What is the most annoying thing someone can do when discussing anime?

This thread is a challenge. Is the most annoying thing: Bragging about being a nonce, acting superior due to useless consumer capitalist metrics like number of shows watched or merch purchased, still being a dumbass that can't analyze media worth shit despite claiming to have watched 1000 shows, using "tourist" unironically?

I'd say the nonce* thing. The number one reason anime fans have a bad reputation.

@DarkFirefly72 *It's UK English slang for paedophile.

What I truthfully find one of the most irksome and all too commonplace are those who immediately - it almost doesn't matter the series but especially concerning more "dramatic" series - romantic and psychological dramas, thrillers, mysteries, etc. with any form of sad or tragic, controversial and divisive, convoluted and unclear, memorable and iconic, twist, or cliffhanger-type ending, launch immediately into discussing the ending of the series in question as if it's the only point worthy of discussion, even with and in front of those who haven't seen the whole series yet and that is known and apparent - like the "Wait until you get to that ending though!" *wink wink, nudge nudge* style of commentary.

I just find it disgustingly rude and that those folks have zero regard. It can be ignorance and overexcitement/overzealousness leading to a lack of awareness of the impact of one's word or it can stem more from arrogance and apathy or a mixture of the two.

If you were blown away by a particular ending, then great for you. But there's no reason to act like a gaudy cheap carnival barker about it. Let people discover the series and the mysteries and treasures contained with it at their own pace. Let others have an organic first-time experience with it, as presumably you yourself or others once had and cherished. I see those types of comments and the inner Dr. Hannibal Lecter comes out in me. It's just a form of total disregard and rudeness I find "unspeakably ugly" and cannot countenance.

And on basically equal ground in the sense of occupying a similar place of dirt poor standing in my eyes are the novel/light novel/manga/manhua/manhwa/video game/visual novel readers and/or players who come on to every anime discussion sub-forum knowing full well it's populated in sizable percentage by those only watching the anime and outright spoil things left and right or try to work spoilers into discussions somehow someway even in a cloaked and subdued form.

I'll be honest in that for myself and my own sake I don't even care all that much about spoilers if it's not a series I'm seriously psychologically and emotionally invested in to a significant extent (and there I've always had the sense to avoid any and all discussion of them online while in the midst of them because, lamentably, you can't trust anyone for a second to be responsible or respectful), which is like less than 5% of everything I've watched, especially in terms of seasonals from the past few years. But I think it's just the sheer unnecessary nature of the behavior and utter gall of those engaging in it which I find so loathesome.

You go into an individual anime series' episode discussion thread topic, clear rules are automatically posted, with the relevant one to the matter posted on top with DO NOT in bold font and capital letters - "DO NOT discuss the source material beyond this episode. If you want to discuss future events or theories, please use separate threads." and then people just swagger in and do whatever the hell they want. I equate them with people who would just come into somebody's house or a public store and just defecate all over the floor as they walk, because they think they're entitled.

Probably namedropping really obscure, universally-unwatched anime titles into general anime conversations without giving explanation or context, just to show off that they've watched something that few others have seen. It's just irritating because you know they're not doing it for the benefit of discussion and often, they do it at the expense of a much more obvious and helpful example.

When someone blatantly spoils major events from a series or source material of a series I'm planning to watch but haven't yet started. Doesn't apply to all genres, I won't bat an eye if it's a romcom or other comedy, but for most other series, it's very annoying. Once I've started watching an anime however, I do my best to avoid discussions around it to avoid spoilers.

Also when people dismiss entire genres and themes as "mid", "shit" and "slop". Battle Shounen is the most common victim, followed by Isekai.

To me, the most annoying thing is when they confidently state misinformation as if it's a fact.

I guess that's not specifically an anime thing, but I see it more commonly in anime discussion than anywhere else (excluding political discussion, obviously.)

The most annoying thing is what some people I know IRL tend to do when I make a mistake of talking to them about anime: randomly shit on your taste, like really shit on, not calmly discuss or express like or dislike, THEN also bring a question of gender into it.

Like "wooooooahhhhh you haven't seen X??? WTF" yeah? You haven't seen half of the shit on my list either and I'm not acting shocked about it.
And "omfgggggg you have X a 9/10 that's hilarious" Yes I happened to enjoy something that's not considered objectively good, why are we making a big deal out of it? I haven't mentioned it once or tried to shill it to anyone btw.
And last but not least, "you're a woman so your opinion doesn't count" - which is a real thing said to me recently.

