tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64696360207591570432024-03-18T23:12:35.339-04:00The Angry OtakuOriginally a companion blog to <a href="http://www.AnimePodcast.net">AnimePodcast.net</a>, now commentary, opinions, and more or less general angry thoughts about anime and Japanese pop-culture fandom in general.The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-87598556978292628732021-06-03T19:44:00.040-04:002021-08-21T20:50:39.595-04:00Exploiting the Unexploitable: Multinational Anti-anime policy, in the Public and Private Sectors.<p><span style="font-size: large;">A Moral Panic from the generation that isn't supposed to have Moral Panics:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz2_aE-aD92-V89h_1pKmvz5UqOeNKMAUiLgV3D1ykohriRubnNIyDV5hk1stz6AagkHbXv6Ac4IWMUPKU8QnKpWGMVyjowLhdXvB9AVQ1KowE8VmYE4ICdHJ4ZV4oIJ2wvkLfyMadjt5o/s820/miku+gun.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="820" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz2_aE-aD92-V89h_1pKmvz5UqOeNKMAUiLgV3D1ykohriRubnNIyDV5hk1stz6AagkHbXv6Ac4IWMUPKU8QnKpWGMVyjowLhdXvB9AVQ1KowE8VmYE4ICdHJ4ZV4oIJ2wvkLfyMadjt5o/s320/miku+gun.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't fuck with her sales volume... she doesn't like it. <br /></div><div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"> Contains mild potentially NSFW images. No nudity.<br /></p><p><br />In a number of seemingly sudden developments across online retailers, payment services, and content streaming platforms, anime and manga have once again become a target of socially conservative scorn, hatred, and calls for prohibition. This time however, the calls (well, some of them) are coming from <i>inside-the-house</i> as well. Fans are having reactionary meltdowns over a portrayal of something that is not explicitly defined, and believing that in lacking such explicit definitions of "acceptable" it is therefore de-facto "unacceptable." Rarely is such reasoning sound, and rarely does the reality of things bear such arguments out as valid, yet they continue to be emphatically vocalized. We will most assuredly be covering this entire mess. <br /><br />It is important to note (because I'm special!), that this particular outlet has <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2010/07/galapagos-effect-in-my-manga-its-more.html">regularly mentioned for over a decade</a>, the dangers of a <i>Galapagos Effect</i> between anime + manga, and the international audiences which find them appealing to the point where such Intellectual Properties are monetizable licenses. People want it, they buy it. When socio-cultural sensibilities and overall tastes shift away from such congruence, the international market for such things constricts and shrinks, people don't want it, they don't buy it. So there can be a point where something with a popular market, ceases to be viable at all, and no longer in-demand. Since the 2009 case of <a href="https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/panhandle-boy-in-home-for-extensive-therapy-after-reading-manga-6557140">Margret Barbaree losing her shit in Florida</a> oh many years ago, to the Canadian Crown Prosecution of both <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2011/07/oh-canada-canadian-authorities-charge.html">Ryan Matheson</a> and Eli Langer (cases are unrelated to each other) -- all the way up to recent events such as the New Zealand banning of <i>Puni Puni Poemi </i>and <i>High School DXD</i>, and <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/australian-seator-wants-government-to.html">Australian Senator Stirling Griff</a> managing to <a href="https://www.ladbible.com/news/latest-australia-bans-importing-japanese-hentai-and-adult-anime-products-20201022">ban pretty much everything</a> anime/manga/game going to the country of Fire Kuala Spider Island Colony (aka Australia), and Amazon and eBay <a href="https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/03/05/amazon-removes-various-anime-figures-including-hatsune-miku-and-kaito-tenshi-twin-angel-from-storefront-claiming-items-promote-child-exploitation/">not allowing the sale of things like Hatsune Miku </a>or Yaoi manga, anime, games, collectables, and other works are now targeted by both public and private sector forces capable of gargantuan exertions of power over millions of people. <br /><br /></p><p><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">So What's Going On?</span></u></b><br />In March 2020, Amazon <a href="https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/03/05/amazon-removes-various-anime-figures-including-hatsune-miku-and-kaito-tenshi-twin-angel-from-storefront-claiming-items-promote-child-exploitation/">started taking down any listing of Hatsune Miku</a> figures. This bazillion dollar property was all of a sudden the target of allegations that the design of Hatsune Miku somehow was sexual child exploitation. ...yeah. This seems to have been the final crack in the dam of reason, holding back conservative anti-anime sentiments that had finally been silenced in the late 1990s, with the acceptance of many titles, and a boomer-culture that had wondered off to go fight against marriage equality. But that dam has been targeted once again, and has now broken to release the puritanical anti sexy-time crowd to influence the environment, the market, and the industry itself. Large retailers like eBay and Amazon have increasingly denied access on their platform to a disproportionately large amount of content and merchandise, from hentai doujinshi, to <a href="https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/03/23/amazon-crackdown-on-anime-figures-returns-targeted-items-include-one-pieces-nico-robin-and-lucky-stars-konata-izummi/"><i>One Piece </i>figures</a>, in the name of "protecting children." Yeah, where have we heard <a href="https://historysdumpster.blogspot.com/2014/07/anti-rock-music-hysteria.html">that one before</a>, and <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-1980s-media-panic-over-dungeons-dragons">that time too</a>... oh lets not forget the time when "the children" was an excuse to oppose interracial marriage. <br /><br />So the reason for this new prohibition, is that these items are forms of "child exploitation" and will not be sold. It has been covered previously that a <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2009/05/paris-is-burning.html">drawing of a thing is not actually proof of that thing actually happening</a>, and a bit more on that later, but the fact that Amazon of all places, is removing statues of fictional characters which are described to be robots, because of a maybe-standard that only applies in select jurisdictions around the world. <br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbFBkDfmevA5Bf4jzxhyRyFfs5SVuVjACBMY4ySy3xJMGl5fpJIM8wK8q1p4UgbdoZBDPTRIkhPJCqDelGPpbsbcWBASAWQbb5XXs2w5Q3DuGJuL_tAqNXJdSBJ4-F5cOhq-4h0NwPp-Yv/s1203/not+exploitation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="1203" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbFBkDfmevA5Bf4jzxhyRyFfs5SVuVjACBMY4ySy3xJMGl5fpJIM8wK8q1p4UgbdoZBDPTRIkhPJCqDelGPpbsbcWBASAWQbb5XXs2w5Q3DuGJuL_tAqNXJdSBJ4-F5cOhq-4h0NwPp-Yv/w640-h414/not+exploitation.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Amazon has made so much money from the exploitation and harm of children, that a bald divorced man in a midlife crisis is trying to build a vacation home on Mars before an apartheid money trust-fund baby beats him to it.<br /><br />eBay, the old charmer, has gone from the anything-goes days of 1997, to suspending accounts for Hentai doujin many many years ago, then back to allowing that kind of thing, now back to prohibiting it. Again, it comes from pressure out of certain jurisdictions regarding "adult material" and the depictions thereof. While <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandscience/ebays-adult-item-ban-isnt-coming-to-australia/ar-BB1gO9yP">Gizmodo reports</a> that this ban "<i>does not effect Australia</i>" such a statement is a bit misleading; in that this content was already thoroughly banned by Australian law when this new corporate policy went into effect, so ...yeah no changes in Australia. But what goes for Australia now goes for the world because eBay doesn't want any of its employees in Sydney to get arrested for trafficking child porn as cartoons or some nonsense. Again, back to an earlier point I was making, when these properties are treated as criminal in one English Speaking jurisdiction, it <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/search/label/australia">actually devalues any potential license for any English speaking region</a>, even where such a property violates no laws. Rather than map out that mine-field, it's cheaper to just do things the most socially conservative way knowing that there is no room for error if you follow that road. These companies are publicly traded and so they're going to minimize costs at the expense of long term viability every single time (aka the Jack Welch method). So we can still blame Australia for this one, and lets not forget this is the same country that tried to <a href="https://theweek.com/articles/497091/australias-small-breast-ban">ban all porn featuring any women with small breasts</a> because it apparently was too close to an undeveloped human child in appearance...? Sorry a-cup, no nekkid time for you! We can throw a little Canada in there too since "drawn porn" gets treated the same as real photographic porn. <br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmdNNEhyphenhyphenSCsBdxumQYuqTx4cBuKm3rOjhkObYmeO4y90q7LbVCfJ3tVSvkjIELnymNJdIpqDuQ9VH0W7yXrGxFZhyphenhyphenW7dFlKRGhAFXHBLe359rn3FizEmLlvk_XPfQ2CBewJ4YEezYZv592/s894/ebay+news.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="672" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmdNNEhyphenhyphenSCsBdxumQYuqTx4cBuKm3rOjhkObYmeO4y90q7LbVCfJ3tVSvkjIELnymNJdIpqDuQ9VH0W7yXrGxFZhyphenhyphenW7dFlKRGhAFXHBLe359rn3FizEmLlvk_XPfQ2CBewJ4YEezYZv592/w482-h640/ebay+news.JPG" width="482" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Better to error on the side of the least amount of work. <br />So say the Shareholders, so say we all.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br />It isn't only retailers. merchant account banking and financial transaction companies are deciding the if you still want to buy that stuff, you won't be using their private sector methods of transferring fiat currency to do it, even though there is often zero alternative in many cases. PayPal, Maestro, Citi, Visa, (Patreon and even Venmo) are all considering the cost of monitoring transactions for which laws they may break in which jurisdictions and saying "fuck it" by picking the strictest standard and just adhering to that for everything because it's the cheapest option. This is a very close parallel to the Comstock Laws of a century ago, where a select few with powerful interests and a hatred of nudity (mostly instilled by a misogynist hatred of women), used the power they had at their control, to limit and destroy works that other citizens wanted to access. From Renaissance art, to Medical Textbooks, the Committee for Vice and Virtue went around destroying anything that offended their own specific set of sensibilities, and criminally prosecuting whoever they felt like from the Office of the Postmaster General (see, DeJoy is not DeFirst time DePostmaster has caused DeTrouble for DePeople of America). <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggUqGZMinbePlNWKdMKel-5sloHYgDrXKzk5YN3x6diO_IObIf3vuILXY7Cy32OswCI6bsEH9dDsWI2jEDO1bZDtaHsgVbmn2riI047atSVuvnkgFYIJuLIXjFyg57LiUeYbVZoWF9R8tq/s300/comstock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggUqGZMinbePlNWKdMKel-5sloHYgDrXKzk5YN3x6diO_IObIf3vuILXY7Cy32OswCI6bsEH9dDsWI2jEDO1bZDtaHsgVbmn2riI047atSVuvnkgFYIJuLIXjFyg57LiUeYbVZoWF9R8tq/s0/comstock.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Order something that I morally object to with your own money? <br /><a href="https://populartimelines.com/timeline/Comstock-laws">Not on MY watch!</a></div><p style="text-align: left;"> <br />In the USA, even <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_Act">things like FOSTA</a>, are rammed through on waves of popular support before any beta testing, and the result is something like what happens to dolphins in tuna nets. It works to stop the thing it was meant to stop, but also causes severe damage to so much else. Reductio ad absudum; it would be like if American food companies all of a sudden started following Saudi laws about what they could and could not sell as food because they have business interests there and setting up 2 sets of logistics takes money away from profits and stock values. Then before anyone can say anything -poof!- there goes bacon, beer, and penne ala vodka, giant margaritas, from every grocery store and most restaurants. No it's not <i>illegal</i> in the USA so you're <i>more than free</i> to buy your own livestock, raise it, slaughter it, and then cure your own bacon, or make your own pepperoni, so you can't <i><b>really</b></i> call it a ban, they're a private company that can act as they see fit, <i>right</i>? Yeah, the standard <i>concept vs reality</i> dodge. Actions having defacto results are still harmful even if they don't meet rigid definitions. Remember this bacon example, we'll come back to it. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgROB74H7Guq9MthWueVRAsMTqg8OTOr5YgOE6uELfPZBiKfOoeATE3sQbxJntz6FCz4guVOjEliW8rXTh-R5kmFmggs5vUkbu1W7BFzDBGn2YeprIs5ndaNkOMxQEo1IGalbQVIIWWuMMc/s534/piggy+sexy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="521" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgROB74H7Guq9MthWueVRAsMTqg8OTOr5YgOE6uELfPZBiKfOoeATE3sQbxJntz6FCz4guVOjEliW8rXTh-R5kmFmggs5vUkbu1W7BFzDBGn2YeprIs5ndaNkOMxQEo1IGalbQVIIWWuMMc/w390-h400/piggy+sexy.JPG" width="390" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">No, not like that you furry pervs. <br /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The Texas Effect</span></b><br />So with some places able to literally bring criminal actions against a company and its workers/executives should what <i>they </i>deem is legal or not, the error to make is on the side of <strike>profitability</strike> caution. This is similar to the <i>Texas Effect</i>. Ever wonder why high school textbooks in the smart states still have that retardulatastic disclaimer about evolutionary science being "just a theory" and how the American Civil War was about "states rights" and some abstract lost-cause nonsense? It's because Texas (ok there's way more to it than that but we're gonna skip it). The Texas board of Education is so large that any rule they set for textbooks (no matter how dumb) is adopted by almost every publisher out there, because publishers are for-profit companies that want to sell as many units as possible. So rather than do separate runs for each U.S. State, they do what Texas wants and other school districts can like it or go fuck themselves. Large states like California and New York can force changes by taking their business elsewhere, but if you're a small entity (hi Nebraska), you might have limited choices. Digital copies and the ease of printing have recently lessened this exact thing, but the basic mechanism is that.<br /><br />Such are those mechanics of these new developments. Very few of these companies are refusing to facilitate payments or sell products because some ancient boomer is sitting there staunchly enforcing conservative moral values while insisting that their own 3rd divorce was totally necessary. These developments are happening because that same boomer is sitting there saying <i>how can we make the most money while doing the least work</i>. And so it is, that a vocal few, in feverish zealotry have taken to the prohibition and destruction of all things manga anime, as they associate it with a medium that is exclusively for young children (mostly because of the fraudulent research of <a href="https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dr-frederick-wertham-lied-and-lied-and-lied-about-comics/">Fredric Wertham</a> and the hate-mongering of <a href="https://www.history.com/news/how-the-code-authority-kept-lgbt-characters-out-of-comics">Estes Kefauver</a>), so if children are the audience, therefore the assumption is that the characters are meant to be children as well...? Which makes no sense. The argument that because these characters have no way to explicitly define their age, so therefore the possibility exists that they are under the legal age of whatever it is in a particular jurisdiction to have a statue with their undies visible or a swimmie-suit calendar, is ridiculous, but fervently believed by those who have influence or at the very lease an obnoxious visibility. <br /><br />The result is a system of content policing meant to be applied to real people in the real world, being applied to art which involves no actual people as the subject of it. It may qualify as pornographic, but as no character can be considered to have a legally established age, because (sad as it may be for your waifu/husbando/tree) they are not sentient beings with their own agency, or legal identity.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuh7eLWd7BC7gtreiUebJrzPSCArDZ7i3YCAFvJNdX47vjv1lV_IUiXBKPOihtKpBTDgbJUE1jMh4hsRAIohg0tBARTkWPgLtcvln2qB7nH6AVs17p5d3NBDKJYkIui2K37cNZ45qIQSba/s1400/sex+stuff+0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="1400" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuh7eLWd7BC7gtreiUebJrzPSCArDZ7i3YCAFvJNdX47vjv1lV_IUiXBKPOihtKpBTDgbJUE1jMh4hsRAIohg0tBARTkWPgLtcvln2qB7nH6AVs17p5d3NBDKJYkIui2K37cNZ45qIQSba/w640-h264/sex+stuff+0.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Is this even porn, let alone <i>child exploitation</i>? You can't really see anything happening, there's mosaic pixelation, but it's implied that there is much of sex-having going on with humping and so on and so forth.</p><p style="text-align: center;">What if... Hmm, Lets add some text context which contains explicit values:</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8xQh9HTpi_aBvX4MGwPQPWvG4K25aVkA3SIzj7YGfPWYqG6akfUkaFCdGsUk-TGQXH0cYO3PFUCTY01dj8YBeP6VTTmtfFielnarCFif6sukfKCDQqGT_HOqdFWL5JImP7k_fQOp-PlVL/s1812/sex+stuff.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1812" data-original-width="1400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8xQh9HTpi_aBvX4MGwPQPWvG4K25aVkA3SIzj7YGfPWYqG6akfUkaFCdGsUk-TGQXH0cYO3PFUCTY01dj8YBeP6VTTmtfFielnarCFif6sukfKCDQqGT_HOqdFWL5JImP7k_fQOp-PlVL/w494-h640/sex+stuff.jpg" width="494" /></a> <br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">4 Dimensions: Width, Height, Depth, Time.<br /><br />Ok those words have explicit definitive value. So that makes it ok?<br />But then what if we do something like...</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcF1JQpuYbL_b4P2MeObfvVseJsy47uruPWouRpkiTmp50OpLwG83Qlw7dTovm1zu0HbbrdNKBNLBgsLf28NWglisjBRP4M9C9VQf_t8rvCTm3LDIytUFHtfjbY_vWMJdGrm-d-v6tDAT/s1400/sex+stuff+now+what.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="1400" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcF1JQpuYbL_b4P2MeObfvVseJsy47uruPWouRpkiTmp50OpLwG83Qlw7dTovm1zu0HbbrdNKBNLBgsLf28NWglisjBRP4M9C9VQf_t8rvCTm3LDIytUFHtfjbY_vWMJdGrm-d-v6tDAT/w640-h276/sex+stuff+now+what.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;">...What about now? See how stupid those lines of absolutism are when applied with blind indifference?<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Based on a true story. ...I wasn't the 22 year old. (This statement is not legal admission of me being the 16 year old either and can not be taken as such in any jurisdiction).<br /></span></p><p></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Simple Depiction is not Legally Actionable:</span><br />The above concept applies to the USA, whereas in other countries even a drawing
is treated exactly the same of actual video of such an event by the
