I want to go back. Back before zoomers and normalfags liked anime. Back when you had to actually have the barest minimum of tech literacy to watch anime. No phone watching faggots, no netflix watchers, no zoomers. None of that. I don't want to talk to someone about my favorite show and hear PEAK. I don't want to hear about aura farming. This shit became too big.
Many have been saying this
>>289601981lol just stop reading then fag you can watch shit in isolation without other opinions or discussion. That's what media literacy is.
>>289602024There are zoomers, stream watchers, and phone faggots here too. You've never seen people post screenshots with like 9anime in the corner?
>>289602064Yes, I am including this place too. It's no better and is in fact worse because the anonymity removes another barrier of tech literacy (accounts, emails etc)
>>289602024>muh media literacy
>days without /a/ being obsessed with zoomers: 0
Anime is too elitist. It’s a fucking cartoon. We watched this shit on Cartoon Network before moving on to this Mongolian cave painting forum founded by a 15 year old child. You think you’re an “anime professional” because you’re a jaded 30something still clinging to your teenage years. Grow the fuck up.
>>289602162No way fag.
>>289601981You, unironically need to have sex
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NO, OP is right. It's so bad that now western companies are hogging animation studios making them produce slop when they could be doing otherwise.
>>289602261I hate foids
>>289601981>Back before zoomers and normalfags liked anime. Back when you had to actually have the barest minimum of tech literacy to watch anime.Anime was broadcast on main TV channel since the 70's in Western Europe. There have been anime-dedicated cable channels for almost thirty years now.You're the tourist.
>>289602485>hes in europe>mfwin america there was never anything like that
>>289602451Then have sex with a man?
>>289601981Kallen is so hot bros
>>289601981We all do.
>>289602485how badly localized was it? I remember seeing those italian dubs and yikes
>Back before zoomers and normalfags liked anime.Normies liked anime before zoomers were even alive. You just want to complain about “thing it’s in vogue to complain about” because you want anime to to be your personality and you don’t like the wide crowd it’s now associated with. Otherwise you’d ignore the democratized discussion on twitter/mal/wherever else you hear “peak” etc, and find a niche group to discuss and enjoy with.
I blame whoever the og crunchy supporters were, they are the ones who created those damn companies success
>>289602689no man. it doesn't matter what show you talk about. It could be some obscure 80s mecha most of this board hasn't watched and you will still get PEAK and FOIDS/MOIDS(just as bad as peak) from some zoomer.
>>289602689>find a niche groupdumb normalfag
I am a zoomer and I've been watching anime since I was 3.
>>289602749Yeah even during the days when it was new, I just torrented my anime. Even if I was watching less than Crunchyroll users, it just felt more correct. Did I get my anime in better quality?
>>289602539>Yu Yu Hakusho picThis was broadcast more than 20 years ago. Tongue my anus nigger, anime's never been your little secret club, you just were stuck in redneck country. Probably where you got your raped mentality from too.>>289602680Depends on the series and what time is the dub from, but yeah the 80's have given us some awful shit.
>>289601981>waaahhhh, nobody else is allowed to like the thing i like, it makes me less special
>>289602485>>289602863I respect eurofags for not making their personality revolve around some dubs. Literally 90% of anime discussions with spics, even on /a/, are just >dude let me tell you about the dub and merch this anime had in my country when I was little They are so damn annoying.
>>289602752“Niche” implies the opposite of “normal” but I guess the definitions of words are 80 IQ-gated>>289602752>4chan is twitter nowYeah we know, is this really your unique take that deserved a thread?
>>289601981>>289602064>zoomers/a/ is dying and there aren't that many zoomers left. In a few years there will probably be none but the board will move with the speed of 1 post per hour.
>>289601981Anime airs on Japanese TV for children and teenagers because it's mass media entertainmentIt was never some niche thing for retarded shut ins like you
>>289602941>needing to spell out that citizens of the birthplace of western civilization are better behaved than the disgusting mestiso scum born of sp*niard cope at being incapable of winning a war against anyone back home, not even fucking North Africa; thus needing to invade and torture literal "noble savages"
I geneuinely believe 4chan needs accounts with age verification that actually displays the poster's age so we know who to ignore in addition to the built-in IP-based/flag shit.
>>289602261>3DPD
>>289604212That would turn it completely into every other site. Not that it matters, it's dying anyway.
>>289604212Also their country and number of completed anime.
>>289602539except when WB and Fox aired (heavily censored) anime in the late '90s, followed by Cartoon Network
>>289604446>>289604212This but with dick size, waifu , address, phone number and their mother's maiden name.
