Resident Evil: Requiem has been highly successful both in terms of sales and online response. Some RE guys like Synthetic Man have been moderately critical, but still called it an OK game. On social media, the main characters have been very popular. Leon was literally designed as a silver fox to appeal to women, and Grace, despite being flat as a board and stammering her way through everything, is still pretty and kind of like the antithesis to a girlboss since the whole point of her character is being less physically capable than Leon. The market is ready for a girl that actually acts like a girl.
For example, one of the easiest ways to tell Leon apart from Grace is that it's a lot harder for her to shoot the Requiem revolver. This has led to memes.
So both conservatives and libs like the game. What's the problem? The shippers. Somehow people got into a social media war over whether Leon should have married Claire or if Grace was "for the queers," or something else. During the war, people started referring to old games, and it came out that the shippers hadn't played any RE game before the remakes. Annoying, but not surprising. But then, it came out that the shippers hadn't even played the remakes, or any RE game ever, and openly admitted this because it's "ableist" or "elitist" to expect them to buy a game to call themselves a fan.
"Tourists" is a term that originated from anime (afaik) that describes people who start watching something because it's popular and generate moronic opinions and demands because they think they're just as influential as people who actually care about it. But it seems that most tourists in gaming just watch livestreams or youtube videos and don't actually play anything.
So if that's the case, then do they even watch anime, or paint 40k figures, or do anything except yap online? Previously I assumed that anyone devoting time to a "fandom" would have at least touched the content once, but the reality seems to be even weirder than that. There are legions of people out there who assimilate their hobbies entirely through social media. "Tourist" or "colonizer" don't seem to be quite as accurate anymore. You can't even call someone a tourist if they never actually visit the place of tourism.
Suddenly all the engagement with gay shipper posts and "make female space marines" and how people take disagreement as an existential attack is making a lot of sense. Online discussion is literally all these people have. They don't derive any enjoyment from the thing beyond opining on it. Of course they're going to destroy the fandom.
Shippers ruin everything.
Fags, dykes and troons are often deeply unhappy people who latch on to social media because theyre too ugly or broken to have their own social life anymore. This is why they latch onto anything popular, it’s moths being attracted to the light of people enjoying things. They glam onto things, make it about them, then screech bigotry the second there’s any pushback.
They're girlfailures, and they are precious.
Anime watchers are called "secondaries" because anime is usually based off of a manga or light novel and this is their first exposure to the series. The ones that don't bother with the source material and only wait for the anime are then called "anime-onlys".
Tourists are worse: They're a fan of fandoms. It's both extremely meta and gay.
A 'fan of fandoms' is an excellent way to describe tourists. The kind of people whose first (and sometimes only) exposure to a media property is some youtube commentator or let's player.
From one of your links:
Bows require a significant amount of upper body strength to pull. Longbows especially required you to start training before puberty to handle properly.
Said tweet was from a woman, so you'll have to forgive her for the decades of Hunger Games female bow-warrior conditioning.
Not just that, but something pointed out, in an anime by best boy, "Kaguya does look the type to be good at archery. Unlike [other girls], she doesn't have anything on her chest that would block drawing the bowstring."
Female bowgun-snipers? This isn't an issue. But female longbow-snipers? You need a certain body type to even do the proper form for proper firing. You can, of course, fire sub-optimally, but for "the best", you're starting off removing like 90% of your potential talent pool simply because of body type.
PUMP THE BRAKES ISHIGAMIIIIIIIIII
My uncle works for Capcom and he assures me that Grace loves cock.
I recall it being used in the 1996 novel Fight Club and in the 1999 film; slightly different context but the underlying meaning is the same.
Idk the anime usage of the term, not saying that isn't where it originated from, but Fight Club was first released 30 years ago and the usage of "tourist" in it really sets the tone for the narrator's hatred of Marla.
Interesting. It might have multiple origins, since it's a pretty natural metaphor
Yea. Someone passing through casually with no real roots or ties to the subject matter.
It's not just a problem in anime, manga, or gaming. Social media tourism allows attention-seeking people to publicly be a fucktard, get their attention fix, and then move on to something else just to repeat the process ad nauseum.
Without social media, attention-seeking blue-haired faggots would be a rarity.
Sounds like chat bots. They can only chat about a hobby without directly engaging with it.
What's a shipper again?
Someone who obsesses over two characters being romantically involved with each other (shortening of "relationship")
FF7 got plenty of those.. they legit harass and bully other shippers lol. clerith (aerith + cloud) versus cloti (cloud + tifa)
Fujoshi will burn a mangaka's house down for not making her yaoi slashfic canon.
I think tourist and shippers became a huge problem for Supernatural. I think they built a writer's room filled with people pandering to the tourists. And the tourist shipped brothers, Wincest, gross
Wouldnt exactly say just because you dont play a game and watch a stream that you are tourist or not. I have been disappointed so often with hype trains that I just dont trust any developer anymore, that I rather watch a full spoiler lets play first and then buy if the game has replayability. And story heavy games like the last of us, dont have good enough gameplay or replayability even that its really worth a playthrough if you already know the story. But they keep making these movie games. And 20hours of gameplay isnt worth $70. And gameplay wise RE Requiem doesnt have much new to offer, might aswell replay an older title I already own. Like 2,4 or 5. They should remake one with over the shoulder camera tho.
Well yeah, but you don't claim to be a fan of those games.