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41 year oldfag here. I was sorting pictures on my drive and came across this one I save a year or two ago. It stuck me then as it does now, and I thought I'd tell you about it.
It may come as a surprise to you, but anime wasn't always popular. (Hold on mods, this is political! But feel free to move it to /bant/ if you disagree) Anyways, this picture is so shocking to me because these people look like your standard issue normies and I think you know exactly what I mean. "Back in my day" people that looked like this weren't into anime. My day being "teen in the late 90s" ordering VHS tapes from the early internet to get stoned and watch with my friends. In my small town, I was basically the first person to know anything about anime and probably the only reason anybody from my friend group knew about it. But I'm not here to brag about that...
I went to an anime con in 2001 and it was fucking horrifying; coke-bottle glasses nerds, obese hamplanets, shrieking autists... You name it. Not a normie in sight and especially not too many women. So what happened? How and why did society shift not only to "this is acceptable" but "this is cool enough that I'm going to wear it as a costume to a party full of other hip, popular college kids?" How the FUCK did we get here so quickly? It confounds and astonishes me.
Why is it political? It just reminds me of normies/women/SJWs infiltrating every traditionally nerdy white male interest and appropriating it for themselves. You see it with everything from comics to anime to TRPGs. "B-but anime is Japanese!" Of course, but that isn't to say that it wasn't embraced in the US by dorky (mostly white) guys and a few autistic women. Not these kinds of literal fluoride stare NPC normies like you see in this pic... Do you think these bitches even know the first thing about an Evan-Jelly-On?
It may come as a surprise to you, but anime wasn't always popular. (Hold on mods, this is political! But feel free to move it to /bant/ if you disagree) Anyways, this picture is so shocking to me because these people look like your standard issue normies and I think you know exactly what I mean. "Back in my day" people that looked like this weren't into anime. My day being "teen in the late 90s" ordering VHS tapes from the early internet to get stoned and watch with my friends. In my small town, I was basically the first person to know anything about anime and probably the only reason anybody from my friend group knew about it. But I'm not here to brag about that...
I went to an anime con in 2001 and it was fucking horrifying; coke-bottle glasses nerds, obese hamplanets, shrieking autists... You name it. Not a normie in sight and especially not too many women. So what happened? How and why did society shift not only to "this is acceptable" but "this is cool enough that I'm going to wear it as a costume to a party full of other hip, popular college kids?" How the FUCK did we get here so quickly? It confounds and astonishes me.
Why is it political? It just reminds me of normies/women/SJWs infiltrating every traditionally nerdy white male interest and appropriating it for themselves. You see it with everything from comics to anime to TRPGs. "B-but anime is Japanese!" Of course, but that isn't to say that it wasn't embraced in the US by dorky (mostly white) guys and a few autistic women. Not these kinds of literal fluoride stare NPC normies like you see in this pic... Do you think these bitches even know the first thing about an Evan-Jelly-On?
