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The 80’s was shit cause the most successful cartoons of that decade were made to sell toys, and so cartoons were just being greenlit by how their popular toy brand is. Not to mention how most of the animation looked like shit, it was stiff as fuck, animated by DiC Entertainment, which was hated so much by animators that there was a joke in the industry that DiC stood for "Do it Cheap", some people prefer action cartoons but come the fuck on the ones in the 90’s like Aeon Flux and Batman TAS looked far better and had more artistic integrity to them than cheesy He-Man shit. Need I also mention how executive controlled and oversanitized cartoons of that era were? TV was full of sappy shit like Care Bears and G1 Horse Show.
This is why the late 80’s and 90’s are so beloved by animators. Everything was cartoonist driven, people were given actual creative control, and many cartoons like the New Adventures of Mighty Mouse, Ren & Stimpy, and Animaniacs rebelled against the idea that cartoons should be stiff as fuck and oversanitized. Technically we are still in the creator driven era of cartoons, but it honestly feels like we’re witnessing the final breaths of it, the term "creator driven" these days should also be used very loosely seeing how, much like the 80’s shit has become highly executive controlled now.
Not to mention that shows based on pre-existing IPs are getting more views than original IPs so those are the only projects being greenlit, just like when toy cartoons were the only shit being greenlit, history is repeating itself.
