Adult Swim Is Getting Exposed
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- It's time we expose [adult swim] and make them pay their employees! Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon Delivery driver and he may be a manager at KFC soon. Carey Means (Frylock) is broke and basically homeless. Dana Snyder (Master Shake) was only paid $200 per episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and recorded an episode laying on the floor with the flu. MC Chris (Hesh, MC Pee Pants) was S.A.'d while working on Sealab 2021. The entertainment industry is flawed and it's finally time we start holding these places accountable. Quiet on Set showed us the evils of Nickelodeon, Disney will get a documentary soon I'm sure, and Cartoon Network / Adult Swim aren't saints either. #greenscreen #fyp #capitalism #adultswim #cartoonnetwork #aquateenhungerforce #as #sealab2020 #brak
#spaceghostcoasttocoast #nickelodeon #quietonset #danschneider
Pool's Closed.
ALL KIDS GET OUTTA THE POOL. ITS TIME FOR ADULT SWIM. "HEY NO UNDERWATER TEA PARTIES"
Oh goody, I'll put on my suit and afro
Nightmare on Williams street
"No eating in the pool!"
Closed due to stingrays
Artists want to make art, people want to experience art, and then a lot of people in suits get in the middle and take most of the money.
yeah, fuck this, thats why i make my art for free, and when it comes to art funded by corps, yar har fiddle dee dee
@@Zionswasd And then corpos act like pirates are the reason artists can't make a living wage.
Read an essay named "Geeks, mops & sociopaths".
Suits are just the most recognizable form of grifter.
@@Shockguey Thanks for the suggestion, it was a great read. I wish I had read it years ago when I read "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. They would have coupled together well.
lol, so stop giving them money.
Now, I don't feel as bad about MF DOOM getting paid by them to make an album, then just ignoring their deal and not making it, basically scamming them-especially since he somehow managed to pull it off twice
The villian 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well at least we got that Danger Doom album. I think it was worth it just for the instrumental for "sofa king" alone. But that's a funny story and I'm glad you told us all, thank ya!
He's a hero for that in my book.
I thought I couldn't love DOOM anymore and then I hear about more of his villainy 😂😂😂
RIP, MF DOOM, the Illest Villain
MF DOOM is a hero for screwing them back.
(And by hero I mean the super motherfckn villain)
what did DOOM do to screw them over?
@@NewRomancer37I read this from another comment, but they said that DOOM was paid by adult swim to make an album, but DOOM ignored the deal and scammed them
@@solo_lebeau TWICE, the guy in charge had to beg Adult Swim for a second chance just for DOOM to say F it and scrap the Project anyway. He was notorious for hustling companies who'd pay him to do basically nothing (his album VV2 is highly speculated to be one of those albums).
@@liquidladdy dangggggg 😳
Dude these people made adult swim, they deserve a hell of a lot better than this
Lol nah they didnt
You only think that way after it got big. They made deals never thinking it would get big and honestly there wasn’t that much money in it to pay them handsomely anyway. Only now in 2024 can people say this with hindsight that they should have negotiated better contracts. This was a joke to them, all of it was drunken add lib, just like Rick and Morty was. No one took it seriously. Now that it’s pop culture they want to act like victims. Grow up. They missed the boat playing around too much.
Is it mentioned in the contract they signed? If not, too bad. You should read before signing anything
@@brandonmunsen6035they did though. Creative people in these industries deserve 90 percent of the credit
@@RhumpleOriginalits very sad that you think contracts mean anything to these people
"Losing invoices" sounds a lot like fraud.
It's the most common form of theft in the US (not shoplifting). Corporations would like us to believe that it doesn't happen, but it's so common I even used to work for a company that would not pay me because they "lost my invoices." I was really persistent with following up with them and I was excellent at keeping "receipts," so I did eventually get my pay checks (but it was often months later). The company got sued in a class action lawsuit, but I'm sure most people rarely get to take their employers to court. The system is so corrupt. :/
I had it happen to me. I kept sending invoices to a local company I worked for as a contractor. The company was always very late paying me, and would always lose a bunch of my invoices. I had to constantly email and call them to get paid.
Eventually I got into an argument and said I'm not doing anymore work until I'm paid in full. They stopped returning my calls. I'm still owed a few thousand dollars.
Found out later many other people refuse to work for that local company.
