HBO Max Just Quietly Removed 16 Seasons Of Looney Tunes Shorts

https://www.slashfilm.com/1153481/hbo-max-just-quietly-removed-16-seasons-of-looney-tunes-shorts/

To add to the depression, The Cartoon News reports (and /Film has confirmed) that Warner Bros. Discovery has taken 256 of the classic "Looney Tunes" shorts off HBO Max, cutting the initial number 511 in half. There were 31 seasons of shorts available for your viewing pleasure. Now, there are just 15. This is yet another instance in the era of David Zaslav as CEO where HBO Max has removed something without warning. As for what they are going to do with these shorts, they will probably be shuffled off to a FAST service like some other shows, but nothing has been formally announced on that front.

They may have had 511 shorts available to watch on HBO Max, but that is only about half of the total 1,002 "Looney Tunes" and "Merry Melodies" theatrical shorts created by Warner Bros. from the original run of the two series. As for which ones ended up on HBO Max, there seemed to be no rhyme or reason for which ones did. The service does not separate shorts from the two series, as they both feature all the classic characters, so it's not a case of them just having "Looney Tunes" and not "Merry Melodies" or vice versa.