at the time was about to be removed due to low ratings, the Toonami branding and new content saved it.
Pretty much this. No one is going to want to invest more money or waste time injecting any energy into something they know will only have diminishing returns and be dead soon enough.
>i wonder what this means for american dad?
Probably dead or related to HBO Max if it's lucky.
Something you'll be seeing for most western TV animation not aimed at 8 year olds from now on; relegated to streaming if it's cheap and cancelled completely if it's not.
As an Atlantan, this does sting. Ted Turner was a wild guy and having TBS, TNT, and Adult Swim here was always really exciting. End of an era, unfortunately.
>iconic wall being torn down >barely any new projects >what new things they do have are all next day HBO Max >Toonami forbidden from licensing any new shows
The rumors about AS getting the axe are real, aren’t they?
now that's been handed off to another company that is writing off lots of shows for tax purposes (Purging them from the services) Its very possible Williams Street as a whole will be sunk.
I’m kinda surprised AS never wrote off any of its shows in 20 years. I could see if they actually liked to cycle them in reruns, but they didn’t. If they silently wrote off half their catalog no one will ever know the difference
>The wall in Atlanta, which depicts the various projects Adult Swim has brought to cable since its inception, has long been in the crosshairs of the City of Atlanta urban planning division for removal. However, Williams Street made regular payments to the city to keep the wall in place. This year, they made the decision to cease payments for the wall, and the city wasted no time capitalizing on their chance to remove the wall to move forward with their plan to build a community center for at risk LGBTQIA+ youth. The construction of the center is estimated to be completed in 2024.
former intern here, we're not losing a whole lot by the Atlanta office closing its doors. It was mostly administrative stuff anyway. and by a grouping of very poorly aging stoners who had been there since the 90s and still haven't come to terms with the fact that they are not 20 somethings anymore. It's no surprise that Discovery is putting it out of its misery at this point. AS Studios moved to LA years ago, but even then they have seriously cut back on almost all productions.
>we're not losing a whole lot
Maybe now that it's gutted anyway, but you lost everything the channel was.
It succeeded because of its lower costs, its tapping into the Atlanta/Athens area irrelevance and change of pace, its ability to experiment and do things that really haven't been tried before, even the network runner being completely different from your usual business suit.
It was the first time anyone in the country outside one city near the Mexico border got any voice in animation. Now it's controlled by LA and we're getting shit like Tuca and Bertie which is performing so bad the whole block is being shut down and anything of worth going to Hbo Max
Williams Street looked like such a fun place to work. You'd catch glimpses during the livestreams now and again. Wish I could find the videos of the episodes where they did tours.
But I knew things were fricked as soon as they killed said streams.
It kind of wasn't. It was about half 40-50 somethings that partid a whole lot and somked weed daily. and half interns from SCAD who did just about all the day to day until they were burnt out and quit, and were instantly replaced by the next wide eyed student wanting to work in the place that made Aqua Teen, until they were burnt out and so on and so on.....
People are taking it the wrong way. The wall was in the way of new development, that’s why it was knocked down, not because of anything malicious towards AS. I’m sure they knew the risk of painting that on property they did not own
>preserve section
M8 each one of those is like a 6’x6’ slab of concrete. Even attempting to preserve those would have costed an assload, then finding somewhere to store huge concrete slabs without breaking them would be a huge waste of money.
Not to mention since each painting was right next to the next one, there would have been no feasible way to preserve each one.
People also don’t realize the wall was in disrepair. The pictures you see above are over a decade old. Half those paintings were mostly flaked off
An entirely new building. The wall was just a barrier, it’s not fit for a structure. And they couldn’t leave it as a wall because that blocks the building, as well as makes everyone think the building is related to WS
Well, to be fair, most companies "have to" do something woke like that. The left kept screaming that "silence is violence" and all that drivel, which forced people to say things they normally wouldnt.
Adult Swim isn't going anywhere anytime soon, the money Rick & Morty brings in alone is enough to keep it afloat for now. if that ever gets canceled though, then yeah it'll be on the chopping block for WBD
AS is going to HBO Max as a brand
They'll still pump out R&M and other shit
the new CEO of Warner Bros Discovery is an old-school cable mogul. he'd keep Rick & Morty on TV for the sweet, sweet advertising money it brings in, and to do that it needs Adult Swim to air on
Lol no he isn’t. He is a modernist who wants to kill off anything that doesn’t make a clear profit. Sustaining AS for 8 hours/7 days a week costs more than R&M can pull in. AS struggles to sell adspace most nights
It was 90s Nickelodeon all over again with kids shows in the day and old sitcoms at night. But at midnight they played 80s Transformers, GI:Joe and Jem and the Holograms.
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Anonymous
That sounds awful. I'd take early RC and ATHF reruns over that any day.
I suppose it's better to die off than to become something horrible like modern Mtv that plays nothing but Rob Drydeck youtube videos, or be rebranded into something fricked like Syfy that plays Wrestling.
I’m hoping they have the decency to just kill it off because we are getting real close to it becoming a soulless trash can like those other networks did just to continue existing
All these fricking mergers, half the fricking companies in hollywood now having entirely different owners than they had five years ago, Netflix and Disney losing most of their stock value. Anime and manga decimating cartoons and comics. It's just a weird damn time, man.
I mean, Netflix is going down the shitter because they spent their formative years literally flushing money down the toilet on projects no one had any interest in. Everyone always talked about netflix having “frick you” money and wow shocker, eventually that runs out when you make 9 bad things for every 1 good thing.
Disney simply cannot stop going woke and are driving their fanbases away. Spending billions of dollars on Star Wars and having their expensive park shut down for 2 years didn’t help matters either.
Anime dabbing on the west is nothing new, it had been doing that for at least half a decade, it’s just people didn’t want to talk about it as much back then. And back then we didn’t have hilarious examples like Demon Slayer outselling the ENTIRE western industry combined
>And back then we didn’t have hilarious examples like Demon Slayer outselling the ENTIRE western industry combined
That's manga not anime and no Donald Duck still is a massive seller
All these fricking mergers, half the fricking companies in hollywood now having entirely different owners than they had five years ago, Netflix and Disney losing most of their stock value. Anime and manga decimating cartoons and comics. It's just a weird damn time, man.
The funny thing about Netflix is that they were aggressively woke, and one of the first platforms to do so. They blackwashed any character they could from an existing IP. They aggressively shoved lgbtq+ content into every show when it wasn't necessary. Netflix not only listened to the vocal minority on twitter, but they hired those folks.
And then, when they aired the Dave Chappelle stuff, and claimed that they were not going to make moral decisions for viewers, the woke crowd turned their backs on Netflix, and started encouraging others to stop subscribing.
It was fascinating. But I can't help but think they did lose some money from the woke crowd protesting.
