>>766999I'm with you there. But I've long since cooled it with the anime-bashing. It's clear that anime, for whatever reason, is intrinsically tied to imageboards. It's all over this place and any other chan type forum I've ever been to. I've been banned multiple times for posting these images.
I really only get upset when they spam sexualized anime stuff on hobby boards. They have like six boards just for different fucking genres of that shit and they spread it around everywhere and then when people bitch they respond "anime website." As if that means anime pertains to all things at all times and we're just lucky to even be allowed to post non-anime topics.
I really will never understand its appeal at all. MAYBE to children who actually live in Japan. Not to adults, not to Westerners, and not to adult Westerners. I like me some Akira or Ninja Scroll as much as any film fan. But I don't get the fetish stuff or the little girl stuff. I don't get the fascination at all. And there seems to be no explanation anyone is willing to share with me. I don't know anyone like that. I'm a fortysomething American and I don't know these people. I don't know how they even discovered anime here, let alone got into it or obsessed with it and fell into some rabbit hole where they make it their identity.
But it's just another thing where the janitors are banning based on personal bias. They let sex images of pink catgirls stay up in off-topic threads and ban me for "trolling" when I call the perverts perverts and kindly ask them to stay to their many containment boards.