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-The characters of Chihiro Ogino/Sen, Haku, Boh, and Yu-Bird in a scene from the animated fantasy film Spirited Away (2001). Written and directed by the already well-known and praised Hiyao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli, Spirited Away, which told the simple story of a young human Japanese girl stuck in the magical world of Kami after her parents were turned into pigs and having to work at a bathhouse in order to earn back her freedom through beautiful animation and moving characters, would undoubtedly become his magnum opus, being universally acclaimed and a smash hit, grossing over $480 million worldwide. But in what would become a historic event in entertainment and animation history, Spirited Away would be end up being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2001 at the 74th Academy Awards, which surprised many as while it was a film of very high quality, it was presumed that only live-action films could win the top prize, but on that night as the world held it’s breath as the winner was about to be called out, that myth would be disproven as Spirited Away was announced to be the winner, shocking pretty much everybody, even those who wanted the film to win, before being followed by much rejoicing as Miyazaki went up on stage and accepted the award. Spirited Away’s unexpected but very welcome victory at the Oscars would help to elevate the realm of animation, proving that animated films - whenever they be traditional or CRI, anime or western - were not inferior to live-action films.
(I didn’t see if the Best Picture winner of 2001 was mentioned, alongside Gap80 mentioning that they didn’t have any ideas for Studio Ghibli, so I’m sorry if this contradicts the cannon, and I also apologise if this is shamelessly fanficy, as I have recently gotten back into Spirited Away again and since the film won in the SNES-CD timeline by RySenkari and Nivek, I wondered why the heck not? Also, Miyazaki did not attend the Oscars IOTL due to the Iraq War, whereas here that conflict doesn’t happen so he attends it here, albiet not expecting to win any awards.)
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-A screenshot of the titular moving castle from Mamoru Hosoda’s Howl’s Moving Castle (2003). Released in the summer of 2003, the film had a lot to live up to considering how huge and groundbreaking Spirited Away was, but newcomer director Hosoda, after dealing with plenty of production issues from Studio Ghibli executives, managed to help make the film a critical and financial success, to which while not grossing as much with only over $300 million worldwide, it became yet another iconic hit for the beloved anime studio, and helped to push Hosoda as a promising director of animated films, going on to direct other Ghibli classics like The Girl Who Leaped Through Time (2006), Wolf Children (2012), and The Boy and the Beast (2015).
(Mamoru Hosoda originally worked at Studio Ghibli, but eventually left after studio executives rejected many of his ideas. Here ITTL he gets his way and hence stays.)
-Japanese manga artist Nobuhiro Watsuki, best well-known for his manga series Rurouni Kenshin (1996-1999) and Buso Renkin (2003-2005), before he was arrested in 2007 by Japanese police after he was discovered to own CP, to which he was only fined, but with his reputation now strongly stained from the controversy. He would later be killed in an arson attack in his home by Shinji Aoba in November 2017.
(Sorry if this one is dark. IOTL Watsuki was arrested in November 2017 for owning illegal content of minors, where as ITTL due to the earlier exposing of sexual predators in America and Britain it eventually spreads to Japan and here he is caught a whole decade earlier, but still faces a light punishment. Shinzo Aoba, on the other hand, was the guy who committed the 2019 Kyoto Animation arson attack which killed 36 people. Here he is a vigilante who goes after Watsuki.)
(Links to the original images here, here, and here.)
-The characters of Chihiro Ogino/Sen, Haku, Boh, and Yu-Bird in a scene from the animated fantasy film Spirited Away (2001). Written and directed by the already well-known and praised Hiyao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli, Spirited Away, which told the simple story of a young human Japanese girl stuck in the magical world of Kami after her parents were turned into pigs and having to work at a bathhouse in order to earn back her freedom through beautiful animation and moving characters, would undoubtedly become his magnum opus, being universally acclaimed and a smash hit, grossing over $480 million worldwide. But in what would become a historic event in entertainment and animation history, Spirited Away would be end up being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2001 at the 74th Academy Awards, which surprised many as while it was a film of very high quality, it was presumed that only live-action films could win the top prize, but on that night as the world held it’s breath as the winner was about to be called out, that myth would be disproven as Spirited Away was announced to be the winner, shocking pretty much everybody, even those who wanted the film to win, before being followed by much rejoicing as Miyazaki went up on stage and accepted the award. Spirited Away’s unexpected but very welcome victory at the Oscars would help to elevate the realm of animation, proving that animated films - whenever they be traditional or CRI, anime or western - were not inferior to live-action films.