judiciary... which is a misapplication to say the least (looking at you Canada). So many countries have different laws that if you tried to apply them all to a single way of conducting business. So if bacon, pork products, or objects made from pig leather like American Footballs, are banned in Kuwait, it's up to that jurisdiction to deal with it, and Amazon isn't going to pull such products from their site. Yet here we are with this insanity about "illegal images."<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhABZVyrmXN-54cu2n3DnvEWgZmOpR0mOzNX01ocTCu5ZK3FU1uTDBGxGSOVU9Q2_HD5clKAmsssbpoC1hS-kycJ_ZH7eCPaPAvMp5C2FAhY6YOCvYe90KCQDdQ8X45wUP_DX8v0E5enCg4/s2320/illegal+images.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2320" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhABZVyrmXN-54cu2n3DnvEWgZmOpR0mOzNX01ocTCu5ZK3FU1uTDBGxGSOVU9Q2_HD5clKAmsssbpoC1hS-kycJ_ZH7eCPaPAvMp5C2FAhY6YOCvYe90KCQDdQ8X45wUP_DX8v0E5enCg4/w206-h640/illegal+images.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><p>The possession of these images is considered criminal in many countries, including Canada, EU, Australia, anything that ends in -Stan, Russia, Thailand, India, Turkey, China, and many others... so congrats, you have them on a hard drive now and you're a criminal there.<br /><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here Comes the Hard Part</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>...</span></b></span><br />Ya take the good, ya take the bad, but you can't ignore the ugly. So to first set some definitions, there are works of drawn comic/manga art that exist which depict explicit sexual activity between children incapable of what is generally thought of as consent, and adults, children and other children, and children and animals/aliens/magical beings/inanimate objects/and sentient masses of pure energy/deviant vending machine. Loli-con does exist. They are gross icky deceptions of pedophilia sex. However, what they are not, are evidence of a crime, said crime being child exploitation, rape, or sexual abuse. Real video or photographic imagery of such a thing, <i>is evidence of an actual crime</i>, possessing, trading, selling, or otherwise proliferating it makes that person guilty of being an accessory to that crime. That's why such things are treated as criminal. But a crime can't be fictional. So for USA 1st Amendment reasons, they are protected from criminal liability. <br /><br />So the grey area manifests here. These items are fictional depictions of child exploitation, much like <i>Texas Chainsaw Massacre</i> is full of fictional depictions of murder, or Clockwork Orange is a fictional portrayal of sexual assaults. They are all equally short of the standard to be criminal in both the jurisdiction they were produced in, as well as some they may be sold in. Does that mean loli-con isn't CP? Well no, it totally is as far as taxonomy is concerned. It also however, does not meet the standard for criminal prosecution in the United States, there have already been supreme court rulings about that. It's just something that is gross. But now sets in the Moral Panic social creep effect, even within the fandom, labeling everything in which a character is not explicitly listed as having a certain age (and ages of consent being different across Interstate and International jurisdictions) means that what is considered just socially inappropriate is treated as felonious. A real 21 year old being sexually active with a real 17 year old is not illegal in the USA except for in the states of California (no exceptions for close-in-age), Florida (you wouldn't think), Oregon, Vermont, Delaware, West Virginia (cousins and livestock included), Tennessee, Arkansas, and Utah (I think Utah is actually trying to ban sex all together). That means if our hypothetical non-gender-orientation-unspecified couple cross <i>State Line Street </i>in South Fulton Tennessee, they can find a place and do all the legal fucking they want in Fulton Kentucky... but cross back and at least one (<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/21/n-c-just-prosecuted-a-teenage-couple-for-making-child-porn-of-themselves/">sometimes both</a>) can get arrested as total pedo rapist sex offenders. <br /><br />So as far as age differential goes, even <i>in the real world</i>, let alone a fictional setting of planet whatever or isekai universe B, there needs to be an acknowledgement that there is a difference between the terms "illegal" and "inappropriate." Yet too many arguments and vitriolic assaults against artists in countries around the world, claim a legality mechanism as the foundational objection, which is unsound. What would be sound would be to call it a social mechanism. And then it is inexorably weakened by the fact that being societal objection, the xenophobia and jingoism is thrown into sharp relief. You just don't like it, and think it shouldn't exist. Sorry, that's not how it works.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXSRtPvP8SL5Kr6JJPOWLAMwdUOcGm_xIQswmAWZLIMOnKWvPKU4rxduO3GKU5HUsfRYTW_GPI7C8XBFs1otu19OQcu9quuTMjtiG87pMWR15BzDv1kLzCcfa6fKet3Tvek-89sT-yE7er/s508/ashcroft+v+free+speech.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="307" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXSRtPvP8SL5Kr6JJPOWLAMwdUOcGm_xIQswmAWZLIMOnKWvPKU4rxduO3GKU5HUsfRYTW_GPI7C8XBFs1otu19OQcu9quuTMjtiG87pMWR15BzDv1kLzCcfa6fKet3Tvek-89sT-yE7er/w241-h400/ashcroft+v+free+speech.JPG" width="241" /></a></div><br /><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Where is this coming from?</span></b><br />This notion of the need to keep anyone under the age of 18 as an a-sexual being picked up momentum from the Reagan Era and the boomers. A need to continue to infantalize younger generations so that they themselves would not have to psychologically accept that they were no longer the arbiters of cool, masters of trends, or spearheads of the culture of youth. The need to arbitrarily raise the drinking age from 18 to 21 and keep that Twisted Sister music out of record stores was so necessary for them to maintain the illusionary head-canon that the 1970s were still relevant and they could continue to oppress younger generations without becoming "the man" because they pushed back the starting line of adulthood far enough to keep calling them "kids" (something that boomers continue to do to 39 year olds in the workplace today, let alone 29 year olds). Is it more than that these days? I don't see how it can be... we've got Amazon.com pulling Hatsune Miku figures from their vendors because of this. We have Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, and so on refusing to complete transactions to Patreon accounts of hentai artists because those services have decided that a customer can only spend their own money where those companies shall deem acceptable. That's literally Anti-Trust stuff there.<br /><br />But activity between two (or more) people is not what this is completely about. People are real. They are entities that exist in 4 dimensions: height, width, depth, and time. A legally registered person at the age of 1 year is so different from the same legally registered after 65 years, that the actual atoms that make them up are almost 100% not the original ones. Such is not the case for any fictional creation. Let's further narrow that down to any fictional creation that is not portrayed by a legally recognized human being with a legally recognized explicit date of birth used to determine their age. This is about characters that do not exist as entities. Drawings, paintings, digital art, sculpture, weirdly shaped steam... whatever. They have no agency. They can not respond to stimuli or initiate any action what so ever. <br /><br />Therefore, the portrayal of their; murder, drug use, consensual sex, non-consensual sex, engaging in bestiality, animal cruelty, speeding, terrorism, tax-evasion, etc; is not actual evidence of any crime having been comitted. Therefore such depictions are not criminal and should not be the subject or cause of criminal prosecution of a person. No, Hatsune Miku, Sailor Jupiter, Kagome, Inu Yasha, <span class="vanchor"><span id="Izuku_Midoriya"></span><span class="vanchor-text">Izuku Midoriya</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> are</span>n't "underage" because they are not real and have no legal birth-date. But the fact that it reminds people that there is an age of consent (varied by jurisdiction), and that child exploitation does occur and is a crime, and a good dose of racial/cultural/anti-youth bias among the Red State crowd have put anime and manga back in the cross-hairs of their "social preservation" vitriol. Don't let Beneath the Tangles fool you, this stuff is mostly straight out of the Million Mom Christian Crowd. But Otaku knew that already, there's always been the uptight fuckwad brigade that stands against all things anime and will latch on to any possible notion in order to hurt, prohibit, or destroy it.<br /><br /><br /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">But Wait, There's More:</span></b><br />Side Note:<br />I once had a girlfriend who had Kallmann syndrome (some form of it). She was years older than me, I was in undergrad, and she was getting a degree in veterinary medicine. I ended up friend-zoning her for over a year because I am really bad at taking hints, but one day she was just like; ok, this is gonna happen, and I was all like... uh... sure, whatever works. Whenever we drove, shopped, went out, or anything-ed together, I'd get looks, comments, and police called, because people thought I was a pedo. I was just the only guy she had ever met who didn't fetishize her and I treated her like my regular senpai because she was in grad school and I was in undergrad, and that's why she wanted me as a fuck-buddy. She would get furious when police would stop us and she'd whip out 4 kinds of ID that proved she was 27 and I was 21. Relationships aren't all about looks. She knew what she wanted and she got it. But some people just can't handle something like that because it reminds them that the overall concepts of pedophelia, hebephilia, and ephebophilia (aka "grooming") exist, and that bothers them. And they don't like being bothered so they appeal to authority to make their eyes not to see something that gives them zomg triggrz, and to do so at the expense of the freedom of others. <b><br /></b></p><p><b>Case in point, the trial of </b><b>Carlos Alfredo Simon-Timmerman, when US Customs and Border agents found in his possession, a copy of </b><i>Little Lupe the Innocent</i> on DVD in his possession. He was arrested, indited, and literally put on trial for being in possession of actual child pornography. The prosecution paraded "expert" after "expert" who testified in Federal Criminal Court that there was no way that Lupe Fuentes, star of the thing, was over 18, and HAD to have have been only between 13 and 14 years old. How did they know? Well they could just tell by looking at the video (over and over, these guys studied it hard). The case was clear, this total perverted guy bought a porno featuring someone under the age of 18 and so he's obviously a pedo scumbag so put him on the chomo sex offender list and all that right? Well, that's how anti-porn crusader and Federal Prosecutor Jenifer Yois Hernandez-Vega left her case... and <a href="https://reason.com/2010/05/03/porn-star-saves-man-from-incom/">then a very 23 year old Lupe Fuentes walked into the court room</a>. She called everyone an idiot and presented her age verification required to produce pornographic material under Code 18 U.S.C. Section 2257. The judge had to <i><b>order</b></i> Federal Prosecutor Jenifer Yois Hernandez-Vega to drop all charges. I can only imaging her argument against doing that was; simply "looking like" child porn should be sufficient to make it so, no matter how old the person in it actually is. She kept this guy in jail for an extra month just because she could. That mentality is now being applied to manga and other drawn representations of characters who do not exist and therefore can not be subject to 18 U.S.C. Section 2257. And the worst part is, where some of those objections are coming from is just insane...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7jh_jsCtNN3YH-scB7Pvb2S1N3O6LFc8cnC7sMoy-ZN13O4ZhHJxI3IDRojFSivDiNCPieu-RCZb3WqH8CEkJXV6_Z2jU5zCjtn-4R0UtiV7RMC-kPv4Bcz3_TR0hpCz8uK26BkGZ6XbW/s420/Lupe+Fuentes.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7jh_jsCtNN3YH-scB7Pvb2S1N3O6LFc8cnC7sMoy-ZN13O4ZhHJxI3IDRojFSivDiNCPieu-RCZb3WqH8CEkJXV6_Z2jU5zCjtn-4R0UtiV7RMC-kPv4Bcz3_TR0hpCz8uK26BkGZ6XbW/s320/Lupe+Fuentes.JPG" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Pictured: Someone who is 23, and not 13 years of age.<br /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />But Wait There's STILL More! The LGBTQ+ Issue:</span></b><br />This
hypersensitivity to ageism in sexual orientation has been a very
destructive force for a great many people from the 80s to the 90s and
beyond. Are memories so short, that it has been forgotten there was a
time when an age difference of something like 7 months was a thing used
to mercilessly persecute same-sex couples and relationships not because a
third party was worried about an age difference, but so thirsted for
the ability to persecute any LGBTQ+ person by any means they possible
could. For example, the age of sexual consent in Virginia is 15, but
sex is explicitly defined as a penis in a vagina, so literally anything
else is considered a felony unless both/all parties involved are over
18. I don't have to tell you how weaponized that still is as a tool to
attack LGBTQ+ youth. Rigid definitions are powerful weapons to groups
intent on hurting others. High school students labeled for life as "sex
offender" because
they had a lesbian relationship on their 18th birthday with someone who
was 389 days younger than they were, has been a very real fate of many
people. Using that same logic to attack artists for far less than that
action is
misguided and reprehensible. The state declaring all citizens under age
"X" as default a-sexual, lest they commit a felony should they chose to
consent to act in any orientation what soever, has been a
weapon
of oppression of young people and of the LGBTQ+ community. What the
fandom is doing when <span style="font-size: small;">they adhere to such draconian </span>standards in
everything from licensed merchandise to obscure fanart, is empowering
that mechanism in general, because it doesn't split hairs. The new fans who think <i>they </i>discovered the internet are using a weapon of
argument that they know little about, and are negligently unaware of its
potential harm. This means that:<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The Calls Are Coming From Inside The House!<br /></span>So now we have a social movement <b><i>within fandom </i></b>which is
echoing the same nonsense. Looking for any fictional indicators of the
fictional age or a fictional character, to then argue that any
depictions of what they consider nudity, serialization (which ranges
from kissing, to judging the clothing fashion by their own internal
standards, to just improper evaluations of physical features). That's
not a great way to do it. Sure there are some works that are
unmistakable to any reasonable person, but others are not because age
aside, the biological physical development of the person depicted has
progressed far beyond that of a child.<br /><br />Over
the past few years, some of the most violent objections to certain
artworks that may or may not depict sexually exploitative images or themes that never actually occurred in reality, have come from within fandom
itself. From vitriolic attacks and accusations of "pedophile" on
artists for portraying suggestive sexual relationships between high
school students aged 16-17 (because if Inu Yasha bangs Kagome she's totally under 18 dude!), to calls for criminal prosecution of anyone
with Sailor Moon hentai because the sailor scouts are ...how old? You gonna bust me for that hentai doujinshi I bought when I was 16 that has Sailor Jupiter doing some very energetic sex stuff? <br /><br />Case in point, this complete nonsense:<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvanHMTTrJUWwO_RzHhzFNiChgLgsXzhyqph0FuOkIJeWB9DhJSYBJpBdpLBTeBhVJoa2nZFsjHTm174EYIsatrp_lzUb6sOYnSIyFgtiiwPzZWuDAQFPVvJjtL5nB5Mr9uDFMLCJMcw87/s1000/pedos+everywhere.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="1000" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvanHMTTrJUWwO_RzHhzFNiChgLgsXzhyqph0FuOkIJeWB9DhJSYBJpBdpLBTeBhVJoa2nZFsjHTm174EYIsatrp_lzUb6sOYnSIyFgtiiwPzZWuDAQFPVvJjtL5nB5Mr9uDFMLCJMcw87/w640-h568/pedos+everywhere.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />The account on the right actually reported that image and the game itself to the FBI... because, sure, they're gonna spring into action over that. Yes these are obviously troll accounts who call literally everything "pedophile" no matter what, even characters with canonically established ages far exceeding what would be needed for actual porn, let alone just the appearance of a character. But what is disturbing is the kinds of comments spoken in support of their blanket notions, and the blind following of fans that simply parade behind such notions of some sort of child abuse and pedophilia in situations which are clearly not pedophilic. The acceptance of these arguments and the calls for action taken are straight out of the <b>Q-anon</b> playbook. Just blind forceful rage at non-principles, ending up being directed at art and artists from other countries. This is one of the hands swinging the hammer into the ever-growing wedge between Japanese artists and American fans. The hypersensitivity to a bullshit conclusion and insistence on the following of a set standard in which they are the arbiters, is driving individual creators away. <br /><br /><br />By supporting this kind of thinking, these fans are enabling some of the most violent, racist, xenophobic, and anti-LGBTQ+ organizations that exist. They lend acceptance to the message of these groups, many of which have explicitly stated an <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bj9w/anti-porn-extremism-pornhub-traffickinghub-exodus-cry-ncose">intention to use violence and deadly force to further their goals to ban all pr0nz and will not think twice about KILLING those involved</a>, including consenting performers of all genders.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Rc9UtAdVLRJ-BCP_9VO2Hcv3Yr4jDwkzMZEn4ZwMeDP9Y2qawfkjpkarmAIywumT793m9yyu3Knv2TpAnPF2wFkRkB8w2CKjD4us3Ps9l2TJA3VoyqECXBdBhgOdETjPhDehyphenhyphenLEOj_EE/s778/antipornhub.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="666" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Rc9UtAdVLRJ-BCP_9VO2Hcv3Yr4jDwkzMZEn4ZwMeDP9Y2qawfkjpkarmAIywumT793m9yyu3Knv2TpAnPF2wFkRkB8w2CKjD4us3Ps9l2TJA3VoyqECXBdBhgOdETjPhDehyphenhyphenLEOj_EE/s320/antipornhub.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div>Seriously, that's like applauding Aleph for their highway efforts in encouraging vegetarianism because you're that much of an animal rights advocate... never mind that whole <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack">Tokyo subway gas attack</a> thingy. Anti-porn movements stem from religious fundamentalism and anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups. <br /><br />The initial waves of this kind of thing are only forming now, and it will be years before they hit shore here, then bounce off hit somewhere else, and come back to this side. But they will have implications for <i><b>business</b></i>. From license valuations, to accusations of censorship-in-anime, this is going to seriously impact anime and manga as a business. And since it is a <i><b>business</b></i>, we'll see what stays; in business.<br /><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPp7GmpqKh0UAME7gliDrkm0IiF2aHWWbry8RvPYGGJWhWLK_6K3AFrpp1ymWt822EptRxUXGSZtKg41FWLqmTvbJy0SJ7EFexG0ViYohsdZdnNTgZJAv39OYXgnY0NWfsDcCupLsPJ4h/s680/ban+anime.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="680" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPp7GmpqKh0UAME7gliDrkm0IiF2aHWWbry8RvPYGGJWhWLK_6K3AFrpp1ymWt822EptRxUXGSZtKg41FWLqmTvbJy0SJ7EFexG0ViYohsdZdnNTgZJAv39OYXgnY0NWfsDcCupLsPJ4h/w400-h225/ban+anime.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Reminds me of a song...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>Yep, that one.</span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqUlGXnAD7KjDqm4Nw6JLkKd2wtXy1m9nRuMFimHDTjdaVamGK7nytyQSYDYD68eXkYnWcnTaqKgPr1Dd25-U5rOgMWONLkvZP9-pjEcJjyrKeauNTvOj9MmPyU8GjGHX82hOxb5OD17q/s400/qanon+pedo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqUlGXnAD7KjDqm4Nw6JLkKd2wtXy1m9nRuMFimHDTjdaVamGK7nytyQSYDYD68eXkYnWcnTaqKgPr1Dd25-U5rOgMWONLkvZP9-pjEcJjyrKeauNTvOj9MmPyU8GjGHX82hOxb5OD17q/s320/qanon+pedo.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">American Anime fandom might go full Q-Anon Pizza Gate insane...<br /></div></div><div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Reverse 9th Amendment Triple Play:</span><br />The 9th Amendment basically says "if it isn't prohibited, it's allowed" and that's applicable to the government and what it can and can't stop people from doing. We now have an end-run around that in the form of private enterprise deciding to disallow everything it does not explicitly approve of; which a company can do. But like with private telecom taking and then selling user data, call logs, stored photos, travel activity, text messages, etc and simply selling them to government agencies in order to circumvent the 4th Amendment requiring a warrant to obtain such things, so have these behemoth companies become de-facto agents of what is deemed socially appropriate, regardless of legality. It would be as if a car rental agency refused you certain types of cars based on your outfit, or if a restaurant refused your order after seating you because you "look like you could lose a few pounds and should just stick to the salad." That's not a big deal because there are more than adequate competing entities that won't do that... but what if there weren't? What if giant corporations like merchant banks, Amazon, Apple, Google/Alphabet, and ISPs were the only option because they had managed to put impenetrable barriers to entry in place for competing companies. <br /><br />There is an immanent shift to crypto currency like dogecoin or someone's gonna
make "H-Coin" "Ero-Doras" or "Hentai-Chedder" or "a$$Bucks" to be used to purchase items that
the over zealous international Neo-Comstock trend will make both
