One of the bigger north American anime conventions was in Baltimore. At the time I was a teenager living in rural Maryland and all my friends were cringy gamer nerds (I was as well), so every year we got a hotel room in the big city and attended Otakon. We got trashed, did drugs and humped chicks. It was like Vegas to our dumb teenaged selves.
One thing Otakon did was put on a showing of the notorious cringy hentai movie (anime porn, for the normal people out there) Bible Black. The room was dark and we'd go see it because it was hilarious and cringy. Nowadays as a more thoughtful adult, I realize that while most of the attendees of that event were there for laughs, there were probably at least a few beating off in the dark room.
I think about this sometimes.