(I didn’t see if the Best Picture winner of 2001 was mentioned, alongside Gap80 mentioning that they didn’t have any ideas for Studio Ghibli, so I’m sorry if this contradicts the cannon, and I also apologise if this is shamelessly fanficy, as I have recently gotten back into Spirited Away again and since the film won in the SNES-CD timeline by RySenkari and Nivek, I wondered why the heck not? Also, Miyazaki did not attend the Oscars IOTL due to the Iraq War, whereas here that conflict doesn’t happen so he attends it here, albiet not expecting to win any awards.)
-A screenshot of the titular moving castle from Mamoru Hosoda’s Howl’s Moving Castle (2003). Released in the summer of 2003, the film had a lot to live up to considering how huge and groundbreaking Spirited Away was, but newcomer director Hosoda, after dealing with plenty of production issues from Studio Ghibli executives, managed to help make the film a critical and financial success, to which while not grossing as much with only over $300 million worldwide, it became yet another iconic hit for the beloved anime studio, and helped to push Hosoda as a promising director of animated films, going on to direct other Ghibli classics like The Girl Who Leaped Through Time (2006), Wolf Children (2012), and The Boy and the Beast (2015).
(Mamoru Hosoda originally worked at Studio Ghibli, but eventually left after studio executives rejected many of his ideas. Here ITTL he gets his way and hence stays.)
-Japanese manga artist Nobuhiro Watsuki, best well-known for his manga series Rurouni Kenshin (1996-1999) and Buso Renkin (2003-2005), before he was arrested in 2007 by Japanese police after he was discovered to own CP, to which he was only fined, but with his reputation now strongly stained from the controversy. He would later be killed in an arson attack in his home by Shinji Aoba in November 2017.
(Sorry if this one is dark. IOTL Watsuki was arrested in November 2017 for owning illegal content of minors, where as ITTL due to the earlier exposing of sexual predators in America and Britain it eventually spreads to Japan and here he is caught a whole decade earlier, but still faces a light punishment. Shinzo Aoba, on the other hand, was the guy who committed the 2019 Kyoto Animation arson attack which killed 36 people. Here he is a vigilante who goes after Watsuki.)
(Links to the original images here, here, and here.)
Some more wikiboxes:
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Buford Pusser’s law-and-order platform was just what the people of Tennessee wanted after 4 years of the scandalous Jake Butcher. Voter turnout was high with 1,351,184 votes cast. Eight years later, both major party candidates – Illinois-born Hillary Rodham-Clinton and Massachusetts-born Phil Bredesen – struggled to move past the accusations of carpetbagging that their interparty opponents had made against them during the primaries. Call for a “True Tennessean” lingered into November; of the 1,532,863 votes cast, 5% refused to vote for either major party candidate and instead voted “in protest” for the only other candidate on the ballot, an obscure political activist. Credit to @MNM041 for creating the Pusser image.
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In 2012, Pritt unseated McKinley in a race noted for its polite, friendly, and professional pair of debates due to both candidates being friends both personally and professionally since their time together in the state legislature back in the 1980s (though their friendship was strained by the race, they reconciled by 2014.) Conservatives later blamed McKinley refusing to sling mud and denouncing a negative personal attack ad in October for him losing the governorship, which explains why Pritt’s 2016 opponent, Erikka Lynn Storch, was so over-the-top in her attacks, which also backfired as she lost by a wider margin despite her receiving millions in funding from sources outside West Virginia.
