You poser ass motherfuckers only like anime for the power fantasy and escapism, and nothing to inspire you. You motherfuckers shit on Japan for providing you anime, and you yell at us for being ethnocentric racists? Take a good look in the mirror sometime and take a good look at the enemy.
Okay, this is an excellent point. This is what separates anime fans from the posers, from those following "geek trends" because it's "cool" now when just a little over a
decade ago, geeks were teased for being geeky and reading comic books and playing video games and watching anime/cartoons (honestly, you can be a fan of animation, but unless you were hired to work on something like
Paw Patrol or any other preschooler show or you legit have kids of your own/have little siblings you babysit, watch something age-appropriate for the love of God).
You can tell the anime fans from the posers based on how much it's changed their life. Anime fans alike have teased 4KIDS and shounen shows for their friendship speeches and the like, but here's a surprise:
there's actual merit to it. There are children who grew up watching Pokémon, Sailor Moon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragon Ball, Naruto,
et cetera who took to heart their messages of companionship and the theme of
nakama, and directly applied it into their lives. They treat people kindly and are
very loyal to their friends. In terms of their hobbies and aspired dreams, they have become artists of sorts, and wish to inspire the next generation. Yes, these same properties are still on-going, but that doesn't mean they're no less important just for being "old".
Weebs are going to be autistic weirdos and I don't think that's going to go away any time soon, but there's a difference between an autistic weirdo who's
trying to open up to others while still carrying their inspirations/hobbies with them into adulthood, and the autistic posers trying to warp the community into their own image and screeching at those who don't fall in line. These are also the same posers who freak the fuck out over a foreign culture that doesn't accommodate with their beliefs, and that's apparently a huge deal-breaker they don't want to
admit is a deal-breaker. You don't
have to like societal norms in Japan, but luckily anime tends to be their own stand-alone stories that can be understood just fine
without knowledge of Japanese life--that's how it's gotten so popular outside of Japan in spite of it. If you're
truly interested in the Japanese culture and make the effort to study up on it, it still doesn't change the anime, but you're going to notice those little Easter eggs and that's
fun. Which is the keyword here: anime is
fun, and you're supposed to have
fun with it.
The SJWs and anime thread in Deep Thoughts goes into much more detail and speculation as to how it is the anime community has gotten so infested, but it just further proves that hypocrisy and blind faith muddles ideologies and they fail far too quickly and harshly. SJW anime fans are a paradox, and you cannot have the "best" of both worlds no matter how hard you try. Manga and anime can be surprisingly progressive in nature, but SJWism has never been progressive, and Japanese culture is as far from SJWism as it can get (but still not too far into something like Sharia Law territory--actually, Muslim anime fans are quite fascinating when you think about it, but hilariously they're
still not as paradoxical as SJW anime fans).
I think I lost my train of thought there, whoops. So uh... yeah, anime's supposed to be fun. Fuck you, posers, for poisoning the well and not making an attempt to get the appeal because you don't like what it represents.
