/ot/ - Off-Topic

>>2720
Based Kumiko Suekane and Shu Takumi for giving us what we want.

>>2717
I think some authors do it for the money. They notice how many fujo fans they have and want to cash in on it but don't want to lose their straight male audience either so they don't want to make any pairing canon.
I also think that some authors find their fujo fans amusing because of some form of homophobia. They don't think a relationship between two men can be as serious or deep as a het relationship so they make jokes like "oh yeah they are fucking but jk they actually are not".
There are some authors where I suspect/tinfoil that they are in the closet. Example Himaruya Hidekazu. He prefer drawing men over women, the way he draw men is more similar to the way gay men draw than the way straight men draw. I think he is aware that his audience is 99.9% fujos but he doesn't seem to mind and hasn't really attempted to appeal to men later in his career. Which is ironic bc the early webcomics where meant to appeal to a 4chanish crowd Hima is also known for being extremely private and we know nothing about his personal life so him being gay isn't unlikely. Anyway I'm getting off track, what I mean is that I think that some male authors are either gay or bi but don't feel like being public about it which may reflect in their work

>>2072
One of the GuzmaxNanu posters here, the best one was when people shared vocaroos in a thread and the angry shotafags who'd been trying to oust all adult male characters during SwSh suddenly started asking if people were single because WOWOWOW WOMAN VOICE???!?!? One of those guys later made a discord server and started advertising for women to join it so he could ask for feet pics which we found out cuz an unhinged yumejo with rape fantasies actually went in there and flirted with him to make blackmail material. Fat lot of good her "trolling" did as we lost both the /cm/ and /vp/ threads to shota and furry spam for months.

why are all the hot fictional men gay

>>2693
Being gay blesses the day.
Most anime boys work on that principle, if they don't 90% of the time they have a boring female love interest that only exists to be the motivation for them.

>>2693
Men want to claim all of the cute non-wurstie boys for themselves because they’re dog brained rape-apes. It doesn’t matter if they’re straight, they think they’ve made a point against women by declaring that they own the cuties. Similar to how dogs will start pissing on their stuffed toys when you have more than one pooch. Little do they know it entertains us even more, unlike real life faggots who are a nuisance at best.

>>2684
I don't want kids but I have a sister who's a decade younger and I always helped raising her. I'll never share that shit with her because she's a turbo normie and a homophobe. Once she complained because she found art of Zoro/Sanji and wouldn't stop calling the artists degenerates. You get the idea.

>>2695
Tell her to come out the closet

>>2696
No need for that, she's already married to Boa Hancock in the astral plan or whoever the fuck she is, I don't know shit about One Piece.

>>2330
It's very fun especially if you haven't played splatoon 2 before, you won't regret it there's alot of content in it, storymode is very nice and theres alot of online multiplayer modes

>>2330
Very worth it! I’ve been playing Splatoon since the first game, and 3 is hands down the best one in the series.
Add me on Switch, fujos! SW-0079-4590-1522

>>2586
sent

/a/ in general is a shell of its former self. Even the weekly scanlator threads that have been around since time immemorial fall victim of autosage now, because god forbid the hands that feed you wanna ask each other their opinions on fonts or phrasing or whatever so we can give people a half decent product even though we do it for free. no, gotta make room for generic shounen/isekai general #243657478.

>>2372
We know the real reason some generals are allowed and productive ones are not is because the normalfag mods post in them. The drawthreads barely hang onto existence because one of the guys requesting his waifu is a mod. The general rule doesn't even make sense for currently airing/serialised series because at least they have content to prevent becoming blogshit. I have no explanations for the state of isekai general though, have you seen that shit? Those fucks just spam out of context comments with images attached as though anyone even knows wtf they're talking about. Every now and then I'll see an OP that sounds interesting but it's isekai general so of course they don't name or discuss the series at all. It's like they proudly copypaste their reddit and MAL posts just to… show people? And if you try making a thread for a show like Ixion Saga they turn up going "hurrdurr is this the thread? Is it the thread?" and commence spamming their disjointed bullshit that isn't even a manga or anime yet.

>>2420
>one of the guys requesting his waifu is a mod
Always wondered if this is really true? Which waifufag is it

>Have you ever been active in the same fandom for several years or do you tend to lose interests quickly?
I usually stay in the fandom for multiple years before moving into something new. It's usually because the franchise itself starts to stagnate and there's not a lot left to explore. I still stay interested and never lose my "love" for it but it kinda takes a back seat to new things.
>Do you participate in several fandoms at the same time or do you prefer to devout yourself to 1-2 fandoms at the time?
I participate in multiple fandoms but often have one "main" fandom with multiple smaller ones.
>Do you find it weird when people stay in the same fandom for years? Do you think they are weird/obsessive and not willing to try new stuff?
In some extreme cases, sometimes the people obsessing after Sonic or some other kid-friendly franchise for 2 decades in a row without trying anything more challenging kind of make me raise my eyebrows but then again I don't really care unless they're obnoxious about it.
>Do you judge people for changing fandom often? Do you think those people as clout chasers?
Sort of, yes. If your fandom changes every 6 months when you change literally everything starting from your handle, profile pic to your merchandise collection to reflect your new obsession while removing all traces of your previous fandom it comes across as dishonest, insecure and clout chasing for sure.

