2017, what a shitty year.

So today I'm talking about the Top 5 Worst things from 2017.

Note: I'm not talking about the following:

· Politics, because I don't want the comment section to be filled with hate comments.

· Natural Disasters, because they were more unnatural this year, no pun intended.

· Anything involving terrorism or gun violence, because I'm neither a reliable news source or want to talk about things like that.

·Movies, because I got another list for that, but I will make an exception for this:

5) The Everything Cinematic Universe:

Why is everything becoming a Cinematic Universe these days? Marvel and DC I can understand because Superheroes team-ups happen all the time in Comic Books, but for something like Hanna-Barbara in the works at Warner Brothers, Sony creating one for the Spiderman villains, and of course the biggest flop of 2017, Universal Studios Dark Universe starting with this year's biggest joke, "The Mummy," with Tom Cruise, an Actor I really hate. What's next the Kimbery-Klark Cinematic Universe where we make movies based off of Products like Kleenex Tissues, Huggies Diapers, or even Kotex pads? Or a Kelloggs Cinematic Universe where the Cereal Mascots of our childhood form an Avengers like team, for some reason I would love to see Tucan Sam and Tony the Tiger beat the crap out of those Frosted Mini Wheats.....I dream weird. But in all seriousness, Hollywood, stop making a Cinematic Universe out of Everything! Also Dark Universe was a Joke so yeah, let it Die!

4) Fidget Spinner Insanity:

Unless you have anxiety or ADHD, you didn't need a Fidget Spinner, I may own 3 of them but I actaully do have anxiety, we just Overdid the stuff this year. Mostly those Musical.ly kids giving them a bad rep mainly because they pretty much wanted to create a new fad like the Pet Rock, Beanie Babies, or those Stupid Silly Bandz from 7 years ago that my idiot friends instantly got banned from school, surprisingly faster than Football at recess back in 4th Grade. Can we go one year without fads, I mean Flappy Bird was a Fad, Angry Birds was a Fad, so I'm glad this fad died, with this:

Someone was crazy enough to make a Phone that doubles as a Fidget Spinner! More proof that the world is on fire!

3) Club Mickey Mouse:

Oh God another Crappy reboot, except this is something made by Disney who is killing the reboot game. Club Mickey Mouse is exactly what you think, it is a reboot of the Mickey Mouse Club, I think this either the 4th or 5th incarnation of the series, I honestly don't know I just know that last version in the 90's started the Careers for Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Ryan Gosling, I'm not making that up. Maybe these kids thought, hey if these celebrities got famous from spelling Mickey Mouse, I think I can do the same! Also I digged a little more info into this and as it turns out it started off in Asia, but because Disney was out of ideas, brought it over to the US, but unlike the others this one is only for Facebook and Instagram, probably for the US only, so if that video above didn't work for you because you live somewhere else, I envy you! Also really Facebook, people still use that in 2017? Well in all fairness its better to use that than MySpace.

What's MySpace?

Exactly!

2) The Worst year for TV Animation:

Okay despite good shows like OK K.O., the Ducktales reboot, or Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie, which will be in the next list, 2017 was a terrible year for TV Animation, basically Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and even Disney XD had problems this past year.

I was going to start off with Netflix because they gave us 2 of the worst TV shows this year, Big Mouth and The Magic School Bus Rides Again, but I decided not to because 1 I don't have Netflix, and 2, The Magic School Bus Rides again was going to be bad to begin with, also flash animation, really Netflix! I know we can do awesome things with Flash but come on! Serriously Netflix, You're a multibillion dollar company that found a way to kill Blockbuster, and you put a show that would have been made by your typical beginner animator on YouTube on your platform, see this and your ridiculous prices, along with the fact that you really don't have every single movie, is the reason why I still buy/rent DVDs.

Kinda lotech there huh?

I don't need the internet to watch a DVD.

Good Point!

Now onto Cartoon Network, besides barely premiering any new shows that aren't OK K.O.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs The Series.

Let me rephrase that, ORIGINAL, shows. That was made in Canada. But they had the worst series finale system, as in a way to promote a shows final Episode, as we all know, Regular Show Finished up this year but Cartoon Network barely promoted it and on the day of its airing, you would think of airing a marathon of the best Ragular Show Episodes, nope, they aired a typical broadcast day of Teen Titans GO. Also if you didn't know, Uncle Grandpa ended in June and the same thing happened, except Cartoon Network didn't bother to promote it. Geez that makes sense! Also Adventure Time, which just entered its Final Season, started airing and Cartoon Network didn't promote it, are they trying to let their own shows fail? Also Cartoon Networks Mistreatment of Steven Universe....Ugh! Just be lucky that show is a cash cow with all of its merchandise! But on the bright side there isn't any TTG planned for 2018, minus the movie, so I think its safe to say Teen Titans GO is finally over!

