I was once an anime fan. To be sure, there are still occasional new things produced even to this day that I enjoy. But for the most part, I feel that I've moved on.
There are two big reasons.
One of them is the move away from using cels to digital(it just never looked as appealing to me). But that isn't what this is about.
No, t
he other reason is the little girl stuff. Or, as the fans like to refer to it - moé. In recent years, the number of anime produced catering to the loli fetish has risen astronomically. Oh, sure. There's been loli and moé-related themes in anime for a very long time. As early as 1984, in fact. But you have to be in denial not to admit that it isn't until recently that it's blown-up to the degree that it has.
Here's a fairly recent article you can read to get a bit of insight on the subject -
http://www.comixology.com/articles/265/Moe-The-Cult-of-the-Child
And here's one from a couple years ago that I found pretty interesting:
http://www.animeacademy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22493
What's your take on the whole moé thing? Does it bother you? Has it affected your enjoyment of anime or how you perceive people that do?
This is a subject that has bothered me for some time. This is a great place to discuss this, because it's such a large melting pot of biased and unbiased opinions. So the responses should be interesting.