WTF is idol culture.!!?

Cataclysm003 said:
Japan be wildin sometimes

Sandro8604 said:
What is idol culture? this anime is so heavily based on the concept and drawbacks of it. Seems to me grown up men who have pedophilic tendency and are mentally unstable obsessing over teenage girls dancing in short skirts. It's pretty disgusting to think about to be honest. And they've built an entire industry around it.
I have seen some reference here and there in other animes like Jujutsu Kaisen but thought that was a niche thing.
To give you perspective, I'm from India, so yeah never seen such things in any english movies as well, let alone in my vicinity.

Cestlavie_ said:
It's very sad and depressing people don't know the meaning of pedophilia

__potato__ said:

Doesn't mean it's not gross

Sandro8604 said:
What is idol culture? this anime is so heavily based on the concept and drawbacks of it. Seems to me grown up men who have pedophilic tendency and are mentally unstable obsessing over teenage girls dancing in short skirts. It's pretty disgusting to think about to be honest. And they've built an entire industry around it.
I have seen some reference here and there in other animes like Jujutsu Kaisen but thought that was a niche thing.
To give you perspective, I'm from India, so yeah never seen such things in any english movies as well, let alone in my vicinity.

__potato__ said:

Doesn't mean it's not gross

Sandro8604 said:
What is idol culture? this anime is so heavily based on the concept and drawbacks of it. Seems to me grown up men who have pedophilic tendency and are mentally unstable obsessing over teenage girls dancing in short skirts. It's pretty disgusting to think about to be honest. And they've built an entire industry around it.
I have seen some reference here and there in other animes like Jujutsu Kaisen but thought that was a niche thing.
To give you perspective, I'm from India, so yeah never seen such things in any english movies as well, let alone in my vicinity.

Pityfool said:
Expecting this topic to get closed down within the next 24 hrs (obviously about as far off-topic as you can get), but inb4 the lock.

Idol culture is just another name for the same sort of thing all around the world. Child beauty pageants. Whole-family channels on Youtube/Tiktok/Twitter. Billie Eilish was apparently in fashion/modelling as early as 14-15. I'm sure there are many more cases of child-centered media, but I honestly can't be bothered to find more for this pointless topic.

However, the vast majority of these cases are not pedophilic. If you're on that opposition side of the debate over child-involvement in media (a reasonable position, IMO), use terms such as 'inappropriate', 'disgusting', 'gross', and so on. 'Pedophile' is used to describe one who has actually done the deed. That is a very serious, irredeemable brand.

Sandro8604 said:
What is idol culture? this anime is so heavily based on the concept and drawbacks of it. Seems to me grown up men who have pedophilic tendency and are mentally unstable obsessing over teenage girls dancing in short skirts. It's pretty disgusting to think about to be honest. And they've built an entire industry around it.
I have seen some reference here and there in other animes like Jujutsu Kaisen but thought that was a niche thing.
To give you perspective, I'm from India, so yeah never seen such things in any english movies as well, let alone in my vicinity.

__potato__ said:

You don't see anything wrong with this? I don't think they're watching them because they see them as a "football team".

HanBoitheLamb said:

i think i also might know how you feel about lolis and shotas
also what? idol culture is like a kpop fan, idol group fan, heck even sports teams can sometimes br considered "idols" in theit own way

ktg said:
As gross as rooting for your favorite football team or boxer.

Piromysl said:
This is not Twitter, sir.

Tafheemulhaq said:

nobody would mind if that football player is in a relationship but in the case of idols, that's a totally different story

Sandro8604 said:

Yeah man... I absolutely hate those kind of things ie. loli. I try to avoid them as much as possible. Even if the show is good in other part, I can't stand it. This is why I tried to watch ReZero now for 7th time and failed.I know it's some common trope and it's whatever but in this anime the MCs lost their mother due to this and they're still trying to be successful in that field.. that means society is not inherently against the culture but creepy fans. There must be some reason to all of these maybe.

slugdirsh said:

Sometimes MAL feels like it. Makes me want to switch to AniList.

Sandro8604 said:

Yeah man... I absolutely hate those kind of things ie. loli. I try to avoid them as much as possible. Even if the show is good in other part, I can't stand it. This is why I tried to watch ReZero now for 7th time and failed.I know it's some common trope and it's whatever but in this anime the MCs lost their mother due to this and they're still trying to be successful in that field.. that means society is not inherently against the culture but creepy fans. There must be some reason to all of these maybe.

__potato__ said:
So what you're saying is wanting to sleep with a fully-developed, concenting, experienced adult is the same as wanting to sleep with a child who's barely started developing (and some don't start doing that at exactly 13), has barely set their first foot in highschool, and literally hasn't been out of primary school for even two months is the same thing?

I can see you becoming a father and being "it's okay that 50 year old (wo)man is eyeing you up. You're a (wo)man now, look nice for them" to you're 13 daughter/son.

Sandro8604 said:
What is idol culture? this anime is so heavily based on the concept and drawbacks of it. Seems to me grown up men who have pedophilic tendency and are mentally unstable obsessing over teenage girls dancing in short skirts. It's pretty disgusting to think about to be honest. And they've built an entire industry around it.
I have seen some reference here and there in other animes like Jujutsu Kaisen but thought that was a niche thing.
To give you perspective, I'm from India, so yeah never seen such things in any english movies as well, let alone in my vicinity.

Sandro8604 said:
What is idol culture? this anime is so heavily based on the concept and drawbacks of it. Seems to me grown up men who have pedophilic tendency and are mentally unstable obsessing over teenage girls dancing in short skirts. It's pretty disgusting to think about to be honest. And they've built an entire industry around it.
I have seen some reference here and there in other animes like Jujutsu Kaisen but thought that was a niche thing.
To give you perspective, I'm from India, so yeah never seen such things in any english movies as well, let alone in my vicinity.

Sandro8604 said:
What is idol culture? this anime is so heavily based on the concept and drawbacks of it. Seems to me grown up men who have pedophilic tendency and are mentally unstable obsessing over teenage girls dancing in short skirts. It's pretty disgusting to think about to be honest. And they've built an entire industry around it.
I have seen some reference here and there in other animes like Jujutsu Kaisen but thought that was a niche thing.
To give you perspective, I'm from India, so yeah never seen such things in any english movies as well, let alone in my vicinity.

Sandro8604 said:
What is idol culture? this anime is so heavily based on the concept and drawbacks of it. Seems to me grown up men who have pedophilic tendency and are mentally unstable obsessing over teenage girls dancing in short skirts. It's pretty disgusting to think about to be honest. And they've built an entire industry around it.
I have seen some reference here and there in other animes like Jujutsu Kaisen but thought that was a niche thing.
To give you perspective, I'm from India, so yeah never seen such things in any english movies as well, let alone in my vicinity.

Pityfool said:
 'Pedophile' is used to describe one who has actually done the deed. 

Priya080929 said:
Indians are showing the most gross thinking of all the time, btw that's called set up they need a good base to set up the anime, and it's not just about those characters story this anime/manga is based on whole garbage going on in the Film industry, manga industry and idol industry that is the most focused in this series but never mind you fix minded people can never see anything good, you people can never grow up.