You forgot Power Of Four!

Nah I think putting this in will be easier:

Yeah ratings bait for sure if they were doing what the Simpsons did like 20 years ago.

Now for Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon found a way to both premiere and cancel both of their newest animated shows in one year, their was Bunsen is a Beast, a show created by Butch Hartman, and if you want to hear me talk about it, go over to my first journal where I talked about it more, and then there was Welcome to the Wayne, which is in my opinion, a knock off of Gravity Falls, so it didn't work out well for either and found a way to get dropped by the Spongebob/Loud House Standard. Speaking of the Loud House, the creator, Chris Savino, actually got fired. Why? Well long story short, His past came back to haunt him and he was fired over sexual harassment claims from over decade. So yeah its basically what happened to Clarence all over again, also came out at the worst time because of the Harvey Wienstein controversy and then almost anyone you respected happened to do the same.

On the bright side, Fairly Odd Parents is finally dead, so yeah, it was suffering for the past 9 years and it is at peace......I hate you Chloe Carmichael.

Now I know what your going to say, "Xander, Disney XD didn't air any bad shows this year!" Well somewhat true, but, I'm talking more of their scheduling of these shows.

Since January Disney XD started burning off some of there shows within a month by airing the same episode that premiered that day 4 times. It wasnt all that good of a strategy, mainly because all the other channels air their shows once a week at a set time like how FOX airs The Simpsons on Sundays at 8pm for example. While okay for a typical viewer of a 6-14 age range because it gives them something to watch while getting ready for school in the morning, most of the viewers of these shows are in the Teen and Up Range, as in most of them won't be up at 7 am to watch these episodes. This strategy was really bad for one of their new shows this year:

The show, Billy Dilley Super Duper Subterranean Summer, which created by animation veteran Aaron Springer, aired its entire season in under 2 weeks. The show was bad but the inconsistent air times effected it's ratings real bad, now Disney did not confirm its cancellation but I would say it did get can'd by the channel.

Thankfully they fixed it up by the time October came but unfortunately the damage was done, luckily the only day they do it is on Saturdays for Ducktales, Spiderman, and other shows for example, and Disney started having A Consitant air date for the final season of Star Wars Rebels, because you know, a show that is done in CGI needs the ratings because a CGI TV show cost a butt load of money, and for the first half of Star vs the Forces of Evil's 3rd season. But in all fairness most of the ratings come from the Disney Now app.

Also to TedStrange, who doesn't have Disney XD where he lives, I can tell you this, you aren't missing much, why, besides the scheduling, Disney XD cost you an extra $10-$20 a month for these channels as part of a cable package along with the other 4 Nickelodeon channels that only contains reruns of old shows and Cartoon Network's dying Sister channel Boomerang. Sure they're worth it but that's because you would have to wait like 2 months until it hopefully airs on Disney Channel.

Now instead of Dishonorable Mentions I figure instead I do something else to remember some of the people we lost this past year, because losing someone is the worst thing of all, plus if I did put it in the actual countdown it would take even longer than it already has.

In Memorium:

John Hurt:

British Actor, best known for playing Kane in the Ridley Scott movie, Alien. He passed away January 25th, 2017 of Pancreatic Cancer at age 77.

Mary Tyler Moore:

American Comedian best known for her self titled sitcom. She passed away on January 25th, 2017 of Pneumonia at age 80.

Bill Paxton:

American Actor Best Known for the Movies Twister and Apollo 13. He Passed away February 25th, 2017 of a stroke at age 61.

Chuck Berry:

American Musician, best known for the Song, "Johnny B. Goode." He passed away on March 18th, 2017 at age 90.

Don Rickles:

American Actor and Comedian, Best Known for his Role as Mr. Potato Head in the Toy Story Franchise. He passed away on April 6th, 2017 at age 90.

Chris Cornell:

American Musician, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Soundgarden. He passed away on May 18th of Suicide at age 52.

Roger Moore:

British actor best known for his role as James Bond, he passed away on May 23rd, 2017 of Liver and Lung Cancer at age 89.

