/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>19053920
No. I was motivated to make this thread after finding an old blog belonging to a former member of gg fansubs and reading his farewell post:
https://mod16.org/hurfdurf/
Here are the specific quotes that got me thinking:
>it may or may not be surprising that anime fans are really, really bad at moving on. Granted, I’ve seen the same phenomenon in other pop culture as well, but anime fans are particularly persistent. Basically, the actual point of this blog post (which I’m actually starting to get to now) is the question of why people have such a hard time letting go of the hobbies and the stories of their youth.
>What puzzles me is why so many people choose to stay with the stories of their youth. Hollywood films based on comic books are seemingly very popular. People who once played World of Warcraft are coming back to it. Which Saturday morning cartoons you watched as a kid is apparently still very important to many people. People who got into anime at about the same time as I did (or in many cases many years earlier) are still watching and writing about it, even though in some cases (see: Colony Drop) mostly limited to complaining about how things were just better in the Good Old Days. People cosplay their favorite teen culture franchise as grownups. Why cling so desperately to these teenage years? Is it just nostalgia, or have I missed an important part of the zeitgeist? Is it that the social networks you establish around your hobbies now are stronger than they once were?

Most of the posts in this thread confirm this observation, and my nagging fear that a lot of longtime /jp/sies found the board in their formative adolescence and stay here because of the resulting deep attachments that they carry into their adult life.

>>19054609
>>19054633
It's interesting: I spend so much time here that I never bother learning *kana* let alone kanji or grammar, I watch one anime episode a week or so and never contribute creatively. Leaving /jp/ is the rational choice for me to make but I'm afraid of losing what has become the keystone of my personal identity. Being a worthless shitposter is safer than trying to construct something new at my age from scratch.
>Who's laughing now?
He's getting ghost paizuri in gensokyo and you have to witness the slow decline of your favourite franchises.