@@TheBigExclusive I'm impressed that you kept doing work for free then were surprised that they continued to take advantage of you.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool you for thousands of dollars? That's hilarious.
@@tim3172 - They were paying me. Just very, very, very slowly. It was also earlier in my career, and I didn't realize how shady companies could be. They would pay me for 1 invoice but "lose" the other 2 invoices. But eventually what they owed me became too much. The whole thing was a learning experience and I never allowed another company to treat me like that again.
it ran away to the paper shredder
The Frylock one is more upsetting because during his homeless saga, Adult Swim and Toonami had the balls to put on a preachy ad segment about Black Lives Matter
I mean it would be nice if every employer made sure past employees had it all covered, that's not really their department. What other companies do that?
@@freshrot420we're talking about shows that are still airing and they're refusing to pay residuals. Frylock's VA having financial troubles wasn't new at the time either, fans have tried multiple times to help him and get AS attention to help , MEANWHILE they also fired Aaron who created The Boondocks but no, let's spend money on a Black Lives Matters ad
Black lives matter! …Except the ones who work for us.
@@Arcademan09 They made those ads....and fired the black man who created The Boondocks. I don't know how popular the show was but I had thought it was decently popular.
@@PossessiveK they fired him because he didn't want them to control his show, he fought hard and the voice actors defended him too but as soon as he left the show, the quality dropped off a cliff especially since he was a writer on the show too
They screwed over metalocalypse Brendan Small also
You beat me to it
i'm not surprised at all. i wonder what other shows that haven't came up yet?
How is Adult Swim getting away with this??
@@kenrickeason Because they have very crafty lawyers write up the contracts and most people are just happy to be onboard so they dont fully understand before it's too late.
This one hurts a lot.
More attention needs to be brought to this. Adult Swim has had really shady practices over the years, especially when dealing with their creative teams.
don't worry they will grandstand in their ads about how no human is illegal or how x political figure is bad.
We're gonna have an animator's strike this August, let's hope that actually does something.
@@GnosticGnomeoh my god dude you wish, you can’t genuinely think they’d do that lmao
@@obeseperson they've done it
@@GnosticGnomefrom the network that aired the Boondocks to this 😢
As a guy who loved Adult Swim growing up, this hurts me.
Same..
Ditto
You speak for us all
I hope Michael Cusack, Zach and the rest of the Smiling Friends crew don’t get screwed over because their show only makes 23 billion dollars and not a 57 gazillion dollars.
They wouldn't have a show if they weren't currently getting screwed already, adult swim doesn't seem to work with people it can't screw over
@@thecianinatorWhat about Dan Harmon? He talks constantly how much money Rick and Morty has gotten him
Please tell me your being sarcastic with 23 billion. No show brings in a billion dollars let alone 23 billion. The only things that make that kind of money are pharmaceuticals, oil, and weapons and even then that's pretty high for a single product. Here is a question no one is asking, despite liking adult swim, where are the big advertisers commercials on it, it comes on on the middle of night, gets good ratings for that time of night but commercial airtime on a cable network in the middle of the night is very very cheap. Sure aquateen, space ghost and a few other shows got really popular and had dvd box sets and aquateen had a movie. I am sure cartoon network ripped a lot of these guys off, but with the exception of the most popular shows that they could sell box sets of and other products, I don't think most of these adult swim shows were ever huge money makers for the network, especially in the early days, in the 90's it was pretty common to have local commercials on it when you watched, and those bring in jack shit. I couldn't speak for now, I stopped watching adult swim in my late 20's so I have not watched since around 08 or so, but it was always low budget cheap commercials that came on during it.
@@chrish931 you’re right, I was being sarcastic. It’s probably like 49 billion, actually.
Nice. I hope the creators know ur 100% sloppy toppy glazing them rn@@OSSOYT
Adult Swim started as a little side project, but now that these shows and characters have endured for 20+ years, this stuff should be made right. They've been hiding behind that "we're just the little guys with no money" thing for too long, when it's a brand and it's parent company is a multi-billion dollar conglomerate.
They can't really say they're the small guys anymore when it's a dedicated programming block of cartoon network, along with now being attached to CN's Checkered Past block. Hell, even Toonami got put in Adult Swim, so they're far from the small guys.
I remember when they were a side venture, they weren't just a side venture for long. As soon as they became popular they should have renegotiated their contracts, the industry is ruthless.
I'd pay for a doc about all this named "Adults Drowning"
"Out of the Pool"
Pool's Closed
"Who Shit in the Pool?"
