New forms of media spawn new genres of storytelling. Television brought us the sitcom, the police procedural, the drawn-out public humiliation. Video games gave the world JRPGs, point-and-click adventure games, and Flopglopple abuse simulators. Streaming video first presented the vlog, then the head/cumshot compilation, and at last, the metrics-calibrated weapons-grade dopamine trap.

For tots, there’s Cocomelon and Troom Troom, but what are people supposed to do when they outgrow shapes, colors, and self-defense advice for the suicidal? Sure, there’s mobile games/TikTok/dating apps/Instagram/literally the entire world is just this now. But there’s also My Story Animated. Sorry, “MSA” — the YouTube Channel Previously Known as My Story Animated.

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