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I can't wait for AnimeGate or whatever name they come up with to be a thing. Any guesses on what they'll target next after they finish trying to make anime more "progressive and diverse"?
 
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Hoo boy, you had to ask.

Recently, Crunchyroll financed this fucking thing:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PZSOGZFfSDk
Everything about this trailer makes one cringe like a Sarin Gas victim. None of the actual plot is covered, or concepts, or characterization, just several minutes worth of spouting about diversity. Crunchyroll's weeb userbase was having none of this shit. Not only was this yet more evidence that CR really has, as expected, increasingly being overtaken by Social Justice (this show is made by an honest-to-god group of rainbowhaired white women who are members of a group demanding Anime be inclusive, apparently forgetting Studio CLAMP exists and that women are responsible for some of the best known shows in history), but it's doing this while their site is a fucking shit-show (it's a streaming site that runs Flash, ffs, and that's being discontinued in like 3 months), and their translations are a fucking abortion (ask any Jojo fan).

Digibro did a lengthy call-out video breaking down every single one of the above. Digibro himself is basically a lolcow, but Crunchyroll recently went nuclear to shut him up, and you know how well that works against shatteringly Autistic people.
I made an offhand joke about anime ending up looking like Cal Arts about 3 weeks ago, amazed how quickly it came to fruition

At the dawn of the second age, the boards of power were formed in the realm of 4chan. Each board granted to it's user immense power over the realm of culture. Unto the trolls and troublemakers, full of spite were given /b/, to the table top player, fat and sweating mountain dew was given /tg/, to the gamers proud and nerdy, was given /v/, and unto the weebs innocent of all was given /a/. But they were all of them deceived. For in the darkest part of NSFW, another board was forged. The master board /pol/. One board to rule them all, and one board to bind them. As the machinations of the culture war sweep across all the realms of man, so are the boards of power bound to /pol/.

Because /pol/ is always right.

/:autism:
Saved.

I can't wait for AnimeGate or whatever name they come up with to be a thing. Any guesses on what they'll target next after they finish trying to make anime more "progressive and diverse"?
I'm already anticipating the annoying personalities that will attach themselves to the youtube scene opposing this
 
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John Goodman didn't react well to the Roseann cancellation AT ALL.
 
I can't wait for AnimeGate or whatever name they come up with to be a thing. Any guesses on what they'll target next after they finish trying to make anime more "progressive and diverse"?

"Gates" are out of fashion. There is a shitstorm in development though, just needs a catalyst. Crunchyroll's tumblr anime's and the shilling will be it.
 
It's been getting worse and worse and people have been getting less and less for their money these days, because apparently Crunchyroll has forgotten that the weeb community will direct buy and pirate rather than put up with their shit.
But if you pirate content, you are literally stealing intellectual property. And that means less money for content creators to create...

...At least according to the people who, say, agreed with OceanOfPDF being shut down.

Really, I could go on for hours on why the notion of stealing raw data, information, and ideas (which is all "intellectual property" really is) as if they were concrete, physical, solid objects is retarded as fuck.

But that would be too off-topic here.
 
One of the reasons I covered GG as much as I did, and continue to give what insight I can into that conflict is this: GG was simply the first. It won't be the last. No matter what stereotypical nerd hobby you love, there will be a bunch of screeching unqualified harridans seeking to gain a foothold in it, gatekeep over it, and turn it into one more avenue for them to scream propaganda at you. They won't always be effective - the free market means these assholes will always fail - but the fact remains that they will drag as much with them into the abyss as possible, because they would sooner destroy a franchise than let the actual fans have it.

It's critical you understand why they do this: In their worldview, you are not allowed escapism. You are not allowed indifference. You are not allowed legitimate ignorance. Your purpose is to sit there, shut up, and Listen and Believe when they screech Autistically at you. Their doctrine does not allow room for questions, doubt, discussion, or debate. They are moral absolutists and every bit as morally reprehensible as the religious nutjobs that used to do this exact same shit decades ago (and just as prone to sexual indiscretions, as evidenced by our threads here).

Your only recourse is to either cut the losses and flee, waiting for capitalism to deal with the problem (it will, eventually) or dig in your heels and prepare to fight Autism with more Autism.

Not to be too offtopic, but personally I shy away from that stuff. When GG happened I mostly just kept watching the trashfires while talking in private IMs with friends. My only real interaction was looking at the occasional bit of info and going "holy shit what the fuck is this" and "Is this shit real? Is this like a real life conspiracy?" when the GameJournoPros shit was revealed.

On the other hand, I totally wouldn't mind fighting autism with more autism when time allows it.
 
Can I just come out and say the thing on my mind the most? Here:

Those MCs look like absolutely unfuckable midgets. They don't look grown up. They don't look like children either. They look like fucking midgets of an art style out of Steven Universe or that new fucking Thundercats animation and shit.

Anyway, if this is what an original looks like here, I'm sure Japanese studios will keep doing just fine.

