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1->''"Some of you may know me from my films like ''Film/MadeasFamilyReunion'' and ''Why Did I Get Married?'', or you may know my sitcoms, like ''Meet the Browns'' and ''Series/HouseOfPayne''. Or you may be white."''
2-->-- '''Creator/KenanThompson''' as '''Creator/TylerPerry''', ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''
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4Similar to the GirlShowGhetto, but with racial minorities instead of females. This is the idea that fiction centered on a racial minority cannot entertain or otherwise appeal to people outside of that race. Marketers might fear that a work starring a racial minority will be focused on issues of race and culture, driving away audiences who are not interested in such movies. They might also fear that white audiences won't be able to relate to a minority in the lead, or worse, find the movies preachy and/or guilt-inducing simply because of who is in them.
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6The result of this belief is that works starring people of a racial minority in the work's place of origin are rare compared to works starring a member of a racial majority. If a Western work of fiction wishes to have a diverse cast or deal with issues of race, it will likely star a white person with minorities as supporting actors. See MightyWhitey, WhiteMansBurden, WhiteMaleLead, TokenWhite, and PopCultureIsolation. Adaptions and anything {{based on a true story}} fearing this might go for a {{race lift}} to get around it, making any minorities in the original work white instead. Alternatively, they might find a white person who had a minor role in the original story and [[AscendedExtra focus on them]].
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8It is not uncommon for works featuring non-white leads to become popular when advertising hides or downplays the presence of non-white characters. This is especially true in written works, where advertising does not require visual representations of the characters. Sometimes these works see no drop in popularity when the lead is shown to be a person of color, suggesting that readers will enjoy a good story once they get over their initial reluctance from seeing a person of color on the cover, or that the reluctance doesn't exist in the first place.
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10Note that this trope is often a SelfFulfillingProphecy. Marketeers are afraid that majority people might not be interested in a minority-centric work since it might deal with hard-to-relate themes. This can cause filmmakers to make their movies about those themes since they may be relatable to only minorities to begin with and thus implement themes they feel are important, causing many such movies to in fact feature such themes, thus usually keeping majority people away... and so on. So please be discerning when adding or editing examples.
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12See also WatchedItForTheRepresentation, where people turn out to see a work ''because'' it has minorities.
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21* Hirohiko Araki mentioned in an interview that he believes one of the reasons the first two parts of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' didn't make as much of a splash as the third, which starred the [[ButNotTooForeign half-Japanese, half-American]] Jotaro Kujo, was because they featured wholly European protagonists during a time when Japanese audiences were heavily against such characters. Since then, with the exception of ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'' every protagonist in the series has some measure of Japanese heritage in order to avert this trope.
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25* Creator/DwayneMcDuffie, a late great pioneer in the comic book industry, had suffered through this his whole life when being a writer for a comic book series. He called it the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u16sKK-1oLQ rule of three]]: Where if three or more black characters are in a comic book series, it's considered a "black product" and thus many white readers, who are the overwhelming majority of comic book buyers, ignore it. He also noted a double standard in the industry: where he got flack from readers for writing a ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' run with a largely non-white cast, a white writer would ''not'' get the same criticism for writing a book with an [[MonochromeCasting all-white cast]].
26* At New York Comic-Con, writer Don [=McGregor=] mentioned how his ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' run came under criticism from white readers over the lack of white characters. His solution? [[TakeThatAudience Have the Panther fight the Ku Klux Klan]].
27* This is a major reason why Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}} took a decade-long hiatus from writing for Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} or Creator/{{DC|Comics}}. Despite the fact that he previously had a lengthy career writing titles as varied as ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'', ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League Task Force]]'', and ''Franchise/GreenLantern'', his tenures on titles like ''Comicbook/{{Steel}}'' and his historic ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' run thoroughly pigeonholed him as a "black" writer. He has mentioned that it became difficult to find work on any non-minority titles, and that being offered a ''[[ComicBook/TheFalcon Falcon]]'' solo book was ultimately the straw that broke the camel's back.
28** He also invoked this trope while discussing ''ComicBook/TheCrew'', a short-lived book he wrote featuring ComicBook/WarMachine and several other minority heroes. He initially tried to get characters like ComicBook/{{Gambit}} and [[ComicBook/NewWarriors Justice]] added to the cast precisely because he didn't want ''The Crew'' to be seen as a "black" comic, but when this fell through, he ended up with an entirely-minority cast. He claims the lack of white characters is one of the things that helped kill the book, as retailers didn't feel like ordering a series without any recognizable white superheroes.
