Just like Netflix who purposefully scrambles the start screen to get you to watch something else rather than your favourites. They want you to not realize you have already seen all the good stuff already and unsubscribe.
When Conan’s ratings were scaring the affiliates, many attempts were made to get him to change the show. One of the last-chance attempts was when Conan was brought into Lorne Michael’s office and briskly told that it didn’t have to be good. It just had to get an audience. He refused, and was canned soon after.
We typing out Shower Thoughts onto a black background and calling it memes now?
Pretty much most children’s cartoons were designed just to sell toys and other merchandise, and of course ads in between the show to get kids interested in pestering their parents into buying the advertised products. I tried watching a Chip and Dale episode on Disney + recently out of nostalgia, I used to love that show as a kid, but now I realized how simplistic and nonsensical the plot was, cause it’s designed to be consumed by children and they ain’t exactly media literate yet lol
In Norway it is illegal to advertise to kids. I love that so much. Can we adult have that too?
What’s a “commercial break”? Arrrrrrr!
