Five hour livestreams are ridiculous no matter the topic, but as a father of young children, I do care about what they’re exposed to. So everything is open to criticism.

"It's not for you so you can't criticize it" is just as bad as "Everything must be designed to please me specifically"

And you are 100% correct, Perch. Current comic books are not for kids. If they were, they wouldn't cost $4 or $5. They are definitely aimed at collectors. If you want comics to be for kids, go where kids are. I have fond memories of going to comic book stores as a kid. The last time I went in, there was maybe one dad and his son, and the rest were old guys like me. So no, current comic books are not for kids.

Perch I don’t think their issue is that Strawberry Shortcake is for them, I think it’s that they’ve put the message into it to target their kids.

There seems to a growing divide of people who appreciate something for what it is and those demanding that it cater to their own sensibilities. I see this in a lot of online discourse. It's basically, "I don't understand or like this thing. And if I don't like it then no one else does either. They have to be lying just to piss me off." A lot of them struggle with, "It's not for you." As if it's incomprehensible that they are the not the most important person in business decisions. And I'm not talking about when something suddenly goes after a completely different audience. I get that. You don't spend 20-40 years building something and then suddenly pivot because attention seeking narcissists suddenly feel excluded. It's bad business to exclude your guaranteed audience in the hopes you'll grab a new one. I just mean new IP that was created for a specific audience (no matter how foolish that is), or IP that was never intended for them to begin with. I'm spending too much time online.

I’m looking at the current Spiderman and Batman. I wouldn’t want my kids reading things that are in the those books.

A lot of brands forget who their target audience is. Barbie is a girl's brand. You can make a G.I. Barbie, but it probably won't sell well. Similarly, G.I. Joe is a boy's brand. You can make a G.I. Joe with brushable hair and fashion accessories, but it likely won't sell well either. All I really want from these corporations is for them to remember who the brand is for.

Perch needs to record an anti Arby's song to get that Grammy nomination

Teletubbies wasn't made for me?? Perch, you've crushed my dream of one day seeing a Teletubbies vs. Predator crossover. 😢

The original She-Ra toys were indeed designed for young girls. The original She-Ra cartoon by Filmation, on the other hand, definitely thought about the male audience (as did most of Filmation's various series), if ya know what I mean.

My problem with what you said is that like you said people make themselves victims over properties they talk whether or not it was made for them but the people who complain about them also do that. Like Zack that you brought up in the video, it seems like he can't just ignore the anti-sjw shows / movie content he doesn't agree with and just wants to enjoy the media without having to hear or see that kind of content. Which is fine but you should probably stop talking about something you really don't want to engage with because your not making a point anymore its just sperging over something you have control over but you choose to complain about it instead of ignoring it or actually engaging with what is being said. Which is a general rule everyone should take if you don't want to engage with it just ignore it and if you do like complaining expcet a reaction good or bad.

So Perch will you buy X-Men forever? It doesn’t matter how bad it gets, you’ll still buy it?

I opened a comic book store because I didn't want to cut meat in grocery stores anymore, now I sell 300k in Magic the Gathering cards per year so that I can also break even on 50k in floppies 😂😂😂

I'd suggest that one of the biggest problems with superhero comics is that they're not made for kids anymore.

Reasonable? I think a lot of people are buying due to nostalgia or OCD or to fill some other emotional need. Which goes beyond the bounds of reason.

I’m looking at the stuff “for me” and I say no thanks. The stuff I want was before you changed the IP. Also if I don’t like the current stuff, I’m not introducing it to my kids. (Or I do introduce it to them because they mostly reject everything I like😂)

C'mon Perch, break that X-Men run. Be a discerning consumer. OR alternately, you could wait a year or so and pick up those books at a much lower price, keeping your run intact, saving you money and not rewarding work you don't like.

The problem is that people are feeling less connected to the world around us and our ability to effect change. Complaining is one of the only things left to people to show that they have some say/control. People who complain about everything are probably overreacting. However, when no one seems to give a fig about your opinion, and are doing everything in their power to give you less of a say, it's not surprising that people are becoming like this.

So can I complain about Barbie, My Little Pony, and Strawberry Shortcake since I’m a grown woman?

It’s rich Allen More saying that, none of his stories are made for kids.

