#a lot of people i know: scooby doo fans and animation folks alike are really upset by how the show turned out

[monstroso]

i don't necessarily agree that VELMA was created exclusively to farm social media controversy as a marketing tactic (a take i'm quoting almost verbatim from twitter) - it's just a little *too* tin foil hat for my taste - but I do think it's important that people recognize when the controversy of something that was marketed as being "progressive" is sucking up all the air in the room and when it gets to that point, we should agree to stop talking about it.

the streaming service/network/whatever doesn't care. they've already seen the whole thing! they know what they have isn't salable! they're just trying to shove another turd out the door, and if they can get some hatewatches out of it, all the better. in 3 months, no one will remember this show, and rightly so, but we can actively shorten that amount of time by agreeing that it sucks and taking our discussions to private discord servers. starve them of the attention they so desperately want, don't talk about shit that sucks.