History YMMV / CartoonBrew

* NeverLiveItDown: Amid's notoriously [[AccentuateTheNegative pessimistic]] articles and attitude are generally the first thing that comes up when discussing the blog.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/6-stories-of-cartoonists-who-stood-against-tyranny-107608.html "Six Stories of Cartoonists Who Stood Against Tyranny"]], an article that is very much in favor of freedom of speech in light of the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jerry Beck is generally considered the more intelligent one of the two people who ran the site.

* ScheduleSlip: Current events articles usually pop up a day or two after said event occurred or has faded out of the public eye by the time the article goes live. This is because, other than just taking information from another source like they used to do, the writers now take time to investigate and gain insider information on their own accord, resulting in much more developed and insightful reads. This also means there are less links to other sites, making Cartoon Brew the more exclusive tabloid to read about it!

-->"The site prides itself on covering as broad a range of fiction as possible, emerging as a sometimes fascinating form of populist, open-access media scholarship. In theory, this would make it the perfect place to cover lost gems of animation, but in practice it has many blind spots. There is little discussion about [[Creator/JanSvankmajer (Jan) Svankmajer]] or [[Film/PropertyOfTheRepublic (Yuri)]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taltn1aLtsM Norstein]], while juvenile mediocrities such as Creator/{{Disney}}'s WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} are treated as masterpieces on a par with the television dramas of [[Series/PenniesFromHeaven Dennis]] [[Series/TheSingingDetective Potter]] and [[Creator/DavidSimon David]] [[Series/TheWire Simon]]. TV Tropes has a page devoted to what it calls the Animation Age Ghetto, which gives a reasonable if scattershot overview of the subject. The page's "examples" section, however, consists in large part of people filibustering about how their favorite superhero cartoons never caught on. The main reason that most of these cartoons never attracted adult audiences, of course, is that [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids they are simply not for adults]]. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with having [[GuiltyPleasure guilty pleasures]]. The humorist Creator/StephenFry summed things up well: a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', he commented that "every now and again we all like a chicken nugget." As he continued, however, "If you are an adult you want something surprising, savory, sharp, unusual, cosmopolitan, alien, challenging, complex, ambiguous, possibly even slightly disturbing and wrong. You want to try those things, because that's what being adult means." The ever-enthusiastic geek demographic certainly does not see animation as being merely for children. But it suffers from an inverted snobbery, with more inventive or experimental animation [[TrueArtIsAngsty dismissed as "pretentious" or "arthouse"]], and from a view of the medium that is built largely on [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgia for beloved childhood cartoons]]. Even dedicated animation enthusiasts can overlook much of the best work which is out there: perhaps it is in human nature for audiences to stick to the films which they think they might enjoy rather than try anything new."

* TheScrappy: Lets just say most of the trope entries that [[Administrivia/RuleofCautiousEditingJudgment were removed because of complaining]] were about or related to Amids posts. Also, both of the sites entries on the DMOS page are about posts he made. Now that Jerry Beck has left the blog, any reader who wishes to continue following it has no choice ''but'' to listen to Amid.

* AnimationAgeGhetto: The site goes out of its way to avert this, but its lampshaded when it pops up. One post, [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/how-can-we-make-adult-animation-truly-adult-86385.html "How Can We Make Adult Animation Truly Adult"]] notably discussed this trope, even mentioning TV Tropes in passing, albiet dismissing the actual trope page as misguided and narrow in its scope of "adult" animation;

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jerry is generally considered the more intelligent one of the two people who ran the site.
* GrowingTheBeard: While Amid's reputation remains contested among readers, many of the new writers hired for the site have been met with positive reception, particularly Chris McDonnell's [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-of-the-day "Artist of the Day" posts.]]

* NeverLiveItDown: Expect pretty much any conversation about the site to heavily mention Amid's rants and AccentuateTheNegative attitude.

* TheScrappy: Lets just say most of the trope entries that [[Administrivia/RuleofCautiousEditingJudgment were removed because of complaining]] were about or related to Amids posts. Also, both of the sites entries on the DMOS page are about posts he made. Although, with Jerry no longer on the site, readers may now have to ''deal'' with Amid!

