There's a lot of bad things that happen in otaku fandoms like this one. Let's consider the "angry outburst" of this anon:
>>2836361>>2836324directed at this anon:
>>2836372>>2836341>>2836321for what seems to be an attitude against Shinji that is very uncommon in these threads, but more common to find in Asuka or even Kaworu threads. What would cause this strange dislike towards Shinji, and talking about shipping which is as of late, particularly uncommon in Rei threads? It's brought up first by an Asuka fan as well, not a Rei fan.
It's not uncommon for belligerent fans to "false-flag" or pretend they are other types of fans in lieu of attacking them directly. So consider that the filename pattern of the anon attacking Shinji matches the pattern of another anon in this thread:
>>2835558>>2835479which is decisively protective of Asuka, whilst dismissing of Rei - in addition, this poster does explicitly not identify with being a Rei fan, as to him/her, Rei fans are not "us" but "you guys". What's also interesting is that his/her posts are unilaterally childish, straight to the point of shipping and simply insulting, yet saying nothing about him/herself as a Reifan.
Given the obvious number of Asuka fans and Kaworu fans in this thread posting recently who share in their envy of Rei and hatred of Rei's fans, combined with the observation that the amount of posters in the thread has not increased, it's safe to say that we have a falseflagger.
Asuka fan or Kaworu fan, who knows, but this posting style and image pattern matches Kaworu threads more. This is simply the evidence as we have it. The recent invasions of the Rei thread along with this is a real showcase of how low Asuka and Kaworufans can go, with mods having to clean up constantly after them.
