Do you get frustrated with new anime fans?

FruitlessJuice said:
no seriously tho. fuck everyone with BNHA in favs

KaKtusKipiK said:
woohoo I'm not new anime fan !

I don't know any of those new anime fan personally.
I do know casual watcher over 18 but only some are annoying (those I find annoying whether or not they talk about anime).

If it's about those who complain on the forum about things they think they know about anime.
I just ignore the threads so I'm not frustrated.

In what context are in contact with these fans ?

SupremeEdgelord said:
I would really like to know what exactly bothers you about them, because by the description you made i'm not really that far from those since i'm 19 and i barely watched around 30 series.

tohotty said:
no? why would I
everyone starts somewhere

BakaShinjiIkari said:
No, why would you? Everyone was "new" to anime at some point, so there is no need to act all high and mighty. Doing so would only make you look quite pretentious.

Elegade said:
Why would I be frustrated with them, if anything they hold the higher ground than me because they have wasted less time watching cartoons than I have What am I gonna flex about? "Oh you only watched 23 animes, Nerd."

Coolspot said:
If people got frustrated with new fans there would never be any old fans.

Japonism said:
I understand some new anime fans will come off as obnoxious human beings just like High School students wanting "clout" and stuff like that.

Shicchi said:
Hmm not really.
Been watching anime all my life either but my anime list is as small as ever lol. Because I have preferences and is pretty picky. I generally only watch popular stuff because I find my taste to align with the majority so popular stuff is what I'll watch first.

Maybe you feel disconnected, then talk with people on the same level as you. I'm sure MAL have many of them.

N30-R3TR0 said:
The only new fans I dislike are people who’ve watched who say that “_____ is the best anime out there” when they’ve seen just a couple anime. Unless you’ve seen a vast amount of anime, you have no right to say that. Plus, it’s totally subjective, so you can’t make that claim anyway (unless you state “in my opinion”).

Old fans can act this way too though.

Nico- said:
They should lurk before speaking. Otherwise, more anime fans the merrier.

This isn't about elitism. This is about a sickness. But also just about in general I get frustrated and annoyed because I cannot communicate LITERALLY with normal folks.

I don't HATE new fans. It isn't like that at all. I actually love them fine. I would hate to be treated least to my face anyway, how I was as an Inuyasha fan or as a Misa cospalyer. Or someone who sqeed pretty hardcore for Gravitation.

I have tried talking to normal people... They saw just attack on Titan

This isn't just new anime vs anime fans issues- this is me as like NEET Otaku disabled autistic issues. kay. And I am trying to expresss this and reach out. for any sort of I guess "have you felt this way?"

_Ako_ said:
And here we go again, another not-so-good bait but at least we have one... Right?

>new anime fans

Like... Really? Do you mean those who just enjoy "ecchi/fanservice" anime? Or those who had just finished Naruto?




A new user that creates "Ecchi/fanservice" threads are always welcome~




And how to solve it? By merely a single thread about it? I hope it goes well~~



Hate is a very strong word. But I guess the weight put on it is lost when you're doing it through the internet huh...



Ehhh... Is that a bad thing? I actually feel kinda happy since the one that talked to me online was someone who instead talk shit about me just finishing up Naruto, he at least made an effort about it... Like even though I know back in his head his like "ohhh God this newbie is just so shit"

Anyway I haven't seen AoT...




Have you ever thought of stopping? Like it'll probably go well... And with this thread...

I thought they were cool but I kept making references to stuff they didn't know about and I felt bad... See this is exactly what I am talking about.

I mean I watched way less anime this year than last year. All it did was make me want to talk about certian characters in creepy obsessive ways more.

rubylightning said:
If I were to go into all the details, this would take all night to type out. Simply put, I felt that since I was a child (growing up watching anime) I took to it in a more magical way than how your typical casual anime watcher would take to it. Anime has influenced me when I was younger in more ways than I can bat a ball at. I've taken on some of the characters personalities and identities actually, that's how serious this shit influenced me. I became proficient in the martial arts because of certain martial arts anime I was watching back then, like Ranma and DBZ. Anime gave me a colorful picture in my head that the real world could not produce. Like you OP, I have been a shut in and a NEET with a more sincere love from the heart toward anime than your average viewer today, but with age, I've begun to mellow out. It doesn't help that I am so much older now than all my childhood favorite characters. Age really bites sometimes, because I hardly feel the same magic I use to feel when viewing anime. Even though I do get some good vibes from it still.

Swagernator said:
See ? this is just ridiculous, everyone can without threat of a ban complain about other users, but when poor swage start to complaining about fujo the hell breaks. Talk about equality here. And if you can't stand heat of the forum don't get into it.

Swiggy said:
Well, I think I kinda know what you mean, but also know that even if you have someone who watched anime at the same rate as you, have the same amount of passion for anime as you, and so on they still might be difficult to talk to about anime. For example, I have a friend of which we're on the same wavelength, but we have really different opinions. We can still talk, but we'll actually have different anime references and everything.

I've noticed, though, that I don't always relate to newer anime fans as well. There's sometimes a disconnect. I tend to talk about things from the past a lot while my friends are often trying to find the next new thing to cosplay before everyone else does-- which is fine, but ahhh, feel left behind.

And the thing is, a lot of my friends got into anime around 2011-ish. They've almost always had it good. So much is available legally that I feel they kinda take it for granted. The internet was harder to navigate back in elementary school. If you wanted to watch anime, your parents better have had some money to buy some DVDs or else you were just going to have to watch what was on TV. And thank goodness for movie rental places since you could find anime, though rarely.
But now, people get in and out of things so quickly. People even complain that sites like crunchyroll has nothing to watch (!!).
http://www.crunchyroll.com/videos/anime/alpha?group=all THIS IS SO MUCH ANIME TO WATCH FOR FREE! If I had something like this as a child, I wouldn't have known what to do with myself!
But of course, if you have something like this from the start, it seems like it's not a lot.

I think what has made communication with my friends a little difficult is that they're not really open to exploring things that aren't popular UNLESS they touch really deeply into what they like. My friends are also not open to going back. I only get into anime I genuinely like, but because some of my friends' interests are so fleeting, it takes a revival or reboot to get them to consider taking another look at things. For example, I like Hetalia. I still read it. None of my friends do anymore. They don't want to even touch it no matter how much I promise that all the "not so great fans" have left the fandom and now it's just tame. It's kinda lonely, to the point where if it's a show with a buncha dudes and has a lot of female fans, I just don't even deal with the fandom of whatever it is anymore. It's not that those fandoms are bad, just that they might not last. It's just too lonely when you're the only one in your group that still likes it; everyone else is too... embarrassed (?) to associate with it again. But so much good content is coming out, and I want to share it with them. Nope; they're on other stuff.

I don't know if frustration would be the right way to handle them though. I usually just shrug it off and... came here. OTL I usually can't even get them to make a MAL account, to be honest. They're like... casual watchers but heavy cosplayers. I kinda gave up on giving recs. I find ways to hang with them in ways that don't have to focus on anime though or I just stay open myself but sometimes rant about stuff they don't know (lol). Like, we might go eat sushi then work on cosplays together. It's really bonding. Finding that middle ground is really nice. I don't know why folks are making fun of you though. Maybe just get a group of folks you're down with?;; I'm tired and might be reading this all wrong. I don't even know what I'm typing.