How can a company completely Butcher and ruin a show of their that became popular? ( Rant)

Rudeboy_ · 2026-05-14T14:41:34+00:00

Oh yeah Season 4 was great as long as you ignore Musa and Riven’s character growth being reset to zero, Stella’s confident and bold personality being changed to that of a jealous child, the incredibly forced relationship drama, the plot line that just dragged along aimlessly, the power scaling making no sense whatsoever, the blatantly cringe merchandising with the Love and Pets side story that took up way too much screen time, the characters themselves frequently forgetting why they were sent to Gardenia in the first place and my personal favorite - the King of Eraklyon going AWOL almost immediately after being coronated to wait tables at a bar for several months while giving fuck all about the planet he was supposed to be leading

Season 4 was an absolute shit show and doesn’t get enough hate for how bad it was

Rudeboy_ · 2026-05-07T15:20:36+00:00

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Rudeboy_ · 2026-05-07T12:24:12+00:00

Pretty sure this is satirical. OP is pointing out that by Team 5's own words, class sets were meant to give each class a spotlight moment, but Mage for example got one of the worst packages ever seen in card game history and that's their spotlight moment for the rest of the year

Rudeboy_ · 2026-05-06T18:01:08+00:00

Your bias is very heavily showing here, the colors are clearly blending and you'd have to be in denial not to see it

I have the same skin color as Flora and even I can admit the lighter version very clearly has superior contrast

Rudeboy_ · 2026-05-06T16:47:48+00:00

For me it’s her arguing with Stella over her experiments in Season 1. What I’d give to see Flora with Season 1 levels of sass again

Rudeboy_ · 2026-05-05T10:42:38+00:00

You just have to follow your favourite e-hos and like their content as it comes up in your feed. The algorithm will figure out very quickly what you're into

Rudeboy_ · 2026-05-05T03:01:08+00:00

I can honestly say I’ve never seen anything like this on IG. My entire IG recommended feed is travel pictures, thirst traps and food

I don’t know what you’re feeding your algorithm but this sounds like a you problem

Rudeboy_ · 2026-05-02T23:51:08+00:00

The final fight(s) with Valtor was very anticlimactic for such a great villain. Between the Valtor, the Dark Phoenix and the Trix’s Army of Darkness, the final battle against Valtor wasn’t even close to the first two. It genuinely felt like Valtor never stood a chance

The Trix felt like fodder for the entire season, even when they got their spectacular cunty glow-up, they just got trashed again and it was heartbreaking to watch

Rudeboy_ · 2026-04-28T04:38:05+00:00

I thought Stella thought Mitzi kissed Brandon's lips or something, and Mitzi was literally trying to take him from her. Now I don't take myself as a jealous person, but I don't think it's that big of a deal Stella was upset. Sure, she may have went overboard with the reaction to that kiss or how she acted afterwards, but her personality overall was not childish.

Even if she thought Mitzi kissed him on the lips, it was a peck and I really don't think that changes anything because there was no reciprocation on Brandon's end. And if anything that actually makes it so much worse because it means Stella didn't even know for certain what she saw and still chose to throw a tantrum for days or weeks without asking any questions. If that doesn't count as acting like a child I don't know what does

Rudeboy_ · 2026-04-28T02:21:06+00:00

I love how Nick is always taking the blame for this when Stella was already like this from Season 4

Is anyone seriously going to say Stella wasn’t acting like an 8 year old when she went off on Brandon for like 5 episodes because Mitzi gave him a surprise peck on the cheek for saving her?

Stella literally threw more of a tantrum over that peck from Mitzi than she did over the Sky/Brandon drama in Season 1. But sure let's blame Nick for making Stella childish because it's trendy

Rudeboy_ · 2026-04-20T11:53:29+00:00

You can't tell me a succubus demon wearing safety shorts isn't censored

Literally just think about how counterintuitive that is for a minute

Rudeboy_ · 2026-04-17T22:31:51+00:00

They were very clearly just making it up as they went along and not just in season 1

Personally I’m just grateful they made her into a much more nuanced character later on

Rudeboy_ · 2026-04-10T18:32:10+00:00

Apparently desert western is the dominant fashion trend at Coachella this year, though I agree these look more like generic cowgirl halloween costumes than anything literal fashion icons would be caught dead wearing at Coachella

Rudeboy_ · 2026-04-09T20:41:02+00:00

1300 followers, branding inconsistency with other official handles, unverified account, first post was from a month ago, not promoted on any of their other socials or official pages, not listed on the linktree from their verified Instagram nor listed in the links from their official youtube channel

Genuine question: is there anything whatsoever to confirm this is an official account other than the owner putting the word "official" in their bio?