This is a rare time when being woke isn’t what did a company in. Their animation department was greenlighting every idea that came to them no matter how shitty and unmarketable it was. So they spend all this cash on a project no one has any interest in, then eventually doing that a bunch of times made them run out of money and now they axed the entire animation section because it was a money pit
>All the western animation studios/channels I liked are dead or dying >All the anime/manga I liked are getting new seasons or adaptations Thankfully I'm fine with this development since a lot of those western studios have been shit for nearing a decade.
Hopefully Ballmasterz and Primal get to keep getting new seasons, but other than that I give no fricks.
Seems weird after about 2007 or so when streaming anime became very commonplace. and all of a sudden anyone can watch anything whenever they want without bothering with the same old late night health insurance and prescription drug commercials over and over again.
Seems weird after about 2007 or so when streaming anime became very commonplace. and all of a sudden anyone can watch anything whenever they want without bothering with the same old late night health insurance and prescription drug commercials over and over again.
I think it's weird how there was a short time there when Comedy Central could air unedited uncensored stuff after midnight. That's apparently over with.
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Anonymous
They still can. So could Adult Swim. They just choose not to so they are more marketable to advertisers
2 years ago
Anonymous
Rules for what can air on cable are set by the network. They could air uncensored porn if they wanted to. But as people remember with South Park, the only ad buyer was Girls Gone Wild. That doesn’t pay the bills so networks censor down enough to not scare off advertisers
Commercials are basically down to prescription drugs for old people using 80s music, and quirky comedy Car Insurance commercials for Geico and Progressive with characters they invented in the early 00s that they are still using for some reason.
>Most Toonami viewers these days are nigs who can’t stream.
And also tards who think that them watching Toonami is some form of "support."
So basically the two groups I mentioned.
>Most Toonami viewers these days are nigs who can’t stream. That’s why anything besides kiddie shonen has such a hard time finding viewers
Don't forget middle schoolers who would stay up past Family Guy to watch Dragon Ball Super.
Accurate. On one hand they're the only reason ratings didn't drop to zero after 2015, on the other hand their shit tastes ruined the schedule even before the problems with Funi.
Wrong. Toonami had solid viewership from 2015-2017. It wasn’t till the shonen overload that started to take hold in 2018 that viewership truly began to dip.
Space Dandy was actually not that significant of a viewership draw, especially in its second season. People seem to misremember their own enjoyment of the series as actual success
It is weird that [as] is a relic in every way and everyone knows it can no longer contribute to gen z the way it did for late millennials, but everyone still wants it to continue somehow. I guess it is because it was always a vestigial representation of that old 1999-2006 Cartoon Network.
The way it looks to me is people welcome it to die because it’s a hollow shell of what it used to be. It’s like when your dog is dying, you are sad and remember the good times, but then you look at your dog at the vets office and realize every waking moment for it is pure agony and even if you could add more time to his clock, it wouldn’t be much and it wouldn’t be quality
why is any executive evil? capitalism.
the good execs, who actually take paycuts to make sure their workers don't go hungry, are the exception to the rule.
It's a slave hierarchy either way, just in America you die on the streets as opposed to Japan where you go have a nice day in the forest or off a seacliff.
2 years ago
Anonymous
This is a weird thing to say considering America has a higher suicide rate than Japan.
2 years ago
Anonymous
most american suicides are due to depression or sexual inadequacy. I was explicitly only referring to death caused by being fired or being unable to work.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>are due to depression
Yes, depression not at all exacerbated by America's terrible work culture, dating culture, media culture, and general culture.
Americans might be a special kind of dumb, but they don't have some gene that makes them more susceptible to depression than other nations, they just have a shitty, repressive, garbage culture, and that applies to all of America regardless of political allegiances.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Americans might be a special kind of dumb
I like how you always run this idea that America runs the world but also everyone is dumb???
Admittedly I think places without nature like in Europe are way more depressed and that's why people like you get so angry and passive-aggrestive all the time
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I like how you always run this idea that America runs the world but also everyone is dumb???
It's almost like you can do a lot to spread your influence when you spend the GDP of a small European nation on your military budget every year.
Thankfully that's waning.
2 years ago
Anonymous
So you're admitting Americans are smart enough to control everyone.
Good to know, maybe when your country's citizens stops being a special kind of dumb you can have influence too.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>are smart enough
No.
Just rich enough.
Don't you have some opiates to OD on?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Not until 4.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Opinions from monkeys like you are irrelevant.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>"Monkeys" >Defending literal monkey-colored shitskins the Japanese
Lol
Lmao
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I like how you always run this idea that America runs the world but also everyone is dumb???
Have you ever considered that America is as powerful as it is BECAUSE its people are stupid and violent not in spite of it?
2 years ago
Anonymous
I wonder why the rate is so much higher for men, the women are almost exactly the same. Also, what the frick is wrong with korean femcels?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I wonder why the rate is so much higher for men
Society is a net to catch women when they're down, while men feel alone and have to struggle to get anything. >your female friend is sad
"Oh what's wrong? Let's talk about it and solve this problem." >your male friend is sad
*ignores him/the problem* >Also, what the frick is wrong with korean femcels?
Society's pressure to be pretty makes them go under the knife to reshape their entire bodies. Then cover every inch of their face with a layer of makeup to further change how they look.
And that's just the ones that can afford it. The rest just get to feel like shit because they're ugly and poor.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Why are Korean women so naturally ugly? Or at least, why can’t they embrace it like Japs do? >jap girls are cute though!
Look at some pics of actual jap girls and you will realize they are repulsive
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Or at least, why can’t they embrace it like Japs do?
Different cultures, Asians are ruining their lives differently this us, but not worse.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Korean women have huge pressure to marry and start having kids. If they hit 25 and don’t manage to be started on that process their prospects grow more dire every year and they just choose rope instead
2 years ago
Anonymous
I thought that was japs. Aren't Koreans the ones with the giga-feminists?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Korean-brand feminism is like the Christian feminism of the early 20th century on steroids.
It's the perfect combination of insane and contradictory.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Social media let’s you see the odd feminist, but Asian culture still has most of their women on a tight leash. Previous generation Koreans aren’t going to let their daughter stray from the path they want them to be on. That leaves only two options, settle (if possible, past 25 it will take a miracle or a rich family to arrange a marriage with payment) or rope.
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>wonder why the rate is so much higher for men
Men may be physically stronger than women but they are emotionally weaker. This is also why lonely women don't go on shooting sprees but lonely men will. Women just handle emotional stress better
2 years ago
Anonymous
>all those qt women I could have piped
Why do they do this to me
AKA families
Who tend to not want to frick over their own country and the people living in said country, for obvious reasons.
The same cannot be said of American corporations.
>better for CN in the long run
CN is and has been dead for over a decade now. What happens to the after 8pm schedule isn't going to change that fact now.
We were originally saying that Discovery would air old cartoons or live action sitcoms in the [as] hours because it's cheap and easy. But if CN during the day isn't worth it, they might just drop both channels.
