iirc doesn't "WB Shitshow" go back to, like, the 80s?
They had issues, specifically with animation, but they didn’t truly fall apart till the entire ethos of the company and their creator driven output was killed in the 2010s. The 2000s was a golden point for them between Harry Potter, LOTR and Batman, all of which saw WB place a massive amount of faith in individual talents. The 2010s was more corporate driven, giving us the awful results of the DCEU, Hobbit films, Fantastic Beasts and other flops.
2010s also saw massive mergers that slowly killed off the company. The AT&T merger stuck a stake through Cartoon Network’s heart for example - They bet on a merger until big Don said no due to CNN talking badly about him, so WB stripped down CN and MeTV to save their asses. Within the 2020s alone we have had two new mergers and a multitude of projects cancelled by Discovery and Paramount. Many were rightfully culled, but I digress, it still looks like shit on WB’s end.
Since it will get lost in the shuffle unless specifically talked about, WB games is a real tragedy.
Rocksteady and WB Montreal are both largely dead thanks to DC projects no one wanted, a real crime when we could have gotten Batman Beyond or Superman.
WB also killed off the fun originals. They no longer have involvement with Lollipop Chainsaw, and Scribblenauts is a dead IP.