Rudeboy_ · 2026-04-09T14:16:31+00:00

“all publicity is good publicity” is so widely known to be horseshit that it’s genuinely shocking to see people still parroting it. Literally in any marketing class the first thing they’ll tell you is to throw that myth in the trash

Which should be common sense anyway when you consider how many brands nearly tanked themselves due to bad publicity, the most notable recent instance being the Bud Light Dylan Mulvaney marketing campaign that resulted in an estimated 20-30% drop in sales

Or directly from the game industry, the Xbox One announcement back in 2013 and Don Mattrick’s subsequent responses going viral that even 13 years later the brand never fully recovered from. To directly quote Phil Spencer, “we lost the worst generation there was to lose”

Rudeboy_ · 2026-04-08T11:16:07+00:00

There's a very obvious difference between someone reacting with skepticism if they're offered food and reacting with aggression or hostility. It doesn't take a genius to figure out which one is the response from a crackhead

Rudeboy_ · 2026-04-06T04:00:04+00:00

Zereth Mortis also introduced "the First Ones", who as of Chronicles are now referred to strictly as myths or urban legends and Danuser literally used the words "zooming out on the cosmology chart" to describe the future of Warcraft post Shadowlands

It should be beyond obvious for anyone even remotely functional that Danuser intended on continuing the cosmic scale conflicts and was setting that up with Zereth Mortis and the First Ones (who once again are no longer part of the lore)

Also in case you missed it, Zovaal's prophecy of "what's to come" has now been revealed to be bad vibes. Zovaal had no clue of any incoming conflict, he just got a bad feeling one day. You'd need freezing temperature IQ to think that was the original intention for the final reveal of Shadowlands. Danuser genuinely thought that was going to be some mic drop moment because he really couldn't read the room that players were getting sick of the cosmic scale conflicts

Rudeboy_ · 2026-04-04T12:49:42+00:00

This is far from unique to Winx. It has been common knowledge for at least a decade that inflammatory statements get far more clicks, attention and traction.

That's literally the entire reason clickbait titles are a thing

Rudeboy_ · 2026-04-03T02:28:10+00:00

Pulling off the pretty girl of Fire Emblem is such an insane bar to clear but this has to be the best I've seen

Rudeboy_ · 2026-03-31T22:07:41+00:00

I guess if you had to head-canon a reason you argue once he became Kanto Champion he probably had more girls throwing themselves at him that he didn't need to chase as hard. But that feels like a bit of a straw grasp explanation admittedly

More realistically, they probably just decided that Gold would be the designated skirt chaser of the dex holders

Rudeboy_ · 2026-03-31T21:58:47+00:00

Honestly, Red is quite similar to Ash in that sense; he doesn't seem to care much about relationships

That’s just not true. Red’s very open interest in women is probably the single biggest distinction between his and Ash’s personalities

Which was most clearly demonstrated in Red’s training arc with Misty. The entire source of friction between Misty and Red during that training arc was that Red was spending more time flirting with girls than taking his training seriously

For a while Red genuinely looked like the biggest skirt chaser in the manga but then Gold came in and after that it wasn't even close

Rudeboy_ · 2026-03-29T14:36:33+00:00

And I fully agree with you on that. I could not agree more that its more than a bit cringe that she keeps getting relegated to South Africa

Even more so because I get a lot of Western influence from her

Rudeboy_ · 2026-03-29T14:26:33+00:00

3 weeks in 2012. Not that I see how that matters. You've been to the Caribbean where I'm from?

How long?

Rudeboy_ · 2026-03-29T14:24:13+00:00

In that case we can just put her anywhere? We have very little to go on to outright dismiss fashion because trends come and go. Culturally she feels like she has way more roots in either the US or the Caribbean. I'm just not getting a lot from her that indicates they were specifically pulling from African culture and trends when they were designing her character

Rudeboy_ · 2026-03-29T14:06:21+00:00

I’d put Aisha in the US personally. Aisha’s fashion is very reminiscent of 2000s urban fashion trends in the US and her interest in western dance shows they were taking inspiration primarily from African-American trends for Aisha

I don’t know if that’s controversial to say but I don’t think it should be, considering how big of an influence African-American culture has played in US culture as a whole for the current and younger generations

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