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There's a thread going around about how being an anime fan was "better" in the time when we got maybe 20 anime VHS released a year officially & we had to find fansubs for anything else...and as someone who lived through those times, I'm here to tell you: that's a load of BS.
Sure, I often talk about being nostalgic (lol) for anime from that era, but MAN O MAN I sure don't miss having to send money to complete strangers via snail mail & pray that a. it doesn't get lost and b. the person isn't a scammer who'll just take my money & run.
I also don't miss having to be polite to creeps & jerks just because they're the only local people who also like anime. And the gatekeepy folks that would tell me my taste in everything sucked, I wasn't a "true otaku" for whatever arbitrary reasons they invented, etc etc.
This is sadly still a problem sometimes, but thankfully now that access to anime isn't something you have to jump through a million damn hoops for, a lot more great & awesome people have become fans & we can all talk to them instead.
I never said I had a terrible time being an anime fan??? Obviously even with all the hoops I had to jump through, the cost, and the time it took to get things, I still enjoyed being an anime fan. Otherwise why would I have continued?! 😂
OK I gotta mute this for now because my notifications are a mess lol but I've been enjoying reading all the replies ♡
