Does Warner bros want to go bankrupt? Why the hell would they get rid of their most popular and famous ip from their streaming service? Do they just hate money?

This is terrible for animation as a whole. So many classic episodes are now lost media because HBO can't get get their head out of their ass and see the value of animation. Fuck HBO, Fuck Warner Bros, I hope they go out of business and the Looney Toons gets bought by a company that actually does shit with them.

I don't think they hate money, as much as they were saddled with huge amounts of debts and losses, which made them be irrational on what to keep and get rid of. Something is clearly amiss at WB right now, a hydra of dilemmas that they have created because they doubled down on a drying market in streaming, and now they have become an incompetent version of Disney.

The One Piece is funny despite how sad this is.

do they want people to watch they’re old Lonney Toons cartoons?

Just because Looney Tunes are no longer on Max it doesn't mean that they are lost media.

Practically so to anyone younger than Gen X. I'm not even dunking, it's just statistical truth at this point.

If warner bros falls, so does the looney tunes. Because it's so ingrained into the company, bugs bunny practically being the mascot, you'll never remove association with them.

What's depressing as hell, is that these four gentlemen went from poverty row, dirt poor.... to one of the faces of entertainment. Maybe things might get better, but apparently AT&T is the ones pulling the strings with warner brothers terrible decisions. Man, that discovery merger really set off an ant mount hysteria within them.

Ah yeah, I was going to recommend what you were referencing in that "sea" picture, but I wasn't sure if it was allowed to be brought up on NG

Oh I’m gonna do the thing you were gonna recommend. Hehehehe

That's good, isn't it? You don't need to pay for cable to get MeTV and all its classic cartoons and TV shows?

Yeah I'll admit it's a bit of a pipe dream. At the very least if they go out of business I hope fans can do stuff with them without getting sued up the ass but I doubt it.

I'm not saying Looney Toons as a whole are lost media but there is definitely a lot of episodes that haven't been uploaded online, so those episode are gonna be lost media.

Still ,that'd be like if Disney got into some financial problems and nuked Mickey Mouse from orbit for a tax write-off.

That'll hold em alright

Hehehehehe

Raid the hq, leave no one standing.

I remember a meme from a while back comparing WB's CEO to Judge Doom from Roger Rabbit LOL

"Remember me, Eddie? When I cancelled Coyote vs Acme I TALKED JUST LIKE THIIIISSSS!!"

Younger than Millennials, technically. Watching old-school Looney Tunes AND then-new shows like Dexter's Lab was my jam in my pre-school/kindergarten years. The PlayStation-era licensed video game adaptations were pretty good for their time, too, I especially liked the one where Bugs Bunny had to travel through time in like some bizarre mash-up of Super Mario 64 and Chrono Trigger. Of course, the original Space Jam and its introduction of Lola Bunny is a childhood guilty pleasure of mine.

But yeah, outside of animation college classes that teach animation history and MAYBE that Space Jam: A New Legacy movie, I have no idea how today's children would even find out about these classic characters without doing intense research for an essay, or something.

The reason Disney let, at the very least, the "Steamboat Willie" short and its versions of Mickey, Minnie, and Pete go into the public domain last year was likely because they own all sorts of immensely-more profitable IPs now, like Star Wars and the MCU, not to mention newer IPs of their own that younger generations have nostalgia for, such as Lion King and Moana--so I wouldn't say Mr. Iger respects Mickey Mouse that much more than Mr. Zaslav respects Bugs Bunny, even in his case it resulted in a cool decision of at least letting fans use the oldest versions of Mickey, Minnie and Pete (technically there was an even older Mickey Mouse short called 'Plane Crazy,' but for some reason, Steamboat Willie entering the public domain was more news-worthy).

It's interesting that Disney has kind of emerged as the "lesser of two evils" these days. Like, don't get me wrong, I absolutely DESPISE what the corporation has turned into almost immediately after the turn of the century and how they're even butchering movies I grew up with now, like Lilo and Stitch. But at least I can easily and cheaply watch a surprising amount of classic Mickey Mouse cartoons--even ones starring obscure, one-off characters like Lambert the Sheepish Lion--simply by tuning into Disney Plus whenever I feel nostalgic. Like, they'll never see a penny from me going towards their misguided remakes, but they've done a (mostly) good job making it simpler and more convenient to just watch the superior original animated movies than pirating them would ever be. It certainly has become the opposite of what it was like before, where they had the infamous "Disney Vault" while watching old Looney Tunes was a simple matter of tuning into Cartoon Network or Boomerang, or just buying the DVDs.

How the tables have turned.

oh no a streaming service took down cartoons what do we do now noooooooooooo

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