Periphery Hatedom / Western Animation

• Any Animated Shock Comedy tends to have a Periphery Hatedom among deeply religious individuals and Moral Guardians, as well as those who just find the cartoons distasteful or offensive. Examples include South Park, Drawn Together, Rick and Morty, and shows created by Seth MacFarlane, mainly Family Guy and especially The Cleveland Show (While American Dad! has its detractors, it's considered significantly better and the best of the three MacFarlane shows). These shows do, however, have many fans who are deeply religious (especially South Park).
  • Family Guy has also often found itself being slammed by conservative Americans due to its liberal politics and the increasing amount of Author Tract in later seasons. The later seasons get similar criticism from more politically active left-wing viewers as well,^note despite creator Seth MacFarlane holding some moderately left-leaning views and supporting Bernie Sanders at one point, for the same reasons and also for undermining their own messages with offensive stereotypes, tastelessness, and poor execution.
• If a British children's book is adapted into an animated show, expect there to be people who are fans of the source material and don't like how the show made it Lighter and Softer and/or saccharine and childish. Examples include Make Way For Noddy, The Mr. Men Show and Thomas & Friends. ^note  mostly the later seasons and especially Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, the earlier ones have many fans including those of the original books. Make Way For Noddy also has a huge hatedom among the GoAnimate/“GOOD USER/BAD USER” community due to the titular character always acting positive and falling for the goblins' tricks. This has resulted in Noddy appearing in more grounded videos than more mainstream characters such as Joe or Elmo.
• Abby Hatcher has a huge hatedom of parents who despise it because of the Fuzzlies teaching kids to speak improperly (one example is how several characters say "me" instead of "I").
• There are parents who hate Adventure Time and Regular Show due to them having inappropriate things that shouldn't really be in a children's show and/or thinking that the shows' trippy imagery might encourage kids to take drugs.
• The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin gets this from people who think the characters are bland, find the animation and plotline dull, saccharine characters like the Fobs and it being one of a few shows that led to the beginning of the end of Saturday morning cartoons, as complaints concerning shows like it begun the Children's Television Act. Even the networks that aired it hated it and tried to pretend that it didn't exist by airing it in early morning timeslots.
• Almost Naked Animals is often called the worst of Cartoon Network's late 2000s/early 2010s crop of Canadian imports, possibly even below the infamous Johnny Test, by adult fans of CN, who loathe its cheap animation, ugly character designs, grating theme song, annoying characters, and heavy grossout humor. However, the show was apparently popular enough with younger viewers that it got nominated for one Gemini Award and three Canadian Screen Awards, received mostly positive reviews from professional critics of children's media, and lasted for 3 seasons of 52 episodes.
• The High Fructose Adventures of The Annoying Orange. Not only did it irk older Cartoon Network viewers expecting better original content from the network, it also premiered as the titular webseries was experiencing backlash over its popularity.
• Atomic Betty has a small hatedom amongst GoAnimators that claim it to be a rip-off of the “Koopa Toons” (which, mind you, came out AFTER and is not even a real series and could be a Fandom-Enraging Misconception!) and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.
• Even before airing, Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! got heated backlash on the Internet from fans of the past incarnations of the Scooby-Doo series for being more comedy focused, including the redesigns and portrayal of the main characters. The fact that it came after the much-loved Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated hasn't helped matters either.
• Bluey has an enormous adult fandom, but it eventually gained a small but vocal adult hatedom. Like with other preschool shows, the hatedom also consists of those who hate it so they can look grown-up. They hate the fandom for being fans of a children's cartoon, as well as the show's light-hearted themes. In addition, many members of the show’s hatedom came to dislike it because it’s so overwhelmingly popular and they just got sick of hearing about it.
• Caillou seems to have become for Millennial parents what Barney was for their Gen X predecessors, so much that the trope could've been renamed for Caillou. Those jokes about him having cancer or being bald from chemotherapy speak volumes. Aside from moms who have had experiences with their children copying the titular character's tantrums, parents make up only a small percentage of haters here—much, much more of the hatedom comes from high school students who (aside from wanting to look "adult" to their peers) simply hate the show for being slow, and 9-year-old GoAnimate users who dislike the show because the titular character tends to whine a lot in the earlier seasons.
• Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island, mostly because many claim it to be a rip-off of SpongeBob SquarePants. And one of the main voice actors on the show is part of the hatedom. The fact that it was co-created by Don Oriolo, the man behind the attempt to make The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat to be more like his father's take on Felix didn't help matters and only made the hatedom even stronger.
• Count Duckula has a small but vocal hatedom amongst GoAnimators.
• Curious George tends to get flack from parents because of the titular character always ruining whatever task he is assigned and not getting reprimanded for it.
• Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood gets this from fans of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, especially to people who think it's too hyper and cartoonish, and from typical GoAnimators who dislike the show simply for its art style. While most parents of the target audience adore the show, some parents find the songs annoying and the fact that some of the characters don't talk properly (like how Katerina and her mom have the Verbal Tic and perseveration "meow meow"). There's also those who find it problematic due to the "Daniel Can't Get What He Wants" episode, whose message of "stomping three times makes you feel better" was interpreted as a message telling kids to have tantrums.
• Despite its acclaim and Periphery Demographic, there is a Vocal Minority of DC Comics fans and other adults that don't like DC Super Hero Girls for its Lighter and Softer approach to classic heroes and villains with the biggest offender being Harley Quinn, who is Ruined FOREVER according to detractors. Many of those detractors complain specifically about her Adaptational Heroism while having no idea that comics Harley had been an antihero for years at that point. Its Continuity Reboot in 2019, which was a Spiritual Successor of Super Best Friends Forever with no relation to the original DC Super Hero Girls, made her and other traditionally villainous characters evil again.
• The newer episodes of Fireman Sam have gotten flack from many viewers and parents because of Norman being portrayed as a bratty prankster who promises not to do any mean tricks again, but does them anyway the next time in almost every single episode; in the older version of the show, he rarely did pranks and listened to the advice of the fire team.
• Many people who liked Garfield and Friends hated the U.S. Acres segments, because they were agreed by popular sources such as Platypus Comix to be annoying and forgettable compared to the well-written and adult-friendly Garfield segments. They eventually got a small following thanks to being liked by the strange Periphery Demographic of teenage girls. Not helping matters was that in the first three seasons, the segments always contained an almost always forced song pertaining to the moral each episode, a la Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. While most of these were surprisingly catchy (we're looking at you, Double Oh Orson theme!), even the aforementioned teenage girls believe Wade Duck's are the worst (except I Am A Hero) because he doesn't even sing — he sounds like his voice actor's just energetically reading the script.
• The Garfield Show gets a lot of flack from fans of the original Garfield and Friends for being too wild and zany as well as the changes they made to the characters. These include making Garfield talk with his mouth moving, giving Jon a Relationship Upgrade with Liz, and turning Nermal into an annoying Jerkass sibling-like character.
• Horrid Henry is very well-hated among parents in the UK, as it depicts a boy who continually exhibits bad behavior no matter how many times he's scolded by his parents, which often gets imitated by children who watch the show, much to the disdain of their parents. It also gains hate from other viewers because of Henry's parents' blatant favoritism towards Perfect Peter, which results in Peter always getting away with acting like a spoiled Jerkass.
• Jay Jay the Jet Plane: The planes, helicopters, and staff of Terrytown Airport offer entertainment, life lessons, moral instruction for ages 2-6...and CGI characters with Motion Capture faces. Additionally, some VHS and DVDs of the show were released by Tommy Nelson—a Christian distributor, who redubbed it to insert references to Christianity even though the series wasn't originally conceived as a Christian show, to the annoyance of some non-Christians. It says a lot that when a reboot of the show with a significantly less uncanny artstyle was announced in 2021, there really wasn't as much as a backlash as one would assume.
