u/TheUnmitigatedDawn

Inescapable earworms about the thing Alfred Nobel invented.

Ok, so you know how Steven Universe was sort of the punching bag of animation discourse on the internet? And people mocked its themes as overly naive and also called out some of writing? And also partly cause it's an unapologetically whimsical queer musical cartoon that was undoubtedly popular? But then after a while, they stopped making that the punching bag because Hazbin Hotel released, another unapologetically queer, whimsical and popular animated musical, which had writing and execution even *more* divisive than SU, so they made Hazbin the new punching bag of the internet and then started propping up SU as the badass show by comparison

Memes like the "Steven would solo Vox and that whole verse" and comparing Hazbin songs to SU songs and saying SU has the superior ones. How Charlie's basically replaced Steven in the "forgive this heinous villain" memes.

I was thinking, what if a decade from now, like 2037 or something, there comes a brand new unapologetically queer, whimsical animated musical show that becomes popular, and the writing and execution is somehow *even more* divisive than Hazbin? With a hyped in-universe character ending up more of a fraud than S1 Alastor, songs deemed as cringe as Disney's Wish, the main character is somehow considered more annoying and ineffective than Charlie in S2.

I guarantee you, if that happens, you're gonna see animation discourse suddenly doing memes like "This is what a real animated musical looks like" and shows Love in a Bottle or Gravity. Or Charlie's gonna be retroactively turned into a badass who can successfully redeem people. Or stuff like "Alastor solos/one shots the whole verse of [2037 musical cartoon]"

I'd just find it funny if the cycle repeats