Adult Sink
@ZeepTheWocky ironically no "aids" were present, creators have to makedo by themselves without guidance
AYO I HATE ADULT SWIM THEY TOOK VENTURE BROS FROM US
Yeah that's the most important thing here not the missed payments and the sexual assaults.
@@floatingkites2420 CLEARLY THATS WRONG, I AM JUST SHARING MY PAIN, ONE STATEMENT FROM AN INDIVIDUAL'S PERSPECTIVE DOES NOT NEGATE THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION NOR ELEVATE IT ABOVE THAT WHICH WAS STATED, PLEASE CALM DOWN
we didn’t get a final season but at least we got a movie
@@some_guy117 OH YEAH? AND WHERE WAS BROCK? PERHAPS IN STEAD OF SHOVING A MOVIE IN OUR FACES, TYING UP A MULTITUDE OF LOOSE ENDS AT ONCE - ADULT SWIM SHOULD CLEANSE THEMSELVES OF THEIR LOVE FOR SIN AND DISHONOR
Think your capslock might be busted, buddy. Might want to blow it out with some compressed air?
Many years ago, I was changing careers and I wanted to become an animator. Through a connection, I got to visit one of the studios in Atlanta that was producing a popular Adult Swim show. Most of the animators in the studio were unpaid student interns and the lead animator made less money than I made as a public school teacher at that time. So, I took a different career path.
Was it Radical Axis Studios?
Now people can go indie.
It's so sad, I don't understand why animation workers get exploited for such hard and influential work
No part of the entertainment industry is safe. To think I wanted to be part of it at one time.
A cutthroat industry staffed with professional liars at all levels is not going to be honest or have too much integrity. People are trying to add integrity though.
@@Aloysius10 i had a friend who tried to become a hollywood actor back in the 90s. He's schitzo and lives in a commune in the woods now. he's one of the lucky ones.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 oh where is it?
I was an anime voice actress for several years. we were paid by contract and not given any royalties. Adult Swim literally plays shows with my voice in them and I make nothing
the funny part is I've been mad about Andy and the others from SG all week and this is the first time I'm even realizing that they're fucking me over too!
Ever.
Wherever you have that much money, power, & attention on the table, you better believe there’s gonna be some greed & neglect going on behind the scenes😔😔😔😔
I'll never forget watching Space Ghost one night at my grandparents' house and being made to turn it off because Space Ghost called some lady a harlot. I didn't even know what a harlot was.
Your parents don’t either but your grandparents did and they were very offended and disappointed in you
@Chineseisntalanguageapparently aw booho its a cartoon😂
Thats lame sorry man
@@jashardwallington why tf you talking like I’d be crying? Foh lil kid
Lol, they were just protecting your innocent little mind
What's going on behind the scenes at Adult Swim is just so painfully depressing.
Their top dogs don't get fair pay, their best shows get rudely plucked from Max every once in a while, and ever since Warner merged with Discovery, Williams Street lost touch with their indie side. Even their giant mural is gone now.
So much for a programming block that had a cultural impact on a generation. And to think that the cancellation of Venture Bros or trolling Metalocalypse fans were the worst things they've done.
The stories about Andy, Clay, and Carey specifically break my heart. Space Ghost Coast to Coast was my favorite show as a kid, and ATHF is one of my favorite shows as well. I knew these guys didn't make truckloads of money, but I definitely expected they were taken care of better than this. Dana is getting voice work elsewhere, thankfully, and hopefully, he is being treated better than he was at AS. This really just hurts. It makes me wonder why guys like Dave Willis seem to be doing well, but these guys are suffering.
Quiet on Set = Nickelodeon
Adult Scammed = Adult Swim... the next exposing doc
Prob Revolt media will be next, seeing its ties to diddy
More like Adult Drowned
Pools Closed
Or Adult Sinkin' or Adult Sinks.
this makes me worried about the future of smiling friends
Even the full April 1st Puppet Live Action stuff was mainly out of pocket from the producers of the show themselves.
The network is f*****.
Cusack and Hadel were already established before joining Adult Swim. They could continue the show if it was cancelled.
@@BigBoi-qf6vp Yeah, they actually cut their budget to zilch. Yet, how could they ever hire Mike Stoklasa to voice a character again?
@@joelklimkowski715 Most probably not.
