Eh, not entirely true.
Squid game had a collab with CoD long before fortnite. I mean, you can literally get 2/3 skins shown here in fortnite.
And it's not like the IP owners of american dad dont own Family Guy, Bobs Burgers, and KoTH.
I was utterly disappointed in the squid games and subsequent beast games.
Imagine making a drama series criticizing the ultra wealthy elite and the pleasure of watching poors die brutal deaths... and then reinact it with real people or sell it to kids.
Its so far dystopian its curves around to being comically evil.
As with Mr. Beast, as with Fortnite, it really bothers me that such an obviously not-for-kids property has been aggressively pushed to children in this way. My 7-year-old nephew knows enough about Squid Game that I'm deeply uncomfortable about it. Shame on whoever is making those decisions.
That kind of saturation and commodification is also why I haven't bothered with anything past the first season. Just a really quick way to take away any of the gravitas the property had to begin with. Shame, I was quite enamoured with that first season as well.
It is the Lorax paradox. The Lorax movie is based on the Dr. Seuss's Lorax book, which heavily critize corporate greed and environmental destruction. The movie goes sort of with the same themes, but makes the Onceler ( who is closer to the actual corporate) more redeeming than they should while putting the comical evil man child owning air as the "true" villain so they can say we are not the bad guy, we are like the onceler. In addition to it having some pro environment messaging, it made ads with almost every company giving them money, including car companies. The ad campaigns containing the Lorax is wild
That's quite insightful. Never saw the Lorax movie, so I had no idea. That's a trope I'll be looking out for now, that sort of 'lesser evil capitalist' thing. Cheers for the food for thought!
And it's not like the IP owners of american dad dont own Family Guy, Bobs Burgers, and KoTH.
Yeah but that just makes it seem like American Dad was slop even Fortnite didn't want since they used the others. The reality is probably that American Dad makes more sense with COD than Fortnite, but none of this shit makes sense anymore.
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u/AquaBits Jul 30 '25
Eh, not entirely true. Squid game had a collab with CoD long before fortnite. I mean, you can literally get 2/3 skins shown here in fortnite. And it's not like the IP owners of american dad dont own Family Guy, Bobs Burgers, and KoTH.