>>149789037
People hated Scrappy way before James Gunn. In 1999, 4 years before the movie, Cartoon Network made a game about throwing smelly garbage at him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBudBZGhxTY
My theory is that most of the Scrappy hate came from people who were 10 yr old in 69 and were still watching Scooby-Doo when he was introduced didn’t vibe with this character designed to appeal to 79’s 10 yr olds (like there’s a bunch of Teen Titans 03fags that are still seething about Teen Titans Go). Then when Cartoon Network started up, the first group naturally got to work there first and they used their influence to whine about "That annoying mutt that RUINED Scooby-Doo" and that spread to the impressionable children of 1999 (who unlike the previous generations had access to the Internet) and then the idea just kinda became ingrained in pop culture.