@@BigBoi-qf6vpThat’s not possible. Once you sell a show to a company, the company officially owns the rights to that show, regardless of the creator is involved. It’s why the creators of Johnny Bravo, Brak, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and many more, are not allowed to make more of a show that they love. Adult Swim owns Smiling Friends, not Zach or Michael
Yeah, I think it was last year I found a reddit post from H Jon Benjamin talking about why he won't work on Adult Swim projects anymore and it was really disappointing to see how selfish the people in charge at AS really are.
Mike lazzo is a grade a shitstain that stands by his douchebaggery to this day
I’d heard that the creator of Johnny Bravo was mistreated, but I didn’t think Adult Swim was this bad. Faq em
Oh if you think that's bad, wait till you find out how Nickelodeon treated the creator of SpongeBob, aka their biggest money maker
@antonydrossos5719 Actually one of the big guys at Adult Swim fired Maxwell Atoms after saying straight to his face he ruined Cartoon Network, despite making one of its most successful shows, The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy, I believe it was also when he presented the cancelled Revival.
Metalocalypse. Brendan Small.
Super fucking screwed over.
And the fans are still pissed.
Ever since what happened with Moral Orel, I knew something was fishy. I just never knew THIS was what was going on
Adult Swim is a ruthless horrible place to be a creative that mercilessly destroyed their entire slate of iconic shows and, now I find out, the people who made them.
this is why piracy is the only ethical option
I would agree with you but how would you support the voice actors? :\
based
@@DB8ed VAs should have their own patreons or w/e, and get money from people who appreciate their work.
@@DB8edit wouldn’t, but if these greedy ass corporations don’t get a single dime from taking advantage of talented people. Then that’s a win in my book
@@thecoolaydang8104 Exactly. Besides, lots of people pirate stuff, like it so much that they drop some bucks on those who made stuff. Which again, while not the windfall of money they deserve, is still enormously better than the NOTHING they get from the suits controlling the legal content.
So, yo ho ho, me mateys, and raise the jolly rogers.
They also screwed over Moral Orel by asking them to be more dark with their writing, then cancelling them because it became more dark.
I think they expected Moral Orel to be like Family Guy and that the creators didn't go for the way they thought it would be when it consists of unnecessary dark humor for the sake of being dark without a punchline, maybe that type of stuff. I haven't seen Moral Orel myself because that's still fucked up for what Adult Swim did, regardless.
I was wondering why the flow of Moral Orel took such a dark turn. I think I missed an episode, came back and the mom was a cheater and the dad was a full-blown alcoholic. Hadn't seen a change that abrupt since I missed the episode Goku went super Saiyan for the first time
The animators, writers, actors etc gave me so much joy from [AS]. Disgusting what they had to deal with and still do
Wow. I used to really respect [AS] as one of the few channels willing to really take risks and experiment with their shows. I knew about the situation with Carey Means and thought it was shitty but hoped that was all there was. This is very upsetting to learn.
This makes me feel really bad, because Frylock and Shake were hilarious together, MC Chris is actually a really talented musician, and although I never saw Space Ghost, I remember Brak from Cartoon Planet, and he was funny too.
Voice actors bring life to the characters, and by extention, the entire show. These shows would not be the same without them.
If they treat the lead voice actors like shit, imagine how their animators are doing.
@@cooldud7071 I think you can kind of see the budget of these shows in their animation. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't treated well either.
I just learned what these people did to the creator of Johnny bravo and the original team there (Seth McFarland included)
Was it from the HatsOffMedia vid? Because that whole story stunned me
@@robinvargas8215yes it was. Great vid
No wonder Seth didn't let them have *Family Guy* and took it to Fox instead. That's probably the single best decision he ever made.
Adult Swim is barely even in existence anymore, It's basically just Warner at this point
And even that is owned by Discovery
@@madrigale6396 Which also has some shady practices too.
Those Brothers ruins everything they touch
@@madrigale6396they merged and lost tons of money from it. Whats a surprise! They also bought rooster teeth and now they're ending them
Excellent video!
I can almost guarantee we won't get a "Quiet On Set" for Disney. That was a political move, pure and simple.
Follow the money.
Warner Bros Discovery owns HBO Max and ID (Investigation Discovery) who are responsible for putting out the "Quiet on Set" documentary about Nickelodeon.
They have two real competitors in the entertainment industry. Paramount Global and Disney.
