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hewwo, i like things and this is my blog sadly

[jakemorph]

youre an olympic level hater. i respect it.

they asked me to represent my country in the sport of hating i said no. i hate my country

[maxwellatoms]

Do you think were any kind of specific aspects of the culture, industry, economy, etc that made making cartoons in 90s / 2000s better or worse than trying to make them today?

They're literally different worlds.

As a 22 year old neurodivergent, I was able to pitch show ideas directly to executives. Part of that was because TV Animation wasn't a glamorous profession (quite yet), so the higher-ups were genuinely passionate about the medium. I earned good money for the time and was generally trusted to run my show and tend to the crew. I would periodically be handed portfolios, which I would personally review and pass on to other show runners. For the networks it was always corporate, cutthroat, and ultimately about the money, but as an artist you could still have a voice and make art while being paid a living wage.

The pay for a freelance storyboard in 2005 is almost exactly what it is today, but now you're likely to have less time and be required to do an animatic on top of it. Portfolios are online, and (beyond metrics) you'll probably never know if anyone looks at it or not.

Animation got big. Too big. The executives got "glamorous", then the talent got "glamorous". By then you probably wouldn't get a pitch meeting unless you were a celebrity or knew one willing to be connected to your project. Animation eventually got so big that it popped. And that's where we are now.

Most of the people I know from Kid's TV Animation are currently unemployed. I have been off Jellystone for over a year, and I'm starting to get genuinely worried. Like, "move away to save money" worried. Most of the employed artists I do know are on long-running legacy series, and they're concerned about their futures when/if those series end. Right now is not a fantastic time for "animation as a money-making profession". The "glamorous" part popped years ago.

That being said, there are still opportunities out there. If you're just starting out, apparently there's a planned surge in adult and pre-school animation. It's also a great time (as long as YouTube remains sane) to be crafting your own content. But I think that the time of Big Studio Patronage is over for most of the industry. It's up to the individual artist now more than ever, not only to make but to promote their own content.

Back at the height of Billy & Mandy, we mostly pulled fours and fives in the Neilsen ratings, but we occasionally got a seven. For reference, E.R. consistently got eights. It's difficult to say exactly how many people that actually was due to how those ratings work, but it was a big deal for the time. Millions. Enough people that if I had a dollar for each person that just watched that one episode, I would have been set for life. Now, nobody gets a seven. A four is huge. Back then there were maybe fifteen or twenty channels of programmed content as opposed to the streaming smorgasbord we were all just enjoying (and which now also seems to have popped). Point being, even though I wasn't paid-per-view, I was able to use those views as justification for an eventual raise. In modern times, streaming numbers are seemingly deliberately kept secret. You'll never really know how well your show was doing until it's over. Or maybe never.

In modern times, a million views on YouTube is enough to get you noticed online. It's a lower bar for entry in a way, but you've got to get there all by yourself. Once you're there (hello Hazbin) a network may indeed come and scoop you up. Even if they don't, you can probably make a decent living with numbers like that if you're savvy and willing to take the time.

I feel like I could go on all day, shaking my fist at the sky, gray-ass beard blowing in the wind. Was it better or easier making cartoons in the past? It seemed that way to me, but that was a world I knew. There was no AI to sell you out to, and the media was more of a "Wild West" than it is today. I do think that AI is going to continue to displace artists (and soon others), making it even more difficult to get anyone's eyes on anything at all.

Culturally, we lack the common touchpoints that bonded our society in the 20th Century. I suspect that the media landscape will continue to become more "bubbly" and disjointed unless some powerful force swoops in to mandate a common viewpoint. Those are two very divergent, uniquely tiring futures, each presenting a different challenge for an artist's survival.

Outside of whatever our modern world is, animation was made for a century by photographing drawings. If Émile Cohl could do it in 1908, you can do it now. It's a lot of labor, but maybe that's part of what makes it special.

[swaggalevel-1000]

[Fun KVIP tidbit :) ] "A few pieces of evidence that proves why Topnyong is real!"

