Animation Age Ghetto / Diary of a Wimpy Kid

• The books were originally intended to appeal to all ages similar to many classic comic strips with their witty comedic writing and dramedy slice of life storylines. They were even intially going to market it towards adults. However, after the books became a popular to kids and due to the fact they had a cartoon art style, they started slowly shifting more towards kids with wackier storylines and modern day pop culture references.
• Due to the books' cartoony art style, they haven't been taken seriously by many book critics even though they have plenty of interesting insights for adults as well as kids. If you were to talk to someone about Diary of a Wimpy Kid as an adult, they would probably think of you as weird, whereas with books like Harry Potter are seen as normal literature for adults. In fact, some moral guardians have attacked the books despite the books being aimed at kids 8-12.
• This may be the reason why the books were adapted into live action and not animation until Disney acquired the rights to it by buying 20th Century Studios, despite being based on a cartoon since that way the movies could appeal to a pre teen crowd who thought animation would be too childish for them and were starting to watch live action media aimed at an older audience.
• This could be a possible reason as to why the animated movie got negative reception, since it was being compared to the live action movies by critics and not the books despite being based upon and being more accurate to the books, albeit with some major scenes left out.

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