29** Priest finally returned to mainstream comics in 2016 with ''ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}'' for the ComicBook/DCRebirth relaunch. He claims he initially turned down an offer to do a ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} series for the reasons mentioned above, and only agreed to write Deathstroke after the editors assured him the character hadn't been {{Race Lift}}ed into a black guy.
30* All four attempts to star the Jaime Reyes version of the ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' have ended with the series being cancelled, none having lasted longer than two and a half years. Some have cited the issue being that he's a Latino superhero, starring a prominently Latino cast, and set in [[UsefulNotes/OtherCitiesInTexas El Paso, Texas]], taking up the mantle of a B-lister (in fact, that's the reason Jaime was allowed to be created, because it was believed no one would care about the Blue Beetle). All of this despite being a well-liked character and possibly the most iconic [[LegacyCharacter version]] to modern audiences[[note]]especially after his appearances in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''.[[/note]]. In fact, he's been cited as an example of how an AffirmativeActionLegacy character can be done ''right''.
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34* One of the theories as to why ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' wasn't as successful as it was expected would have been because of the protagonist's ethnicity. However, other factors from lack of advertising, to being released at the same time as ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', to [[AnimationAgeGhetto the use of traditional animation]] have also been blamed. Mind you, the movie was still successful as far as animated movies go. Still, it would take seven years for the Walt Creator/{{Disney}} Animation Studios to release another musical about a royal of color -- the predominantly-CGI ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}''[[note]]which was pitched to the studio two years after ''[=TPatF=]''[[/note]], which fortunately turned a larger gross.
35* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' was denied a wide theatrical release ostensibly because of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. However, many fans suspect that it was due to this given that the protagonist and the vast majority of the characters are minorities.
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39* ''Literature/TheGoodEarth'' was a bestselling and critically acclaimed novel about the lives of Chinese farmers. A film adaptation was greenlit, and the original author and the filmmakers themselves wanted an all Asian cast. Sadly this was Hollywood in the 1930s and most of the parts went to white actors in {{Yellowface}}. Creator/AnnaMayWong, leading Chinese-American movie star, wanted desperately to play the female lead - but the Hays Code prevented her from playing the wife of a white man (even if he was made up to look Chinese).
40* Silent movie star Creator/AnnaMayWong would frequently encounter these problems in Hollywood. The good parts went to white actresses wearing {{Yellowface}}, while she was only offered roles as a DragonLady or BeautifulSlaveGirl.
41* ''Film/ImitationOfLife1959'' broke out of the ghetto but the marketing heavily focused on the LoveTriangle between Creator/LanaTurner, Creator/JohnGavin and Creator/SandraDee - almost in an attempt to sucker audiences who might be alienated by what the director viewed as the true story of the film; Lana Turner's black housekeeper trying to raise her fair-skinned daughter.
42* Creator/DannyGlover has tried to raise funds for a film on the Haitian Revolution. However, he keeps getting rejected because the story lacks white heroes.
43* Similarly, the Creator/JamieChung film ''Film/AbductionOfEden'' struggled to find funding because it starred an Asian-American lead. Chung has said in interviews that the execs wanted to include a heroic WhiteMaleLead who would eventually save Eden, something the producers were adamant about avoiding since the film is based on a true story.
44* Creator/JustinLin had a hard time raising money for his first movie, ''Film/BetterLuckTomorrow'', because very few people wanted to fund a movie with an entirely Asian-American cast. One potential investor said he'd donate a million dollars to the budget if Lin would agree to cast Creator/MacaulayCulkin as the lead...[[RaceLift despite the fact that the movie was based on a true story about an Asian-American teen]].
45* Creator/TylerPerry's movies are very popular within the Black community and nowhere else. There is controversy on whether it's because white people don't want to see movies with all-Black casts or because Black audiences are so starved for representation they'll ignore the movies' dubious quality.
46* Creator/SpikeLee gets hit with this, too. His ''Miracle at St. Anna'' didn't get the best reviews (33% at Website/RottenTomatoes) but that alone doesn't explain its incredibly low box office numbers (a little over US$9 million with a budget of US$45 million).
47* Even Creator/HalleBerry has stated that this belief makes it hard for her to find roles.
48* Creator/ThandiweNewton has likewise said "I love the UK but I just can't work there", saying that the majority of television that gets produced is period pieces or "stuff about the Royal Family" - meaning [[MonochromeCasting they feature majority white casts]].
49* ''Film/TheWiz'' was a black-led musical version of ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''. The film version released in 1978 was a box office failure that greatly damaged the perceived financial viability of all-black films.
