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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2024-12-29 05:36 pm

[ SECRET POST #6568 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6568 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2024-12-29 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not wrong. The older I get the more I look at people who have made "anime" their identity in the same way potheads make weed their identity and sports fans make their home team their identity, and they're the personification of glass houses and throwing stones. I used to go to anime cons all the time over the last 15 years, up to 7 or 8 a year, but now I don't recognize the scene as inclusive or friendly at all. It's a bunch of idiots punching down, it's cool to be a jackass. Guess it's time I retire and start going to Trekkie cons instead....oh wait....
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[personal profile] scissorsevered 2024-12-30 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Ever since anime became mainstream (I would say this happened in 2020 honestly even though it was gaining popularity in the West before then), I think newer anime fans have this idea in their head that they need to seem "normal" to non-weebs in order to be respected, and therefore this requires them to shun anything that could even be vaguely considered strange by non-weebs. And of course, they don't want to look mean by saying something is cringe, so now they lace everything in therapy-speak and accuse anyone they don't like of being a predator or "normalizing abuse" or whatever.

No matter what you do, most people in the West (especially older ones) will always think you're a freak. Just embrace it.