As I promised, here are the pre-debut cyworld messages exchanged between GD & TOP that K-VIPs found years before TOP deleted his cyworld account and before GD made his “private”. K-VIPs gathered this information to “prove” that TOPNYONG, aka G-TOP, is “real”. LMAO. This was all posted merely for humor purposes; and because the analysis and interpretation of these messages seemed to be oh-so relevant with Topnyong, it was posted in the humor section all over the V.I.P fanclub site. The following screencaps of messages are the messages G-DRAGON wrote on TOP’s cyworld minihompy wall. Fans weren’t able to find wall posts that TOP wrote onto Jiyong’s cyworld, so the conversation might be a bit confusing since we don’t know what Top’s replies are. And the screencaps were made without giving into consideration which order the dates go, so that’s up to you to figure out! Also, you’ll see things where you might know what they’re talking about, for instance, on August 18, 2005, Jiyong says “thank you” to TOP, so obviously Top probably congratulated GD on his birthday, etc. *If you see messages from the same date, read it from bottom to top. I bolded a few messages in red to show that these are the more important messages you might want to pay attention to :)

Here’s what VIPs had to say about GD’s messages: 

Now here is a screencap of ONE of the wall posts TOP wrote onto Jiyong’s minihompy wall that K-VIPs were able to find:

  LMAO. I think that’s cute and hilarious. HAHAHA <3 And what I find even cuter is that on the left side under the pictures of TOP and where it says “Today is..”, the blue caption reads “Kwon Jiyong, happy birthday!” and that’s where people put the description of their cyworld… KVIPs interpreted this as “TOP cares so much for Jiyong that he even dedicated his cyworld description to GD”. LOL. K-VIPs were able to find a comment written by TOP on Jiyong’s cyworld visitor’s commenting page and laughed, “They probably had a couple fight. Seems like Top might have been fooling around with someone else other than Jiyong and Jiyong got jealous. HAHAHAHA”

And last but not least, TOP enjoyed updating his cyworld’s “photo” page with a bunch of “couple-like” selcas with GD and adding cute captions underneath them, for example:

  Other “couple-like”(LOL) photos that you’ve probably seen that originated from TOP’s cyworld minihompy:

  Hope you guys enjoyed reading this as much as I did when I first saw it! :) Do not take out of tumblr, please! If you would like to redistribute it, please link them to this post or tumblr! source: [email protected] http://blog.naver.com/rami225/10104697740 trans: swaggalevel-1000 

[raenaissancexx]

Honestly this is the best thing I've ever heard

[cher3pakhi]

just remember, one day you're going to open tumblr and the crabs will be raving like they never have before

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

me: lmaoo my mom really thinks a few salty crackers and ginger ale will cure my nausea

me 2 minutes after ginger ale and crackers, no longer nauseous:

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

[cheddar-baby]

white guy who fixes drywall when he gets mad. Legends say his walls are 6 castles thick and houses the terrifying minotaur

[ce1erywheat]

they're called olives because you open the jar and eat olive them

[louisegluckpdf]

[gottalottarocks]

[m0uthbr3ather]

Have you ever been to earth?

On earth, we use the word “burrito” to describe a tortilla filled with things you eat. Pretty simple stuff, and I’m surprised you at least got that part right. My burrito was, in fact, filled with food. In this, you and I agree and are friends. But this is also where my lifelong hatred begins for you and anyone else whose brain has been repeatedly scrubbed with the same mixture of bleach and Pop Rocks as yours has. Because that should have killed you, but left you around long enough to do what you did to me today. Let me explain:

You’re an idiot.

Let me further explain:

Burritos are eaten from one end to the other. So that means when you assemble a burrito with motherfucking ZONES of ingredients going that direction, you create a disgusting experience for the burrito’s end user. When you make a burrito, you should put the ingredients in layerslengthwise. That way, every bite has AT LEAST A FUCKING CHANCE of getting at least two types of ingredients, and there is little chance of becoming almost hopelessly trapped in a goddamned cilantro cavern.

Have you ever eaten one of the things you make all fucking day? You should try one. They are pretty good WHEN YOU ARE NOT WILLING YOURSELF THROUGH THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM ONLY TO END UP IN LETTUCE COUNTRY.

When you eat a burrito, you don’t stand it up and bite down on it lengthwise like a fucking Rancor. Humans can’t usually dislocate their jaws, and I’m not a fucking pelican. But you must think that’s how it’s done, since that would be THE ONLY FUCKING WAY to take a bite of your crapstrosity and have it taste like a burrito.

