>>101886437more like I don't think of weeb hobbies as being worthy of attaching a name to and never did despite me having watched probably >1000 anime, having a fig collection and like 100+ nendoroids. it's nothing to be proud of and people who do shit like agonize over essays on MAL and their MFC image galleries etc have really got the wrong fucking idea of how much effort this is all actually-worth. it's a casual hobby with no real difficult learning curve relatively speaking compared to other shit I'm into and this also extends to vtubing. pre-EN days you at least had to know moon to watch JPs live, not since EN however. you just sit there and watch.
I have favorite movies and TV and such too but I'm not gonna flip 20 shits and vow to never use a site again if someone is gonna shit on star trek TNG sometimes in the midst of mostly legitimately discussing it. because it does have its shit episodes and its early seasons sucked etc. see that's the thing, it's not like that with chuubas, people have to keep defending their oshi's honor anonymously as if it matters at fucking all. people have an all or nothing zero sum interpretation of discussion here about holo. can't have even a slight disagreement without just assuming literally everyone in the thread is a singular enemy devoted to attacking us day and night. you can't fathom, that maybe someone you were talking to all thread pleasantly had one thing he disagreed with about with you and then you just throw your hands up assuming this is some invader and not just a different opinion. global literally always had internal tribalism going back to 2020, actually it felt worse back then with trinityposting etc. phase didn't exist, neither did nijiEN etc and the very concept of starsEN or ex-holos pulling things apart was unthinkable.
there definitely are outside agitators like kiaraschizo etc but they're usually so self-evident that it should be pretty trivial to ignore them and people generally did. people project out to this thread/board what really are the faults of EN itself having issues the past few years (graduations, homos and clashes with homocollaber girls, omega etc). EN has had a less than perfect journey in some areas and having aneurysms over people having differences of opinions about these things is like blaming a tire for going flat, and not a nail in the road that punched a hole in it. outside factor vs something we could actually do shit about. the alternative is to just pretend there's no problems and label anyone wanting a heart to heart talk as the same as the most heartless. that's ripping the soul of of discussion. but whatever I've ranted enough.
