Would zoomers have discovered anime if anime on streaming never happened, and you had to learn how to use bittorrent?
Stop wasting energy on bogeymen and start enjoying your hobby again.
>>288513662There's no fucking place to talk about anime anymore that isn't infested with them. The harsh truth. Only a small fraction of anime fans are truly dedicated. They watch and talk about it online for 3 to 4 years at most. Then leave.
My first animu was darling in the franxx
>>288513724>There's no fucking place to talk about anime anymore that isn't infested with them.Lurk moar.>They watch and talk about it online for 3 to 4 years at most. Then leave.That will be (You) in 3 or 4 years.
>>288513619Zoomer here. I started watching anime through episodes uploaded to youtube in 3 parts, then I used streaming sites, then I learned how to torrent, then I learned how to use XDCC, though the last one has only been situationally useful.
>>288513619time to rewatch iroha
>>288513619I discovered it because an avatarfag spamming it on my face lol
>>288513838No. I was downloading anime on bittorrent since 2006. And even then. I was watching anime on VHS in 1996-1997. Before DBZ and Pokemon mainstreamed anime for young boys. I'm a 30 year fan.
>>288513960Doesn't change the fact that you will leave in 3-4 years because you don't know how to adapt to people whose frame of reference differs from yours.
>tfw>generation Y (Millennial)>yo (me)>me>https://youtu.be/UjZDDtPK4jMTixati was the cutest!
>>288513619I am zillennial, I have started watching anime by downloading episodes from Megaupload and Rapidshare links that were posted on certain forums around 2009, then a couple of years later I have discovered nyaa (I already knew torrenting from tpb).I could never imagine watching anime or movies without owning the files, to me it was always about downloading and managing the files on my own HDD.I believe the shift happened because of smartphones becoming the main devices of the majority of young people, their nature and their OS makes it very difficult to manage a library of local big files, unlike a desktop or laptop, as long as the current paradigm of mobile first / cloud first remains the culture of collecting media will not come back if not for a niche of people that "get it".
>>288513931why? It was terrible. A complete slog to get through. Can't believe I even finished it back when it aired