• Johnny Test: While it has proven popular enough with kids to be Un-Canceled twice (being one of the most-watched kids shows on Netflix in 2020), the show wound up gaining a notoriously fierce hatedom over the years from countless adult cartoon fans (especially of Cartoon Network). Common complaints include its incredibly cheap animation (while the show's first season, done in digital ink and paint, had an actual budget, the Flash-animated seasons, starting with the second, had their budgets increasingly slashed), repetitive gags and jokes (with the infamous whipcrack sound made as characters move being a particular talking point), unlikeable characters (especially regarding Johnny himself, who is often seen as little more than a selfish brat by his haters), clichéd plots (accusations of the show being a ripoff of Dexter's Laboratory are especially common), and in particular Cartoon Network's heavy airings of the series and constant orderings of new seasons during the late 2000s/early 2010s. It's worth noting however this mostly applies to the original run and first Un-Canceled run, as the Netflix revival has been much more warmly received by many (although it too has its share of detractors).
• Kate & Mim-Mim has irked many parents for its main characters being annoying.
• As pointed out on the Animation Age Ghetto page, some kids and teenagers back in the day steered clear of King of the Hill and enjoyed bashing it due to its more laid-back tone and more subtle humor compared to its predecessor, which was wildly popular among said kids and teens.
• Littlest Pet Shop. But it's ironic how most of the haters are bronies. The weird thing is that most of the fans are also bronies. Being created by the same people that brought us My Gym Partner's a Monkey, which isn't as well-liked either (it's considered average at best), doesn't help matters as well.
• Looney Tunes variants as First Installment Wins.
  • Baby Looney Tunes, though probably not meant for anyone over the age of six, has received particular loathing not just from fans of the original cartoons, but of Tiny Toon Adventures. In the latter case it's probably more out of embarrassment than anything else, since Tiny Toons fans see themselves as cool and fear being lumped in with the Baby Looney Tunes crowd.
  • The Looney Tunes Show gained a small one from fans of the original Looney Tunes cartoons due to its focus on sitcom scenarios over the zany antics of the classic shorts. It has since been Vindicated by History however for its sharp humor and characterization (especially of the formerly divisive Lola Bunny).
  • Loonatics Unleashed is loathed by long-time fans of the franchise due to it reimagining the characters as Animesque superheroes.
  • While Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production has its fans, many have gripes with the flat-looking art-style (sometimes drawing negative comparisons to Mickey Mouse (2013)), Limited Animation, the new characters, and a general lack of identity.
• Most people who grew up with the Katharine Tozer Mumfie books and/or Here Comes Mumfie will hate Magic Adventures of Mumfie for overtaking the version they grew up with in popularity, and because it's saccharine. The opposite sometimes occurs with fans who grew up with Magic Adventures of Mumfie-they will prefer that series to the older versions. People who hate the show who did not grow up with the books or the earlier series despise the fact that only one voice does the characters (when Britt Allcroft does the two queens on the show), say that the stories and animation are bad, and find the music saccharine. One Google Groups member said that all these problems made him want to throw a brick at the TV whenever he heard the theme song.
• Although My Gym Partner's a Monkey was very successful with young viewers during its time (being one of the channel's flagship shows during the mid-2000s), it does carry a strong hatedom with Cartoon Network's Periphery Demographic (mainly those who grew up in the 90s and early 2000s), whose typical complaints include the series' Sadist Show qualities and frequent Toilet Humour. There are also some who just dislike the Just Eat Gilligan qualities behind the show's premise. However, some of said kids who watched the show have since grown up to form a small Periphery Demographic for the show, and there are more people than not who just see it as So Okay, It's Average.
• My Life Me has an astonishing Periphery Hatedom from both Anime fans and Western Animation fans. Episodes on YouTube are glutted with scathing comments about the poor animation and horrendous attempts to parody manga. Many also point out that better Animesque series like Avatar: The Last Airbender exist that don't resort to the usual pratfalls that come from Western parodies of anime, and look beautiful. 4chan even called out the series for its glaring ignorance of the medium. However, considering how Screwed by the Network the show was in its origin country of Canada, it seems the network liked it even less than the fandoms did.
