Scooby-Doo was a big part of chilhood. When talong with friends about things we used to enjoy as children Scooby-Doo is always mentioned within my top 3. Shaggy in particular being my favorite. I used to be a huge slacker as a kid. I put in enough effort to make good grades and not a bit more and I was also adverse to risk hence the identification with him. Hell at one point imitated his walk because I was a tall and lanky elementary student. Making him black does not make me identify with him more it just makes me angry because you have altered him so significantly. The other changes are just as stupid.
The concept of making characters align with the looks of voice actors could be interesting if you weren't swapping old for new in an established series.
Hell if they were good writers they could have made a spin-off in the same universe with original characters and found success. Do a crew inspired by the original mystery gang and even have a crossover episode. You could even do a rotating cast with different celebrities making up other teams.
But no they're morally and creative bankrupt shitheads and they want to rape original IPs that people grew up loving.
European high society held the black mass, not because they revered satan, but instead to molest what was holy, they hated god so much they defiled themselves in the houses built to worship him. The rebellious teen destroying themselves to hurt their father. This is that same method of desecration, they hate Americans of yesterday so much they must take the icons of that lifestyle and pervert them to their whims.
So that's why Malakai Black, an atheist pro wrestler whose character is a Satanist in all but name, calls his finisher the Black Mass.
I'd honestly never heard the term outside of wrestling until just now.
Seriously? Yes, the "Black Mass" is meant to be a kind of parody of the Catholic Mass. It's usually something kind of sexual, and the "host" is usually some kind of drug that isn't wine, the altar might be a nekkid lady holding candles, shit like that.
OK, so imagine "deplorables" making fun of the rites and rituals of the modern globalist wokies. (Like that video with the Russians in that other post, would be a kind-of-sort-of "black mass" if one considers wokeism a nascent religion; esp. that part where everyone kneels to the black man. This is like, a baby version of where "black mass" came from. Maybe one day we'll be burning effigies of trannies while we dance around a campfire.)
I'm serious, this is the first time I'd heard the real meaning.
I thought it meant "festering tumor." Which it kinda is.
Scooby Doo has been politicized since Casey Kasem had a hissy fit and demanded Shaggy be made vegan like him because he didn't like doing corporate ads. Like so many things, this started long before people were paying attention.
Heck the entire Velma as an "icon" thing is rooted in people believing she is chubby, despite every reveal prior showing her to have a body better than Daphne and just liked sweaters.
Vegetarian, not vegan, but yes, he did.
If I recall, this is also why Scooby Snacks were invented--to get around this.
When Kasem wasn't voicing him, such as when Matthew Lillard took over the role, he ate meat again.
When the fuck did Shaggy become a vegan
Vegetarian, as I was corrected. His VA was vegan but I guess that settled in the middle. And in the early 2000s they did it as he demanded it as a condition to returning after quitting a decade before.
So roughly 20 years.
That's retarded
It is, but that means Scooby Doo was one of the earliest examples of capitulation to the modern woke mob.
Retaliate by drawing Hentai of AOC & Jacinda Ardern & Sanna Marin getting all their holes ruthlessly savaged by a muscular Donald Trump.
I was on board until I realized you wrote Donald Trump and not Donald Duck.
Trump fucks Circassian beauties and nothing else.
I can say the same sort of thing about Warner Bros. cartoons when they went from adult to child-oriented back around 1960 or thereabouts.
I think that had more to do with how theatres changed how they operated, plus the advent of the television cartoon as a kid's ghetto, than actual censorship or ideology or anything like that. When movies were under the Hayes Code, and were shown on a loop all day long along with newsreels, shorts, serials, and cartoons, they were of a more general interest. But then came appointment showings, and the ratings system, and you only got cartoons when some Disney movie (live action or animated) or other G-rated fare came out, turning the last of the theatrical cartoon shorts into yet another artifact of the "cartoons are for kids" mindset.
Never thought of the growing lameness of Sat. morning cartoons that way, but you're right.
I get the imprression that around 1971 (I was 10) Sat. cartoons went south . . . now that I think about it, Bullwinkle cartoons vanished from Thanksgiving holiday programming around the same time, "The day after turkey day on ABC."
Fucking decadent American culture.