Full context [CW: transphobia]

I love that vtuber fans raise so much shit when some content moderation comes in because they want to feel more comfortable on their own stream so people lose their shit and harass them until they have to fucking leave. It's so fucking bizarre to see so many people so confidently fucking wrong about the damn slur. It's a shame that she seems to have backpedaled on it and unbanned the word now but goddamn shit is bad.

  • scraeming [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Anime, for as big as its gotten in the last decade, is still a pretty self-contained community/niche in the West, and talking about the pedophilia problem in the anime industry is a motherfucker of a third rail to piss on in that community, so nobody with both the platform and the credentials to speak with authority on the issue can do so without committing career suicide.

    It's really resembling of the "Nazi walks into a punk bar" parable, in a sense.

      • scraeming [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Oh, for sure, they could talk about it. I just get the impression that, for people with an audience within the anime community, there's a nervous radio silence out of a fear of becoming a target if they say anything too inflammatory.

        I would like to see some investigative journalism about the whole thing from a publication like Kotaku or Polygon, though, definitely.