If you were to write a manual about how to fight against the woke virus in your hobby what would be your first two guidelines? Mine would be to ignore anyone that mentions representation and to consider the accusation of gatekeeping as an honor.
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Keep male and female entertainment and education separate. This merge ended us up in some weird female lunacy with emasculated men and genderbenders. Let people enjoy what they want, but stop pretending we want similar things.
Remember your audience. There’s nothing wrong with non-Asian people enjoying anime, but a larger global market should not change what makes anime unique. Hollywood, video games, etc have all gone down the route of chasing every dollar over providing quality entertainment.
Good point. I never understand why a hobby is “bad” if a lot of men enjoy it. Women have always been into certain male dominated hobbies but be very suspicious of any woman that beats her chest and drones on and on about being a female fan.
You are definitely to the point. Lol.
It shouldn’t. The question is with everyone blabbing about it, and the Western market slowly creeping above the domestic, will anime change for the puritans?
You might have answered my question. Should have been hush-hush IMO. All we can do now is keep our favorites to ourselves, push back when appropriate (choose your battles, don’t go looking for a fight with every whiner imaginable) and try to warn the Japanese of the attacks and infiltration we helped instigate.
Don't let "fucking casuals" try to dictate the rules.
Be very wary of newcomer women, because thirsty guys will bend over backwards to accommodate them.
It's a major problem. They think that by altering their object of interest, they can also find commonality with their object of desire, and end up with neither. At all times, they should be reminded that these gatecrashing women will never fuck them, and that these gatecrashing trannies will never be women.
Gatekeeping is good.
Eject anyone and everyone who opposes gatekeeping. No exceptions.
I wish you were wrong
Maintain control over all of your IP. If there are strict rules, enforce them. Do not make exceptions.
Isolate, cut off, and burn out the source of infection. It's easier to cut off the guy who brought in his rainbow haired friend than it is to deal with a group of simps.
Be the fun gatekeeper. If you have to be strict about something to keep some bitch from ruining it, make the rest of your group happy with something they want. Resentment fractures, donuts heal. Be the group's boyfriend/fun dad.
Last resort. If the infection has set hold and the group goes rogue, martyr, release a grenade as you die. Since she's going to destroy what you have anyways, drag the rest of the bucket down with you by saying everything you've been holding back, especially if it's shit that will get them to turn on each other. If you can't have your friends, neither can she because they won't be friends.
Or convince companies that the people clamoring on social media and the actual fans are two different groups
Couldn’t we have just left them locked in tumblr, we at least keep our Autists locked away on 4chan and alternative media.
Be really into your hobby.
Anti-progressivist opinions have maximum effect when you only express them as a small percentage of your overall cultural contribution.
This is the case for Linus Torvalds and Elon Musk for example. Because so much of their cultural contribution is apolitical, when they DO express a political view, it's greatly amplified.
Don't authorise people you don't trust to make decisions you cannot overrule.
Don't trust anyone who waves the promise of the mystical untapped market in front of you to convince you to sell out your existing market. That goes double if the untapped market in question is controlled by a totalitarian regime that does not allow direct access to that market and instead demands you license the totalitarian regime's subsidiary to act as an intermediary.
Check IP addresses in comments, then check them again.
Need over want; implication (if/then) over reason (truth versus false).
Witch Trials got it right.