The 'Velma' Conspiracies

It seems that conspiracist thinking can be applied anywhere, in this case the newly launched 'Adult Scooby Doo' series created by HBO has generated some really bad reviews (& not just from 'the usual suspects'.) which in turn has spawned claims that the whole thing is a 'psy-op' designed to make 'social justice' look bad.


There's a good article on Forbes discussing the claims:

Quote:

Yesterday, HBO Max bragged that Velma, the new adult-rated Scooby Doo cartoon, was its most-viewed animated premiere ever. I’m not sure precisely what that says, given that the only other Max original animated series I can even think of is Harley Quinn, plus a bunch of other older series that WB Discovery recently murdered. But people are certainly talking about Velma, that much is true. Just…not very positively. ... Velma is so bad in fact, that it’s spawning conspiracy theories that creator Mindy Kaling made what is essentially a parody of what the right wing thinks left wing comedy is like.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultas...h=2a7b2bae12e2

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