/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>44083695
I guarantee you it was better in the past, especially in otaku or otaku-adjacent communities.
You can very easily point at the reasons for the change too, they boil down to normalfags colonizing and destroying every single community they step into due to their inability of simply letting other people do their own thing in peace.
In anime communities at large, /a/ included, it was thanks to CR and other pushes to make anime mainstream, not because they gave a fuck about anime, but because they saw there was money to be made off selling people edited MTL at best or literal fanfics at worst.

Ask 10 different people and you will get 10 different answers on where it started, but one of the first big tipping points was definitively gurren lagann and death note bringing in the first wave of MANime newfags that would then go back and watch stuff like bebop to pretend they were always here.
Then the normalfags would continue gathering around shows like spice and wolf, code geass, toradora, and so on, but the big next tipping point wouldn't come until madoka and SAO shortly after.
Up until that point these communities were still salvageable, but that was the final nail in the coffin.
With madoka came in droves the kind of people that don't care about media as an experience, but only care about it as a badge of honor to fit in with a community, a badge to brag how good their taste is, an attitude that would get doubled down on with SAO starting the career of multiple "your favorite anime is trash" ecelebs, and it was only downhill from there.

The end result was borderline obvious.
People that actually do give a shit not only get thrown in a corner away from all the normalfags, they also have mental defenses up at all times because any opening interaction with another "anime fan" is no longer talking about stuff, but "x is shit, here's why", so they come off as cold and aloof at best, which also results in actual hostility at worst, because if you don't defend what you like then you get run over.
Normalfags and ironic weebs get insulated in a bubble of what they consider "good" while shunning basically everything else as a status symbol, which also results in tribalism everywhere to try drive them away because any attempts at talking about anything will get bulldozed by "akshually that's garbage, get better taste like me".
And the people in the middle that would have become hardcore fans just end up disconnected from any community because of the constant negativity everywhere.
Then /jp/ itself got hit by vtubers and hell broke loose, which had even worse repercussions in any other anime community because it was no longer even about any specific piece of media anymore, it was literally e-girl streaming.
By now /jp/ is healing from the chemotherapy, but even this place isn't the same anymore, even in the more calm generals you still get to see people twitchy and defensive because the rest of the EOP internet has been constant hostility 24/7 for over a decade.

TLDR: Look at the filename, the normalfaggot necessity of using literally everything as a status symbol to feel superior to someone else, yet paradoxically wanting to be acknowledged by the same people they are looking down on is a plague that erodes and destroys everything they touch.
Find solace with the fact the language barrier is a thing, otherwise JP media would have gotten infiltrated and destroyed like western media, instead the best they can do is ruin localizations for other ironic weebs, because everyone that cares already knows japanese or is learning it.

>>39396963
Yes, it is a studied and well known phenomenon.

in what stage are we?

>accepting cuckoldry
in what stage are we now?

>>38548246
so this is the famous brown cap guy

How do we save Cover?

Why does it always happen, we're almost at the end bros. The white devil ruins everything

>>35945045
Isn't the issue the bigger crowd they attarcted?

>>35144416
It already started to decay last year.
Cover continuously failed to do what they should have done and proved time and time again that they just got lucky.
When you get lucky your luck doesn't last if you are incompetent.
They already lost the support of their inner circle of supporters replaced by a big group of normies who don't care.

>/jp/

>>33027713
Does it have something to do with this?
Does each newer generation attracts a more cancerous fanbase?

>>32763632
Basically this

>>32715777
/v/shit i know but pretty true for this case

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>>29286121
Based, hope it happens soon to filter the JP only faggots here.

What stage is Hololive at right now?

>>29018999

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>>28480596
>Or do you consider a "hobby" (can you even call watching streams that) to be dying because it's becoming more popular?