In this video the host is explaining how SpongeBob is successful because it was created as a counter to Disney’s puritan messaging.
At the 12:21 mark in the video he quotes some Chilean Marxist writer who said: “this (cute) aesthetic was used to sugarcoat any ugly truth Disney wanted to sell, from the less bad things like the nuclear family – to the very bad things like colonialism.” His take on those subjects isn’t presented as being controversial and the host doesn’t give an explanation as to how SpongeBob is a counter to these “evils” of the nuclear family and colonialism.
This made me question what the purpose of this video was in the first place.
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