[BluKlappin]

Comparing cartoons from around a decade or two ago to the ones now have got me thinking where things are going in terms of trends and such. Went from things like Teen Titans and Samurai Jack to Gumball, Regular Show, and even further now to Steven Universe, Teen Titans GO, etc. (not shit talking any of these shows just using them as examples). Thoughts?

[Uni01]

I think its going to cleanner and politicly correct to the point were it becames unwatchable

Kids will be even more snowflakey (not sure if thats a real word) and more offended with every thing

Old cartoons were plain better, IMHO, or maybe i´m just too old to like the new ones

[bobbybob bobbybob]

It seems like the went from based with episodic stories to super random creativity but that didn't last long so all the super random creative shows started to get really deep and dark plotlines to tie everything together (Adventure time for example). People, including kids, just appreciate a well written story.

[Bigmanrex]

The color scheme in most new cartoons is blinding. No plot as well.

[ceratsiv]

I liked the older stuff as well. They used to show actual fighting, guns, and censored boobs as far as I can remember. Haven't really watched much today, but from ones I do come across, they became less "human-like" and more of a chibi style. Original Teen Titans, Ben 10, or Ninja Turtles to name a few examples. Comparing their new art styles with their previous design, it's really...more "cartoony" lol.

[Jobn Hnn]

The animation from older cartoons is def classic

[kacam]

I think cartoons are like music. The stuff you watch/listen as your growing up tend to have a stronger impact than new stuff you may come across later in life. That's why everyone usually feels like the older stuff is better.

[DennisArtart]

Gotta disagree with the "snowflaking" mentionned earlier. I feel cartoons from 20 years ago were really more in the middle of the road, whereas now, there are the ultra safe ones and ones that try to go too far.
Old cartoons are a lot of Master of the Universe, Thundercats and... a lot of anime really. And it was mostly anime that went into truly edgy themes. Samurai Jack and Spongebob were more of an exception than the norm I feel.

Nowadays, as mentioned, cartoons that start of going for teen audiences (Adventure Time, Steven, Gravity Falls) end up clearly in more adult questionment territory. Not even talking about the rise of the adult focus cartoon after a few successes from Adult Swim. Even the last season of Samurai Jack went darker than before, whereas it clearly fell in the "gritty but family-friendly adventure" genre before, albeit very stylized.

Sometimes, I simply long for a good old "teen doing adventure" show. Di-Gata Defenders was a good one, that avoided repetivity and even made their "powers" useful for civilian life, kinda what you found in Avatar. But that's starting to date a bit. Maybe I'm not watching TV enough to find such recent middle of the road tho...^^

[Joopna Chiqutora]

I don’t really watch cartoons too often mostly an anime type of guy

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Kinda obvious when you have a Naruto character as the DP ?

[Theweak]

Regular show was the newest I've watched. Doesn't compare to the previous decade, but still enjoyable.

[Goldfish275]

Old cartoons are way better the quality content was there now it’s just a bunch of crap that doesn’t even make sense and whatever they do they absolutely cannot offend anyone

[runescaper]

It's hard to even talk about "new cartoons" because they're nowhere near as homogenous as they were in the 90's. Back then, it was basically two major networks making everything, and they tried to compete directly as much as possible. The best stuff was always random third party, like Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Rover Dangerfield. Modern cartoons are made by so many different studios, they don't seem to sync up at all. Comparing things like Archer and Futurama to Steven Universe and then to the new She-Ra series seems almost insane to me. Unlike 20 years ago, they're making cartoons for multiple diverse demographics, and yeah, the most popular stuff is still pretty similar, but the variety once you get past what you see in commercials for them is pretty intense.

To me, it feels like there's just a pendulum that swings between boring similarity and random, almost chaotic creativity every 7-15 years when it comes to cartoons, and right now we're heading back from chaos towards similarity, but we'll see.

[Dupa32189]

Old ones like real DBZ or original Pokemons.

[mike 1]

Old better new sucks and cringe

[Gpunter]

I grew up in the 80's so most of the cartoons I watched were just long toy commercials but they were better then whats made today.

The Cal-Arts animation style is so lazy with no effort in drawing the characters. or background.