And I don't mean animation. I mean original animes. 'Cause the thing about anime, it's seasonal. Just check out Anichart. Different studios work to get in a 11 or 12 or 24 episode long show into the season, if it's short it finishes that season, if not it continues into the next, but the studios are always looking to make the next show. Sometimes they substitute in an anime adaption of a manga or light novel instead of coming up with a wholly original idea and story.

But it's a constant process. I doubt these rainbow haired keyboard warriors will even make much bank of this, let alone be able to do a continual process of constantly creating new shit year round.
 
wtf is this shit

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Diversity in hair colors, still Jim is being a little melodramatic because since years japan DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT about social justice and they will never care about it, is at reached the point that certain author just plain ignore the american fandom except some cases like Horikoshi (My hero academia) but there are others like Ishida (Tokyo ghoul) that absolute hate them after the usual suspects declared his ass Halal because he dared to destroy a ship
 
Other problems, like Crunchyroll's infamously slipshod translation, broken comments sections, and complete lack of HD streams, have persisted literally forever and Crunchyroll pathologically has refused to address them. It's been getting worse and worse and people have been getting less and less for their money these days, because apparently Crunchyroll has forgotten that the weeb community will direct buy and pirate rather than put up with their shit.

Also Crunchyroll forget that it only take that for example Netflix get their policies about Anime updated to fuck them good, this "Crunchyroll original" is just a pathetic attempt to emulate Netflix, but Netflix ACTUALLY give a damn about their animes and ask ACTUAL japanese animation studios to go wild because they are not chained to TV regulations, that is how you get things like Devilman Crybaby and Godzilla
 
We're already at the "People are only having negative reactions to High Guardian Spice because they're sexists/Anime fandom has a 'misogyny' problem" stage of the backlash against the backlash. Here is only one small example of a sentiment that's making the rounds:

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Diversity in hair colors, still Jim is being a little melodramatic because since years japan DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT about social justice and they will never care about it, is at reached the point that certain author just plain ignore the american fandom except some cases like Horikoshi (My hero academia)
between One Punch Man & My Hero Academia, based nips are carrying the torch for American capeshit until we can purge Marvel & DC of the fucking infection, God Speed Nobunagas

Remember, the Japanese have been denying war crimes for 60 years
American: *looks at native americans*
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Leth wrote some books for Marvel that ticked off every item on checklists of "sjw pandering comics cliches" that revealed how uninspired she is and were swiftly canceled. Why would you acquire the services of this creature when everything she does is sales poison, besides the "we're socially aware and stuff and really need to show it" factor.

I can easily see why subscribers are upset and asking "Hey why's my money going to overwhelmingly American staff to make garbage that looks like one of the seemingly tens of potato-bodied ripoffs you'd see two years ago trying to hop aboard the Adventure Time/Stephen Universe gravy train".

/co/ storytimed all the issues when they came out (2015 I think?) and because I like hurting myself I read I think all of them (except maybe the very last one, I dunno who cares). It's hard to put into words just how awful it was (partly because I erased a lot of it from my memory as a means of self-preservation). The art rivaled SQRL GRRL in terms of how bad it was

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(SQRL GIRL)

yet still didn't hold a candle to Leth's atrocious writing. None of the cast was in any way shape or form memorable (the only sidekick I distinctly remember was the gay friend and that's only because they made him look like a lumberjack because stereotypes are good actually) or remotely likable while the villains were all Z-list white guys (only specific one I remember would be Arcade) who never posed any sort of threat whatsoever leading to a complete lack of tension or reason to care across the 10 or so completely interchangeable issues of a bunch of cardboard cutouts teaming up to defeat a different cardboard cutout and then returning home to more pointless Tumblr drama.

Bottom line is Kate Leth has produced nothing of value over her entire """""career"""""" of coasting off nepotism and the odds of that suddenly changing with this new abominable-looking show are completely negligible so whatever your expectations are for it expect it to be even worse.
 
We're already at the "People are only having negative reactions to High Guardian Spice because they're sexists/Anime fandom has a 'misogyny' problem" stage of the backlash against the backlash. Here is only one small example of a sentiment that's making the rounds:

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That, and the "people are only negative because they want an excuse to pirate" argument I saw a few legal fags make in the main thread discussing it on MAL (which has now been deleted) have to be the two single most beaten dead horses in this discussion. Legal fags who will defend anything as long as it is "legal" are annoying, diversity advocates who will defend anything as long as it is "progressive" are annoying, and the combination of the two of them is an absolute disaster.
 
It reminds me of how the owner of TokyoPop tried to make a Courtney Love American anime right before the company went bankrupt.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again: I'm getting major "original English manga" vibes from this to the point I'm not going to be the least bit surprised if this is similar to when Tokyopop scammed amateur artists while pushing that Courtney Love manga on top of it.
 
I can't wait for AnimeGate or whatever name they come up with to be a thing. Any guesses on what they'll target next after they finish trying to make anime more "progressive and diverse"?

Open source programming and other areas where meritocracy has priority. They've been trying to push into both for a while.
 
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