Peter Sallis:

British actor best known for the voice of Wallace of the Wallace and Gromit cartoons. He passed away on June 2nd, 2017 at age 96.

Adam West:

American actor best known as Batman in the 1966 show of the same name, and the Mayor of Quahog on Family Guy, he passed away on June 9th, 2017 of Lukemia at age 88.

Chester Bennington:

American Musician best known as the frontman of rock group Linkin Park. He passed away July 20th, 2017 from Suicide at age 41 on what would have been his Friend Chris Cornell's 53rd birthday.

John Heard:

American Actor best known for the Movies Home Alone and Sharknado. He passed away July 21st, 2017 of a heart attack at age 71.

June Foray:

American Voice Actress, best known for such as Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Magica Dr Spell from Ducktales 1987, and Rocky the Flying Squirel from the, "Rocky and Bullwinkle," cartoons. She passed away on July 26th, 2017 at the age of 99.

Tom Petty:

American Musician, best known for the songs, "Free Fallin," and "Won't Back Down." He passed away October 2nd, 2017 of Cardiac Arrest at Age 66.

May these talented people Rest in Peace.

And now the Number 1 worst thing to happen in 2017.

1) YouTube:

Who knew our scapegoat from reality happened to be the worst problem we faced this year, well that wasn't political or gun violence....America is a mess and I'm not afraid to admit it, even before you know who showed up.

First off I want to talk about the Screen Junkies Controversy, Screen Junkies cocreator, Andy Signore, was fired this year after multiple claims against him came out in wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment allegations that dates back a few years. Jesus Christ is there anyone in the world we can trust not to be a Sexual Pervert?

Now to talk about the whole Ad-pocalypse problem and I found out who caused it, but, I will get to that in a moment. Basically YouTube started demonitizing videos because they aren't advertiser friendly. Basically you have to be appropriate to the Advertisers or else you don't get any ad revenue whatsoever, like you show a little cleavage in a video its automatically deemed offensive, uh news flash, girls have boobs!

Thankfully with the internet nowadays you can get money from Patreon since, well in all fairness, as someone that knows a bit about YouTube since I was in the 4th grade when we discovered it on the Computer when Recess got rained out, I can tell you this, YouTube was going to pay you in Table Scraps anyway, like 100000 views equals $1.

And do you know who is responsible for this........PewDiePie!

Yeah early this year PewDiePie posted a video where he literally paid a couple of guys on this website called fivver, which is where you freelance your talents to anyone for money, to dance around holding a sign saying something offensive towards the Jewish people. And Advertisers started dumping the site, basically the only way YouTubers get money from YouTube themselves is from the YouTube red service which is basically YouTube's Netflix Knockoff, if there video was deemed "Not Advertiser Friendly."

I wish I could talk about Those stupid YouTube Kids Cartoons but they are finally taking action on those and I already talked about it twice in my Journal, I really don't have time to talk about it here, but Phillip DeFranco, yes I'm talking about him again, made a video talking about it:

Also YouTube Now has live TV......that is all.

But the true worse part of Youtube in 2017, well I think we all know, and fnafcutie616 and I know how much we loath this guy.

That's right I'm talking about this idiot again.

That's right freaking Jake Paul, I'm talking about him again, the Trump of YouTube. No matter how hard you tried, you couldn't avoid hearing anything about this asshat. He was practically everywhere on the damn site, he also very open about where he lives, uh there is a reason why its called, "a private residence," you know, so no one disturbs you, its sad he and I are the same age but yet I'm more mature than him, and I write fanfiction of Disney Shows and watch cartoons in bed wearing my cartoon PJ Bottoms hugging a Pikachu plush, all at the same time.

He may have tried to make himself look good as he went down to Houston for hurricane relief, uh, as good as that is, that isn't enough to make people forgive you for all the stupid shit you've done. Again he is the Trump of YouTube. You ain't no Michael Jackson, you will be remembered more for the bad than the good.

So yeah, Jake Paul, you are officially the worst thing of 2017!

Mabel: HANG HIM!

Woah that's a little dark there Mabel!

Mabel: Sorry, even though it's now December, I still have a bit of Halloween in me! Also, smart idea not to include Despacito.

If I did I would give everyone an earworm. Anyway if there's something you hated in 2017 that I missed put it in the comments and I will see you next time.

DAMMIT! Sorry Everyone!