2 years ago
Anonymous
CN ratings average is extremely low. I saw a 2021 chart for ratings averages and it was towards the bottom half, with some of the things worse than it being like ESPN spinoff channels and the weather channel. Iirc it’s average viewership was 198k in 2021. The number one on the list was Fox with 1.5mil or something. Not that I expect CN to compete with news networks but it just shows how far off the pace it is of the current #1
Who gives a shit. The mural isn't any kind of "high art" nor had any merit to be preserved since it's just crops of stock images plastered over some random wall that's asking to be destroyed at any time.
Source?
Here's what it looks like now
And here's what it looked like a few months ago. Notice the building on the right is the same
So it looked fine until a few months ago?
>they got Booty Hunter
>all that graffiti
What’s really shocking is that wall stood for 20 years without minorities scribbling on it
Maybe the usual graffiti guys considered the wall sacred or something I dunno.
Even if they did, generations change. And what’s taboo to paint on changes as well. No way that wall was sacred ground for that entire time
Real answer, it was probably a 24/7 high traffic area, not fit for any real graffiti work. Now that it’s a construction zone, traffic is heavily cut down, likely almost non existent at night.
Also, temporary barriers are a lower risk thing to do graffiti on, and a higher chance of staying up for a long period of time. Most buildings and walls will have it power washed off within 24 hours
This is literally 1984.
It's gotten to the point that, any time I hear this, my first thought is "Good."
There is absolutely nothing wrong with an authoritarian regime, but only if they're enforcing my ideals :^)
>There is absolutely nothing wrong with an authoritarian regime
True.
But only if they're enforcing my ideals, remember. You see, me good. And not me bad. And me is good because me is me. How could me possibly not be good? So forcing other people to be like me is good, because it means there's more me. But letting people be whatever they want is very very bad, because they choose to not be me. When everything is me, the world will be perfect. Everything that is not me has to go, so all of the me can be safe forever. Don't even bother arguing with me, because I'm right by default, on the grounds that I'm me, and everything I say is right because it's me saying it. MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
That's the problem with democracy. It only works as long as I agree with it!
(What's up with the captcha going overboard? There are like two more characters to type and extra white scratches everywhere)
>getting rid of shit pop culture eyesore advertisements
>this is 1984
Burgerland. Not Even Once.
Small world. I worked on this site doing foundation work a few months ago.
Oh boy. Gangs. So much better. Frick liberals.
That’s on the temporary barrier stupid. That will be gone once the actual building goes up
Frickin' eh.
Pathetic. I hate what they have become so much.
Nooo, not the advertisement wall!
Frick off. It was a chronicle of shows.
So an advertisement wall.
Don’t be salty cause your ideas don’t get put on the ad wall
Lol was there a world peace segment?
They stopped updating it long before that. They also got more selective at some point, it used to have every show, including their anime pickups
Frick off you tool!
whats the one left of futurama?
Venture Brothers.
Venture bros
Posting the rest of the wall.
>the last official acknowledgement of Minoriteam has been wiped out
This is where the original wall ended.
And here's the extension from a few years later (only angle I've been able to find). The last one on the right is Too Many Cooks, which is where it stopped. As far as I can tell, they never continued it further.
Found a slightly different angle, but it doesn't look much better.
I like how they just gave up. Would have taken someone 10 minutes to stencil out MTM and the date but they just didn’t and now 8 years have passed
>toonami
>2012
the frick
Late night Toonami started in May 2012
Original Toonami wasn't on Adult Swim.
Adult Swim resurrected Toonami on 5/26/2012
>Mr Pickles, King Star King, and XRA got on the wall
>Rick and Morty didnt
Based
Yea they did dumbass, they are next to Bobs
Well there's something I've been meaning to tell you 'bout the college at the edge of the town...
No-one should ever go there. You know, it's bad-bad-bad.
It gets worse every school year, but man, the freaking teachers are rad.
>superjail was 07
Was it really that old? I swear it came out in 09
For some of them, they're counting pre-series pilot airings as the start date. Superjail's pilot aired in May 2007, but the series didn't officially start until September 2008.
>Delocated
Wow, I forgot that piece of crap existed.
Goodnight sweet sweet Saul of the Molemen
Mah homie. Saul was the only good live action show they ever aired.
>There was a mission underground
>So they sent some explorers down
>But the crewmen of any worth
>Died on their way to the center of the Earth!
There's my Chippy.
>tim and eric
worth the whole wall being destroyed tbh
This. The only solution was complete destruction
>Tim and Eric still pissing off Cinemaphile 15 years later
It's not healthy to hold grudges for such a long time
Tim and eric gets btfo'd by the Eric Andre show.
>Assy McGee
>literally everything on this one
Post the hits or don't make art of it at all.
I stopped watching Adult Swim way earlier then I thought.
Wow, that Huey looks straight off of a cel.
Lucy was a unique gem that should’ve gone on a bit longer if not for Bob’s burgers
>if you didn’t know better you might think the 12 oz mouse one was vandalized
Lel
>A shitpost of a show was good enough for a wall of fame
It’s not a wall of fame, it a wall of literally everything they made (and a few acquisitions) up until 2011. If AS made it, it got a spot on the wall
>You don't understand!
Shit, sometimes I forget how fukken old Venture Bros is
Oh hey, Mission Hill
Nice
man, this just hits close to home really hard. As a kid, I loved futurama and Inuyasha. I remember listening to this theme every winter
Let's all be honest
The best parts of Inuyasha were the ending themes and stand-alone episodes
Whenever the actual story kicked in it turned to shit, should have just been an episodic series about finding the israeliteel shards with Naraku serving as the final boss
Frick you, early Inuyasha and the Band of Seven arc were kino.
Early Inuyasha was where most of the series was episodic and Band of Seven was precisely where the series jumped the shark. I'm sorry that you have shit taste.
The story would have been fine if it had actually, you know, progressed.
Anime has mostly moved away from that plodding, monster of the week no progress type of adaption. If your manga only has 24 episodes worth of material, that’s all the episodes it’s gonna get till there’s more to work with
So was Inuyasha, Big O and Bebop the only anime to make the wall? Why did they stop?
Probably future proofing for space. It took a long time to fill the wall but would have been full much sooner if they included every anime they only aired for a few weeks before cancelling
Those were the anime that really put AS on the map, not just in terms of anime but in general. Early AS was actually pretty heavily reliant on its anime bloc and there's a reason they used to air anime every night of the week.
Kinda surprised GitS and FLCL aren’t in there. They did fund more of GitS and FLCL has long been cited as one of their favorite anime. And both are from that era of AS
Yeah I'm surprised too, not sure what's up with that. Might just be that they didn't have the same impact even if AS clearly liked them a lot.
>Trigun
>FLCL
>Bleach
>Death Note
These should have made the Wall.
