Nickelodeon was founded by Geraldine Laybourne who, with husband Kit Laybourne, flew on Epstein's jet while owning a childcare company called KinderCare.
Even in early interviews, she seemed obsessed with creating a business that would appeal to children, and advocated for a lot of the "gross-out humour " of the early 90s.
Geraldine went on to hire John Kricfalusi (Ren and Stimpy) and Dan Schneider (The Amanda Show etc), known pedophiles.
She later became a Disney TV exec, and ran the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Oprah is a known child trafficker, and trafficked young African girls through a guy calling himself John of God, and through her "African girl's schools".
The G in Hey Arnold's "Helga G. Pataki" stood for Geraldine according to creator Craig Bartlett. Helga is the obsessive creepy love interest.
Craig Bartlett originally wanted to include a character in the boarding house, an older woman who wanted to seduce Arnold, though Bartlett stopped mentioning this in interviews at some point.
Craig married Lisa Groening, sister of Simpsons Creator Matt Groening. His Arnold comics ran in Simpsons Comic magazines.
Matt Groening was ALSO on Epstein's jet and recieved "foot rubs" from a 16 year old girl.
Klasky-Csupo/Nickelodeon artists were definitely depraved and maintained a giant group-contribution comic that got added to over the years by various animation staff, featuring the incest annd rape of Rugrats characters, until it was reportedly destroyed by a higher up during the production of the Wild Thornberries movie.
Now notice that AAAAH REAL MONSTERS! boss monster teacher "The Gromble" wears red high heels.
What is the Red Shoe club? Ask the Podestas, ask Tom Hanks. The man with the one red shoe?
Interesting that the whole premise of that show was that Monsters are REAL and sustain themselves by scaring children - much like the later Monsters Inc. from Pixar, basically the Adrenochrome trade.
Also remember the time Spongebob's license showed the address of Epstein Island, aka Little St James?
Was that before or after the episode where Spongebob and Patrick wear fezzes Shriner style and throw up Baphometic hand signals?
Back to Geraldine "Gerry" Laybourne, she got her start at the Children's Television Network, creators of Sesame Street.
You know who else got their "start" there? Whoopi Goldberg, who was the "babysitter"/Handler to the children that would appear on Sesame back in the day.
Strange that a supposed babysitter to the kids would adopt a Jewish surname and become instantly famous as a comedian/comic actor and become the media's darling.
Whoopi went on to defend Roman Polanski's drugging and raping of a 13 year old girl, by saying it wasn't "rape rape".
Don Jr. Called her out on this part.
She now protects Pedo Joe on TV, and functions as she always has, a professional blackmailed script reader for her masters.
Sesame Street's Kevin Clash (Elmo) left the show after it was discovered he was having drug fueled gay orgies with teenage boys.
How many more Nickelodeon/Children's TV Pedophiles can you find? No connection is too obscure!
You remember Six Degrees of Bacon? Let's try Six Degrees of Pizza.
I have never liked Spongebob, in spite of the fact that I love both anime and cartoons. In fact, I wish I could thanos snap every Spongebob meme format. I wish it was not considered defining American pop culture.
I was a tween when Rugrats was popular and my classmates all loved it. The show never clicked for me either. Ugly art style and I felt the plot lines were all very much nihilism for kids.
I suppose when you are meant to be awake, you never exactly fit in.
I never understood the appeal of Spongebob. My young nephew watched it, and not a single gag was funny or in the least bit entertaining.
I remember the Spongbob movie trailer in the theater. People were laughing, and I'm telling my buddy "I just don't get it." Neither did he.
I think marketing saturation of an empty gimmick puts some types of people under a spell. Like they're subconsciously obligated to accept the idea or else they're a bad citizen. I think that's how most liberals get programmed.
This is essentially true but you can put anything there rather than just SpongeBob or cartoons in general.
Accept, or be cast out. Conform, or you are a terrible person.
It was banned in my house. Mostly because it was so annoying, but mind-numbing as well. Barney was another hard no. The rest was tolerated. Lol
It's weird.
I liked SpongeBob when I was young, well enough.
Yet the enthusiasm and memes that comes out of it is really weird, and I admit I end up feeling disconnected because I guess I didn't like it that much.
In regards to anime/cartoons, older cartoons have nostalgia and anime has a lot of older teen and adult oriented stories that can act as a gateway to adults as well, and retain viewers.
Plus, a lot of anime ends up being good for escapism because modern "social issues" are jammed down our throats in every other hobby, professional environment and entertainment escapism.
In fact, I think the constant craving for escapism single handedly drives the Isekai genre's popularity and oversaturation.
I think isekai is such a great blank canvas. I am drafting some ideas for one I will be writing with my wife illustrating, I look forward to working on it when Q plan is over and we are in peace time.
The problem is so few take advantage of that blank canvas. For every ReZero or Slime there is a Wiseman's grand child and Standing on a Million Lives