Childhood Memories Ruined by the Internet?

An anonymous reader writes "Remember that favorite cartoon you used to get up early every saturday morning to watch? Then remember how that part of your childhood died when you stumbled on that dirty piece of fanart based on it? Codehappy has launched a new site for you. Broken Memories is a website devoted to all the childhoods destroyed by internet fandom. Take a look at some of their discoveries, some of these things are just plain wrong."

Comments

Ruined by maturity, not mature content . . .

[SimplyCosmic]

Most of my "childhood memories" were ruined simply by me growing up and seeing those cartoons again on cable re-runs.

The crass corporate sponsored half-hour toy commercials that were the cartoons of my youth look completely different in my eyes today.

Re:Ruined by maturity, not mature content . . .

[antiMStroll]

Depends how old you are. The cartoons I watched as a child were originally created as theater shorts - Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, etc - before Hollywood cynics learned to cash the images in on the side of burger glasses. The first real shift from genuine attempt to entertain to crass commercialism began in the sixties. Today it infects every aspect of the entertainment industries. Think Lucas.

What no one's mentioned so far is how a company's actions off the screen ruined feelings towards their cartoons. I was never a big fan to start but, after what they've done to our fair use rights, Disney will never see another dime from my pocket.

Not Appropriate for Slashdot...

[Diamondback]

This sort of thing is for SomethingAwful, not SlashDot. this is a news site for geeks, not a site for people to point at something and go, "ew, gross!"

Grow up, anyway. If it can be corrupted by a sexual image, it has, probably a while ago. It's an irrevocable part of life, and not really something that deserves to be made fun of on a site devoted to geeky tech news.

Re:Not Appropriate for Slashdot...

[plnrtrvlr]

I threw the idea of "appropriate for slashdot" out the window the very first time that I accidentally clicked on the goatsecx link (or whatever that god-awful thing was). And with half the people here seeming to be sex deprived, links to soft porn from actual stories might be construed to be a public service! Lets just give something like this story it's own section so I can filter it out of my standard preferences -my 8 yr old daughter can read now!

It's a porn site in disguise

[SageMadHatter]

Sounds to me like this site is more useful serving as a central point on the web as a listing of links to pornographic cartoons.

Mad Hatter

Wah wah wah, whats the point?

[Edgewize]

Oh no, you were exposed to someone else's thoughts and you didn't like them. Wah.

Seriously, I understand where people are coming from on this - I, too, have a special place in my heart for the stories I read/watched as a young child - but what would you prefer? Censorship? There's not really a middle ground. You don't like it, don't look at it. Sorry if you got offended but that's your problem.

Now then, this site ... Is this even about "broken memories" or "raped childhoods"? No. This is just a set of links to every dirty cartoon or story ever drawn. It's more like "cartoon porn paradise". So, nice try on the part of a bleeding heart /. editor to encourage censorship, but this story shouldn't have been approved. And nice job by the submittor to get a cartoon porn site on the front page.

Different perspective...

[TheOrquithVagrant]

My god... where do all these people who actually WERE "innocent" as children come from? Personally, I remember my wild childhood imagination thinking up scenes just as dirty as anything on the Evil Internet with my favorite comic book characters back when I was just 7-8 or so, and most of my friends back then were just as dirty-minded little bastards. Of course, sex and superheroes were both about equally "unreal" to us... Perhaps that's an excuse. :)

Re:Different perspective...

[panda]

I hate "Me, too" posts, but this time I have to, because I don't have any mod points.

I'd really like to know where this myth of childhood innocence comes from. None of my friends or acquaintances from school were all that innocent, and I'm talking 6 - 12 years old, not teenagers.

Honestly, I think humans, like any animal, are born "knowing" about sex and those things. It's in the genes, and you don't need to "learn" it from adults or pornography. I mean, how could something so basic to the survival of the species not be instinctual?

Anyway, I remember all the "games" and stuff that we used to play as kids. Heh, I even remember buying a Barbie doll so my G.I. Joe (the full-sized one, not the 2-inch crap they sell today) could have someone to fuck. (No, I don't believe in euphemism or misspelling "dirty words." Life is a cess pool, deal with it. I don't believe in "dirty words" for that matter.)

Yeah, we used to write bawdy tales of the exploits of our favorite cartoon and comic book characters, some with illustrations.

I just wanna know what planet all these "innocent" kids come from.

Childhood memories intact!

[BobWeiner]

I wouldn't go so far as to say my childhood memories have been ruined by what I've seen on the Internet. Rather, it's been a great source for me to meet other fans of television shows, cartoons, and movies that I've been a fan of. There will always be the fringe element websites that spoofs or otherwise shatters the 'innocence' we had as kids watching these shows -- but why worry about it?

What I don't appreciate, however, is the fact that cartoons I used to view on TV have been severely edited to cut out "objectionable" bits. I guess that's what pisses me off the most. And to make matters worse, is the other crap on TV that's 10 times worse in terms of profanity and violence. As if kids aren't already exposed to this stuff.

Hypocracy lives!

Free Bob!

Re:Censoring 'toons

[Eskarel]

Well there are of couse exceptions to the rule of censoring toons being a bad thing. There were a few made during the Second World War which were just horrible.

I personally will never get the image of bugs bunny in black face hawking war bonds. "Any bonds today, gonna buy your share of freedom?" Explosions may be one thing but watching your childhood memories as government sponsored bigots is almost as bad as that "fan art".

Haven't seen the infamous one where bugs is shooting the Japanese, there are probably only about a dozen copies of that one left in the world, but it's supposedly considerably worse.

Bah

[Elpacoloco]

Rule of the internet #1:
People on the internet are inevitably very very very very very wierd.

Rule of the internet #2:
Most of the people who spend a *lot* of time on the internet are sexually frustrated.

Conclusion:
These people are gonna make raunchy jokes about everything they get their hands on.

I don't understand this "Broken Memories" approach. Getting your favorite cartoon spoofed causes you psychological damage? GET A GRIP, DUDE!

Oh come ON.

[John Pfeiffer]

GI Joe used to be so damn cool when I was a kid....so when I heard it was going to be on Cartoon Network I had to see it......first time it's on I'm like "wtf is this sh**??" And turned it right the hell off....

The only thing that ruins our 'childhood memories' is knowing better now :P