Animation

I know most people here will be fine with pirating and most of these shows and movies will not actually be lost. But as this thread proves, even modern shows can be lost. And there are 2 things here I find especially sad:

1. As mentioned in the article the CN website had a lot of digital games. I think most of them will be lost. This is something we've seen a lot throughout the history of web based games.

2. "I’m more frustrated at the continued removal of online spaces for kids. It leads to them going to media spaces for adults, and that never ends well." from This reddit comment.

Man, cartoonnetwork.com was the first website I ever frequented. When my family first got an internet connection, I didn't know about search engines, so I would just type things I liked into the url bar, put a ".com" at the end, and hope for the best. Speeds were super slow on our dialup connection, so I'd often have time to make and eat a sandwich while waiting for a flash game to load.

David Zaslav will stand by, burning more cash and trashing more titles, only to keep failing, and making our culture—as well as our history—all the poorer for it.

To quote Bugs Bunny, "what a maroon."

I checked because it got briefly mentioned in the article: WBD stock price is down 40% YTD!

I wonder if it will keep crashing until they get bought out by the Mouse for some loose change they found in the fountains at Disney World.

Damn

I remember enjoying this ed ed and eddy car crash durby game on their and a teen titans game (not tt go as that is horrible)

When there's trouble you know who to call Teen Titans. From their tower, they can see it all. Teen Titans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL75mtNZ6PA

Edit: Three hours later and I still have this theme song stuck in my head. Thanks a lot. Lol

Everything ends someday. It might be something we thought we’d move past with the digital age but, even digital requires resource input to keep going and that means it can and will end.

This does not surprise me at all. What were they supposed to do? Flash is dead, which broke most of the games on a site like this anyway. And kids, even young ones, go straight to Fortnite level video gaming these days, not flash sites.

It’s sad for those of us who grew up on this kind of thing, but like many other relics of the past the world moves on to something new. The Internet Archive and Flashpoint Archive will museum whatever functions without a server connection and the rest is lost to history, revered in our memories.

It’s just the nature of things. Like how a mere handful of social media websites today replace an internet once flooded with personal websites and small communities. I’m sure the next Cartoon Network sponsored game will just be a Fortnite event or Metaverse room.

Someone in about five years time should buy up the old cartoon ip sitting around somewhere doing nothing and put it on a streaming platform, taking the profits and invest in new cartoon talent making awesome new stuff.

Just saying

Wow. Childhood dreams? Boom. Gone