The Worst Cartoon You Ever Saw!

[Prettywitchiusaka]

Adventure Time has not been pulled from the air because their toy sales have been accepted very well by both genders because most of the goods marketed are 'gender neutral' - keeping to just generic plushies, trinkets, simple patterns on clothes and other objects. I can't say with any certainty anything about Regular Show.

The thing is, is that Cartoon Network is not deliberately trying to be sexist, because they are not - but the way in which they are marketing is. They don't care about gender when it comes to creation, but they certainly do when it comes to audience and consumers.

Cartoon Network is a business, and according to them girls don't buy toys as much as boys. They know very well that girls DO watch what they deem to be 'boy shows' and it's when a MASSIVE amount of girls watch shows that they deem to be 'boy shows' they get antsy. They don't know and they don't even TRY to market to these viewers and because they don't buy what is in existence they claim to be losing money.

The main executives DO feel this way, not the company, the employees and developers but those at the top that make the final word.

This of course does not mean that Cartoon Network is a BAD company as a whole, but it certainly means that they don't know how to do a good job in marketing.

If any of you want me to send you a copy of the specific article where a certain famous cartoon writer revealed this... note me.

Back on track... I also believe that that Annoying Orange show is god-awful. I couldn't stand anymore than 30 seconds of it.

Oh, I don't think it does. It's just sad when those are the kind of rating standards the creators and employers have to deal with; not knowing if their show will get cancelled solely due to what kind of audience watches it. When I was still fairly active in the KND fandom, most of the fans I knew were girls, so you can imagine how fast that show would have been gone by those standards (especially since the first merchandise wave did not do so well so the second wave never got developed (which sucks!)).

[Earthshine]

The writer in question was incredibly upset with Cartoon Network (and other networks in general as this is a newer trend that is worsening according to him) when the shows he was working on got pulled for the reasons listed above.

It's not hard to come up with merchandise that all genders will buy regardless of what kind of show they are marketing, but those in power did NOT WANT to come up with a way to market to almost half of their audience and instead simply cancelled the show and replaced them with shows that they deem 'only boys will watch this, and the girls that do watch it won't be in a high number'.

So frustrating. :C

It just makes no sense on a business level really. Just pure frustration.

[tailz]

I think that's the reason they created "Pop Girl". Ever heard of it? It's a TV network that shows television shows for girls.

[Earthshine]

Never heard of that at all. But I don't think the revelations of the failure in marketing and the cancellations of shows would be a main contribution to a creation of a whole new network, instead empowerment would more than likely be the main drive.

Really I have no idea what Pop Girl is nor do I know what kinds of they air or the messages they send out to their audiences.

[tailz]

Hmm... I found out about Pop Girl when I was looking up Mew Mew Power one day on the internet. (Mew Mew Power was one of the shows they aired on Pop Girl in 2011.) I think it's for young girls. I don't think they have any negative messages in it. Anyways, Just go to wikipedia and type in Pop Girl, it should pop up with some info for it and the list of TV shows they aired over the years.