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>dies anyway
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>makes the most popular cartoon of the 2010s. >dies anyway
>makes the most popular cartoon of the 2010s
>dies anyway
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>most popular cartoon of the 2010s
That's not Adventure Time/Regular Show/Gumball
>Regular Show
>Gumball
comeon.jpg they were popular only in cartoon circles. AT was the SpongeBob of the 2010s.
>Source trust me bro
Both of those shows died out quickly agreed but Gumball outlived them and is still relevant till this day because of the good and consistent quality of the show
Gumball is only "relevant" because CN refuses to take it off the air, and out of context clips on Youtube. Frankly CN as a whole is dying and fading into the abyss of time.
>AT was the SpongeBob of the 2010s.
Spongebob, also known as one of the most popular and financially successful cartoon franchises of all time, that Spongebob?
>AT was the SpongeBob of the 2010s.
do anglos really?
Spongebob was the Spongebob of the 2010s.
I'm moronic
Do any of them have a containment board specifically for them? No? Then they weren’t nearly that popular.
I really wonder how mods can still be so asspained about it. Must've been quite the sight.
I think the mods just know that the moment they allow horses on Cinemaphile, the board will be flooded with half ironic horse threads and half people complaining about the ironic horse threads.
The reason the show had to be quarantined is because you could literally derail any thread by posting a single horse reaction image in it. If it didn't turn the thread into "what if horse characters were in (thread subject)?" then it would immediately get like six "I'M SICK OF THESE FRICKING HORSES have a nice day" posts and thread would turn into an argument about why it was allowed on Cinemaphile.
I assume that's why the mods still go scorched Earth whenever someone so much as mentions the show.
It was also because the catalog was regularly 50% or more just pictures of horses posted by the same 3 morons over and over again killing other threads to the point that it was fricking obnoxious and nobody wanted to deal with that shit
Objectively a lie, the generals developed fast a way to keep it to one thread, even after they went to shit. It was a whole fricking year after the temporary ban before m00t decided to make a containment board.
Shut the frick up moron, I was there
And clearly not paying attention
>it would immediately get like six "I'M SICK OF THESE FRICKING HORSES have a nice day"
That's mostly just leebot/imitators
That was not just here. Some private forums had the same problem. It was fricking impossible to have any discussion of any kind anywhere without some homosexual posting ponies in costumes in the thread. Often without any message, just dropping a pic on a forum that does not even allow posting pics without comment, or off topic shit.
I remember spacebattles was fricking frustrating with this shit. If anyone tried having an Iron Man or Transformers discussion, people would start posting pics of ponies in Iron Man or Optimus costumes, over and over and over again. It was tolerated and ignored for a while but they kept on doing it in any thread. When people told them it was obnoxious and to stop, they got incredibly defensive and started screaming and crying over discrimination. Especially if their posts were deleted, they lost their shit until banned.
One guy was banned for it, and then he came back with a series of alt accounts spamming pony pics everywhere, and the sheer autistic tard rage turned the forum opinion into zero tolerance.
Similar thing happened on Zelda Universe around 2012-ish.
Any thread had someone show up and for no reason at all post ponies in Link or Ganondorf cosplay, which normally attracted an infraction since they never allowed just totally random image posting like that. Posters would rage out, post more ponies and bomb threads until they were banned. Made alts, did it some more. After a while the members just fricking hated pony shit.
The ponygays themselves generated all the hatred they receive after just assuming every forum everywhere was Cinemaphile for some reason. That was also back when they were having some severe server problems and could not take some moron posting pony pics in every thread, they had to put in time limits for replying.
So it wasn't like Korra & The Last Airbender and Hazbin Hotel or Helluva Boss where 50% of Cinemaphile was nothing but those threads?
The summer of 2008 had nothing but Batman and Avatar threads nonstop for pages to come.
But honestly think the mods are horsefrickers and know that if they allow /mlp/ anywhere else, the board will die. No reason TFH should've been regulated to there
There’s a board for retro video games and v-tubers. Does that mean that fanbase is popular?
lmao are you actually asking if v-tubers are popular?
It was a short-term burst. In the present day, FiM's cultural zeitgeist ended up being way shorter lived than Regular Show or Adventure Time, shows loved by normies, vs. a show only remember by teenage girls and talked about by autists. Sure, it was wildly popular when it aired, but it also died off in notoriety much, much quicker.
Containment boards don’t indicate how popular a show is, just how insufferable the fan base is.
I honestly feel like you just turned 18 at most 2 years ago
And Im falling for this bait and fell fricking old
eat shit anon
None of those are Teen Titans Go
>Adventure Time
I'll give you that one
>Regular Show/Gumball
No way either of these were ever as remotely widely known as horse show
well one of them is still getting new media to this day, so...
