#i keep thinking about adults and kids media and its just ubsettling me anymore with how loud adult fans are getting

[katzirra]

I kinda have to laugh sometimes at shit I see people say about writing on kids shows being too predictable or obvious...??

Like... Remember. You are not the target audience, and these days any motion for representation isn't to please upper age brackets....it's to 'normalize' things that kids spend their life internalizing because it's never shown to be 'okay' mm. But even still, it's parents doing the damage....??

When I was a kid I knew something was different, I knew by 12 I was gay and I brought it up to my mom easily six or seven times until she finally got it a few years ago... Her reaction is what caused issues. Media I took in, didn't sway that. But kids questioning their emotions and seeing same sex love, it can at least answer that thought; no, nothing is wrong with you.

But the way adult fans act about kid's cartoons gets under my skin so much because what do you people WANT - Actually that's a thing too, adults are so on about healthy relationships, but still favor enemies to lovers tropes to an unsettling degree sometimes?? A lot of times with hostility never settling away either????? It falls in the boys will be boys thing for me a lot when I see it portrayed and it's...NO good for me...

But...i don't know what people expect..?? Kids don't want big declarations and focus on stuff..? An exchange of words or a kiss is about as much as I feel kids...want usually. Even still kids are really weird about kissing anyway?? Like... My nephew is the demographic I'm talking about actually. He gets really awkward when even his parents kiss, or seeing it in movies he gets really shy and it's precious.

When I explained being gay to my nieces and nephews when I introduced my girlfriend they understood fine. Kids don't need....this weird spoonfed thing I keep seeing people act like they need in a show to prove something. It's not a crusade for kids, it's a crusade for you anymore how it's being done...

People on this website are so weird about understanding media restrictions, IP laws, entertainment company shit etc... Shit is wild. The effort is cool because rep is important to making shit stop seeming.....taboo. To bring it to the table as topic, but not defining something BY it?? That's the kicker. People complain if you build around a subject, but people also bitch if you ysethe topic like a glaze.... There's no winning honestly lol!!

Like people are so weird about things?? While I can see where people my age say things they do at times, kids like wrapped up stories. Kids like... Happy endings..... I don't understand why that's a bad thing to see happen on a kid's show. I don't understand a lot of the over dramatic freaking out either though honestly.

Like?? Saying you don't want an ending your little sibling predicted because show context and scenes that show the writers are getting the basic idea across is so fucking weird to me...?

You can expect more from a show that performs above its target audience but....you're not the target audience... Sometimes I feel uncomfortable with some of the show and topics because it doesn't feel good with the knowledge of the target audience?

Like love shouldn't make you whole, you should love yourself and others will follow. Friendship is a good topic to pound into especially about becoming your own person andaccepting help etc - I could wax on about a lot of thoughts I have about the potential ending 'topics' and how it effects the whole narrative journey for characters and rep, and what I think it positive aims for from whatever way it's spun, but...I?? People are wild, man.

I think most kids media ends with like the guy getting the girl, because it's a simple happy ending. Kids wanna see the hero get what they deserve. To be happy. If that's getting the girl and being a hero? Hell yeah. It's something a kid can feel good about. Kids want answers. Kids want tied uo with a bow usually. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen my nephews play open ended games and are left really bothered by it. My one nephew has issues with open ended stories actually. He gets really bothered and frustrated because how his brain processes stuff. But a story ending as it nornally does in formula, he can connect the dots and go oh I get it.

I don't get why people shit on everything for kids not appealing to their adult expectations. I've stopped plenty of times to be like yikes that a bit dark for a kid's show, or to try and relate it to my cartoons growing up, I had Batman though so thats as dark as I can relate tbh...

Kids cartoons are a weird thing anymore but christ, stop getting mad that things are predictable or seem to be headed in a way that kids can pick up on the context clues. Kids wanna see happy things.... If it's cliche? Let it be.