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[King Gilga]

Because anyone who likes anime enough to use it to represent themselves as an avatar is a unequivocal scumbag?

It's not hard to see.

Atleast those with anime girl avatars, the anime guy avatar people are alright for the most part.

 

[Mael]

Anime can be great,
but dear god can we nuke moe from orbit?
I don't even give a shit it's making conversation harder online or whatever,
it's made finding new stuffs to watch so fucking awful.
I have very high tolerance to shit but this crap seriously stink from across continents with how bad it is.

Because anyone who likes anime enough to use it to represent themselves as an avatar is a unequivocal scumbag?

It's not hard to see.

Atleast those with anime girl avatars, the anime guy avatar people are alright for the most part.

I'll add that my avatar is "derpy uncanny valley 3d anime girl", the most important part is "derpy face".

 

[OniBarubary]

That isn't the problem people have with it if you actually read what people were complaining about.

People already co-opted this thread away from the very interesting correlation that a number of posters were talking about to "Ugh moe" a while back.

Edit: See? Like fucking clockwork.

 

[Accoun]

Great, now I feel like changing my twitter avatar to a picture of Trump, and flooding every Democrats post with just 'YOU'RE WRONG'.

If you were to change it to a pic of CliffyB and flood threads with "TOO BAD MOTHERFUCKER", would it be more acceptable?

 

[King Gilga]

I'll add that my avatar is "derpy uncanny valley 3d anime girl", the most important part is "derpy face".

For the purposes of that statement I do not correlate japanese video game avatars with anime avatars unless said video game is based off of an existing anime.

 

[Mael]

For the purposes of that statement I do not correlate japanese video game avatars with anime avatars unless said video game is based off of an existing anime.

I had been able to find an image with that level of derpiness from an anime you better believe I'm going to sport it as an avatar.

Spoiler

It has to be unintentional derp though, I mean looking on the left you clearly see the result wasn't intentional on the part of the artists.

 

[docbon]

Great ads in here now:

Aren't these determined by your search history?

🕵

 

[legend166]

There's an anime called Panzer und Girls? What the heck? Someone explain, I don't want to search. Is it about teenager girls in the Wehrmacht or are they fighting the Germans?

 

[GuessMyUserName]

Sounds like I really gotta switch over to a moe avatar as a show of support to all my innocent hobbymates

 

[meltingparappa]

There's an anime called Panzer und Girls? What the heck? Someone explain, I don't want to search. Is it about teenager girls in the Wehrmacht or are they fighting the Germans?

What's the matter onii-chan? Afraid you might like it? '(ʘ̥ꀾʘ&#805'

The story takes place in a universe where historical WWII-era tanks are maintained for sports warfare competitions and large carrier ships known as Academy Ships support mobile sea communities. Of the many activities high school girls can participate in, one of the most popular is "sensha-dō" (戦車道?, lit. "the way of the tank"),[FN 1] the art of operating tanks, which is considered a traditional martial art. Miho Nishizumi, a girl from a prestigious family of sensha-dō practitioners who became traumatized by a past event, transfers to Ōarai Girls High School to get away from sensha-dō, as she presumed the school was no longer practicing the sport. However, shortly after Miho begins her new school life and makes some new friends, the student council announces the revival of sensha-dō at Ōarai and coerces Miho, the only student with prior experience, to join. While reluctant to join at first, having practically been forced, Miho soon warms up to sensha-dō again and comes to enjoy it, after which the school prepares to enter a national sensha-dō championship, facing off against various other schools.

Much more innocuous and atypical than you might assume.

 

[MikeHattsu]

There's an anime called Panzer und Girls? What the heck? Someone explain, I don't want to search. Is it about teenager girls in the Wehrmacht or are they fighting the Germans?

Neither. They're in a modern time Japan where tankery is a girls sport.

 

[Pizoxuat]

There's an anime called Panzer und Girls? What the heck? Someone explain, I don't want to search. Is it about teenager girls in the Wehrmacht or are they fighting the Germans?

No, Girls und Panzer is about an alternate world where tanking is a competitive team sport for girls. The tanks in the show are mostly WW2-era tanks, but the protagonist belongs to a Japanese-themed school which uses a mishmash of tanks. The other high schools also have some national flavor, but there's no Nazis.

It's a very cute show that I really enjoy, and I stay as far away from the fanbase as possible.

 

[Haly]

There's an anime called Panzer und Girls? What the heck? Someone explain, I don't want to search. Is it about teenager girls in the Wehrmacht or are they fighting the Germans?

