They're not anime fans. They are tourists(or invaders) that only came in during the time of the pandemic. A lot of this drama around anime started around the time of the pandemic
Those parasites can also be in on the creating end, no? What they do is siphon money out of companies like Disney to make shit comics, creating some of the worst media out there which in turn emboldens the non creating parasites to push for even more destruction of franchises. They take a perverse pleasure in ruining fandoms for nerds and men especially just to abandon it and go to the next victim. Don't a lot of those "creators" go on to the next series to ruin?
It's like the tourists that are invading 40K at the moment. This hobby that's been around for 40+ years? Oh yah, it's gotta change to suit me. They weaponize tolerance/empathy to force regressive changes. Weaker minded fans fall for it, and glom on, not wanting to look like a grognard. We gotta teach people it's ok to gatekeep your hobby. They're never gonna learn on their own, or they would already notice the pattern established from live game chat, gamergate, WoW, comicsgate, Twitch, Harry Potter, etc.
40K at least has the benefit that it's gatekept through its cost in both time and money. You'll never get these people who literally can barely afford the cat food for all their cats to drop 1000s of dollars on paint, models, codexes, terrain, boards, etc. Like even if you drop all that money you still have to sit there and individually paint every model even before playing a game. GW will always GW but they're not stupid enough to chase after those people.
It is a good natural barrier. Like comic books had. Only the hardcore fans were buying all of the variants and special editions. It's just eventually an ideologue will get ahold of their social media, or their HR gets overrun, and all of a sudden the fans are toxic. They'll pander to the social media audience that doesn't buy product, and think because they get retweets and feel virtuous that it's worth it.
Slowly to exponentially accelerating they'll start fucking with the lore to get more and more clicks, while their audience quietly walks away from the hobby. Then some suit who wasn't paying attention lies to cover up poor quarterly numbers, and puts out a full media blast about 'We wont stand for hate!" As if that will convince lost customers into coming back and buying more Landraiders.
I don't think it will happen though, I mean they themselves will admit they are a model business, not a game one so I don't think they're stupid of enough to torch the only people buying said models. Sure they might try to pander but at the end of the day it's a niche hobby and it's just not conductive to people who are not buying shit.
You can see lately too they've cracked down on their social media and any really forward person has left or been pushed behind the scenes because they keep leaving and starting Youtube channels, podcasts or paint ranges with their own "brand". They don't want that or any "face" that can turn on them and or become an ideologue so I gotta give them credit for putting their foot down.
i for one dont like the dispreportionate ammount of power and influence human resources has from the start only person who should have firing power is managorial positions as they are also responsable for the payroll usually hr needs defanged and a counterballence installed to slow abuse. one i see that looks really juicy is management hiring investigative teams from outside the company that are not related or recomended by/to the hr team that respond to hrs notices from hrs budget note for simlicity sake i include their paychecks in that fund and if there is indeed actionable info from the investigative teams report the cost is refunded and the problem employee fired.
GW will always GW but they're not stupid enough to chase after those people.
It has actually been kind of shocking to witness. They have been getting hit with all of the usual request for "We want female Space Marines", and they have actually had the stones to tell those people "Just play Sisters of Battle, you dumb nerds! They are literally the same thing stat wise."
And most of their lore has continued to be interesting without even trying to shy away from the grimdark elements of the older lore, except for a handful of situations where they went "Ok, maybe the Daemonculaba was a bit too far."
My former roommate started binging anime when the pandemic started. He's made it all the way through Naruto, One Piece, and Attack on Titan in that time frame. He's also super liberal. To this day he is the only person I know who has watched One Piece who complained about how sexualized Nami and Robin are (which is ironic given how his wife has G cups, something which definitely influenced his decision on that front). Of course, the fact that just about every male in the show is ripped beyond belief completely missed him.
Ah Nezuko, the character that can switch between wanting to head pat and cuddle to 'your son calls me mommy' based on peace or battle mode.
And really that mashable change, I was laughing hard with that 'lolicon/siscon' part last week and here they come not just ruining the joke but making it sinister because they can't adapt for shit.
The left will NEVER understand Asian fiction let alone Japan as they recognise this is all fiction so can be experimental and change a character based on different situations within the story, it's funny they focus on 'Nezuko got big tits now' and not what ACTUAL anime fans were paying attention to was 'Holy crap Nezuko got impaled, electrocuted, blasted from a building and cut her hands on her brother's sword and STILL she's fighting!'