FLCL should have but it seems like they cut off anime representation pretty early in the walls run
FLCL and cowboy bepop as well. Toonami was special
And FLCL, don't forget FLCL
We certainly can't forget FLCL either. Classic adult swim anime.
Note
drink bleach, you fricking homosexual
Shit and Overrated as they are you can't deny they shouldn't be on that wall with the live action shit, frickin Assy McGee and Minoriteam.
Yeah sure
Assy Mcgee and Minoriteam were original projects AS created. Bleach and Death Note were someone else’s property they aired for a time.
The only anime that should be on the wall are Big O and GitS. AS helped make new seasons of both. FLCL got new seasons too, but long after they stopped updating the wall
Full Metal Alchemist, as well.
What's funny is that I remember AS airing some really shitty anime back in the day.
>Pilot Candidate
>Blue Gender
>Witch Hunter Robin
>Reign - The Conqueror (wasnt horrible, just didn't have staying power)
Because they had no money back then and shitty anime dubs were nearly free to air. It was a smart gamble though because airing a bunch of shit allowed them to find a few winners like Inuyasha that their audience actually wanted to tune in for
I don't remember anything about Witch Hunter Robin except for the fact it exists
>Blue Gender
At the time it was pretty cool and interesting to watch as a kid who never saw Gundam or Evangelion but did watch Starship Troopers for the giant bugs
But then the ending happens and yeah frick that show
>Inuyasha
Ohhh I thought it was Trigun from the OP Picture because of the red.
So fricking nostalgia. I would stay up for hours past my bedtime as a kid and then be tired throughout the next day at school just to see these shows. Man, I miss TV sometimes, because you had to watch what they offered and you could find great gems if you knew where to watch.
But why would they do it?
I'm guessing some "it doesn't represent our current image" bullshit
From what I'm gathering, the city of Atlanta actually owned the wall and Adult Swim just leased the advertisement space.
Now we're getting somewhere.
It's pretty obvious that Discovery is going to shut down everything in Atlanta. I feel bad for anyone who thinks otherwise.
What do you mean by that? I heard about the merge with Warner but does discovery really have that much power?
Even before the merger they've been moving production to LA for years. I'm about 99% sure that it's just a matter of time before they announce that the corporate offices will be movies as well.
Other than gays and israelites, why does everything need to be in LA? It's literally more expensive to live there than anywhere else in the country.
Entertainment supply and networking chains that have compounded over a century since LA became a major center of radio and film. Basically everyone lives there, so the infrastructure is built around supplying things there, which means it's optimal from a business perspective to just do everything there. Once an industry gets entrenched in a city like that it's really hard to remove it unless another similarly optimal location emerges on its own.
its mostly tax incentives and to be near other production teams isnt it? I mean, that matters more for film where you can want to use studios and sets and stuff, not so much animation.
Because LA isn't some backwards regressive shit hole in the south
>Because LA isn't some backwards regressive shit hole
you're seeking to invoke cunningham's law, aren't you?
>Because LA isn't some backwards regressive shit hole
That's right, it's a very forward and progressive shit hole. But a shit hole is still a shit hole anyway you wipe it.
LA isn't "progressive" in the slightest. It's a capitalist heaven.
That's quite literally every single "progressive" city on the planet, anon.
It's almost like "progressives" are full of shit.
You find no greater capitalist than a socialist activist.
See Hassan.
Progressives are the biggest tools for the system however.
Atlanta is pobably the most liberal city in the south. Just because it's not San Francisco or Seattle liberal doesn't mean it's some conservative hodunk town.
Not that's Austin because of the amount of people moving in from the west coast.
>It's literally more expensive to live there than anywhere else in the country.
They are rich liberals...they are moving to a rich liberal playground where they can see the poor working class and the homeless on the streets and get a smug fat hard on and jerk off knowing that their lives are so much better than ours.
Watch this video and tell me how much "work" this girl did.
This moron would have a stroke if he saw how yuppies lived in the 80s
Gundamn grew up poor in the 1980's and was actually participated in gang turf wars as a child. He worked lots of shit jobs before YouTube.
Also in the past, rich people knew they were rich and acted as such, they don't spend half a million on clothes that makes them look like they robbed a homeless man and then pretend they are normal people like us.
People need to know their place, that includes the rich.
If you care to learn, it was tradition in the British Navy to keep the ranks separated to encourage mor comradery and cut down on jealousy.
High ranking officers should not mingle with the enlisted.
Sadly it seems his life experiences taught him nothing, since he looks at a very clear divide between rich & poor and somehow comes out thinking its a generational problem. Every generation has their Lumberghs and Batemans, useless middle manager types coasting by off of their familial wealth and connections while the average man toils away. But since Mr. Eceleb has an audience of moronic culture warriors who're too young to watch fox news, he simply panders to the lowest common denominator of mouth breathing partisans by sucking out all of the nuance to make content thats one step removed from "SJW pwned compilation number 1488."
I enjoy listening to Gundam for background noise. That said, 90% of jobs are nothing more than adult daycares in some aspect. Take note of how the majority of the all-hands meeting were women. As a former IT Manager for a global spanning company. My team and I weren't able to attend all-hands as we were too busy actually working. The same can be said of other necessary departments like Finance.
The people that get to mess around as the tiktok video showcased work in marketing, HR, and maybe customer service (depending on their role).
My father worked for a large company in the 80s and has admitted that cocaine and other substances would help the higher-ups get through long days. It wasn't until the mid-90s that those people started experiencing complications from the heavy drug abuses of the 80s. Forcing them to either retire or die.
Real answer besides the weather?
The main reason is what I'll call "legacy networking" yes, we live in an age of instant communication and really, lots of work can be done at home via computers, however, there are lots of rich, famous, influential and powerful people who won't care who you are unless you "accidently" run into them shopping and have lunch with them.
It's the old studio producer execs and the celebrities who live in a bubble.
Sure, you could become a famous movie maker, animator or musician/singer, thanks to technology, but the old money likes living in one town and are too lazy to travel more than an hour.
There are lots of celebrities who live in LA but won't take the time to travel to San Diego for Comic Con for panels/signings but will go to the Anaheim Convention Center because it's closer.
Silicon Valley is a perfect example. All of the heads of social media and tech literally are all neighbors who shop at the same stores and eat at the same restaurants.
The Railroad and Oil Barons of the gilded era weren't as rich and powerful as tech giants these days and at least those pioneers of industry had to get their hands dirty at first or were smart engineers.
There are some tech employees that honestly do nothing but live in the lap of luxury.
Can't let media have outside influence. Need to make sure everyone is the same progressive dillhole producing garbage rather than anything new or fun
blame thomas edison and his thugs. He chased them off the east coast with his violent patent enforcement and the early entertainment industry grew around the west coast including its supply chains and networks of workers/creatives that the state adapted to house it.
less christcuck influence
there's been little reason to move out of LA in the last few decades because it's been established as the go to place for entertainment
sure its expensive but is it really cheaper to go to another city, move all your workers, move all your schools, and try to start from the ground up somewhere else?
