Smiling Friends needs to be the future for cartoons. Not the content. But the idea of the internet people, working with the Big Industry. The Big Industry on its own now, makes this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rOGMyFc0Mug The internet people, they make one episode a year of something that needs more organisation and leadership.
And there's no reason right now for big industry to even make cartoons, Warner Brothers (Cartoon Network, Adult Swim), Disney, Paramount (Nikelodeon), Universal (Dreamworks). They all have streaming services with endless amounts of animated shows already, they don't really need to make more. the late 90s and early 2000s has done it already and people wanna show their kids what they watched as a kid. And are teenagers using these streaming services? Not nearly as much as they used to watch TV. Teenagers are Youtube. Of course the idea of making new animated shows, it does help to make new things to hopefully get something that brings people into the streaming service. But they have so much already.