Shows and characters that gave us the feeeeeels - The evolution!

[tigeranne]

I have a big, evil Man Cold, which tend to give me a tendency to think of some very random things. It's not like my brain works, or anything. So, I was browsing Tumblr and seeing all this fandom stuff, and I got thinking about how things have changed over the years, regarding those shows that have teens and young adults as their main target audience.

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2010s









You may decide if I'm trying to make a statement here, or not.

Comments

[sammyfrog.livejournal.com]

When Edward and Bella appear at the end of a list, it can't possibly mean that things are devolving. No, of course not. *tries to keep serious face*

I'm staring at that picture, hypnotized by the bad CG. I mean, that whole scene had some of the worst I've ever seen. Everybody had these unnaturally smooth outlines. X) And the wolves, throughout the series, had the most awkward legs. X) X)

I don't recognize the cartoons because I am at a complete loss for caring about pop culture, especially current. X) X) X)

[tigerannesims2.livejournal.com]

The cartoon in the first picture is Steven Universe. The characters are aliens from another planet, and each of them is based on a gemstone. And they... fight monsters? It's allegedly pretty exiting. I tried watching the first episode, but sadly I found the style of the animation so unappealing that it didn't really catch me. This show has one of the most infamously hostile and savage fandoms of all times. I'm not kidding. Fans have bullied each other to the brink of suicide for fan-art crimes such as drawing a character thinner (fat-shaming!!!) or getting their pastel skintone too light (white supremacy!!!), and they've been known to toss giant fits when someone disagrees with their head-canons about who is trans/autistic/incarnation of whatever. We thought the Twilight fans were crazy, but then again, many of them are probably the same people 5 years on.

The middle picture is some of the cast of Undertale, this weird game a few of my friends are gaga over. Again, I don't really have any experience with it, but I've heard it's good. People seriously relate to these 8-bit characters.

Now that you mention it, I can totally see how bad the CGI on the wolf is. He looks like he's cut and pasted into the picture. There are straight lines where there should have been fluffy fur. Not to mention that the proportions on the face are really off, but who cares.