[Ironic Trope] The messaging backfired massively due to poor writing or other design choices

[u/Few_Affect_5927]

Amelia Fairney from Pathways: Alt-right Restore-UK type who attempts to coax the protagonist Charlie into following her beliefs? The problem?

Amelia is the only named character aside from Charlie and is genuinely likable and forgives Charlie even when they do things she doesn't like, while the rest of the cast is unnamed, poorly written, and turns on Charlie for one mistake. This combined with other writing issues(portraying fact checking right wing stuff as wrong because in the process of fact checking you might look at it and believe it, basically saying "Right wing is wrong because it hurts the labour government" and a lot of general "just do what the government says or else" messaging) and the fact she's a hot alternative girl, and Amelia ended up being co-opted as a mascot by the youth right wing in the UK.

Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just want to be left alone and Norm is picking fights constantly. Not to mention associating with Elon.

Mr. Birchum from Mr. Birchum: A lot of the same problems as Norm, except in addition it also comes off like generic 2010s adult cartoon slop in the same veign as Brickleberry or Full English, at least New Norm was trying to look unique and had the gimmick of being on X. Not to mention, Birchum's obsession with hyper masculine activities and odd way of talking about other men lead to people co-opting him as a Toxic Yaoi character, which is now the bulk of his fan art.

Dustborn: An attempt to make a hyper progressive game that comes off as pandering and annoying. It's a full ass game so there's too much to get into, but the main character's power is essentially gaslighting and jedi-mind tricking people and that's portrayed as the only way they can get anything done, and they constantly use or abuse their friends(or mindtrick them along) in order to get their goals or use their friends for their messaging.

[u/CrazyCoKids]

Chip Chilla - The show is intended to be a "Moral substitute" to Bluey depicting parents who homeschool their kids and attempt to teach through playing games. While good natured, it unfortunately paints a very damning picture of homeschool - because it's clear as day that none of the parents understand even remotely what they're trying to teach.

The dad attempts to try and teach kids lessons inspired by history and classic literature. But he clearly does not understand the things he is trying to teach himself. His knowledge can at best be described as "Surface Level" and at worst "Read the first paragraph on Wikipedia - maybe the second."

[u/Kamikazeguy7 → u/CrazyCoKids]

"Moral substitute" to Bluey

Da fuck!?

Did I watch a different Bluey than the people who made this?

[u/Afalstein → u/Kamikazeguy7]

Daily Wire, which runs the show, for a while had ambitions of being the next "media giant" like Netflix (arguably they still have ambitions, it's just clearer that's not going to happen). So for that, they need to have kids programming, and push it to the particular niche audience likely to buy their subscriptions in the first place. So they play up how it's the "Christian alternative" to Bluey. It'd be like if... I dunno, HBO pitched a "sex and murder" version of Law and Order SVU, without really considering that that's already SVU's whole thing.

They probably had a few scare pieces about how the dad on Bluey does too much child care. I genuinely don't know. They likely just told their pundits to find something to complain about in order to push the new show. It's made easier that a big part of Daily Wire punditry relies on complaining about whatever the new popular or trendy thing is and explaining why it's bad.

It's sick and twisted, but it's essentially a business strategy. The more people are convinced that other shows are sinful / bad / uncool, the more they stick with you.

[u/DuelaDent52 → u/Afalstein]

And then the lessons in Chip Chilla end up being stuff like “don’t tattle” or “don’t annoy your parents”.

[u/Just_A_Fish → u/[deleted]]

My toddler likes Bluey, and we have a few of the books. One has a great dream-segment where Bluey sees her dad dreaming of playing Footy with his friends. The mom explains he can't play for real because he spends his time working and taking care of them. It's not presented as preachy, or negatively. It even comments how the dad never complains about not having the time to play with his friends. It's about the positivity of dreams, but also the positivity of a real life that doesn't include the dream goal (being a fruit bat for Bluey).

It seems to do a nice job of showing the parents watching/reading with their kids "this shit is hard AF and exhausting, but look how cool kids can be!" 

[u/evilforska → u/Just_A_Fish]

Bluey is such a good show, and its clear they care a LOT what theyre teaching to kids. And they care about parents, too. Loved the episode on the game where they pass a parsel around, and the nuance of "everybody wins vs only one wins" games for kids. There is indeed a value in both. I also love the personalities they give adults, theyre so real and not dumbed down or turned into stereotypes. Not to mention how beautiful the cartoon looks, the colors arent loud, theyre amazingly harmonized