retailers and merchant accounts reluctant or refuse to deal with. If anyone is doing that, I want in.<br /></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmrGS8HhWexQlNCs-Fkge_TXdfbPp5d2RX3Exfb9TWpuTT2sx39oToWobfB1YuL0PxHkfBJrtj5Zy15WBxVmDNqGLdeNTG9RdbPwl1JM17Po9u6ynu8lbEdGLpiXozUbW8mDb54KHJJW2/s474/otakucoin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="474" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmrGS8HhWexQlNCs-Fkge_TXdfbPp5d2RX3Exfb9TWpuTT2sx39oToWobfB1YuL0PxHkfBJrtj5Zy15WBxVmDNqGLdeNTG9RdbPwl1JM17Po9u6ynu8lbEdGLpiXozUbW8mDb54KHJJW2/w400-h225/otakucoin.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The future is tax exempt! <br /></p><p>So, back to the <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2010/07/galapagos-effect-in-my-manga-its-more.html">Galapagos Effect many times before</a>. Where international sensibilities will move so far away from what is popular in anime, that international licensing of anime will become a losing gambit. What it surprising, is how much the fandom has embraced these notions and is further driving a wedge in between Japanese anime, manga, pop-art, etc, and its very self with a fervent self-righteousness that has been seen in things like the D&D Moral Panic or the "video games cause school shootings" of Hillary Clinton in the 1990s. Younger American audiences in particular seemed to have missed the memo that "<i>ANIME IS NOT MADE FOR YOU!</i>" No, I'm not even saying that the artists and writers don't take international audiences into account sometimes (they do)... and perhaps I should say something more along the lines of "Anime is not <i><b>financed</b></i> for you." Meaning that when someone in an office somewhere is figuring the net cost of capital and a possible return on a project (even an intangible one), international markets rarely are brought into those calculations, ratios, projections, regression analysessesses, whatever they're running on the spreadsheets. It really doesn't happen much. I know it causes cognitive dissonance and no one wants to think the energy they produce and show as fans has a null effect, but in said cases, it just does. That's not to say you can't thoroughly enjoy it, but anime is made for its domestic audience, and you aren't in it unless you live in Japan. When it comes to anime production taking North America into account, the subject almost never comes up in meetings unless the property is Pokemon or is a Video Game that is expected to be released internationally. I know because <b><i>I've been in these meetings</i></b>. The only other region that gets a seat at the table without having to ask for one is China, because the market there is simply too large to ignore and the threat of piracy for that region is tremendous. <br /><br />So the very idea of a different cultural set of emergent norms needing to be taken into account for a product that is not part of such things is enormously egotistical. A fiction which has a character that has no demarcated age, being in a sexual situation (as many a high-school student has found themselves to be in) is not some sort of pedophilia-fest. It doesn't even meet the APA classification of pedophilia let alone the legal criteria for anything actionable in criminal prosecution.<br /><br />Artists are going to have to add visual disclaimers to all their art, just to avoid these "true believers"and their harassment, regardless of if the art features nudity or does not. In order to protect themselves from the hoard of reactionary internet morality-police which go around calling any image of a girl in a bikini with no established "sexualized child pron" it's going to take explicit levels of disclaimer. Notice how the crowd that sees a Nagatoro in a bikini goes bezerk about it being "child prornography" but they don't say one fucking word about any drawings of Hanamichi Sakuragi chilling out in a tiny Speedo with exposed rock hard abs a serious bulge (Hanamichi Sakuragi happens to be the 16 year old main character of <b><i>Slam Dunk</i></b>, in case you didn't know).<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFoRW-PJLclZdA0xPsOaLykz7aky2xLnETVce7VMrpKg5J_mNohJCOcPnypSUCzzcqQdxpPLCfmfm6VEt129Zuxh5lnS29Du5wRL8vPQbCnw1lOA5ZLO8XEYlVgey17Nu7t7zulCCqBdf/s400/all18+badge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFoRW-PJLclZdA0xPsOaLykz7aky2xLnETVce7VMrpKg5J_mNohJCOcPnypSUCzzcqQdxpPLCfmfm6VEt129Zuxh5lnS29Du5wRL8vPQbCnw1lOA5ZLO8XEYlVgey17Nu7t7zulCCqBdf/s320/all18+badge.jpg" /></a></div><p>Badges and watermarks like this one are going to unfortunately become commonplace in the face of the vitriolic slobbering harassment by the neo-Comstock pro-censorship fan movement, that artists will undoubtedly face more of in the future. This is not the first time something like this has been used in general, but it is the first time such a need to do so has fallen on the actual artists and not a publisher /licensor. Like when Central Park Media had to run an opening narration that said all the characters in La Blue Girl were totally College Sophmores, nevermind those uniforms...</p><p><br /></p><p></p><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Obligatory Boomer-Blaming:</span></b><br />Yep, gonna blame this one on boomers too. They absolutely have to keep infantalizing and creating ageist separations with them at the top and everyone else at the bottom. That's why for a boomer, the work "millennial" just means "anyone younger than me" and they don't care about the actual defining qualities or the fact that zoomers exist and someone who remembers using Geocities has a significantly different experience from someone who is all over Twitch. Yet they've made age demarcation so indelible, extreme, and profound, that it continues in younger generations who have grown up knowing nothing but that. Almost no one in anime fandom remembers when the boomers raised the alcohol age from 18 to 21 mostly "just because" and how arbitrary those lines were. The boomers worked hard through ensuring harsh and draconian punishments were met out on anyone straddling that line and daring to cross to the wrong side. They continued this intensity into other forms of social activity, from music, to manga, to ESRB and GTA... the demarcation lines were pushed to peak intensity. Boomers NEED to be the forever "adults" while always telling the forever-child generation that it's not their turn yet. And it is this intensity that the current generations well, because they have lived with nothing else. This extreme age labeling and knee-jerk reactionary to every piece of art as not-ok is happening because it is literally clashing with the reality so many fans have lived with for so long. This reaction is seen as normal and not extreme.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilZIqN0z07ko-dvy3xxaVOk1duHvBFO_D1u20ATsSpZoo2YevUALOhJ1I9kia9nK3yMnw6J0VpGWqIDFVwmU5uYUsr-4Yyt_hOxdquUnvzCMO6w2pDY_lqvhwOGrU3VBZ5CcVAhq_ipFaZ/s1024/coronachan+smile.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="724" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilZIqN0z07ko-dvy3xxaVOk1duHvBFO_D1u20ATsSpZoo2YevUALOhJ1I9kia9nK3yMnw6J0VpGWqIDFVwmU5uYUsr-4Yyt_hOxdquUnvzCMO6w2pDY_lqvhwOGrU3VBZ5CcVAhq_ipFaZ/s320/coronachan+smile.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">You had ONE JOB Corona-chan! One fucking job...</p><p><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">What Do Ya Do With A Drunken Sailor? </span><br />...what are the drunken sailors of anime fandom but those who are so beholden to the idea that demarcated age is necessary to portray not only explicit sexual activity, but even hint at existing relationships, or have some character in a swimmie suit? Is someone gonna tell them that every main character in <i>High School of the Dead</i> is definitely not over 18? What happens when they watch <i>Fushigi Yuugi</i>? Are they gonna freak out? Well, they're teaming up with anti-LGBTQ+ and Abstinence-Only right wing Q-Anon MAGA philosophy to chain all characters to the pillar of a-sexuality until... until what exactly? They're never gonna age naturally... so what do they want? They want to erase characters and destroy art is what they want. Before you know it, it's going to be "Sailor Uranus is totally <i>grooming </i>Neptune! What a horrible thing to show!" and demand it go away, and be banned through the application of law. This is not healthy. It's going to really fuck things up, and governments are empowering it. Returning anime to the early 1990's when it could get anyone under 18 kicked out of school, or abducted to a "therapy center" because it's "oh so violent and look what it shows!" is going to force it into channels that make it harder to obtain, and less profitable to license. <br /><br />Seriously, like I said, stock up on <i>Dogecoin </i>because soon that's going to be the only form of payment you can make to Patreon art accounts you follow, OnlyFans cosplayers, hentai retailers, hell- probably even some vtubers are gonna get cut off because the characters they use are deemed "child exploitation" and then barred from the use of services. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6oXjrSu5RZwiIC_CkggDXYxVjQnSOyQhNuQHuF9CdjDmwj-SEidOeE16UGQ19KvjkfmKX14sMNE4BRu7-4irL5qOewax38ZbQiCgDB_b57H3-T45rvI95olBme5f2uHY7FBS3WCCzWpe9/s500/iron+mouse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6oXjrSu5RZwiIC_CkggDXYxVjQnSOyQhNuQHuF9CdjDmwj-SEidOeE16UGQ19KvjkfmKX14sMNE4BRu7-4irL5qOewax38ZbQiCgDB_b57H3-T45rvI95olBme5f2uHY7FBS3WCCzWpe9/s320/iron+mouse.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> She said she's horny for sex!</div><div style="text-align: center;">BANNED FOR CHILD EXPLOITATION!<br />Because ...reasons!<br /></div></div><div><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">What Does it all Mean?</span></b><br />Well, as mentioned, anime and manga could be in for some serious depreciation in terms of future licenses. A property that now can't be introduced in some countries, as well as now requiring social damage-control in the countries where it's still legal (thanks to fandom toxicity) just isn't worth paying for in terms of acquisition, let alone localization, promotion, distribution, all that. The problem is that people are going to counter this argument with a big "<i>nuh-uhhhh. I personally buy lots of this and sales around the world are up and all this stuff so you're dumb and stupid!</i>" ...this omits the fact that the cause of effects I am talking about hasn't even been close to fully entrenched yet and the results of it will most likely only start to happen to a noticeable degree between one and two years from now. Remember in 2017 when I wrote about global shipping issues having an effect on other industries and the movement of capital which is going to effect A) Japan and B) ipso-facto anime, manga, and gaming content. ...yeah that was 2017. Notice anything happening this year? Oh yeah, that kind of thing. This is gonna take time.<br /><br /><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's Where I Try To See Why The Other Side Is...</span><br />Is it because young fans have been skeeved on by older people? I've been in that situation. 14 in NYC in the 90s at 2am after sneaking into The Limelight? Oh yeah lots of that happened in clubs, on the street, Back Stage at The Bank, PYramid, at Odessa, on the Train ...yeah, it was pretty gross. Dudes, chicks, ...whatever would crawl out of Tompkins Square Park late at night, all that. I must have looked hella pedo-bait. But hey, that's why you carried knives. (Not that I didn't get flirty at St. Marks Comics's Brooklyn location to get a discount... totally worked). But is this negative experience what the fans see happening to the characters they follow and identify with? Are they trying to "save" them? Does it make some people think that this is empowering or encouraging those with criminal sexual motivations to engage in skeeving more often (or do worse)? Is it just projection? No matter where it's coming from, a draconian rubric of anime and manga content is not going to help stop what they are worried about, and it will not help anime as an international business. I've watched it try to be relevant to the actual sources and companies in Japan and for 12 years I watched them treat North America as something not worth taking input from (unless it was Pokemon or some game properties). The Iron Chef license got more attention in how new programs were made in Japan than just about any anime ever did. I didn't do the Iron Chef license but I know the people who did and yadah yadah. If North America all of a sudden comes off as hostile, that's going to push things way back. An entirely new generation of more diverse leadership is going to have to be in place at many Japanese companies not just the anime companies, but the Keiretsu level shit, so Sumitomo, Matsushita, Sony, JR, JT, 711 Holdings (no I'm not kidding) hellz Toyota is probably in there somewhere. It's a big machine and one sprocket can decide not to budge and that's that. But such reactions are hurting anime, hurting artists, and not accomplishing anything. <br /><br />Once again, I didn't tighten this up. Maybe I should just start making these into videos or something.</p><p><br />But hey, in honor of what month it is:<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvX8htnRmb2HBRGWwKDzs1rZv2ZzKJdwsvW9zrizuwR4jIzY9aXvQEbvBCMzMPHsQI6ZGVn1EfsjXvWJ8aGIQqJiBJ4RycSIGqasL6mJplJt2p7BYLBZmI5mjyaMbJTtJWVDnStIZrl0b/s235/korra+fuck+the+police.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvX8htnRmb2HBRGWwKDzs1rZv2ZzKJdwsvW9zrizuwR4jIzY9aXvQEbvBCMzMPHsQI6ZGVn1EfsjXvWJ8aGIQqJiBJ4RycSIGqasL6mJplJt2p7BYLBZmI5mjyaMbJTtJWVDnStIZrl0b/s0/korra+fuck+the+police.jpg" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's always Fuck The Police month!<br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">BLM</span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPgZx8qzuLVQ6rhmTMbet7uy9c7VfHv3e5bMbobSMAEJ8vYIhysAEmibrFVhRzwBMnzhi7ww0o-l5a56LOQ30zEtr0i6ndG7hIG5PJtBEfg1xXrK1H9p7DYDmMPVVfi9TkyEor5Rhxv0L7/s474/progress+pride.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPgZx8qzuLVQ6rhmTMbet7uy9c7VfHv3e5bMbobSMAEJ8vYIhysAEmibrFVhRzwBMnzhi7ww0o-l5a56LOQ30zEtr0i6ndG7hIG5PJtBEfg1xXrK1H9p7DYDmMPVVfi9TkyEor5Rhxv0L7/s320/progress+pride.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><p><br /></p></div>The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-83071635124945809782021-05-02T11:41:00.006-04:002021-05-04T10:01:44.814-04:00Sus Sus Sus: Sus sus sus sus, sus sus sus<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Srsly?</b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNOFw3OTUB_yun-YB4pVvgqWFuiVhe_sjqNaHimGqPT6sB7zqjBEKbN6JfhkWDxo_7MLdOSf19bNfxxhybnepA0DufXsm0INsGus3mhdDvOUr1tSYIOao5Lbb32KM19PNP4Vts7nutvaWd/s536/nagatoto+eye.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNOFw3OTUB_yun-YB4pVvgqWFuiVhe_sjqNaHimGqPT6sB7zqjBEKbN6JfhkWDxo_7MLdOSf19bNfxxhybnepA0DufXsm0INsGus3mhdDvOUr1tSYIOao5Lbb32KM19PNP4Vts7nutvaWd/w383-h400/nagatoto+eye.jpg" width="383" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">何だFUCKがお前のJLPTレベルのか,ヤDORK。。。<br />Get literal with that, ya 馬鹿ck suckers.<br /></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I wrote this without an outline.<br />It's far too long and not an easy read.<br />This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this.</span></span></span></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Treat all links as NSFW. They aren't all that but I'm not labeling every single one.</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">So weeaboos are losing their shit because someone did a good job of translation and not transliteration in an anime. The catalyst of course is Nagatoro: They used the words "sus" ...so totally sus to do that in such a sus way. <br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Things to suss out</span></b><br />First thing, is first: <i>Translation </i>is not <i>Transliteration</i>. They are different things that's why they have different words. It is also not Interpretation either because anyone who has had to do that in real-time (especially in a Japanese-English dynamic where one is super explicit and the other is so implicit that it's almost as important to mention the not-mentioned), the purpose is to <i>get the point across</i>, not to give a vocabulary lesson. There are so many instances of the intent of a statement being more important than the separate literal definition of each word that makes it up. Context plays more of a role in effective translation than dictionary definitions. <br /><br />I'm not even just talking about the absurd examples of translating "hot dog" into "heated canine." Actually... let's talk about that: Think about "hot dog" for a moment and the realize:<br /><u><b>It's a noun</b></u>: A food item that one Nathan's brand is famous for, also refereed to as a tube steak, or red-hot, the physical shape of which has lead to a connection in Modern English to serve as a conduit between "someone from Vienna" Weiner, and Penis, but not someone from Frankfurt "Frankfurter" (oh we'll get back to that). And red-hot is so dated that it's instinctive definition is no longer a meat product but if you are Gen X-Y it's candy and for Zoomers is half of something that means "gossipy-shit" ...unless you're in Australia, where it means something mad different. <br /><u><b>It's a verb</b></u>: If someone is "hot dogging" they aren't in the process of manufacturing or preparing hot dogs. They are also not heating up an actual dog. It usually means they are showing off, but not just showing off, they are showing off with an unnecessary significant risk. Hot dogging causes you <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_B-52_crash">crash your B-52 into the ground killing everyone on it</a> including that one poor bastard in the back who had no idea what was going on. No one who speaks English is going to have trouble with that. Now try it in Mongolian... yeah, you're gonna be using different words that are not food related. <br /><u><b>It's an adjective</b></u>: If a person is called a "hot dog" they are not being called a food item, or a heated canine. A dated equivalent could be "rascal" but if you use that in dialogue for a character that is known for overuse of contemporary slang, it's not going to be a good fit, and you might go with "drippin stan... not gucci" RAWRXD. Either way, the trans-literal accepted definition of food-item or the absolute-literal definition of heated-canine do not apply.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0oGqzDFkThnq_WLvwC1z3STHhr9-5shRRA0yxxRxyvWomtG1o-YtsmzonWM2iHCl3wxpJecsivmIVQp3jZ9lj6K-hRZY8rnnn34jfDJK31_vYYWkJXexfrQ3IopYGvbsynAcHkwx0UE4p/s620/american+doggu.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="620" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0oGqzDFkThnq_WLvwC1z3STHhr9-5shRRA0yxxRxyvWomtG1o-YtsmzonWM2iHCl3wxpJecsivmIVQp3jZ9lj6K-hRZY8rnnn34jfDJK31_vYYWkJXexfrQ3IopYGvbsynAcHkwx0UE4p/w400-h225/american+doggu.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/799E_7fHJ0c">Om nom nom</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Remember when I mentioned we'll get back to Frankfurters, penises, and hot dogs? Well one sweet Transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania, <a href="https://youtu.be/r48DlxpLvC4">has a musical number</a> in a certain movie where the line is "<i>you're a hot-dog, but you'd better not try to hurt her, Frank Furter</i>" (and this line is even preambled by a reference to mustard). Don't get hot and flustered, but translating this into another language while somehow trying to preserve the literal meaning of hot dog as both food-item and adjective for a type of person, and a cultural double entendre (name of character + reference to Frankenstein), while maintaining the tacit double meanings implied by the lyrics that relies on the audience already being familiar with the entire linguistic matrix of interconnected values, AND keeping whatever the final product is on-tempo with the actual song it's in ...well it's just <i><b>not possible</b></i> if your goal is complete preservation of exclusively literal meanings that an ESL student would be familiar with recently having learned. ...I told you not to get hot and flustered, here <a href="https://plochman.com/products/original-spicy-brown-mustard/">use this</a>.<br /><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD1VGDRpPBSpm9N5FIuavwllVPUXeAF1uGCf0m56BBqCBxz1QR8roXyMQcboVm6fPq-DBhNV4NNIh7uAEFeNsJnrvARNOFalXyS5NKn-Zn4QQ1ZLxBB7TbHOqGB2M2eAFU8OmWuVxRvoKE/s969/hotdog.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="969" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD1VGDRpPBSpm9N5FIuavwllVPUXeAF1uGCf0m56BBqCBxz1QR8roXyMQcboVm6fPq-DBhNV4NNIh7uAEFeNsJnrvARNOFalXyS5NKn-Zn4QQ1ZLxBB7TbHOqGB2M2eAFU8OmWuVxRvoKE/w400-h325/hotdog.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ソーセージを口の入れてほしい?