I have to say I agree with you - this time! You’re making a lot of sense these days.

Perch, this video made me laugh. Excellent commentary and comedy

Is fine if it is not for me, but can it sell enough to sustain itself?

Perch I agree about the demographic and would have to add that any kids reading comics have a higher threshold towards mature content in comics. Higher than we did at that age just like ours was higher than our parents.

Yet another video of Perch desperately pleading with fans to be less stupid. LOL

Not feeling a lot of love for the Bronies here...

Hold on... the strip club has Disney Princess night????

I'm in class today and tomorrow and can't watch videos until the evening. Anyway, I'll probably have opinions.

I have come to terms with the fact that Tom King isn’t for me.

Arby's isn't for you Perch. Of course you'll never admit it.

Scrolling through my KZfaq feed, I have never seen any of these supposed livestreams. I guess I’m just grateful the algorithm knows I’m not a brony 😂

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I got a comic book in the post today, must have ordered it 3 years ago. So 3 years for a 27 page comic, that’s a bit of a wait haha. The art looked nice though.

For me, its less about do i like it more is this something i would want my daughter to watch. Then again i never looked at the new shera and said its ruining my childhood, just said this is not a show fit for children.

I just hate when they try to gaslight me into thinking Xmen isn’t for me. I was for 30 years, but now it’s not?

Personally, I don't give a rat's ass about barbie or Bluey or Strawberry shortcake, but I do not like the social engineering going on behind.

Great show/rant. Companies own IPs and decide how they should best use them to make money. Spider-man has not been for me in a lot of years, and that s ok. Still love the runs that I loved and have acquired a great deal of them in collected editions. What I don t like, I don t buy. If I buy something I don t like, I sell or donate. Move on, focus on what you like, have fun. And loved the dig on the "X take on my IP ruined my childhood " Ahahahahhahahaha, sure sure mate 😂

Perch, you _must_ start linking these diatribes you keep referencing. Just hearing you say it had Us in stitches. We doubt we'll be capable of breathing after 10 minutes of the Real Deal.

Yes, some of these things are designed for our kids. The target market is the kids, but also the parents who buy things for the kids. Am I missing something?

7:38 Well, not with that attitude, Perch.

As usual, you're mostly right, but you're all over the place on this and there's a glaring flaw or two. I agree that it would be absolutely insane for 40yo men to throw online temper tantrums about Strawberry Shortcake "going woke" and thereby ruining their childhood. But that hypothetical scenario doesn't seem to describe what's actually going on with some of these KZfaq critics. Are you referring to the guys who complain about the Snow White and Little Mermaid remakes? Things like that? From what I've seen, those guys never identify themselves as fans of the properties. They complain about the "wokeness" in the marketing and how the "wokeness" (loosely defined, of course) can have a cultural influence, especially over children. I'm sure you don't want every children's property to be about weird sexual or racial propaganda, with all sorts of dysfunctional messages in it. Personally, I don't know enough about the new Snow White and Little Mermaid movies to know exactly how "woke" they are, or how much the actors have said "woke" things in interviews or whatever. It's obviously all a sliding scale of outright hostility on one end (white people = evil) or lukewarm cultural appropriation on the other (black Ariel). I don't particularly know, and I don't particularly care. But the whole "woke Strawberry Shortcake" thing seems like a strawman. A lot of the guys complaining about "woke" childrens properties have kids themselves. Are they (or even childless people, for that matter) not allowed to care about the influence that bizarre and perverted childrens media will have on the future? Once again, if a 45yo guy is literally in tears, raging for hours on end about how a black Little Mermaid ruined his childhood, I agree that such a situation would be insane and unwarranted. But I think it's quite another thing for adults to be allowed to talk about how subversive and perverted some childrens media has become.

The comments give me serious Fredric Wertham vibes. If you think the book is bad for kids, then you should as a parent not buy that book for your own kids, but trying to silence and censor them is always a bad idea IMO. We have went down that path before, and it wasn't pretty.

Bronies were a Mistake.

Bronies just want to fetishize My Little Pony because the modern pony designs look cute to them now.

Not everything is going to appeal to you, but the things that do don't have the right to antagonize you.

Is the Strawberry Shortcake example a real thing, or just the most convenient, reductive straw man?

