>>100353738I was into holo long before EN came about and saw it as an actual reason to finally learn fucking japanese. I had known some on and off but the availability of anime subs etc always appealed to my laziness.
The ability to watch and actually follow JP chuubas live was a pretty limited community back on /jp/ and it was by-default considered kind of pleb-proof as a result because you couldn't do it if you didn't actually put in the effort. EN came and rugpulled the learning curve from fairly high to literally-zero overnight. A lot of /hlg/ was horrified at this but I always thought it was exciting to see a new Western scene forming and a new culture being instantly made.