Paramount Global and Warner Bros Discovery are rival companies while Disney stays its own monolith, because nothing is toppling that empire. Think of it like Xbox vs Playstation, and Nintendo is Disney (complete with shitty copyright history).
Paramount Global owns Viacom, the company that owns Nickelodeon.
Warner Bros Discovery owns Cartoon Network.
"Quiet On Set" is not about exposing pedophilia at Nickelodeon. It's about crippling their competition.
Funny… you think Disney is immune to all the same foibles of other businesses? No, it’s quite ripe for such things… people see it as something it’s not: remember, the pandemic is n the rear view mirror and they’ve not recovered in the slightest. Disney will shutter within our lifetime.
Millenials hate the company, because the Disney Adults (Gen-X, Boomers) screwed us over for roller coasters, daffy duck and cotton candy. It’s not a fixable image in our minds, it is emblematic of everything we Don’t like about American culture and all of this stems from 30 years of deeply shortsighted marketing.
In the 1980’s the company was sucking wind, in the 2020s it is starting to sputter but this time there’s no falling Berlin Wall to prop it up. There is only the desert of post-covid trauma. A cultural landscape so shattered it’s products now come across as deeply
alien and trite, unfit for the birth of this new modern world.
Galaxy brain. You are so woke i've never even realize this. I wish someone made a channel, podcast, videos, social media accounts, etc talking about this kind of stuff!
Monopolistic hegemonic corporations hijacking the narrative to weave a colorful but ultimately false tale..? Noooo you don’t say, some guy named Marx predicted scenarios very similar in demeanor 150y ago.
I don't doubt you but it would be real easy to make a documentary of Warner Discovery. Especially Discovery. I've heard so many horror stories about TLC alone. It's just a matter of someone making it. Also don't be so confident in Disney. They've been going downhill lately to the point that even Disney adults are starting to wake up and complain. And you know how dedicated Disney adults are. It's like Kat Williams says, this is the year to expose Hollywood and believe it or not, I actually think Disney will be next. You don't just turn on a fan base that strong and not get consequences from it.
They admitted Brian Peck was on the set of *Growing Pains.* That show was from Warner Bros. So was *Head of the Class,* the show Dan was on concurrently. ABC even tried putting both of those shows together on Wednesday night. Bob Iger was head of ABC by that time. Nobody is getting off the hook here.
Being a genuinely good person in Hollywood is a liability. First off, many who gain power will abuse it, then those who want to be close to that power will learn to be permissive of it. If you want to gain entrance into the inner circle you have incriminate yourself so that no one can rat on each other. If you happen to ACTUALLY possess any scruples and deny "a good time" to many of these people, you're automatically marked as a threat and someone whose career needs to be suppressed. The entire hierarchy of hollywood at this point is absolutely corrupt. That doesn't mean everyone is doing something criminal themselves, but that those who are comfortable in their positions are definitely going to help obfuscate what is going on.
This. It's a club, and the price of admission is steep, possibly your soul.
Live long enough to see your hero become the villain.
More like always was the villian.
The more somebody paints himself as a hero, the more flaws he's trying to cover up with that paint.
They fucked over space ghost the hardest as well as squidbilles
The actual fuck? I'm glad I have a bunch of adult swim shows on a hard drive. I'm getting really tired of the entertainment industry being filled with cheats, sexual assault and pedos.
Now i know why discovery started to pander AS everywhere from night to morning in favor of Cartoon Network slowly dying and fusing with Warner Bros animation
Isn't it weird how all these millennial halmark corporations... Blizzard Entertainment, Adult Swim, all seem to shine their badges while paying their talent jack squat and seemingly telling them "You should just be proud to be here, that's reward enough"? It's a shame. It's why Blizzard and AS don't make good stuff anymore, all their amazing original talent literally couldn't afford to keep going like that and took off, because they were never taken care of. So now they only hire the people dumb enough to take these wages: silly kids who don't know any better.
This is what every job is doing to us.
sounds like most corporations to me
This is what the world becomes when it's run by tiny hat people.
And all we ever wanted was world peace
The entertainment industry is a useless one and filled with predators. Not surprised by how much it screws those with real talent over.
Useless? Definitely not, cinema has brought a lot of joy and wonder into the world and to say other-wise is deluded.
2:23 He also was one of the ones behind the creation of Toonami, since Moltar was the OG host of the show before TOM 1 was.
When they billed Rick and Morty over Venture Bros I was done with them.