And guess what else, player? You probably can’t guess anything, because I’m pretty sure you’re just a mop with a hat on it that fell over and spilled some shit into a tortilla, but just in case, here’s what:

Humans also don’t eat burritos like fucking corn on the cob. Like a fucking typewriter from one end to the other a little at a time and then DING next line. But today I wish I had tried that. Because at least THEN I would be able to eat some rice, then beans, then be all like HEY BEANS I’LL BE RIGHT BACK JUST GOING OVER HERE TO THE GUACAMOLE FOR A SECOND.

Nope.

My experience was more like HEY BEANS IT’S JUST GOING TO BE YOU AND I FOR A MINUTE UNTIL I CAN FUCKING EXCAVATE THE RICE FROM BENEATH YOU BUT BY THEN YOU WILL BE A FADING MEMORY OH HEY I WAS WRONG I’M IN THE FUCKING CHEESEOSPHERE NOW RICE MUST BE NEXT I HOPE IT’S NOT ANOTHER FUCKING SALSA POCKET.

You built this thing like a fucking pack of LifeSavers.

And don’t even fucking think I’m about to open this shit up and re-engineer your nonsense 90 degrees. I ALREADY PUT A HOLE IN IT WITH MY FUCKING MOUTH. YEAH. THAT’S HOW I DISCOVERED YOU FUCKING SUCK AT LOOKING AT THINGS. I AM NOT GOING TO DO FUCKING TORTILLA ORIGAMI TO GET THIS SHIT BACK TOGETHER, ONLY TO END UP WITH A BURRITO THAT’S BEEN SHOT IN THE GUT AND IS BLEEDING YOUR INEPTITUDE.

What’s that? I should ask you to mix it up first next time? IS THIS JAMBA JUICE? I DON’T WANT TO DRINK MY FUCKING BURRITO THROUGH A BENDY STRAW, AND I DON’T WANT A PILE OF BURRITO SOUP IN A FLOUR CAN.

I just want a burrito.

In conclusion:

You’re the worst thing that has ever happened to the universe, you owe everyone everywhere an apology for this burritobomination, and I hope your babies look like monkeys.

UPDATE FOR EVERYONE WHO SAID “JUST EAT IT WITH A FORK”:

A fucking fork?

I DIDN’T ORDER THE FUCKING COBBURRITO SALAD.

If anyone ever handed me a burrito with a fork, THEY WOULD BE WEARING A BRAND NEW BURRITO HAT FROM MY FALL COLLECTION TEN SECONDS LATER.

That’s like buying a car and having them hand you a fucking wrench with the keys. Like YEAH WE KNOW THIS MOTHERFUCKER’S GOING TO EXPLODE AND BE SPREAD ACROSS EIGHT LANES AS SOON AS YOU HIT THE GAS, BUT SHIT, WE GAVE YOU A WRENCH, SO BE COOL.

Jesus already gave me two burrito forks. One at the end of each arm. They’re called fucking HANDS.

A fork. My god. I haven’t cried since I was six, but I’m fucking sobbing now.

People eat burritos with forks?

God is sorry he made us.

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[skwinky]

I always need this on my blog.

[xopachi]

I can’t be laughing this hard in the morning. 

[tootsiebb]

Yes

[kamari3]

Happy Ten Years to the Bad Burrito Post

[deadaaabattery]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[batsandboba]

has anyone heard of Cozy in bed…lifechanging

[batsandboba]

has anyone experienced Alarm goes off. devastating

[sacred-portal]

[adiabat]

i’m not aromantic but i believe in their beliefs

[adiabat]

for me being bi has contributed a huge amount to noticing all the ways in which romance and friendship run together and i think in general people would benefit from recognizing that romance and friendship are socially constructed categories used to describe a vast, nebulous, and often overlapping range of feelings

[meowonaise]

paint3d teto for teto tuesday

[peridoxikal-redux]

20 long years of being an icon ~ ❤️

[travelsafely]

there needs to be a cultural shift in america like im not talking about culture war bullshit i mean the average american needs to learn to care about their community and the rest of the world and not be a self-absorbed asshole with a "fuck you i got mine" attitude.

[travelsafely]

"i doubt this will change" "good luck" sorry we simply cannot afford to be fatalistic about this. go feed your neighbor and invite a friend to go with you.

[mens-rights-activia]

I’m setting things right this election!!!

[adruze]

No, you are not. With respect, you are voting for Trump.

[horriblewarlock]

Are you blind it says Al Gore