>>150233333
>That sounds like the coded is not really being enforced
But it was. Just arbitrarily, as these things typically go, same as television broadcast standards and practices or the MPAA's film ratings.
>the decline of sales didn't have nothing to do with this
I don't even know what you're trying to argue now. Original post said
>Not enough attention is given to how kids and teens used to be the core audience for comics, but that hasn't really been a thing since the second half of the 1990s. Marvel and DC's reaction to the crash was to move towards an older demographic of lifelong readers with more disposable income, and the 2000s is when Marvel and DC leave the CCA, and abandon any pretence that kids were reading.
The early 90s extreme era was the last generation with a real influx of kids and teens reading comics, and more than anything else, not having constant new generations of readers is what's eventually going to kill the industry.
That is in fact what happened. Teens were still the primary demographic in the early/mid 90s, hence the popularity of all those trashy Image books and how they quickly became perceived as an old shame. In the 80s, Jim Shooter said that most Marvel readers were junior/high schoolers. After they went direct market exclusive, that was no longer case.
