timeywimeyten replied to your post:timeywimeyten replied to your post:im pretty sure...
//LIKE THAT WOULD BE REALLY SWEET AHHHH (like after the whole adventure they’re having I could convince him to check up on bonnie) (does that mean the culture’s compliments would change?)
THAT is an interesting question. Their entire culture is focused around scaring as we can see in Monsters University. It's considered positive to be ghastly, horrendous, etc. because those are the culture's standards of what a "perfect monster" is (jossed by Mike when he says: "there's no one type of monster" even though Johnny and Abigail are operating on stereotypes of the ideal scarer).
But with the new shift to laugh energy, would that standard change? Would it become more acceptable to look as ridiculous as possible? Would they encourage children to make jokes instead of roars? Would it be a compliment for a monster to be 'ridiculous/funny/hilarious'?
Or would there be a split? One subset having traditional values, one having modern values? (I'm pretty sure Abigail would be the crotchety old woman who still insists monsters should be scary.) Perhaps the former would protest the new Monsters, Inc? Maybe there would a company completely devoted to scaring energy that would have a small, but profitable market of those crotchety old monsters?
How would the compliments change, indeed? Possibly it would still be a bit of an olden time compliment for a monster to be called scary, but I personally believe the standard of an ideal monster would change with the times. But that's my two cents.