'RIP Cartoon Network' is trending on X and thousands of posts have flooded the platform. Many are getting emotional over the rumours that the channel is shutting down for good and reminiscing how it made their childhood awesome. But are the rumours true? The trend is believed to have started when an X profile Animation Workers Ignited posted a video about the network being "essentially dead.
" The video claims that many animators are unemployed in record numbers and that some are jobless for over a year. It went on to claim that big studios are cost cutting by reducing staff and eventually CEOs and executives are reaping the benefits for themselves. Cartoon Network is dead?!?! Spread the word about what’s at stake for animation!!! Post about your favorite Cartoon Network shows using Active members of TAG can help by filling out your survey! Today (7/8) is the last day! — Animation Workers Ignited (@AWorkersIgnited) "When Covid first hit, animation was able to operate completely remotely, making it one of the only forms of entertainment that could continue production uninterrupted.
But studios repaid them by cancelling projects, outsourcing jobs, and laying off artists en masse," the narrator says in the video. It also asked the followers to post about the shows they wish were still around using the #RIPCartoonNetwork. No.
Cartoon Network is not dead and it's not shutting down permanently as many on X are claiming. Notably, this is not the first time fake news about the cha.
