Discussion - Annoyances with the anime community in general

Several things.

Firstly MAL is trash. I recommend not using it at all, I forcibly changed the logins to my account to something random and thank fuck I did.

It's a cool idea for newcomers, recommend them some good shit and go for it, but eventually you get to the point where you feel like you "need to watch a show". I've seen numerous examples of people doing this.

The ratings are equally laughable, all ecchi basically get's a 6-7, somewhat decent get's a 7-8 and "generally liked" get's 8+. Gintama is also overrated, it's funny but it's nothing special.

Reviews are a joke too. I'd say the average (mental) age of people on that site is 14.

Secondly the anime community is easily one of the worst communities out there, I had to basically sift through 100s of fucking retards in order to find a few decently chill people to discuss it with. And even then, I don't discuss most stuff. The circlejerk is absolutely awful too, god forbid you don't think some toy advert mecha from the 80s is the greatest thing ever.

Everyone acts like an expert at everything, memes are awful and everyone just feels like a ticking time bomb because you dared suggest his best girl actually has several flaws, which is a dumb topic in of itself. This is also the internet, which means everyones opinion is 100% fact and yours is not. Of course I do this too but it's a thing to bear in mind.

Whilst we're at it, most anime youtubers are awful too, we get it, Ero-Manga Sensei isn't that great, shut the fuck up about it.

Honestly I'm bidding my time to leave this somewhat small board too, aside from a few conversations with friends the anime community has been nothing but a waste of time.

Part of it may be due to anime discussions having deep roots in 4Chan, now I love 4chan but it works because everybody does it, problem is 4chan meets other people and you get some weird merge.

Maybe it comes from westerners trying to critique a different culture? Judging it by your own standards doesn't work. Like when people go on and on and on about "lolis".

In terms of effort vs reward, very little reason to bother.

Hell I dunno why I even wasted 10 mins typing this, whilst I have a paused anime infront of me too.

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