| − | |It looks like an ordinary, apolitical, animated suburban family sitcom until it pushes the LGBT agenda. Main character Lincoln Loud's best friend Clyde McBride is raised by a homosexual couple, and one of Lincoln's ten sisters is bisexual. The character artwork in this series is also unoriginal, being heavily [[derivative work|derivative]] of the Disney animated series ''Gravity Falls''. | + | |It looks like an ordinary, apolitical, animated suburban family sitcom until it pushes the LGBT agenda. Main protagonist Lincoln Loud's best friend Clyde McBride is raised by a homosexual couple, and one of Lincoln's ten sisters is bisexual. The character artwork in this series is often criticized for being [[derivative work|derivative]] of the Disney animated series ''Gravity Falls'', given that it follows what is termed the "CalArts Style", named for a specific character design pattern seen among animators who studied at the California Institute of the Arts and their characters. The CalArts style can be seen in other programs such as ''Star Vs. the Forces of Evil'', ''Steven Universe'', and ''The Amazing World of Gumball''. |
| − | |Don't let the cutesy character designs fool you in this one. On the surface, it looks like a harmless animated series about the beauty of family unity among a half-human-half-alien child, his benevolent human father, and his extraterrestrial friends who help the boy discover his superpowers. However, looks are deceiving—it really exposes children to several varieties of filth. First, the series teaches that gender confusion is "normal", as the alien characters, while they look like space rocks who turn into women under light, are actually androgynous, and it tries to use their androgyny to justify their lesbian and bisexual behavior (which is based on [https://www.autostraddle.com/rebecca-sugar-is-bisexual-steven-universe-creator-comes-out-at-comic-con-346094/ the series creator's bisexual lifestyle]). Because these sexless aliens look like women, the series has [[Feminism|feminist]] implications: the feminine-presenting aliens and even genuinely female humans are much more powerful or at least more competent than the male characters, many of whom are weak, silly, or incompetent. When male characters show some form of competence, such as the hero's father Greg, a former teen-rebel turned responsible parent, who has strong parental instincts, skills with construction, or even defensive driving skills, the feminists who rule the show give said male characters less credit than they deserve. Lastly, innuendoes are peppered throughout, especially in terms of "fusions", which were originally supposed to be battle tactics that involved combining the aliens' bodies and minds to form more powerful entities before the show's liberal writers shoehorned in the idea that fusions are expressions of the aliens' "love" for one another. Some episodes even feature Steven himself going from being male to being "fused" with his female love interest Connie to make a disturbingly androgynous hybrid, dubbed ''Stevonnie'' by Amethyst, shown to be one of the strongest characters in combat. | + | |Don't let the cutesy character designs fool you in this one. On the surface, it looks like a harmless animated series about the beauty of family unity among a half-human-half-alien child, his benevolent human father, and his extraterrestrial friends who exist as sentient gemstones with holographic bodies made of light and help the boy discover his superpowers so he can protect earth from otherworldly threats. However, looks are deceiving—it really exposes children to several varieties of filth. First, the series teaches that gender confusion is "normal", as the alien characters, while they look like women, are actually androgynous, and it tries to use their androgyny to justify their lesbian and bisexual behavior (which is based on [https://www.autostraddle.com/rebecca-sugar-is-bisexual-steven-universe-creator-comes-out-at-comic-con-346094/ the series creator's bisexual lifestyle]). Because these sexless aliens look like women, the series has [[Feminism|feminist]] implications: the feminine-presenting aliens and even genuinely female humans are much more powerful or at least more competent than the male characters, many of whom are weak, silly, or incompetent. Sometimes, male characters show some form of competence, as when the hero's father Greg—a formerly rebellious community college dropout turned responsible parent—shows his strong parental instincts, skills with construction, or even defensive driving skills, but the feminists who rule the show give said male characters less credit than they deserve. Lastly, innuendoes are peppered throughout, especially in terms of "fusions", which were originally supposed to be battle tactics that involved combining the aliens' bodies and minds to form more powerful entities before the show's liberal writers shoehorned in the idea that fusions are expressions of the aliens' "love" for one another. Some episodes even feature Steven himself going from being male to being "fused" with female love interest Connie to make a disturbingly androgynous hybrid, dubbed ''Stevonnie'' by series regular Amethyst and shown to be one of the strongest characters in combat. |
| − | The series' fan base, while it does not make up a large percent of the world's population, is one of the most vocally aggressive in the world. In October 2015, some fans [http://www.dailydot.com/parsec/steven-universe-fanartist-bullied-controversy/ bullied a teenage fan artist to attempt suicide] because she submitted fan art to the Internet in which she drew the main boy's long-deceased, plump alien mother Rose Quartz as skinny. Subsequently, the fan base became so divided that the show's writers were forced to get involved. Another instance involves fans actually harrasing show artist Lauren Zuke after she shared fan art, and was attacked on Twitter by those who believed she was advocating the "Lapidot" ship over other fan-preferred pairings of the show’s characters (none of which are official canon). | + | The series' fan base, while it does not make up a large percent of the world's population, is one of the most vocally aggressive in the world. In October 2015, some fans [http://www.dailydot.com/parsec/steven-universe-fanartist-bullied-controversy/ bullied a teenage fan artist to attempt suicide] because she submitted fan art to the Internet in which she drew Steven's long-deceased, plump alien mother Rose Quartz as skinny. Subsequently, the fan base became so divided that the show's writers were forced to get involved. Likewise, series storyboard artist Lauren Zuke was harassed after she shared fan art on [[Twitter]] by those fans who believed she was advocating a "Lapidot" ship (that is, a fantasy relationship pairing between recurring characters Lapis Lazuli and Peridot) over other fan-preferred pairings of the show’s characters, none of which is official canon. |