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It's not because Sailor Moon is underrated or anything, it's because it barely gets fuckin' talked about these days. The average person is far more likely to identify Sailor Moon than pretty much any other anime character still, but finding someone to actually hold a conversation with on the topic of Sailor Moon is going to be fucking difficult in the current environment.

And guess what? This is the case for a metric fuckton of stuff, because the current discussion environment in the anime community is so overwhelmingly geared towards what's currently airing that it's hard to find people to talk about non-seasonal anime with in *general* in most places you look. Licensors like Crunchyroll advertise the new, hype shit that's currently airing and build an interest train in that for western audiences in order to try to pull more and more people to their platform and therefore increase their overhead. In turn, pirate sites try to get more clicks and attention and therefore more shady ad revenue by piggy backing off of the official marketing hype and interest trains and giving those special attention on their own platforms, i.e. front of the line placement. You pull up 9anime or something, and what do you find? Recently updated anime or currently airing anime or whatever they call it, right there as the first thing you'll see. And when these two elements combine, it's what people are talking about. People come in looking for new shit to watch, and what are they going to find by looking? The shit that's fucking plastered everywhere.

Side effect of all of this? Non-seasonal discussion is fucking dying. It's hard to find people to talk about these things with these days, and even just a few years ago it wasn't especially difficult compared to now.

You wanna find people to talk about Sailor Moon with? Good luck. I mean it. But it's not because Sailor Moon is underappreciated, it's because seasonal anime fanculture has fucking devoured everything else, and Sailor Moon happens to be included in that.

People used to call me the worst kind of weeb in this thread back in the day for disliking the influence and growth of anime in the west and wanting to support the fansubbing scene, and since then, finding people to talk about non-seasonal anime with has dwindled fucking *greatly.* Community interaction and discussion is dictated by topical relevance rather than personal interest and investment. You know what's not very topical in 2021? Sailor fucking Moon. And that's all that matters, marketing hype machines and whether or not you can easily and readily find people to talk about what you're watching with, even if you yourself probably couldn't give less of a shit about the show itself. Just like all of those seasonals people were talking about constantly when I came back to this thread and have promptly dropped off of the face of the earth because they are no longer relevant.

Anime discussion isn't dead, it's just a soulless husk. I find this very depressing.

It's not because Sailor Moon is underrated or anything, it's because it barely gets fuckin' talked about these days. The average person is far more likely to identify Sailor Moon than pretty much any other anime character still, but finding someone to actually hold a conversation with on the topic of Sailor Moon is going to be fucking difficult in the current environment.

And guess what? This is the case for a metric fuckton of stuff, because the current discussion environment in the anime community is so overwhelmingly geared towards what's currently airing that it's hard to find people to talk about non-seasonal anime with in *general* in most places you look. Licensors like Crunchyroll advertise the new, hype shit that's currently airing and build an interest train in that for western audiences in order to try to pull more and more people to their platform and therefore increase their overhead. In turn, pirate sites try to get more clicks and attention and therefore more shady ad revenue by piggy backing off of the official marketing hype and interest trains and giving those special attention on their own platforms, i.e. front of the line placement. You pull up 9anime or something, and what do you find? Recently updated anime or currently airing anime or whatever they call it, right there as the first thing you'll see. And when these two elements combine, it's what people are talking about. People come in looking for new shit to watch, and what are they going to find by looking? The shit that's fucking plastered everywhere.

Side effect of all of this? Non-seasonal discussion is fucking dying. It's hard to find people to talk about these things with these days, and even just a few years ago it wasn't especially difficult compared to now.

You wanna find people to talk about Sailor Moon with? Good luck. I mean it. But it's not because Sailor Moon is underappreciated, it's because seasonal anime fanculture has fucking devoured everything else, and Sailor Moon happens to be included in that.

People used to call me the worst kind of weeb in this thread back in the day for disliking the influence and growth of anime in the west and wanting to support the fansubbing scene, and since then, finding people to talk about non-seasonal anime with has dwindled fucking *greatly.* Community interaction and discussion is dictated by topical relevance rather than personal interest and investment. You know what's not very topical in 2021? Sailor fucking Moon. And that's all that matters, marketing hype machines and whether or not you can easily and readily find people to talk about what you're watching with, even if you yourself probably couldn't give less of a shit about the show itself. Just like all of those seasonals people were talking about constantly when I came back to this thread and have promptly dropped off of the face of the earth because they are no longer relevant.

Anime discussion isn't dead, it's just a soulless husk. I find this very depressing.