In the long run, yes, and frankly that long run is getting shorter all the time the more California leans on its ultra-wealthy to cover its bloated, corrupt-ass government spending.
It's why Elon saw the writing on the wall and bounced.
Same reason you have hubs of industry, easy logistics
Though the rise of the internet is quickly making the need for centralized entertainment structures obsolete
>It's literally more expensive to live there than anywhere else in the country.
Lmao, imagine actually thinking that liberals give a shit about their employees. It's just like teachers, who are constantly complaining about not being paid a living wage, but when it comes time to up the school's budget - where does the money go? Straight to the salary of the superintendent and other administrators. Teachers only see pennies, and like good little footsoldiers they go back and start demanding MORE MONEY FOR SCHOOLS. More like more money for the bourgeois.
Administration and offices are all that is in Atlanta anyway. Outside of that, some stuff is made over at Awesome Inc a few blocks down the street but that's an independent studio.
Discovery is the owner now, they have all the power. They could shut down Williams Street today without warning if they wanted to
Good.
and nothing of value was lost...
But nothing of value was gained.
who cares about this trash?
This kind of useless post only works when it isn't 50 posts and 30 Anons deep.
useless thread
in all fields
RIP
I'm fricking livid it's gone, should have been given protected landmark status
Good. Frick Adult Swim. They been playing shit anyway.
Shouldn't Cinemaphilemblr be happy that a southern monument built by southern white men be demolished?
If we're talking about southern monuments that need to be demolished. When will Atlanta have a nuke dropped on it?
Have you ever been there? It would be a saving grace to the state to wipe it off the map.
Maybe those rumors about Discovery shutting AS down were real
>All these American animation studios getting utterly gutted
I feel like I should be sad, but it feels more like a mercy than anything else.
Now that AS has pivoted to only making garbage for women it won’t be missed
Scorched earth
Well, it's more like discovery cannot give a flying frick about AS, or any broadcast channel at all. They only continue to exist because of momentum. Everyone is looking to streaming only these days and only the old guard at the channels hanging on are keeping those alive.
Mercy killing at this point
that's cartoon network
It’s both. AS has fallen from grace much harder than CN
It's all Discovery now anyway and they don't give a shit about tie-ins to 20+ year old shows on a channel that they do not care to acknowledge.
The discovery and AT&T buyout was the worst thing to happen to WB. Most of these mergers are bullshit. The only one that doesn't appear to be a clusterfrick is Viacom/CBS but they've always worked together to some extent.
Nah, this was actually a good thing. Without Lazzo, the new people immediately started to turn the network into something it wasn’t. I’d rather see Discovery kill it than it persist on with a focus on female viewers
The new people cancelled Venture Bros so they could fund another season of Tuca and Birdie after it had already failed on streaming. The frick are you talking about? It became firmly more female targeted after the buyout.
Not sure if Birdgirl started production before or after the buyout though.
VB was fricked the second Lazzo left. He was literally the only reason it was allowed to run for 14 years (with only 7 seasons). Lazzo was known to
1. Play favorites
2. Cancel shows simply because he felt like it
I'd rather have Moral Orel's last season not truncated than the last season of Venture Bros: wheel spinning.
Lazzo is the only reason AS was good in the first place
I'd rather have him then come executive bootlicker.
>The discovery and AT&T buyout was the worst thing to happen to WB
Nah, mercy killing all of their modern animated media is the best we could hope for now.
I told y'all the Discovery merger was going to be shit.
But nobody listens to me until it's too late.
Everyone knew that it went to shit, really hard, it’s just a byproduct of the same regime since AT&T was heavily responsible for why WB shat the bed really hard, by canceling or altering certain shows, as to the point that they spend a good few years, trying to get the hold of TW and create a streaming service based off of a channel that’s be established decades back, only for that to fail and then have morons like Discovery to continue raping the dead horse by continually mutilate it
Everyone was aware but by then AS was kind of shit and on air tv is dying anyway so not a lot to be too depressed about. It was inevitable that AS would be dead before 2030.
It’s not really Discoverys fault. Cable is dying whether you like it or not. Discovery just doesn’t care to pretend that AS has much of a future left.
This was going to happen regardless, Discovery just isn’t sugar coating it for you
Discovery is one of those really cheap companies. They think their model of spending $100,000 or less per episode on reality shows of pointing cameras at fat people can work for animation and HBO tier dramas
It simply cannot
I don’t disagree but it doesn’t change what I said. Adult Swim has no future. If they didn’t pull of a miracle and land KotH and Futurama just to fill in time they probably would be off the air already.
Adult Swim was ran in a unique way when Lazzo was around. If he liked something, he didn’t care if it wasn’t very profitable. That was a fine attitude to have when Family Guy was paying all their bills. But now Lazzo is gone and his replacement are people who expect business to make money, and AS can’t achieve that as it is, which is why they have been slowly weening people into expecting shows on HBO Max
Isn’t Toonami shutting down soon? I imagine that’s the biggest money sink they have on the network right now
Nothing official has been stated but it sure feels like it is. Apparently their budget is “frozen” until Discovery decides what they want to do with it. Been that way since April at least and no progress has been made on the matter. Because of that, it’s forcing them to burn through Naruto faster, just like in 08.
There’s also the matter of Crunchyroll refusing to sell anything to the block, and they hold a huge chunk of the dubbed anime market. Discovery may feel it’s just best to retire the block rather than attempt to navigate an unfriendly market
>burn through Naruto faster
That sounds like a good thing though
For the audience, absolutely. For the block though, it’s just accelerating a problem. They are struggling to get any shows at all, so losing a piece of anchor content they have had since 2014 leaves yet another void to fill.
As of this Saturday, Toonami has exactly 100 episodes of Shippuden left to air. If the double up doesn’t stop, at around this time next year Shippuden will finish its Toonami run. And who knows, maybe that’s what Discovery wants so they can have TOM sign off for good when it’s finished
2012 revival Toonami never made money. It was always a for the fans kind of thing.
Which doesn't bode well for its continued existence under the new management.
You are moronic. Toonami made a ton of money, that’s the entire reason AS didn’t outright drop anime. Once it started to struggle to acquire shows is when it started to fade profit wise
And I'm sure you have sources to back this claim up
I’m sure you have sources to back up that it was a money pit. Because the first 5 or so years of the revival it had pretty healthy ratings and a steady stream of new content. Lazzo may have liked vanity projects but he didn’t let Toonami exist for 8 years before retiring if I wasn’t making some kind of money
Either back your claim or shut the frick up homosexual. you have no idea what you are talking about.
You made your claim first. Post sources it doesn’t make money
So you can't back up shit, frick off then.
Why won’t you post your proof?
It was outright stated in 2012 that Toonami was a temporary experiment and if it didn’t make money it was getting canned again. And it’s 10 years later now and it’s still on the lineup so it’s safe to assume it made some money
This. ASA at the time was about to be removed due to low ratings, the Toonami branding and new content saved it.