Nothing else was considered notable other than merchandising shows.
It was a premium channel with a handful of original shows and a bunch of syndicated reruns. It didn't stand a chance
It genuinely would have been worth keeping as a loss leader until they launched it as a streaming alternative. But Discovery and Warner are moronic, so.
Well it was already Discovery Family by the time the merger happened. It stopped being the hub when Discovery took back hasbro's part of the ownership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Family#As_Discovery_Family_(2014%E2%80%93present)
Because it had jackshit else to offer in terms of content. As a kid Hub was also the last resort channel to go to when the other 3 either switched to airing reruns of older live action show or adult swim came on at night. The only time I remember enjoying watching it was to record reruns of BTAS, Tiny Toons and Animaniacs.
you have to be 18 to post
the hub and cartoon horse show launched in 2010. kids who were 5 at the time are legal and kids who were 8 at the time can drink.
frick
The horse show was popular only on the internet back when the internet wasn't so widespread and normalized. It wasn't real popularity.
Uh huh
Nah man, that shit was also popular with its target audience, it saved MLP from dying after G3.5
Anon, the show didn't save it and the cartoons weren't what killed it. If you talked to those old school collectors during Horse show days (the type who made the custom figurines) they were always willing to tell the story, the actual killer was that 3.5 did a concept called the "core 7" where whittling it down to 7 characters only with variants would make it possible to make the toys super easy to manufacture and gave them 7 characters to get little girls attached to. However, this was too antithetical to the "be sure to collect them all" ethos of the brand which meant that when a kid got one of each, they no longer felt the need to collect.
Gen 5 moga gen 4 in merchandise. Also it turns out gen 4 had licensed their game rights to China early which is why they never got an MLP RPG.
Why does everyone always want to pretend the internet only became mainstream like 4-5 years before [Current Year} with a sliding timescale with each new year?
I swear in 2030 homosexuals will still be talking about how the internet was not really mainstream in 2025.
id say the internet truely went "mainstream" around 2014, but it was on its way there starting in 2012
and you would be wrong
alright, where do you put the date?
Mainstreaming of the Internet happens in the mid-2000s. By 2006 the Internet is a broadly accepted tool, before then it was sort of viewed as a novelty by a lot of people.
The "normalgayification" of the Internet, i.e. idiots and phoneposters become aware of social media, starts around 2010 and reaches full steam in 2014, which is probably what you're thinking of.
And by 2014 the brony fandom was already irrelevant. See? They were never really all that popular to begin with, it was all just a big illusion. We have to deal with way worse demons nowadays.
You're probably right. I was thinking more about the culture of the internet, which I remember a shift in internet culture around 2014 and like how people talked about it and shit
My perception is that it started earlier than 2014. 2012 in particular is when I really started feeling like something was going sour, but 2014 does seem like the point the disease hit full metastasis.
Not that anon and I wasn't really trying to weigh in on the ungulate phenomenon. I was already enough of a weeb that none of it seemed that remarkable.
By 2007 there wasn’t a single person who wasn’t on Facebook. Before that everyone was on aol instant messenger. Internet use was incredibly commonplace by 2000 and even dumb jocks in my tiny rural town were on the internet. I remember a basketball player asking me how to delete browsing history in like ‘98 because “his friend” looked up bestiality.
As social media grew in presence, you were forced to actually see these dumbasses online because their shit was getting pushed into your face, but everyone was there before the algorithms and monetization made it obvious.
I would have pushed that back some to about 09 when smart phones became commonplace, or people had an ipod touch, and everyone was on Facebook.
> around 2014, but it was on its way there starting in 2012
Way earlier than that, bub
5 million views in youtube was a lot back in 2010
In 2024 that is pretty much nothing
Explain that
The third world got accessible electronics capable of meaningfully browsing and engaging with the internet.
In 2010 the mass exodus away from cable hadn't really happened yet and Youtube was still primarily a platform for individuals to share videos they thought were entertaining with their friends and family, now the vast majority of people in the developed world have shifted to watching content on streaming platforms and Youtube has pivoted toward commercialized content that more closely resembles legacy media outlets.
Quarantines had terrible consequences
china and india
america, viewwise, amounts for just a minority of all possible views
Horse Show didn't become super mainstream until it hit Netflix (and by then the Hub was already deemed a failure)
Discovery did nothing but complain about their cut since they didn't expect a certain show to be that big a hit.
They made a cable channel when cable was starting to decline in favor of streaming services
The same year Netflix streaming service started, Hasbro came out with a cable TV network. How did you think it was going to end?
Netflix had streaming in 07
They killed Hanazuki.
>most popular cartoon of the 2010s
>The Hub
Hey OP, I like Aquabats and Dan Vs. as much as the next guy, but they weren't super popular.
Poor distribution, thats about it.