The story takes place in a universe where historical WWII-era tanks are maintained for sports warfare competitions and large carrier ships known as Academy Ships support mobile sea communities. Of the many activities high school girls can participate in, one of the most popular is "sensha-dō" (戦車道?, lit. "the way of the tank"),[FN 1] the art of operating tanks, which is considered a traditional martial art. Miho Nishizumi, a girl from a prestigious family of sensha-dō practitioners who became traumatized by a past event, transfers to Ōarai Girls High School to get away from sensha-dō, as she presumed the school was no longer practicing the sport. However, shortly after Miho begins her new school life and makes some new friends, the student council announces the revival of sensha-dō at Ōarai and coerces Miho, the only student with prior experience, to join. While reluctant to join at first, having practically been forced, Miho soon warms up to sensha-dō again and comes to enjoy it, after which the school prepares to enter a national sensha-dō championship, facing off against various other schools.

The article exaggerates its relation to WWII proper. It's a tank-nerd show more than it is a WWII show.

 

[WrenchNinja]

Noticed this years ago. I'll usually give people on GAF the benefit of doubt with dumb shit before ignore since I mostly read on mobile and have avatars turned off. But when I do end up clicking on someone's user profile, I'm not exactly surprised at what I see.

 

[Romez]

Dead giveaway for a racist on Twitter.

American flag avi
American flag/eagle header
The words 'Patriot' or 'gun' in bio.

 

[John Kowalski]

There's an anime called Panzer und Girls? What the heck? Someone explain, I don't want to search. Is it about teenager girls in the Wehrmacht or are they fighting the Germans?

GuP is so good though.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Much more innocuous and atypical than you might assume.

Even my mom likes Girls und Panzer!

 

[Lime]

Maladjusted, antisocial male nerds who blame chads and normies for their women problems end up being reactionaries who hate women and want them to be submissive and find a lot to like in particular otaku-oriented anime that are designed to appeal to obsessives in Japan who desire traditional gender roles. Being reactionaries, this makes them palatable to being "redpilled", because it gives them a sense of purpose and identity - it's not that they're losers, it's that they're strong Aryan men being oppressed by the Jews, who are using Cultural Marxism to destroy Traditional Values!

One of the more bizarre developments of the 21st century.

That's a pretty good summary

 

[Chinese Cartoons]

4chan is full with weebs.

 

[Ryuukan]

Anime is immoral. It's no coincidence that all anime fans are either sexist or racist.

 

[Marow]

I tend to see these "anime avatars" getting the mention every now and then. Sometimes due to very serious reasons like this or simply when someone is making an ignorant claim. To me, it's nothing more than a way to shift focus and very rarely have the anime avatars actually been a majority from my experience. Instead, I believe it's more of a case of people noticing the colorful cartoon avatars more rather than whatever else is used. The fact to me the claim has become more common kinda makes me sad.

That said, god, I cannot even begin to fathom how awful being flooded by people like this is.

 

[How About No]

I'm pretty sure everyone likes my anime avatars.

BRING BACK WIERDO NAKED SMOKING GIRL

 

[Line_HTX]

Tanking is serious business.

 

[MikeHattsu]

Tanking is serious business.

Well, if you business is tanking then it really is serious.

 

[OniBarubary]

4chan is full with weebs.

Chinese Cartoons

...hrm.

...

Checks out.

 

[Leafhopper]

Because anyone who likes anime enough to use it to represent themselves as an avatar is a unequivocal scumbag?

It's not hard to see.

Atleast those with anime girl avatars, the anime guy avatar people are alright for the most part.

I don't know man. It's been more than once over on gaming people with specifically Vegeta have just been jerks.

...although they might just be in character. I really don't know.

 

[Violet_0]

my little 2d girlfriend can't be this facist

 

[John Kowalski]

BRING BACK WIERDO NAKED SMOKING GIRL

No moving backwards allowed.

 

[iRAWRasaurus]

GuP is so good though.

Panzer Vor!

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

I want to switch back to an Anime Avatar now.

To fight the prejudice and oppression of all Anime fans!

#ImWithAnime

 

[Dreavus]

The article accurately describes the phenomenon. /a/ and /pol/ culture integrated over a period of time, MRAs successfully employed a large proxy group in their movement by convincing impressionable young fans that prudish feminists were trying to take their cheesecake away from them, the avatars are of characters from a narrow subset of properties with traditionally domestic, militaristic, or politically incorrect female characters, they are useful for anonymity and sockpuppeting, and harassers enjoy the irony of associating cute girls with hate speech.