>>289602941The dubs and recuts that aired on American TV were notoriously terrible. In the case of Cardcaptor Sakura and Escaflowne they were censored beyond all recognition and prevented the shows from catching on
I also hate zoomers but what can you do
>>289601981You triggered a bunch of the resident normalfags
>>289604571Can you at least make an exception for me?
Back in the day, we used to watch bootleg videos from Chinatown. Good times.
>>289604763I got dubbed anime from asia. Pretty sure i watched the first few episodes of NGE as early as 1996 even if I didn't rediscover it until 2006
>>289601981I am a zoomer and I also dislike the general discourse surrounding anime and manga. I wish I got to experience 2000s /a/ since it looks really fun.
>>289601981It sucks, but what can you do, like realistically what can anyone do?
>>289601981get a job
>>289601981Same anon, I liked the world better before the boomers gave up on existence and decided to actively fuck up the world or die trying.
>>289601981Spoiled manchild throwing another tantrum but this time he sprains his wrist because 50 years of being a basement dweller has not been kind to him
>>289605533Most of these sorts of posts actually come from zoomers who believe in a delusion about the past that was never true. They're losers who cultivate nostalgia for a fake history to try to fit in with a crowd that doesn't exist.
>>289606416Do you have literally any tangible evidence to this
>>289607566The obvious evidence is that the way they describe the past is retarded bullshit that could only be believed by a child born after 2005. It's all just a projection of their own desire to be a special snowflake into a mythical past as an explanation for why they've failed to be special, as if there's something that used to exist that's no longer available and that's why they're losers not because they just fail to make anything of themselves.Same thing driving the epidemic of "boomer" hatred and scapegoating in a more general sense
If you're hating zoomers, you have to be almost (if not) 40 years old by now. Too damn old to act like this.
>>289608061I hate zoomers and I'm 29. What you're gonna do about it? And no I'm not a zoomer.
You can't OP. Zoomers are the dominant market in anime now. Even if you don't talk to anyone IRL the ones here will shift tones as the older guys still supporting the anime you like grow old and move on. Even if you go to other websites like Heyuri the userbase will continue to shift there until its full of normalfags as well. And even if you dont talk to anyone else about what you like, anime has changed to fit the tastes and attention spans of zoomers. The only escape is watching old anime you like by yourself. Ignore everyone else and you might get some fun out of this.>>289608188you are by definition
>>289609031>are the dominant market in anime now.Not just anime, literally every type of media.
>>289608188At 29 you're basically a zoomer. It's ok to be young anon
>>289609031Tbh zoomers irl mostly talk about shonen so it's pretty easy to avoid them. >The only escape is watching old anime you like by yourself.I make threads about <2015 anime all the time but you fags never join.
>>289609031>Even if you don't talk to anyone IRL the ones here will shift tones as the older guys still supporting the anime you like grow old and move on. Even if you go to other websites like Heyuri the userbase will continue to shift there until its full of normalfags as well.Bullshit. Both /a/ and Heyuri will die. You aren't getting any new zoomers here, you are only bleeding posters
>>289609031There's another route if you're not a moody bitch: bee the change. Be the guy at conventions talking about real anime. Be the guy who openly likes loli anime. Be the guy whose itasha has a niche character on it you actually like. Be the guy doing niche cosplays. You might not get a lot of return on your effort, you might be actively demonized, but what the fuck ever. Do what you want; we're all going to die at some point and if you inspire someone along the way that's fine.>>289609112naturally>>289609206><2015>old
>>289609329>>oldI meant that after that date anime started being made for gen z. Zoomers have to low of an attention span to watch stuff like monogatari
>>289601981>waaah waaah I want to feel SPECIALGrown man lmao. Get some real problems.
>>289609031>>289609112The mass media entertainment made for children and teenagers doesn't try to appeal to 30 year olds?! Next you're going to tell me something crazy like anime is funded by toy companies
>>289609467>Grown manBold assumption
Is anyone a little concerned how zoomers keep being brought up with little or no context?
>>289609683It'd be wonderful if zoomer was added to the block list so it couldn't be used on /a/ at all
>>289601981>when I was in highschool you'd be bullied for watching anime>nowadays retards everywhere wearing naruto and bleach shirts
>>289609757>block listI think a wordfilter would work just as well but the mods don't really keep up with site culture anymore.For example, nobody really uses the slang "fa.m" the way they did in 2017, but the wordfilter was kept in place and now you can't discuss the anime Fa.m and Ihrie without having to fight against this dumb censor.
