This show is still going?
But...why?
Merchandising despite its apparent lack of it. The series still has regular comic book releases (from Boom! Comics no less) and some merchandise is slowly cranked out via CN's online store, Hot Topic, and various conventions. They even announced
a set of trading cards recently that fans will go crazy over.
Well, that and the series being a thing in the LGBTQIABBQ community and having said undertones in the show. Other CN shows occasionally dip their feet into it but none so much as SU does.
Because the fans are exceptional individuals who won't let it die like it needs to, for being a bad show. Worse so than the equally bad-at-their-jobs crew working on it.
I could say the same thing about Star Vs, as well. Fight me.
To be fair the SU fandom has calmed down
considerably after the Zamii incident occurred, everyone realizing how fucking bonkers they were getting, and hiatuses wearing everyone ragged. I don't see much of the Star Vs. but I do know the shipping scene there is fucking insane, the recent episodes have been sending the fandom into a fucking fervor.
And as for the staff bit that's largely in part due to Sugar being hands-off (in terms of artistic consistency) to allow the boarders' styles to be more apparent in the episodes they work on. Does that make the show any more shit than what being cranked out of CN today? Probably, I know there are some episodes I know to be shit/snoozefests when the names of certain storyboarders pop up in a certain episode's opening credits.
Both shows are guilty of being shit writing-wise, but at least Sugar had the decency to fire Lauren Zuke (if you believe her claims of leaving CN by choice then you're an idiot) when Lapis/Peridot shipping rotted her mind and started to become more apparent in her episodes and stick to the show through SU's
Change Your Mind special while Nefcy mentally checked out of Star Vs. after
The Battle for Mewni was completed and allowed Sabrina Cotugno to hijack the show's writing from that point on.