Lol, Télétoon!

It's likely that Télétoon is one of perhaps, the latest survivor of specialty network that themed of contents aimed for youths, with the WildBrain batch of Cable and Digital specialties to shutting down by this Thursday. But like its english counterpart, Télétoon was deemed at a obnoxious, loud and grating spoiled-brat who don't give a damn about follow the rules. It exemplify the weak reception when they beginning to ran Anime in the 00s like Beyblade, Cardcaptor Sakura, The now-on forgettable Digimon: Digital Monsters, the whole Bakugan series and of course, Pokémon!

It also embody to funds for be able to producing tons of appaling productions over the years from different Canadian studios (The majority of them don't exists anymore) with a right 60% Cancon quota to respected that. Télétoon was also able to ran commercials in appropriate hours, and it is something that were lacked in our age, where the advertising revenues for basic Television stays murky and that youths have for long abandonned linear TV for the ones from streaming, YouTube or Tiktok.

Now that the complete "Teletoon At Night" block to be fully revamped for omit everything The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad, what's left is some Adult Swim acquisitions in there. The inclusion of Smiling Friends in November only tell the reality that I was afraid of, over fifteen years ago, that Télétoon will only shown cartoons from the America by reach a monopoly of the artform.

When the likes of Courage, the Cowardly Dog, Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo, a fewer seasons of Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy and even so, The Ren & Stimpy Show were programmed in very watchable hours back over a quarter-century, it was like a bite-sized paradise when it was actually the works of creators with unique visions to tell things and with a wink of self-satire as well. But when all these outings were completely removed, the dull, dreary and ordinary Télétoon that has populated has begun to shown its claws. And that staying the same today, and who on Corus Média, have control of what they airing on?

It's since decades that I haven't watched entirely a show from Télétoon if the many good shows, even those in reruns, were faded away for the newer stuff, that were all the more awkward to look. Poor Flash animation, talkier characters, frantically bad pacing and out-of-nowhere jokes become the norm to Télétoon as the way Xilam's chief producer Marc Du Pontavice has pull his business with many slapstick and gross violence in there. I don't think anyone felt sorry of his loss.

But looking of Télétoon in 2025, with almost nothing new or original in store, its future remains uncertain. The complete removal of The Simpsons is somehow, a point of no-return for a 24/7 animated Television that has shattered its identity all over. The cable specialty channel face with very troublesome financing problems, but whatever. No one are going to miss Télétoon if it disappeared completely, especially not parents who were concerned that a lot of the shows they were ran at that time were often crass, violent and visually ugly.

And you known what is all the more ill-fitting? Make producing a faux-Manga TV cartoon that none Japanese studios ever worked out and make it all the more grating and ill-fitting. That results, the Télétoon's nadir of 2010s animation, My Life Me! If you own a sort of love for this or anything, well fuck you!