User blog comment:Foreseer44/The Ridonculous Race will air September 7th on CN!/@comment-24152851-20150825011929/@comment-1734566-20150825064815

Your last comment there, Fire Eater, started to hit the nail on the head, but then left that nail still sticking up halfway from the floor. Sadly, the audience that's "easiest to entertain" - AKA, the dumbest of inattentive, non-critical/analytical pre-teens and younger bratty kids with parents who think TV is a good babysitter - is a lot bigger than any of us can possibly imagine, and sadly, is probably more than enough to make up for the loss of the die-hard young adult audiences that may be leaving because they actually care about quality. I mean, just look at PewDiePie on YouTube - literally just a blabbering idiot who makes fart jokes with an obnoxious voice and screeches/babbles like an asylum patient, and here he is just running away with 38+ million subscribers, with all other YouTubers just staring at his smoke trail. I'm certainly not saying he's the start of it, but he's the best personification of this new trend of going for the "not mentally challenged, but darn well acting like it" audience that will be entertained by the television equivalent of jangling keys in front of your face for a half hour. Why do you think everyone's trying to imitate it? Because it works. It brings in the money, and in this case, the views/ratings. So no, I don't think CN is gonna suffer for losing the smarter audience anytime soon. It'll continue to deprive itself of quality and just become CN trying to imitate the nature of Teletubbies, except it's aimed at older kids.