Counterpoint: Avatar has a ton of fan art and yet I could not for the life of me name a single character or anything from that franchise other than UNOBTANIUM.

Make no mistake - Dragon Ball Z was THE flashpoint for anime going mainstream in the U.S. When Cartoon Network started airing it on Toonami, it was an immediate sensation. Anime dubs and manga translations began pouring into America. That led to the rise of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh and other titles, and anime really never…

Dragon Ball Z airing on Toonami was THE flashpoint for anime becoming mainstream in the U.S. There were occasional anime dubs in the U.S. throughout the 80s and 90', but outside of Voltron no real big hits (and even Voltron wasn’t nearly as popular as the big 80's cartoons like Transformers or He-Man). Even DBZ…

A legend rests... Toriyama is largely responsible to this day for the explosive spread of anime throughout the world.

You can only bring someone back who died of unnatural causes.

This absolutely blindsided me. I was looking forward to his next few projects. RIP Mr Toriyama, and thanks for the memories. 

I think I saw Babydoll cosplay once—ONCE—but since it’s literally just a blue schoolgirl outfit, it could’ve been “slutty Beauxbatons student” from Spirit Halloween.

That’s because Rebel Moon IS fanart, and second-rate fanart at that - and nobody makes fanart of fanart.

I have, but it was a midnight showing of Priscilla Queen of the Desert at the Paramount in the mid 90s.

yeah 3 is REALLY brutal. i wonder if that was another reason they cut down on password sharing, so that they could also ‘massage’ the data like that. 2 birds one stone.

Lol this is so hilariously dumb it’s hard to know where to start, but it’s actually good to hear this from a director so people start to realize how stupid Netflix’s claims generally are. But 3 main points:

Fuck, Avatar has had more cultural impact that Rebel Moon.

I also question the apples-to-apples of it. People who get dressed, travel to a theater and pay their $11 to specifically see one thing aren’t really comparable to people who’ve already paid their $15 and are just settling for something to have on in the background while they fidget with their phones/iPads.

Yup. No one remember characters in Rebel Moon. No fanarts, not even R34 either.

Might’ve been the original title!

Y’know what’s my big judge of a movie’s impact? Fan art.
Barbie had TONS of fan art. Heck, there’s arguably fan art in-universe with America Ferrara’s out there Barbie designs.

Rebel Moon is supposed to be this sprawling sci-fi epic and I have not seen one piece of art for any of the characters in the wild. 

In terms of profit, THIS QUARTER.  Long-term profitability can go sink in a lake, perhaps?

we wanted to watch stuff...that is anathema to the current WBD boss...he hates people doing that, which is why he’s shitting so hard on HBO and everything else that actually costs money to maintain instead of just passively generating revenue without any investment. He even hates old stuff that costs money to host…

Oh so it’s our fault. We did... something. At some point.