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THE ANIME PROBLEM AND WHY IT ANNOYS ME I've started preventively blocking any profile with an anime avatar. This isn't a tantrum about Japanese cartoons. The correlation has become unavoidable, anime avatar communicates a complete package of dysfunction. People who never left emotional adolescence, who build their entire identity through passive consumption of commercial entertainment, who treat politics like an online faction RPG. The aesthetic gives everything away. It's voluntary advertisement of social inadequacy, lives online, relationships mediated by screens, probably virgin at 30, discusses serious geopolitics with retarded big-eyed character as avatar like this isn't completely ridiculous. Japan produced Kurosawa, Mishima, a millennial aesthetic tradition. And the West mass-imported the worst possible shit, industrial product calculated to addict maladjusted teenagers to escapism. Anime became a substitute for real maturation. 35-year-old guy with room full of action figures, no career, living in a bubble of infantile references. Not even good Hollywood films as references. Worse: this plague spread. It became the tribal uniform for people who want political discourse without skin in the game, without real consequences. Platforms incentivize exactly this profile, performative anonymity dominating serious conversations. These are people who don't know what a good 90s film is, who jump from generic blockbuster to seasonal anime, who never developed taste for adult narrative. Manhole covers in Japan have anime mascots now. The entire country became an otaku theme park, surrendered real cultural identity for merchandise. And Western otaku think this is authentic, come back from Tokyo with a suitcase full of trinkets thinking they had a profound experience. Are there exceptions? Always. But as a heuristic it works frighteningly well. If you're offended, fuck off, I only want to talk with people anchored in the real world.