I really hate it when people say “this is ruining my childhood” because I feel like that’s such a bullshit statement. Your childhood is in the past, it already happened, something that’s happening TODAY should not be ruining your childhood memories. And if it is, imo it’s because you want it to so you have something else to be mad about.

Thought without having watched the video: Your subjective satisfaction with a given franchise should be the LEAST important thing in your life. If you spend more than 30 seconds upset about anything fictional, you need to go touch grass or get a girlfriend. People. They're cartoons. They don't love you back.

What are these things? you people are often vague on who and often what, but I am looking at the slideshow here and I've not seen a solitary soul speak of any of these things, save for ClownfishTV on the matter of Bluey for like 2 videos which fits their channel. Are you talking about the high functioning Autistic people like Enter who reviews cartoons? He is the only other person I can think of and it's his whole brand. You are right however, you and a few other people do have weird takes which I can't for the life of me reconcile (This does not make you a bad person, we all have weird exceptions). There is a Jedi show for kids that I think they aired on D+, I have seen the toys on clearance displays. I didn't even know they had those. This wasn't on my Radar and nobody speaks of it because it is indeed for kids and I will presume that as far as shows go, it is ok. You said it later in the comments section that they should be parents, and IIRC most of the popular channels actually are parents themselves. I don't think you need to be a parent however to not want sexual content or the veneration of mental illnesses within children's media. I don't want it for my kids, my brothers kids, the neighborhood kids, Not even my most hated enemy deserves that. (Not being racist isn't woke, neither is being good or kind to people. They don't own being a good person. It has to do with the intent behind the choices made against their own dogma.) That said, taking a peek at a few of the most popular channels the results most recent are: Dr. Disrespect, Star Wars, Dr. Who, DnD, Marvel, DC, and Video Games in general. I don't see people freaking out over Barbie and the 7 tiaras or any of the other shows or media in your slide show. Perhaps you need to clean house because I don't know why you are watching that, unless this in and of itself is cover for what you may want to say. That you're tired of the constant negativity. I can only guess. It's fine if you are tired, quit those spaces. I'll tell you what I told other Zelda fans when Sterling dared to give BoTW like an 8/10. If you love it so much, it feels odd to me that you're spending all this time running defense and not actually enjoying the game. I don't have much time to extol the joys of Elden Ring because I'm busy having a good time. Conversely people not liking it isn't my problem, it doesn't suddenly make Elden Ring worse, I can only tell you that I think you are missing out. They haven't forgotten how to have fun, they've simply found a place to speak their mind with like minded people. I have two employees, Hyper Positive(HP) and Hyper Negative(HN). There are really good at the job. HP pushes the team to success, while HN more or less ensures compliance and is willing to say the tough things people don't want to say or hear. Each of them needs something more from me and that is the ability to decompress and recharge. HP needs someone to encourage her and celebrate with her. HN needs someone to vent to and commiserate with. Some people simply get energy from negativity and no matter how bad, it doesn't eat them alive like other people. likewise some people need positivity to recharge. Again I say they have not forgotten how to have fun, there are millions of people here expressing themselves in different ways and that is ok. Just make sure you aren't the one who's being eaten from the inside. This is long enough already. If Furiosa didn't have the initial media circus I don't think we would be here, and the counter response to that hasn't done much good. -Men, not Women saw Furiosa the most. -When the market is flooded with bad Westers, it is ill advised to make another Western. -Even moderately involved people don't read the credits. Stars, Directors, and the like don't have the same power they did before. -You can do everything right and still fail I said this on another video, If Zach had merely stated "Hey I see some Buzz here and I disagree, Furiosa isn't a GB film and all your favorite youtubers agree. Here is my review, I highly recommend you give it a chance, the director is also isn't an asshole ". That would have sold tickets. Angry posts, Straw man arguments, and snark don't change peoples minds. I find it odd that 1/108th of this courtesy* towards an industry that has shown it's disdain for everyday people isn't offered to the worker at the drive through window, and yet we are expected to give these people infinite chances without making a single mistake. It isn't the responsibility of anyone save the corporation to mend public relations. Otherwise I'll reasonably enjoy the circus. If I like it I'll buy it, if I don't I wont, regardless of what people say.