>cartoon pushes a "be yourself" message >undermines

>>85430870
>The character also looked better when he wasn't himself

>just be yourself


Even if I'm an unlikable faggot with a vapid personality?

>>85430870
Is this just cartoons in general or a specific one you're mad at?

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>be yourself

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


no seriously whoever gave this "advice" should be shot and throw off the tarpeian rock.

>>85433026
You'd better share what you find

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>>85433055

They mean express your best qualities and filter the bad ones, duh.

>>85432471
Seriously, what if yourself is an asshole?

>>85432471

Sure. That's why Lapis is there.

>>85433026
MOAR

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>>85430870
>undermines its own aesop
>aesop
Aesop was a person, anon. The word you're looking for is moral.

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>>85430870

The all-time king of this undermining your own message of self-acceptance is the Arthur series of books.
The first book was all about how Arthur felt ashamed because he had an anteater nose and the other kids laughed at him, and he wished he could get rid of it. In the end, he learns to accept who he is and like his big, long nose. Isn't that great?
Then every book afterwards his nose mysteriously gets shorter and shorter until you can't tell he was ever an anteater anymore.

>>85430870
what if the subject wanted the makeover? the self is able to change, you know.