Pretty much this. No one is going to want to invest more money or waste time injecting any energy into something they know will only have diminishing returns and be dead soon enough.
is discovery run by a bunch of old men or something? why did they decide to buy out time warner....turner network?
because it;s run by a bunch of old men
who think rerunning the same old reruns of cash cab and cake boss from 2004 is still okay and profitable
the CEO of Discovery is best friends with the CEO of AT&T. AT&T didn't want to own Warner anymore so they gave it to Discovery for cheap
i wonder what this means for american dad?
so nepotism.
>i wonder what this means for american dad?
Probably dead or related to HBO Max if it's lucky.
Something you'll be seeing for most western TV animation not aimed at 8 year olds from now on; relegated to streaming if it's cheap and cancelled completely if it's not.
It’s over bros…
why does everything we love die
Between this and the mural in LA, why do Cinemaphile landmarks tend to get fricked over? How can we preserve them, bros?
Not making a landmark on something someone else owns is a good start
>and the mural in LA
which one?
There was one I think a bunch of CN employees were complaining about a few years ago but I can't remember it
As an Atlantan, this does sting. Ted Turner was a wild guy and having TBS, TNT, and Adult Swim here was always really exciting. End of an era, unfortunately.
>tfw WCW is dead and buried
>iconic wall being torn down
>barely any new projects
>what new things they do have are all next day HBO Max
>Toonami forbidden from licensing any new shows
The rumors about AS getting the axe are real, aren’t they?
now that's been handed off to another company that is writing off lots of shows for tax purposes (Purging them from the services) Its very possible Williams Street as a whole will be sunk.
I’m kinda surprised AS never wrote off any of its shows in 20 years. I could see if they actually liked to cycle them in reruns, but they didn’t. If they silently wrote off half their catalog no one will ever know the difference
They did on a few
Saul of the Mole People, Groovinians, Let's Fish, and Southies were basically made for writeoffs.
10 years ago this might have sucked. But now there's really nothing left to mourn.
>The wall in Atlanta, which depicts the various projects Adult Swim has brought to cable since its inception, has long been in the crosshairs of the City of Atlanta urban planning division for removal. However, Williams Street made regular payments to the city to keep the wall in place. This year, they made the decision to cease payments for the wall, and the city wasted no time capitalizing on their chance to remove the wall to move forward with their plan to build a community center for at risk LGBTQIA+ youth. The construction of the center is estimated to be completed in 2024.
This is way too fricking good to be true, frick off.
Okay now post a link. I literally can't find shit about this.
Gay people don't like cartoons, I guess?
lmao no way. how many gays are there nowadays? It's like they're brainwashing people to be gay
Please tell me this is bait and that's not actually what they're doing with it.
This genuinely feels like a bad joke.
It's real anon. There's also a man standing behind you holding a sign that says "gullible".
Listen, man, I don't know what the hell's going on in this clown timeline. Can't be sure about anything anymore.
>Atlanta
>I grew up in Atlanta.
>My mom would always delay trips by taking detours to show moronic shit no one cares about.
>She never showed me this.
former intern here, we're not losing a whole lot by the Atlanta office closing its doors. It was mostly administrative stuff anyway. and by a grouping of very poorly aging stoners who had been there since the 90s and still haven't come to terms with the fact that they are not 20 somethings anymore. It's no surprise that Discovery is putting it out of its misery at this point. AS Studios moved to LA years ago, but even then they have seriously cut back on almost all productions.
>but even then they have seriously cut back on almost all productions.
Thank god.
Hopefully they'll be gone within a few years too.
Frick it all.
>we're not losing a whole lot
Maybe now that it's gutted anyway, but you lost everything the channel was.
It succeeded because of its lower costs, its tapping into the Atlanta/Athens area irrelevance and change of pace, its ability to experiment and do things that really haven't been tried before, even the network runner being completely different from your usual business suit.
It was the first time anyone in the country outside one city near the Mexico border got any voice in animation. Now it's controlled by LA and we're getting shit like Tuca and Bertie which is performing so bad the whole block is being shut down and anything of worth going to Hbo Max
Williams Street looked like such a fun place to work. You'd catch glimpses during the livestreams now and again. Wish I could find the videos of the episodes where they did tours.
But I knew things were fricked as soon as they killed said streams.
It kind of wasn't. It was about half 40-50 somethings that partid a whole lot and somked weed daily. and half interns from SCAD who did just about all the day to day until they were burnt out and quit, and were instantly replaced by the next wide eyed student wanting to work in the place that made Aqua Teen, until they were burnt out and so on and so on.....
Why though?
People are taking it the wrong way. The wall was in the way of new development, that’s why it was knocked down, not because of anything malicious towards AS. I’m sure they knew the risk of painting that on property they did not own
Its gone with no sign of care from the company or anything done to even preserve sections.
Adult Swim was it was is dead.
>preserve section
M8 each one of those is like a 6’x6’ slab of concrete. Even attempting to preserve those would have costed an assload, then finding somewhere to store huge concrete slabs without breaking them would be a huge waste of money.
Not to mention since each painting was right next to the next one, there would have been no feasible way to preserve each one.
People also don’t realize the wall was in disrepair. The pictures you see above are over a decade old. Half those paintings were mostly flaked off
What are they building they couldn’t preserve some of them wall?
An entirely new building. The wall was just a barrier, it’s not fit for a structure. And they couldn’t leave it as a wall because that blocks the building, as well as makes everyone think the building is related to WS
Ah, so an even bigger “frick you” than I thought
S
Frick leftist "adult" programming
At least try when baiting
moron: https://youtu.be/YHfJiZTtGEA
God damn...
Well, to be fair, most companies "have to" do something woke like that. The left kept screaming that "silence is violence" and all that drivel, which forced people to say things they normally wouldnt.
Guy who runs Toonami is a liberal homosexual. He did that with pride, because he wanted to
Surprised they even had the mooninite up after boston
Adult Swim isn't going anywhere anytime soon, the money Rick & Morty brings in alone is enough to keep it afloat for now. if that ever gets canceled though, then yeah it'll be on the chopping block for WBD
Either shutting down [as]/Williams Street nullifies the contract or R&M will just continue on HBO Max without the channel.
the new CEO of Warner Bros Discovery is an old-school cable mogul. he'd keep Rick & Morty on TV for the sweet, sweet advertising money it brings in, and to do that it needs Adult Swim to air on
Lol no he isn’t. He is a modernist who wants to kill off anything that doesn’t make a clear profit. Sustaining AS for 8 hours/7 days a week costs more than R&M can pull in. AS struggles to sell adspace most nights
Dude, they already leaked the emails. [AS] is being moved entirely to streaming, no more live broadcasts.
