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[Pathos]

It could just be that they were more heavily advertised and newer.

Probably this, to be fair.

Also, this might just be nostalgia, but are kid's shows getting stupider by the year? No wonder kids seem to be slower, I've just watched a few and they are TERRIBLE.

[Renault]

It could just be that they were more heavily advertised and newer.

Probably this, to be fair.

Also, this might just be nostalgia, but are kid's shows getting stupider by the year? No wonder kids seem to be slower, I've just watched a few and they are TERRIBLE.

Maybe thats just the fact you're an adult now and therefore kids shows look really dumb; because they typically are. We just didnt know it as kids.
Kids are stupid.

[Vester]

No way, Power Rangers is still awesome.

[Krumbs]

I don't know why shit seems to sell the best. I guess people are just idiots.

basically 90% of people at my school think literacy is 'gay', movies that aren't pornography or action is 'gay', and games without violence are also 'gay'. Maybe it's to do with insecurity or something like that, I'm not going to pretend to be a phycologist here I don't know why they do it, all I know is that I wish everyone who thinks like that dies.

[fenrif]

Long answer: heavy focus on advertising and marketing, lowest common denominator products, simplistic and familiar narratives and content, unchallenging thematic/moral/political/etc views or ideas, design-by-commitee creation processes, repetition of things that sell well over and over, and many more reasons.

Short answer: People on the whole are stupid, and stupid people like stupid things.

[MrWiggles]

Um, well.

They don't. Poor Quality doesn't equal average quality.

Most things done poorly don't sell well. Books with poor spelling, bad grammar and shitty characters don't really sell.

Theres ocean of poor flash video games no one really plays that get booted off newsground portal before the masses see it.

Bad music is painful to listen to.

Bad movie are fucking awful to watch. Most of them wouldn't be known if it wasn't for MST3k.

Bad TV shows get canceled before their second season, generally.


Average sells well enough to keep the various industries afloat, and average being its namesake is the most common.

Well liked by the masses doesn't equal bad.
Made to sell well doesn't equal bad.

There lots of bad artist out there that aren't well known. A lot of them can be seen on Deviant Art. Lots of bad author can be seen on fanfiction.net. There lots of bad movies out there, home made and professionally produced that can be seen on youtube and other flash sites. Music can be found on various places.

Average is average. Elitism is asinine, so please get off your high horse. What matter if you enjoy it. Why does it matter if other enjoy it? Why does it matter if other enjoy something you dont?

[psyn]

basically 90% of people at my school think literacy is 'gay', movies that aren't pornography or action is 'gay', and games without violence are also 'gay'. Maybe it's to do with insecurity or something like that, I'm not going to pretend to be a phycologist here I don't know why they do it, all I know is that I wish everyone who thinks like that dies.

I was going to say, "welcome to America," but then I checked your profile, and had a sinking feeling in my chest.

[zchris13]

It could just be that they were more heavily advertised and newer.

Probably this, to be fair.

Also, this might just be nostalgia, but are kid's shows getting stupider by the year? No wonder kids seem to be slower, I've just watched a few and they are TERRIBLE.

Maybe thats just the fact you're an adult now and therefore kids shows look really dumb; because they typically are. We just didnt know it as kids.
Kids are stupid.

Have you ever seen Johnny Quest?

[Renault]

It could just be that they were more heavily advertised and newer.

Probably this, to be fair.

Also, this might just be nostalgia, but are kid's shows getting stupider by the year? No wonder kids seem to be slower, I've just watched a few and they are TERRIBLE.

Maybe thats just the fact you're an adult now and therefore kids shows look really dumb; because they typically are. We just didnt know it as kids.
Kids are stupid.

Have you ever seen Johnny Quest?

Which one? That show has popped up periodically since the mid-sixties.

[zchris13]

All of them.  The very concept of that show is just awesome.

[Cthulhu]

basically 90% of people at my school think literacy is 'gay', movies that aren't pornography or action is 'gay', and games without violence are also 'gay'. Maybe it's to do with insecurity or something like that, I'm not going to pretend to be a phycologist here I don't know why they do it, all I know is that I wish everyone who thinks like that dies.

I was going to say, "welcome to America," but then I checked your profile, and had a sinking feeling in my chest.

What, that ubermasculinity isn't a strictly American thing, and people have tried way too hard to be manly (to their own detriment) everywhere and everywhen?  Yeah, blew my mind too.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

I think maybe it's because you have different categories that are important to you.

For example, Deus Ex 2 looked pretty decent when it came out, but it was utterly garbage except for the graphics. In every other category the game failed to be better than Donkey Kong. I am not exaggerating.

But the graphics did look very nice. And so I'm not surprised when a lot of people buy the game.

What about the Avatar movie? It was a billion-dollar CG Pocahontas. It was visually very nice quality, and it sold very well. But if you care more about a deep story and characters, perhaps you would think Avatar was a bad movie.

I guess I'm saying, maybe when you read Twilight you feel like the book is full of garbage. But perhaps the people who like it, enjoy it for reasons you don't appreciate.

Spoiler: conspiracy theory (click to show/hide)

Then again maybe a media corp will get ahold of an intellectual property they know will sell well based on psychological profiles of their market demographics, in the same way MMOs are built to be addictive by latching on to well-researched reward centers of your brain. They then edit the IP to conform even more to their "perfect product" profile. Then they maximize sales by advertising heavily, including social media like Facebook and viral content. They pump money into book tours, convention and talk show appearances, and faux documentaries. Enough people get together who like it and you start seeing authentic friend-references where fans convert their friends. Publishers pick the few titles every year that they know will sell well, and take a chance or two on titles that might hit it big from an artist who's willing to sign a bad contract.

...

I saw Johnny Quest. The version I saw wasn't animated in every frame, like old Scooby Doo and Flintstones, so it looks kind of dumb and choppy. And I remember there was a token Middle Eastern dude instead of a token Black American dude.

And ... some kind of cat? The Target dog?

[psyn]

basically 90% of people at my school think literacy is 'gay', movies that aren't pornography or action is 'gay', and games without violence are also 'gay'. Maybe it's to do with insecurity or something like that, I'm not going to pretend to be a phycologist here I don't know why they do it, all I know is that I wish everyone who thinks like that dies.

I was going to say, "welcome to America," but then I checked your profile, and had a sinking feeling in my chest.

What, that ubermasculinity isn't a strictly American thing, and people have tried way too hard to be manly (to their own detriment) everywhere and everywhen?  Yeah, blew my mind too.

No, that education is being swept aside for conformity. And for a time, it was an 'American thing.'

[LeoLeonardoIII]

I can imagine two ancient Roman dudes just trashing on this one guy about how hetero he was and how he's constantly spending quality time with the chicks.

Although I'm sure they would be speaking Latin or Italian or whatever, I'm in no mood to pretend I actually know by looking it up on The Wiki.

[Renault]

basically 90% of people at my school think literacy is 'gay', movies that aren't pornography or action is 'gay', and games without violence are also 'gay'. Maybe it's to do with insecurity or something like that, I'm not going to pretend to be a phycologist here I don't know why they do it, all I know is that I wish everyone who thinks like that dies.

I was going to say, "welcome to America," but then I checked your profile, and had a sinking feeling in my chest.

What, that ubermasculinity isn't a strictly American thing, and people have tried way too hard to be manly (to their own detriment) everywhere and everywhen?  Yeah, blew my mind too.

No, that education is being swept aside for conformity. And for a time, it was an 'American thing.'

Hey. I'm pretty sure conformity was popular in Europe before it got to American shows. Specifically, around 1933, over in Berlin.
*ahem*