Sometimes I wonder if things like the hexbear bouncing cat emotes are a bit twee and cringe, but then I see the aesthetics the other side has run with…
Yeah I have no idea what specifically you’re talking about in terms of adults being increasingly more infantilized, getting older for me has pretty much exclusively consisted of being shamed for continuing to like things.
edit: specifically thinking about the evolution of animation (eastern as well as western) since like the 80s in terms of more rounded art styles with infantilized facial features becoming more and more popular
This is purely because it’s cheaper to animate with less detail
I mean, it’s not unheard-of to have grown adults with walls full of plush toys of characters from comic book films. That’s kind of a different issue though, more along the lines of nostalgia for our childhoods which is also used very cynically.
I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with an adult liking plush toys (although in that case I do judge the lack of taste). Collecting is its own issue, but I think that should apply equally to collectors of plush toys and collectors of like coins and vases and shit