• Oggy and the Cockroaches developed one in Asia. The networks didn't consider the consequence of having a show that's already airing on a different network on its own network. Oggy airs on all of the big three networks in Asia: Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network, in addition to several country-specific networks. Understandably, people who do not like the show (or slapstick humor like those presented by Tom and Jerry and Mr. Bean as a whole) are having a hard time avoiding it, thus deepening their dislike for it, which is certainly not helped by how the series is Adored by the Network on all three channels.
• Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, despite being filled with nothing but appreciation for the original game and classic gaming in general both stylistically and in the form of Mythology Gags and homages, gets flack from adults because of its reinterpretation of the plot (despite the original game having had no plot to speak of), in particular the loads of new characters, as well as what some claim is an over-reliance on Toilet Humour (though it doesn't have more than most other animated kids' shows). It still does well with its "target audience," despite the fact they're probably too young to understand a lot of its influence.
• While Peppa Pig is a preschool show that many parents say is tolerable, it gets this from people who think that the voices are annoying and the animation is ugly (which are typically the bored teenagers who seem to make up the vast majority of the Preschool Show hatedom). There are also parents who believe that the show inspires kids to have bad behavior.
• Unlike its contemporaries, Pinkalicious & Peterrific got a huge hatedom due to being perceived as too girly and "not educational" in the eyes of some parents, as well as GoAnimate users. Many (even outside of the aforementioned groups) have criticized the main character's speech pattern of sticking "pink" onto every single world, the title of the show allegedly sounding like a porn title, and the excessive amount of Satellite Characters.
• The Problem Solverz developed one among adult fans of more popular contemporary Cartoon Network shows of its day (namely Adventure Time and Regular Show), partly because of its Sensory Abuse. Because of this, its second season was never broadcast on Cartoon Network, and was instead made as a Netflix exclusive before the show was removed entirely from the platform. Since then, it has gained a reputation with CN's Periphery Demographic as one of CN Studios' worst original creations.
• Scaredy Squirrel. Much like Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island, the show often got accused of copying SpongeBob SquarePants. However, this isn't the case, as the show is an adaption of a children's book series, a popular trend for Canadian cartoons. Even then, the show still got a lot of hate from people for being an extremely In Name Only adaptation
• Secret Mountain Fort Awesome was supremely loathed by the same fans who disliked its predecessor Uncle Grandpa or The Problem Solverz, due to its infamy as a Grossout Show, and many finding its characters to be incredibly ugly and its sense of humor to be way too stupid for them. Its negative recption from the channel's Periphery Demographic led to Cartoon Network cancelling the show after its second season and dumping the last eight episodes to iTunes. Unlike Uncle Grandpa, it hasn't been Vindicated by History since and most longtime CN fans think of it as one of CN Studios' worst shows alongside The Problem Solverz.
• Sid the Science Kid gets this from people who despise the digital puppetry used for the show. It's also been ridiculed in multiple GoAnimate videos.
• The Smurfs, which had all of the hatred of people who never watched it a good decade before Barney did. One defunct site even pointed out various chilling similarities while comparing The Smurfs to the KKK, though most haters usually compare them to communists instead.
• Spider-Man:
  • Ultimate Spider-Man has become loathed by adult Marvel fans who find the show too comedic and immature compared to other Marvel cartoons from the same period, or the comic with the same name.
  • Fans of The Spectacular Spider-Man in particular have a special loathing for it as many feel the show is not a worthy successor to Spectacular, which was aimed at a slightly older audience and was known for its plotting and characterization which Ultimate isn't. Others simply take their frustration on Spectacular being cancelled (for an unforeseen rights issue caused by the Disney/Marvel deal) on it. Avengers Assemble, which replaced the much-loved The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, receives similar sentiments for the same reasons.
• Squirrel Boy developed a Periphery Hatedom with older Cartoon Network fans during the mid-to-late 2000s, many of whom saw it as a dull series that completely failed to live up to Everett Peck's previous cartoon Duckman (though the two have very different audiences).
• Steven Universe is known for its huge Periphery Demographic, but at the same time has garnered a lot of dislike from other groups who dislike it for reasons ranging from Hype Backlash (due to controversial events within the more notorious parts of the fandom) to being, um, "feminist-friendly" (due to the wide range of body types and fashion and the presence of several gay and bisexual characters).
