Assertion: cartoon | /r/CapableOf | begin outright phaseout
Facets:
value: by the early 2010s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: As the popularity of these blocks continued to decline and no hit shows emerged from them, by the early 2010s cartoons began an outright phaseout, with the major networks opting to fill their educational mandates by commissioning live-action, mostly documentary/human interest series that were far less labor-intensive and expensive to produce (and, more importantly for the networks, less restrictive in regard to commercials).