It's not because Sailor Moon is underrated or anything, it's because it barely gets fuckin' talked about these days. The average person is far more likely to identify Sailor Moon than pretty much any other anime character still, but finding someone to actually hold a conversation with on the topic of Sailor Moon is going to be fucking difficult in the current environment.

And guess what? This is the case for a metric fuckton of stuff, because the current discussion environment in the anime community is so overwhelmingly geared towards what's currently airing that it's hard to find people to talk about non-seasonal anime with in *general* in most places you look. Licensors like Crunchyroll advertise the new, hype shit that's currently airing and build an interest train in that for western audiences in order to try to pull more and more people to their platform and therefore increase their overhead. In turn, pirate sites try to get more clicks and attention and therefore more shady ad revenue by piggy backing off of the official marketing hype and interest trains and giving those special attention on their own platforms, i.e. front of the line placement. You pull up 9anime or something, and what do you find? Recently updated anime or currently airing anime or whatever they call it, right there as the first thing you'll see. And when these two elements combine, it's what people are talking about. People come in looking for new shit to watch, and what are they going to find by looking? The shit that's fucking plastered everywhere.

Side effect of all of this? Non-seasonal discussion is fucking dying. It's hard to find people to talk about these things with these days, and even just a few years ago it wasn't especially difficult compared to now.

You wanna find people to talk about Sailor Moon with? Good luck. I mean it. But it's not because Sailor Moon is underappreciated, it's because seasonal anime fanculture has fucking devoured everything else, and Sailor Moon happens to be included in that.

People used to call me the worst kind of weeb in this thread back in the day for disliking the influence and growth of anime in the west and wanting to support the fansubbing scene, and since then, finding people to talk about non-seasonal anime with has dwindled fucking *greatly.* Community interaction and discussion is dictated by topical relevance rather than personal interest and investment. You know what's not very topical in 2021? Sailor fucking Moon. And that's all that matters, marketing hype machines and whether or not you can easily and readily find people to talk about what you're watching with, even if you yourself probably couldn't give less of a shit about the show itself. Just like all of those seasonals people were talking about constantly when I came back to this thread and have promptly dropped off of the face of the earth because they are no longer relevant.

Anime discussion isn't dead, it's just a soulless husk.

It's not because Sailor Moon is underrated or anything, it's because it barely gets fuckin' talked about these days. The average person is far more likely to identify Sailor Moon than pretty much any other anime character still, but finding someone to actually hold a conversation with on the topic of Sailor Moon is going to be fucking difficult in the current environment.

And guess what? This is the case for a metric fuckton of stuff, because the current discussion environment in the anime community is so overwhelmingly geared towards what's currently airing that it's hard to find people to talk about non-seasonal anime with in *general* in most places you look. Licensors like Crunchyroll advertise the new, hype shit that's currently airing and build an interest train in that for western audiences in order to try to pull more and more people to their platform and therefore increase their overhead. In turn, pirate sites try to get more clicks and attention and therefore more shady ad revenue by piggy backing off of the official marketing hype and interest trains and giving those special attention on their own platforms, i.e. front of the line placement. You pull up 9anime or something, and what do you find? Recently updated anime or currently airing anime or whatever they call it, right there as the first thing you'll see. And when these two elements combine, it's what people are talking about. People come in looking for new shit to watch, and what are they going to find by looking? The shit that's fucking plastered everywhere.

Side effect of all of this? Non-seasonal discussion is fucking dying. It's hard to find people to talk about these things with these days, and even just a few years ago it wasn't especially difficult compared to now.

You wanna find people to talk about Sailor Moon with? Good luck. I mean it. But it's not because Sailor Moon is underappreciated, it's because seasonal anime fanculture has fucking devoured everything else, and Sailor Moon happens to be included in that.

People used to call me the worst kind of weeb in this thread back in the day for disliking the influence and growth of anime in the west and wanting to support the fansubbing scene, and since then, finding people to talk about non-seasonal anime with has dwindled fucking *greatly.* Community interaction and discussion is dictated by topical relevance rather than personal interest and investment. You know what's not very topical in 2021? Sailor fucking Moon. And that's all that matters, marketing hype machines and whether or not you can easily and readily find people to talk about what you're watching with, even if you yourself probably couldn't give less of a shit about the show itself. Just like all of those seasonals people were talking about when I came back to this thread and have promptly dropped off of the face of the earth because they are no longer relevant.

It's not because Sailor Moon is underrated or anything, it's because it barely gets fuckin' talked about these days. The average person is far more likely to identify Sailor Moon than pretty much any other anime character still, but finding someone to actually hold a conversation with on the topic of Sailor Moon is going to be fucking difficult in the current environment.