>they already leaked the emails
post the emails
AS is going to HBO Max as a brand
They'll still pump out R&M and other shit
Why would they still need adultswim or Toonami to continue as brands? Won't the be subsumed under the HBO Max brand?
Brands are a very powerful thing
R&M cannot support an entire network on its own. Especially now that it’s past it’s peak and starting to slip with its audience.
It would make more money if they just cut out the middleman and premier it on Hulu
Just stop caring about things, dumbass.
We're really living in the end of a fricking era in more ways than one, can anyone else feel it?
It’s been over 20 years man, eras gotta end eventually. AS had a better run than most cable networks could ever dream of
did a whole lot better than Hub Network.
I quit Adult Swim in 2010 for Hub. I got really sick of the same Aqua Teen and Robot Chicken nightly reruns that had been on since 2005ish.
Wasnt Hub like a little kids channel?
It was 90s Nickelodeon all over again with kids shows in the day and old sitcoms at night. But at midnight they played 80s Transformers, GI:Joe and Jem and the Holograms.
That sounds awful. I'd take early RC and ATHF reruns over that any day.
I suppose it's better to die off than to become something horrible like modern Mtv that plays nothing but Rob Drydeck youtube videos, or be rebranded into something fricked like Syfy that plays Wrestling.
Or like G4 which became...whatever the frick that Esquire Network abomination was, and then whatever the frick current Twitch-era G4 is.
I’m hoping they have the decency to just kill it off because we are getting real close to it becoming a soulless trash can like those other networks did just to continue existing
RIP Headbanger's Ball.
I'm not talking about just [as] dude
All these fricking mergers, half the fricking companies in hollywood now having entirely different owners than they had five years ago, Netflix and Disney losing most of their stock value. Anime and manga decimating cartoons and comics. It's just a weird damn time, man.
I mean, Netflix is going down the shitter because they spent their formative years literally flushing money down the toilet on projects no one had any interest in. Everyone always talked about netflix having “frick you” money and wow shocker, eventually that runs out when you make 9 bad things for every 1 good thing.
Disney simply cannot stop going woke and are driving their fanbases away. Spending billions of dollars on Star Wars and having their expensive park shut down for 2 years didn’t help matters either.
Anime dabbing on the west is nothing new, it had been doing that for at least half a decade, it’s just people didn’t want to talk about it as much back then. And back then we didn’t have hilarious examples like Demon Slayer outselling the ENTIRE western industry combined
>And back then we didn’t have hilarious examples like Demon Slayer outselling the ENTIRE western industry combined
That's manga not anime and no Donald Duck still is a massive seller
>muh duck cope
Cope of all copes
>marvel and DC (the only thing anyone cares about in this discussion) gets absolutely dumpstered by Demon Slayer
>I-it’s ok the duck is doing good
The funny thing about Netflix is that they were aggressively woke, and one of the first platforms to do so. They blackwashed any character they could from an existing IP. They aggressively shoved lgbtq+ content into every show when it wasn't necessary. Netflix not only listened to the vocal minority on twitter, but they hired those folks.
And then, when they aired the Dave Chappelle stuff, and claimed that they were not going to make moral decisions for viewers, the woke crowd turned their backs on Netflix, and started encouraging others to stop subscribing.
It was fascinating. But I can't help but think they did lose some money from the woke crowd protesting.
This is a rare time when being woke isn’t what did a company in. Their animation department was greenlighting every idea that came to them no matter how shitty and unmarketable it was. So they spend all this cash on a project no one has any interest in, then eventually doing that a bunch of times made them run out of money and now they axed the entire animation section because it was a money pit
The fracturing of the streaming environment left a bleeding wound in Netflix's side that it's never been able to close.
Netflix was never a profitable company, it survives on infinite loans
It's sad but Adult Swim went from stoner humor to whatever the frick SJW shit today so let it die RIP
>All the western animation studios/channels I liked are dead or dying
>All the anime/manga I liked are getting new seasons or adaptations
Thankfully I'm fine with this development since a lot of those western studios have been shit for nearing a decade.
Hopefully Ballmasterz and Primal get to keep getting new seasons, but other than that I give no fricks.
Ballmastrz is canned. Primal will likely be canned because of what a stubborn clown Genndy is being about it airing on Toonami
>Ballmastrz is canned
Not until I get official confirmation, dammit.
Its not like anime is in a better state or anything with Ghibli being dead and almost all productions being shitty ln adaptations
>Ghibli
Stopped reading there.
>ghibli
Bro look at my refined adult taste Bro I’m so mature
it’s not like normalgays would know other names so yeah, it still proves my point
Us Trigun bros are finally coming home.
With that ugly CGshit?
Not likely.
Nightow is on board and Orange has a good track record. I'm willing to give it a chance.
Dude watch the fricking trailer, it's sickening to even look at.
Legit reminds me of Acceleracers minus everyone having giant shoes
why?
Do people still bother watching dubbed anime on broadcast tv years after it was last popular on toonami anyway?
White people between the ages of 22 and 30 and maybe their black friends.
Other than that, no.
Seems weird after about 2007 or so when streaming anime became very commonplace. and all of a sudden anyone can watch anything whenever they want without bothering with the same old late night health insurance and prescription drug commercials over and over again.
You forgot the Life insurance commercials with old forgotten football players and sitcom actors of the 70s.
For me it was Girls Gone Wild commercials.
You're thinking of mid 00s Comedy Central. Secret Stash unedited South Park movie and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn...those were great.
Late night Tech TV anime block had them too. Crest of the Stars and Girls gone Wild.
>Secret Stash unedited South Park movie
Fricking hell, what a blast from the past.
I think it's weird how there was a short time there when Comedy Central could air unedited uncensored stuff after midnight. That's apparently over with.
They still can. So could Adult Swim. They just choose not to so they are more marketable to advertisers
Rules for what can air on cable are set by the network. They could air uncensored porn if they wanted to. But as people remember with South Park, the only ad buyer was Girls Gone Wild. That doesn’t pay the bills so networks censor down enough to not scare off advertisers
Commercials are basically down to prescription drugs for old people using 80s music, and quirky comedy Car Insurance commercials for Geico and Progressive with characters they invented in the early 00s that they are still using for some reason.
Most people forgot about it once "cordcutting" became a thing. There's like 20 people that still watch Toonami.
Right now no because the lineup is awful, but it did used to be a novelty people enjoyed even if they were streamers too
Most Toonami viewers these days are nigs who can’t stream. That’s why anything besides kiddie shonen has such a hard time finding viewers
>Most Toonami viewers these days are nigs who can’t stream.
And also tards who think that them watching Toonami is some form of "support."
So basically the two groups I mentioned.
>Most Toonami viewers these days are nigs who can’t stream. That’s why anything besides kiddie shonen has such a hard time finding viewers
Don't forget middle schoolers who would stay up past Family Guy to watch Dragon Ball Super.
Accurate. On one hand they're the only reason ratings didn't drop to zero after 2015, on the other hand their shit tastes ruined the schedule even before the problems with Funi.