Where do I even find these people? The answer is work. Working with people several years younger than me who got into anime like a decade after I did, but who also feel superior because I'm just some girl with shit taste.
I don't think anything that happens in the forums can compare to the shit I get from them for the most random reasons possible.

Thanks for reading the rant lmao

The most annoying thing is what some people I know IRL tend to do when I make a mistake of talking to them about anime: randomly shit on your taste, like really shit on, not calmly discuss or express like or dislike, THEN also bring a question of gender into it.

Like "wooooooahhhhh you haven't seen X??? WTF" yeah? You haven't seen half of the shit on my list either and I'm not acting shocked about it.
And "omfgggggg you have X a 9/10 that's hilarious" Yes I happened to enjoy something that's not considered objectively good, why are we making a big deal out of it? I haven't mentioned it once or tried to shill it to anyone btw.
And last but not least, "you're a woman so your opinion doesn't count" - which is a real thing said to me recently.

Where do I even find these people? The answer is work. Working with people several years younger than me who got into anime like a decade after I did, but who also feel superior because I'm just some girl with shit taste.
I don't think anything that happens in the forums can compare to the shit I get from them for the most random reasons possible.

Thanks for reading the rant lmao

I do agree with you but I also get where people are coming from. I love isekai as much as the next person but nowadays it is indeed filled with pure slop and even the great ones a lot of the time have weird shit in them (like pedophilia). And something similar to a lesser degree can be said about shonen.

Assuming it's cartoons made for kids.

People being elitist and thinking they speak for others besides just their own views. It's just anime, it ain't that deep, enjoy what you enjoy and let others enjoy what they enjoy.

@DarkFirefly72 I also agree with that, these genres are indeed oversaturated, but some people have a stigma against the name of these genres itself. They don't care about the content and criticising based on that, but only about which genre/theme the show belongs to, which is why I used the word "entire". Funny part is, most of these people haven't even watched those shows they dismiss as "slop". I might sound hypocritical here since I've also almost "discarded" the Avant Garde genre after watching NGE, but pretty much everyone agrees that all anime of this genre are "weird" and confusing without exceptions since these anime tend to be experimental in nature, and I don't like confusing things. But Battle Shounen and Isekai can't be generalized like that.

rage baiting. especially irl when you're into an anime you really like and someone gives a very believable hot take just to mess with you and you'd instinctively react because you thought it was a very healthy discussion but turns out they were just fucking with you. makes you look like an idiot for actually being passionate about something.

makes me not want to talk to them anymore and won't give them a serious discussion.

Political Slander deserves its own post, idgaf whatever your agenda is, if wanna discuss politics instead of anime go to twitter, wokes or bigots are just as insufferable, they are like barking dogs because after all the shouting no one changes, except the fandom is now more toxic.

Look at the payment processor censorship topic intead of unanimously opposing it, some where saying this was the left's or the righ's fault as if that mattered somehow, they don't have the right to censor and they shouldn't that's it

Related to this (not really to the question I made for the post but whatever) probably the single thing I hate the most when I meet someone new is if I find out they are not passionate about anything, No passionate about games, sports, TV shows, movies, watching streamers, work, studying, traveling or anything for that matter. Like they just exist, what are you living for at that point? (Important to point out that I'm not saying they should cease to exist or smth like that, it is just a way of living that I can't even fathom doing myself)

"So bad it's good"
"I can't take this anime seriously"
"WTF did I just watch?"
"This gives me *insert anime name* vibes"
"Commencing three episode rule"
"Fanservice is ruining this show for me"

There are a lot more of these "gems", but I can't remember all of them at once.

You will understand once you lack the energy to be passionate, sooner or later it happens to most people.

@Zarutaku Firstly, I'm talking mostly about people between 18-23 years old. You shouldn't reach a boiling point of lacking energy at that age. Secondly, I don't really think I will ever understand that. You are talking like every person that grows up ends up being apathetic towards everything like it is a fact and that is very clearly not the case for most people. Whether you are a 15 year old or a 80 year old you like things, dearly (most of the time). Watch how a 80 year old man dances to music from the 1950s and your point disappears.

Most people experience existential boredom at some point, not managing to motivate themselves, losing passion and so on.
It happens even to young ones, although probably less often since they usually have more energy.