What conclusions will future historians say about our cartoons.

>>89120939
i always had this thought that maybe in the future people will treat comic book superheroes as if they were real folklore.

>>89120939

>Hundreds of years from now

Brown apes will be grunting among the ruins.

>>89120988
meh you won't live to see it anyway

>>89120988
>implying that isn't what they do today
https://youtu.be/e_YJdcNhmLs

>>89120974

Precisely. Aphrodite, Thor, Odin - they were all once animated or fictional characters that following the destruction of civilization stuck around as tales spoken around fires. However, the remnants of humanity who actually witnessed the events couldn't make their offspring comprehend technology as they did. Likewise, their numbers were exceedingly low. With the flow of generations and unavoidable disasters by the time humanity reemerges from the hunter-gatherer stage religions around those figures will be a fact, but their true origin will be forgotten. Tales of magic mirrors which show the truth [screens/computers] and so on will become commonplace, as will tales of deadly spears which kill at great distances [rifles] and so on. Much further down the line the equivalents of Enlightenment figures will naturally decipher these "myths" through the lens of rational philosophy, psychology and so on. Then once more we will reach this stage, and repeat everything again. And again. And again. Because Earth endures forever and this is a prison - nothing more and nothing less. Time is wholly cyclical.

But those who rule the ruins are those of /pol/ and /a/. The swastikas drawn in caves around the globe, as well as the worship of waifus since paleolithic times have a distinct taste to them. A tiny fraction seems to escape this prison with each cycle, and those who remain sow the seeds of future victory against the Demiurge.

>>89120939

>yfw hundreds of years from now, some college student will write a thesis on who the best girl from your favorite cartoon is

>>89120939
We have those now and all they do is analyze the political aspects of Looney Tunes and how animators used their respective shows as commentary on whatever was going on their lives. War, celebrities, music etc. But mostly war.

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>>89120939

Just like now, television will be widely dismissed by academics as garbage for children while animated films get more serious attention even if they are still regarded as inferior to live-action.

>Clements and Musker will die in your lifetime
>John Lasseter will die in your lifetime
>future historians will observe Disney go through many more dark ages and renaissances

>Historian looking back through the ages
>Watches our modern cartoons and comics
>Scoffs to himself

One thing's for certain. They had shit taste in waifus.

>>89120939
This'll be remembered as the transition period between television animation and streaming animation. Probably not much else.

>>89121233
Fun fact, it's accepted by film theorists that the reason old cartoons have so many mechanical objects coming to life is actually a conscious or subconscious reaction of twentieth-century modernism and how technology seemed to be both helping people's quality of life while forcing many of them to lose their jobs. Really activates my almonds.

>>89120939
That we were wierdos.