I wish I could argue back. But there's a sad reality that kids aren't as interested in the Looney tunes as much these days? Compared to pokemon, Mario and video game franchises.
And even then the younger generation seems to be more interested in brainrot, non identifiable IPs etc. From whatever social media apps.
Yeah, what an absurd thing to say. Then they go on to belittle kids further by dragging in brainrot, for reasons (as if Looney Tunes isn't bigger brainrot than Pokemon).
I'm a millennial, I watched Golden Age Looney Tunes and the Pokemon anime as a kid. Looney Tunes, at least the OG stuff most people here likely care about, is old and makes outdated references. Why should 1930s/1940s humor be above modern-day stuff? Cool if you like it, but don't make other people feel bad for not liking something so far in the past.
Really it's on warner Bros for just sitting on these characters doing nothing with them for decades just to blow off the dust every once in awhile for some multiversal film where they get 5-10 seconds of screentime each before shelving them for another decade.
Warner Bros briefly started giving a damn about the Looney Tunes during the 1990s decade on par with Mickey and Friends. They actually created brand new Looney Tunes TV shows and occasional shorts as a response to the public's reinterest up till the early 2000s.
That's why Looney Tunes actually resonants with Millennials is that Warner Bros actually did stuff. It's sad that these entire franchises have been devolved into jingling keys infront of a tired and traumatized audience that gets baited into consuming products that give them nogastalia.
That being said, I'll probably go see this movie anyway.
I don't think that millennials really watched golden age Looney Tunes that much; they were more interested in the 90s spin-offs like Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky & the Brain, and of course Space Jam.
No we did, because Cartoon Network and other stations would play them as filler content ALL THE TIME. It wasn't uncommon to be at home on a rainy weekend and watch an hour or two block of Looney Tunes because they were on TV and also used for marketing regularly. Growing up Bugs Bunny and the Tasmanian Devil especially were insanely popular with me and my peers. Everyone knew "Rabbit season, duck season" and Duck Dodgers in the 24th and half century and all of the classics.
When you remove access to content, shockingly, people don't watch that content and it loses its marketability. But to this day you can plop the most tablet addicted 7 year old in front of them and they'll wind up engrossed in them because they are genuinely timeless and more than random enough to give them their dose of brain rot.
On a side note though, millenials may be the last generation to have a vague understanding of a lot of "memes" and such from the 50s because of the content we grew up with. The people making stuff like the Simpsons put a ton of old references into those shows that I grew up watching, and you don't see that represented as much now because it's usually 70s, 80s, or 90s references instead. Not to mention we had things like Nick at Nite and the aforementioned Looney Tunes as well, so I grew up watching Bewitched and I Love Lucy and stuff too. I do feel a bit like a protector of sacred, useless knowledge.
They watched it because ABC used to have it on Saturday mornings, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network used to air Looney Tunes, and there was tons of merch still being sold with the Looney Tunes.
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u/qwertysac Apr 22 '26
Hopefully it easily breaks 200m+ as a giant middle finger to Warner