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Bugs bunny is why. Seriously. Most popular cartoon of its time, every kid of the era (40s to 70s) watched it...

• danans 5y ago
  Perhaps an insidious follow on to the cartoon bomb is the unrealistic and desensitizing depiction of it's aftermath: In the cartoons it's just a frowning or dumbfounded character covered in soot instead of the reality of being dismembered.
  • macintux 5y ago
    When I read recently about the 15-year-old girl who deliberately targeted and killed a runner on the road, who laughed as he flew over her car, I wondered whether kids have gotten used to seeing people survive collisions like that in the movies.
    • danans 5y ago
      I suspect that person had deeper issues than desensitization. I liken it more to our ability to tune out the effects of drone strikes.
• rsynnott 5y ago
  But by the time it was made, bombs hadn’t looked like that for a century; it doesn’t in itself explain the persistence.
  • bbarnett 5y ago
    Hmm, I bet newspapers. That seems something which would carry through all that time. The comics in papers, that sort of thing? Then Bugs picked it up...