-->"The site prides itself on covering as broad a range of fiction as possible, emerging as a sometimes fascinating form of populist, open-access media scholarship. In theory, this would make it the perfect place to cover lost gems of animation, but in practice it has many blind spots. There is little discussion about [[Creator/JanSvankmajer (Jan) Svankmajer]] or [[Film/PropertyOfTheRepublic (Yuri)]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taltn1aLtsM Norstein]], while juvenile mediocrit
ies such as Creator/{{Disney}}'s WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} are treated as masterpieces on a par with the television dramas of [[Series/PenniesFromHeaven Dennis]] [[Series/TheSingingDetective Potter]] and [[Creator/DavidSimon David]] [[Series/TheWire Simon]]. TV Tropes has a page devoted to what it calls the Animation Age Ghetto, which gives a reasonable if scattershot overview of the subject. The page's "examples" section, however, consists in large part of people filibustering about how their favorite superhero cartoons never caught on. The main reason that most of these cartoons never attracted adult audiences, of course, is that [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids they are simply not for adults]]. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with having [[GuiltyPleasure guilty pleasures]]. The humorist Creator/StephenFry summed things up well: a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', he commented that "every now and again we all like a chicken nugget." As he continued, however, "If you are an adult you want something surprising, savory, sharp, unusual, cosmopolitan, alien, challenging, complex, ambiguous, possibly even slightly disturbing and wrong. You want to try those things, because that's what being adult means." The ever-enthusiastic geek demographic certainly does not see animation as being merely for children. But it suffers from an inverted snobbery, with more inventive or experimental animation [[TrueArtIsAngsty dismissed as "pretentious" or "arthouse"]], and from a view of the medium that is built largely on [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgia for beloved childhood cartoons]]. Even dedicated animation enthusiasts can overlook much of the best work which is out there: perhaps it is in human nature for audiences to stick to the films which they think they might enjoy rather than try anything new."

-->"The site prides itself on covering as broad a range of fiction as possible, emerging as a sometimes fascinating form of populist, open-access media scholarship. In theory, this would make it the perfect place to cover lost gems of animation, but in practice it has many blind spots. There is little discussion about [[Creator/JanSvankmajer (Jan) Svankmajer]] or [[Film/PropertyOfTheRepublic (Yuri)]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taltn1aLtsM Norstein]], while juvenile mediocrities such as Creator/{{Disney}}'s WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} are treated as masterpieces on a par with the television dramas of [[Series/PenniesFromHeaven Dennis]] [[Series/TheSingingDetective Potter]] and [[Creator/DavidSimon David]] [[Series/TheWire Simon]]. TV Tropes has a page devoted to what it calls the Animation Age Ghetto, which gives a reasonable if scattershot overview of the subject. The page's "examples" section, however, consists in large part of people filibustering about how their favorite superhero cartoons never caught on. The main reason that most of these cartoons never attracted adult audiences, of course, is that [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids they are simply not for adults]]. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with having [[GuiltyPleasure guilty pleasures]]. The humorist Creator/StephenFry summed things up well: a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', he commented that "every now and again we all like a chicken nugget." As he continued, however, "If you are an adult you want something surprising, savory, sharp, unusual, cosmopolitan, alien, challenging, complex, ambiguous, possibly even slightly disturbing and wrong. You want to try those things, because that's what being adult means." The ever-enthusiastic geek demographic certainly does not see animation as being merely for children. But it suffers from an inverted snobbery, with more inventive or experimental animation [[TrueArtIsAngsty dismissed as "pretentious" or "arthouse"]], and from a view of the medium that is built largely on [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgia for beloved childhood cartoons]]. Even dedicated animation enthusiasts can overlook much of the best work which is out there: perhaps it is in human nature for audiences to stick to the films which they think they might enjoy rather than try anything new."

