CN programming has been trash for nearly a decade. They lost their audience slowly with every new garbage show, and quickly with every remake of an old show that shat all over itself on purpose to purge the 'wrong' fans. It was definitively wokeness at work.
They consistently added the wrong people over that time frame. A huge part of it was nepotistic 'friend-hiring' that started after Pendleton Ward hit it big and the "CalArts" schools were seen as a potential gold mine of new talent (late 00's). But over and over they leaned into politics, turned characters gay suddenly, put more women in the writing room for no other reason than to get a liberal rag to write a puff piece about them.
This happened in all animation at the same time, Disney and Nickelodeon suffered identical devolutions (from a lot of the same people, seriously CalArts grads are cancerous and unprofessional as a concrete rule). The difference with CN is that it is owned by a company that was bought out by a hatchet-man. And he is a-hatcheting with ruthless glee.
Was CN woke? Yes. Is that why viewership was suffering? Yes. Is that why it is cancelled? Technically no, but also yes. If it were doing well this wouldn't be happening, but it isn't doing well for the reasons given, and so Zazlov says "So Long Gay Bowser" and yeets them off the cliff.
CN programming has been trash for nearly a decade. They lost their audience slowly with every new garbage show, and quickly with every remake of an old show that shat all over itself on purpose to purge the 'wrong' fans. It was definitively wokeness at work.
They consistently added the wrong people over that time frame. A huge part of it was nepotistic 'friend-hiring' that started after Pendleton Ward hit it big and the "CalArts" schools were seen as a potential gold mine of new talent (late 00's). But over and over they leaned into politics, turned characters gay suddenly, put more women in the writing room for no other reason than to get a liberal rag to write a puff piece about them.
This happened in all animation at the same time, Disney and Nickelodeon suffered identical devolutions (from a lot of the same people, seriously CalArts grads are cancerous and unprofessional as a concrete rule). The difference with CN is that it is owned by a company that was bought out by a hatchet-man. And he is a-hatcheting with ruthless glee.
Was CN woke? Yes. Is that why viewership was suffering? Yes. Is that why it is cancelled? Technically no, but also yes. If it were doing well this wouldn't be happening, but it isn't doing well for the reasons given, and so Zazlov says "So Long Gay Bowser" and yeets them off the cliff.