Remember how back then you wished that Anime was mainstream so people didn't make fun of you for watching it?
No.
No because I understood the purpose of gatekeeping.
I mean. I only wish I watched more in the 2000s. That's about it.
Nobody has ever done that. Were you Naruto running in public?
>>282136845>Nobody has ever done thatthe revisionism is starting
>>282136644No?
>>282136845gtfo faggot tourist
>>282136644no because everyone I went to achool with in the 90's had been watching anime in tv since gradeschool
>>282136771You didn't, as gatekeeping was never some big "protect the medium" thing, that's a newfag invention that should be recognized as innately retarded.Gatekeeping is in specific reference to internet communities.The SA paywall is gatekeeping.Responding to every recc thread with "Boku no Pico" is gatekeeping.You can't gatekeep anime though because it's a commercial product you have no control over.
>>282137887It's the small everyday actions that make the world better anon.
Classic mecha still isn't mainstream and I still don't give a single fuck.
>>282137887Gatekeeping is also to deal with the kind of retards who do things like @-ing a mangaka asking for a Fanbox update by linking the Kemono.
>>282136644No, I was never made fun of becuase I'm not some autistic retard.
>>282136644>kid in mid 00s Canada>reading the new Dragon Ball Z Vizbig (so like, 08 or 09)>other kid comes up to me>calls it "Dragon Balls">never read manga in public againThat's the extent of people making fun of me I guess.
>>282136644I feel like we reached the goldilocks zone in the 2010s.I say this as someone who grew up in the 90s and 2000s.
>>282136644Fuck no. Back then I wished less people knew about it so no jackasses would even be in contact with my websites.Did you watch anime in public? Retard.
>>282136644I've seen multiple times an activity or subculture becoming mainstream and then as a result it looses it's charm and becomes worse.
>>282136644No, I'm autistic so if someone made fun of me to my face I probably wouldn't even pick up on it.
I hid my power level from anime club narutards not from normalfags.The whole "we'll get anime on television" and "we'll share this and everyone will admit we were right to like it" was more an old Gen X thing that I never once related to.
>>282136644No, I thought Anime was silly and weird, then in highschool I got into it myself and since then still think it's silly and weird but in a way that I like or at least tolerate I never wished it was mainstream and I never was made fun of or participated in making fun of anyone for it Wait no there was one case, a girl I was friends with drew anime and I made that the target of my mockery at times, but the real reason was that she was a coomer and had no sense of humor outside "hehe, sex"
Everybody's high school dream would've been like this.>A GIRL ACTIVELY WALKS UP TO YOU>"Anon! I overheard you talking about anime and video games with your group of nerd friends. You're so dreamy! Could I come home with you and watch anime and play video games with you?"However, as nice as that would've been, the reality all along has been that girls wanted you to confidently stride up to them. You just tell her she's pretty, tell her you want her to hang out with you, you don't even bring up anime/games during this phase, you're just supposed to woo her over with your sheer, brazen affection, and then you take her home to watch anime and play games and she just accepts it because she's so in love with you. It's way less romantic when I put it that way, but that's how "real" relationships actually happen and many of us missed out on it due to low confidence and esteem we had back then.
>>282136644I was wishing death upon normalfags even before I started watching anime, so no, never.
>>282143764I like you
>>282136644No, this is some weird burger thing. When I was a kid, absolutely everyone watched anime. "Older" kids watched anime like Hellsing and Golden Boy. Hentai OVA were running at midnight on some tv channels.No one made fun of anyone for watching anime.
>>282144085>Golden Boyso, how'd you like my swimming?
>>282136644growing up in the 90s, I can tell you that was not a thing.I do not know where the whole "getting bullied for being into anime" came from
>>282136644Only battle shonen is really mainstream, stuff like DBZ, FMAB, Demon Slayer, AoT, One Piece, etc. And for good reason too, it’s pretty much the only genre free of pedo incest diddy ahhh shit.
I dont. I wished anime was more popular so i could enjoy it with more people. The vast majority turned out to be annoying assholes like /a/ however. At least fanart is good now
>>282138170So why didn't the world became better
>>282136644Tourists are good actually, they prevent the medium from seeking deeper into the depths of degeneracy and depravity with incest and pedophilia.
>>282136644I never wished it was mainstream. I only wished I wouldn't get made fun of for liking it.
>>282136644>you wished that Anime was mainstreamIs this nigga serious?
>>282136644>so people didn't make fun of you for watching it?Nope, I remember how back then I wished that Anime was more accessible to me, but I always knew it'd be shit if it became too mainstream, simply from seeing my friends ignore good anime to glaze over mainstream crap.
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