Do people have a general distaste for old things?
I don't know why they do, because it seems like it to me. To me age can be charming.
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people disliking things simply because they're "old" is actually a bit of a pet peeve of mine
why can't you just be morbidly depressed like me
Now, I'm sure there's a community of dedicated Pong enthusiasts somewhere on the internet, but I'm talking about general public consensus on media.
Not often, but I have.
I used to be great at Arkanoid but it's been years.
i think oldness actually imparts a kind of charm in itself, but it depends how old. Like late 1990s to mid 2000s stuff is currently well-liked due to nostalgia, whereas stuff that's just a couple of years old already feels passé. It's stuff from before the current wave of nostalgia-fuel that acquires a charm purely by dint of being old.
Also sometimes relatively recent stuff feels like it's outstayed its welcome if it becomes too omnipresent. (i'm already sick of 'Anaconda' references, personally.)
Also wrt cartoons (what follows is totally uninformed but i'm just gonna rattle off my impressions):
Old cartoons are still good but imo you need to be sparing and careful with them unless you're running an actual dedicated nostalgia channel. You can't really go wrong with Looney Tunes shorts, providing you check them for objectionable content; you can put them in a regular time slot and run them like you would a TV show. Old H-B shows have not tended to age so well, so you would need to be more cautious. imo the biggest problem there is not the aesthetic but the humour.
Humour is a really tricky cause if it's even slightly off the mark it can fall utterly flat. People complain about foreign comedies not being funny, but the adage about the past being a foreign country holds here, too. There are some things that are funny enough to withstand the test of time, but what was mildly funny maybe 20 years ago can just seem a bit naff now.
Where aesthetics are concerned i think it's an obstacle but unless you want to bring back something pre-technicolor you can probably get around it by just being sparing and being mindful of timeslots; trends exist but given how bizarre and ugly a lot of popular cartoons have purposefully been, i think the evidence shows audiences are willing to adjust to that.
Pre-technicolor... i think there's an audience for it, but not enough to make it a regular feature.
Whereas if a channel becomes synonymous with recent cartoons, audiences will expect new and fresh cartoons from them, and old shows would feel out of place. They might be able to hold their own in a lower-priority timeslot, though.