• Supernoobs became a target of vitriol for Johnny Test's Periphery Hatedom upon announcement solely for having the same creator. It certainly didn't help at the time that Cartoon Network's Periphery Demographic was getting sick of the prominence of Canadian imports on the channel at the time (a trend that started in 2007-2009). While some ultimately warmed up to the series (or at least found it So Okay, It's Average) once it actually debuted, many attempted to justify their hate of the show by claiming it had cliche plotlines and that the child characters were all extremely selfish brats. Regardless of what CN's adult fans thought of the show, it seems Cartoon Network didn't care for it either, as they didn't air reruns and punted it around its schedule before pawning it off on Hulu. Canadian imports were largely phased out of the channel shortly afterwards.
• Super Why! has several problem areas because many parents don't like the Viewers Are Morons plotlines, and fairy tale fans hate the Disneyfication of the fairy tales presented to the point of being politically correct.
• Teen Titans:
  • While the original cartoon now enjoys a massive fandom, it saw hate from older DC fans during its original run, with that group loathing its Animesque style, its comedic bent, and that it was Lighter and Softer than both the comics and then-concurrently running DC Animated Universe shows, with the writing and characters being seen as overly childish. Even as the show gained in popularity with this group, the comedy aspect of the series remained as the biggest point of criticism, with many bemoaning it as the worst element of the cartoon.
  • Teen Titans Go! has a massive hatedom from fans of both the original comics and the 2003 cartoon, due to it being a Denser and Wackier Black Comedy series that portrays the team (except for Starfire) as a barely-held-together group of loons that abuse each other as much as they do the villains. The potshots it takes at fans of the original cartoon don't help, nor does the fact that Cartoon Network kept it going for nine years by airing excessive reruns and constantly ordering new seasons. Many post-2013 Cartoon Network series have either been abruptly cancelled for whatever reason or have received little to no promotion and few, if any reruns (virtually guaranteeing their eventual cancellations). The series has also been Mis-blamed for the cancellation of Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series and is the first CN series to get a theatrical movie in sixteen years. It does have its fans, though, and the movie has turned out to be well-received even by some members of the show's hatedom.
• Teenage Fairytale Dropouts got a ton of flak just for its premise and artstyle (the former also getting attacks because of the title creating a few Unfortunate Implications, even though the characters are actually still in high school). Before release, bronies in particular hated it merely because one of the supporting characters was a non-sentient unicorn who appeared to be there for comic relief. Being released on the heels of Mattel's Ever After High series didn't help.
• ThunderCats Roar received very fierce backlash the moment it was announced for its art style being similar to Steven Universe and OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (among others), and being a comedy-driven adaptation of an action series coming off the heels of the wildly-divisive Teen Titans Go!. Others hate it because it's not Thunder Cats 2011 (which, ironically, also got hated when it first aired, albeit for different reasons). Roar's YMMV page was locked almost immediately after its creation due to excessive complaining, and its scores on review sites are extremely low due to excessive review bombing. The show eventually ended up getting cancelled after just a single season.
• Ever since its announcement, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go got an extremely sizable hatedom, consisting of fans of the original series (mostly teens or adults), a surprising chunk of parents, and a bunch of tryhard internet reviewers. Primarily fuelled by They Changed It, Now It Sucks!, many people were furious over the fact that the train characters in the show could move cartoonishly, unlike the original series' relaxed, realistic movements. Others complained about the drastic change of tone, and some people have even outright advocated for Mattel to bring back the original iteration of the series. However, among the hatebase, there has also been a sizable fanbase to go along with it
• Continuations of Tom and Jerry often get flak from fans of the classic shorts due to a combination of First Installment Wins and Lighter and Softer (to wit, much like Looney Tunes mentioned above, the original shorts were aimed at a more adult audience before the Animation Age Ghetto struck, which caused the franchise to become associated with children).
  • The Tom and Jerry Show from 1975 gets this because it retools the titular duo into friends and gets rid of the violence for the most part, with dull shenanigans taking their place. Joseph Barbera claimed that Executive Meddling caused the drastically lighter tone.
