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
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.
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
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.