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Pictured: Millennials talking about the silly wizard power fantasy like it’s Shakespeare. Harry Potter truly is to Generation Y as Star Wars was to Generation X. It reminds them of a “better time” when they could remain ignorant of all the horrible things happening in the world (paid for by their tax money).
That’s true and you’re correct, especially because Harry Potter is trash for a number of reasons. But I still find the whole idea ‘thing for adult only and thing for kid only’ confusing and frustraiting because there is plenty of media marketed as adult media that I find shallow and vapid, and there is plenty of media that appears childish that has more to it than on the surface. It sounds like marketing demographic jargon simililar to “This is for men, this is for women”. There seems to be mostly arbitrary rules involved that change with whatever social norms deem appropriate at the time. Maybe I’m just dumb or immature and will never get it, I don’t know.
I think when I use the terms, I am going with more of a matter of complexity rather than subject matter
The difference between a picture book and a novel, as an easy shorthand
I am complicated sometimes
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for taking the time to deal with my bullshit.
And it’s cool to be complicated. Continue being rad as fuck 👍
No worries, you continue being amazing too!
In conclusion, flakesbongler is a land of contrasts
the best kids’ stuff is the kind like animaniacs, freakazoid, or the 90s batman where they’re clever enough to make jokes and references that the kids don’t even notice, but are hilarious to adults.
You don’t get Adam West to do bit parts in batman media for the kids who have never seen the 1960s show.
gender segregation is mostly about marketing, there was a Young Justice cartoon a few (10?) years ago that was really popular and critically acclaimed but the action figures didn’t do the numbers the suits wanted and the show was cancelled because they had made good television instead of a boys-only toy commercial.
Agreed, I think a more modernish (I say ‘ish’ because it’s like over a decade old now) equivalent would be something like Gravity Falls which I hardly ever admit to liking because it’s Disney, but it’s a genuinely funny and well written show, same goes for Owl House, which got cancelled for being too gay.