The Problem With Protesting For Shows To Be Revived (Ft. ROTTMNT & Milo Murphy's Law)
Hi, I'm here to brain dump about something I've been thinking about a lot lately, which is about how people arrange protests to save cancelled/paused shows, specifically with ROTTMNT and Milo Murphy's Law.
As someone who LOVES Rise of the TMNT and Milo Murphy's Law, two shows that were cancelled before their prime, I obviously want both of them to be continued.
But what I've noticed with both of these shows, is that when people are trying to get them revived they default to protesting on the socials of the companies (Disney and Nickelodeon in this case) or bombarding the creator with questions.
What most people might not realize, is that these big companies won't pay much attention to the protests and that creators can't control whether the show gets continued or not.
Big companies like numbers and statistics, they like have solid proof that if they continue the show it'll make them money. Unfortunately, protesting and making trending tags aren't solid statistics for them, it won't tell them anything about whether reviving it is worth it.
What companies do pay attention to is WATCH NUMBERS.
They pay attention to how long and how many people are watching the show, the statistic that determines whether or not they'll earn a profit.
So what it comes down to, is that protesting won't really work.
I'm here to say that if we really want paused shows (for me specifically these two shows) to get revived, WE HAVE TO MAKE WATCH NUMBERS SPIKE.
So instead of protesting, I'm inviting everyone in fandoms of shows that were cancelled before their time to watch those shows on repeat on their respective channels (for this to work right you cannot watch them on third party services, it has to be directly on the streaming service).
What I mean by this is that you need to put the show on every chance you get.
You're making dinner or doing homework? -> Put theses shows on in the background.
You're watching a different show? -> Put these shows on your phone on mute while you watch something else
Exercising? -> Put the show on while you run
Drawing? -> Put the show on while you draw
Writing? -> Put the show on while you write
You get the point right?
If enough people have these shows running constantly, the watch hours and audience numbers spike, catching the attention of the companies and showing them enough people are interesting that it would be profitable to revive the show.
This goes for every show cancelled prematurely, not just ROTTMNT and Milo Murphy's Law.
More examples would be Invader Zim or Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (which was only recently paused, so it has more of a chance of being saved).
Long story short, GO PUT THESE SHOWS ON IN THE BACKGROUND.
SPREAD THE WORD, EITHER BY REBLOGGING THIS POST OR MAKING YOUR OWN POST!!
Companies want numbers and statistics, not their DMs and comments being flooded with protests.
Edit:
Something I also recently have thought about though is that paused shows often have a larger community/fandom than complete shows do.
I believe this has to do with the fact the shows were ended early, so I think we also sometimes forget that a lot of fan content and such comes from people who create it because it was canceled before it could expand on it more. Therefore it gives fandoms more motivation and room to expand on things.
For ROTTMNT- I would love for Rise to get continued, but I honestly think its past that point and that we should be grateful the creators have expanded it in other ways (ex: the movie & artbook). At this point, I think what we should be fighting for is to get the full storyboards, scripts, and voice recordings of the scrapped season 2 episodes so that the fandom can bring them to life.
This is very possible because this is what happened with Invader Zim. I love the Invader Zim fandom because they took the scrapped episodes and reanimated them as a community, making it possible for the fandom to have these episodes available.
What I'm saying is that the Rise fandom needs to realize that its basically impossible to get a 3rd season and that we should focus on whats is possible- like aquiring the storyboards and scripts.
But also- we have to realize that a lot of fan content wouldn't exist if we had gotten the full show. For example: he Toddler Mutant Ninja Turtles comic by @/mkthedingus or The Cass Apocalypse Series. I wouldn't trade the fandom for anything, even a 3rd season. Binging the shows to up the watch numbers probably won't work for ROTTMNT and I feel like people were so focused on getting Rise uncancelled that they completely ignored that the same thing happened for Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
TOTTMNT is the show we should fight for because its more recent than Rise and we shouldn't neglect it like a lot of 2012 fans did to Rise.
Milo Murphy's Law actually has a HIGH chance of getting taken up again because Dan Povenmire has talked about it, meaning that its something Disney is looking at after Phineas & Ferb's successful revival.
Anyways thanks for coming to my Ted Talk :)
My subconscious is telling me to tag people so this spreads faster and actually gets out there but my anxiety won't let me.
