To be fair her mom hyped it up and hen it was a let down.
Youtube Kids spammers rack up billions of views on disturbing, violent, seemingly algorithmic videos
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No. As someone without kids who doesn’t plan on them, it still hurts. A lot. I dunno how apocryphal it is but Studio Ghibli was working on that and My Neighbor Totoro at the same time and had to rotate the staff between the two so nobody became too depressed.
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Halloween, the movie.
Just sayin’
Halloween III, presumably, unless you’re suggesting that kids who watch these movies are going to put on a harlequin suit, stab their siblings and become impervious to bullets. But either way, God help us all.
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I’ve heard that story too, and it sounds believable! I know that the two movies were shown as a double feature in Japan when Grave of the Fireflies came out, which would be a rollercoaster of an afternoon.
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Still Large Marge is scary stuff. Very scary. She’s an amazing kid!
Okay… so ‘never,’ then.
I’m okay with that.
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Unless you really want to feel genuinely awful, never is the appropriate time to watch Graveyard. It was far, far worse than I was expecting and I went into it being told “this is possibly the saddest movie ever made.”
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Hi. I really, really need to thank you for posting these. When I was teeny tiny, I used to watch Shining Time Station-- it was a kids’ sitcom/variety show built around the Thomas the tank engine universe.
In one of the episodes I was lucky enough to own on VHS (the only way you really could watch anything 1000 times back then), George Carlin’s Mr. Conductor introduces us to a song expressing the themes of the episode; it’s played over old, random animated segments.
One of those segments, the one that inspired me to draw a million horses and pretty skies, was-- I now know-- “Ivan’s Magic Pony”. Thank you so, so much for helping me identify it. It really, really means a lot to me, and I just wanted to express that.
To keep with the spirit of the conversation, one of my son’s favourite shows happens to be Shining Time Station. He is almost 2 and I used to think I wasn’t very picky or controlling when it came to media, but everything out there today either sucks or annoys me. (We only watch TV on a big screen in the living room, so I have to put up with whatever is on, and I can’t handle nonsense.) Kiddo doesn’t know STS is 30 years old and if he did, I doubt he’d care.
He loves watching the trains, but they don’t hypnotize him-- he points and chatters and plays with his own trains while he watches. It’s a world of difference from CGI, which I tried and quickly banned. Even stuff like Paw Patrol just gets him STARING in a way that makes me very uncomfortable. I don’t want that much of a break, and if I did, I’d give him a bucket of moon sand. Live action and traditional animation don’t seem to have the same creepy effect on my kid as computer generated stuff, which is weird, but I’m running with it.
Weird thing I want to point out, too, is that we live in a small home. Some people don’t understand that, but I really like that I can stand anywhere in my house and know everything that’s happening in it, because it’s all within easy earshot (if not directly in my line of sight).
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No-one. Like most of the Gernsback contents, it was generated by an algorithm.
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Amazing. Thanks!
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