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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."
Sorry, my childhood died when I watched Bugs Bunny years later and noticed that explosions, gun shots, and a bunch of other bits that were funny had been taken out. Not many things funnier than Wile E. Coyote or Elmer Fudd burnt to a crisp with their hair blown back after the TNT went off too soon.
The DFC (when it was around) definitely warped some of my own childhood memories. The fact that they used the original cartoons and user-created captions made it all the more disturbing. But I don't remember laughing harder than I did whenever I read them. Somehow I think the parody generated even more interest in Bil Keane's daily strip.
What they did to Calvin and Hobbes was just wrong. That and Garfield were the two I grew up with, and I deign to see what the latter looks like. Besides, Suzie didn't like Calvin that much anyway...
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I wasn't allowed to watch TV on a Saturday morning. Nor did we have a computer. Instead, I was told to read a book or go outside and play. Strange concept, hey?
It most certainly is not. I'm sure there's a perv or two out there using this to get links to porn, but the amount of time they spend mocking the people who draw/write this stuff shows that most of them just think it's funny. On a side note, this site was first conceived on the Portal of Evil message boards.
A friend of mine , Will Iverson, has coined a term for this very thing. When something that once held your fascination now seems hokey, it has been "Krulled". Yesssss.... He loved the movie Krull as a boy, but cought it on cable a few years back. Needlesds to say, he saw how much the it actually sucked. I don't even think he finished watching it.
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Only the ones that don't depict the "character" appearing like a "black sambo" have been left in. All explosions that result in a pig tail with bow dread loche look with big africanus nose and africanus lips have been removed due to political correctness.
This is similar to the editting in my opinion that Steven Speilberg did by replacing guns with bats in the special edition of ET.
The only thing I see wrong with what the article mentioned is that teens sometimes wear these things (porn Flintstones and such) on T Shirts. It's not the webmasters we should be after, it's Spencers and Gadzooks, and Hot Topic for promoting the bastardization of cartoon characters.
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Poorly drawn cartoon pornography doesn't destroy happy childhood memories of cartoons. Watching those cartoons now destroys those memories.
I remember those shows as being super cool. But whenever they get re-aired (say on Cartoon Network) I cannot even watch one episode all the way through. They are tedious and boring, the plots make no sense, the characters are depthless, the animation and the voice acting are crappy. There's no redeeming value to these shows.
The fact that they allowed children of our generation to watch that drivel astounds me. And it makes me wonder at how naive and simple a child I was to think of that as entertainment.
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
I dunno, maybe I was old enough when I first ran across this sort of stuff that it couldn't shock me so hard. But I don't see what a big deal it is.
If you were hit that badly by seeing fan-art, I wonder how you'd react to hearing actual audio outtakes from the Thundercats show. The fact is, while the cartoon itself may be pure, the people behind it are only human.
Maybe the fact that I grew up watching Warner Bros cartoons, which threw in all sorts of hidden adult humor, helped cushion me from this sort of shock. I dunno.
Well, they could first stop here. That was a favorite of mine for breaking web filters. I also had an app that would record keystrokes, and then just make up some excuse for them having to use the master account. Once I had their password, I could adjust the levels. Now, I didn't do this to find porn, I did it because the filters prevented you from using the net connection for anything but its pre-approved list, which excluded mozilla, and my secret collection of uber-violent games, but that's a different story.
and apparently your childhood isn't the only thing that's broken, but codehappy.net is too.
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If you want to see tons of hentai sketches, go to an animation studio. Inevitably artists working on a show will draw some very nasty parody art based on what they are currently working on at the time. Probably a lot of what is now circulating on the Internet had its origins not with perverted fans, but with the sick and twisted artists who actually worked on the shows.
If anyone finds the "Ren & Stimpy discover sex and/or drugs" sketches that were floating around Spumco during the production of the show in 1990-92, they will have their childhood memories of that show thoroughly and completely ruined. I have seen these sketches with my own eyes...I know.
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...the current makers of Tom and Jerry for everything.
Not to mention the out-of-ideas makers of every cartoon today. Why is there a "kids" version of cartoon classics that pretty much recycles the old plots?
There's Tom and Jerry Kids, Flinstones Kids, A Pup named Scooby, Tiny Toons and so on. They are far too cute and unfunny.
I positively adored Tom and Jerry. The original version. Then the producers decided that it was too violent and watered it down to hell. For an excelent article on T&J check this out.
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Read the books. Even as an adult they are still some of the most interestingly bizarre and often creepy stories I've got. Weird stuff.
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I remember back in the mid-ninties or so, when the web was young and (relatively) innocent. I was surfing a bunch of Star Trek sites when I first came upon Star Trek porn. Now keep in mind that this was back before porn became a big business on the 'net. So these people(guys and gals) must have been really obsessed fans who took the time to take nude photos of themselves while 'cosplaying', and scanned and posted it on the internet back when that was a totally geek-only thing... I don't know whether to be amused or frightened by the geekyness of it all.
At least there was no Wesley Crusher porn that I can recall... Hey CleverNickName, have you had problems with fan imposter porn being done of you or your charachter?
Growing up is the actual ruiner of cartoons. My roommate and I sat down and watched a marathon session of Robotech shows. At first it was nostalgic, then it was funny, and then . . . simply pathetic. We finished only five episodes and that was that. Childhood was great and all that, but some things are best left in the nursery.
On an aside, my girlfriend's father is an animator (we live in LA). When he was younger he drew for Scooby Doo. I asked him about the whole Fred and Daphne always going off together. And he laughed. He said all the animators drew porno pictures of the Scooby cast getting on it with each other (including Scooby) and past it around the office. He told me most animators do that on all shows except sometimes the cartoons are screwing the producers and all other deadline driving folk.
Heh. I've got 3 or so seasons (accounting for 4 years of my childhood and about 10 more years as an adult) that were ruined by fandom.
Strangely, the Internet was instrumental in restoring much of the joy that went with those years.
i'll agree with that. the only people who desire that kind of censorship are those who grew up at least as sheltered as their own children. learning about sex in middle school is probably the worst time to learn about it, as you're more tempted to try out your new knowledge than you would be when you're age 6-12 or 17-21. The former has alot of time to better understand sex before they're even capable of having it, while the latter ends up fearing sex until they learn that everyone else considers it commonplace and they decide to have responsible sex. i, and most of my friends learned about sex before middle school, and we're all reasonably well adjusted individuals.
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