* TheScrappy: Lets just say most of the trope entries that [[RuleofCautiousEditingJudgment were removed because of complaining]] were about or related to Amids posts. Also, both of the sites entries on the DMOS page are about posts he made. Although, with Jerry no longer on the site, readers may now have to ''deal'' with Amid!

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: When ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' was brand new, Amid wrote an article decrying LaurenFaust's involvement as [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/the-end-of-the-creator-driven-era.html "The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation"]]. [[Website/FourChan /co/]] caught wind of Amid's article and fell in love with said show.

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: When ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' was brand new, Amid wrote an article decrying LaurenFaust's involvement as [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/the-end-of-the-creator-driven-era.html "The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation"]]. [[ImageBoards /co/]] caught wind of Amid's article and fell in love with said show.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/6-stories-of-cartoonists-who-stood-against-tyranny-107608.html "Six Cartoonists Who Stood Against Tyranny"]], an article that is very much in favor of freedom of speech in light of the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists.

* InternetBacklash: To the point where the Cartoon Brew forum thread on here is now locked.

* DudeNotFunny: Amid covering [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-culture/cartoon-loving-chinese-boy-attempts-to-kill-noisy-construction-worker-103177.html this article]] about a 10-year-old Chinese boy nearly killing a construction worker for interrupting his cartoons...and ''praising his act as a victory for cartoon fans''.

-->"The site prides itself on covering as broad a range of fiction as possible, emerging as a sometimes fascinating form of populist, open-access media scholarship. In theory, this would make it the perfect place to cover lost gems of animation, but in practice it has many blind spots. There is little discussion about [[Creator/JanSvankmajer (Jan) Svankmajer]] or [[Film/PropertyOfTheRepublic (Yuri)]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taltn1aLtsM Norstein]], while juvenile mediocrities such as {{Disney}}'s {{Gargoyles}} are treated as masterpieces on a par with the television dramas of [[Series/PenniesFromHeaven Dennis]] [[Series/TheSingingDetective Potter]] and [[Creator/DavidSimon David]] [[Series/TheWire Simon]]. TV Tropes has a page devoted to what it calls the Animation Age Ghetto, which gives a reasonable if scattershot overview of the subject. The page's "examples" section, however, consists in large part of people filibustering about how their favorite superhero cartoons never caught on. The main reason that most of these cartoons never attracted adult audiences, of course, is that [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids they are simply not for adults]]. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with having [[GuiltyPleasure guilty pleasures]]. The humorist Creator/StephenFry summed things up well: a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', he commented that "every now and again we all like a chicken nugget." As he continued, however, "If you are an adult you want something surprising, savory, sharp, unusual, cosmopolitan, alien, challenging, complex, ambiguous, possibly even slightly disturbing and wrong. You want to try those things, because that's what being adult means." The ever-enthusiastic geek demographic certainly does not see animation as being merely for children. But it suffers from an inverted snobbery, with more inventive or experimental animation [[TrueArtIsAngsty dismissed as "pretentious" or "arthouse"]], and from a view of the medium that is built largely on [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgia for beloved childhood cartoons]]. Even dedicated animation enthusiasts can overlook much of the best work which is out there: perhaps it is in human nature for audiences to stick to the films which they think they might enjoy rather than try anything new."

