User blog comment:AustinDR/Response to Cartoon Network Dilemma/@comment-34904882-20171213205108/@comment-34904882-20171214011352

Yeah. Say what you will about TTG Dark Age but it least thats' a cartoon (even if its' a really awful one).

Those stupid live action shows went against the Cartoon Network name plus there were other factors that cultivated in the first dark age such as the pre-2007 CN original series' ending after 2008-2009, popular blocks like Fridays and Toonami ending, and the Canadian cartoons not being very strong (except for 6Teen and Total Drama). The only good things that came out of it were the four shows still in production during the dark age (Chowder, Ben 10 Alien Force, Flapjack, and Secret Saturdays) and the Nood bumpers (at least they weren't live action).