>>58887104>they're funnyI don't want to be harsh but this is as useless a statement as the people who go 'well I watch them because they're entertaining'. 'Entertaining' describes the end-state, not how it was attained. It's like saying 'What ingredients were used doesn't matter, I just like the dish because it's tasty.'
A good-looking, well-dressed person can tell a joke and a whole room laughs but a fat dude who stinks doing the same just leads to silence. Even with the same joke, same delivery, same body language. Appearance layers so many expectations and stereotypes onto whatever a person says or does, positive or negative. That's just the way it is, and people have accepted this without questioning for thousands of years.
And the anime girl avatar is anything but neutral in appearance. It is an art style painstakingly refined over half a century, going through dozens of iterations and ruthless weeding out of failures, all aimed at maximal attractiveness, because that sells merchandise. To pretend that one's engagement with such content is utterly uncoloured by some significant degree of attraction towards the anime girl design is unconvincing; to imply that this is common on a large scale beggars belief.