Funny thing with Gon, there's a line in that show that CAN be interpretated that he's had sex with older women, yet no one battered an eyelid, just a few people went 'hey oh what?' as the author might've been fucking with his audience by leaving it ambiguous.
The odd thing is, Nezuko is, like, behind the curve on that one. Tenjou Tenge, two decades ago, had a character with the same gimmick. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha had a character with the same gimmick one decade ago. Splitting the difference, Negima had one 1.5 decades ago.
If someone is complaining about it existing in Demon Slayer... They're not real anime fans. That's even aside from the fact that they need to grow up and let people draw what sells and what people want to draw.
I get everyone is entitled to their opinion but I’ve reached the point where I don’t consider anyone whining about sexualization to be real fans. Same goes for those who whine about lack of representation. You clearly don’t like the product so go find something you do like
The lefty cultural locust swarm have already ravaged American comics and video games, so with movies/streaming almost wrung dry and dying due to their attention, it is time for them target anime, a lush, accepting, still growing and currently relevant field of interest.
They swarm what is popular at the moment, and leech it dry until it's no longer viable to sustain their endless hunger for cultural vandalism. We gotta revive lodges and male spaces. Gaming halls, and smaller conventions. Then gatekeep the shit out of it while we train people how to notice these patterns. The internet is amazing, but it helped destroy true fan/hobby/social spaces.
Don't they know that there is genres of anime and manga with pretty boys for women to oogle at as well?
These harridans define those away as male power fantasies. Yes, I've seen "Free!", the naked men and swimsuits yaoibait show, be defined as male power fantasy. Because their ideology DOES make sense, just not in any realm of objective logic: To them, anything that agrees with their ideology and makes them "right" is right and proper, and anything that doesn't is evil.
They're not anime fans. They are tourists(or invaders) that only came in during the time of the pandemic. A lot of this drama around anime started around the time of the pandemic
They're worse, they're parasites, they sucked the western media dry and now that it's a husk they are trying to make Anime it's new host.
Fortunately the language and cultural barrier is like bug spray but we got to destroy the nests in the west before they become immune to it.
Those parasites can also be in on the creating end, no? What they do is siphon money out of companies like Disney to make shit comics, creating some of the worst media out there which in turn emboldens the non creating parasites to push for even more destruction of franchises. They take a perverse pleasure in ruining fandoms for nerds and men especially just to abandon it and go to the next victim. Don't a lot of those "creators" go on to the next series to ruin?
It's like the tourists that are invading 40K at the moment. This hobby that's been around for 40+ years? Oh yah, it's gotta change to suit me. They weaponize tolerance/empathy to force regressive changes. Weaker minded fans fall for it, and glom on, not wanting to look like a grognard. We gotta teach people it's ok to gatekeep your hobby. They're never gonna learn on their own, or they would already notice the pattern established from live game chat, gamergate, WoW, comicsgate, Twitch, Harry Potter, etc.
40K at least has the benefit that it's gatekept through its cost in both time and money. You'll never get these people who literally can barely afford the cat food for all their cats to drop 1000s of dollars on paint, models, codexes, terrain, boards, etc. Like even if you drop all that money you still have to sit there and individually paint every model even before playing a game. GW will always GW but they're not stupid enough to chase after those people.
It is a good natural barrier. Like comic books had. Only the hardcore fans were buying all of the variants and special editions. It's just eventually an ideologue will get ahold of their social media, or their HR gets overrun, and all of a sudden the fans are toxic. They'll pander to the social media audience that doesn't buy product, and think because they get retweets and feel virtuous that it's worth it.
Slowly to exponentially accelerating they'll start fucking with the lore to get more and more clicks, while their audience quietly walks away from the hobby. Then some suit who wasn't paying attention lies to cover up poor quarterly numbers, and puts out a full media blast about 'We wont stand for hate!" As if that will convince lost customers into coming back and buying more Landraiders.
*For the record, I hope none of that happens.
I don't think it will happen though, I mean they themselves will admit they are a model business, not a game one so I don't think they're stupid of enough to torch the only people buying said models. Sure they might try to pander but at the end of the day it's a niche hobby and it's just not conductive to people who are not buying shit.
You can see lately too they've cracked down on their social media and any really forward person has left or been pushed behind the scenes because they keep leaving and starting Youtube channels, podcasts or paint ranges with their own "brand". They don't want that or any "face" that can turn on them and or become an ideologue so I gotta give them credit for putting their foot down.