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Jackson’s 1998 gubernatorial candidacy was initially seen as an easily avoidable misstep. After finishing in second place in the 1996 Democratic Presidential primaries, hypothetical polling in 1997 showed he was the early favorite for the 2000 nomination. All he had to do was continue his political activism and support midterm election candidates to prove his ability to influence down ballot races. However, Jackson was concerned about 2 things: his electability and his home state’s “decline in quality and character.” Jackson hadn’t held an elected office since 1991, and after finishing in second place in the 1996 primaries, Jackson found merit in John Glenn’s earlier concerns over his electability, given that he hadn’t won an election in over a decade and hadn’t held an elected office since 1991. In early 1998, Jackson denounced Governor Inglis’ fiscally and socially conservative governance, claiming his “limited government” policies favored big business to the detriment of lower-class and middle-class consumers and innovators, and condemning his apathetic response to a racially motivated school shooting that left 2 high schoolers dead and 5 wounded in August 1996. Jackson highlighted his gubernatorial accomplishments such as his effective response to Hurricane Hugo in 1989. However, Jackson’s known Presidential aspirations hampered his polling as Republicans effectively accused him of trying to use the governorship as a “steppingstone” for another White House bid. In the sole gubernatorial debate, Jackson hurt his own campaign by refusing to respond to his opponent demanding he pledge to serve a full gubernatorial term. By mid-October, even some prominent Democrats were predicting Jackson would lose. Ultimately, though, backlash to Inglis’ “moral crusades” and hands-off approach to economic issues, as well as Jackson’s positive campaign focused on relatable middle-class issues – as opposed to his opponent’s lack of messaging outside of negative attack ads – allowed Jackson to win a second term by a wider-than-expected margin as Democrats turned out in droves to vote, in defiance of new outlets predicting Jackson’s “inevitable” defeat, while Republican turnout was lower than anticipated. Independent candidate Jim Hodges received 4.7% of the vote, with 0.5% going to 3 other third-party/independent candidates. Jackson spent most of 1999 focused on reversing many of Inglis’ policies; he did not formally launch a second White House bid until January 3, 2000.
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Buford Pusser’s law-and-order platform was just what the people of Tennessee wanted after 4 years of the scandalous Jake Butcher. Voter turnout was high with 1,351,184 votes cast. Eight years later, both major party candidates – Illinois-born Hillary Rodham-Clinton and Massachusetts-born Phil Bredesen – struggled to move past the accusations of carpetbagging that their interparty opponents had made against them during the primaries. Call for a “True Tennessean” lingered into November; of the 1,532,863 votes cast, 5% refused to vote for either major party candidate and instead voted “in protest” for the only other candidate on the ballot, an obscure political activist. Credit to @MNM041 for creating the Pusser image.
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In 2012, Pritt unseated McKinley in a race noted for its polite, friendly, and professional pair of debates due to both candidates being friends both personally and professionally since their time together in the state legislature back in the 1980s (though their friendship was strained by the race, they reconciled by 2014.) Conservatives later blamed McKinley refusing to sling mud and denouncing a negative personal attack ad in October for him losing the governorship, which explains why Pritt’s 2016 opponent, Erikka Lynn Storch, was so over-the-top in her attacks, which also backfired as she lost by a wider margin despite her receiving millions in funding from sources outside West Virginia.
