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I've noticed that YouTube has a lot of content farms surrounding PAW Patrol. If you were in charge of dealing with this, what would be your battle plan?
I'd probably tell an intern to spend 1 hour a day sending out copyright strikes to the obvious content farm videos, prioritizing the weird suggestive thumbnails. But honestly that would be about it because it's a losing battle and you can't really stop the endless tide of uploads. There's not really a solution so I'd only waste the minimum of resources on it.
Some people assume that Rocky is half Blue Heeler because his appearance is similar to an irl Blue Heeler/Australian Cattle Dog then half Terrier. There's also fanarts of Adult Rocky being smaller than any pups (except Skye since that's her usual size for the breed)
Just noticed that when a VA voices a Pup, it felt like it was made for them with their own charms. Each Marshall felt unique like Season 2-5 Marshall then Season 6 felt like almost a new character and same goes to other pups. Wheeler also felt like a new character in Season 2 because of the VA change.
Not a question but: BOOMER! BOOMER! BOOMER!
What's your opinion on all the people calling Paw Patrol "copaganda?"
My answer here might surprise some people, but I think it makes perfect logical sense.
If you believe in the concept of "copaganda", then PAW Patrol fits. It's positive propaganda for the idea of a benevolent police force. It introduces the idea that police officers are helpful and caring public servants to the youngest audience.
So if your belief system is that ACAB, everything about the police system is rotten to the core, things were better when mob rule dictated justice in our communities, and that getting rid of the police altogether would be a net positive because that would totally stop our governments keeping us in our place through the threat of violence, it makes sense to characterize PAW Patrol as copaganda. And being sapient and capable of objecting to their stations, they shouldn't get passes just because they're service dogs. Though perhaps they should get some concessions for clearly being around 8-13 years old in how they're written and voice-acted.
Equally, it makes sense that if you actually believe ACAB is true, ACAB should include the PAW Patrol, because all means all. Never mind that PAW Patrol seemingly portrays a utopian or at least extreme neoliberal society where private citizens trusted by their community have taken control of law enforcement at a local level so are if anything in a paradigm the defund the police crowd idealize (including understanding that fascists have weirdly appealing sartorial tastes). The trappings of law enforcement and authoritarianism are still there even if they appear to be in some post-scarcity commune and the bad guy is a moustache-twirling embodiment of capitalism.
Of course, plenty of people who say PAW Patrol is copaganda and that ACAB includes the PAW Patrol are just being facetious. It's just funny and absurdist. But it's also quite obvious that many of them aren't aiming to be funny and genuinely hate all police conceptually, so are rationally upset that a cartoon is teaching kids that the police are the good guys.
So yes. Probably unsurprising is that I don't subscribe to the idea that ACAB, a pithy and intentionally overgeneralized punk slogan currently being taken too seriously because in the US, AWLOCAB. (A whole lot of...) It isn't actually logical to say that because individuals are supporting a corrupt system, all of them are bad people, because we all support this system in our own ways, and the threat of government violence and incarceration simply becomes much more military without police. The number of armchair anarchists writing about ACAB on social media who will not rely on this system for protection or an attempt to get justice when in need is tiny. The default mode for the world SHOULD be that police officers are broadly a force for good, helping to prevent the threat of violence from petty criminals with the threat of government-approved violence. Believing there is an orderly society possible without the ever-present threat of violence is just youthful naivety, as is believing that local mob rule is better than a court system - as if mobs with twisted convictions of their own beliefs being just aren't the ones who do the lynching.
I live in several countries over the course of a year and none have a justice system nearly as broken as the US's. None have their rates of incarceration, nor their clear institutional problem with profiling and racially motivated brutality. I understand that police are an instrument of authoritarian government violence, but I also think that friendly local police officers are the best solution to the problem of crime and victimization that needs some sort of solution. Thus, circling back to our primary topic, I think PAW Patrol is just fine and there is no issue with kids' shows portraying the world as it should be, with benevolent and just police officers. I'm sure some people consider this the answer of a bootlicker, but you all have your own boots that you lick, your own threats of violence that keep you or those around you with criminal compulsions in check.
Copaganda is a concept that makes sense, and PAW Patrol fits the bill - but it's only logical if you genuinely believe that ACAB, which I'd say a tiny, tiny proportion of people who say it actually believe, or have critically questioned.
I wonder if whoever asked this expected such an answer, haha
Any specific dog breeds you’d want to see? I kinda want to see more furry textured dogs like Skye.
Y'know what? I'd really like to see a male poodle pup. We've collectively developed this weird set of rules - dogs are boys and cats are girls (flexible) except poodles, they're always girls (not flexible).
Though I guess this has already been kinda addressed by 100% Wolf. Still, I'd like to see it.
Otherwise I'd like to see a shiba inu, a corgi, a Jack Russell pup, a Yorkie and y'know what? Maybe it would be interesting to see a Blue Heeler. Though I assume that's gonna be off-limits for other cartoons for a good long while now!
Do you think that the new pipeline has characters that still look like their old pipeline (EX: Sweetie)?
Yes! Well, to some extent of course they all look like the old pipeline, but some like Sweetie and the kittens have hardly changed at all. Just fur tweaks, some extra detail in the hair and hind legs more true to real-world animals.
To be totally honest, I think these are the adaptations that have worked the best, and the more they've tried to change the models facially, the worse it has been - possibly excepting Chase. I'd love to see Marshall and Rocky with almost no changes other than added fur and their new legs. I bet they'd look better than they currently do...
