To be fair to squidbillies it was canceled around the same time as all the other og shows like venture bros, metalocalypse, aquateen, ect. Adult Swim's bread and butter was always the canceled fox shows and that funded the more avant-garde programming. Once family guy and king of the hill left they were forced to make their own original programming and that's how rick and morty came to be, but adult swim probably saw the writing on the wall with Justin roiland being unreliable and thats why they made smiling friends as a possible replacement for Rick and morty. And oh is smiling friends not capable of filling the shoes of adult swims most successful tv show like ever and has its own problems of its producers being sex pests. The whole oneyplays crew that is behind smiling friends associated with a pretty notorious pedophile that drew pornography of his own mother. I would not be surprised if adult swim has to cancel that show next.
Adult swim is a tragedy, its the defacto leader of western animation, it is the only television channel young people even remotely like, it has somehow managed to stay relevant in an age where tv is dead and the internet is king and is basically the only real art house/hipster tv corporation in existence (in the US at least). Yeah I know it's a subsidiary of time Warner or whatever the fuck but adult swim is a cultural institution on the way to becoming was a cultural institution. Like we all have fond memories getting high on your friends couch watching some schitzo cartoon on adult swim at 3 am, it helped introduce anime to american audiences that wasn't pokemon. Adult swim is something that can't happen again when the entire entertainment industry is owned by only 6 companies that can only produce nothing but sequels and reboots.
And you know, despite my fondness for this tv channel, I'm glad its dying. It was ran by the people who were friends with epstein, it helped perpetuate the treat society we live in, it helped sell funko pops and pushed a lot of reactionary trash like squidbillies and million dollar extreme. Adult swim is like a weimar berlin arthouse where everyone is on heroin and the ss are right about to bust in with a flamethrower. Its the swansong of a dying liberal empire, its beautiful but its death would be so satisfying after all the harm it has caused to marginalized communities and the normalization it did for the liberal status quo. The world needs less hipsters and brooklyn brownstones and avant-garde television. We need some (a lot) of discomfort for the western nations and taking their treats away and beating the shit out them is the only acceptable medicine for the treat obsessed westerner. Pain is medicine.
Too long, at least its over.
About time. I'm old enough to remember generations of stuff canceled by Cartoon Network/Adult Swim while the suits kept that garbage going. :disgost:
To be fair to squidbillies it was canceled around the same time as all the other og shows like venture bros, metalocalypse, aquateen, ect. Adult Swim's bread and butter was always the canceled fox shows and that funded the more avant-garde programming. Once family guy and king of the hill left they were forced to make their own original programming and that's how rick and morty came to be, but adult swim probably saw the writing on the wall with Justin roiland being unreliable and thats why they made smiling friends as a possible replacement for Rick and morty. And oh is smiling friends not capable of filling the shoes of adult swims most successful tv show like ever and has its own problems of its producers being sex pests. The whole oneyplays crew that is behind smiling friends associated with a pretty notorious pedophile that drew pornography of his own mother. I would not be surprised if adult swim has to cancel that show next.
Adult swim is a tragedy, its the defacto leader of western animation, it is the only television channel young people even remotely like, it has somehow managed to stay relevant in an age where tv is dead and the internet is king and is basically the only real art house/hipster tv corporation in existence (in the US at least). Yeah I know it's a subsidiary of time Warner or whatever the fuck but adult swim is a cultural institution on the way to becoming was a cultural institution. Like we all have fond memories getting high on your friends couch watching some schitzo cartoon on adult swim at 3 am, it helped introduce anime to american audiences that wasn't pokemon. Adult swim is something that can't happen again when the entire entertainment industry is owned by only 6 companies that can only produce nothing but sequels and reboots.
And you know, despite my fondness for this tv channel, I'm glad its dying. It was ran by the people who were friends with epstein, it helped perpetuate the treat society we live in, it helped sell funko pops and pushed a lot of reactionary trash like squidbillies and million dollar extreme. Adult swim is like a weimar berlin arthouse where everyone is on heroin and the ss are right about to bust in with a flamethrower. Its the swansong of a dying liberal empire, its beautiful but its death would be so satisfying after all the harm it has caused to marginalized communities and the normalization it did for the liberal status quo. The world needs less hipsters and brooklyn brownstones and avant-garde television. We need some (a lot) of discomfort for the western nations and taking their treats away and beating the shit out them is the only acceptable medicine for the treat obsessed westerner. Pain is medicine.