I saw a hundred shows come and go since 2003 and after Lazlo left everything started to fall apart/come to light. I'm glad they are falling apart.
RIP THE Super Villain who was the one who got one over on them.
BREAKING NEWS
a major corporate entity has a massive track record of fucking over literally everyone except their upper management
in other news, water is fucking wet
Adult Swim was MASSIVE back in the day. They would run ads bragging about their ratings for their late night airings, if I recall correctly. DVD sales were probably very good. I know I had all the Sealab 2021 seasons and at least three seasons of Aqua Teen. This is crazy to hear, very sad. Streaming was non-existent back then. Very few people were downloading shows online except for the most hard core nerds. Broadband barely existed. This was peak TV and peak royalties. All these people should have been paid.
These are shows that defined an era! Adult Swim was EVERYTHING! Hearing that these voice actors and writers were getting screwed so bad, when they were the laughter, theirs were the tag lines we repeated, the shows we watched together, it's depressing as heck.
Well, at the time there wasn't a lot of faith in Adult Swim if anything they were testing if this would be another Toonami.
Now I know why Seth MacFarlane and Butch Hartman left Cartoon Network to get better deals elsewhere. They were the smart ones even if Hartman crashed and burned with that Oaxis shit.
@@Attmay Cartoon Network and Adult Swim are different. It was more about them wanting to be the show runner rather being just a writer.
You're right. They were there before AS got started. But Fox and Nickelodeon were making those offers and Cartoon Network was not, and as a result, they lost out on a bunch of hits.
Damn, did not know Adult Swim and or Cartoon Network was doing all this shit. Hope more people find out.
Makes me really happy now that DOOM just took the money and never finished the music for them
This breaks my heart but, I never watched a lot of the comedic shows on AS. I'm an otaku that was trying to watch Gundam wing uncut. I always felt there was something off about those shows. Looks like Justin Roland was the tip of the berg
Justin Roiland is clean, it turns out he was falsely accused by mentally unstable ex-girlfriend.
No company that produced television content was saints. The business practices were there from the start. By the time people my age got around to viewing the content, those practices had nearly a century of refinement.
@stellviahohenheim Oh believe me, you're preaching to the choir here. They can call you names, censor and cancel you, but they can't call you liars.
They can try, but in doing so they will only prove me right and give me cause to return the favor.
They should talk to Netflix about making a documentary about the predatory nature of Cartoon Network, feel like that pitch would sell itself in light of the Nickolodeon expose.
Who is going to be the one to go after Disney? It's just a matter of time before Cinderella drops her shoe.
Yeah Adult Swim is part of a bigger problem of the entertainment industry screwing over and abusing the same exact creatives who give these people money to begin with because of the lack of protection that they have.
They think they can get away with screwing the animation industry over worst of all because they perpetuate the lie that it's "just for kids," and so that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Animation is one of the things that made America great. That's the reason other countries develop their own styles and traditions. They were trying to compete with Disney and Looney Tunes and Max Fleischer and Pat Sullivan and eventually Hanna-Barbera. Animators still deserve better treatment than they are getting from Hollywood.
It's almost a tradition for networks to screw over talent. The soulless TV exec trope isn't an exaggeration.
Even *Garfield and Friends* got seven seasons out of it.
This is sad that these creators in this day and age are still being screwed over and left demoralized and penniless
>HydeWars 032: Blacklisted Desperado
He can't keep getting away with it.
This makes me scared for Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack, the creators of smiling friends on adult swim. I hope they are smart enough to document their exchanges...
Adult swim was basically run by tim and eric and they blackballed Sam Hyde baxk kn the day they have aleays been fart sniffing self loving weirdos that had lightning in a bottle and did nothing with it.
this is so disappointing
Tim Heidecker is responsible aswell.
I can't stand when he waxes political.
I like Eric better.
Unfunny freak Dodging Sam lol rimmer tim is the worst
I may not like some of Sam's takes, but he is objectively a better man than Tim Heidecker
What happened with Tim Heidecker?
How lol
Man I see why MF DOOM scammed these mfrs....
Christ it sounds like something right out of their shows.
This is really sad I never knew this they should for sure sue
This isnt Adult Swim its Warner Bros.
Adult Swim is owned by WB, same with HBO and Cartoon Network. All these decisions were likely upper management dealing with WB because of lost investments.
