Your Personal Pop Culture DYSTOPIA Timeline

[farmerted555]

A deadlier 9/11 leads to pop culture and media becoming darker and edgier than it became post-9/11 IOTL, more shows that debuted in the 1990s that were long-runners or are still going on to this day like Ed, Edd n Eddy and SpongeBob SquarePants for example ending sooner or coming to a end unlike OTL, more video game developers obsessively chasing realism and dark lore-filled stories, emo becoming a more dominating genre, media becoming more prune to censorship, and overall, the 1990s dying out faster than IOTL.

Would there be a remake of the classic Really Depressing 1970s Sci-Fi Movie Starring a Guy in a Turtleneck?

 

[Otakuninja2006]

A deadlier 9/11 leads to pop culture and media becoming darker and edgier than it became post-9/11 IOTL, more shows that debuted in the 1990s that were long-runners or are still going on to this day like Ed, Edd n Eddy and SpongeBob SquarePants for example ending sooner or coming to a end unlike OTL, more video game developers obsessively chasing realism and dark lore-filled stories, emo becoming a more dominating genre, media becoming more prune to censorship, and overall, the 1990s dying out faster than IOTL.

Would Invader Zim last longer? What about Toonami?

 

[THE KINGFISH]

A deadlier 9/11 leads to pop culture and media becoming darker and edgier than it became post-9/11 IOTL, more shows that debuted in the 1990s that were long-runners or are still going on to this day like Ed, Edd n Eddy and SpongeBob SquarePants for example ending sooner or coming to a end unlike OTL, more video game developers obsessively chasing realism and dark lore-filled stories, emo becoming a more dominating genre, media becoming more prune to censorship, and overall, the 1990s dying out faster than IOTL.

It would also lead to a bigger shift away from sitcoms set in an urban location. And if this deadlier 9/11 somehow happened earlier enough, Friends might not develop into the massive pop culture phenomenon that it was in the 1990s.

 

[SomeGuyOnline]

A deadlier 9/11 leads to pop culture and media becoming darker and edgier than it became post-9/11 IOTL, more shows that debuted in the 1990s that were long-runners or are still going on to this day like Ed, Edd n Eddy and SpongeBob SquarePants for example ending sooner or coming to a end unlike OTL, more video game developers obsessively chasing realism and dark lore-filled stories, emo becoming a more dominating genre, media becoming more prune to censorship, and overall, the 1990s dying out faster than IOTL.

Other than Spongebob and Ed, Edd n Eddy ending early, this actually sounds kinda good?

 

[MegaToon1234]

Here’s another one:

Disney owns…
T H E E N T I R E P L A N E T !

Or just everything.

 

[GeorgeUK]

Another one:

Harry Potter is even MORE problematic, with Cho Chang being little more than a caricature from a WW2 propaganda cartoon (think "Asian Speakee Engrish" and doing kamikaze moves on her broom)

 

[THE KINGFISH]

I just finished watching this YouTube series on the making of Looney Tunes, so what if during the 60s:

• Instead of Daffy and Speedy being paired together, Bugs was allowed to be brought back - but he now has to be paired with Pepe Le Pew in every short.
• Due to plummeting budgets, Bill Lava is sacked and the new series composer is Eric Siday - a musician known for his prominent use of the Moog synthesizer for everything from experimental music to commercial jingles (including a certain logo).
• Instead of reopening the in-house Warner Bros. Animation studio with several Walter Lantz alumni in 1967, the shorts are farmed out to Walter Lantz Productions itself and directed by Lantz director Paul J. Smith.
• Mel Blanc quits in 1965 and Paul Soles voices every single character.

Basically imagine the Woody Woodpecker shorts of the 1960s, but with the soundtrack of Filmation’s iteration of Tom & Jerry.

 

[SomeGuyOnline]

Instead of Amazon Prime, Hazbin Hotel gets greenlit on a network such as Disney Channel or Nickelodeon, and exec meddling results in the show having all of its mature themes and jokes that were in the original pilot removed in order to make the show more "kid friendly", removing all clear references to hell (only referring to the setting of the show as in an afterlife/underworld) and toning the show's characters and jokes down drastically to TV G/Y7 level humor. Oh, and it still gets canceled after 1-2 seasons because the network doesn't bother actually marketing the show and it suffers from low viewership as a result.