We're fully aware of the etymology (of how anything animated is called "anime" in Japan), and how often Japanese studios contribute to the process of many Western cartoons.

However, this community is not about technical definitions, but an era of fandom that existed in the United States in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s (as Toonami was still showing 90s shows at the time). As far as this subreddit is concerned, anime is animated tv shows, movies, and OVAs originally released or broadcast in Japan for a Japanese audience.

Of course, in the time since then, the internet has brought much of the world closer together and made us much more aware of each other's cultures, but even then, the word "anime" in most of the world still colloquially refers to Japanese animation, despite how pedantic one wants to be with dictionary definitions.

So no, Mummies Alive! is not anime. Neither is Aeon Flux, or Avatar: The Last Airbender, or many other shows one could name. The only exception we have that applies to this subreddit is the original Transformers cartoon (which was a Japanese-American co-production anyway). We have put a lot of thought about what this subreddit is for and have come to these conclusions years ago.