Rural Japan/Downtown Tokyo as a location in photos is 100% a crutch and should not be artistically respected under *almost* any circumstances. I am so tired of seeing photos of

>Old asian ladies pushing carts
>Salarymen with umbrellas (with or without rain)
>N E O N S I G N S
>Vending machines at night
>Saturated photos with zero contrast for the "anime vibezzz"
>Saturated photos pushed well beyond their limits
>Photos that are basically garbage from almost any perspective but get exoticism points because the alphabet is weird and alien

I wouldn't be so heated about this if I didn't see a bunch of (non-asian) 19 year olds thinking they're the hottest shit around for still pushing this meme well into 2020. It's trite and completely empty in intention, yet people fall for it every single time, so I can't even logically be mad at these kids for chasing money.

Street photos from NYC, Toronto, [World City X] aren't far behind either, but at least it doesn't have slanty-eyed aliens to make people suddenly think it's profound. I don't know man, it's just some weird gross fetishism to me.