You have to remember Adult Swim produces its own shows. If it isnt making money off a show it's going to be cut instantly, and the contracts are going to be pretty lame, because to an extent, you expect every show to flop.
In truth this is so normal for VAs im surprised Adult Swim is the only one taking heat
Most of these wrong doings that was explained in the video was happening all before Waner Bros owned Adult Swims though and Turner was independent
@@TheStarBot Turner merged with WB in 1996, AS launched in 2003. You have your history wrong.
How do you make a video like this and don't mention Million Dollar Extreme??
Sam has talked about the people at adult swim having trouble keeping hands to themselves in the past.
This is a short, so there's not enough time to discuss it. Plus, everyone and their cousin knows the story of the cancelation and then some.
Because that attracts Sam's audience who are terminally irony-poisoned.
@@greasemonk4576HELLO!!!!
Adult swim needs to be torn apart and remade
Geez, everything sucks.
Both the private and public sectors are corrupted beyond belief. Everything is ugly and hateful. Our food is poison, and our outsourced consumer goods are getting flimsier and shoddier by the day.
WORLD PEACE
Finally, someone else who remembers.
I wasnt aware that the talent that worked on these Adult Swim shows werent union.
For this Don Bluth went to Ireland?
A good union and they’d never have this issue, but most animators are virgins and ambitious young adults who signed stupid contracts and now they’re regretting their decisions.
This is also a huge part of why I pirate media (aside from the insane stratification of streaming platforms), I know my money isn't actually going to the people who created the things I love, so why should I give it to them? Which seems like a really shitty business strategy on their part.
Do you sleep better at night still stealing the work that people created that you’re still not paying for?
@@ReeseArtReeseyuuuuuup.
@@ReeseArtReese I sure do. Because im moreso stealing from the corrupt, soulless publishers.
@@ReeseArtReese i do, i sleep with quite a lot of extra money not wasted on now middling entertainment. Not paying more than a dollar a day on a subscription i barely have the time to use, not paying more than 4 hours of labor on a game that's only fun for two, shit, not spending an extra 10-20 bucks on food that's neither filling nor satisfying.
@@ReeseArtReese Yeah man, IT WAS STOLEN FROM THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! Or did you not watch the video you are commenting on right now? Should I feel bad stealing from Adult Swim after they took everything from the people who worked for them??
I woudnt be suprised if this is the reason why MF DOOM canceled his AS collab
Wow… I forgot about that,
Didn't Adult Swim also cancel Moral Orel for depicting rape as a serious topic, while several of their other shows portrayed rape as a joke?
All kids outta the pool... Adult Swim
this in tandem with the long documented mistreatment of CN’s creatives really makes me wonder is WB is just addicted to screwing over the people that work for them
Blame AT&T for getting Warner into this neverending craphole.
There is one silver lining now. UA-cam creators are making shows for adult swim. Imagine the shitstorm if they pulled this shit on Zach and Michael. The backlash could very well end AS for good. And they probably think that because they already got away with doing it to Sam Hyde they can get away with it again.
I’m calling it now. There is a PR powder keg just waiting to explode when these out of touch executives cross someone with a devoted fan base.
we can't even blame Zaslav for this, right?
not all of these shows were taken down from Max.
Not in this situation, no.
Fuck adult swim 😢 these artists deserved better
sam hyde exposed a lot of this
He cant keep getting away with it
FREAK 🔥 TIM 🔥 HEIDECKER
First Nickolodeon, now the OG’s of Adult Swim? Frylock deserved better
Also Adult Swim needs to bring back Sam Hyde
The thing with Quiet on Set is that it only focused on Dan Schneider's shows. Nickelodeon is notorious in the animation industry for being a terrible studio to work for. If Adult Swim is getting exposed now, I can't wait for Nickelodeon to get exposed next. What they did to Stephen Hillenburg is inexcusable.
It's easier to sell a documentary about a sex scandal than it is to sell one about mistreatment of labor.
Corporate greed is the cause of all this friction, and we’re fighting each other for scraps. Fuck those guys, let’s take back what’s ours.
Damn... This is wild crazy
"Adult Swim itself is their own enemy".
if anyone knows about Sam Hyde they can recognize this same thing happened. they completely blacklisted him and his comedy troupe just on a whim.
Seems to be doing well after the fact w/o them tbh
@@juiuice 100% but no easy feat
Good video man, I love this network because of the nostalgia but I never have heard of any of the things brought up in this video. I hope your video gets more attention so people can see more about this.
