Oh Touhou, i remember some of my friends getting into it a couple of years ago and being annoying as fuck about it (kinda like early bronies), if i saw this thread like two years ago i would probably have written an unnecessarily long rant about 2hu fans, but at this point there's no reason to whine about 2hu fans, they're a part of the internet and almost everyone knows how autistic they are and what to expect from them, maybe there is some exceptional individual in the community worth talking about, but until someone finds that guy there's nothing worth talking about the 2hu community.
Welp, since i got nothing else to add, here's some mild autism.
It used to be comparatively well-known in 2010/2011 but now I've heard hardly anything about it the past three years. It doesn't have anywhere near the visibility it used to, and the rise of later fandoms (MLP, LoK, Homestuck, now SU and Undertale) seems to have killed it.
The fandom is awful, the games are okay, and the music + remixes are decent. I don't recall anyone in particular being infamous, just people who were untalented and obnoxious.
Drama wise, there's really only one thing I can dig up.
So a few months back, people had the great idea of making a Touhou-themed Smash Bros, called "Touhou Super Smash Battles". Everything was looking good, until the project creator decided to create a Kickstarter for it (which went against the fan projects rules). FromSoySauce, the creator, insisted that everything was in the clear, and kept the Kickstarter up until ZUN (the creator of Touhou) had finally yoinked the Kickstarter. Then, FSS proceeded to accuse ZUN of being a front for the Japanese mafia (I cannot find the video as of now). Someone later ran a decompiler on the demo program, and according to the commenters, the code reeked of amateur practices. This is the FSS's response to having his code decompiled:
If you can't even program in an object-oriented language, you're gonna have a bad time making games
Now I will say that FSS isn't/wasn't the worst because although very prideful (changing the project so that he could still milk money), at the end of the day, it was a misguided startup to a game company.
And to finish this off, I do remember a pedo stalking 13 year old cosplayers at conventions, and even asking their numbers, and then he demanded pictures of them (I don't remember if he demanded CP). I believe his name was Sergey, or something close to it (Serguy, Sergev, etc.). Although similar in name, he is not the Sergey (Titov) who gave us WarZ.
It seems that the Touhou community (well fandom, really) is more self-policing than others. There is a particular divide between the people who actually play the games (or at least engage in the content), and those that kind of loiter around causing problems. Usually, the latter are universally condemned by the former. Additionally, any sort of other fandom "mixing" is also heavily panned (furry and MLP mashups are heavily downvoted on image sharing sites). Fan-made music is also top fucking notch (once you look past IOSYS and Innocent Key), shoutout to Alstroemeria Records, they've great gapless albums.
You know, I'm just going to admit that one of the problems I think this thread is going to have is, well, content. I mean after you acknowledge that, yes, the Touhou fandom is as crazy as a parrot on amphetamines and posted the obligatory 'hey, look at this crazy porn' links, what else is there? Honestly, as somebody who has had to trawl anime image repositories before, I'm absolutely 100% desensitized to this kind of content. Saying that there's Touhou porn of literally every fetish imaginable is as redundant as saying that there is porn in general of literally every fetish imaginable. It just feels like an excuse to show off obscene material for the sake of doing so.
Basically, as I said in the now-dead Minecraft thread; I'd like to see some genuinely interesting chimp-out material.
I really didn't think there's going to be much content because I couldn't think of a Touhou equivalent of Chris-chan.
If we're actually going to discuss communities, then I'll just say that 4chan's /jp/ is probably the most acidic; but you should have expected that anyway. There was some drama about a cosplayer who outed herself as female. I don't know the details (archives are dead), but she has renounced the board and won't come back.
Necroing this thread as I'm surprised nobody posted about this. The Stupid One/Helvetica, the owner of Shrinemaiden.org otherwise known as Maidens of the Kaleidoscope passed away last January.
That community was probably one of the bigger Touhou communities 6-8 years ago. From what I've been told secondhand, it attracted a lot of troons, pedophiles and groomers. The owner in particular was a troon and often screamed about Trump and trans people.
Was wondering if anyone had history/info on this site/community.
I'd like to bring to your attention Cookie☆ community, which is related to Touhou in form, but completely different in substance.
Its based around shitty quality voice drama (something like visual novel in video form) which get memed and multiplied in form of parody video otoMADs on Japansese videohosting NicoNico. Then it grow, people began making more [probably purposely shitty] voice dramas, spread faggotry over voice actresses which had avatars of 2hu characters but become completely deattached from origin by now and being pretty cancerous overall.
Dramas include assumption that first drama producer organized all of it just to have sex with voice actresses, and death threats to actress from angry touhoufag because his waifu 2hu was inproperly voiced.
Its really huge shitshow and its own big fandom, I can not even fully comprehend whats happening there, so you may find interest in researching it.
Cookie☆ (Japanese: クッキー☆) is a nickname given to a fanmade animated drama video “Marisa and Alice’s cookie kiss” (魔理沙とアリスのクッキーKiss), which features many characters from Touhou Project.
It is cancerous, but amazing how self aware they could be, to produce fucking 40 minutes quality animated voice drama on how shitty their fandom is and how it could corrupt outsider which was lured there.
You can tell how horrible of a human being is by their favorite touhou characters. This is a powerlevel because I know more than half of the characters.
Red alert teir: Kioshi and Flandre (lolis that dress up in loli costume)
High caution tier: Nazarin and Remilia (lolis that dress up in childish costumes)
Tier 3: Cirno and Mystia (Lolis that are popular chracters with memes)
Tier 4: Saiuka and Youmu (lolis that don't have defining features not associated with prepubescent girls. Drunk and sword user respectively)
Tier 5: Patchouli and Spider lady (possibly not loli)
Teir 6: Orin and Riesen(At worst, the fan are ephebophiles)
Teir 7: Utsuho and Yukari (these are adult characters)
Most of the CP community are teir 1-4. 3-5 are possibly okay.
Special tier: Anyone with a Patchouli avatar is basically is a shut in with no plans to ever change.
Now they never said anything about wanting to fuck the characters. Especially many female weebs/autists (same thing) skip over the part where they want to fuck little anime girls and straight to wanting to be little anime girls, where as male weebs/autists usually experience an intermediary step before reaching that point, but either way the childishness of the characters they're interested in is usually a pretty good gauge of how bugfuck insane they are.
It's why so many objects of interest on the farms happen to be into diaperfur and ABDL, and why learned men know to run in the other direction if they encounter a woman who is really into Disney characters (be particularly wary of Tinkerbell fans) or who engage in excessive babytalk.
It's why so many objects of interest on the farms happen to be into diaperfur and ABDL, and why learned men know to run in the other direction if they encounter a woman who is really into Disney characters (be particularly wary of Tinkerbell fans) or who engage in excessive babytalk.
it's kinda like 40K at this point - completely blighted with maoist trannies and alt-right weirdos to the point of having driven off all but the most hardcore oldfags