>>29882408The heat probably comes from a frustration with the reason, which is that it's ultimately just a carryover from those who'd been comfy in their positions too long and had lost touch with changing entertainment trends. A fancy piece of paper doesn't mean shit if you can't actually read the market worth a damn.
Otherwise, it really could've been done cold turkey. The market was so there that fans even came together and threw copyright law out the window to create a semi-communistic black market of freely distributed works/translations both fan and pirated. That's how weebshit grew in the first place, due to demand driven community efforts to import, adapt and build culture around eastern entertainment even in the absence of institutional support.
IIRC it's also the way VRchat became popularized, with a bottom up, demand driven "build the infrastructure and let the chips fall where they may" approach. Demand ultimately drives the market, which is why reasonable consumer entitlement is completely justified. After all, you can try to sell a horse water, but he still can't buy it because he's a horse. Gotta go where the customers are and give 'em what they want, which is why chubas still stream on YouTube despite its quasi-draconian content standards.
tldr People are always pissed when they were right, explained in detail exactly why they were right, and still nobody listened...only for them to be proven right anyway.