50* ''Film/RedTails'' was in {{development hell}} for over 20 years because the idea of an all-black cast wasn't appealing enough for a movie studio to fund it, so producer Creator/GeorgeLucas funded the film entirely out of his own pocket and it finally saw the light of day in 2012. It got a 40% on Website/RottenTomatoes and didn't make back its budget at the box office. Like many other examples, it's unclear if this is because of the all-black cast, valid criticisms of the film, or simply for having George Lucas's name on it. The film was quite successful for an independently-produced project and Lucas is trying to get a sequel made.
51* In ''Film/{{Hitch}}'', Creator/WillSmith was paired with Latina Creator/EvaMendes to avoid risking audiences dismissing it as a "black film."
52* ''Film/AWrinkleInTime2018'' received lots of publicity for the fact that it was a big budget fantasy film with minority leads - the Murrays receive a RaceLift from the book to become a mixed race family. The film's lukewarm critical and commercial reception prompted ''The Mary Sue'' to publish an [[https://www.themarysue.com/a-wrinkle-in-time-discourse-inclusion/ article]] about this very subject.
53* Creator/IreneBedard was given [[HollywoodHypeMachine a lot of hype]] in the mid-90s as a Native American actress who had potential to become a star - after a Golden Globe nominated performance in ''Lakota Woman'' and becoming the voice of Disney's ''{{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}}''. Yet despite critically acclaimed work, she fell headlong into the ghetto and to this day campaigns for better representation for Native Americans in film.
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57* Creator/JustineLarbalestier's ''Literature/{{Liar|2009}}'': The original US book cover had the [[RaceLift minority lead changed to be a white woman]]. This is depressingly common in the Young Adult category -- with the minority ghetto sometimes passed around as an excuse for doing so. The author blogs about the change [[http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2009/07/23/aint-that-a-shame/ here]]. But there's a happy ending: After the issue got a significant amount of negative publicity, the publishers [[http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2009/08/06/the-new-cover/ commissioned a new cover for the next print run]] that's basically the same as the old one [[AuthorsSavingThrow but with an African-American model who looks like the book's actual protagonist]].
58* [[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/books/dork-diaries-by-rachel-renee-russell.html As mentioned in this article]], this was part of the reason the protagonist of ''Literature/DorkDiaries'' was made white, although the author is African-American.
59-->'''Rachel Renée Russell:''' If you have a character of a different race, your book tends to get put in a category that isn't mainstream, and we wanted something to appeal to everyone.
60* ''Literature/ThePoppyWar'' often gets shelved as YoungAdultLiterature despite having ''very'' dark and mature themes, apparently because Fantasy + Non-White Lead = YA, content be damned.
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64* ''Series/MyBrotherAndMe'', a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} sitcom with a mostly Black cast, [[ShortRunners only lasted 13 episodes]], though strangely, re-runs would be kept in rotation for a good decade. ''My Brother and Me'' can be attributed to CreativeDifferences.
65* ''The Real [=McCoy=]'', an all-Black comedy sketch show on Creator/TheBBC, bombed.
66* The TV series ''Series/KungFu1972'' was originally meant to star Creator/BruceLee. However, executives feared that a show starring an Asian man would be rejected by viewers and cast the white Creator/DavidCarradine as the [[FakeMixedRace half-Chinese]] Caine.
67* ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'' suffered from this. It aired on Creator/{{UPN}}, a station known for its minority shows, and it ended up being [[RaceLift forced to reflect that]] (plots such as a racist white man waking up black, Creator/ForestWhitaker as the host, etc). It only lasted one season, presumably because the changes scared away some white viewers but weren't enough to attract UPN's usual demographic.
68** UPN in general faced this problem for its entire existence. While its Black-led sitcoms were always popular with black audiences, none of them ever managed to break out of the ghetto. When UPN was merged with Creator/TheWB in 2006 to form Creator/TheCW, most of UPN's black-led shows wound up getting left behind and the new network aimed for The WB's white middle-class audience. Despite this, [[Series/{{Moesha}} many]] [[Series/TheParkers shows]] [[Series/OneOnOne on]] [[Series/{{Girlfriends|2000}} UPN]] [[Series/EverybodyHatesChris still]] have their fans to this day, and even after ditching these shows, [[LaserGuidedKarma the "middle-class" CW would still struggle in the ratings]].
69** Ironically The WB itself started off similarly to UPN and had the same problem with its black sitcoms. Likewise Creator/{{Fox}} in the early '90s.
70* ''Series/AllAmericanGirl1994'', starring Creator/MargaretCho, only lasted one season. The show initially centered on [[TheDanza Margaret Kim]] and her family. During its run, the [[ExecutiveMeddling producers]] shifted focus away from Margaret's family, which resulted in most of the Asian actors being fired.
