im just having a convo with the bf about me being a 90s kid vs him being more of a 00s kid and like 90s nostalgia was built on positivity and triumph like disney and pokemon while his nostalgia is like burn out culture and political downfall and comprised of dreamworks and family guy
…and my childhood was mostly in the 1980s, so bright colors and rampant consumerism to hide the pervasive fear of total global nuclear annihilation, whee!
And anthro everything.
@dollsahoy that explains everything about the original My Little Pony cartoon that didn’t make sense, as well as every episode’s basic plot structure.
But yeah, Shrek came out when I was about 13 or 14, an age when you’re ready to watch Disney get torn up a little, but I doubt the people who made it really thought much about anyone younger than 10 watching it. It’s just so clearly Jeffrey Katzenberg’s pissy vendetta against Disney for passing him up for promotion.
And then there’s Invader Zim which is just non stop snark but what about Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends? It’s pretty positive and also from the early 2000’s.
If Dollsahoy can cite nuclear proliferation as the explanation for the attitude of 80’s cartoons, I think it’s worth looking at the Bush and post 9/11 era as a climate for early 2000s ones. But I’m looking at this from the perspective of someone who was a teenager at the time. It’s different.
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