>>149115937They all had big fanbases though? Especially considering how limited online spread was and how it was contained to fanfic sites, it was honestly insane how popular some of the early CN shows got
Powerpuff Girls was the "big" one, that's the one CN used to judge the standards of a "big" show that Ben 10 and Adventure Time and Regular Show and Steven Universe were based on
Foster's Home had a notoriously big fanbase, actually, that died off in the 2010s, and Ed Edd n Eddy's fanbase was different too. Today it's mostly just ironic memes, but back in the late 2000s/early 2010s, there were actual fan animations, continuations, comics, AUs, the whole thing.
It's more like Regular Show/Adventure Time were among the first to blow up in modern globohomo social media internet and get amplified