Jackson’s 1998 gubernatorial candidacy was initially seen as an easily avoidable misstep. After finishing in second place in the 1996 Democratic Presidential primaries, hypothetical polling in 1997 showed he was the early favorite for the 2000 nomination. All he had to do was continue his political activism and support midterm election candidates to prove his ability to influence down ballot races. However, Jackson was concerned about 2 things: his electability and his home state’s “decline in quality and character.” Jackson hadn’t held an elected office since 1991, and after finishing in second place in the 1996 primaries, Jackson found merit in John Glenn’s earlier concerns over his electability, given that he hadn’t won an election in over a decade and hadn’t held an elected office since 1991. In early 1998, Jackson denounced Governor Inglis’ fiscally and socially conservative governance, claiming his “limited government” policies favored big business to the detriment of lower-class and middle-class consumers and innovators, and condemning his apathetic response to a racially motivated school shooting that left 2 high schoolers dead and 5 wounded in August 1996. Jackson highlighted his gubernatorial accomplishments such as his effective response to Hurricane Hugo in 1989. However, Jackson’s known Presidential aspirations hampered his polling as Republicans effectively accused him of trying to use the governorship as a “steppingstone” for another White House bid. In the sole gubernatorial debate, Jackson hurt his own campaign by refusing to respond to his opponent demanding he pledge to serve a full gubernatorial term. By mid-October, even some prominent Democrats were predicting Jackson would lose. Ultimately, though, backlash to Inglis’ “moral crusades” and hands-off approach to economic issues, as well as Jackson’s positive campaign focused on relatable middle-class issues – as opposed to his opponent’s lack of messaging outside of negative attack ads – allowed Jackson to win a second term by a wider-than-expected margin as Democrats turned out in droves to vote, in defiance of new outlets predicting Jackson’s “inevitable” defeat, while Republican turnout was lower than anticipated. Independent candidate Jim Hodges received 4.7% of the vote, with 0.5% going to 3 other third-party/independent candidates. Jackson spent most of 1999 focused on reversing many of Inglis’ policies; he did not formally launch a second White House bid until January 3, 2000.
As for Bonnie's voice, someone like June Foray would be the original voice, with Candi Milo or Cheryl Chase currently doing the voice.
- Singers Michael Jackson and Burt Wilson with a Fatz animatronic (Wilson has voiced Fatz and other minor characters for The Rock-afire Explosion since its 1980 debut) at Creative Engineering in 1984. After Jackson died in 1993, a showtape was released for ShowBiz Pizza locations featuring RAE covers of Jackson's songs as a tribute.
-Jerrie Cobb, as played by Sonya Walger in the tv series Our Stars, celebrating their lunar excursion during Apollo 24
- Skeeter, Scooter's twin sister from The Muppets, at a 2021 convention with her performer, Karen Prell, cropped. Introduced in 1984 initially for Muppet Babies and being implemented into the adult Muppet lineup as a response to the second Ark Wave, Skeeter is a foil to both the nerdy Scooter and the diva Miss Piggy, acting as an assistant to Gonzo.
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Tomorrowdogs is the 9th largest hotdog chain in the US. It’s best known for its focus on exotic flavors, “fusion” offerings, advertising that aims to appeal to "young" demographics, and consistently keeping up with and utilizing the latest tech to match its futurism theme and aesthetic.
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Bill Bradley retired from the US Senate after repeatedly praising President Jesse Jackson sank his approval ratings and poll performances in his Republican-leaning home state. Just months after leaving office, though, the US Ambassador to Germany, the far-left former Governor of Wisconsin Paul Soglin, suddenly stepped down to unsuccessfully run for a US House seat after criticizing President Jackson’s foreign policies for being “not progressive enough.” Jackson offered the post to Bradley, whose wife is German. His experience on US Senate Committees concerning the US Army enabled him to become the Secretary of the Army under Wellstone 2009. After Wellstone lost re-election, Bradley returned to the private sector at age 69. In 2021, despite being a strong supporter of Charlotte Pritt, Bradley declined her offer to serve as her US Ambassador to the UN, citing his age (he was almost 78) and his marriage (he and his wife were reportedly on the brink of divorce during his diplomatic career, but had since reconciled).
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In 1999, independent candidate Louie Nunn and his running mate, D. Lynn Williams, earned 3.1% of the vote, with write-ins receiving the remaining 0.3%. Nunn had been the Republican nominee for Governor in 1963 and the HIP nominee for Governor in both 1971 and 1975.
Credit goes to @MNM041 for creating the picture for Bucky Ray Jarrell.
I also considered making several edits of alternate city skylines by checking the timeline again to take note of which alternate skyscrapers and stadiums were built ITTL in order to add them to city skylines, complete with KFC signs nestled into the urban landscape, hidden in each picture like easter eggs, but I may be busy later this week with work so I don’t know when I can get around to doing that.