Two things:
1) Fricking Zaslav.
2) Hasbro's competitors didn't want to pay them to run ads on their television channel so they could only get bottom of the barrel advertisers that didn't pay enough.
they only had that one show... or two
And the Aquabats
because they had Margaret Loesch the OG of both Marvel Entertainment and Fox Kids. Lady was a legend in going for Long shot productions. Wouldn't have had Xmen, The Tick, Sam and Max, Dan vs, Aquabats without her.
TF Prime and the horse show, right? Didn't they also have Nick Jr type shows and even that Littlest Pet Shop show too? Also Rescue Bots I think.
And Dan Vs
why are you asking for a ban op?
Dan Vs deserved better
I remember being so excited to watch Batman Beyond and whatever other old shit they ran at night.
The first sign that discovery was a shithole that destroys decent media properties
Horsie show aside, i did love how Hub was doing the classic Nickelodeon thing better than Nick at the time. Cartoons and family stuff by day, classic reruns of sitcoms at night.
And the 80s Hasbro series at midnight. I switched from Adult Swim to that at the time.
I remember they had Step by Step on which was nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leUrxgGD0rU
Having an extremely dedicated fanbase of unemployed middle-aged autists who spam shit about it 24/7 on cambodian butthole tattoo forums is not the same thing as being popular, moron.
You'd be surprised anon. Shows that everyone mistakes for popular seem to all be carried more by their fandoms than by kids who aren't watching
It was co-owned by Zaslav
The channel was fun for what it was but kinda pointless now with Tubi. the original shows had such wildly different levels of quality as well. TFP has better animation than cable CGI shows and then the next show would be flash animation.
Popular with around 1000 online neckbeards does not equal “the most popular 2010s cartoon” wtf lmao
Absolute cope.
It was popular with children and neckbeards.
The hub only had 4 good cartoons, MLP: FIM, Dan vs., Transformers Prime and LPS.
The rest is reruns of old shows from the 80s and 80s, good shows, mind you. But if you compare it to what CN, the Disney channel or Nick was doing, it's like night and day.
>Transformers Mediocre
>good
Personally I'm still bitter about how they killed Discovery Kids for a channel that was primarily old toy advertisements
well to be fair it was meant to become a channel for new toy advertisements, they just never really got that far
Member when we thought we were entering a new animation renaissance at the start of the 2010s?
>when Cinemaphile lost its collective shit after hearing Mordecai say "you pissed me off"
The future seemed so bright.
I only watched it for reruns of alf
The horse show had meme popularity, but not real popularity with normies who still see it as a show for little girls
Transformers Prime
>Channel created for Transformers is made
>Show costs so much it eventually sucks channel's budget
>Discovery buys the remaining 2% to make it theirs; changes name
>To make it worse, it gets hijacked by the colorful midget horse show.
There's something poetic about MLP stealing all of Transformers' thunder during the those days.
And now both are shells of their former selves, Transformers is struggling to justify literally its making, and G5 has flopped in every sense of the word, and kind of relevance MLP has anymore is "hey, remember old thing?"
I love how Cinemaphile is trying to revise history like small horses wasn't the biggest fricking western cartoon for half of the 2010s
Deny it all you want, and call horsefrickers whatever you want. But I didn't see Finn and Jake profile pictures everywhere. I didn't see entire conventions dedicated to Regular Show. There wasn't a fricking sitewide ban on SU even though there should've been, TTG got attention, but not for good reasons
Mini Horse Show was THE biggest cartoon of the 2010s, with the only thing rivaling it being Rick and Morty, make of that what you will
A group of highly concentrated autistic individuals obsessing over mlp like it's their personality doesn't make the cartoon big.
No. Selling out entire convention halls with highly autistic indivduals does.
It really doesn't. Mentally ill homosexuals with the same obsession congregate, that's why there are entire furry conventions.
Sperg money is still money anon, and there's was enough of it to go around in the 2010s
Also don't pretend like most of the other 2010 fanbases aren't filled with autismos either, MLP just had more of them.
your horsefricker show was never very popular, get over it
Your denial of reality isn't very healthy anon.
fricking horses isn't healthy, people have died from it
Awful timing. Linear kids TV viewership entered into its death spiral within 18 months of The Hub's launch. Discovery Kids was already a dead channel to begin with. That meant The Hub had to fight to get into better bundles or even just to get carried by your pay-TV provider. It was always alongside the secondary digital cable kids channels like Nicktoons, Disney XD, Boomerang (all of which are effectively zombie status now like Discovery Family) and never the market leaders. Which kind of highlights another issue: lots of bigger, more established competition.
I remember reading that Hasbro had to carry more responsibilities than they intended, too. Oprah's channel came out failing and that apparently took up more of Discovery's efforts as that meant more for them financially.