Maybe it’s rooted in weird gender coding stuff? I do find it odd the selective salty-ness of the net being weirded out by one children’s animated television show but not another. I’m not even on the “let people enjoy things” tip, but it’s just weird the show about unicorns, rainbows, and friendship gets mad hate but if it were a show about kiddos fist fighting against the forces of evil and you get a pass.
It’s always just “You are grown, you are watching a show for girls.” It’s never any valid leftist critique one could probably make in a integrious way like the original poster talking about centrism for example.
Personally I don’t rock with MLP. However, I dig lots of the new generations cartoons like “Adventure Time” and “Rise of the TMNT” which are “for boys” but no one bugs out about that. Which is kinda telling to me.
As if we all didn’t go see Barbie by the way. A movie about a product “for babies”.
I have to believe that it’s all just meant to feed the algorithm. I would assume anyone making shorts/reels/loops/tiktoks/vines/whatever is just trying to get traction for this their main profile. Even if this weren’t CHUDSLOP XL, all of these videos are very low-effort high return. It’s just a net to capture “engagement”.
Also American gun culture is so weird. I like guns, but all of this sort of mall ninja shit people do to firearms is beyond me. It’s so intertwine with consumption and fetishism.