<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/enBu4NFyRr0">Si, verdad</a>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>I once was translating curriculum materials for a Graduate Level course regarding inter-organizational communication and one of the sessions focused on the film "12 Angry Men" (the Peter Fonda one, not the later one). If you haven't seen that movie, go watch it. Come back to this spot right here: -<b><span style="color: red;">THIS SPOT RIGHT HERE</span></b>- ...there ya go. Now, let's consider Juror #12's line; "<i>let's put this out on the stoop and see if the cat licks it up</i>." It's not just an English Language thing, it's such a New York thing that students with native-level abilities from not where I am from were having trouble with it. To simply translate that literally, would be just so worthless. Furthermore, in the film as dialogue, the line is meant to indicate a character who has a very significant lack of confidence in their ideas, for no rational reason. It implies that the Mad-Men bosses he works for are such mean bastards that they've worn him down to nothing but barely functioning self-doubt. I had to somehow come up with a line in both Japanese and Mandarin which gets his entire point across and fits into the rest of the scene, uses an obfuscating reference that makes sense to the target audience, and I had less than an hour to do it. Thankfully I know a Chinese-Italian-American 3rd generation NYC family that I messaged and they gave me something to work with that would at least make sense to ABCs and it went from there. Japanese was more difficult and I don't remember what I put because this was in 2010. I'm sure there must be existing translations out there but I didn't have them handy and I had from 1am to 8am to get the entire lesson done not just that part. <br /><br />So when someone runs a contemporary slang equivalent like "sus" <i>up the flag pole to see who salutes it</i>, the only people who are going to be upset are those who have just attained the level of novice understanding in terms of the cultural and linguistic nuances-Japanese, a source of organic gamification points within the fandom and then end up feeling de-valued because they don't see the result they themselves expect. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCoC0e8oud2YiKQCxh6uD-Cr7B75E-o1ug43uJ4kh0dTR6KIhcHQZxtYapFLjUWid8GqeAsH23wjFg9j2bxgFZiWHp8_PDNN8vk6CGqc_VZsIVLG5jf7NCdHbmz6ETw0lNb9G1qxW5jHG_/s550/see+what+you+did.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="413" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCoC0e8oud2YiKQCxh6uD-Cr7B75E-o1ug43uJ4kh0dTR6KIhcHQZxtYapFLjUWid8GqeAsH23wjFg9j2bxgFZiWHp8_PDNN8vk6CGqc_VZsIVLG5jf7NCdHbmz6ETw0lNb9G1qxW5jHG_/w240-h320/see+what+you+did.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>Translation is about getting as much of the audience as possible to do the above concept.<br />It's not about reinforcing your sense of self importance, audience member. The professional translator has no time for that, sorry for the cognitive dissonance. <br /></p><p><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Historical History:</span></b><br />Anime fandom is particularly sensitive to translation irregularities. From TV stations making last minute changes because of no-no words that <i>just can't</i> be on a kids show and since all animation is a kids show; boom censoring; to the <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Macekre">war-crimes of Carl Macek</a> just making up shit regardless of what the original work was about, anime was too often defaced by poor translation or deliberately malicious action. Knowing that such things have happened, and that they detract from the original intent of the storytelling as entertainment that appeals to them, anime consumers have almost always reacted negatively to such things, especially when it is discovered after the fact. I once got in an almost knock-down drag out trying to explain to a former writer/director for <i>Bucky O'Hare </i>and <i>Rambo: The Force of Freedom</i>, that <u><b>no</b></u>; doing things the old way to an anime and just changing names and inserting dialogue where there wasn't any was so <b><u>not OK</u></b>, especially since viewers could switch between both languages with the push of a button on a DVD remote. I wasn't allowed back in the studio for a while despite doing the "t<i>hat's not my job but the boomers are making me do it anyway</i>" dialogue translation and rewrites. <br /><br />So fans are rightfully touchy, which is why one sees this subject get bought up every time a new generation of fans thinks they're the ones who discovered anime. But not always rightfully correct. There's a good reason localization is now thought of as a necessity, and with both subtitled and dubbed versions not being separate packaged media any more, there is no cost risk at all. Since like there used to be such risk of buying a very expensive "bad dub" or sub job, fans would be steadfastly cautious to buy what they wanted doing as much research as was possible. If you were lucky, your local <a href="https://patch.com/new-york/parkslope/bidding-adieu-to-the-video-forum#.VA2tuWRdVj4">video rental place had a big anime selection maintained by a serious otaku that would only order the subbed versions</a>. <br /><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq4FVLRG1_O8LFhLfIrDIks209hMDucvOoMUtZ2UTEwJiZApVb0g_khHjhAQhB3ZapEb5aKK1ZHo3bQItKw5yYhq3fQHPXFCv_y3zDAaO8Eoe6fXCf1CA9pgtTOB4jv761g2SkTeM8hdcW/s625/anime+vcr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="625" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq4FVLRG1_O8LFhLfIrDIks209hMDucvOoMUtZ2UTEwJiZApVb0g_khHjhAQhB3ZapEb5aKK1ZHo3bQItKw5yYhq3fQHPXFCv_y3zDAaO8Eoe6fXCf1CA9pgtTOB4jv761g2SkTeM8hdcW/w400-h304/anime+vcr.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">These days now literally more easy to find in the Cowboy Bebop universe than real life. </span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br />Subtitled versions could get away with less localization sometimes by using on-screen notes. Famous example being the "Natta de Cocoa" scene in Yugen Kaisha, which really liked to play the Japanese homonym double meaning joke on the audience (I mean <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ja" title="Japanese-language text">幽幻怪社 ...</span></span>it's in the title ffs). Can't always do that with subtitles let alone dubs that are gonna go on TV. A little leeway is needed and expected.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9mT62I-Uz5w_x0ekYL_RrBYulKk35iqxo-l6FOfl4Pv5c3Qrc3rqq7XvaqcOpaNSLLorfhmSZq3zSPgYk7cld219lU7fnWBAZ_2bwDY-M0phtq24cCnV91YSsWtoC11Qd9I4HPtDq87y/s503/Sailor-moon-Fuck-OFF.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="410" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9mT62I-Uz5w_x0ekYL_RrBYulKk35iqxo-l6FOfl4Pv5c3Qrc3rqq7XvaqcOpaNSLLorfhmSZq3zSPgYk7cld219lU7fnWBAZ_2bwDY-M0phtq24cCnV91YSsWtoC11Qd9I4HPtDq87y/s320/Sailor-moon-Fuck-OFF.jpg" /></a><br /></p><p>Do you <u>really</u> want both the written manga and English voice cast anime lines to call her "<i>Bunny</i>" every time? "Usagi" sounds better to your non-Japanese linguistic sensibilities doesn't it...? <i>Mixxzine</i>, I'm lookin at you...<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Loss of Status Reaction and Loss Aversion Psychology:</b></span><br />If you go through the fandom hard enough and young enough, you will have a phase where this whole new world opens up to you and you all of a sudden gain an understanding and nomenclature of a semi-cloistered group. "Normies" all of a sudden doesn't include you anymore and you have something that sets you apart. That something has value. It can be seen with the evolution of hip-hop lyrics into what marketing suits now call urban vernacular, and it can be seen with otaku as well. It's that moment when you've heard enough words you know what they usually mean but not always. So these fans end up thinking that when a wife calls a husband "anata~" it should only be translated as "oh, you" and not <i>sugarpie, muffin, sweetness, honeybun, puddin', darling... <a href="https://youtu.be/9zVhQbtzD4w">light of my life</a></i><a href="https://youtu.be/9zVhQbtzD4w">...</a> even though those terms are actually more accurate in conveying the intended meaning most of the time in that context. The "spectrum" (yes that spectrum) comes into play here as well, because "implied meaning" can be a stumbling block for some people. Such things should not be dismissed. But imma not go into it anyway (this is gonna be tl;dr as it is).<br /><br />So in situations like this, all of a sudden here comes something to take away that value. To tell a person that what they thought they knew is not an entire book, but just that single page in the beginning with nothing written on it, which (if removed) has a new zero effect on the quantitative or qualitative value of its contents. The position they believed themselves to be in is thrown into sharp releif from the light of an elevation that has emerged from so far up the hierarchy. What is lost may not be tangible but the feelings it creates are very real. Furthermore, to have to face that realization because of a causal factor created by someone who has a more adept skill-set than said fan, fulfillment not only a sense of loss, but a sense of lose by malice, something stolen... something taken they were powerless to prevent. That moment when the guailo with the yee-haw accent responds in perfect Chinese to a conversation between 2 other people, or when the little Korean girl spits perfect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Spanish">DR Spanish</a> to some cabron who's running his mouth about her, thinking she doesn't know what he's saying (only in New York), that instant impact of the loss of anonymity and feeling exposed is off the same tree as what the anime thing does when something is localized by someone who knows Japanese context better than the audience. It's like when your skill set doesn't help you. When your collectables appraise for less than what you originally paid for them... this feeling lives in that triggering of a status loss, and the inability to mitigate it can lead to things like little nuggets of frustration, aggression, withdrawal, depression, or scapegoating. Loss aversion is a fear reaction. In extreme cases, it can have damaging effects, even on people who you might not empathize with.</p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinAZrQJdJ5XTSt0U6cfnxeBk-Vk6anLrQ-IrnwllM0Z9LFcI4eX0kkcvninWeqjD0azi9yrDxD-w9mQz6l_iG2wMHvDQ2X3fCCiDfOhLkEaKvV2dSdCfL1sWMQ69GVdS2oW_V7LUo6Su4E/s320/real+to+me.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinAZrQJdJ5XTSt0U6cfnxeBk-Vk6anLrQ-IrnwllM0Z9LFcI4eX0kkcvninWeqjD0azi9yrDxD-w9mQz6l_iG2wMHvDQ2X3fCCiDfOhLkEaKvV2dSdCfL1sWMQ69GVdS2oW_V7LUo6Su4E/s0/real+to+me.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This guy is dealing with some shit.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It is real to someone who feels real reactions to things.<br />Don't always let your first reaction be to simply laugh at someone in that situation. Doing that makes <i>you</i> feel better at their expense. <a href="https://youtu.be/MwzgtCwAnf8">Star Trek actually depicted an extreme example of this loss reaction</a>. Like all of DS-9, this story arch started good and then ended stupid as hell.<br /><br />Not every encounter with this phenomenon goes so off the rails into actual psychosis. A lot of it leads to bickering about the "wrong" way things were done and an irrational vortex of all the logical fallacies by those who are angered but have no recourse of logical argument. The demands to remove that "wrong" way which has caused this sense of value loss are simply justified with "because, reasons!" or something to that effect. If left to continue, it ends up causing intense feelings to the point where the id takes a larger share of control. A reaction idiotique so to speak. Their thought processes and existing cognitive structures are then thrown into the spotlight when someone gets intense and... what... what in the non-visible spectrum of ALL the fuck... <i><br /><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>@Locksneedfartin</i>: <i>A thing that happened</i>.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfZGWPvect3_TMx1fjh2N08v372zi4oIaVLqnLsltwwETTuBYI8TRTF1BhaSPD3T8pz7K43EFvAvp2-9A38d2R0sHHisBbBAuFt_rdx4UbuisQ_NfxqpwaowXPe9ntnMqwDFVDm48mD4dt/s1014/dragon+maid+explosion.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="1014" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfZGWPvect3_TMx1fjh2N08v372zi4oIaVLqnLsltwwETTuBYI8TRTF1BhaSPD3T8pz7K43EFvAvp2-9A38d2R0sHHisBbBAuFt_rdx4UbuisQ_NfxqpwaowXPe9ntnMqwDFVDm48mD4dt/w400-h214/dragon+maid+explosion.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">マジで verità.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>What has been see can not be unseen:</b></span><br />Wow. OK, so Nagatoro is gonna be known for not just having <i>sus</i> in the translation, but now for the way this uber-chud who either is a total garbage human, or was just born in a different multiverse that hat it's big-bang 14 years later than we did and just woke up here with bad trolling skills in this one thinking the year is 2007 without noticing. Yes, (former) <a href="https://twtext.com/article/1386000194844700672">Twittererererer @Locksneedfartin managed to just create</a> a <i>Charge of the Light Brigade</i> into chuderry chud-ness of chudding, so hard that it made it to <a href="https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/fan-complaint-about-nagatoro-subs-goes-from-0-to-100-at-lightning-speed">Know Your Meme 24 hours</a> after it happened. It took no time at all for this wackadoo to start soapboxing about MAGA issues like transphobic shit and just being totally racist because apparently they think that's how the world works and anything else is so wrong that the other people against it are all deliberately bad-stoopede. When people get worked up, their "don't say the quiet part out loud" bigotry cloaking device malfunctions and we get this:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVi6R8hSMN8JjtULhiKiHUcYSko650W8LZTJ5nvAWQnAGAOPKiZbY663azaFlY1xbIoF7Lcn2tdzAbSjb7gMl12BDGqYqKxChyphenhyphenFmK5-DDm4z-Ow6SwQdva6QNgopK7hUrSzTyn8GeNYEMf/s1036/nagatoto+twitter+wtf.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1036" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVi6R8hSMN8JjtULhiKiHUcYSko650W8LZTJ5nvAWQnAGAOPKiZbY663azaFlY1xbIoF7Lcn2tdzAbSjb7gMl12BDGqYqKxChyphenhyphenFmK5-DDm4z-Ow6SwQdva6QNgopK7hUrSzTyn8GeNYEMf/w640-h482/nagatoto+twitter+wtf.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How to lose your twitter account in MAGA easy steps</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Twitter was always a dumpster fire, but the color of the smoke is an indicator of what the toxicity is and where it's coming from at any given moment. Somehow it's worked its way into fandom and it's time to address that. This person, and a whole bunch of others who didn't know a single correct thing about what translation, localization, slang, context, licensing, Japanese language, sus, scrub, and other words actually have established histories, end up going fundamental when their brains short circuit in a fit of rage-lag. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpSP_tORozeDKfa3LIgzaLGYBaMPFz5Cf_rVXeGJFlDt0uWZ5ZW1vtpLXuu4qqEkZDtuzig0ON_PgIRvM7HY-bnMRbJqePG0pp5odH-L2YWr5MOQm_w_BdCoCy6tNUbObkt4OH-PQaj5yb/s794/nagatoto+twitter+wtf+03.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="794" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpSP_tORozeDKfa3LIgzaLGYBaMPFz5Cf_rVXeGJFlDt0uWZ5ZW1vtpLXuu4qqEkZDtuzig0ON_PgIRvM7HY-bnMRbJqePG0pp5odH-L2YWr5MOQm_w_BdCoCy6tNUbObkt4OH-PQaj5yb/w400-h149/nagatoto+twitter+wtf+03.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The whole insane thing that ended with this, shows this dorkoff knows nothing about Japan, Japanese, Translation, Localization, Word Origins, or how <i>not </i>to be a scumbag.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!</b></span><br />There really is no more to say about this person that hasn't already been said. What needs to be asked, is how do so many, out of a generation that should know better, end up nodding their heads and approving of stuff like this and liking it. It's not really because this fandom attracts that kin of demographic, or creates incubators for such ideas to gestate and ferment to toxicity. It's the much larger social, cultural, and economic environment that has come to dominate us all (people who live on planet money, excluded of course). I sure as hell don't want to defend this guy but I also think it's important to study what the fuck is going on with these people. I think it's important because, as mentioned, the overall macro environment is the largest causal factor in this, and though we can close the roof of the stadium, the game is still going on. So yes, once the roof is closed attention can be focused on the doors and what comes through them, but that's not an easy thing to do or maintain. This shit is sneaky and sometimes people who follow these philosophies genuinely think they themselves aren't being harmful, so confrontational methods can end up being counter-productive and actually intensify what one seeks to stop. Not this time though. This one was... I still don't know what that was other than terrible. <br /></p><p>There are so many things I still want to cover now, but if you're still reading at this point, congratulations, you don't exist because no one is gonna read this far. Mitigation without malice is too often treated as some sort of tacit support for what is deemed the explicit problem, even though it is not. So Someone's still gonna think I'm defending this @Lockneedfartin fuckwad who needs a pencil shoved up the diickholle and then broken off in there. I'm not, so it should be obvious.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Getting back to the plethora of perplexing panorama </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>panoply:</b></span><br />This is the beginning of a contracting phase of fandom and ipso-facto the domestic and international market for all otaku related things. Things will get worse before they get better. For this kind of thing, self regulation is not easy when it's bottom-up, but top-down is nothing but a <i>nightmare scenario</i>. And it's only one of several challenges on the horizon (oh you better believe I already have another post in the works already about awful shit happening to anime fandom). This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Oh and since this Locksneedfartin shitstain seems like a badge-bunny:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidWWQCRo0eO_crcSiFRtiqVAAGugBBEmD3s_0PYruQ2u_j4R7WN2pPkFEEKLtnP0ciqR0gsh2QWel7nXsPObA2TfYiFQ6rpdubx7xnokv5HMrKlA7zeOGS8U9h2FCrghwFxKy6CRN5M5II/s1018/nagatoro+fuck+the+police.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1018" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidWWQCRo0eO_crcSiFRtiqVAAGugBBEmD3s_0PYruQ2u_j4R7WN2pPkFEEKLtnP0ciqR0gsh2QWel7nXsPObA2TfYiFQ6rpdubx7xnokv5HMrKlA7zeOGS8U9h2FCrghwFxKy6CRN5M5II/w400-h283/nagatoro+fuck+the+police.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />BLM <br />ACAB<br /><br />-<br /></p><br /><p><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><br />The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-18449214817474127822021-04-24T19:49:00.030-04:002021-04-29T11:47:10.155-04:00Just Don't Know What Went Wrong: When fandoms are harpooned by sensationalism.<p> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, shit.<br /><span style="font-size: medium;">A mass-shooting is being tied to My Little Pony Fans, somehow.<br />(Because of course it is).</span></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsE9ZgsPBdBD2omnVQ9BDlfIZCVSLCLoDLOWVp64-5PcAxJp5MzlVIpo7QUTJBKGW0lgq0zF3XvNnZ8cBAwhL2iML4tCFdEzT_18BrXG7NeHYGD-2DjWA386ZvUSrXXMfmtAmm17QW7xJl/s474/derpy+what+went+wrong+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="474" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsE9ZgsPBdBD2omnVQ9BDlfIZCVSLCLoDLOWVp64-5PcAxJp5MzlVIpo7QUTJBKGW0lgq0zF3XvNnZ8cBAwhL2iML4tCFdEzT_18BrXG7NeHYGD-2DjWA386ZvUSrXXMfmtAmm17QW7xJl/w400-h225/derpy+what+went+wrong+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Part One: A thing that happened:<br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Lateral Spiral Maneuver</span></b>: <br />It's more of a side-spiral than a downward one. There was once a time where it almost felt that being a fan of any facet of popular culture that wasn't pro-sports was no longer a target for derision, especially if that fan happened to have an XY chromosome. Gone were the days of the 80s and 90s where one would face all kinds of harassment for daring to wear an Urusei Yatsura t-shirt or choosing to play D&D rather than give a crap about March Madness. This was an emergent time when technology enabled access to new media in a new way, but new media consumption would have to fit into an increasingly balkanizing environment for young people within standard and higher education. The still continuing result of which has been a decent into full <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment">Zimbardian</a> control dynamic between administrative authority, with students, and students with other students. Such a <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/09/when-school-feels-like-prison/499556/">prizonized school system</a> of zero-tolerance monitored behavior and unthinking maximum consequence for that which does not deserve it, has created a more intense social hierarchy, that emerging students have known all their lives. There was no moment when things changed. No one day when shit got real. It was always this. Always. The shooter was 19, we have to take into account that this was more of a factor on him than it would be on someone in their 50s, to say it isn't, is foolishly discounting something with a significant impact. <br /><br />The main difference aside from a now exponentially increased intensity of these terrible conditions from just a few years ago, is their targeting system has moved away from what was once thought of only as "nerd culture" or geeky shit, because everyone has something they're a fan of now thanks to proliferation. This chain of institutional abuse simply moving from one type of target to another has only just recently been broken by the one and only Coronachan, who by forcing classes into homes, have for the first time <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/08/black-student-suspended-police-toy-gun/">exposed parents to the type of micro-tyrancy</a> that some educators are all to accustomed and comfortable deploying. It also puts physical barriers between bullying abusers and their targets of abuse. But the <i>old habits hard to break </i>now return in this sensationalized coverage that no one will still be talking about after 20 days from now (random guess, call it 17 or 22 if it makes you feel better). He's a "weirdo" because of MLP, not because of the tremendously shitty life he's probably had as a whole, oh no, couldn't be that. <br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">You Call This Archeology?