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Dec 14, 6:11 AM

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Yup. Everybody is just a brainrotting dummy, with no attention span that needs to really contribute more.
You're keeping it real, tho. True.



And Hey, You got 5k Likes on Twitter?
YAY! Congratulations :)
It's totally irrelevant to everyone and doesn't belong in Anime-Discussions, but......happy for you. Thanks for sharing. You're killing it!
And thanks for the lecture on Anime-Economy^^ That was helpful.
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You've written an interesting rough draft of a think piece, but I don't know how much I agree with it.

The bigger problem is studios going out of business, an over emphasis on chasing effervesent trends, and skyrocketing production costs thanks to the historically weak yen, not low quality new anime fans.

I don't really get this gatekeeping tbh. I see it all the time in the anime community, and it puzzles me. We all started somewhere - let people enjoy anime at their own pace, however they please.

The mental gymnastics required to believe that more fans equals something bad for the industry is, frankly, hard to get my head around.
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Fucking HELL NO...
We are not a zombies...
our community can discuss such things as racism, and use words such as Nigger and othr...
we can discuss antisemitism, and holocost and we love Japan and Emperor the Sun,
and Japan was Nazis alliance, and fought versus the White Angels of Jesus Crist...
And Fuck, Japs fucking thinked down the whole US fleet at Perl Harbor, you know...

And we can freely speak about Japaneese Culture, wear Japan Emperor Flag on Us
Heil to the Samurai and Kamikadze Spirit,
talk freely about Yaoi Yuri and Lolicon...
Are we zombie Hell NO...
Will NightWish Live For Ever - Hell Yeah...
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No. The community is thriving. Maybe you'd prefer if they were talking about different anime, but they exist and aren't zombies.

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@ColourWheel
Why are you presupposing that I'm wrong and it's just "nostalgia" when I'm talking about a fact?
ColourWheel said:
Sure, half the newcomers binge one show and vanish, but the other half are creating content, starting YouTube channels, posting on TikTok, translating obscure OVAs, running Discord servers, and funding Blu-rays.

OK, recommend me some.
thewiru said:
OK, recommend me some.

It's not hard if someone actually watches some of these, because you can find recommendations everywhere:
- Overanalyzing Avatar: it was originally an Avatar-related channel, but recently he's reviewing anime.
- There are channels where they talk about western movies, shows as well: OtterlyNoah, Miguel Munuera or Anthony Gramuglia
- pey talks anime: became big around when Frieren was airing.

And these were just channels where people try to analyze anime. While Heralen made insanely good and funny videos about anime quizzes with his friends.
There are a lot of content creators who make content about anime.
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I am sure there are plenty of zombies in the anime community. lol
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thewiru said:
OK, recommend me some.

It's not hard if someone actually watches some of these, because you can find recommendations everywhere:
- Overanalyzing Avatar: it was originally an Avatar-related channel, but recently he's reviewing anime.
- There are channels where they talk about western movies, shows as well: OtterlyNoah, Miguel Munuera or Anthony Gramuglia
- pey talks anime: became big around when Frieren was airing.

And these were just channels where people try to analyze anime. While Heralen made insanely good and funny videos about anime quizzes with his friends.
There are a lot of content creators who make content about anime.
@ktg
It wouldn't have killed to hyperlink the channels
ktg said:
Overanalyzing Avatar

Apparently I watched "Frieren vs A Guy Who Doesn't Like Anime" a few months back, though I remember absolutely nothing about that video.
ktg said:
There are channels where they talk about western movies, shows as well

I mean, the fact that we can't find anime-focused channels and instead have to mention channels about other things that maybe made a video about anime... is part of the issue.
ktg said:
OtterlyNoah

I'm a progressive, so I did get recommended some of his "Anti-woke criticism is NOT real criticism" videos, though I remember not liking those a lot, I think I thought they were a bit shallow. Granted, I think I also skipped many parts of the video since I wouldn't be able to say if the video was good or not if it was about a media I had no idea about (And most it is that), but the parts about things I'm more acquainted with (That being anime and Japanese stuff) made me think "Well, what you're saying is not WRONG but... it's such a superficial reading of it".
In a way, I feel that if, in order to combat anti-woke slop, you also have to produce slop of your own, that's not exactly a win...

I might check the neurodivergency video later, though, might be interesting.
ktg said:
Miguel Munuera

Never heard of it, though most of the videos about anime seem to be about Ghibli, which is very insular when it comes to anime in general.
ktg said:
Anthony Gramuglia

I have a bit of a complicated relationship with that channel.
There are some videos I like, and some... not very much.

For intance, I remember making an entire thread on how "Japan, Their Art, and the Culture War" was absolute dogshit, but I did argue that "Forced Diversity Does [Not] Exist | Ant vs. Anti-Woke Slop" was kinda good.
ktg said:
pey talks anime

I think I've watched some Frieren videos from it in the past.
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@ktg
It wouldn't have killed to hyperlink the channels
ktg said:
Overanalyzing Avatar

Apparently I watched "Frieren vs A Guy Who Doesn't Like Anime" a few months back, though I remember absolutely nothing about that video.
ktg said:
There are channels where they talk about western movies, shows as well

I mean, the fact that we can't find anime-focused channels and instead have to mention channels about other things that maybe made a video about anime... is part of the issue.
ktg said:
OtterlyNoah

I'm a progressive, so I did get recommended some of his "Anti-woke criticism is NOT real criticism" videos, though I remember not liking those a lot, I think I thought they were a bit shallow. Granted, I think I also skipped many parts of the video since I wouldn't be able to say if the video was good or not if it was about a media I had no idea about (And most it is that), but the parts about things I'm more acquainted with (That being anime and Japanese stuff) made me think "Well, what you're saying is not WRONG but... it's such a superficial reading of it".
In a way, I feel that if, in order to combat anti-woke slop, you also have to produce slop of your own, that's not exactly a win...

I might check the neurodivergency video later, though, might be interesting.
ktg said:
Miguel Munuera

Never heard of it, though most of the videos about anime seem to be about Ghibli, which is very insular when it comes to anime in general.
ktg said:
Anthony Gramuglia

I have a bit of a complicated relationship with that channel.
There are some videos I like, and some... not very much.

For intance, I remember making an entire thread on how "Japan, Their Art, and the Culture War" was absolute dogshit, but I did argue that "Forced Diversity Does [Not] Exist | Ant vs. Anti-Woke Slop" was kinda good.
ktg said:
pey talks anime

I think I've watched some Frieren videos from it in the past.
thewiru said:
It wouldn't have killed to hyperlink the channels

It doesn't hurt that you have to practive googling stuff, because if you were good at it, we would have been able to find these examples without me.

thewiru said:
I mean, the fact that we can't find anime-focused channels and instead have to mention channels about other things that maybe made a video about anime... is part of the issue.

It actually disproves you.
The fact that the normally mainstream media-oriented channels started making videos about anime means that it's so popular and so many people are interested in it, shows how big the variety is. So apart from anime-only channels, you can now watch channels where you can find other content.

And generally these channels are good because they give you a comparison to other medias. So if you like an anime series and they compare it to a western movie, then you could find something - outside of anime - that can be interesting. Understanding where anime stands compared to other medias is also an important thing to know.

Also, these aren't the only channels. There are many-many more, but you need to look them up. This was just an example how these NEW channels exist.
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