It has been an interesting topic that I couldn’t find an exact answer to.

I am not calling them the “Kim Dynasty,” like anticommunist propaganda says, but I find it rather unusual that the family of the founding leader is the “face” of the DPRK.

I’m not saying that they shouldn’t be politicians; I just find it interesting since the other AES states don’t/didn’t have that dynamic.

    • ArcticFoxSmiles@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      5 months ago

      The show has been on since 1999 and is still going on, this means a lot of Americans grew up. This is the one of the only children shows in the United States that has been going on that long in modern times except besides Sesame Street although Sesame Street largely spend its time being produced by government funded, PBS which has protected it until 2016 when it was given to HBO and then later Netflix. SpongeBob is also the fourth longest-running American animated series in history, and the longest-running American children’s animated series as of 2025. The re-runs of SpongeBob are constant which is why it is still popular as the newer episodes are terrible. It had a decline in Season 5 after the episode, SpongeHenge and later on it had a much steeper decline which made SpongeBob basically brainrot.

      • BarrelsBallot@lemmygrad.ml
        9·
        5 months ago

        Wrong.

        In the U.S two generations of children have been indoctrinated to idolize a fictional character who is overtly exploited by his boss yet loves his occupation, lives in a city with no public transportation, and has no family of his own despite being 39 years old due to a lack of social services / community.