Dear John,
I just want to say congratulations on proving your haters right. Over the years you've been called, selfish, egotistical, pretentious, and overall ignorant among many other things. I used to be one of your defenders until recent years and I feel like an idiot for not seeing it until now.
Firstly, how dare you call any cartoon or creator lazy? Do you really think people who spent more time learning the craft of animation that you learned the fine are of basic common sense wouldn't bother putting in any effort to their projects. Even the poorest quality of animation takes a lot more effort to make than anything you or I could put out because we have no experience in the medium.
You say health care shouldn't be a right? Then I guess the Affordable Care Act, which was passed to give everyone health care even when they couldn't afford it beforehand, was rather pointless. You clearly don't know the struggle of not being able to pay medical bills to save a loved one's life or your own. You've clearly never had the displeasure of not having enough money to pay back the hospital after they treated you. If you did, you would know just how dangerous your argument of "health care shouldn't be a right" actually is.
You think Disney and Pixar are just greedy corporate executives cracking their whips over content creators. A bit of hyperbole, but it's not far of with how you feel about Disney or any of the major animation companies. Disney isn't just guys in suits having business meetings. It's also hard working men and women trying their best to entertain the audience. The people that make the films and TV show you hate more often than not are people how have always wanted to work for Disney and leave their mark under the Mouse House. They're not slaves under the thumb of a Pharoah who only cares about his own ego, and even if they were, you ain't Moses.
Your hatred for executives is exactly what's holding you back from making Growing Around a reality. You say you want to do it independently, but that's easier said than done. You didn't provide so much as an animatic in your Kickstarter to intice more people to back it. You have yet to make a pilot for your concept to get people invested in your idea. If you're really dead set on making Growing Around happen, than you need a financial planner to help you with investments. Whether you like it or not, you need a business plan to bring your cartoon to life; otherwise it's just going to be another idea in a sea full of them in your mind.
Your worst quality, though, isn't your pretentious attitude, or dangerous takes, or even your recent selfish review in which you imply Domee Shi was ignorant for not mentioning 9/11 in her film that's set in 2002 (despite the fact that it has NOTHING to do with the story). No, the worst part about you John is you are so cynical that you retired Admirable Animations. To you Soul was the last great animated anything, when since that film's release we've had a quite a few really good animated projects you could've and should've talked about. Netflix is absolutely killing it with their animated releases with films like Flee, Vivo and The Mitchells vs The Machines recieving critical acclaim. Then there's the animated shows on the platform like Kid Cosmic, Arcane, The Midnight Gospel and Inside Job among so many others. Outside of Netflix, HBOMax has really good shows like Looney Tunes Cartoons, Jellystone and Primal. Amazon Prime has been killing it with Invincible, The Legend of Vox Machina, and Undone and AppleTV+ has some shows like The Snoopy Show, Pinecone & Pony, and El Deafo. We are living in a golden age of animated content and you don't want to talk about any potential great ones because all you care about is trying to make your own animated project a reality.
John, when you started making reviews, you were irritated at a show's failures but very complimentary to a shows strengths. I thought if you looked kept talking about good animated shows and movies, you'd have a greater appreciation for the art form abe more understanding and respectful when you do critcise animated projects. Instead of that happening, you just became more spiteful, selfish, egotistical and ignorant to the point where everything your detractors said about you is true. You're not the worst critic, but you're most certainly among the most pretentious and I should've seen it coming sooner so that I could've help prevent this outcome. I hope you lose all your subscribers and people stop giving you money on Patreon.
Sincerely,
A Former Fan -.-
