evidence: Warner Bros. Discovery this week pulled the entire contents of cartoonnetwork.com offline — redirecting visitors to a landing page on Max, its subscription-streaming service, encouraging fans to sign up to watch their favorite Cartoon Network shows. The shuttering of the site appears to have happened Thursday, Aug. 8. [...] The shutdown of cartoonnetwork.com comes a week after WBD told subscribers it will sunset the Boomerang classic ‘toon streamer effective Sept. 30 — and migrating customers (and the content catalog) over to Max. WBD’s killing off of the Cartoon Network appears to be a cost-cutting move, as well as one intended to spur fans to pay up for Max. In a series of similar moves, Paramount Global earlier this summer removed a huge trove of content from Comedy Central’s site and pulled the full archive of MTV News and CMT from the internet.