>>13207>and uhm. I have less disposable income than I thought I did.This is cute lmao. When I was young I was paying $30 for a VHS with 3 (sometimes 4!) episodes per tape so when piracy is concerned I feel like anime got its pound of flesh out of me a long time ago. These days I try to meet it in the middle if the option is available by checking out manga through the Libby (library app) instead of pirating it.
I think being in fandom for so long has kind of twisted my mind to think of BL as 100% gift economy type stuff when in fact original BL is a product that is malleable by demand, so I feel a little guilty that my first reaction to "you should buy BL to support it" is to recoil lol.
>>12993There's also a bit of this mixed into my logic. JP creators get their bag with JP fans. Overseas success is incidental.