Showrunners have expressed frustration with the sudden restructuring.

In the past few weeks, streaming service HBO Max has taken a turn for the controversial in the eyes of the show-watching public. It was recently announced that the service would be merging with the other streaming service under Warner Bros. Discovery’s banner, Discovery+, which in turn would lead to heavy restructuring. This week, the first symptom of this restructuring was made known.

HBO Max announced this week that 36 shows on their service would be delisted as soon as the end of the week. The assumption is that removing shows from their service will help Warner Bros. in their pursuit of lowered costs.

“As we work toward bringing our content catalogs together under one platform, we will be making changes to the content offering available on both HBO Max and discovery+,” HBO Max’s statement reads. “That will include the removal of some content from both platforms.”

This particular bevy of show removals has sparked outcry due to the disproportionate number of animated shows being removed. Both archived shows from Cartoon Network, such as Mighty Magiswords, Victor and Valentino, and Uncle Grandpa, as well as HBO Max originals like Close Enough, Infinity Train, and Summer Camp Island are getting axed, which many viewers have viewed as an implicit insult against animation as an entertainment medium.

“We worked for 5 years to make 100 episodes of animation,” wrote Summer Camp Island creator Julia Pott on Twitter. “We worked late into the night, we let ourselves go, we were a family of hard working artists who wanted to make something beautiful, and HBO MAX just pulled them all like we were nothing. Animation is not nothing!”