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What is the deal with awful people online and anime avatars?
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Dash_Riprock
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The sad truth is there is massive overlap between anime fans and alt-right losers. Both are generally socially awkward, frustrated young men who want to blame their problems on the nebulous "SJWs" that dislike the misogyny that goes on in a lot of anime shows.
Because much of the alt-right is made up of losers from 4chan.
shawnbuddy
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Some anime is filled with a lot of regressive, sexist and offensive tropes and themes. A lot of it also tends to feature immature power or sexual fantasy storylines. So they're drawn to it and it's a bit of a thumb in the eye to associate yourself with the most offensive elements of it.
Also 4chan. It's an anime heavy image board and where a lot of these people get their start in fuckery.
Also 4chan. It's an anime heavy image board and where a lot of these people get their start in fuckery.
Puck Beaverton
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Anime is for jerks
Linkstrikesback
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Same reason you use a videogame avatar probably. And there's likely a correlation between asocial people living in their mothers basement , being alt-right and watching large amounts of anime, is the frank answer.
TatteredHat
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I don't think there's much of connection other than the current alt-right sorta stemming from 4chan which already had a large anime following.
Simon-chan
Member
What about manga avatars?
Killer Queen
Banned
This, and confirmation bias.
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
Like every time this subject comes up, this thread is giving me the urge to get an anime avatar out of spite.
Then again I am garbage so maybe it's just the right thing to do.
Then again I am garbage so maybe it's just the right thing to do.
brianjones
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angry loners looking for something to blame their problems on
Messofanego
Banned
Just maga avatars with an n.
i love jeff gerstmann
This. Places like 4chan that rejected moderation turned into cess-pits that were co-opted by extremists into recruiting grounds. Also, confirmation bias. I don't think the alt-right is related to anime specifically ao much as nerd culture in general. Videogaming, anime, tabletop gaming, comics, fantasy and popular movie/television fandoms have all produced alt-right types.
Dash_Riprock
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Gentleman Jack
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4chan was founded because moot wanted a place to talk about anime.
Zap Rowsdower
Banned
More specifically Something Awful didn't want to deal with the anime loving pedophiles anymore so they kicked them all out and they scurried away to form 4Chan.
ZeroGravity
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Confirmation bias.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Anime is filled to the brim with awful tropes.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
This, basically
VendettaRed07
Member
I hear Richard Spencer likes Depeche Mode. I've decided to stop listening to them as well because I easily surrender things to a group of people who try to co-opt things I like.
Zap Rowsdower
Banned
In recent years a good chunk of anime also exclusively caters to stunted manchildren which is what most of the modern Nazis that don't live in the boonies are comprised of.
Not all anime fans are Nazis, but most modern Nazis are anime fans.
Dead
Yep. Even as a consumer of anime (and Japanese media in general) I recognize that I have no choice but to filter out a significant chunk of the content that is produced because so much of it is not just garbage, but outright disgusting garbage that pushes some real shitty (mostly anti-women) tropes.
These same tropes naturally attract a certain audience. You can figure out the rest yourself just by browsing /r/anime or 4chan's /a/.
CrackPebbles
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I've blocked quite a few alt right idiots on twitter who also happen to have anime avatars. There is a pretty big overlap, makes me uncomfortable.
Chie Satonaka
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Video games don't count.
Anime fandom on the internet tends to be light on social standards. If you spend a lot of time in that environment without a counterbalancing force, it normalizes shitty behavior for you. With the advent of Twitter, we're just seeing the results of that process of isolation-then-radicalization.
Also this is why I don't truck with the "containment board" arguments when it comes to reddit administration. All it does is allow people to congregate and fuel each others' shittiness, which will eventually spill over into the mainstream.
Also this is why I don't truck with the "containment board" arguments when it comes to reddit administration. All it does is allow people to congregate and fuel each others' shittiness, which will eventually spill over into the mainstream.
Geno Breaker
Banned
There's a pretty big overlap with alt-righters/Nazis and anime fans, and theres a juxtaposition that they like between a cute anime character alongside a hateful viewpoint.
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
You're a big guy
Puck Beaverton
Banned
Persona is hella anime. Don't pretend you're one of the good ones.
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