</span></b><br />This entire process seems to be book-ended for the moment. Columbine is on one end, and FedEx Shooter Brandon Hole on the other. People old enough, remember after Columbine happened, that if you wore a black leather trench-coat and listened to Manson or KMFDM, the school Stasi were coming for you to have a little sit-down "chat" or something. I remember police showing up to an address I no longer lived at because I fit "the profile." But a whole generation was about to get it stuck to them, because Mortal Kombat existed. Yep, Mortal Kombat confused the boomers, it looked violent, and had come out just in time to be blamable for obviously causing 2 students who were abusing substances to cope with mental illness and getting tortured on a daily basis at an institutional learning facility which had spectacularly failed in its fiduciary duty to ensure they were able to be reasonably safe from such things. They came for the video games despite no evidence they played a role in anything. It was easy for them. It was all there in a nice little package. And most importantly, it helped direct attention away from the systemic failures which were the true cause, because acknowledging those would mean acknowledging that said problems were boomer-caused and needed to be addressed... and we can't have that now, can we?<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix2TwnRDp6C6dXuQM4uqiKHQUDJ0G3b2Ra90A2kvmeC6ygOY1XNSHvoD-4IInAIjibT5wCFcVKbluI8bgZgQldh7wDIKzUDm20UoXaUgrVm0nANKMxBbvWLEvR0J7So_1o7tlsQZP_nuuA/s813/mk+worth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="813" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix2TwnRDp6C6dXuQM4uqiKHQUDJ0G3b2Ra90A2kvmeC6ygOY1XNSHvoD-4IInAIjibT5wCFcVKbluI8bgZgQldh7wDIKzUDm20UoXaUgrVm0nANKMxBbvWLEvR0J7So_1o7tlsQZP_nuuA/w400-h305/mk+worth.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">To Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, Jack Thompson, Captain Kangaroo, Arthur Pobert, and <span class="ILfuVd c3biWd"><span class="hgKElc">Patrica Vance</span></span>: Fuck You so fucking much.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Then is Now. Now is Then. This Blog is on Repeat.</span></b><br />A guy who had a red-flag, went to white supremacy websites in 2020, and had a job and life so shitty he couldn't see a way out of it, went and shot people where he worked, and then offed himself. But holy shit he had a waifu thing for Applejack, so <i><b>that</b></i> must be the 100% causal factor because <i>lol NERD WEIRDO! Do something normal like watch The Kardasians</i>! Nothing else comes into play now, it's the pony thing. The news is quick to jump on it because it's more sensational than, say... the brand of shoes this guy preferred, and because someone liking something they are "not supposed to like" still not only can be played up as deviant, but also is a tool for the producers, program directors, writers, to meme to an audience which gets a dopamene hit in the elevation of their own self-image by the diminishing of others. <br /><br />So the narrative is:<br />This guy = Brony<br />This guy does mass shooting<br />Mass shooting = Nazi<br />Brony = Nazi<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih51_4xP1dWG2k9kauaLfCWdhaoyFsu7Wj_lTEmbaNHaH7H4QF9KSf-7d8AVnglPfGtPb_tPPN-VLHW_vtmHwWg2U4MVHtychqInb0kZ1qLduzukXzM_cmAQm8OKHlJdxhJzqrOVKL57uv/s1000/abb%255B1%255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih51_4xP1dWG2k9kauaLfCWdhaoyFsu7Wj_lTEmbaNHaH7H4QF9KSf-7d8AVnglPfGtPb_tPPN-VLHW_vtmHwWg2U4MVHtychqInb0kZ1qLduzukXzM_cmAQm8OKHlJdxhJzqrOVKL57uv/w400-h225/abb%255B1%255D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Not only is this saying that the Brony community is full of nazis, even though it's not, it also tacitly argues that in some cases being a Brony causes you to become one... somehow? As of the time of writing this, according to stories published by CNN and The Daily Beast, "no clear motive" has been released. Yes he went to Brony websites and simped for AJ. Like I said, he also probably wore shoes every time he went out, so is the news gonna look really hard at NewBalance or whoever? No, because that's dumb. So it any singular focus. It's an appealing action because it's lazy.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwmyOg8lmRNFqbel14_X__TltmxHGjHqzAv2CSp-futlRqAVZy6NaymvK0VZh4lGp_Bt0C2cuesIj5CEPzqmrQPyiHDjatBxQGT63RT3KBs_R5YScu_BlEHVN3Bovc3XoJM9SRuNsIBjgI/s320/waifu+does+not+exist+3.jpg" width="320" /><br />New required reading.<br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p>Right now, the people who fit the modern American definition of "nazi" are proliferated in almost all the things. Brony culture doesn't have any more of a "nazi problem" than NFL fans, or people who prefer Dunkin to Starbucks... meaning they're in just about everything, because this kind of shit doesn't gravitate just to one thing or another. The racism,hatred, and appeal of absolutism that goes with modern "nazi" is not a square peg looking for a round hole, it is a weaponized gas. A toxic miasma that wraps itself around any and all challenges that humans face, becoming a tainted clear-coat over the entire structure of someone's life. It manifests, then infects, damaging the coda of human thought to such an extent as to be irredeemable. But was <i>that</i> causal <i>here</i>? Was it truly a function of the Brony community? It has been declared so:<br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijjPorsRSbzZD78GosbjOEWfJEPMOQxK9EuZaaIVh0gbEx6wxMM4Mmraask26gIRX8aVCQUlqRfl_wyeK4BOLpnfiLDvSMEI9bTG4-_Rx3wN3dVzsNL4ND92-JRXpwsm8JXe8Q3VEKiyMS/s1053/pony+nazi+problem.JPG"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="1053" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijjPorsRSbzZD78GosbjOEWfJEPMOQxK9EuZaaIVh0gbEx6wxMM4Mmraask26gIRX8aVCQUlqRfl_wyeK4BOLpnfiLDvSMEI9bTG4-_Rx3wN3dVzsNL4ND92-JRXpwsm8JXe8Q3VEKiyMS/w640-h309/pony+nazi+problem.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">From the publication that brought you a totally not made up but also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus">yeah they totally made it up,</a> story. <br /></p><p><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">So
whether this incident has anything to do with nazi anything or it
doesn't, the social attitudes against the lifestyle activity that is "Brony" have been labeled as having a "nazi problem." The infuriating component of this is that many of these political pontifications are the product of positions and posturing from petty princesses in Ivory Towers who have had nothing but disdain and derision for a fandom that they do not partake in, with nerd-shame and bullying being penultimate to said activity's full extinction, execution, cancellation, secession from existence, whatever you want to call it. Many of the sources of this associative pairing are bad actors using mala fides arguments in an effort to not help preserve, but rather destroy MLP fandom. It's "take that you nerds! You're not allowed to like something I don't think you <i>should</i> like!" This was seen with anime fandom in the 90's and now we see it here, when there has yet to be an established connection of motivation to anything at all. The same red herring arguments could be made about any other activities. Remember <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/nazi-furries">Nazi Furries</a> and how crazy that shit was?<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0_myfr2Ndj8xO0Y9tVJxYetV5XhMGYQ9pVovTOvgTDlDMQqQ1CnjpkaiKcC6tFfw-bBB8WszK33CEFvjHPEuLXlxrXmdZrMhldLc4GlDnJVTHYabQm6Wx3beAaejzj3VKNFR8aUCi1FW0/s342/20201020_131436%255B1%255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="311" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0_myfr2Ndj8xO0Y9tVJxYetV5XhMGYQ9pVovTOvgTDlDMQqQ1CnjpkaiKcC6tFfw-bBB8WszK33CEFvjHPEuLXlxrXmdZrMhldLc4GlDnJVTHYabQm6Wx3beAaejzj3VKNFR8aUCi1FW0/w364-h400/20201020_131436%255B1%255D.jpg" width="364" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Not every mass shooter is a nazi. Some just <a href="https://youtu.be/VPtu5V3kHTM">don't like Mondays</a>.<br />Racial motivations are common, but not the <i>only motivations ever</i>.<br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><p>So people making this specific connection are being both disingenuous and reactionary. It's irresponsible to say "he's a brony therefore nazi; so that's why he did it" while ignoring the current hellscape of an underfunded educational system that produces waves of PTSD in the young people trapped in it, the stigmatized barriers to mental health and often inaccessible price tag such help comes with, and an overall despair which has later generations dropping dead at younger ages thanks to the financial greed, medical gluttony, and psychopathy of the boomers. That kind of thing produces a mindset that can make Fascism attractive as an alternative to the current situation. That's literally how Fascism started the first time. <br /><br />And it's not just about guns, I already talked about <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2017/10/i-luvz-mah-gun-luvs-mah-gun-guns-and.html">guns and entertainment media</a>. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNb7L8jq70zn8gx_u7Jz4tGc1TvCNMrjO_kSNsYatGBmivCgo3hy4DfRNr5pakyfbtrLpDgbsEDy3DYS5leVJUOBNf7CIv5pcdHLGOaxFDQg_2RkTZL-Qc7AAB3VycEwq6xmLN3yp1Wn6/s640/upotte.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNb7L8jq70zn8gx_u7Jz4tGc1TvCNMrjO_kSNsYatGBmivCgo3hy4DfRNr5pakyfbtrLpDgbsEDy3DYS5leVJUOBNf7CIv5pcdHLGOaxFDQg_2RkTZL-Qc7AAB3VycEwq6xmLN3yp1Wn6/w400-h225/upotte.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'sssup Bitches!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Generational differences are still at work here, and I know I've been repeating things like this ad nauseum (last post for a long time when I do this I promise); When Charles Whitman went to the top of the University of Texas and blasted 19 other people on the ground before being shot by police, literally all the warning signs were there and he sought help from 5 different doctors. It being the 1960's they just crammed a bunch of Valium down him and told him to keep his hair short... Then when the -<i>holy shit that didn't work</i>- happened, they tried to blame it on everything other than the fact that doctors gave habit forming tranks to a guy with a brain tumor who had been in the US Marines and expressing violent idiation for a year. When Mark David Chapman gunned down the worlds <i>most famous hippie</i>, John Lennon, and directly tied it to a popular book at the time, no one called Sallinger some right-wing manifesto author, the boomers kept lining up to give their hero Holden <span title="Holden Morrisey Caulfield is a fictional character in author J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Since the book's publication, Holden has become an icon for teenage rebellion and angst, and is considered among the most important characters of 20th-century American literature. The name Holden Caulfield was used in an unpublished short story written in 1941 and first appeared in print in 1945. Salinger's various stories (and one novel) featuring a character named Holden Caulfield do not share a cohesive timeline, and details about "Holden Caulfield" and his family are often inconsistent or completely contradictory from one story to another. Most notably, in some Salinger short stories "Holden Caulfield" is a soldier in WWII who was missing in action in 1944 -- something that is thoroughly impossible to have happened to the 16-year-old Holden Caulfield of The Catcher In The Rye, which is set in 1948 or '49. Salinger's first Holden Caulfield story, "I'm Crazy", appeared in Collier's on December 22, 1945. It is sometimes mistakenly reported that the name "Holden Caulfield" was derived by Salinger from a marquee or poster for the film Dear Ruth, starring William Holden and Joan Caulfield, but Dear Ruth was released in 1947 -- more than a year-and-a-half after Holden Caulfield's first appearance in print, and more than six years after Salinger's first unpublished short story was written using this character name.">Caulfield </span>a fucking blowjob, and forcing 7th graders to read Catcher in the Rye in school well into the 2000s. <i>They</i> couldn't have what <i>they</i> <i>liked </i>besmirched because of violent actions, but <i><b>you</b></i> dear X-Y-Zer are NOT going to get the same measures they gave themselves. MLP is gonna get it.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDHPtgmh9q1sM9ZXHtRTk-SxrN3Emn0bgwNHGPx7ZFUHDVIgu5MRAnxhuI-n6IwRDb_YdfGo5pzYrp2gLDPNbYQ-cKmP2t7NYaMIwkMIlWF_fb7GpIxtm9K-SKA4I-v0xPMvSQJzzyc_En/s1280/CanCulBoomers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDHPtgmh9q1sM9ZXHtRTk-SxrN3Emn0bgwNHGPx7ZFUHDVIgu5MRAnxhuI-n6IwRDb_YdfGo5pzYrp2gLDPNbYQ-cKmP2t7NYaMIwkMIlWF_fb7GpIxtm9K-SKA4I-v0xPMvSQJzzyc_En/w640-h426/CanCulBoomers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Oh and <a href="https://youtu.be/g-uwy2fRRQA">fuck you Tipper Gore</a> too.<br /><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Part Two: The nazi-problem:</span><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>That Was Just the Prologue:</b></span><br />Now we switch gears to the larger scale of things. By no means does that actually mean the presence of nazi ideology and those who proliferate it should not be aggressively addressed anyway. Nazi espousers are bad and can not be allowed into social spaces. When something is dangerous, the threat it poses needs to be stopped immediately and you can go into the causal relationships after that. <br /><br />Something should be done to combat this presence, and that action should be uncompromising in commitment, self-sustaining, and most importantly, explicitly agreed upon regarding what criteria is necessary to be fulfilled in order to spark such action. If you guessed it's that last one that's going to be the source of potential problems, you've been paying attention, so good for you! What <b><i>does</i></b> count and what <i><b>does not</b></i> count needs to be defined because the "I
know it when I see it" way of doing this is woefully insufficient here, and
unless you're title is <i>god of the internet</i>, impossible to implement
logistically. Everyone who is jumping into this with the blunted impetus of just Nazi = BAD is not looking where they leap. This is going to become a problem once the obvious content is dealt with and time marches on. How is this uncompromising effort going to be mitigated with the idea of similarity <span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">≠ synergy; imitation </span></span></span></span><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">≠ endorsement; parody </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">≠ approval; transverse </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">≠ subvert? People are already used to hair-trigger banhammers and censorbots being so hypersensitive and overbearing, that they make mistakes of unimaginable stupidity concurrent with robot-logic as portrayed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane_in_the_Mainframe#:~:text=In%20the%20episode%2C%20Fry%20and%20Bender%20are%20admitted,is%20deemed%20%22cured%22%20and%20released%20from%20the%20asylum.">Futurama episode: Insane in the Mainframe</a>. If you put A.I. in charge of not only filtering content, but then exacting punitive measures against the offending party, then it <i><b>will </b></i>fuck up at an error rate beyond a reasonable threshold, and even humans can end up acting the same way too making things Kafkaesque.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 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class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">The above was banned from youtube for "promoting hate speech" because by the
most extreme technical definition it might fit some word filter that doesn't know
what mimicry-satire is or what references are. (Link to <a href="https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/756434">video here</a>, along with the Original Artist <a href="https://witchtaunter.newgrounds.com/">Witch Taunter online public profile</a>). This is like when some media platforms took down <i>Schindler's List</i> because it had "nazi imagery" in it, because they could not figure out that the movie is not an endorsement of nazi ideology. Don't worry, Spielberg is <a href="https://youtu.be/aKjrOA0x5AQ">replacing all problematic images, with walkie-talkies</a>. <br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p><p><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here's Where I Repeat the Same Thing I Just Said With Different Words:</b></span><br />Website gatekeeping of
actual nazi ideology as portrayed in visual or audio media </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>is an important and ongoing goal, such things are a danger to public safety manifested. To initiate and maintain this effort effectively, the definitions and criteria that must be set as identifiers must be set in a rubric of limited (but not nonexistent) specific criteria, because the material it will encounter will have maximum variability. There is a problem however, in that so many are coming at this with all the disorganized energy of a college freshman cafeteria protest against Taco Tuesday, and the results will be just as ineffectual. Saying "Ban Nazi Stuff!" is so easy, sometimes no one thinks of what "Nazi Stuff" actually means beyond the superficial, and how said "Nazi Stuff" will actively seek to subvert, sidestep, or otherwise surreptitiously remain a presence where it is not wanted. Because these fascist elements are definitely going to try to get around those obstacles, they're not gonna just go home and sulk. If you can't define it, you can't ban it effectively, and there's no Miller Test that can be done at a pace effective enough to allow for the volume of website activity not to be throttled to the point of determent to functionality. <br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box 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kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidiQDiaJK1eV7bYz1yyCX3jfrq3kwwQbvTxLvGVLBQ5oaMLLNOh9UfYSi4kwlT0ezGa-Nj4UFcjbqNzSN3mlZbwEl4VFC3_8XcfMMy0uux85vlhc2ba9qTCc1wML4CSaZDawTHQSmNPgWL/s579/diesirae1.png"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="579" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidiQDiaJK1eV7bYz1yyCX3jfrq3kwwQbvTxLvGVLBQ5oaMLLNOh9UfYSi4kwlT0ezGa-Nj4UFcjbqNzSN3mlZbwEl4VFC3_8XcfMMy0uux85vlhc2ba9qTCc1wML4CSaZDawTHQSmNPgWL/w640-h468/diesirae1.png" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>The official English language account of Dies Irae was kicked off of Twitter for "offensive images" ...think about the logic that needed to be in place to actually do that. This is an example of "<i>doing it wrong</i>."<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>It Has to Look AND Quack Like a Duck.</b></span><br />No one is watching <i><b>Shewolf of the SS</b></i> because they think that the Münchner Abkommen was the best way to institute Das Nürnberger Gesetze. It's because the Commandant has oppai-tastic tig ol' bitties. <span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Software
(and people who don't know shit</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">) have censored or otherwise restricted
access to things that fit a technical quantitative definition, but are
