Its been NINE YEARS and i still dont think anyone knows exactly why teen titans was cancelled
Same reason Young Justice and Green Lantern The Animated Series were canceled: Girls liked it. Bruce Timm finally up an’ said it out loud in an interview a while back when he was asked why in the hell GL:TAS had been canceled when it was doing so well on every front; DC’s animation department has institutionally decided that feee-males don’t/can’t/shouldn’t like superheroes, so even if a show is drawing in great viewership numbers and has great toy sales, once they find out that it’s popular with women and girls, they pull the plug on it. Cartoon Network loved Teen Titans— two million viewers for new episodes will do that— and wanted a Season Six, and the production staff was already in the planning stages for it; they were going to have a big arc about Terra and why she was Living Normal, and do a lot more with the extended Titans team members.
This is so fucked up.
To elaborate on this point a bit, the reason this happens is that modern television merchandising aims for total market segregation.
In a nutshell, it’s much more efficient to sell things to people if you can divide them up into tightly defined subcategories that have no interests in common; that way, you never risk accidentally competing with yourself.
This is why children’s toys (and toy sales channels) are actually much more strongly gendered these days than they were forty, thirty, even twenty years ago: one of the basic market segregation splits they’ve decided to use is “boys versus girls”.
Ever wonder why you see Avengers t-shirts that leave Black Widow out of the group shot, or Guardians of the Galaxy action figure lines with no Gamora? That’s market segregation in action.
The upshot is that shows with crossover appeal can actually be cancelled for being too popular with girls; they’re viewed as “stealing” the female market from the specifically girl-targeted media that rightfully “owns” it.
This is the sort of thing folks are talking about when they say gender roles are socially constructed, by the way. The gender split in media merchandising? It’s not just artificial, it’s deliberately imposed as a top-down marketing strategy. When folks try to justify it by saying “this is the ways it’s always been” or “this is just what the market wants”, they’re lying through their teeth - this is, in fact, the merchandisers dictating to the market what it wants in order to sell stuff more efficiently.
(Interestingly, the reverse isn’t always true: if a specifically girl-targeted show unexpectedly becomes popular with boys, sometimes rather than being cancelled, its merchandising will shift to court the male collector’s market. TV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexist.)
It gets worse.
Paul Dini, a writer/producer said this on a podcast: “ That’s the thing, you know I hate being Mr. Sour Grapes here, but I’ll just lay it on the line: that’s the thing that got us cancelled on Tower Prep, honest-to-God was, it’s like, ‘we need boys, but we need girls right there, right one step behind the boys’—this is the network talking—’one step behind the boys, not as smart as the boys, not as interesting as boys, but right there.’”
Cartoon network and Warner brothers deliberately made the conscious decision to dumb down their female characters because they want to push female viewers away. In fact, Tower Prep was cancelled because it had too many female viewers because the writers made too many well written female characters.
So shitty representation of girls isn’t something that just happens. It’s the result of deliberate planning just so the execs can make more money.
And it’s not just cartoon network. I mean, why do you think Nick fucked over Korra so badly? Remember them telling Bryke they didn’t want a female Avatar? Why do you think there are no Korra figurines or action figures?
1977. Younger muggleborns laughingly answering ‘Abracadabra’ when asked by teachers if they know how a spell works. Purebloods screaming and ducking under tables because they misheard and this 12 year old is trying to use the killing curse on me.
I think this might be the best one
But actually the muggleborns are doing the exact opposite. Because both abracadabra and Avada Kedavra come from Aramaic
abracadabra=אברא כדברי=I will create as my words
Avada Kedavra=אבדה כדברי=It will be destroyed as my words
And so when the muggleborns say it a flower blooms from the empty pot filled with dirt that no one’s watered for ages or an old teddy bear comes to life-because they’re creating AS THEIR WORDS
Just don’t joke with hocus pocus ‘cause any nearby bread will turn into hunks of flesh.
For all the people who said that this was some kind of therapy, there’s a difference between easing someone into a situation and forcing them, just so you know.
*Looking at 99% of adults I know irl in the eye*
@ professors who think forcing you to do an oral presentation will help you overcome your fears and anxiety of public speaking
Yesterday, 32-year-old Philadelphia police officer Matthew Zagursky was caught on a video extorting a driver and his passenger whom he had stopped for a traffic violation.
“Either you buy these or I take your car,”
Zagursky said.
Officer Zagursky informed the drivers they could either buy two $10 tickets for a police department fundraiser or have their car towed for outdated registration. After the driver agreed, Officer Zagursky gestured to the passenger, upping the extortion amount to $30.
“Let him buy one too, or I’ll take your shit,”
Zagursky said in the video.
Yeah. Extortion. Does it again prove that cops are the real gang? - I think it does. They kill us, they steal our money (i don’t mean our taxes, they really DO steal money from people and business) they extorting… Well i guess it’s not that “protecting n serving” we need.
#Cops #Police #Extortion #Philly #Abuse
#StayWoke
I’m so interested in what bullshit the people who ride so hard for cops are gonna say to excuse this shit.
Philly cops are some of the worst trash and there’s a real cult of martyrdom for them at home
it’s hilarious how rooster teeth is usually like “lolfanfiction” despite the fact that if microsoft hadn’t have been cool with halo fanfiction, rooster teeth wouldn’t even exist lmao
It’s okay, it’s Manfiction™ and totally Not Gay and Lame
I’d just like to point out that the two Republicans who tanked the economy took a combined two years of vacation, while the two Dems who stabilized the economy didn’t even take a full year combined.
yeah, it’s almost like being president is a full time job and the country tends to fall to shit when the president takes a shit ton of vacations
see honestly i am the easiest person to impress because literally no one has ever really bought me flowers or taken me dancing or on a picnic or any of that romantic junk and i would just melt at any of it
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