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Oh for pony’s sake. You’re two bits short a hayburger.
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And if you’re making art on your own, that may be true. But that’s not the case here. These artists are working for a company and are being paid to produce a specified image. So it’s not a matter of censorship, it’s a matter of them creating what the client paying them has requested.
 
Corporations are a sin against democracy… You have a series of rich leaders who command the employees of said company who have very little choice in what the do and how much they get paid. Those employees should be allowed to chose what they can and can’t do. This censorship is the result of these elitist bastards thinking that children shouldn’t see something like this and command their workers to change it, meanwhile the actual artists working on this have no say in the matter.
 
I despise these fascists states called “corporations” they enslave people just so their leaders can make more and more money when they already have everything they could ever want! They are constructs of greed, capitalism, and authority, and for the sake of people’s personal freedom they need to be abolished!
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It wasn’t even that big a change. The version we got is still pretty creepy. It still melts them. The tree still kills the Mean 6. They just made it a bit less ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark Nazi face-melting scene’. IMO it was a pointless change but eh Hasbro’s a corporate entity that sells toys to kids. Anyone expecting them to not play it safe hasn’t been paying attention to how corporations operate.
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People assuming censorship when it is more likely unfinished assets that got replaced.
Exactly. All we have is an early, rougher version compared to a finished one. There is literally no reason to assume any sort of “censorship” or whatever other ridiculousness people are complaining about.
 
 
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@Daneasaur
As an artist, the very concept of censorship is offensive to me, an artist should be allowed to do whatever they want in their art, to censor something is to take away freedom from said artists.
And if you’re making art on your own, that may be true. But that’s not the case here. These artists are working for a company and are being paid to produce a specified image. So it’s not a matter of censorship, it’s a matter of them creating what the client paying them has requested.
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None the less, it still angers me.
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Censorship is when the government censors your speech. Artists or a corporation changing a TV show because they feel it’s too inappropriate for their target age range is NOT CENSORSHIP. Artists, creators, companies, etc who own something are allowed to change it any way they want for whatever reason. Unless the government is limiting their speech in some way that violates their rights quit calling it censorship.
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The mutant child of capitalism and authoritarianism that we call “Copyright”
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So what is stopping someone from splicing the audio from the finished episode on top of the leaked footage to make an unrated directors cut version?
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Why was it changed?
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Yeah
 
That version of the episode was odd without the background music.
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Is the first image from the leaks?
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I could not resist to watch the leaks.
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The first one (the one on the left) is the original. The one on the right is the edited one we got in the final episode.
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I actually like the first picture better
 
Me too.
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@Daneasaur  
As an artist, the very concept of censorship is offensive to me, an artist should be allowed to do whatever they want in their art, to censor something is to take away freedom from said artists.
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@Lord Seraph  
The statement is “pre censorship”.
 
IE: you make a product, but you remember that [thing in your product] has been lambasted before and you worry that your product will now suffer because of it. Therefore you change it/remove it.
 
That is Pre-censorship. You see it constantly with video games when they “want to appeal to a wider audience”.
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Now that I’m examining it more closely thanks to your comment, yes, it does look like unfinished assets. But, ya gotta admit, it does look a lot more “nightmare fuel”-y than the final version.
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People assuming censorship when it is more likely unfinished assets that got replaced.
 
Compare with the other Mean 6 “dying”, the final image is more consistent with how those look.
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Yeah I was referring to the people who reacted to the scene.
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I’m referring to the whole “you know for kids” thing and “how can they get away with this?!” type reactions