Discussion is good and I adore flame wars but lately I have been feeling that we are not producing enough original content because it is too easy to discuss anime and call oneself an 'otaku.'
Wouldn't you say that these days otakus are more passive and complacent than they used to be and that that is why it has been getting worse? I mean obviously there may be other reasons but suddenly watching anime doesn't feel special anymore. It's just another pass time and an excuse to start a conversation online- so people might ask, why bother getting angry and being critical about it?
Maybe it's just that I have gotten tired watching the same shit and over again, seeing one trend pass after another, that I feel that it's all equally unimportant and frankly boring. This season and the last few too it has become impossible to get excited about any anime and the discussions on /a/ have been dry too with everyone trying to find clips that are memeable but are ultimately forgotten one week later.
Really the only highlight I have been getting out of anime is the porn doujins and even there it's not like it matters which characters are featured at all as much as the fetishes. I think that the shorter anime cours(12eps) have been adding to this weariness. It's harder to look forward to characters that I barely remember their names.
During the last few days I have been thinking about a certain fad that has mostly been forgotten, namely that of Haruhi Suzumiya. It was a boring moe slice-of-nothing-happens propped up by the broadcast order that baited the audience about Haruhi's godhood and poorly hid the fact that she is a bitch. And yet the community around it was more fun and active than the community around say Attack on Titan and I think that the reason for this was because the Haruhi fans were more otaku than AoT fans? Or is it another reason? I don't know.
Anyway these days both anime and the anime community is so fucking boring and I am more worried about that rather than whether we are critical or not. I think I am losing interest in anime lol I mean perhaps if we are more critical that would help to 'make anime great again' but I am not so sure whether that is why anime has been getting boring and not just a symptom.
Do you still enjoy anime as you did decades ago?
Why do you think I became a reactor of reactors? Because just reacting to the show is not fun anymore XD.
Would you agree that commentary is leaching off of and publicising original content? The reason that I stopped writing reviews is that I felt I was doing advertising for other people's work.
Which people?
The mangaka, animators and writers who actually make the anime, manga, LNs etc.. that the commentators comment about. Basically aren't anime youtubers and bloggers simultaneously leaching off of the anime industry and basically advertising for it for free?
that is what true fans do; contribute for free