{"id":1616275,"date":"2022-08-19T10:17:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616275"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:18:07","slug":"like-we-were-nothing-animated-show-creators-slam-hbo-max-for-abruptly-pulling-more-than-30-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/like-we-were-nothing-animated-show-creators-slam-hbo-max-for-abruptly-pulling-more-than-30-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like We Were Nothing\u2019: Animated Show Creators Slam HBO Max For Abruptly Pulling More Than 30 Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flike-we-were-nothing-animated-show-creators-slam-hbo-max-for-abruptly-pulling-more-than-30-titles%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616275&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hbo-max\">HBO Max<\/a> abruptly pulled a slew of unscripted and animated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/television\">television<\/a> offerings this week in an unexpected move that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/entertainment\">content creators<\/a> crying foul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSummer Camp Island\u201d creator Julia Pott didn\u2019t make any attempt to hide her disappointment over the move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe worked 5 years to make 100 episodes of animation,\u201d Pott shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliapott\/status\/1560067154594082816\">Twitter<\/a> after the news was announced. \u201cWe worked late into the night, we let ourselves go, we were a family of hard working artists who wanted to make something beautiful, and HBO Max just pulled them all like we were nothing. Animation is not nothing!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The British creator promised fans that they would get to see the latest episodes despite the series leaving HBO Max. Her post has since earned more than 100,000 likes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe worked through the pandemic to make 20 linear episodes that are our most beautiful work yet,\u201d she said. \u201cI cannot wait for you to see them. YOU WILL SEE THEM! I will not rest!\u201d Pott concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSummer Camp Island\u201d premiered in July 2018 and just concluded airing season 5. The show details the adventures of Oscar and Hedgehog attending summer camp.\u00a0 It currently has a 7.6\/10 rating on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8146760\/\">IMDb<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other shows that didn\u2019t survive the chopping block include \u201cEllen\u2019s Next Great Designer,\u201d \u201cThe Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo,\u201d along with many others. Deadline <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/08\/summer-camp-island-creator-reacts-hbo-max-decision-pull-series-like-we-were-nothing-1235095175\/\">reported<\/a> that HBO Max was making the changes in anticipation of merging with Discovery+. Besides pulling shows, the company has also been laying off staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fungies!\u201d creator Stephen P. Neary also expressed frustration with HBO Max for pulling his beloved animated series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night during a figure drawing class I found out that The Fungies! was getting pulled from HBO Max this week. I\u2019m heartbroken but I want to take this opportunity to thank all the amazing artists and production folks for their hard work on this sincere, fever dream of a show,\u201d Neary shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenPNeary\/status\/1560357752261595136\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe worked so hard through the pandemic, and I hoped that diligence would be rewarded with support from the network,\u201d Neary continued. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I] was promised the show would air on Cartoon Network, which would drive views to HBO Max, but soon after launch, the show was pulled from the air without notice. There was little to no promotion. Although I was graciously asked [to] speak on a mushroom podcast. A company representative monitored the taping so that I wouldn\u2019t give away any \u2018spoilers\u2019 to the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy heart goes out to the other shows affected, and the beautiful work getting canceled before even airing. I\u2019m going to keep making stuff! Even if it\u2019s just for me. It\u2019s what I\u2019ve always done, since I was very very little. Thanks everyone,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO Max abruptly pulled a slew of unscripted and animated television offerings this week in an unexpected move that has content creators crying foul. \u201cSummer Camp Island\u201d creator Julia Pott didn\u2019t make any attempt to hide her disappointment over the move.\u00a0 \u201cWe worked 5 years to make 100 episodes of animation,\u201d Pott shared on Twitter &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1616424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}