71* The ''Literature/{{Earthsea}}'' novels had explicitly non-white main characters, though taking place in a fantasy world, so the books themselves are actually a pretty good example of an aversion (fantasy being a very white-dominated genre); its covers, however, have not always lived up to this, with some making the main character white. In addition, the [[{{Series/Earthsea}} TV miniseries adaptation]] gave everyone a Caucasian race lift save for the main character's mentor who remained black, and the anime ''Anime/TalesFromEarthsea'', [[{{Mukokuseki}} due to the way Japanese animation portrays ethnicity in general]], made everyone look Caucasian.
72* ''{{Series/Outsourced}}'' (the TV adaptation) had a majority cast of Americans, Canadians, and British of subcontinental descent. This—combined with the subject matter of outsourcing hitting a nerve with Americans and its multicultural humor that Americans who'd never lived outside their country would not understand—led to the show's cancellation.
73* In ''Series/TheRealHusbandsOfHollywood'', Creator/JBSmoove eventually leaves the show to join the cast of ''Series/TheMillers'', and [[LampshadeHanging jokingly brags about how much more he's getting paid now that he's on a "white show"]] rather than a Creator/{{BET}} production. He's also seen wearing a shirt that reads "White people love me." In an earlier episode, Creator/ChrisRock guest-stars and explains to Creator/KevinHart the difference between being "black famous" and "actually famous," essentially invoking this trope in all but name.
74* ''Series/{{Undercovers}}'' is a spy series starring two African-American actors and with several actors of color between the secondary roles, however it was canceled in the middle of its first season. Though most seem to agree that the cancellation was mostly related to its boring, mediocre plots.
75* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in the episode "The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award". The main characters want to revitalize their bar to win an award (the allegory being that the "bar" is their TV show, competing against other shows for critical praise). They discuss getting some minorities in, but stress that they can't have more than three, because then it would turn into a "black bar".
76-->'''Dennis:''' Black bars don't win awards. I don't know why, but they don't.
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80* [[http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2011/12/celebrating-the-black-beauty-on-white-women/ This]] article, while mainly about beauty standards among women, notes that this trope (or the inverse) may be why {{Music/Adele}} and Music/BrunoMars were put in the "pop" category at the Grammys despite the fact that their music is usually described as R&B/soul/pop. The author also notes that Music/CeeLoGreen is not counted as pop, despite being just as successful in the mainstream as Adele and Bruno Mars.
81* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockism Rockism]] refers to the belief by critics that rock music is more "authentic" than other genres. Among other things, it is criticized for being the reason why critics often dismiss genres such as disco, R&B, and HipHop, genres that are mostly dominated by African-Americans. While rock was largely ''invented'' by African-Americans, by TheSeventies the genre was more or less dominated by white artists.
82* {{Jazz}} suffered this too at the hands of music critics when it first arose, and mostly due to racism and antisemitism; it stemmed from Black musical traditions, and most of the genre's biggest acts were Black and/or Jewish. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Entartete_musik_poster.jpg One advertisement]] for a "Degenerate Music" exhibition in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany even depicted a BlackfaceStyleCaricature with a Star of David lapel pin playing a saxophone. However, after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII led to many experienced musicians being drafted, the new wave of younger musicians shifted towards a more complex, improvisational style. This plus the rise of traditional pop and RockAndRoll as the new dominant forms of popular music resulted in jazz eventually breaking out of the ghetto, and in the 21st century, it's even taught in schools alongside ClassicalMusic.
83* Music/NewEdition suffered from this, having a mostly black audience. This led to their contemporaries, Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock, being credited for creating the modern BoyBand archetype, despite New Edition being the originators. In fact, NKOTB was explicitly created to be their white counterpart.
84* A big part of why {{disco}} viciously fell out of style for decades in the United States is that it was never able to fully escape this despite the explosion of its mainstream popularity. It had its roots in the Black, Latino, Italian, and [[WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame gay]] nightclubs of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}, roots that it never shook even as people from those scenes accused the genre's biggest artists of [[{{Sellout}} selling out]], and so for many (especially in [[FlyoverCountry Middle America]]) who didn't come from that background, disco came to be indelibly associated with [[TheHedonist hedonistic effetes]] and [[TheCityVsTheCountry city slickers]] bringing their lifestyles into the heartland. Music historians often see [[DiscoSucks the backlash against disco]] as intertwined with the broader conservative backlash of the late '70s and early '80s that eventually put UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan in the Oval Office.