>>2161
>I used to not be judgy, but then too many artists I used to follow got into vtubers.
Don't get me started anon, I've muted and filtered so many people because of this. I used to follow them for fandom artwork yet they either became fulltime vtuber simps or vtubers themselves. What is it about the vtuber brainrot that ruins things so thoroughly?

>Have you ever been active in the same fandom for several years or do you tend to lose interests quickly?
I usually jump on and off between fandoms, lurking every 3-6 months for most of them. If not I return after a few years.
>Do you participate in several fandoms at the same time or do you prefer to devout yourself to 1-2 fandoms at the time?
Several although there is still "main" fandoms, and others are more casual.
>Do you find it weird when people stay in the same fandom for years? Do you think they are weird/obsessive and not willing to try new stuff?
Not really, I love the dedication of those people and those are the ones keeping the fandom alive.
>Do you judge people for changing fandom often? Do you think those people as clout chasers?
Hypocritical of me but yeah, if they have big following I tend to judge them if they never return or talk about it again, pretending they were never in that fandom especially if they delete their older work or were never that deep into the fandom in first place (like just consooming the memes and never the actual work…)

>>2240
Comparing the style to alegria is spot on. That’s how I feel about a lot of modern anime art. So flat and boring and safe. I have stayed away from the Sekai fandom so this is the first time I’ve heard of any of this. That sounds so insufferable. And I agree, the vibe I get too is that the Vocaloids are just kind of “there” as a funny quirky side show. The aren’t being respected in the way they should be.

>>2247
Honestly most modern anime feels like it wants to be Kyoani without incorporating any of the passion or life that studio is know for. While I think there is a slow push for more cartoon-y, Imaishi-inspired work, we still have a long way to go before we shake the souless cutesy style.

>>2242
Vocaloid fandom's one of those ones where fanon overtakes canon - so the fanon of Kaito being an adult is treated as canon kek. I think he's an adult too but it's stupid for people to get mad at kaimiku because ~muh pedophilia~ even though Kaito will never have a canon age. And they're not real anyway.

I just want Project Sekai to shut down and for all the newfag vocaloid fans that come from it to fuck off

>>2181
>plenty of problematic themes.
People who go after creators for "problematic" content are fucking losers. The only time it ever does anything is when the creator themselves caves to the horde (like the author of "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter"). HBO isn't cancelling the new Game of Thrones show because thousands of people on Twitter are upset about the rape/incest.

The only "real" reason you should delete a fanfic is if you plan to dovetail bits of it or file off the serial numbers like 50 Shades.

That being said, it's understandable if you want to save future you the trouble and at least abandon the handle. How outrage snowballs is impossible to predict these days.

>I'll have to look into her old work in fandom, sounds interesting and I'm surprised she's so open about it.
It's less that she was open about it and more somebody dug it up trying to stir up some trouble. Naturally it went nowhere. Natasha Allegri also did shippy fanart before getting her own shit.

>>2171
OP I sort of used to have an audience for my art. I understand you. Really. I ran away and left my account abandonned. My art is still out there but I simply abandonned everything because of tsort of the same feelings as you described. So much guilt and disgust too. I couldn't even have the time to delete everything because of how panicked I was. I couldn't entertain an audience. It went from a small group of friends to a big number of people. It felt like my art was constantly tested and it felt like i had to draw for others to keep them entertained. As if you have to upload youtube videos every week to keep your viewers coming (that's the only comparision i could find). I guess you keep creating and creating but the burn out is insane and you end up creating for others and not yourself.
The worst for me was that I have created art that is problematic. The changing times have showed me how harsh problematic artists get it. Some of my art has caused a bit of drama too. I couldn't handle all that "internet responsibility".
In the end I couldn't handle it, i just abandonend everything. Stopped posting and I know some people wonder where I went and I honestly hope they all forget about me. Now I only feel comfortable posting my art in an anonymous context because at least that way I am forgettable and people only save my art is they genuinely like it.
I don't know if its the right thing to do. It has caused me to be extremely anxious about ever posting my art online again under any screenname and be much more critical of myself (which sometimes erases the fun). I reallly do hope that if you do move on this won't happen to you. If you do move out maybe don't do it in a traumatic way like I did, maybe that would help ease the process.

With fandom, if it's not making you happy then there's no point in doing it.

You should be writing for yourself and writing things that make you happy, and if that's no longer anime fics that's fine. Fans will move on and find other authors to follow.

Same could go for harem MCs

>>2090
>>2089
someone pointed on LC that all these dudes are made to resemble the typical Japanese young man — black hair, dark eyes, light skin tone and a modest body frame—a sort of Japanese John Everyman, a blank slate that any down-and-out 20 something can project himself onto.

>>2148
yeah i figured tbh, cuz it's so common it just cant be a coincidence

>>1875
>never had a real job, never have had sex, never have had an IRL boyfriend/girlfriend and I live a NEET life

based me too, i am mid 20s. only i feel like a fraud when i try to write fics about characters doing literally anything kek

>>2124
>>1875
How do you two support yourselves then ?

>>1541
At least they're happy. You're much worse than them, because you're a bitter bitch and you should go back to lolcow.