When did young shallow teenagers become good protagonist in cartoons?

Well, no we're probabaly not.
But, that's because we probably also weren't apart of that particular subculture. What surfing is to the teens in Stoked, cartoons and video games are to us. They're actually pretty average as far as teenagers go, save for also being more attractive than the norm, but that applies to almost all media anyway.
As for being popular, I've gotta say I'm not seeing this either. Granted, I've only seen three episodes, but from what I've seen it's just that cast of characters working and surfing on a beach. Since it's just that group of friends by themseles, they can't really be popular when we don't see any wide social structure to start with. for all we know everyone at their school hates them.
 
I've only seen one episode of Stoked, and it had the teenage protagonists being bullied and harassed by the local clique as their initiation (a popular social practice I find to be hideously disgusting and reprehensible on so many levels, but I'm digressing). At the end, they pull through with The Power of Friendship.

From what I saw, they aren't super-popular kids nor sullen outcasts. They're average as far as teenagers go, if fairly handsome and good-looking.
 
Furrball said:
It is a very general movement, not only in animation. Youth, popularity, fame, and pleasure are what is good now when it used to mostly be characteristic of the bad guys.

I don't know the reason behind it all, why popularity is good, why being yourself is bad and only gets you into trouble. It is a shame, how culture seems to change for bad lately.

Of course like us there will come a time when we learn to think for ourselves and decide what is right and what is not and how we think we should live our lives. We can only hope that the next generation of children will be able to do the same.[/QUOTE

I agree with this statment & also the Sheeple Coment. Sadly Society likes to lower itself for some reason, bat on the main topic, im sure its just a fad. Rember. This too shall pass!
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Well they weren't looked down and picked on by their classmates. The other classmates either liked Ichigo or was scared of him. More or less the same with Chad and Uryu. And it goes without saying Orihime was popular for obvious reasons. LOL, she was also real liked by her famale peers, and the fact that she liked Ichigo gave him more popularity points in my book.

But really the social classes that a stereotypical high school had, on Bleach you had much more of that in the Soul Society than in the actual high school. It is funny the characters that hunderd of years old were more like high school students than the actual high school students.
 
What doesn't make sense about it?

The kids on "Stoked" get, to wit, a) humiliated by the senior staff, b) abused by the hotel guests and c) their hearts broken.

This stuff happens to popular kids in cartoons? In what universe?

The characters on "Stoked" seem like regular kids to me. Absurdly good-looking regular kids, but regular kids all the same.
 
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