>>71023081Now imagine being a 37 year old Croat from (sic) Croatia where anime and anything related to it never took hold and is essentially unknown, and think back how utterly devoid of friends who share my media interests I was back when I was a kid, a teen and young adult. Not even K-pop exists here. I was, am, and will be forever surrounded by normalfags whose interests don't extend beyond domestic politics, debates about cement and construction and various forms of sportsball. I'm sure you can find someone with whom you can go to a con, because wherever you are I'm sure cons exist. This thing right here? This is a bastion of normalfags and inanity. Only the Internet provides respite from this hell. Even if there are theoretical kids or teens who are into anime what the fuck can that mean to someone like me now?
Even back when I still clung on to a hope that Pippa will blossom into a true vtuber I could only shake my head when she'd complain about le loneliness and isolation when she lives in a country that caters to every conceivable taste and subculture. She doesn't understand it was her choice to be alone. I was never presented with a choice, I just had to fit in with the herd, which I indeed have done since earliest times while being utterly isolated in a more fundamental sense. This extends to me not understanding zoomers in the slightest. It's impossible for any of them to be lonely. Impossible. It's purely their choice.
