I'm willing to bet this is going to be considered off topic, but I have to ask this anyway.
To preface this post: I'm a bit of a glutton for punishment. I'm the type of person that, out of morbid curiosity, will sometimes watch a terrible film on TV, or an awful anime (like the many WONDERFUL series ran on Stars/Encore!), just for a combination of wanting new comedic material, and sadism.
I catch myself, sometimes, bringing back up youtube links of 4Piece, and I dunno why I do it.
Maybe it's to remind me just how badly One Piece fans were hosed (worse than any other anime fan community ever IMO), or to remind me of how lucky we are to have Funimation dubbing it now, I'm not sure.
But one thing runs through my head when I watch these clips: Was 4Kids doing this out of spite? Were they performing in an exceptionally bad way on PURPOSE, either out of hate of the fanbase, or the original product itself, or some other unknown reason.
It's hard for me to comprehend a product so outlandishly different and bad, not to mention insulting and pandering to not only adults but children of all ages being an accident. It feels like they had HATE in their hearts when they produced this abomination, and that if they had any remote concern for their viewers, it wouldn't have been quite so bad.
I hold my head, trying to process the insane level of just plain phail that 4Piece contained, and it's pretty overwhelming.
I don't mean to be melodramatic or anything, I have no active hate in my heart for the people involved. I just wonder what their motivation was for producing such drek.
Am I alone on this? (I also will accept "too long:didn't read lol).