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[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It sounds ridiculous but I swear to fuck there is a "trans art style." Like, I can tell if someone is a trans teenager by looking at their art. It's usually akin to the "CalArts style" (think Steven Universe and similar cartoons, simplified blobby shapes, bean shaped mouths) but a lot more messier, often with scribbly lineart, and features that seem deliberately ugly like massive ears, flushed noses, and droopy eyelids. It's honestly unpleasant to look at.

Apparently, it's also called thin-line animation, and it's because of this boring, easy to make art-style that I don't feel like watching western animation from the past decade. There are exceptions, like Infinity Train, but then you have the smorgasbord of aesthetically unpleasant(but still popular) shows, while they maybe well written, are never gonna be viewed by me and other people who are spoiled on Japanese anime and older Western cartoons. I just take one look at them and nope right tf out.