Thread 150040265

Was the year 2007 an apocalypse for animation?

Off by a year
The Boston Bomb Scare and then the financial collapse and then a bunch of imported flash cartoons from Canada

>>150040265 (OP)
I’ve seen this meme for every single year of the 2000’s, except ‘02 and ‘03. Everything was changing so quickly and nobody knew the exact reason.

>>150040265 (OP)
It's cuz the aspect ratio changed

>>150040265 (OP)
It was 2004.

>>150041261
Around your tween years is when you become conscious of the world. You can guess someone’s age based on when they think “the shift” happened, since that’s when they began puberty/hit 12.

>>150041261
9/11 happened. Followed by Dubya getting re-elected in 2004 which sped things up.

>>150041334
No no no zillennial chads our childhood is a lie

>>150040542
The 2008 recession didn't help either.

>>150041261
It also applies to the 2010s-2020s (2012 2016 2020 2024 are big ones)

bump

>>150040542
Boston scare was 07

I was born in 1999 and was tortured by moronic abusive parents throughout this entire decade. The decline was inevitable regardless of where you think the critical moment was. The fact that nerd culture ever even existed at all was a minor miracle.

>>150041353
Yeah but 9/11 happened two months before I turned 12 so I could make a point that it really did.

Another thread of people telling me that everyone grows out of Cartoon Network and therefore impossible to say if the quality has declined, like there wasn't a massive cult of college students frothing over Adventure Time and Regular Show in 2011.

>>150041334
Papa roach was numetal wtf?