I frequented this (Flash?) website, because I loved the late 50s/early 60s style. I think there was sort of a community up in the hills/mountains of California? But I can't remember what the actual contents were. Maybe some cartoony (Hanna Barbera style?) videos, things you could click on, small games? Lots of pine trees, maybe "Pine" in the name of the website. Modern 60s style architecture. Had some cool music.
It's all very blurry. Could be marketing for some sort of clothing. I think it was made in the late 90s, early 2000s.
They made a Boo Boo.
On the government's side, Ranger Smith is a uniformed white authority figure trying to boss around innocent beings who have been locked up. Yes they're imprisoned in a big park, but they used to have the full run of the continent. A big cage is still a cage.
On the side of freedom, Yogi and Booboo (who are different shades of brown) are sick and tired of sleeping in a cave and only eating nuts and berries because it's literal trash. We're supposed to think Yogi is gluttonous for this, but he just wants to be a person! He's their equal in every way.
The bears just want the same comforts as the park's white human tourists; to live in luxury and convenience with plenty of delicious food and no jack-booted thugs forcing them into abject poverty.
Yogi Bear is aspirational. But it's also oppressive.
At the end of each cartoon Yogi is back where he "belongs" -- in a fucking cave, having "learned his lesson" that he'll never escape his "natural station" in life.
Booboo is Yogi's affable and "reasonable" betrayer. He has lighter fur and is more inclined to fulfill his "natural" role of living in the open and bowing down to the fate assigned to him by an oppressive white god. He only plays along with Yogi's schemes long enough to rat him out to the ranger.
And I dunno, the bow tie kind of adds to his try-hard uncle-tom nature for some reason. Or maybe I'm biased against bow ties.
But on the other hand, you can read it as about a parent/child relationship. Kids love to play games with food; 'steal' it, have it 'stolen,' throw it. Food is funny, and fighting over it is even funnier.
But that creates an even more twisted analogy if the bears are the children and the ranger is the parent. It's the same as saying the black man is the white man's silly and foolish child.
Man this is fucked up.
