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Sounds kind of strange when streaming exists, and I understand why it's on it's way out, but I can't sort of help but feel that way. I think part of the reason for this one method proving that no one gives a shit about anymore is because I think people in my generation are basically the last people who grew up on it. Like from my experience, I still remember the concept of Saturday morning cartoons existing for me and my sister, well if you count Beyblade and Pokémon airing every Saturday in the morning on Cartoon Network as that.
My family does have Youtube TV, and I've been mostly watching adult swims' checkered past and toonami blocks on it, but there is something missing when I am watching. I might be that I don't pay attention to the commercials because I'm one my phone when their on or I'm watching in the background doing something else, before then I would watch the commercials because I didn't have any of that. It also could be due to the fact I'm aware of how shit CN and animation in general is being treated compared to other genres, so it's kind of ruining the fun of it.
I guess I just kind of find it sad that kids nowadays won't grow up on the stuff I loved because their too busy watching whatever shit pops up on Youtube Kids, like parents in 2024 put on Paw Patrol or something, anything else but whatever comes out on the internet by strangers.
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sedentarily
omg me too!
maybe not the feeling of cable tv but cable tv itself. i'm sorta mourning its obsolescence or phased-out-y-ness. i watched tv from like 2000-2018 (whenever i gained consciousness until i went to college and didn't really have access to television in my dorms).
i miss CN's har-har-tharsdays!!! i don't actually remember the concept of saturday morning cartoons, but i do recall new episodes on thursdays 8pm/9pm central (or was it 7pm/8pm central) (or whatever they said, like i would have understood what central meant as a child).
we used to be a proper country... companies had dedicated(?) (animation) studios and they had crossover episodes T_T. now it feels like the new stuff being produced is just self-contained (i have no idea what companies they're associated with (e.g., Bluey)). there was, like, a sort of pacing with cable television, but now you can spam episodes as much as you want
maybe the structure of shows changed. you used to just tune in and watch from whenever you started, but you didn't need to know what happened every episode before that to understand what's happening in the current episode (e.g., austin and ally, good luck charlie, a.n.t. farm, dog with a blog). they were pretty self-contained save for a few progressions in relationships. although, i haven't watched children's shows recently, but isn't plot more involved now?? the owl house? craig of the creek? do those require chronological watching? star vs. the forces of evil kinda?
plus, the tv commercials made more sense: they were catered to kids. they had shit like LEGO city, bionicles, those magic colouring pens, that magic sand, some dinosaur or car toy that always had relevance, transformers probably, LEGO ninjago for the longest time, disney's/nickeleodeon's/cn's own upcoming episodes/movies
but, the ads i see now are super mundane things like moisturizer or some weird product i don't even log into my brain as a memory... insurance?? cars?? idgaf. and they're showing that to kids, i think, cause that's Amazon's/HBO's/Hulu's service so they're gonna advertise their own products and sponsors, not Hasbro's toys or some infomercial to call a 1-800 service
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i can't place what's missing about cable tv either.
streaming might be more lifeless because you only have the episode and nothing more. you choose it, you play it, it ends, you leave (or you keep going... what else?). then, binge-watching became a thing, which is like... evil. the lifespan of shows just dropped.
cable tv had a sort of curation to it (you can even open the schedule for the day if you had the fancy remote, but maybe all services phased that in eventually), having more variety and options between channels (i usually cycled between Disney, Nickeleodeon, and Cartoon Network).
i definitely didn't care about that back then, i would just turn the tv on cause i had nothing else to do. i dunno... it gave me a wider knowledge of tv show plots and songs tho haha
i just find myself less engaged with streaming episodes because it's me making time to watch a specific show and episode (although CN had these once a week cause of har-har-tharsdays or whenever a new ep of Ben 10: Alien Force, Adventure Time, or Regular Show was airing) as opposed to plopping down on the couch and "seeing what's on tv"
[VNTH] Digital Cheese
To be honest, I just wish the normies used DVDs or Blu-Rays even instead of streaming. Many devices can play DVDs these days, and even blu-rays, and it would be cheaper for some to just buy each movie individually instead of paying tons of money for seperate subscriptions. Although then again, I watch a movie once or twice and just don't watch it again usually, there is no reason for me to do such because I know exactly what's going to happen and usually am going to just be bored by the 2nd time.