Tropes/Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things

Western Animation

 * ArgosyMTM Group is usually embracing of fan material, but due to Ellen Peck’s personal hate towards NFTs and blockchain technology, any Aaron fanart sold on NFT sites is usually DMCA’d within minutes.
 * Ellen Peck has also forced ArgosyMTM subsidiaries, which used to have a great deal of autonomy, to cancel their NFT plans; Argosy lawyers usually copyright-strike the subsidiaries’ intended NFT partners soon afterwards. This caused the cancellation of formerly-official Dr. Seuss, Care Bears, Seattle Kraken, and Crazy Frog NFTs, though the last one could be justified by massive internet backlash. To add insult to injury, the Cloudco (owners of Care Bears) and Dr. Seuss Enterprises (owners of the Dr. Seuss IPs) subsidiaries were forcibly merged into one division, known as ArgosyMTM Classics, without notice in an unexpected (announced only 1 day prior) ArgosyMTM Direct announcement on December 16th, 2021, with Ellen Peck herself in charge, torpedoing whatever was left of their autonomy. Let’s not even mention Argosy Labs, which, as an “incubator” for subsidiaries, is supposed to be unaffected by ArgosyMTM’s corporate politics, yet whose “projects” have been forced to back down from NFTs multiple times because Ellen said so…