Hope it stays that way, I still have two armies to finish.
i for one dont like the dispreportionate ammount of power and influence human resources has from the start only person who should have firing power is managorial positions as they are also responsable for the payroll usually hr needs defanged and a counterballence installed to slow abuse. one i see that looks really juicy is management hiring investigative teams from outside the company that are not related or recomended by/to the hr team that respond to hrs notices from hrs budget note for simlicity sake i include their paychecks in that fund and if there is indeed actionable info from the investigative teams report the cost is refunded and the problem employee fired.
Most companies that surrender to communists care more about ESG points than US dollars as currency.
It has actually been kind of shocking to witness. They have been getting hit with all of the usual request for "We want female Space Marines", and they have actually had the stones to tell those people "Just play Sisters of Battle, you dumb nerds! They are literally the same thing stat wise."
And most of their lore has continued to be interesting without even trying to shy away from the grimdark elements of the older lore, except for a handful of situations where they went "Ok, maybe the Daemonculaba was a bit too far."
They did, they openly declared they will blacklist people who hate the regressive left.
My former roommate started binging anime when the pandemic started. He's made it all the way through Naruto, One Piece, and Attack on Titan in that time frame. He's also super liberal. To this day he is the only person I know who has watched One Piece who complained about how sexualized Nami and Robin are (which is ironic given how his wife has G cups, something which definitely influenced his decision on that front). Of course, the fact that just about every male in the show is ripped beyond belief completely missed him.
Bully him nonstop until he quits watching anime.
Ah Nezuko, the character that can switch between wanting to head pat and cuddle to 'your son calls me mommy' based on peace or battle mode.
And really that mashable change, I was laughing hard with that 'lolicon/siscon' part last week and here they come not just ruining the joke but making it sinister because they can't adapt for shit.
The left will NEVER understand Asian fiction let alone Japan as they recognise this is all fiction so can be experimental and change a character based on different situations within the story, it's funny they focus on 'Nezuko got big tits now' and not what ACTUAL anime fans were paying attention to was 'Holy crap Nezuko got impaled, electrocuted, blasted from a building and cut her hands on her brother's sword and STILL she's fighting!'
She aged her body, and surprise surprise, adult human females have breasts. What a shocking revelation.
I have it on good authority that human females come in a variety of forms. Some even have penises instead of front holes.
Funny thing with Gon, there's a line in that show that CAN be interpretated that he's had sex with older women, yet no one battered an eyelid, just a few people went 'hey oh what?' as the author might've been fucking with his audience by leaving it ambiguous.
The odd thing is, Nezuko is, like, behind the curve on that one. Tenjou Tenge, two decades ago, had a character with the same gimmick. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha had a character with the same gimmick one decade ago. Splitting the difference, Negima had one 1.5 decades ago.
If someone is complaining about it existing in Demon Slayer... They're not real anime fans. That's even aside from the fact that they need to grow up and let people draw what sells and what people want to draw.
I get everyone is entitled to their opinion but I’ve reached the point where I don’t consider anyone whining about sexualization to be real fans. Same goes for those who whine about lack of representation. You clearly don’t like the product so go find something you do like
They are fans. They are fans of themselves. That's why all they can do is demanding to make everything about themselves and their sensibilites.
Great point
Clearly true "fans"
We've already went thru this with computer games and movies. Strange that anime is being hit so late after GG.
The lefty cultural locust swarm have already ravaged American comics and video games, so with movies/streaming almost wrung dry and dying due to their attention, it is time for them target anime, a lush, accepting, still growing and currently relevant field of interest.
They swarm what is popular at the moment, and leech it dry until it's no longer viable to sustain their endless hunger for cultural vandalism. We gotta revive lodges and male spaces. Gaming halls, and smaller conventions. Then gatekeep the shit out of it while we train people how to notice these patterns. The internet is amazing, but it helped destroy true fan/hobby/social spaces.
These degenerates want every imaginable perversion to be considered acceptable and even normal, but fictional cleavage offends them?
Yeah fucking right. It's all a power play.
These harridans define those away as male power fantasies. Yes, I've seen "Free!", the naked men and swimsuits yaoibait show, be defined as male power fantasy. Because their ideology DOES make sense, just not in any realm of objective logic: To them, anything that agrees with their ideology and makes them "right" is right and proper, and anything that doesn't is evil.
Oh no, the characters clothes don't grow with her, so now her Booba shows a little? For shame.
Oh wait, it also doesn't shrink when she does, so when she's in gremlin mode it hilariously trails around her while she walks/runs about.
Get a fucking grip, it's a slight tinge of "realism" for the show.