85* Music/FKATwigs says that [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/09/fka-twigs-two-weeks-lp1 her racial background is why]] she is considered AlternativeRAndB, even though she believes her music has more in common with punk and doesn't consider herself to be R&B at all.
86-->"It's just because I'm mixed race. When I first released music and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before, it's not in a genre.' And then my picture came out six months later, now she's an R&B singer."
87* Music/JamesBrown averted this at first, but after releasing the Black empowerment anthem "Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud" as a single, he admitted that he lost most of his crossover audience for the rest of his career, effectively forcing him in the ghetto.
88* While HipHop is enormously popular all over the world, only the artists who cross over to PopRap become HouseholdNames with general audiences, and the genre still gets minimal support on mainstream radio and television. Additionally, many of the artists who ''do'' cross over are white, with Black artists (who founded and comprise the majority of acts in the genre) having a much harder time breaking through.
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92* Discussed by ''{{Website/Cracked}}'' in [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19549_5-old-timey-prejudices-that-still-show-up-in-every-movie.html "5 Old-Timey Prejudices That Still Show Up in Every Movie."]] Three of them, including the top two, address elements of this trope. #2 says that movies always star a white person (or Creator/WillSmith) and #1 discusses how white audiences don't care about history not involving white people.
93* Although their movies averted the trope, it's suspiciously alive and well in the Franchise/DisneyPrincess merchandise. WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} and WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}} are often featured less than the white princesses - possibly due to their lack of {{Pimped Out Dress}}es and coming from cultures that wouldn't allow for the Western-style gowns the princesses are often depicted in. [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jasmine]], an Arab princess, is likewise sometimes depicted in a western style gown. [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2819526/Disney-s-profitable-princesses-blonde-white-ones-hair-color-skin-tone-correlate-merchandise-sales.html A 2014 study]] showed that [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Tiana]] and Jasmine's merchandise sold considerably less than the white princesses'. A redesign in 2013 controversially lightened the skin tones of all the princesses of colour too.
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97* [[http://www.lethalwow.com/2015/09/13/bobby-between-the-ropes-the-wwe-divas-and-the-uncomfortable-subject-of-race/ Pointed out]] that Wrestling/{{WWE}} has rarely had a woman of color pushed as a top {{Face}} - management favouring Caucasian blondes and light-skinned Latinas. Black women tend to get pushed as heels and there has rarely been more than one Asian female in the company at a time. Further exacerbating matters after the article was published was Wrestling/SashaBanks getting such short Women's Championship reigns - despite her clear popularity. All the women she lost her titles to were blonde and white by the way. Later on however, the advent, popularity and long title reigns of Wrestling/BiancaBelair have worked to avoid this, including a Wrestling/WrestleMania headline match against Sasha.
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101* Issa Rae, the creator of ''WebVideo/MisadventuresOfAwkwardBlackGirl'', discusses this in this [[http://www.vulture.com/2011/12/issa-rae-on-the-mis-adventures-of-awkward-black-girl-and-creating-the-black-liz-lemon.html interview]]. She says that the show couldn't exist without the Internet because TV has a very strict notion of how a black character should act, which is why ''ABG'''s network TV adaptation was in DevelopmentHell for so long. A SpiritualSuccessor of sorts, ''Series/{{Insecure}}'' was released on Creator/{{HBO}} in 2016 (which could also reflect this trope, since HBO is likely the only network that would take a risk on a show with a majority black cast).
102-->"In one meeting, during the first ten seconds, this guy said, "The show is pretty funny. This is about a typical black woman with her black women problems." And then said big names were necessary to make it to television."
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106* ''WesternAnimation/OnyxEquinox'', the third Website/{{Crunchyroll}} original production to be released after ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' and ''Webcomic/TheGodOfHighSchool'' was also the least successful of the released originals up to that point. After a few weeks of releasing the episodes weekly, Crunchyroll eventually released the entire series the day after Christmas 2020 to burn off what remained.
107* ''WesternAnimation/SeisManos'' was Powerhouse Animation's first original series following the very well-received ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017''. However, unlike ''Castlevania'', ''Seis Manos'' drew on Mexican culture and a Mexican setting for its series. Also unlike ''Castlevania'', the show suffered from very low viewership and conversations with the showrunners (particularly during a 2020 New York Comic Con panel) seem to indicate that the one season is all that will be made.
108* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' reportedly had a lot of issues with obtaining merchandising deals, which was what led to its cancellation (albeit only after a respectable four-season run). This was despite the fact that it got incredibly good ratings throughout that run--at its height, only ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' was beating it out in its block.
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