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Nah he's talking about like the "respect animation!" fuckers on twitter who constantly post Coraline, Spiderverse and Puss In Boots to say "animation is for adults too!"
Thing about a lot of these people is, you remember that one film critic the internet took a fucking piss on for trying to paint the Seven Samurai as some kind of pretentious longwinded arthouse film because she didn't have the attention span to sit through the dialogue scenes or the black-and-white color? But sang the praises of the Avengers movies which were basically just a multi-part Seven Samurai with superheroes and a really high CGI budget?
They're that. Animation is a perfectly legitimate medium that can be used for great visual storytelling from both a child or an adult perspective.
But the claim needs to be brought forth by people who respect filmmaking as an art form in general. Not people who can't watch anything without pretty colors and tons of stimulation.
The reality is that there are people with actual fucking ADHD who can watch and Akira Kurosawa or Sergio Leone by simply pausing and coming back to it as they go. Neither of whom are arthouse but who aren't extreme stimulation either. So it makes me also feel like part of it is that the people in this crowd genuinely can't handle more tense plots or complex characters with more serious flaws.