-->"The site prides itself on covering as broad a range of fiction as possible, emerging as a sometimes fascinating form of populist, open-access media scholarship. In theory, this would make it the perfect place to cover lost gems of animation, but in practice it has many blind spots. There is little discussion about [[Creator/JanSvankmajer (Jan) Svankmajer]] or [[Film/PropertyOfTheRepublic (Yuri)]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taltn1aLtsM Norstein]], while juvenile mediocrities such as {{Disney}}'s {{Gargoyles}} are treated as masterpieces on a par with the television dramas of [[PenniesFromHeaven Dennis]] [[Series/TheSingingDetective Potter]] and [[Creator/DavidSimon David]] [[Series/TheWire Simon]]. TV Tropes has a page devoted to what it calls the Animation Age Ghetto, which gives a reasonable if scattershot overview of the subject. The page's "examples" section, however, consists in large part of people filibustering about how their favorite superhero cartoons never caught on. The main reason that most of these cartoons never attracted adult audiences, of course, is that [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids they are simply not for adults]]. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with having [[GuiltyPleasure guilty pleasures]]. The humorist Creator/StephenFry summed things up well: a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', he commented that "every now and again we all like a chicken nugget." As he continued, however, "If you are an adult you want something surprising, savory, sharp, unusual, cosmopolitan, alien, challenging, complex, ambiguous, possibly even slightly disturbing and wrong. You want to try those things, because that's what being adult means." The ever-enthusiastic geek demographic certainly does not see animation as being merely for children. But it suffers from an inverted snobbery, with more inventive or experimental animation [[TrueArtIsAngsty dismissed as "pretentious" or "arthouse"]], and from a view of the medium that is built largely on [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgia for beloved childhood cartoons]]. Even dedicated animation enthusiasts can overlook much of the best work which is out there: perhaps it is in human nature for audiences to stick to the films which they think they might enjoy rather than try anything new."

-->"The site prides itself on covering as broad a range of fiction as possible, emerging as a sometimes fascinating form of populist, open-access media scholarship. In theory, this would make it the perfect place to cover lost gems of animation, but in practice it has many blind spots. There is little discussion about [[Creator/JanSvankmajer (Jan) Svankmajer]] or [[Film/PropertyOfTheRepublic (Yuri)]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taltn1aLtsM Norstein]], while juvenile mediocrities such as {{Disney}}'s {{Gargoyles}} are treated as masterpieces on a par with the television dramas of [[PenniesFromHeaven Dennis]] [[Series/TheSingingDetective Potter]] and [[Creator/DavidSimon David]] [[Series/TheWire Simon]]. TV Tropes has a page devoted to what it calls the Animation Age Ghetto, which gives a reasonable if scattershot overview of the subject. The page's "examples" section, however, consists in large part of people filibustering about how their favorite superhero cartoons never caught on. The main reason that most of these cartoons never attracted adult audiences, of course, is that [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids they are simply not for adults]]. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with having [[GuiltyPleasure guilty pleasures]]. The humorist Creator/StephenFry summed things up well: a fan of DoctorWho, he commented that "every now and again we all like a chicken nugget." As he continued, however, "If you are an adult you want something surprising, savory, sharp, unusual, cosmopolitan, alien, challenging, complex, ambiguous, possibly even slightly disturbing and wrong. You want to try those things, because that's what being adult means." The ever-enthusiastic geek demographic certainly does not see animation as being merely for children. But it suffers from an inverted snobbery, with more inventive or experimental animation [[TrueArtIsAngsty dismissed as "pretentious" or "arthouse"]], and from a view of the medium that is built largely on [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgia for beloved childhood cartoons]]. Even dedicated animation enthusiasts can overlook much of the best work which is out there: perhaps it is in human nature for audiences to stick to the films which they think they might enjoy rather than try anything new."

* JumpingTheShark: After Jerry's departure, some thought the site will now be nothing but angry rants courtesy of Amid. The other new writers arguably balance it out, though.

* GrowingTheBeard: While Amid's reputation remains contested among readers, many of the new writers hired for the site have been met with positive reception, particularly Chris McDonnell's "Artist of the Day" posts.

