The problem mainly is that the humor isn't what a kid would find funny because they don't have the life experience to find subtle jokes funny. Also the stories and why what happens in them are important would go straight over their heads for the same reason. Patronizing and assuming kids are stupid and won't understand anything is bad, but there are going to be things that they genuinely won't "get" and that you put in for their parents' amusement or more likely, the sanity of the people writing it.
"Word of God" kind of faded, but most people see the main characters as in their early 20s. Even the Equestria Girls versions are only slightly younger (seniors in high school.) Sometimes they justify this with "oh Homestuck is a franchise for adults!"but I think Homestuck as a whole was a fad and most of its fans are gone.
I pity anyone actually interested in content that has to deal with their fandom primarily being on Tumblr.
If another Steven Universe episode comes, there could be drama depending on how that episode is. Perhaps one focusing on Steven's parents when they met could rouse Tumblerites in some way.
Funny you should mention that....here's the sneak peak of the new ep.
One may as well get some popcorn and wait and see how this plays out. Perhaps this might drive a wedge between the show and spergs further. This might as well be like with the bronies when they bawwed about some episodes of their precious horse show not being good for them.
Why do they hate Greg, again? Is it because he's a dirty deadbeat MALE single father and Steven should be raised by the glorious lesbian space rock trio?
Basically. They use the excuses that since he lives in a van and not with Steven, is poor, ect, that he's a bad lazy parent and doesn't care about his son, ignoring the fact Greg spends a ton of time with him, is most likely the one that bought all of Steven's stuff and food since the Gems don't exactly have a paying job, and a bunch of other stuff.
They seem to use the "caring a lot doesn't make you a good parent" rationalization. You know, the whole way that they portray Greg as caring but incompetent and the way that people hate him for it really is a bit of an issue when you have characters like Steven in shows and I think it is to pander to Tumblrish groups.
That the thing. Greg is hardly incompetent. He's made some mistakes, but what parent hasn't?
There's certain groups that basically want every TV dad to be Milhouse's dad. Not even Homer Simpson, Milhouse's dad. They want something they can point at and say "SEE?! Men can't raise children alone!" Imagine the inverse happening, holy shit. Iknow of two video games that showed the mom as the bad one and they drove Tumblr insane and they tried to say that what the games were actually trying to do was the opposite when it clearly wasn't.
I've seen open contempt for Greg mostly because again, they don't trust the concept of a single father and think Greg is laughable and pathetic. Sure he has a job, but it's barely anything to them and it isn't respected. These are also the people that think the love a father can give is somehow worth less than any given woman. Even genderless rocks from outer space.