wtf is wrong with cartoon network

All in all it's a cycle, that reinvents itself, and sometimes it creates people who lose interest.

All in all things like garbage websties like tvtropes and certain other places like to insist aren't true. Animation like everything else always had interests beyond just being for kids. In terms of some of the more heavy things, violence and most importantly pop culture. The latter one has to be repeated in order to be "gotten" by the new ones. If you grew up with CN in the 90s you got a decent education on lots of pop culture back all the way to the 30s. Because we were regurally exposed to it they always found new generations of fans. And the old ones could return and still enjoy them. (the only people who "outgrow" cartoons really are the ones who need to grow up, just because you don't like being an adult isn't justification for blaming a cartoon character that hasn't changed one bit from the act you saw as a child)

Cartoon Network originally relied a lot of replays of past shows before making their own. Their first major exodus of shows happened starting in 1997/8. However this wasn't a big deal, as quite frankly if you didn't like new cartoons enough of the schedule was given to allow you to enjoy the old ones.

By 2004 with the second exodus the signs of trouble were there but not fully manifested. While a lot of non-cartoon network made shows were gone for people who liked them, a lot of the earlier cartoon network ones were still there, so while part of the audience may have left but another was still there.

Then leading into 2008 with the last one, there really wasn't much of anything for people who didn't like the modern stuff, so naturally they lost a lot of their audience.

There's nothing wrong with a network moving forward and trying new directions, but the network in this case built a legacy for many years of doing that and giving older fans the chance to see older cartoons a chance. It was pretty solid in that till the later years.

Because a lot of the shows are telling of what generation they are apart of, a lot of people no doubt have cutoffs, of where the type of show on the channel didn't entertain them as much, which is normal, but if that was all the network had to offer you at the time, why watch it?

As of late it appears CN is trying to add a little more old flair back, but there's one major problem with their approach. The reason their brands are flailing is because they had a limited audience because as i mentioned older people no doubt left the channel as they rose, so playing older shows with the annoying Brak and Zorak bastardizations of great 60s characters aren't going to bring anyone back except the fans they already had, and add them with the new kids, that fanbase isn't going to be any bigger than many of the other brands with twice as many decades of fans that WHV passed on too.

Personally i think the scheduling people should get a better staff, give some older shows a little more chance and let them see if people will try them if they didn't before, this is a channel that already squanders the airtime of CN, Boom and AS with bad repeat blocks. Hell Adult Swim broadcasts the same 4 hours each and every night twice! How the hell is that appopriate, we could use that airtime to give some more time to others instead of watching the same damn episodes we watched in the same night.

If they offered the times fairly people may bite and maybe they'll even give the new stuff a chance, but as long as those networks are run like they are, i doubt their intake of new fans is going anywhere but gaining them as their born and losing them as they grow up.

Gamefaqs has a far worse population than IMDB