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The logo for Tortilla Tuesdays before and after changing its name from Tortilla Time. As of 2021, Tortilla Time is the 10th largest Mexican food restaurant franchise in the US. The chain changed its name in the 1990s, amid TGI Friday prominently suing Burger Hut Thursdays, to prevent a possible lawsuit, though officially the change was to “modernize” the company’s brand. In 2003, efforts led by Burger Hut Thursdays’ CEO to form a parent “umbrella” company for all 3 chains (Tortilla Tuesdays, Burger Hut Thursdays, and TGI Fridays) failed, ending said CEO’s hopes to establish new franchises, “one for each remaining day of the week.”
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Burger Hut Thursdays has become a shadow of its former self. Once the US’s 10th largest burger chain, it is now (as of 2021) the US’s 19th largest.
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Above: The abandoned remains of a TGI Fridays, with windows intact but awnings and sign gone, 2 years after the restaurant chain, in dire financial straits during the late 1990s, finally died via a 2005 bankruptcy filing stemming from the impact of the SARS pandemic on their business model.
- Kirk Cameron portraying former US President Larry Dinger in 2018 Adam McKay film Election, about the 2000 election between Dinger and Jesse Jackson. The scene above depicts Dinger backstage just prior to a campaign rally.
- Cedric Yarbrough portraying Jesse Jackson, shown above in a scene depicting Jackson meeting with Paul Wellstone in an informal setting.
(Here are three more posts. If they are too macabre then I’ll remove them.)
-African-American and BLUTAGO actor Jussie Smollett doing an interview in 2016, whose unexpected murder in a hate crime at the hands of two men who physically assaulted him in Chicago on January 29th, 2019 caused massive shock, horror, grief, and anger in the USA, with his local community coming together to help pay for his funeral, the two men who killed him being arrested, and discussions about anti-Black racism and homophobia - despite the presidency of Jackson and the national legalisation of same-sex marriage having helped change the country for the better back in the 2000s - to spread across the nation.
(IOTL, of course, Smollett faked the crime and was exposed for doing so. Here ITTL, in some dark twist of cosmic humour, he is actually attacked for real and killed by two white supremacist homophobes, causing a similar reaction to OTL police brutality cases.)
-A family photograph of Michael Steven Sanford, a 22-year-old British man with autism and obssessive compulsive disorder who was tragically attacked and killed in July 2018 in his hometown of Dorking, Surrey, with the man who murdered him after his arrest reportedly confessing that he was motivated due to him not liking autistic people and those with similar conditions, and that he “didn’t like the way he was near him” when he began attacking him, a blatant hate crime which would send shockwaves across the Unitef Kingdom and saw a large outpouring of condolences and support for Sandford’s grieving family, while causing a lot of outrage and starting a major conversation about mental health and ableism in the UK, with awareness of anti-autisc sentiments and other forms of bigotry against those with neurological disabilities and divergences being spread around. On what would’ve been his 23rd birthday in 2019, the community of Dorking unveils a monument dedicated to Sanford, consisting of him and a robot he made, due to him expressing his desire to go into robotics and engineering before his untimely death.
(IOTL Sanford is notable for trying to shoot Donald Trump in 2016 but failing, with him not being that malicious of a person despite him attempting to assassinate a politician. Here ITTL he does no such thing, but he unfortunately ends up being killed in an ableist hate crime back in his home country instead, but with the silver lining being that his death inspires conversations about the way those with mental disabilities are treated in the UK.)
-Evangelical Christian activist and ontech personality John Allen Chau in 2018, who first came to global attention when he was arrested on November 17th, 2018 when Indian authorities caught him trying to reach thr isolated Sentinelese people of North Sentinel Island, which he admitted he tried to make contact with them before in secret. After spending a very short amount of time in an Indian jail, he was released and returnrd back home to the states, where his antics became a notable news story, which while earning him plenty of scorn and ridicule, did also see him gain a following of Christians who were impressed by his “bravery” and “commitment” to spreading the word of the lord to those not lucky enough to know of his existence, to which he would start a channel on OurVids in December, hoping to capitalise on his newfound fame, where he would document his travels and discuss his thoughts and opinions on religion, politics, and society. He has around 100,000 subscribers as of July 2021.
