How Cartoons Lost Their Audiences to Internet Hate

With Lesbian Space Princess, Jim Queen, and many other animated works getting criticized, and the new Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want To Be a Magical Girl getting whitewashed online, I wanted to take a step back and acknowledge how online critics have gotten more bigoted in the last thirty years.

Back in the mid-90s, Sailor Moon was censored on release, marking it as an extremely censored work that people fought to get uncensored. But the very things we tried to release from censorship are now the things we try to erase.

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