I was recommended to watch Otaku no Video, Gainax's generational manifesto on otaku culture from 1991.
Honestly, what's hitting me the most is how, in almost 30 years, NOTHING has changed when it comes to otaku culture, except it being more widespread. It's depressing.
The cringe is REAL
shhh, don't tell the nostalgiafags that.
they think the 90s weren't rife with otaku culture and pandering
This is somehow worse for my sanity than Welcome to the NHK.
>It's depressing.
What, why?
If nothing has changed how is that wrong?
Societal stagnation isn't exactly entertaining, user.
Considering the distopic horror that are modern societies I don't think something remaining more or less unchanged can be bad at all.
We should be experiencing great innovations. But we aren't.
The fact that escapism is becoming more and more popular, and apparently have been for a good 30+ years, is horrifying.
That means we keep having good escapism so we don't get crushed by awful reality, how is that bad again?
Wait, is it you Marche?
What about changing reality for the better? Did we all just give up on that?
It'd be better if we had a less awful reality so we wouldn't need the escapism, for a start.
Yeah, like in high school already?
Actually, this is our reality, manga, anime, videogames and glorious porn, we have made it ourselves, decades ago poor bastards like us had to fap with only with their imagination.
>We should be experiencing great innovations. But we aren't.
We do kind of experience innovations, but it's generally ways of more efficiently pandering to base desires of the fandom rather than anything more worthwhile.
escapism has always been popular. One could say humans need wish fulfillment in their lives.
History ended on 26 December 1991 after all.
Where else to go now?
I dread to consider what normies use to get through the day. Actually, I do know; drugs, alcohol, and reality TV full of idiots so they can feel better about themselves.
Hence why I said 'great innovations'. I don't consider more efficient ways of streaming pornography to be great.
Heck, the latest thing to really shock the noosphere was the ability to render the faces of celebrities onto porn videos.
almost anything "entertaining" is pure escapism
what's not, and how would anime be like that consistently
give it to Yea Forums to think this shit isn't bottom of the barrel human culture
Hence why 'hide your powerlevel' has been Yea Forums rule #1 since 2003.
Hell.
Some behavioral patterns haven't changed since cave times. Who knows, maybe VR/AR will give everyone opportunity to live in their perfect world without the need to integrate with reality. From online clashes of ideologies lately we might as well learn that it's impossible to share the same reality when different cultures view the same things very differently. And many people strive to create their own safe haven filled with things they like, otaku or not.
I'm the one who told you to watch it and it wasn't a recommendation, I was proving to you that you're a fucking faggot and your thread was retarded.
Now kill yourself.
'Otaku' basically means 'nerd' in the traditional sense, that someone is obsessed with a certain topic. But since anime has been the main topic for a majority of otaku, it's become synonymous with anime nerd.
But we're never gonna get peace on earth unless everyone can live out their fantasies in VR.
Why'd you watch a DVD rip when it has a subbed BD release?
>told you to watch it
>wasn't a recommendation
Smaller DL
Do you live in the third world?
Are you ESL? Do you not understand the nuances of the English language?
Feels like it at times.