qualitatively very evidently <u>not a an endorsement</u>. Some of the loudest voices of the <i>anti-nazism in fandom</i> ideal can also be some of the most ineffectually vague. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>If you don't know what the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Münchner Abkommen, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Das Nürnberger Gesetze, Anschluss Österreichs, Nacht der langen Messer, The Marshall Plan, Operation Gladio, of the outcomes of the Nuremberg Trials were... do you even know enough about what it is you're trying to prevent? Nazis know, they're actually really into that shit. Here's the <a href="https://e.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Nuremberg_à_Nuremberg">wiki entry of an informative history source I recommend</a> (the original work is in French but there must be an English verson out there) it's by no means exaustive despite being 240 minutes long, but it is one of the fewer historical studies to focus on social, cultural, and soft economic aespects of the war in Europe, and mostly ignore the military nuts and bolts that everything else is so obsessed with. It also does not deal with the Pacific theater, the Invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Dai Tōa Kyōeiken (aka GEACPS), or Unit 731. That's other reading.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhavofsjK7De_RxuA1gnsOtmn574SZV1I3PRaIfHYcqEFbjFgZ4Jtkk6VDw244qNYqvxLGhiYNzeUQsZpUYAGlvSad_dvgQ3Jvl8m1QK_WMTA5Ib0dJ6BiiCaGaw5QEIjrBpcOzrcFr6RmP/s1036/das+ponies.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="1036" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhavofsjK7De_RxuA1gnsOtmn574SZV1I3PRaIfHYcqEFbjFgZ4Jtkk6VDw244qNYqvxLGhiYNzeUQsZpUYAGlvSad_dvgQ3Jvl8m1QK_WMTA5Ib0dJ6BiiCaGaw5QEIjrBpcOzrcFr6RmP/w640-h402/das+ponies.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>So, is this Parody, or Promotion? Should it matter or not matter? What is do be done if anything? (A warning, specific tagging, censorship, banning the artist from future access? All of these are options). Answers to these questions need to be in place before the need to ask them even happens, otherwise this will bogg down to nothing. Some instances will have to deal with these issues en masse as well.<br /><br />Quality of inquiry needs to be high, or these images all get treated as if they are the same. Furthermore, (no one reads this but) if a significant group of Bronies saw these, there would not be 100% concurrence right now of what they qualify as (allowed or disallowed), and such views will likely differ a year or two years from now regarding the same images, depending on what has yet to happen. A manifestation of creeping absolutism is a possibility. Such progression is not bad or good, they can be both, and the result of application shall be the arbiter of such things. <br /></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">This
application of quantitative thought where qualitative should be, is a
pitfall that many social movements have faced and many have also succumbed
to. It's now the NYPIRG thing fell apart in the early 2000s, it's how MADD went
from a Traffic Safety group to the Prohibition Party, and has the final result of an absolutist mindset of polar orientation (meaning that any move or adaptation away from the "pole" of what the stated ideology is, is seen as a move toward its antithesis or that which it stands against). That brings a significant potential determent to the main goal.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p><p><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">If you even bring this potential shortcoming up, some of the energized hoard dog-piles like the Sans-Culottes at the Bastille or Red Guard on the Four Olds. Just asking where the demarcation will be or even a "how does this work" question at all, brings slobbering accusations of <i>counter-revolutionary thought</i>. In their methodology it is a bivalance of proclamation: You are with them explicitly, or against them. This leads to the conclusion that anyone who does not openly voice emphatic support in one of only a few prescribed ways, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><i>without question</i>, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>is ipso-facto not "with them" and therefore supports nazis doing nazi things. The process of flawed logic ends up producing this:<br /><br />X = Against Nazis<br />Y = Asks how best to be against Nazis<br />X = Y didn't state they agreed with me hard enough!!<br />X = Y therefore is a Nazi!<br />Y = "dafuq?"<br /><br />Figuratively or literally, that formula if left to continue unabaited ends like this:<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="434" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQcwX2lqy2IyyqhZCl_Xkuyj17cpAquqGUucaN6PKxcTl-ORbhmEYuOkYj-fv8iSb9egbQxZdLLL79mXP3W4h09_FDa_4GxAp0g2smEcp4mN7CXH1O7H5bTa3xi6yCCC12f0SQypCWIyLa/w245-h400/executing+the+executioner.jpg" width="245" /><br />Robespierre Executes the Executioner, having run out of necks.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">I already stepped on this landmine by saying that a vague policy can lead to both ineffective actions, and creeping absolutism in these matters, and the result was immediate and predictable. They were ready to go full </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> <span lang="zh-Hans">红八月</span> just for that. I actually forgot that, Twitter has a collective reading-level of "high school" at maximum on its best days, and shit flew over so many heads it would have been more effective to just post the Spider Man meme with "how do I banned Nazi" in the word-bubble. Creeping absolutism is not good in this case, because there will always be lack of full concurrence, which will cause balkanization, conglomeration around the maximum of definitions will then become something forced rather than a willing activity, and as the authority of it continues to grow it shall begin banhammering things that don't fit the original criteria of dangerous ideology but simply have some sort of similarity too close for its now ingrained sensibilities. <br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Yeah I know all of that, everyone knows that. You think those Habbo raids were really National Socialists of America having a long-delayed victory party in the wake of the fucking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie">Skokie case</a>? They're doing it to was originally get a rise out of people (because zomg_triggrz lulz) and then it grows from there, with the infected idealogues latching on to it like a remora fish onto anything the moves. They are drawn to it like an insect is to a bug zapper. It expands... grows out into a tree with many branches like racism, nativism, misogyny, jingoism, debate-bro stupidity, and the inevitable ethnicized religion (wherein the name of a religion is used to denote a person's ethnic or racial identity, which it technically can not do, but has grown into such function via repeated bad-faith statements). Cutting down that whole tree is a longer and harder process than lopping the smaller branches. And care must be taken so that -branches or trunk- when cut, don't land on and damage something unrelated. This is not an easy process. If it were, this entire problem would have been solved by 1979.<br /><br />Someone is gonna read this and call me pro-nazi, for <b><i>not</i></b> being energetic enough, for questioning methodology, and because it points out the shortcomings and potential unintended consequences of going full Leeroy Jenkins on just "ban all nazis" as a plan. That's like starting Le Mans with a half full gas tank because you can get off the line quicker. It's not a good strategy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJG6-ThiYLj6oI3tb9Wnrfd-xE-Nm5mxp6-XAThWrS5CBIw7sUOO3EHM3XohqkuDYJHrcMK83cmCbM95J-QWqrBIosYoQI25GyWFfrWzqy6pt78Q4R4C1PLYP3BGz-xqw-hVIiWAwjQCdp/s960/brony+anti+nazi.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="960" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJG6-ThiYLj6oI3tb9Wnrfd-xE-Nm5mxp6-XAThWrS5CBIw7sUOO3EHM3XohqkuDYJHrcMK83cmCbM95J-QWqrBIosYoQI25GyWFfrWzqy6pt78Q4R4C1PLYP3BGz-xqw-hVIiWAwjQCdp/w400-h209/brony+anti+nazi.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pictured: the <i>what</i>, not the <i>how</i>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Anti-nazi efforts in American online fandoms and social media are having bit of a </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><a href="https://youtu.be/ARprA2cPYgI"><span title="Boromir was born in the year TA 2978. He was the eldest child of Denethor II (the penultimate Steward of Gondor) and his wife Finduilas, and would have taken over as Steward after Denethor's death, had he lived. When Boromir was only ten years old, his mother died. Consequently, his father became a grim person and visibly preferred Boromir over his brother, Faramir. Despite this fact, Boromir looked after his younger brother and they became very close. Boromir devoted himself to leading his p..."><b>Boromir-</b> </span>Moment</a>. Some see using one of the defining characteristics of actual fascist totalitarian movements as acceptable, as long as they and their like-minded policy members are the arbiters of such figuratively weaponized discharges. <i>Just let ME use the one ring and it will totally work out I just know it</i> = totalitarian arbitration. That never works out for the best because there's no off-switch. Becoming that which you oppose in order to oppose it, is a literary device, and as it is such, should not be used as a model for real world sociopolitical strategies in entertainment or online interactive media. A fan shouldn't get dog-piled and banned just because they're crossover-ing Girls und Panzer w/ the Maine 6 or something, even if the evocative imagery is there. <a href="https://youtu.be/mkwWY-hkZZg">Take this adorable video of Anchovy for example</a> (NSFW lyrics if you are where they speak Italian). Is it just expressing an appreciation for Anchovy and her aesthetic? Or is it a rousing call to continue the cause of the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><i lang="it">Partito Nazionale Fascista...</i> because you really can't get any more literally Fascist than Giovinezza and the anime reincarnation of Mussollini (except maybe if you played All'armi Inno Fascista).<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Measure Twice, Cut Once:</span><br />So for the last time, I'm not going all <i>paradox of tollerance</i> here calling this a slippery-slope. The singular mote of this entire idea is that this "critique is not dissent." Saying "don't fuck up" is not the same as saying "don't do it." This is a thing that should and must be done. Inspecting the engines before takeoff is not an insult to the mechanical crew. It's something you do to add redundant safety. So equally, is the advocating for clear definitions and processes not an indicator of disagreement with the premise or its impetus. <br /><br />Kneejerk reactions based on ignorance are nothing new:<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="185" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7kOSvW2N_ib0aOfLTKoWMGIvZ0dlVA4yRaJ2ctK4DFNqjs2beEsAmrYmAJMZB35-riVHlkhDnKke9m5-UXTNzZS_WayQJ2StPEwrOug3fkxDgkOsM_AIpAGZGRFYKoCmEqwSscX3qXpAu/w271-h400/blade+of+the+immortal.jpg" width="271" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>I almost got suspended from school for having a Dark Horse issue of <i>Blade of the Immortal</i> because someone saw this fucking page and lost their shit. The counter to my primafacia defense of "it has nothing to do with nazis" was actually challenged with "it doesn't matter, it just reminds people that nazis existed and nazis are bad so therefore this is also just as bad." I literally had to have a friend (parent's friend) threaten a lawsuit to get them to back off. So let's try to do things correctly, so results will last and the avenues of infiltration will be forever blocked for this kind of ideology, and they won't be able to cry foul or hitch a ride in on something. <br /><p></p><p><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">All this over some fuckwit going all waifu for Applejack. I'm not gonna let some big media repeateateteded story of "bad person was fan of such-thing, which means such-thing is bad and watch out if your kids have a fucking Rainbow Dash t-shirt or some teacher sees a Vinyl Scratch pony figure in the background of a middle schooler Zoom classes" change what I like. ...moral panic, thy name is the for-profit news cycle. <br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R7dLSorTiMk" width="320" youtube-src-id="R7dLSorTiMk"></iframe></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Fuck that shit, Applejack is cool. Both as a Pony <a href="https://pinkymixology.blogspot.com/search/label/applejack">and as Booze</a>.<br />(And no I'm not country, NYC born, raised, still live in when not in Tokyo).<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p><p><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><br />Fight against the presence of nazis. Don't (necessarily) break any laws over MLP though... we can go full Abbie Hoffman for better things. And everyone out there, please remember, the worst Nazi infiltration is still happening exactly where we all know it is:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 TitleText___StyledCssInlineComponent-sc-1hpb63h-0 jPnwvF"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 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Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-76416803868239291842021-04-04T15:58:00.012-04:002021-12-03T13:39:57.238-05:00Fixed it For Ya harbenges a new digital Fig-Leaf movement. Defacement of fanart ad maius bonum.<div><p><b><i>Fixed it for ya </i></b>has become the destroyer of worlds: <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZl0Nl-edBMjnCwf_j4fSOPPUwwXn0nCCGk_XePTbETcNr7hHOtv2QjhP6eBODAfrW5OQduteBY-JaMnsCyX71sRve8daH3zh23NC7sRAZfOLq4-o_3eSlNIIhZAqUnUxHpE3XvV0-4Ewq/s225/figleaf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZl0Nl-edBMjnCwf_j4fSOPPUwwXn0nCCGk_XePTbETcNr7hHOtv2QjhP6eBODAfrW5OQduteBY-JaMnsCyX71sRve8daH3zh23NC7sRAZfOLq4-o_3eSlNIIhZAqUnUxHpE3XvV0-4Ewq/s0/figleaf.jpg" /></a></div><p>Yes, this is because of the <a href="https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/controversy-brews-after-fan-artist-fixes-another-artists-work-by-making-knuckles-black">MysticMaryy Sonic fanart fucktardery freakout</a>.<br /><br />A disturbing but "of course, this" phenomenon has started to occur on the inter-web-tubes, spreading beyond the intellectual compost pile that is the tumblr-sphere and other deep dark depths of the zomgtrigggrz xenocentric thought bubble. It has risen. This new disturbance is the next step in the "<i>fixed it</i> <i>for ya</i>" trend in fandom artwork. Do you not know what that is? Well good, let's hope this is the only time you hear about it because it never becomes a thing and just goes away. That means in 18 months, this issue is gonna be all over the place from DevianTart to Patreon accounts to FurAffinity yiff atrocities and probably an as-yet-to-happen great purge of vTubers who dared use the wrong color palette/boobie size/species-incorrect cat ears, so say the masses. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhgWUeBLDTFLB0-dJ7n85BiGv9xuKIv6SpIv-KBGBv3_Jn6WgW9nKXK2XMA7zTpu9v9QwP__lux-iaZL6r9Ur1d_o7yxp0B-pm2RSDqyZGP-kEnoDZ7jPByngjqGn_6RqDEPQlhnMNtN53/s706/uzaki+redraw.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="706" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhgWUeBLDTFLB0-dJ7n85BiGv9xuKIv6SpIv-KBGBv3_Jn6WgW9nKXK2XMA7zTpu9v9QwP__lux-iaZL6r9Ur1d_o7yxp0B-pm2RSDqyZGP-kEnoDZ7jPByngjqGn_6RqDEPQlhnMNtN53/w400-h230/uzaki+redraw.JPG" width="400" /></a><br />Fucking... Patient Zero right here.<br /><br /></div><p>I'd like to establish that "<i>fixed it for ya</i>" is sometimes confused with something called "<i>race bending</i>" which it genuinely isn't, they are two different things (more on that later). <i>Fixed it</i> <i>for ya</i> was at one point, just a self-righteous turd of an artist re-drawing characters in a way that conformed to their own explicit sensibilities in some sort of sociocultural fetishism masquerading as artistic inclusivity. It was always a shitty thing to do and there are far better critiques about what it began as out there than I'll make, such as:<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BxhMvYCXIsA" width="320" youtube-src-id="BxhMvYCXIsA"></iframe></div><p><br />That's how it started, but the current emerging trend of <i>fixed it for ya</i>, is now deliberate changes to the <i>existing</i> <i>artwork </i>of others, not just a re-draw done on one's own. Fixers are literally just taking the art of others and using software to alter it, in order to have it adhere to a visual classification of what they the fixer, have deemed to be either racial or ethnic (sometimes both) or some other quality. Apparently they have a need to do this because a character, as portrayed, is inconsistent with their own cerebral interpretations. When one simply alters existing artwork that is not their own, in order to have it conform to criteria of aesthetic attributes, and then says "<i>fixed it for ya</i>" and sends it back to the original artist, it is malicious defacement and the only "art" it qualifies as is "performance art" in the same way Interior Semiotics counts as theater. Yes, <i>fixed it for ya</i> is now the <i><a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/interior-semiotics#:~:text=Interior%20Semiotics%20is%20a%20video%20depicting%20an%20art,members%20and%20their%20enthusiastic%20response%20to%20the%20performance.">Interior Semiotics</a> </i>of the fanart world.<br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQz9yavfpFl_UcdS2Tqnib7XTg0Uf0GN9K-2-P0s_tXqTI-ndzlDy16GYDJPUUL5leZzkPjhu79FrxHSn2ehzISSOheWRZdnBltZ375XUO9XdgVrA-Tb6FDZL9egFacZiLu3dnUbDjjdzr/s267/zfixes.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQz9yavfpFl_UcdS2Tqnib7XTg0Uf0GN9K-2-P0s_tXqTI-ndzlDy16GYDJPUUL5leZzkPjhu79FrxHSn2ehzISSOheWRZdnBltZ375XUO9XdgVrA-Tb6FDZL9egFacZiLu3dnUbDjjdzr/s0/zfixes.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">And you thought it couldn't get any worse than ZeeFixesArt....<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Now we have some dumb awful pile of lawn clippings, going by MYSTICMARYY, here to <b><i>deface original art</i></b>, call it shit to the original artist's face, and enforce the racial purity laws of the internet, with the smug righteousness of a high school vice principal trying to make the senior class follow the student dress-code on the last day of school.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2lrsGWCRbDCz6r_2SByV7cHi5fptqwjHS4FV11OjEvE8nkRaAo13dHwAzjeScmNm2LGtyb96oMUG-9GKf6GrmNpv-OqA_qWy4SbCISzdyQxgOB4q93mPce96w8YL7zimwb1TUl5QVlOd/s703/MysticMaryy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="703" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2lrsGWCRbDCz6r_2SByV7cHi5fptqwjHS4FV11OjEvE8nkRaAo13dHwAzjeScmNm2LGtyb96oMUG-9GKf6GrmNpv-OqA_qWy4SbCISzdyQxgOB4q93mPce96w8YL7zimwb1TUl5QVlOd/w400-h235/MysticMaryy.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />The ridiculous back-peddling apology that this wonder-bread warrior put out after getting figuratively cuntpunted by the entire internet, has all the sincerity of the script every Republican reads at a press conference after they get caught doing something naughty in an airport bathroom. Seriously, this person actually wrote something like "<i>I give black people money, so it's ok</i>." Then after that didn't work (shock of all shocks), they did the classic <i>delete-fucking-everything</i> and nuked their twitter but not before the wayback machine sucked up all the juicy morsels. <br /></div><div><p>This recent ridiculousness reminisces real redundancy, in that it is evocative of <a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2016/08/wizard-world-is-terrible-convention.html">the Zami070 saga</a> involving <a href="https://www.theodysseyonline.com/why-am-no-longer-steven-universe-fan">the toxic waste dump that was the Steven Universe fandom</a>. tl;dr version is that high-school girl gets bullied into suicide attempt by fans of the show because her fanart did not conform to their absolutist views of body-image and some sort of vague criteria regarding anthropomorphized crystalline rocks who evaporate the swimming pool at the motel, and ostensibly release a cloud of Cl<sub>2</sub> one would assume... It is fan artists who are the subject of deliberate vitriol and forceful corrective measures by a person or persons who have no real authority to do so, and even if they did, it would still be unethical to say the least.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWllOfSNKbBFvH5XXkdn-W44ZPimFaI5AxOwSlfWEpuSSDHUlPdsQ8_OW-f1jLbi_HKQMjjNeKiD5OpwkppEsK7Dckv-nqUw1Ur8tn6yjHbr1KYT9sk1JVThDv-tD4Lkcr-cF0uuV58ZDI/s580/steven+universe+artist.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWllOfSNKbBFvH5XXkdn-W44ZPimFaI5AxOwSlfWEpuSSDHUlPdsQ8_OW-f1jLbi_HKQMjjNeKiD5OpwkppEsK7Dckv-nqUw1Ur8tn6yjHbr1KYT9sk1JVThDv-tD4Lkcr-cF0uuV58ZDI/s320/steven+universe+artist.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">When the actual show staff have to point that out...<br /></p><p>Such is how <i>fixed it for ya</i> (FIFY?), has become the Fig-Leaf campaign of current-year digital art. While the <a href="https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/vaticans-fig-leaf-campaign-ac86884b87a9#:~:text=In%201563%2C%20the%20Council%20of%20Trent%20launched%20the,leaves%20were%20synonymous%20with%20sin%2C%20sex%2C%20and%20censorship."