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This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
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I’ve never heard anyone refer to any adult swim type show as a cartoon.
Is that because of the cultural connotations? "Cartoons are for kids and I'm not a kid, so I don't watch cartoons. I will not call South Park or Adult Swim a cartoon because I watch them and I don't watch cartoons."
That doesn't imply the word is wrong, just that using it that way is taboo in western culture.
Well yeah, that’s what I was saying. It’s an insult because “cartoons are for kids” is the prevailing thought process.
People used to say games are for kids, now the game industry is bigger than the movie industry, with plenty ofnadults playing. Times change, so do cultural norms and word usage. I'd be unsurprised if in 10 years people think calling something a cartoon is an insult in any way.
Listen, I don’t think it’s an insult, but this post is literally an “unpopular opinion”. Not only that but we’re literally discussing how people see cartoons as being for kids.
People didn’t say this in the 80s and 90s. They only started calling them for kids in the 2000s when republicans had to find another boogeyman to attack. Then you can see people started to figure out that was clearly stupid.
In the 80s and 90s, I knew of no adults who played computer games, but plenty of kids did. Advertising was targeted at preteens to young adults. I still know people who roll their eyes at the idea of adults playing computer games. This was very much a norm that only started to change in the 2000s, which is when conservatives started clutching at pearls. If you look at revenue charts, it really started picking up around 2005, doubled from 1995 to 2010, and increased by about 150% from 2010 to 2022.