The baby boomer generation often grew up looking forward to Saturday morning cartoons. Now, kids are being raised by cartoons. An internet thriller-comedy mini series called Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared brought attention to the issue concerning this through extremely grotesque imagery and awkward interactions between characters. Their intended audience being teens and young adults, the ones who were originally affected by this issue. Their audience was raised with the same type of shows that this video references and therefore grabs their attention more because they are the first generation to experience conflicted senses of identity associated with the disturbing intentions of “cartoon capitalism.” As an intense train wreck of a “kids show” parody, …show more content…
However, taking a deeper look, it’s not as beneficial as a parent may believe. A lot of children’s shows appears to push kids to be individuals and not follow trends. This is represented when the notebook tells the audience throughout the entire video to be creative, which can also be seen as telling them to be “unique.” However, the notebook never provides validation to the audience when they decide to be creative, instead it sets the pace of the creativity by from the kids. One specific examples are when the notebook shuts down the yellow character when he tries to paint a picture of a clown, but the notebook pours black paint over the puppet’s painting, meaning that it (the notebook) didn’t accept the puppet’s idea, also meaning that it didn’t accept him. The clown represents the child’s original ideas and happiness, but it was promptly ruined as the notebook shut him out. The black paint represents the one-way road of how the world should be seen, the perfect “you can only do this one way and be right” type of deal. The same situation is set when the notebook gives them the task of arranging sticks into their favorite color, and the same yellow character puts “green” as his favorite color. For a second time, he’s promptly told that he is wrong, as the notebook responds, “green is not a creative color.” The yellow character is again being shut out for having a color that isn’t a primary or basic color like the other characters, meaning that he’s thinking outside the box, which the notebook isn’t comfortable with because the notebook (the kids entertainment industries) wants to control the pace of creativity in which the kids act on. This is a message a lot of children's shows put out, and the more the idea is present in the T.V. that kids watched, the farther it is lodged into their subconscious that being