Why did you block lyric Marshall he's upset and very sorry
That's Blueyandmarshallfan, right? That account kept on persistently treating me like a service to find HQ images over the course of months. When I refused for the umpteenth time and got a response like "I'm not asking you for pics, I'm asking you for a place to FIND those pics, it's TOTALLY different" I decided enough was enough. They also sometimes did things I had to be apologetic for, like when I retweeted a professional hockey team auctioning off their jerseys that the players had worn with PAW designs, and Blueyandmarshallfan replied to my retweet with "Do they have adult sizes too?" when they were clearly adult jerseys, not getting how that sounded like an intentional insult to the players, implying they wore child-sized clothes.
Anyway, after I said I didn't want to be an image finding service for that user twice and them still persisting in asking me to be an image finding service, I had enough and blocked them.
Since then I've seen they went around Reddit, Fandom.com and Twitter on what seem to be sockpuppet accounts to try to turn people against me and stir up drama, and had someone else (?) reply with harassing tweets (which thankfully I didn't notice til much later because Twitter marked them all as spam lol) so bridges are burned and I find it highly doubtful they are indeed "very sorry."
I'm not a super patient person and I'm fine with being called a jerk for blocking people, but I don't want to be involved in drama and I don't want attention on anything other than nice pup pics that I choose to post in my own time, and the latest news. Like I said yesterday, blocking people also isn't that big a deal, since it's very easy to get around on Twitter - I just don't have to see that person's posts or interact with them any more.
I hope this is the last question I have to answer about blocking anyone and from now on it's just enjoying PAW together without entitlement.
Do you think we'll get to see all the pups backstorys eventually or do you think some will be left out
Honestly, I don't think we will, no. I don't think the show will have ANY more. First, I think they don't want to run the risk of contradicting movie versions (you may say the apparent contradictions between Rubble's backstories in the show and Rubble & Crew mean they don't care, but it may also have made them actually start being cautious when they realized people DO pick up on this stuff). But second and more important, I just don't think they perceive some pups have an important enough presence in the property to warrant devoting that much time to. That said, they could always COMBINE a pup's backstory with something else. Another pup's that's being introduced, or the background to some conflict.
But yeah - I don't think the show will have any more backstories, and I think the movies will veer off from the pattern of one pup's backstory per movie before they get to Rocky and Zuma. Though we MIGHT see them in combination with something else. I can see there being a mermaid movie that happens to tell Zuma's backstory, for example
Why am I blocked??
I dunno lol. These are all the reasons I've blocked accounts that I remember
-You repeatedly repost people's fanart without crediting them / pass it off as your own
-You repost composites I've made efforts to put together without credit
-You take news I've taken pains to uncover and repost it as if you discovered it
-You've been very rude (cussing people out, pushing your fetishes on others etc)
-I ask you to stop doing something and you keep on doing it and are rude when I ask again
-You keep making off-topic replies and having conversations on my posts but don't even follow me
-You have "Paw Patrol" in your name but your account is actually nothing to do with PAW Patrol but still shows up in searches I do a lot
-You wrote that one of the professional artists' works I reposted looked like "disgusting AI" or something. But this person apologized and I would unblock them if I could remember what their username is! (Feel free to write it on Formspring if you see this.)
I see blocking not as a great insult or anything, but as a mute button that actually works. I understand perfectly well that unless I lock my account, people can still read my posts / steal things / take news to repost elsewhere. So if I've blocked you, it's not that I think your behavior will be changed by what I did or that my blocking you is a super big deal; it's just that I don't wanna see your posts any more and feel like my life is a bit comfier without seeing what you're writing or having you reply to what I post.
Do you think that PAW Patrol is basically a CGI Version of Looney Tunes?
Why do you not answer back when I write comments on your twitter?
I don't know! I do love getting replies~
Not everything needs an answer though. At some point Twitter stopped notifying me about replies from non-followers so if you don't follow me I may not see it. Quite a high number of replies get automatically flagged as potential spam too. I also mute some accounts that I've followed but who tweet a whole lot about things I'm not interested in, or who I struggle to have conversations with because their minds clearly work very differently from mine so I struggle with their logic and just have a better day if I don't engage. But I do seem to get notifications most of the time from muted accounts anyway.
In short I don't know, but I'm always happy to engage with relevant posts that are worded in a way that helps conversation flow!
Is it me or does Zuma start to sound like Tracker in the new episode?
I've struggled to imagine how a Dino theme for the Third feature film could play out. The first two movies have always leaned heavily towards showcasing advanced technology and grand urban settings, with the Paw Patrol being this constant centre of attention in the media and news.
I'm finding a jungle/prehistoric setting for the third movie jarring because there may not be people to save, nor the expansive city environment to play around in and show the pups niches.
I'd love to hear if you had any ideas!
Some interesting observations there, but I'd say
1. A precedent of just two movies doesn't mean we need an urban setting indefinitely
2. There's no reason to think the entire movie will take place on a jungle island. It's a fairly standard dino/monster movie plot (since King Kong at least) to have the first act or two on a mysterious island and then the final act (or two) in the city where the creature(s) can cause mayhem.
I fully expect them to follow the King Kong model - the pups for whatever reason end up going to the Dino Island and meet Rex, some ne'er-do-wells are either already there or follow the pups, and then kidnap dinos to take home like Humdinger has in the show. Then the big climax will be Marshall confronting his worries about always messing up thanks to Rex's kind words and he saves the day and probably learns some leadership skills while he's at it.
Will be kinda fun to see how well this answer holds up in a couple of years.
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