And guess what? This is the case for a metric fuckton of stuff, because the current discussion environment in the anime community is so overwhelmingly geared towards what's currently airing that it's hard to find people to talk about non-seasonal anime with in *general* in most places you look. Licensors like Crunchyroll advertise the new, hype shit that's currently airing and build an interest train in that for western audiences in order to try to pull more and more people to their platform and therefore increase their overhead. In turn, pirate sites try to get more clicks and attention and therefore more shady ad revenue by piggy backing off of the official marketing hype and interest trains and giving those special attention on their own platforms, i.e. front of the line placement. You pull up 9anime or something, and what do you find? Recently updated anime or currently airing anime or whatever they call it, right there as the first thing you'll see. And when these two elements combine, it's what people are talking about. People come in looking for new shit to watch, and what are they going to find by looking? The shit that's fucking plastered everywhere.

Side effect of all of this? Non-seasonal discussion is fucking dying. It's hard to find people to talk about these things with these days, and even just a few years ago it wasn't especially difficult compared to now.

You wanna find people to talk about Sailor Moon with? Good luck. I mean it. But it's not because Sailor Moon is underappreciated, it's because seasonal anime fanculture has fucking devoured everything else, and Sailor Moon happens to be included in that.

People used to call me the worst kind of weeb in this thread back in the day for disliking the influence and growth of anime in the west and wanting to support the fansubbing scene, and since then, finding people to talk about non-seasonal anime with has dwindled fucking *greatly.* Community interaction and discussion is dictated by topical relevance rather than personal interest and investment. You know what's not very topical in 2021? Sailor fucking Moon. And that's all that matters, marketing hype machines and whether or not you can easily and readily find people to talk about what you're watching with, even if you yourself probably couldn't give less of a shit about the show itself.

It's not because Sailor Moon is underrated or anything, it's because it barely gets fuckin' talked about these days. The average person is far more likely to identify Sailor Moon than pretty much any other anime character still, but finding someone to actually hold a conversation with on the topic of Sailor Moon is going to be fucking difficult in the current environment.

And guess what? This is the case for a metric fuckton of stuff, because the current discussion environment in the anime community is so overwhelmingly geared towards what's currently airing that it's hard to find people to talk about non-seasonal anime with in *general* in most places you look. Licensors like Crunchyroll advertise the new, hype shit that's currently airing and build an interest train in that for western audiences in order to try to pull more and more people to their platform and therefore increase their overhead. In turn, pirate sites try to get more clicks and attention and therefore more shady ad revenue by piggy backing off of the official marketing hype and interest trains and giving those special attention on their own platforms, i.e. front of the line placement. You pull up 9anime or something, and what do you find? Recently updated anime or currently airing anime or whatever they call it, right there as the first thing you'll see. And when these two elements combine, it's what people are talking about. People come in looking for new shit to watch, and what are they going to find by looking? The shit that's fucking plastered everywhere.

Side effect of all of this? Non-seasonal discussion is fucking dying. It's hard to find people to talk about these things with these days, and even just a few years ago it wasn't especially difficult compared to now.

You wanna find people to talk about Sailor Moon with? Good luck. I mean it. But it's not because Sailor Moon is underappreciated, it's because seasonal anime fanculture has fucking devoured everything else, and Sailor Moon happens to be included in that.

It's not because Sailor Moon is underrated or anything, it's because it barely gets fuckin' talked about these days. The average person is far more likely to identify Sailor Moon than pretty much any other anime character still, but finding someone to actually hold a conversation with on the topic of Sailor Moon is going to be fucking difficult in the current environment.

And guess what? This is the case for a metric fuckton of stuff, because the current discussion environment in the anime community is so overwhelmingly geared towards what's currently airing that it's hard to find people to talk about non-seasonal anime with in *general* in most places you look. Licensors like Crunchyroll advertise the new, hype shit that's currently airing and build an interest train in that for western audiences in order to try to pull more and more people to their platform and therefore increase their overhead. In turn, pirate sites try to get more clicks and attention and therefore more shady ad revenue by piggy backing off of the official marketing hype and interest trains and giving those special attention on their own platforms, i.e. front of the line placement. And when these two elements combine, it's what people are talking about. People come in looking for new shit to watch, and what are they going to find by looking? The shit that's fucking plastered everywhere.

Side effect of all of this? Non-seasonal discussion is fucking dying. It's hard to find people to talk about these things with these days, and even just a few years ago it wasn't especially difficult compared to now.

You wanna find people to talk about Sailor Moon with? Good luck. I mean it. But it's not because Sailor Moon is underappreciated, it's because seasonal anime fanculture has fucking devoured everything else, and Sailor Moon happens to be included in that.