Yeah, about that... I can't stand how japanese sounds. I watch anime with the volume off.
Not since Space Dandy
Wrong. Toonami had solid viewership from 2015-2017. It wasn’t till the shonen overload that started to take hold in 2018 that viewership truly began to dip.
Space Dandy was actually not that significant of a viewership draw, especially in its second season. People seem to misremember their own enjoyment of the series as actual success
I was talking about the last time I watched a dubbed anime
Then I forgot about the FLCL sequels that I couldn’t finish the one of
Couple days ago the Toonamigays were calling me a schizo for talking about this
Lol @ them
You never posted proof
You are a schizo.
Damn they really are packing their shit up. Final broadcast when?
i think its being torn down for construction, either road or new buildings
explanation for why it was torn down
So exactly what people said, was painted on someone else’s property and AS had no control over saving it or not
>High rise
Great more buildings no one is going to live in
>no one
Section 8 nigs will, on your dime
It is weird that [as] is a relic in every way and everyone knows it can no longer contribute to gen z the way it did for late millennials, but everyone still wants it to continue somehow. I guess it is because it was always a vestigial representation of that old 1999-2006 Cartoon Network.
The way it looks to me is people welcome it to die because it’s a hollow shell of what it used to be. It’s like when your dog is dying, you are sad and remember the good times, but then you look at your dog at the vets office and realize every waking moment for it is pure agony and even if you could add more time to his clock, it wouldn’t be much and it wouldn’t be quality
why are network executives so evil
why is any executive evil? capitalism.
the good execs, who actually take paycuts to make sure their workers don't go hungry, are the exception to the rule.
Not in Japan. If you want to know why it doesn't happen as much in the west, please see /misc/.
Japan corporations are ran by literal gangs dude
Their gangs seem to be more civilized than the tribes running ours.
It's a slave hierarchy either way, just in America you die on the streets as opposed to Japan where you go have a nice day in the forest or off a seacliff.
This is a weird thing to say considering America has a higher suicide rate than Japan.
most american suicides are due to depression or sexual inadequacy. I was explicitly only referring to death caused by being fired or being unable to work.
>are due to depression
Yes, depression not at all exacerbated by America's terrible work culture, dating culture, media culture, and general culture.
Americans might be a special kind of dumb, but they don't have some gene that makes them more susceptible to depression than other nations, they just have a shitty, repressive, garbage culture, and that applies to all of America regardless of political allegiances.
>Americans might be a special kind of dumb
I like how you always run this idea that America runs the world but also everyone is dumb???
Admittedly I think places without nature like in Europe are way more depressed and that's why people like you get so angry and passive-aggrestive all the time
>I like how you always run this idea that America runs the world but also everyone is dumb???
It's almost like you can do a lot to spread your influence when you spend the GDP of a small European nation on your military budget every year.
Thankfully that's waning.
So you're admitting Americans are smart enough to control everyone.
Good to know, maybe when your country's citizens stops being a special kind of dumb you can have influence too.
>are smart enough
No.
Just rich enough.
Don't you have some opiates to OD on?
Not until 4.
Opinions from monkeys like you are irrelevant.
>"Monkeys"
>Defending literal monkey-colored shitskins the Japanese
Lol
Lmao
>I like how you always run this idea that America runs the world but also everyone is dumb???
Have you ever considered that America is as powerful as it is BECAUSE its people are stupid and violent not in spite of it?
I wonder why the rate is so much higher for men, the women are almost exactly the same. Also, what the frick is wrong with korean femcels?
>I wonder why the rate is so much higher for men
Society is a net to catch women when they're down, while men feel alone and have to struggle to get anything.
>your female friend is sad
"Oh what's wrong? Let's talk about it and solve this problem."
>your male friend is sad
*ignores him/the problem*
>Also, what the frick is wrong with korean femcels?
Society's pressure to be pretty makes them go under the knife to reshape their entire bodies. Then cover every inch of their face with a layer of makeup to further change how they look.
And that's just the ones that can afford it. The rest just get to feel like shit because they're ugly and poor.
Why are Korean women so naturally ugly? Or at least, why can’t they embrace it like Japs do?
>jap girls are cute though!
Look at some pics of actual jap girls and you will realize they are repulsive
>Or at least, why can’t they embrace it like Japs do?
Different cultures, Asians are ruining their lives differently this us, but not worse.
Korean women have huge pressure to marry and start having kids. If they hit 25 and don’t manage to be started on that process their prospects grow more dire every year and they just choose rope instead
I thought that was japs. Aren't Koreans the ones with the giga-feminists?
Korean-brand feminism is like the Christian feminism of the early 20th century on steroids.
It's the perfect combination of insane and contradictory.
Social media let’s you see the odd feminist, but Asian culture still has most of their women on a tight leash. Previous generation Koreans aren’t going to let their daughter stray from the path they want them to be on. That leaves only two options, settle (if possible, past 25 it will take a miracle or a rich family to arrange a marriage with payment) or rope.
>wonder why the rate is so much higher for men
Men may be physically stronger than women but they are emotionally weaker. This is also why lonely women don't go on shooting sprees but lonely men will. Women just handle emotional stress better
>all those qt women I could have piped
Why do they do this to me
AKA families
Who tend to not want to frick over their own country and the people living in said country, for obvious reasons.
The same cannot be said of American corporations.
what will discovery even show?
Reruns of ancient shit. Is daytime CN even profitable anymore? They might just drop the whole channel.
>Reruns of ancient shit
Would actually be better for CN in the long run, so long as it's CN programming and not more fricking sitcoms.
>better for CN in the long run
CN is and has been dead for over a decade now. What happens to the after 8pm schedule isn't going to change that fact now.
Oh, I thought we were talking about the daytime schedule.
We were originally saying that Discovery would air old cartoons or live action sitcoms in the [as] hours because it's cheap and easy. But if CN during the day isn't worth it, they might just drop both channels.
CN ratings average is extremely low. I saw a 2021 chart for ratings averages and it was towards the bottom half, with some of the things worse than it being like ESPN spinoff channels and the weather channel. Iirc it’s average viewership was 198k in 2021. The number one on the list was Fox with 1.5mil or something. Not that I expect CN to compete with news networks but it just shows how far off the pace it is of the current #1
someone should have went there with a chisel tool and hammer to chip pieces to take home
>nooo not a mural of a corporate product
Who gives a shit. The mural isn't any kind of "high art" nor had any merit to be preserved since it's just crops of stock images plastered over some random wall that's asking to be destroyed at any time.
As if your opinion matters. You're just a butt.
>As if your opinion matters. You're just a butt.
>It's another SonicHispanic has a terrible take post
what are they building there? parking lot? drive trough mc donald? Amazon depot? Synagogue?
High rise.
see
no sticky?
AS gets a sticky when it dies not for an art piece being taken down
it’s already dead