-->''"[[TVTropes The site]] prides itself on covering as broad a range of fiction as possible, emerging as a sometimes fascinating form of populist, open-access media scholarship. In theory, this would make it the perfect place to cover lost gems of animation, but in practice it has many blind spots. There is little discussion about [[Creator/JanSvankmajer (Jan) Svankmajer]] or [[Film/PropertyOfTheRepublic Yuri]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taltn1aLtsM Norstein]], while juvenile mediocrities such as {{Disney}}’s {{Gargoyles}} are treated as masterpieces on a par with the television dramas of [[PenniesFromHeaven Dennis]] [[TheSingingDetective Potter]] and [[Creator/DavidSimon David]] [[Series/TheWire Simon]]. TV Tropes has a page devoted to what it calls the Animation Age Ghetto, which gives a reasonable if scattershot overview of the subject. The page’s “examples” section, however, consists in large part of people filibustering about how their favorite superhero cartoons never caught on. The main reason that most of these cartoons never attracted adult audiences, of course, is that [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids they are simply not for adults.]] That’s not to say that there’s anything wrong with having [[GuiltyPleasure guilty pleasures]]. The humorist StephenFry summed things up well: a fan of DoctorWho, he commented that “every now and again we all like a chicken nugget.” As he continued, however, "If you are an adult you want something surprising, savory, sharp, unusual, cosmopolitan, alien, challenging, complex, ambiguous, possibly even slightly disturbing and wrong. You want to try those things, because that’s what being adult means." The ever-enthusiastic geek demographic certainly does not see animation as being merely for children. But it suffers from an inverted snobbery, with more inventive or experimental animation [[TrueArtIsAngsty dismissed as “pretentious” or “arthouse”]], and from a view of the medium that is built largely on [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgia for beloved childhood cartoons]]. Even dedicated animation enthusiasts can overlook much of the best work which is out there: perhaps it is in human nature for audiences to stick to the films which they think they might enjoy rather than try anything new."''

* AnimationAgeGhetto: Averted, but lampshaded once it happens.
** One post, [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/how-can-we-make-adult-animation-truly-adult-86385.html "How Can We Make Adult Animation Truly Adult"]] notably discussed this trope, even mentioning TV Tropes in passing (albiet dismissing the actual trope page as misguided and narrow in its scope of "adult" animation).
->''"[[TVTropes The site]] prides itself on covering as broad a range of fiction as possible, emerging as a sometimes fascinating form of populist, open-access media scholarship. In theory, this would make it the perfect place to cover lost gems of animation, but in practice it has many blind spots. There is little discussion about [[Creator/JanSvankmajer (Jan) Svankmajer]] or [[Film/PropertyOfTheRepublic Yuri]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taltn1aLtsM Norstein]], while juvenile mediocrities such as {{Disney}}’s {{Gargoyles}} are treated as masterpieces on a par with the television dramas of [[PenniesFromHeaven Dennis]] [[TheSingingDetective Potter]] and [[Creator/DavidSimon David]] [[Series/TheWire Simon]]. TV Tropes has a page devoted to what it calls the Animation Age Ghetto, which gives a reasonable if scattershot overview of the subject. The page’s “examples” section, however, consists in large part of people filibustering about how their favorite superhero cartoons never caught on. The main reason that most of these cartoons never attracted adult audiences, of course, is that [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids they are simply not for adults.]] That’s not to say that there’s anything wrong with having [[GuiltyPleasure guilty pleasures]]. The humorist StephenFry summed things up well: a fan of DoctorWho, he commented that “every now and again we all like a chicken nugget.” As he continued, however, "If you are an adult you want something surprising, savory, sharp, unusual, cosmopolitan, alien, challenging, complex, ambiguous, possibly even slightly disturbing and wrong. You want to try those things, because that’s what being adult means." The ever-enthusiastic geek demographic certainly does not see animation as being merely for children. But it suffers from an inverted snobbery, with more inventive or experimental animation [[TrueArtIsAngsty dismissed as “pretentious” or “arthouse”]], and from a view of the medium that is built largely on [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgia for beloved childhood cartoons]]. Even dedicated animation enthusiasts can overlook much of the best work which is out there: perhaps it is in human nature for audiences to stick to the films which they think they might enjoy rather than try anything new."''

** One post, [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/how-can-we-make-adult-animation-truly-adult-86385.html "How Can We Make Adult Animation Truly Adult"]] notably discussed this trope, even mentioning TV Tropes in passing (albiet dismissing the actual page as misguided and narrow in its scope of "adult" animation).

** One post "How Can We Make Adult Animation Truly Adult" notably discussed this trope, even mentioning TV Tropes in passing (albiet dismissing the actual page as misguided and narrow in its scope of "adult" animation).