Okay, so I watched the Pilot for the new Indie Youtube animation series that everyone is talking about. I actually liked it a lot. It wasn’t perfect. There was certainly some cringey zoomer dialogue. But I still thought it was really fun and engaging. I am a sucker for a wacky surreal story with fun characters that disguises a horrific existential horror narrative. I love Undertale for the same reason. This is a storytelling dynamic I always enjoy.
Now, I must mention how unbelievably huge the show has become already. This is bound to cause two things: The first is for a vast amount of people to hate it with all their passion simply because it is really popular. We’ve seen this with Wednesday Addams. We’ve seen this with Hazbin Hotel. We’ve seen this with Undertale. We’ve seen this with Poppy Playtime. The list goes on and on. If something explodes, people become enormously resentful. The second thing is that there will be a very strange portion of the new massive fandom. This is inevitable with any IP. I’ve come to the conclusion that people need to just get over it. Fandoms are weird. It’s impossible for there not to be some wacky individuals making art and fan content (often sexualized) when there are tens of millions of people consuming the product and building various communities around it. As of the time of me writing this, the Pilot episode has 28,000,000 views. That . . . is a lot of people. Some of them are bound to take the IP in a questionable direction for their own enjoyment. It’s best to just ignore these things; especially if no one is actually being hurt. (Remember the Undertale Genocide Discourse? That was a wild time. I seem to recall a razorblade cookie or something like that. Someone literally WAS hurt that time. Look it up).
I am always happy to see Indie artists succeeding. As an Indie writer, I never get tired of seeing projects like these take off. I’ll be watching every episode for sure.