><i>irreparable</i> harm of the actual Fig-Leaf campaign</a> is something that the digital nature of this new phenomenon renders moot, this modern incarnation is indeed harmful none the less. Issuing decrees, attempts to socially and financially harm artists (professionals or fans), and a wrongful assumption of authority to enforce such "rules" makes the actor of <i>fixed it</i> the guilty party, changing someone else's work to conform to a standard that they shall set and enforce. Much the same as when the fig-leaf was chiseled into, painted over, or bolted through works of art with a dangerous zealotry to puritanical hatefulness that would make Oliver Cromwell say "hey, dial it back a bit" <br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjejotPF38yelP2uHP9lo3IxPLxULBOd-PEEg5MTges6nlt83kP0UdyoJ7LXQsMqGtqszeq8U99nQ6QksbwpdrWBav6l7F-OwawgpWbrYPcTa0Vp0_k_kb218wvbCi9wjTYKsJOrTlWhiuD/s418/oliver+cromwell+anime.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="299" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjejotPF38yelP2uHP9lo3IxPLxULBOd-PEEg5MTges6nlt83kP0UdyoJ7LXQsMqGtqszeq8U99nQ6QksbwpdrWBav6l7F-OwawgpWbrYPcTa0Vp0_k_kb218wvbCi9wjTYKsJOrTlWhiuD/s320/oliver+cromwell+anime.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Do you want me to "fix it for ya?" <br /></div><div><div><p></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Indefensible from every angle:</span><br /></div><div>I've seen literal threats of violence made by people who think a fictional character must be recreated a specific way (skin tone, gender, orientation age, hair length, fan of whatever sports team, you name it, it's out there). There is no excuse for that when such threats are worded seriously. <p><b><u>Attacking the first fallacy</u>: </b>Well who the fuck are <i>you</i>? The creator and sole licensing authority regarding these characters? On <i><b>no</b></i>? Really? Then by what authority do you make such demands that a certain character be depicted regarding known human physical criteria? Oh, your fucking fee-fees? Well that's worth at least 5 pounds of go-fuck-yourself because they don't dictate the actions or preferences of others. You can go ahead and not like it all you want... so how about you draw your own version of what you think a better depiction should be? There is nothing wrong with doing that, yet you chose defacement, taking away the work and creativity of another to force it to a standard you have set. You are no one to do such things. <br /><br />This attitude often comes from an conflagration of "emotional investment" with "tangible investment" and the failure to separate them in one's own cognitive processes. Yes, you may totally "identify" and "get" a character, watch all the original content over and over, read and create non-canonical unlicensed works such a comics, audio dramas, fanart, 3D printing, cosplay, ...cosplay orgies etc, but your time, emotional connection, and accumulated knowledge, does not a tangible investment make. You are not a stakeholder. You do not own the property, you did not license any rights, you don't own common or preferred shares in whatever production company is making Title-Whatever you are a fan of. You can either watch the show/buy the book/see the movie, or not. So ends your sphere of influence. You have zero control over the property or characters in the actions of others. <br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO66XpNWYiy5Ts5f8mUsBgd2wfHM8yP6NHQuuC2hBPXr_-FBQ10ZpVwq0oV_wsfTeRXGEuhgKUvvyAijpZOfnpORCoVYdXU_eIhgtuVN0J_TPwH6s6AhHv-VdJieyjJ6W-IHTZyDLrMZ1T/s512/you+owe+them.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO66XpNWYiy5Ts5f8mUsBgd2wfHM8yP6NHQuuC2hBPXr_-FBQ10ZpVwq0oV_wsfTeRXGEuhgKUvvyAijpZOfnpORCoVYdXU_eIhgtuVN0J_TPwH6s6AhHv-VdJieyjJ6W-IHTZyDLrMZ1T/s320/you+owe+them.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><b><u>Attacking the second fallacy</u></b>: <br />Oh, you <u><i><b>are</b></i></u> the original creator and have (somehow) retained all rights and licensing to said characters and associated I.P.? Or you're the producer? Ooooo the CEO of the big media company that bought and now controls the whole thing... globally? Wow, color me impressed. Now, go like it or lump it because what's going on is covered under fair use. Oh yeah, even that really nasty stuff. There's a reason you don't see <i>Erin Esurance</i> out there anymore... it's because, well; ( ´・ω・) (‿!‿) ԅ(≖‿≖ԅ) was all over the internet and Allstate wasn't thrilled about that. See, you can have a say in certain things, but even profit-generating activity gets to sit under that <i>Fair Use</i> umbrella of protection because US Supreme Court: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. You can ask, beg, plead, threaten to withhold new content, all day, but your authority can not force a stop to fanart, even if you and most other people find it repugnant. Previously, I've <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2020/06/being-punished-what-does-future-hold.html">previously mentioned previous examples previously of horrible incarnations of I.P. the original creators absolutely hate</a>. So ends your sphere of influence. You have zero control over the property or characters in the actions of others. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNFozpmx0vydaCuJXLW3L7ad8NLdIqrh9F6zBhDNmk4k_1r6Ts_mqhxFld1lrxqlqm8T4aolCYpP8KQKgiY4l5A3w7l-P4HDkM1-AIXM8tdP_C1n2XQkKoR9XvsvUKCWC8LqsJxSHcNU2T/s1199/fair+use.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNFozpmx0vydaCuJXLW3L7ad8NLdIqrh9F6zBhDNmk4k_1r6Ts_mqhxFld1lrxqlqm8T4aolCYpP8KQKgiY4l5A3w7l-P4HDkM1-AIXM8tdP_C1n2XQkKoR9XvsvUKCWC8LqsJxSHcNU2T/s320/fair+use.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">There, <i>fixed it for ya</i>.<br /></p><p>The Second Fallacy is a combination of both <i>gatekeeping</i> and <i>fixed it for ya</i> style corrections of other people's fanart and are indefensible. You <u>defaced the work of another person</u> because your value-set interpenetrated that work as unacceptable. It is not government censorship, but it is equally tyrannical behavior. <br /><br />This isn't about Race-Bending:<br />Racebending in fanart is fine. It's awesome. Go gender-swap, race-bend, ambidextrous, large, curvy, skinny, everything versions of popular characters are great. The existence of this creativity signifies a comforting diversity in a fandom. Stepping that up to the big Hollywood version of something? Maybe not great every time because, this:<br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZEveoXEvQ5_Qv0-PdI1VvjfY5RRY4Jh4hanmokRKVttjOsn-aQGtihjDA8Dkm42K3_J3tK7w3WZs7lt_TQKX4EyIyAi6n6b0DyPt11vjD2p2_4TSMYg7gj3aLxLOJZy97bKbJdU8sub0O/s685/avatar+whitewash.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="685" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZEveoXEvQ5_Qv0-PdI1VvjfY5RRY4Jh4hanmokRKVttjOsn-aQGtihjDA8Dkm42K3_J3tK7w3WZs7lt_TQKX4EyIyAi6n6b0DyPt11vjD2p2_4TSMYg7gj3aLxLOJZy97bKbJdU8sub0O/s320/avatar+whitewash.JPG" width="320" /><br /></a><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Just... why?</span><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></span></div><p>And if you are actually portraying actual historical figures who actually existed in the actual history of actual human civilization, then ...actually, that might not be a practice one should always try to engage in by default.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3ryPjzlVpajWnN_MFwl7vobhXhKrQlTSK8rRX7SHUN8Xl1b0h2XvKpdZWzEUr17FzUIJpBvLzlPdiGIYz9ttZenXLTXq539VXliO_kOdIjpLFvlsJyW3cmg1pn5xRLR1LSYoQq_mqvzM/s474/black+hitler.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="474" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3ryPjzlVpajWnN_MFwl7vobhXhKrQlTSK8rRX7SHUN8Xl1b0h2XvKpdZWzEUr17FzUIJpBvLzlPdiGIYz9ttZenXLTXq539VXliO_kOdIjpLFvlsJyW3cmg1pn5xRLR1LSYoQq_mqvzM/w400-h266/black+hitler.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />In my own $10 Billion movie about the Aztec Empire, I will be casting Emperor Montezuma as a strong Korean non gender specific nekomimi!<br /></div><p><br />So that's why this <i>Fixed it For Ya</i>, is not race-bending in creative work, rather it is just seeking to punish or harm someone for choosing <i><b>not</b></i> to engage in race bending, or if they do then not doing it the "right way" according to "your rules," ya big shot. In marketing, there's a term called "<i>brand-terrorist</i>" which means a small but vocal group intent on no only <i>not </i>buying products from a specific brand/company, but actively encourages others to cease their customership as well, and dissuade even potential customers from making purchases. This is done by any means the brand-terrorist can bring to bear, quite often involving the brutal shaming of others who have or continue to make purchases against their financial fatwa. Sometimes this happens for good, sometimes for ill, this is just the mechanism I am referring to. Such is a parallel here with <i>fixed it for ya</i>. The defaced and altered fanart is publicly thrown back at the artist by the vandal in an effort to generate derision and harm via a snowballing internet hoard in a mob-rule event that leaves nothing constructive behind it. Forgetting the rule that <i>/b/ is not your personal army</i>, the people who engage in this lack such self awareness that they are often the same group which are extraordinarily vocal about no one ever having "permission" to use or repost their own fanart in the (regarding characters they themselves did not create) or their own OCs in a fit of wanting complete dominance and control as if it were some closed-species insanity (such is the <a href="https://aminoapps.com/c/furry-amino/page/blog/closed-species-dont-exist/d37B_6pxHbuEKLg7Mb74wg40e17EelGdKR7">closed species mindset)</a>. This is in fact so bereft of self-awareness that it reminds you that a significant amount of the people who do this are friggin 16 year olds looking at hentai porn they shouldn't be accessing, with all the subtlety of a brick in a paper bag (very old street brawling reference there). <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyBqHHG8KYuri9pqpU9340nzlF4IGDkmWSJAcy_Vd4pTfX-C52X9YtfqB1ozGGCR0jMIqOUGsH-6qEvMP_xbKtQVdV0LBEc1OcJm7ybSSwqOXIufwzucVFPHIcE25HMHFfEhGSbr82Temh/s565/this+tall+to+ride.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="565" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyBqHHG8KYuri9pqpU9340nzlF4IGDkmWSJAcy_Vd4pTfX-C52X9YtfqB1ozGGCR0jMIqOUGsH-6qEvMP_xbKtQVdV0LBEc1OcJm7ybSSwqOXIufwzucVFPHIcE25HMHFfEhGSbr82Temh/s320/this+tall+to+ride.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: center;">Your annoying younger cousins destroyed the internet. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br />One of the most intense spaces for this phenomenon and horrific toxicity in general at the moment, is the <i>Hazbin Hotel / Helluva Boss </i>fandoms, but the element of how that specific case can serve as an example of how fandom toxicity can derail an entertainment property before it even goes into legit production is an entire million-word post I have yet to finish. </p><p style="text-align: center;">BLM<br />ACAB</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZX8Zn3kJ4kfATdpB7rcX92xkJmxV4PQCWJ8HuB2lcD_E3JR6AbHshPdmLeoiwfYi5goIq8DZac-Uq4fwEV3KuMMzL-OAVHBTxG2xjAsUNlUzDgXdfxy21blVKV2xBOnVb-B_1su591SOY/s600/af4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZX8Zn3kJ4kfATdpB7rcX92xkJmxV4PQCWJ8HuB2lcD_E3JR6AbHshPdmLeoiwfYi5goIq8DZac-Uq4fwEV3KuMMzL-OAVHBTxG2xjAsUNlUzDgXdfxy21blVKV2xBOnVb-B_1su591SOY/s320/af4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><br /></div></div>The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-69189779338459542892021-03-22T19:22:00.000-04:002021-03-22T19:22:03.534-04:00Rip VanErmagerd. Hey, what did I miss?<p>Guess who has got 2 thumbs and a Doppler scan showing no more cancer balls on vital organs? ...this guy. Yes after years of things always getting worse, becoming radioactive, a bunch of unplanned surgeries, being literally immobile unable to stand or sit, and losing 50% of a once decent muscle mass and almost all subcue... I can now eat some normal food, sit in a chair, and not have to keep going over the playlist for my upcoming funeral (it's almost all Hatsune Miku and Luka duets with 3 cover versions of "Fuck the Police" thrown in). </p><p>Yep, I became mobile and able to do things just in time for wave 17 and the UK/Brazil/SouthAfrica/Martian cousins of Corona-Chan to come visit. Probably won't be able to play video games anymore because the partial vision loss is permanent. Well, at least "cancer patient" gets me on the underlying conditions list for the Fouci-Ouchie. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSpLp0vdY8gC5GTpqnbprdwez8qflkyn5EDurPI2LV31WetiYLr-P66vH5JioSxRthksEgQ9yYS2nWne9gcO0JcY9Asl53WWY5svnXjReorI9Pqd4vIv1dtKKIH0YYkcxu1XzCvJjAG_Yn/s1024/coronachan+syringe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1013" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSpLp0vdY8gC5GTpqnbprdwez8qflkyn5EDurPI2LV31WetiYLr-P66vH5JioSxRthksEgQ9yYS2nWne9gcO0JcY9Asl53WWY5svnXjReorI9Pqd4vIv1dtKKIH0YYkcxu1XzCvJjAG_Yn/s320/coronachan+syringe.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ain't she cute...<br /></div><div><p></p><p>I am not going to try and go back and address things that happened while I was rolling around in agony all the time, but I might make references to things now and again. But at least I can get back to trying to regularly compose things on a blog no one ever reads. </p><p>Stay dank. Or not. Why should I be the one to tell you what to do...<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ar4WzQ7KHak" width="320" youtube-src-id="Ar4WzQ7KHak"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p>-<br /></p></div>The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-76257413393882404332020-08-09T15:01:00.009-04:002021-03-22T18:35:39.924-04:00Ghosts of Tsushima: Ignorance revives the White Man’s Burden for the 21st Century.<p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Still no cure for Foot in Mouth Disease. <br />Before anyone goes full WHARRGARBLE about the term "SJW" being used here, please keep in mind that it is not the same as when drunk-uncle or some Fox News chud uses it. This is pure internet circa 2006 traditional meaning of basically someone who develops an overly-righteous sense of impetus for immediate action, to engage in activities that are actually harmful to the very causes they explicitize their support for. In short, picture the Ralph Wiggum from The Simpson's "I'M HELPING" meme combined with Social Justice Sally from way back when. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg02SeIJ1o-RCdiWGyitT40suVf-OA8lnddnwxoLdxPsK7204fAdDaFATvslgAf-OZyBVjeFTc7eM5je_DNCAIdDmNcrFDsx05n0Dolu7CO7-1L1GjIe-FF-6fNg5sfhTtUphbOTC4NvLSH/s480/hqdefault.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg02SeIJ1o-RCdiWGyitT40suVf-OA8lnddnwxoLdxPsK7204fAdDaFATvslgAf-OZyBVjeFTc7eM5je_DNCAIdDmNcrFDsx05n0Dolu7CO7-1L1GjIe-FF-6fNg5sfhTtUphbOTC4NvLSH/s0/hqdefault.jpg" width="271" /></a>I set the standard brah! Not you!</p><p style="text-align: left;">With the release of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_of_Tsushima"><i>Ghosts of Tsushima</i></a>, <b><i>The White Man’s Burden </i></b>of the 21st Century awakens within the campus collective of SJWs shooting themselves in the foot and saying “look at me, I make virtue signal!” with all the self-awareness of the hive-minded student body and staff of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson%27s_Bakery_v._Oberlin_College">Oberlin College</a>. The same crowd that boldly stood up to the oh so egregious cultural oppression of a <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2017/04/ghost-in-the-shell-white-washing-racist-movies-film-critic-survey-1201800022/">non-Asian actress playing a character who uses a cybernetic body based on a European design</a>, in a future where the global population is super-portable from location to location and rapidly erasing genetic racial differences, in an English language movie from a Hollywood studio that was obviously doomed to fail as a commercial film – is now trying to scream bloody murder because a successful commercial venture in video games has not conformed to their standard rubric of what is appropriate when global business spans more than one specific socio-cultural group.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKSLjFv-fCcbzVVbiBqtZL0sDQv9Fl68JiKlEzzfhLNCRYjaW7Vfo6x-V1llUgjJyuMjoWZtuSGsRMdRSJA8Glk_ktcBm7kp7ItIN3Nz5c6-6V5o5G_NhCKvoxA6Cooo_w0XRujtc7fItc/s1506/Lasarus+Ratuere.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1506" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKSLjFv-fCcbzVVbiBqtZL0sDQv9Fl68JiKlEzzfhLNCRYjaW7Vfo6x-V1llUgjJyuMjoWZtuSGsRMdRSJA8Glk_ktcBm7kp7ItIN3Nz5c6-6V5o5G_NhCKvoxA6Cooo_w0XRujtc7fItc/w320-h213/Lasarus+Ratuere.jpg" width="320" /></a>Notice no one got upset when an "Asian" character was played by <i><b>this guy</b></i>.<br />Yeah... total mystery.<br /><br /></p><p></p><p>The argument of requiring a pre-existing qualification to engage in story telling as commercial entertainment being necessarily tied to the actual race or nationality is mindbogglingly stupid, yet through the efforts of these people it has almost become ipso facto default in American entertainment media. To make matters worse, this absolutism is zealously pushed by a mentality that would have Chairman Mao saying “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution">wow that’s a little too intense</a>” and all by groups of idiot morons who can not differentiate between “race” and “nationality.” Furthermore, these mentalities actually devalue cultural practices and histories by indelibly tethering them to things like “nationality” turning cultural practices into compartmentalized commodities that are confined to convenient little boxes they can access as memes and use as tools when they have some meaningless discussion about “identity” and “diversity” in a racially segregated safe-space. This completely ignores the very real fact that nations can have many cultures within them, and that cultures can span the borders of nations. When these people look at things like <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30140414-brazilian-is-not-a-race">race, culture, and nationality</a>, they don’t see wide areas of sociology and anthropology too large to be fully understood, but rather they see poker chips or Pokemon cards, to be used to strengthen their own hand in their posturing and pontificating about what they know is best for specific groups of people. <br /><br />Such an outrage mechanism was engaged when <i>Ghosts of Tsushima </i>was released and some American noticed it wasn’t made part and parcel 100% by genetically pure Japanese. This was a problem that the enlightened ones would not sit still for. Those of the proper higher education were here to protect those unfortunate victims of “cultural appropriation” or whatever, even if the people of the culture being appropriated are so simple and basic that they can’t tell how appropriated their culture is getting, and how it must be stopped before they totally run out of it (just like what happens when you over-mine molybdenum, you’re gonna run out of it forever!). Yes, this was all needed despite the game going over well so well in Japan it scored 40 out of 40, 4 times in <i>Famisu</i>. Just in case you forgot, they know more about video games and the video game business than anyone reading this. Yet there they were, the ever-outraged SJW Brigade who support their America-centric assertions with an absolute authority that comes from being born and raised in Reseda with a Vietnamese mom and Pilipino dad, half way through a weaboo inspired trek through Japanese 201 at whatever-college …because “<u><b>Asian!</b></u>” You know, just like how some guy outside Boston who has Irish grandparents is a default authority on Serbian history and culture because “European.” </p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRYv2-PfHrLdBqSA-YxNfWDMKbC17hKFKFPqaOMlEf-2TA2X1G4jpM5gnXVW9aNcsxaM29pVYtr-4tMBoSqlB_wpgalcO0eIigF_OAgKUZSeAoVNTxDL8xl0g7sPHp4UYCIEy_29Fxlv-_/s792/unqualified.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="792" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRYv2-PfHrLdBqSA-YxNfWDMKbC17hKFKFPqaOMlEf-2TA2X1G4jpM5gnXVW9aNcsxaM29pVYtr-4tMBoSqlB_wpgalcO0eIigF_OAgKUZSeAoVNTxDL8xl0g7sPHp4UYCIEy_29Fxlv-_/s640/unqualified.JPG" width="640" /></a>Hunting with Good Will.<br /></div><p>So having a game, set in Kamakura period Japan with a sprinkle of Edo anachronism here and there, made by a company that is not owned by Japanese investors, not located in Japan, and not staffed 100% by Japanese citizens of Asian ethnicity; is apparently a serious affront to ...either all Japanese nationals or all Asian people from Palau to Kashmir (you can’t really tell with these kinds of half-assed arguments). Jeez, I guess Japanese owners of Ferrari or Audi with right-hand drive should feeling very much of shame not buying Japanese cars! And these people from outside the existing contemporary culture that is Japan (no, watching a lot of anime and learning hiragana does not get you anywhere near that), go on a crusade of moral righteousness, to save the people of Japan and video game consumers around the world from Namibia to Nunavut, from what <b><i>they</i></b> know is oppression in the form of Red Dead Redemption set in Tsushima. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjAEfF3FgS1bGP_kCrFWGYHgnBQLUjve_q67yi5ziln0Q_2Vf4Yd5SmcIqcs5nYYcYkQ2h_1NHDlKt18cLTUmm_RDoN69tlJCNHFQ4U3CQ3AfNnxm9WBZuJz0PjuR1DCqLzOgVKJJlVqnR/s600/sjw_sally.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjAEfF3FgS1bGP_kCrFWGYHgnBQLUjve_q67yi5ziln0Q_2Vf4Yd5SmcIqcs5nYYcYkQ2h_1NHDlKt18cLTUmm_RDoN69tlJCNHFQ4U3CQ3AfNnxm9WBZuJz0PjuR1DCqLzOgVKJJlVqnR/w320-h320/sjw_sally.