Manaban said:Unless you think that somebody like me, who has the breadth of 3 entire Shouji Ai/Yuri anime on my list via fucking happenstance, should be treated as if my opinion on that type of anime is as weighty as somebody who's watched over a hundred and actively keeps up with and discusses that genre frequently, then there's a large sect of the newbie gatekeeping stuff that shouldn't be seen as an issue that does get bundled up with the DURRRRR NORMIES INVADING ANIME KEEP EVERYONE OUT REEE sect of that whole discourse far more often than it fucking should.
From my understanding, a lot of it comes from that sentiment. And that's fair in my book. If you've seen 4 ecchi, your opinion simply isn't capable of holding the breadth of perspective that somebody who's seen hundreds of them is capable of maintaining. Even people who are anti-gatekeeping as fuck on this forum still have the common sense to not walk into a territory they don't have a lot of experience with and start trying to posture at being an authority on it. There's a lot of people on this board that *do* exactly that, mind you, and that is because they are stupid. People who aren't wasting everybody's time, however, at least tend to understand what they know and understand what they don't know and can approach the topics without the bravado or posturing inherent to the opposite end of things.
And I know and am well aware there's a lot of bullshit sentiment associated with pro-gatekeeping sentiment that I do not approve of whatsoever, but there's some stuff that should just be common sense that never gets fucking addressed. And that's not even a new thing, that's something you see from people all of the fucking time on this board and have for years.
It's incredibly fucking irritating when you've actually invested yourself in trying to understand something over a long period of time and some dipshit with a hot take with the depth of a kiddie pool wants to play pretend at his opinion even being remotely capable of upholding the same merit as yours is. That in of itself is not a new problem, but it should be pretty easy to see how it's related to this topic.
well tbh i'm kinda new in this, but seeing other newbie weebs act like they know everything irritates me too