LilMikeSF<p>Despite WB association with a long history of top animated brands like <a href="https://c.im/tags/BugsBunny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugsBunny</span></a>, Tom and Jerry, Hanna Barbera, DC Comics, not to mention homebrewed <a href="https://c.im/tags/AdultSwim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AdultSwim</span></a> and other creations, ever since reality TV channel <a href="https://c.im/tags/Discovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Discovery</span></a> honcho David Zaslav stormed <a href="https://c.im/tags/TNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TNT</span></a> , <a href="https://c.im/tags/WB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WB</span></a> , <a href="https://c.im/tags/HBO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HBO</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CartoonNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CartoonNetwork</span></a> nearly all new <a href="https://c.im/tags/animation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animation</span></a> content has been going extinct on his embarrassing near miss of a streaming platform portal known as MAX.</p><p>Like a villain out of a cartoon, Zaslav has chaotically crushed his own corporate <a href="https://c.im/tags/ContentCreators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ContentCreators</span></a>, pulled the plug on the standalone Boomerang animation <a href="https://c.im/tags/streaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>streaming</span></a> service; offed the <a href="https://c.im/tags/ATX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ATX</span></a> based Rooster Teeth web animation platform and even yanked classic Daffy & Bugs based <a href="https://c.im/tags/LooneyTunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LooneyTunes</span></a> content off the menus.</p><p>While animated and children's content still pull ad revenue despite precipitous drops, competitors like <a href="https://c.im/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Netflix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netflix</span></a> & Disney+ can attract around 40%+ shares of kid viewership, the youth targeted programming on the dismal MAX app attracts far less than 15% of the tween audience, and even lower amongst the kinder and preschool demographics, also losing the adults in the room.</p><p>While Ted Turner once noted in a speech that “On the average evening, more adults are tuned to the Cartoon Network than are tuned to <a href="https://c.im/tags/CNN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CNN</span></a>.” Not to worry about that anymore my friends! </p><p>“Discovery came in, and it went downhill fast,” says Robert Alvarez, a retired animator who worked on popular <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cartoon</span></a> Network shows from the mid-’90s until the Zaslav takeover.</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-13/cartoon-network-and-adult-swim-struggle-to-survive-zaslav-and-streaming?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NzEzOTc1NywiZXhwIjoxNzQ3NzQ0NTU3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVzc1OFJUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNENDQzhDRTg0Q0U0RDFEQjA4OTAzRkU4NDcwOTJENiJ9.6RTH585s_l8JhNPdgiOnwkCBP_IcSyH49FXRpYeoajE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/news/features/20</span><span class="invisible">25-05-13/cartoon-network-and-adult-swim-struggle-to-survive-zaslav-and-streaming?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NzEzOTc1NywiZXhwIjoxNzQ3NzQ0NTU3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVzc1OFJUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNENDQzhDRTg0Q0U0RDFEQjA4OTAzRkU4NDcwOTJENiJ9.6RTH585s_l8JhNPdgiOnwkCBP_IcSyH49FXRpYeoajE</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SharedLink</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ContentShare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ContentShare</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PaywallLift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaywallLift</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a></p>