>>149150471Mostly the latter, I guess? But also cartoons in general.
In the last decade we had dozens of cartoon series about brown and yellow characters, endlessly shilled on this board. Amphibia, Glitch Techs, Inside Job, nu Samurai Jack, Carmen Sandiego, Victor & Valentino (or more like The Fat Mexiloli Show), Bee & Puppycat, that other horrid pseudoanime (Guardian Spice whatever), Owl House, Superman Amerinime about Asian Lois Lane who looks like Luz from Owl House, Molly Mcgee, Hailey's On It, Oye Primos, Indian Velma ragebait show, Stugo, some actual Mexican cartoons, that new Nickelodeon show about a white boy grooming his Asian sister, the upcoming flip beanmouth cartoon with identical art style, the upcoming SU spinoff about Lars who is also a flip, the new Avatar show, old Avatar shows for that matter cause there's always a thread in the catalog, Invincible, the Aztec animesque adult cartoon that got axed or something, Speedoru web cartoon, the upcoming tumblr cartoon by the Regular Show guy, etc.
And if we count black protagonists there's like... Moongirl? Which also has a latina sidekick more popular than the main protagonist. Black April? CotC and its promptly canned spinoff? The new girl shoehorned into FOP? The female mc from the Startrek show? I genuinely can't tell if she's black or Indian or whatever. The Invincible Fighting Girl, who also barely looks black? Cyborg in TTG? Grace from Infinity Train? She's the only black protagonist in it. There are like 2 white ones, 2 Asian ones, and the others are nonhuman and brown mystery meat. DC Superhero Girls had an ensemble cast too with 3 white girls, 2 brown girls, and one black loli. Kipo was Blasian and purple, you can't even tell she's meant to be black. Same goes for Enid and Rad from OKKO, and they are just sidekicks to another mystery meat brown kid.
Black protagonists are not popular, like at all. You get blacks turned into animals and blacks who don't even look black.