>>289601981>I don't want to talk to someone about my favorite show and hear PEAK. I don't want to hear about aura farming.This I will entirely agree with. It is sadly the case that most people nowadays when presented with the task of expressing their opinion on a given piece of fiction, their vocabulary is often rather limited. It is a truly disheartening linguistic phenomenon. Surely enough, there is more than a dozen words that could convey the sentiments evoked by "peak" or "aura farming" (both of which are proper English constructs, but are rather overused as of late) a lot more succinctly and precisely. But most people would rather use what I like to call "linguistic shortcuts", or said more plainly, just say whatever it is everyone else says, without attempting to sound a little distinguished. It's basically the modern equivalent of "cool."
>>289609968Unlike you, not everyone is burdened by the need to sound smart all the time.
all 4chan effortposter can and should be replaced by llm.
I'll never understand the hate towards zoomers on everything as if people in my own age bracket(32-40) aren't equally as retarded and cringe. Zoomers didn't ruin anime, westoids have little to no influence on it as a whole. Zoomers didn't ruin cons, onlyfans whores and simps(of all ages) did. Zoomers didn't ruin discourse, especially not here where the average age is 30+ and it's literally just people ironic shitposting using zoomer slang. Faggots just want someone to blame for everything wrong in their life.>>289610084Holy based
>>289610084Bodied that pretentious freak
>>289609968Peak is just a dumb replacement to great. It's the same shit.
>>289609968How the fuck are you supposed to get more succinct than peak? You're just throwing out random bullshit to sound smart
What are the chances that every post accusing OP of wanting to feel special are made by the same faggot?
>>289601981Just remember there's only a few years until the first gen alpha anons are legally allowed to post on here.
>>289610773We're hosed for real when that happens. Enjoy the open bar while the titanic sinks.
>>289610084Unlike you, though, I don't consider it a burden, but rather, I think of it as an interesting pastime. Also, I don't think of myself as "smart"; I'm merely some random normal guy (not a normalfag, of course.)In any case, I just thought that it gets kinda annoying to hear people say "peak" and "aura farming" all the time. It's way too generic, thus not specific enough. It doesn't really allow me (or anyone else for that matter) to understand *what* makes an anime/manga/show/anything "peak". These words seem to strive to be objective, yet they only demonstrate biased subjectivity. They wish to be descriptive, yet they are only vague.
>>289609850>>nowadays retards everywhere wearing naruto and bleach shirtsMaybe there are some people that watched naruto 20 years ago and now they are able to express themselves(while still getting bullied)
>>289610884We're cooked, you mean.
>>289601981It was a better time back when the main battle was you having to fight that you weren't gay for liking K-on
>>289601981you say this but you never actually bought blu-rays, and now Sony is stopping making anime blu-rays and you will never have a nipple cut ever again and it's your fault, you whiny loser
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>>289610931peak things are peak
>>289601981>admits he's a millennial>popular thing bothers himgrow the fuck up faggit
>>289601981i bet you're a pedo, solid reasoning doesn't matteri will spam about pedos even for a series i watch/read with loli and the author having history of loli, and i won't go to a thread of a series that has no loli instead
>>289603085Yeah, fucking shonens and kodomomukes. Shojo anime is near-extinct in this day and age, and I genuinely cannot name a single josei. But you're forgetting that seinen animes exist, nevermind the fact that certain shonens aimed at older teens and the occasional well written shojo do exist.>>289609683I'm 99% convinced that it's pushed by some samefag who has too much time on their hands, and a lot of other anons are simply following what they believe is the herd.>>289611491Tits too small, I doubt she will be able to produce enough milk for her child.>>289609206Pretty much every anime fan I know IRL (so literally just millennials and gen z) only talk about shonen, so the internet is the only place where I can talk about my (relatively) more obscure animes.>t. Gen Z
>>289602162Go back to r*ddit. Sometime this weekend, drive to a store together so we can pick out the rope together; it'll be my treat. I'll even assist you in your suicide.
>>289601981Preach, brother. Purge them retards. There've never been so many genuine toxic cavemen in fandoms.
>>289604212That would kill the site for good. The only reason I come here is because I don't need to do all these humiliation rituals to post. I recently abandoned my xwitter because faggot Elon hit me with a qr code and said download our gay app on your phone and verify you are human with a little cuck dance. Nope. When 4chan is gone that's the end of online interaction with anyone for me.
>>289604212and ban everyone age 31-37 since that's the gamergate cancer demographic that killed /a/
>>289601981>Back when you had to actually have the barest minimum of tech literacy to watch anime.To know how to install real player or quicktime player today is sign you have not developed your tech literacy at all.
