A group of diverse cartoon characters, including Bluey and characters from The Amazing Digital Circus, stand in a colorful digital city with floating screens displaying logos like TikTok.

After reading all the stories about what's been going on in the animation industry as well as observing the trends of what gen alpha and young gen z consumers are watching and doing. I realized that maybe I don't want to work in a major studio anymore considering that they aren't greenlighting projects much anymore and only want to get the nostalgic parents to get them to pay for a subscription. Reading the horror stories It didn't make any sense to me why they didn't want to make shows for the next generation of kids based on some of the trends of what they wanted. It then hit me. Kids aren't consuming paid streaming services a lot and a lot of people in general are canceling subscriptions to streaming services on a massive scale. And cable numbers are abysmal. Ad revenue is disappearing from major streamer. I have even read from Netflix data that a lot of animated shows that their in house studio produced generally got poor viewership(partially due to a lack of marketing). The trend I have been seeing is that kids and gen z are pretty much getting at least 50 percent of their entertainment from YouTube(and other free platforms like TikTok and free to play mobile games). I realized that Indie YouTube animation would benefit massively from this trend. And I noticed that the most popular cartoons are nearly all indie productions not produced by the major studio system, the amazing digital circus from glitch, bluey from ludo(I hope ludo stays independent) punch punch forever, See more