There was a long read article that came out a few years ago called "How Snoopy Killed Peanuts:"

https://kotaku.com/how-snoopy-killed-peanuts-1724269473

about how Peanuts lost it's edge once the "cute" popular dog was introduced, whereas prior it used to be more subversive, philosophical/theoretical with darker material.

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PakG1 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's too bad that there are probably meant to be so many example comics in that article, judging from how it's written, and what's really there is just ads where the comics are probably supposed to be. Wonder what happened.

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randycupertino 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Kokatu was part of Gawker which was killed by Peter Thiel (who went after Gawker media by funding lawsuits against them after they outed him as gay).

https://medium.com/@celestineriza/how-peter-thiel-took-down-...

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efnx an hour ago | parent [-]

Honest question here - is this getting downvoted because it’s untrue, or something else?

	▲	rkomorn an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe people wonder what the point/relevance is? Is it that Gawker had lots of ads, so Kotaku would also have ads? What's relevant (to this thread) about Thiel killing it?

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gjvc 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

elmo-ification?!