Reveals a lot of y’all don’t know many black people.

  • Yun [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I feel like anime fans are prime targets for radicalization given that:

    1. they often consume it to escape from reality
    2. they're well aware of how shit the working conditions are for animators in Japan
    3. they can recognize that a lot of the Western stuff being put out is shit
    4. many weebs are ethnic minorities (in addition to black folks, I get the impression there are a lot asian weebs as well)
    5. I think a lot of fans would like to learn to create their own art/animation for a living but are unable to do so cause of capitalism
    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Gamers also tick all of those boxes but we lost them to the right because the Left was more interested in dunking on them than trying to win them over.

      Same thing is probably going to happen / already happened to the anime fans.

    • StLangoustine [any]
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      3 years ago

      they often consume it to escape from reality

      Is this any different from people who are fans of cartoons, movies, tv shows, video games? Seems like just a stereotype...

      • Yun [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah not really any different from other fictitious works in that sense although with anime specifically, there's a lot of content related to the high school experience in particular which I suspect is appealing to many at least in part because of how shit being a working adult is.

        Anime/manga also has a subgenre of "iyashikei" or "healing-type" works which again is appealing to people because of how stressful real life is.

        • StLangoustine [any]
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          3 years ago

          You would assume that for a stereotypical anime high school wasn't exactly the best time in their life...

          • Yun [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            While I'm sure there's still a decent amount of those types, I suspect with anime having become a lot more mainstream now especially among younger generations, I'm doubtful the stereotype holds for the majority of the fanbase.