We like to overreact, but I recall him getting extremely defensive because someone didn't like a show he enjoyed a season or two ago.
Glad to see that giving this thread another shot turned out just as well as last time.
At least no one got called a cunt this time.
I could again if you really want.
People get defensive because there is an extremely thick "clique"ish subculture to the anime fandom on this board, specifically in this thread, that oftentimes makes it incredibly difficult to discuss anime because instead of level-headed dislike of something being not to someone's taste or not up to their standards of quality or whatever everyone is competing to put down shit in as hyperbolic and verbally abusive a way as possible. I posted maybe three times in here to start, trying to join a discussion on how sometimes there is good anime that is unfortunately wrapped in fan-service garbage shells and that a tolerance for that can allow you to find an anime that has other redeeming qualities but is understandable if others aren't willing to give it a try. I used Blade and Soul as an example and apparently this was so offensive to a poster that they needed to write a fucking college thesis on why the anime I used as an example was fucking garbage.
After that kind of shit why would anyone want to discuss anime in this thread? This kind of shit is incredibly toxic. Recommendations come out fine and freely but how many new faces come back and stay without ignoring a lot of the shit that gets bandied about as shows they want to discuss or talk about or get excited about are called edgy tryhard garbage that is worse than cancer?
It's not about everyone doing it and everyone calls everyone else's anime shit because not everyone fucking does it. Some of these people have the patience of a saint dealing with the garbage you sling at them regularly. Cornbread has to put up with so much shit and no it's not good-natured ribbing because the edge that everybody puts into their digging insults isn't the shit that friends do with each other it's the shit that bullies do and follow up with "Relax dude we were just joking" before pushing them even more to the sidelines in their community.
And if everyone
is fucking doing it? Maybe it should stop.
This thread is toxic and "your favorite anime is shit" isn't helping it be somewhere where people can enjoy talking about anime.