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[olivermoss]

This post is a few days too late, because Infinity Train just got announced as coming out in 2019.

BUT, here is a tweet from the show's creator addressing toxicity in the fandom, before the show was even greenlit:

"Hints haven't been working, so I'll just say it now: Stop shitting on other shows in the name of Infinity Train. You're taking the hard work that people put into their shows and disparaging it when they're trying to have their moment. It's just mean and breeds animosity. Stop."

I came across this tiny fandom for the show a while ago. I've had niche fandoms, but this was next level. An animated short existed, and some people speculated it would become a show mostly from stalking people's Linked In pages.

I've been in fandom a long-ass time. I've never seen anything like this, though.

The short looks cool and I hope the show is good, but ... just ... massive drama before the show is even greenlit?

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[undomielregina]

Honestly, I think Modern Western Animation is a necessary fandom distinction because there are so many different groupings of cartoons. You have Disney fandom, classic cartoon fandom, 70s and 80s and 90s Saturday Morning Cartoon fandoms, DCAU fandom, 90s Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon fandoms, 00s Cartoon Network fandom, just to get started. And anime fandom is there peskily forcing the Western qualifier. Modern Western Animation is a grouping of cartoon fandoms that I can make sense of and that actually needs to be distinguished from all the other stuff.