In the early 00s an interest in anime was the mark of a gentleman. You needed baseline technical competency to use IRC, XDCC, and later: torrents. You were probably only into it in the first place because you attended uni and went to an anime club screening. It might've even spurred you to study Japanese yourself and become an accomplished international businessman. Now it's consumed almost exclusively by people who grew up barefoot, hang out in kebab shops, and punch anything that confuses them. What happened?
>You needed baseline technical competency to use IRC, XDCC, and later: torrents. You were probably only into it in the first place because you attended uni and went to an anime club screeningnah it was because you just saw pokemon on the telly and everyone knew how to torrent. though i agree that barrier to entry to use the internet should be higher but thats never happening because companies dont make money from that >Now it's consumed almost exclusively by people who grew up barefoot, hang out in kebab shops, and punch anything that confuses them. What happened?nafris got tvs and internet now
uh no anyone into anime in 2000 was a fuckin loser just like anyone that used the internetthen smartphones happened and it switched
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>>225873139Found the zoomer larping as a millennial 20 years ago anime watchers and weeabos in general were considered losers, same as the people obsessed with random japanese things like the fedora katanasNo, watching dragon ball or pokemon and that's it wasn't the same as watching seasonal garbage every season and slurping whatever shit the modern japanese summon
