As big a whiff as Fixed was, blaming that for Western Animation's problems and not the migration of the audience to Japanese animation, increasingly expensive personal projects that flop at the box office and on streaming (Oh hai Eilo), and writers that feel increasingly focused on personal grievances and an existing audience that agrees with their beliefs over any sort of broader fandom feels misguided at best. When a bunch of 40 and 50somethings are asking me, the (relative) kid of the group what the hell Demon Slayer is because there are ads for the movie all over cabs, but the next production from the Owl House lady after that flopped is an indie show mostly about her whining that Disney saw Owl House was unpopular and canceled it, that to me does more damage to Western animation than the dog balls movie. When Netflix's big next project is Ricky Gervais (who I can't really stand, the self-righteous prick), gets his animated project which is literally just "Fixed with cats" greenlit because he's a comedian with some clout, that hurts more than an artist-driven movie, even if it is about dog balls.