This makes me so sad. My childhood/teens were spent watching Adult Swim daily.
Can anyone agree that the Justin Roland drama was just the tip of the iceberg
Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack should be ashamed working with these scumbags.
Please don't try advocating to virtue signal current creators it isn't there fault actors loss money
I was an extra on 2 episodes of "Joe Pera Talks With You" and was paid decently. About 3 months after filming my scenes, I got a letter in the mail from Cartoon Network (parent company of Adult Swim) asking me to give them back the money they paid me because apparently the production company that produced the show went way over budget and didn't need as many background actors as they used. I thought it was joke until I started getting phone calls from a collection agency a couple months later demanding that I pay back the $300 I got for spending 12 hours a day on set for 3 days.
I told them to fuck off and blocked their number.
Now Cartoon Network went out of business in 2023.
Whatever. IDGAF.
Cartoon Network is not out of business, it’s the production animation studio that was, and even technically speaking, they simply just moved under Warner Bros. Animation
I've dismissed MC Chris because I hate his music, knowing this now I'd like to wish him well. Stay strong man.
Adult Swim blacklisted Sam Hyde
I remember when they fired Early's (from Squidbillies, for the uninitiated) VA for speaking against the riots back in 2020, and they replaced him with a guy who literally did not even try to put on a fake southern accent, and AS was so surprised when that final season absolutely bombed and they had to cancel it to cut costs.
They fired him for being racist.
They fired Unknown Hinson for calling Dolly Parton a cocksucker and whore for supporting BLM, but nonetheless the show suffered.
“Artist begging me to stop? I won’t let em. Work conditions in my shop? I don’t sweat em.”- Walt Disney
Walt wanted his studio to take a vote on whether to unionize. They forced it on him without one. This was what disillusioned him from the socialist politics he was raised with by his father Elias.
Time heidecker owns a majority of adult swim
I hate adult swim for canceling million dollar extreme
that show sucked tho
@@chairshoe81 maybe you should actually watch it before you just say shit lol
@@BananaPhoPhilly watched the whole thing its ok man dont be sad
@@chairshoe81 Yeah-huh.
@@chairshoe81 I’m only sad because you are missing out. Maybe you’re too old to get it😔
I was actually just talking about MC Chris three days ago at work, due to the 30th anniversary of Space Ghost Coast to Coast being streamed. My coworker didn't believe me nor the situation and said he thought MC Chris was just hopping on the bandwagon, and I said no it was like 10 years ago. It's pretty fucked up, as that was one of my favorite shows when I was a teen.
adult swim put most of these people under shit contracts when they could get away with it simply because the programming block wasnt supposed to succeed from any perspective so they were able to sign ppl like Dana and Brak onto contracts for peanuts. however one thing i dont know is if they ever tried to reevaluate theyre contracts during these shows runs and were denied or if they just waited 20 years to come out and say theyre owed retroactively. and thats a huge difference like look they 100% got railed by turner media but its extremely common practice in the industry to redo ur contract during the later seasons if a show is proven to be popular. its extremely hard to get a win for the actors out of situations like this even if they take it to court over lost wages 99.99999% of courts in cali r or georgia where the majority of animation is done these days is gonna shoot that shit down immediately and say something like "ultimately they signed a shit contract and shouldve gotten it vetted better" its gonna be an extremely tough situation for these guys to get their justice i fear.
Doc Hammer, Brendan Small, Dino and Sam Hyde are others who got screwed. According to Sam AS has cliques and the management is scummy.
Sam had issues with some other comedians who were chummy with the higher-ups so they got him canned but asked him for his comedy ideas because they liked them.
The whole place is cancer.
Look at Sam Hyde, say what you want about the dude, but they showed exactly how they treat their employees with him. Just completely unprofessional.
I didnt even know half of these things... I wont be able to watch Coast to Coast or Aqua Teen the same way again man.
What people need to remember is cartoons is an industry of sexually frustrated nerds protected by fleets of CORPORATE LAWYERS. I worked in and around the animation industry for about 8 years as a voice actor and writer for big named indie things.
Pfff these lawyers are dum5 as F
I mean, from the get-go animation was founded on the idea that it was a lot cheaper to make than it really was. And now we're seeing an especially hard time because there is a real hunger for animated projects and no one wants to pay for it.
May have been a blessing Sam Hyde got let go from as