The white nerds are troons now. Obsessive, analytical, isolated people with low self-esteem are fish food for sexually deviant terminally online subcultures, and basically have been since day 1 of the internet. A few of our BASED memes were delivered to normie social media by masochistic troons with taste browsing 4chan and forums like this one.
A lot of them are actually very thoughtful, self-aware, artistic people, although real troon talent often has an inverse relation to productivity, as is the case for many autistic-depressive perfectionist types. This ensures that lower quality work has space to float to the top. The most offensively bad example is leftist Twitter artists, but Soundcloud is a treasure trove of obscure transgemder bangers.
<- me gatekeeping the trooncore
This is part of it. A lot of anime is unbelievably cringe but it circumvents your cringe protection by being in a foreign language and being drawn. It's physically hard for me to watch bad actors read bad lines. Not a problem for anime. Other qualities of the medium can shine through when bad character writing and performances aren't as much of an issue.
I think I agree with this but I need to consoom more to decide. FLCL is one of the only shows that ever really "touched" me. I must have found it at exactly the right time.
A lot of anime/manga is structured like the Divine Comedy. The author has something to say or something to show you, but they don't really know how to work it in to a complete narrative, so it ends up being more like a tour than a story. Anime is notorious for tactless exposition and the whole genre suffers for it.
DUDE SO REAL I feel this feel completely unprompted like once a week.
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