World Cartoon Day
December 2nd is the world’s Cartoon Day. It seems that many people who are engaged on social
networking sites are changing their profile pictures to showcase their favorite cartoon shows from the 90′s. With many people joining in on this unique band wagon, there may be speculation as to which cartoons were popular in the 90′s.
For many young adults who grew up in this time frame, they know that shows such as “Rugrats”, “Hey Arnold!”, “Doug”, “The Animaniacs”, and “Rocko’s Modern Life” are all examples of popular 90′s television cartoons.
With so many people incorporating their favorite kiddish cartoons into their social networking experiences, it just makes sense that images and cartoon sites are being flooded for good media of 90′s shows. Many of these people may even leave these particular pictures up long after Cartoon Day is over in order to commemorate their favorite childhood television shows for a little longer than just a day.
- Pinky and the Brain.
Until this day cartoons from the 90′s still much to like. Not only from among the children, it appeared that some adults also like cartoons from the 90′s.
This can be seen from the parents who still enjoy accompanying their children to watch cartoons from the 90′s which is still a lot of playing on television.
Here is the Most Popular cartoons from the 90 s:
1 – Pinky and the Brain (1995 to 1999).
2 – King of the Hill (1997 to 2009).
3 – SpongebBob Squarepants (1999 to present).
4 – Family Guy (1999 to 2002 and 2005 to present).
5 – Futurama (1999 to 2003).
6 – Beavis and Butt-Head (1993 to 1997).
7 – Animaniacs (1993 to 1998).
8 – Bobby’s World (1990 to 1998).
From the list of Most Popular cartoons from the 90′s above can be known that there are cartoons from the 90′s that continue to be produced, namely “SpongebBob Squarepants” and “Family Guy”.
The original 90′s cartoon, though it did not start in the 90′s, is “The Simpsons”. The longest running cartoon in prime time network television history. This cartoon started December 17, 1989, and set the bar for all cartoons to come. This popularity created the ‘need’ for people to become ‘Simpsonized,’ or a way to make a cartoon rendering of themselves using Simpsonize Me as a base for the resulting avatar. Another popular cartoon, “South Park” (1997 to present), also has its own cartoon conversion website called ‘South Park Studio.’ Using the same concept as the Simpsonize Me website, users can create South Park characters of themselves using various features of the cartoon characters married with their own features.
Since these two websites popped up in the late 90′s, other sites began to offer the same services, and software people can download and use on their computers, although most are not based on specific cartoon characters. For instance, AvatarGenerator.org is a website anyone can go to and pick a cartoon avatar and then edit it based on personal preferences. With the availability of most services free, it is easy to pretend to be someone, even if only online. The freedom to be someone else for a time is liberating and another of the reasons the Facebook 90′s cartoon avatar trend is on the rise, not to mention that most of Facebook’s users now were the targeted audiences of 90′s cartoons.