Zaslav Cancels Woke Ellen DeGeneres Cartoon Aimed At Children

David Zaslav, the CEO of the merged Warner Discovery, is swinging his Mighty Ax, and he's swinging it at a lot of Charity Projects that do not bring in money.

Stuff that was never designed to earn money, but just earn Woke Points.

David Zaslav can give a rat's ass about Woke Points.

As Ellen DeGeneres, The Nicest Woman in Hollywood, has just been informed.

HBO Max Cancels Ellen DeGeneres Woke Animated Series Aimed At Preschoolers

In yet another sign that the times are a-changin', HBO Max just canceled several animated shows aimed at kids that focus on hyper-radical Woke content and sexual programming/indoctrination of underage children. This includes Cartoonito's Little Ellen, produced by comedienne Ellen DeGeneres, most famous for accusations of abusing employees working on her daytime talk show.

[P]undits on both Right and Left see it as HBO Max stepping away from the divisive and costly failures of producing Woke entertainment, not to mention the ensuing backlash which began when corporate giant Disney began meddling in the affairs of Florida's anti-grooming bill.

Little Ellen got the chop despite twenty unreleased episodes still produced and ready to go, which is a strong signal that the company is starting to rethink its approach to content....

Also cut: the new Batman: Caped Crusader animated show from Bruce Timm, Matt Reeves, and, um, J.J. Abrams.

Now, that may sound like a loss, but maybe not. Ethan Van Sciver pointed out this Bounding Into Comics article from last year, in which Bruce Timm -- who, frankly, has not been associated with quality for a while -- bragged that the new show would be "diverse," "inclusive," and "adult."

They will push for Caped Crusader to have more "inclusivity" than prior iterations in the DC Animated Universe. Said Timm, "The way we deal with the characters, it's going to be quite a bit more modern in terms of inclusivity, representation, things like that."

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He added, "There was certain limitations on what we could do in terms of adult content, in terms of violence and adult themes."

Otherwise, Timm looks at it like 1990 again and he gets to do things he's always wanted. Emphasizing it's back to the basic principles of Batman TAS without the limitations, he says "I've got JJ and Matt backing me up."

J.J. Abrams' track record in attaching himself to healthy franchises and parasitically sucking the life out of them is well-known by now, so I think Batman dodged another bullet here.

And what's this with "adult"? Or "dark." Who wants this? I don't mind this kind of stuff edging towards "adult" or "dark" -- like maybe up to the level of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom -- but let's stop kidding ourselves, this is boys' adventure fiction, and it should keep mainly to that.

Hey, I'm going to remake Treasure Island with some strong sexual content including an implied r@pe of Jim Hawkins. Some real randy stuff. Who's interested?

C'mon. I'm tired of nerds trying to cadge some validation for their enjoyment of juvenile adventure fare by demanding they be made "dark" or "adult." All so they can pretend they're reading Norman Mailer or Tropic of Cancer or some shit.

Adult material doesn't wear capes. Just... just accept it already. There are no Adult Santa Claus stories.*

Just accept that it's boys adventure fiction and enjoy it on those terms. There's nothing wrong with boys adventure fiction; a lot of it is awesome. The Hobbit is awesome.

And it doesn't need to be "adult" and "dark."

Grow up, nerds. You're beating on my last firing nerve.

Via Ethan Van Sciver. And do not go backwards from that cue, at least not at work. He's got a funny thing before the clip I've cued up but you don't want to have to explain it to anyone.

Meanwhile, DC Comics is firing on all cylinders. They hint that Superman will be getting married, to a boy.

The controversial writer elaborated in an interview that he was intentionally going to go into politics in the story, declaring, "The question for Jon (and for our creative team) is, what should a new Superman fight for today? Can a seventeen-year-old Superman battle giant robots while ignoring the climate crisis? Of course not."

In the same interview, Taylor implied that Superman would also be going to the border to assist illegal aliens, calling illegal crossings "the plight of asylum seekers."

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On one page, Jon Kent holds up a ring to his boyfriend, Jay Nakamura, who asks the question, "A ring?" following up with, "I'm pretty sure you're supposed to be on one knee for this." It's followed by an awkward exchange by the two male characters who have been increasing the intensity of their homosexual relationship since the fifth issue.

Jon Kent is now Superman. That allows them to say "Superman is gay" while keeping the real Superman not gay (for the moment).

But meanwhile, the real Batman has been revealed to be bisexual, or at least willing to go G4P (gay for pay, or gay for information).

DC Comics had not yet felt the chop of Zaslav's Mighty Axe because the division was too small to make much a difference.

But that might have just changed.

Wes from Thinking Critical says he has a source in the Discovery accounting office that tells him that their office asked for a management report from Warner Bros.'s accounts detailing all of DC Comics' expenses and revenues, and winners and losers, in the DC Comics line.

That is, the parent corporation's accountants demanded an accounting from the child corporation's accountants about a subsidiary's gains and losses.

Which is going to be terrible bad news for DC Comics, because they've been deliberately keeping terrible, non-selling #Woke writers on staff for years, killing the brand and costing the company millions, and just trusting that no one from corporate would ever come looking into their books.

They shifted from a strategy of treating sales as the chief metric of success to treating Twitter #OMG's and #Yass's and #SlayKween's as their metric. That's why they've turned almost every single character in their stable gay or bisexual.

Well, apparently, now the parent corporation is looking at the books.

And that will not be good for DC Comics. No poorly performing unit can profit from management ever looking at their books. Nothing good can come of that, at least, nothing good can come to the people currently mismanaging DC or working there.

The ax may finally fall. And it may fall gloriously bloody.

Ask not for whom the ax falls

* Well, there is one adult Santa Claus story.

But there's always one.

posted by Ace at 05:57 PM

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