Make your footwear last a little longer with Big Red. MSCHF — a product design studio on a mission to go viral with every launch — announced the upcoming release of a peculiar-looking pair of shoes, dubbed “Big Red Boots.” The company describes the latest piece, made with a combination of polyurethane rubber and vinyl … Read more
The popular Netflix children’s interactive cartoon “Battle Kitty,” which launched last year, seems fun and harmless at first glance. But the series — about a “feisty kitten” who embarks on a quest to become a great warrior and defeat all the monsters on “Battle Island” — has disturbing sexual overtones, according to some parents who … Read more
In the words of SpongeBob SquarePants, it’s time to use your imagination. One user on TikTok is sharing a theory about the characters on Nickelodeon’s hit cartoon “SpongeBob SquarePants” — and viewers are shook. In the video, @asheleyspam explained that she believes that each character on the show represents a certain “disorder.” The viral 16-second … Read more
HBO Max has just released a reimagined spinoff of the popular, long-running kids show “Scooby-Doo.” Despite the association with the Hanna-Barbera original, it’s being marketed as “adult” and features limbs being severed, one of the main characters going to a strip club with her dad, and two teenage boys making out at their high school. … Read more
George Newall, the co-creator of the educational musical cartoon series “Schoolhouse Rock,” has died. He was 88. Newall’s wife, Lisa Maxwell, told the New York Times he died of cardiopulmonary arrest Nov. 30 in a New York hospital. Born June 17, 1934, the advertising executive and jazz pianist was the last living founding member of … Read more
A Muslim father in Melbourne, Australia says his daughter was left with “psychological trauma” after being shown a “blasphemous” cartoon of Muhammad during a high school class. Posting on social media, the father said the incident occurred at a Melbourne college last month during a media studies class, where the teacher played a video showing … Read more