The Anime Tourist Problem

The only people who I see calling people tourists generally are people who only watch ecchi and loli who get really upset when people call them out for supporting pedophilic art, and hardcore elitists that think that people who only watch whatever they think is slop (it depends on the person but you might hear shonenslop, shoujoslop thrown around) aren't real fans.

It's kind of cringe to blow this "tourism problem" out of proportion.

There was already a thread on this topic, I'm going to paste my response with extra context:

I think a lot of the time people who call fans "tourists" for (rightfully, in a lot of cases) criticizing certain series or the actions of an individual/company/what-have-you are the real tourists. That, and people who will call others tourists for even suggesting a character might be gay/trans even though those themes have been in many popular anime for decades. Basically, if you are actively making the community an unsafe or toxic place, you are a tourist.

In addition, I think that if a new anime fan isn't outright spreading misinformation, hating on series they haven't watched, acting like an expert on something they don't know about, I don't think they deserve the tourist label. We all start somewhere, and we all learned the dynamic of the anime fandom over time.

This sounds like a fake word and fake problem.

I mean it's not even a real "problem", just a mild annoyance if anything. I tend to not judge which anime folks watch unless it's something really gross or morally bankrupt, but those kinds of anime are ones we don't talk about around here anyway.

@Early_Morning Like everyone arguing over this is like really funny. We have voices saying we need to defend the medium from other people while also forgetting there are animated atrocities that transcend beyond the anime audience, like Boku no Pico or School Days.

Bad takes are a part of enjoying media, not just anime. I actually don't know how some people can like, say this without looking in the mirror XD

@dreamingneon I think that's a good point, the anime community is booming more than ever, but like gatekeeping people for having bad takes is a bit too far. A lot of people can be excessive with bullying people online to the extent of literally killing people's careers over wrong takes.

Everyone has different tastes. I think people hated the video TheAnimeMen posted because they think they showed disrespect to the entire show when they only watched the first episode of the anime(which can highly differ from the entire show, obviously). Even Gintama fans fully admit that the first episode of Gintama isn't all that great. Not a lot of shows have a great start, with some can be weak or modest, people can get offended over others' takes.

Well, it looks like posers made a dumb video which justifiably rustled many people. I don't know them, but the video alone is cancerous to the point I need to admit that it looks like as if its authors, consciously or not, wanted to act like those stereotypical "anime tourists".

The only people who I see calling people tourists generally are people who only watch ecchi and loli who get really upset when people call them out for supporting pedophilic art, and hardcore elitists that think that people who only watch whatever they think is slop (it depends on the person but you might hear shonenslop, shoujoslop thrown around) aren't real fans.