How do you feel about old soviet cartoons reaching a more mainstream audience?
How do you feel about old soviet cartoons reaching a more mainstream audience?
Xavier Williams
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Alexander Ward
why is this famous now ?
did someone just put a thumping song to him walking on tiktok and now its the funniest thing ever!!! im honstly confused
gotta admit though the entire thing is like an odd fever dream
Camden Bailey
never underestimate the power of memes and trends
Jacob Watson
>why is this famous now ?
Some russkie probably made some funny meme about this obscure movie to share with his friends, and the algorithm picked it up. Once that happened, it snowballed into everyone making memes about it because people are sheep and don't want to feel left out.
The entire culture of the world has been decided by soulless algorithms for the better part of the decade. What becomes or doesn't become popular is up for a couple of megacorporations to randomly decide.
Samuel Cook
>Mad Rat Dead never got picked up by an algorithm and sold like dogshit
It hurts
well okay really NIS should've put a fucking RHYTHM GAME on PC not CONSOLE, who plays rhythm games on console
Jeremiah Williams
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Since commie cartoons weren't made for profit there often went more into each one in terms of artistry and they were allowed to do more unconventional stuff, so long as it storywise was OK'd by the state. I think people these days are kind of worn out by american tropes, styles, storytelling and want to look for something different. Eastern european content (as well as non-american, non-japanese content in general) is kind of this great unexplored area where a lot of excellent properties lack the recognition they ought to have.
Ryder Garcia
My reaction is thus: "huh"
Adrian White
hopefully they remake cheburashka
Hudson Lopez
Gee it's almost like it was purposely forced onto the public
Cooper Walker
Who exactly benefits from this? This is an old-ass movie made in a socialist country.
Ethan Cox
Occasionally it can have a positive effect, like when an American company remastered Son of the White Mare (I know it isn't Soviet but it's close enough) so now there's a decent, color corrected version in circulation after 4 decades.
Too bad the new interest also brought in loads of shitty opinions because some people can't look past the cultural and historical differences present in old East European cartoons and movies, but that's unavoidable. At least there's also people who develop a genuine affection for them.
Christian Peterson
>Too bad the new interest also brought in loads of shitty opinions
Such as?
Jose Clark
Hmm... an old communist movie sees a resurgence of popularity, in part because of a trend on a Chinese social media app...
It's a mystery!
Colton Thompson
You're still not answering how does anyone benefits from this. The studio that produced the movie (Kievnauchfilm) shut down shortly after Soviet Union collapsed. I'm not sure who owns the movie now but I haven't seen any efforts to profit off its newfound popularity.
Justin Gutierrez
it's just nostalgia
Lucas Brown
Retarded amerimutt teenagers better get the fuck away from my childhood's cartoon.
Ryan Diaz
>how does anyone benefits from this
Think "what," not "who."
Robert James
You better not dig too deep for your own good. Some of them are questionable to say the least
Grayson Rodriguez
The Communist AI controlling the world?
Austin Barnes
Sounds like some of them are too based for you to handle.
Logan Green
Jackson Bennett
There's some weird stuff you would rather avoid seeing
Robert Reed
There aren't many truly good ones, so well deserved I guess.
Chase Anderson
>treasure island sucks because the zoomers found it first
Angel Morgan
Landon Baker
The typical stuff of how it's non-conventional and therefor bad, some depictions don't hold up to American standards of political correctness, and there's always some dipshit who compares every East Euro and Soviet animation to the Worker and Parasite gag from The Simpsons.
Using Son of the White Mare as an example, some reviews complained that the gender roles weren't "progressive" enough, even though the film was a deliberate allusion to archaic mythology.
Logan Gray
>Communist AI controlling the world
Already trying to appeal to absurdity?
It's just one algorithm, designed by people. People who work for a particular government.
John Anderson
I had this on VHS when I was a kid in the early 90s. It was my favorite. I'm vehemently anti-communist.
Parker Morales
And how does China benefit from this? The movie has no mentions of communism or any propaganda, aside from promoting a healthy lifestyle.
Matthew Hall
Jackson Hill
>Hey, this movie made in a communist country wasn't so bad, right?
>Turns out, there's a lot more where that came from!
>t. iktok algorithm
Thomas Carter