Saw the newest MagicMush video on more weird wikis a couple days ago, and damn that "Scumbob Wiki" was quite the pleasantly unpleasant blast from the past, lmao.
Mr. Enter's popularity really did screw a lot of people's perceptions on how to view media (well, I think mainly autistic cartoon fans, trust me I'm speaking from experience here), didn't he? Determining if something is good or bad mainly based on how "mean-spirited" something is, especially when said source material is meant to be a dumb comedy with plenty of slapstick moments, is a consequence of Enter that not a lot of people talk about.
Viewing media through an overly-moral lens is not healthy... maybe it's more "valid" if it explicitly claims to be educating children (I'll play Devil's Advocate and say that maybe a bad Arthur episode has the potential to yield worse consequences than a bad Teen Titan's Go episode), but it's certainly not the right way to view media like Spongebob. Yeah that's another thing, a lot of it also strikes me as a "please think of the children!/kids need good role models!" thing, like watching Patrick torment Squidward is going to lead to the next generation being a total menace or something.
Mr. Enter's popularity really did screw a lot of people's perceptions on how to view media (well, I think mainly autistic cartoon fans, trust me I'm speaking from experience here), didn't he? Determining if something is good or bad mainly based on how "mean-spirited" something is, especially when said source material is meant to be a dumb comedy with plenty of slapstick moments, is a consequence of Enter that not a lot of people talk about.
Viewing media through an overly-moral lens is not healthy... maybe it's more "valid" if it explicitly claims to be educating children (I'll play Devil's Advocate and say that maybe a bad Arthur episode has the potential to yield worse consequences than a bad Teen Titan's Go episode), but it's certainly not the right way to view media like Spongebob. Yeah that's another thing, a lot of it also strikes me as a "please think of the children!/kids need good role models!" thing, like watching Patrick torment Squidward is going to lead to the next generation being a total menace or something.