(IOTL Chau visited the island in secret and was killed by the Sentinelese as a result. Here ITTL the Indian authorities discover his plans and arrest him in time, where he gains a small following of people interested in his mission after his 15 minutes of fame.)
-African-American and BLUTAGO actor Jussie Smollett doing an interview in 2016, whose unexpected murder in a hate crime at the hands of two men who physically assaulted him in Chicago on January 29th, 2019 caused massive shock, horror, grief, and anger in the USA, with his local community coming together to help pay for his funeral, the two men who killed him being arrested, and discussions about anti-Black racism and homophobia - despite the presidency of Jackson and the national legalisation of same-sex marriage having helped change the country for the better back in the 2000s - to spread across the nation.
(IOTL, of course, Smollett faked the crime and was exposed for doing so. Here ITTL, in some dark twist of cosmic humour, he is actually attacked for real and killed by two white supremacist homophobes, causing a similar reaction to OTL police brutality cases.)
-A family photograph of Michael Steven Sanford, a 22-year-old British man with autism and obssessive compulsive disorder who was tragically attacked and killed in July 2018 in his hometown of Dorking, Surrey, with the man who murdered him after his arrest reportedly confessing that he was motivated due to him not liking autistic people and those with similar conditions, and that he “didn’t like the way he was near him” when he began attacking him, a blatant hate crime which would send shockwaves across the Unitef Kingdom and saw a large outpouring of condolences and support for Sandford’s grieving family, while causing a lot of outrage and starting a major conversation about mental health and ableism in the UK, with awareness of anti-autisc sentiments and other forms of bigotry against those with neurological disabilities and divergences being spread around. On what would’ve been his 23rd birthday in 2019, the community of Dorking unveils a monument dedicated to Sanford, consisting of him and a robot he made, due to him expressing his desire to go into robotics and engineering before his untimely death.
(IOTL Sanford is notable for trying to shoot Donald Trump in 2016 but failing, with him not being that malicious of a person despite him attempting to assassinate a politician. Here ITTL he does no such thing, but he unfortunately ends up being killed in an ableist hate crime back in his home country instead, but with the silver lining being that his death inspires conversations about the way those with mental disabilities are treated in the UK.)
-Evangelical Christian activist and ontech personality John Allen Chau in 2018, who first came to global attention when he was arrested on November 17th, 2018 when Indian authorities caught him trying to reach thr isolated Sentinelese people of North Sentinel Island, which he admitted he tried to make contact with them before in secret. After spending a very short amount of time in an Indian jail, he was released and returnrd back home to the states, where his antics became a notable news story, which while earning him plenty of scorn and ridicule, did also see him gain a following of Christians who were impressed by his “bravery” and “commitment” to spreading the word of the lord to those not lucky enough to know of his existence, to which he would start a channel on OurVids in December, hoping to capitalise on his newfound fame, where he would document his travels and discuss his thoughts and opinions on religion, politics, and society. He has around 100,000 subscribers as of July 2021.
(IOTL Chau visited the island in secret and was killed by the Sentinelese as a result. Here ITTL the Indian authorities discover his plans and arrest him in time, where he gains a small following of people interested in his mission after his 15 minutes of fame.)
- A still image of Wile E. Coyote from the Looney Tunes film Coyote vs. Acme (2024)
NOTE: As I type this, it will be tomorrow when OTL's Warner Bros. Discovery announces the fate of the film. I have no reason to believe it won't be deleted; when the bad PR came, instead of actually releasing the film they thought that pulling shady tactics under the false pretense of trying to sell it and then deciding to delete the film would be a good way to quell the PR. Instead, it only led to more bad PR when it came out.
I highly doubt WBD learned anything; they've shown a potentially antipathetic attitude towards animation these past couple years. I feel this is truly the beginning of the end for WBD, as well as any future prospects of David Zaslav ever working in Hollywood.
#ReleaseCoyoteVSAcme
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