All that said, at this point I can't blame anyone for being mistrustful of "anime avatars". The stigma specific to GAF pre-gamergate was willfully obtuse and mean-spirited (losers! deviants! pedophiles!), but on social media platforms there's a legitimate correlation between anime and harassment. As a long-time anime fan, it's especially infuriating to see the hobby coopted by neo-nazis; it was my experience ten or more years ago that anime communities were disproportionately progressive and tolerant relative to other internet communities. I don't blame any "decrease" in the aggregate quality of anime nearly as much as the advent of social networks, which are too big to effectively moderate, leave people vulnerable who choose to use their real identities, and erase the boundaries between those people and the public.

Good post.

I think the bolded needs to be underlined here. I wouldn't read into just who these people are that they like to throw these kinds of avatars up when they are arguing on twitter, I think they are just doing it primarily to be annoying. "Cute girl avatar:Hate speech, don't you see the irony?" It's basically become a meme itself at this point, one that these guys are happy to propagate.

It does suck for people who legitimately enjoy this stuff and aren't using it as a shitty smokescreen though.

 

[TacticalHotdog]

Because it is the pinnacle of all arguements

 

[How About No]

No moving backwards allowed.

Aww ok. Guess its kinda symbolic that I'm in a rotation then

I want to switch back to an Anime Avatar now.

To fight the prejudice and oppression of all Anime fans!

#ImWithAnime

Do it, ill go back to My Little Pony avatars for a bit to make room for you

 

[victreeb3l]

Serena would never yell nazi things

 

[Makai]

I see your troll attempts are just as terrible outside the NBA threads.

It clearly worked

 

[Makai]

The article talks a lot to say very little:
Moot started 4chan as a place to discuss anime
4chan /pol/ is the largest nazi forum on the internet.
100% of the people being referred to are 4chan users.

I think there's probably more to it, but this is the best explanation.

 

[Abstrusity]

Because it is the pinnacle of all arguements

What excavation site did you dig that out of? It must be older than some of the alt right kids by now.

 

[Madao]

all those piece of shits ruined anime for everyone.
i can't discuss anything i watch with anyone anymore because of this so i just talk about more neutral things like tech stuff around people.

like, the only person i can talk about One Piece or Jojo is my brother.

sometimes i wish i could go back in time and change what things i like.

 

[Squalor]

That doesn't allow one to be lazy and put all of them under an umbrella. It's the easy way out.

I'm not putting all anime under one umbrella.

I'm putting the fan-service-heavy, moe-, loli-heavy bullshit under one umbrella.

 

[Crossing Eden]

Honest guess: Because a lot of anime is sexist and appeals to people who have social difficulty or have trouble reading subtle facial cues?

I say this as a person who works on anime regularly and appreciates some of it himself.

I mean that pretty much is the target audience..., just to point out the worst aspects based on observation:we're talking some hardcore self insertion with a bland protagonist who is so unbelievably boring as a person but is adored because of some arbitrary bullshit. Adored by equally shallow and unbelievably creepily idealized, (and in the worst case scenarios, childlike or even worse, pet like), women who's entire personality can be summed up in a single word/archetype with a million other characters who both look AND sound incredibly similar due to homogenous design philosophies. Constant exposure to that over years seemingly can harm social growth. It also can be inferred that the people who watch this stuff actually ostracize themselves due to the constant projecting on a character who's ostracized because of some arbitrary reason or another. Best case scenario is that these people grow out of it and move on with their lives, worst case scenario is well....what the OP is describing. There's a lot to appreciate from the anime medium itself, mainly from creators who've come out and denounced the sort of stuff that leads to this apparent "phenomenon." But it's so strange how much of a difference there is between a typical person who casually watches Jojo and someone who consumes moe shit constantly.

 

[Kenstar]

see the trick is to have a stealth anime avatar as you shitpost about the leftist mooslim gun grabbing feminazi hypocrites who are afraid to #buildthewall

 

[blue_phazon]

Easy, they have terrible tastes in the first place.

You, on the other hand, have great taste!

 

[petran79]

No, Girls und Panzer is about an alternate world where tanking is a competitive team sport for girls. The tanks in the show are mostly WW2-era tanks, but the protagonist belongs to a Japanese-themed school which uses a mishmash of tanks. The other high schools also have some national flavor, but there's no Nazis.

It's a very cute show that I really enjoy, and I stay as far away from the fanbase as possible.

A fantasy show were there is no need to wear helmets to protect yourself from bumps and concussions. Also the tank engine is so silent you can actually hear the dialogues!

Though I've seen supposed war movies that did even worse in that regard.