    Joseph Barbera: We ran into a stone wall because some citizens, for the protection of the children of the world, have decided cartoons are evil, that they're violent and full of mayhem. We showed [ABC] five of the old "Tom and Jerrys" and they laughed so hard, they had tears in their eyes. Then they said "We can't use them. If we put those on, we'll get killed."
  • While The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show is better-regarded than The Tom and Jerry Show (1975) due to returning to the classic formula, many feel that the very poor animation, monotonous soundtrack, and constant reuse of footage affects the pacing negatively. Also, in spite of the classic formula returning, the series is still much less violent than the originals. It doesn't help that much like the contentious Gene Deitch era, the rivalry between the two is extremely one-sided in Jerry's favor.
• Toopy and Binoo, a Canadian preschool show, has seen complaints from Think of the Children! type, more conservative moms and parent groups due to the title characters' frequent crossdressing and use of the word "fabulous", leading said moms/parent groups to believe that the characters are Camp Gay and are presenting LGBTQ+ concepts to children too young to make an informed decision on the matter, without an attempt to educate them on the topic. Regardless, the show's target audience is fine with it, as are more open-minded parents.
• Transformers can sometimes suffer from this. On the one hand, you have the GEEWUNNERS, who, through a combination of Nostalgia Filter and They Changed It, Now It Sucks!, vent their spite towards most incarnations of the franchise (especially newer ones) except the original shows (The Transformers and its sequel series Beast Wars) — this trope is blatant when their hate is directed towards the cartoon shows such as the Unicron Trilogy or Transformers: Animated. On the other hand, you have fans of the newer franchises who hate Transformers: Generation 1 (which is very, very unambiguously a kids' Saturday-Morning Cartoon) due to its Camp value and Hype Backlash caused by nostalgic fans' love for the original series (a GEEWUNNER or otherwise). The franchise^note except perhaps the live-action movies is primarily targeted towards children no matter what the older fans say, especially concerning The Transformers: The Movie.
• Uncle Grandpa had a pretty fierce one among adult fans of the major Cartoon Network shows of the day (Adventure Time, Regular Show, and The Amazing World of Gumball) when it originally debuted on Cartoon Network in 2013, with many calling it one of the network's worst original series, in part due to its extremely strange premise (the kind that really shouldn't be considered seriously) and humor turning them off. It certainly didn't help that the highly acclaimed Steven Universe debuted around the same time (and there was actually quite the backlash when the Crossover "Say Uncle" was announced), or that the title character shared some of the same traits as Barney himself. This largely died down in the years following the show's cancellation, and the series has been Vindicated by History with many due to newfound appreciation for its unique tone and execution, its masterful usage of Deranged Animation, and the fact that series creator Pete Browngardt would later go on to do major work on several acclaimed projects like Looney Tunes Cartoons.
• VeggieTales: Part of it is because of the vandalism caused by fans of the show to random pages on The Other Wiki. But there's a fair amount of hate from non-Christians, too, for being a religious show for young kids (though there is a Periphery Demographic among the same segment too). VeggieTales tends to have enough Parental Bonus (usually in the form of pop cultural references — e.g., the French peas guarding the wall of Jericho) to avoid the "babyish" criticism from adults, though.
• The Wacky World of Tex Avery is loathed by classic animation fans who see it as a complete insult to the man it was named after. Their typical complaints about the series involve how the show has nothing to do with Avery's cartoons, its extremely annoying theme song, and how the series replaced The Disney Afternoon (which carries great nostalgic value for many of these people) in some parts of the United States.
• Ever since The Jim Henson Company ventured into CGI animation, many vocal Muppet fans have called foul on various social media sites, saying that the company should stick to puppets and not venture out to other media. There is no real explanation for this behavior except for the irrational fear of They Changed It, Now It Sucks!. Word Party, for example, was compared to Teletubbies even before the show premiered. That's not even taking into the fact that the late Jim Henson himself didn't want to stick with puppets and experimented other forms of media.

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