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><p>What happened next is the ultimate manifestation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden">White Man’s Burden</a> of the 21st Century. Japanese markets embraced the game en masse, and regular average fans, as well as luminaries in the video game industry reacted with a perplexed dismissal at the notion of the game coming from a source that was not racially pure enough being something that would detract from its quality or entertainment value. At that moment, basically all of Japan was labeled “<i>Uncle Tom</i>” and cast as simpletons who simply <i>don’t know what is best for them</i>. Japanese lack of their own “cultural identity awareness” was something that needed to be addressed and it was now up to the American (notice this didn’t happen in France), ivory tower enlightenment-class to bring “civilization” to wield the flaming sword of Social Justice in their defense. Japanese-ness had to be preserved, and the Asian American with their white allies(tm) were just the ones to install such preservation, keeping it un-corrupted like a perfectly unchanging museum piece to be looked at and admired for its own unique-ness-of uniquecallitisity in a uniquely unique way. Like the perfect example of a pure-bred dog, no outside influences shall be allowed to taint such an elegant specimen worthy of cultural admiration. <br /><br />And then as if that wasn’t stupid enough, the land mine of foot-in-mouth disease was trod upon with all the subtlety of a drunk elephant. And yes, I am of course referring to the <a href="https://youtu.be/SSW76F0OIoM">performance of Cornelius Boots at E3</a>. Genius level <a href="https://www.boredpanda.com/girl-accuses-sony-cultural-appropriation-shakuhachi-bamboo-flute-cornelius-boots/">jingoist racist Dani Jo and company</a> a took one look at this and deemed it to be entirely unacceptable that a non-Asian person (not necessarily a non-Japanese, just non-Asian… but something tells me if it were some dark skinned dude from Bangladesh, she wouldn’t be happy either) was playing a traditional Japanese musical instrument to promote a video game. Did she know Cornelius Boots was considered a master of the shakuhachi? No. Did she do anything to find out about him at all? No. Did she look up the word "shakuhachi"? ...No. What she saw in that single observation was enough for her to pass judgement with the unassailable authority of “<i>I are Asian</i>.” By her standards, the shakukachi by its very nature can only be played by someone who is racially and nationally pure enough to meet certain pre-determined standards. She also called the promotional costume he was wearing “<i>traditional Japanese</i>” in her self-righteous ignorance, when what he was wearing was as traditionally Japanese as the outfits at <i>Medieval Times</i> are “traditional” Middle European (ie. they’re not). It was marketing for a product promotion, the same way people put on George Washington costumes for President’s Day mattress sales or the Bacardi group sends out people in cinematic themed pirate costumes with eye patches and shoulder parrots to yell "aarrrrggg." It evokes a modern notion of “concept A” in most people, and that formula is being used to sell stuff. <a href="https://nextshark.com/flute-guy-drew-backlash-e3-wearing-japanese-clothes-surprising-backstory/">Dani Jo</a> and those who followed suit were quickly shut down for being an embarrassment, because when you apply the same level of diligence in your arguments as flat-earthers do, jingoist racial zeteticism shall get you nowhere (other than relentlessly ridiculed).</p>
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Do you think <a href="https://ifunny.co/meme/6-dani-jo-y-can-someone-at-sony-please-explain-Ah76ZfJp7">Dani Jo</a> would have said the same thing if the shakuhachi was being played by a very non-Asian black Congolese woman?<br />...yeah I didn't think so either. <br /></div><br /><p>The culturally appropriated rage onslaught did not stop there, and further delved into the trivial idiocy that only has value to their owned warped perceptions. Arguing about the “correct” conjugation of 続くthat’s “tsuzuku” meaning “to continue” actually started happening. Yep, people who live in suburban America with no JLPT scores were ever so sure that the version as written in the game was “wrong” and therefore un-Japanese enough to cause outrage. The correct response to this notion is simply “shut the fuck up” and nothing more. <br /><br />It was not saddening to see game media like Kotaku, Polygon, Technocodex, and even The Washington Post twist in the wind trying to appease the SJW commandments they have sworn themselves loyal to and say something bad about this game without making their motives obvious. After Ghostbusters 2016, media critics became worthless. What was saddening was seeing potentially meaningful SJWs decide to use their time on something like this, while <u><i>Black Lives Matter is still happening</i></u>, at a desperate point where it needs to make significant headway. Nice use of your time, dickheads. </p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqBHzPWTInQ5maCWvB7v3N_sAu-Hwb1tG3iE-oGjf4MR-Wo1fvB-lntSOM-zmmaMwy9ehB0uTlvSkYxKKwFuENNflhCuTZmC6BPYFkDCiaS_CITDpE6lsQkzFQ6GrFNphsXPaPeFX6rY57/s1200/Black_Lives_Matter_logo.svg.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqBHzPWTInQ5maCWvB7v3N_sAu-Hwb1tG3iE-oGjf4MR-Wo1fvB-lntSOM-zmmaMwy9ehB0uTlvSkYxKKwFuENNflhCuTZmC6BPYFkDCiaS_CITDpE6lsQkzFQ6GrFNphsXPaPeFX6rY57/w320-h320/Black_Lives_Matter_logo.svg.png" width="320" /></a>Still a thing. A much much more important thing.<br /></div><p></p><p>In the end the keepers of objective reality have had a victory against an opponent who we didn’t even notice was trying to fight us. Their arsenal of misconceptions, double standards, and factual inaccuracy, simply had them trying to land punches with fists made of smoke. But in doing so, they exposed their willingness to embrace the White Man’s Burden of bringing education and enlightenment to those who are all but too underdeveloped and savage to even know they need it. The noble SJW Burden, has them bringing American academic social concepts to nations, cultures, and ethnic groups in the name of “helping” them, for they no not what they need protection from. Somehow the perpetrators of such insidious evil believe themselves to be righteous. May their efforts fall as flat as this every time. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioWS2t6xskh4g3CVZu5lpJEnyb7-hQD7kwxvt55QEA1RAp6-AtE1JBqfEmEwLfEw_lvkrs8IBKWc88g7FRUQAnDyJ-_948AUAQzxGU15XrdlRmUZV4lqlDwyWV8jC3Db_GL3xKeVbyoPpn/s733/dani+jo+sjw.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="733" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioWS2t6xskh4g3CVZu5lpJEnyb7-hQD7kwxvt55QEA1RAp6-AtE1JBqfEmEwLfEw_lvkrs8IBKWc88g7FRUQAnDyJ-_948AUAQzxGU15XrdlRmUZV4lqlDwyWV8jC3Db_GL3xKeVbyoPpn/w400-h348/dani+jo+sjw.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">She needs her SAFE SPACE!<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p>And as always:<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig_q6rRvV5LdKTGC9NMPZR__Jx0MRmtYIRUf0jfZvWgma0k9cLRt7_kTjbHWlI41zL7D6BLFlqlwqQ3KzjW3fKuiBlM4hFzHjzXi8TJj5GTnbi5Ykrb6U5ZOJtMZLMtPNY-tUrZnByui4A/s600/Tsushima+fuck+the+police.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig_q6rRvV5LdKTGC9NMPZR__Jx0MRmtYIRUf0jfZvWgma0k9cLRt7_kTjbHWlI41zL7D6BLFlqlwqQ3KzjW3fKuiBlM4hFzHjzXi8TJj5GTnbi5Ykrb6U5ZOJtMZLMtPNY-tUrZnByui4A/s0/Tsushima+fuck+the+police.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">-<br /></p></div>The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-82116941849798221832020-06-13T18:10:00.002-04:002020-06-13T18:10:42.408-04:00Being Punished: What does the future hold for the Punisher Skull.<span style="font-size: large;">When it's too important:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As you might guess, this is going to cover issues that encompass more than just The Punisher Logo and its use by third parties. Let's start with that though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The co-opting of the Punisher Skull by the suburban white "tough guy" crowd has been an ongoing process that we all noticed, but couldn't figure out how to react to. Like a doctor confronted with a condition that could be a deadly infection or a severe allergy, there was no way to tell what the cure for the condition was, and so what action could be taken was never evident. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A good look (not a perfect one) into this phenomenon can be seen in the <a href="https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/" target="_blank"><i><b>About Face</b> </i>piece by Nate Powell</a><a href="https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/" target="_blank"> published well over a year ago.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/" target="_blank">Worth the read.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Of course this is because of Baby Boomers:</b></span></u> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So how did we get to a society where a dangerous amount of people think wearing a virus prevention mask is government oppression, but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Ahmaud_Arbery#:~:text=On%20February%2023,%202020,%20Ahmaud,in%20the%20Satilla%20Shores%20neighborhood." target="_blank">Ahmaud Arbery</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd" target="_blank">George Floyd</a> would "still be alive" if they had just "obeyed commands" of these out of control nutjobs...? Well those of you who regularly read this blog (which is no one), might expect me to instantly blame the baby boomers. And you're right this is their fault. 40 years of having their hands on the wheel of this country and in 2020 they finally drove into the farmer's market and into a brick wall while asking "is this the Dairy Queen" and all that. Thanks for the forever wars, baby boomers. <br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><u>SJW Failure:</u></b><br />But there is a bit more than just baby boomers here. Something that is equally destructive. SJW nonsense. Yep, the ineffectual hydra of emotion that was the SJW movement which attacked everything from <a href="https://youtu.be/jDlQ4H0Kdg8" target="_blank">white guys in dreadlocks</a> to the wrong kind of <a href="https://youtu.be/-mDo0qeRgFM" target="_blank">Halloween costumes</a>, and from <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picnic-origin/" target="_blank">the word "picnic"</a> (yes I was there when that happened), to the <a href="https://youtu.be/3kVGtqp7usw" target="_blank">Melissa Click school of physically attacking news videographers and journalists</a>, they missed their own point completely. While Gillette was busy insulting its own customers and you thought <a href="https://patch.com/new-york/brooklyn/trump-fundraiser-lands-nathans-hot-dogs-hot-water#:~:text=Trump%20Fundraiser%20Lands%20Nathan's%20Hot,fundraising%20event%20on%20Long%20Island." target="_blank">boycotting Nathan's Hot Dogs</a> was gonna do something, the entire effort was wasted. What was mistaken for "micro aggressions" and "toxic masculinity" was indeed something far more dangerous. A resurgence in the exact kind of anti-intellectualism that always precedes and enables a very real manifestation of real fascism. Italy, Germany, Spain, China, Cambodia... all began with a whirlwind cascade of anti-intellectualism. Hoards of people, more than proud to be stupid. The SJW movement was anti-histamine prescribed for tuberculosis. The mark was missed, and the harm is done. We skeptics told you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The perfect army for a Dunning Kruger President. "Poorly" Educated means there was an educational standard that <b>WAS</b> there, but wasn't met. Un-Educated means that someone simply never had that opportunity in the first place. That's a game-changing difference. The <b><i>wanting</i></b> to be stupid, to better fit in... I guess?</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Education:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Modern
Education in America is an entire school system which basically
criminalizes the very existence of teenage identity, treating students
as if they were inmates, incarcerated in educational institutions
subject to the whims of the most incompetent Karen type micro-tyrants.
Whether intentional or not, whether realized or not, it is now a firmly entrenched <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)" target="_blank">factory of The Third Wave</a>, not as a top-down structured goal, but as a natural result of what goes on in there. These "teachers" and "administrators" are shielded in their criminal and
immoral actions habitually taken against students by powerful unions,
hellbent on nothing more than preserving a system that enriches them to
the fullest while providing them with unchecked power (sound
familiar?). Is it no wonder that this environment creates such
balkanized social categories that produce masses of young adults who
only know authority as an unchangeable vehicle for social and economic
elevation. With a higher education industry that only offers worthless
diplomas at a price of lifetime debt, a job and housing market left
destroyed by the baby boomers and their greed without consequence,
hostility of SJWs (real or imagined), the option of being a cop or
military simply for the sake of "now no one tells me what to do" is
attractive to the exact kind of mind that should never be given that
authority. Basically, it's obvious at this point that anyone who <i><b>wants</b></i> to be in law enforcement should ipso-facto be prohibited from doing so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you think that's an exaggeration... just remember that cops did this about 10 minutes before they murdered George Floyd. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>ACAB</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
idea that the country will be able to pass a federal standard for a 4
year degree combining criminal justice and behavioral studies as a
requirement for all law enforcement, has about as much chance of passing
as the <a href="https://youtu.be/2EfHOAZg3xc" target="_blank">Green New Deal does with Dianne Feinstein</a>
in the Senate. This one is a long haul that we're gonna have to add to
the list of things we can only do once the Senator for-life boomers are
out of the way.</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No, you can't have it:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nothing pisses of the cop animal mentality more than wanting something and being prohibited from having it. Not because the thing they want is impossible, or that some natural force has made it unattainable, but because it is kept from them by an authority over which they can exert no influence. To have that dynamic turned on them, is something they can not comprehend and so they react like an angry chimpanzee. But like all situations of this nature, there is but one single way of succeeding, no other endeavor will reach said goal.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not a copyright issue:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/some-want-marvel-disney-crack-down-police-wearing-punisher-logo-2020-6" target="_blank">As has been established</a>, there are no legal mechanisms that Marvel/Disney can employ to compel any police force, military unit, or individuals, to stop displaying the image. They are not selling it or using it as commercial entity, copyright just does not apply. No company can tell you not to wear a t-shirt you bought with their intellectual property on it to wherever you want in public. They can not extend an office of ownership past the point of sale. They wanna slap it on the car, or wear it on a shirt, then that's that. The argument that such actions by police agencies somehow "hurts" the brand is not tenable because in court, a tangible price tag of a real dollar figure would need to be attached, and attached for each instance, of each police agency, in each jurisdiction and so on and on and on and on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Is it a copyright issue?:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Punisher blue-line merch is almost certainly unlicensed. Marvel/Disney can definitely hit vendors and retailers (online or otherwise), with cease and desist orders with a nice friendly Disney "or else" bit at the end. If that happens, many will stop, some will not. The ones which are completely located in other countries where Disney doesn't have as strong a standing, or countries which don't even have mechanisms of copyright/trademark protections to enforce will remain sources for these products. Furthermore, would Disney even think devoting the resources to research, contact, and potentially prosecute makers of unlicensed merchandise? That's a lot of diligence work and diligence work costs money. Don't expect them to open up an office dedicated to dealing with this perpetual whack a mole situation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Totally a copyright issue:</b> <br />There is one option they have. If they have true moral convictions, true notions of what is required to be undertaken in an effort to withhold this meme from those that would use it for anti-humanitarian purposes, Disney will do the one thing they can do. Suspend all licensing. Not </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">stop publication, just physical merchandise. </span></span> Everything from pins to apparel, from decals to <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/648365086/punisher-skull-engraved-decanter-and" target="_blank">decanters</a>, let no official license be granted.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>Anything made after that point is unlicensed and therefore actionable. In short, <i><b>Scorched Earth</b></i>. Will Disney do that? Well you can't get <i>Song of the South</i> on DVD can you...? It's not out of the question. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fuck copyright:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With 3D printing, home made applique, spray paint, power coating, stickers, stencils, photoshop, and whatever else, does it even really matter? It won't stop them. They will do it and take pride in any objections. Such is the animal mentality. To have protesters, BLM, and even the creator himself, object to what is being done with this symbol, serves as boner-fuel for those who have already started to use it for anti-humanitarian purposes. They love it. The "try and stop me" attitude has been ingrained in Americans that have had to endure the hypocritical tyrannical social meat-grinder foisted upon American youth by the baby boomers from D.A.R.E. to "Zero Tolerance" to Jack Thompson. Just like telling a boomer to wear a virus prevention mask, telling MAGAS not to use the Punisher Skull for anti-humanitarian purposes is just gonna make them do it more. It's not going to work. That leaves only one course of action.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hara-Kiri:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Make it impossible for this to be used like that. Kill it, kill what it stands for. The writers and artists must begin a story line where in the comic narrative itself, the symbol is co-opted by a person or entity which uses it in a absolutely vile way. Something like white-supremacist, violent, gay, child molesters. It has to happen so thoroughly, and so permanently, that Frank Castle -The Punisher himslef- abandons the image. The reviled group sees it as a victory as only the most unintelligent among us can, and that skull forever becomes a symbol of violent gay child molesting white supremacists. Something that every cop and wanna be tough guy will forever want to be dissociated from. <i><b>Frank Castle must lose</b></i>. But Frank Castle is a loser in the literal sense. He is the product of loss, the forever damaged aftermath of succumbing to the base instincts of a nature capable of recognizing the irredeemable harm of such a choice. The willing step over the line of damnation is the unforgivable price to pay for the license to his actions. To wield a sword with a handle just as sharp as its blade, cutting into the holder so deep until it can not be let go. Forever in your grip, unceasing in its cries for blood. It will be loss. Fans and readers will now face that loss. As such, there can be no greater purpose than the choice to accept that loss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Frank did not lose his soul. He abandoned it.<br />The tragedy is that he lived in a world where he could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What will happen? What will be done? ...Nothing. Because nothing ever is. Any development, be it solution or exacerbation, will come from an external impetus not yet known. But where things are headed in the broader sense goes beyond one replaceable symbol of an ideology in its death throws. Writhing as it is smothered by reason, desperate to remain and thrashing in the most dangerous way as it is extinguished. I've been an active member of the ACLU since 1997, and it's enough to have seen dangerous extremism from the right and the left, from lawful and lawless, and to know that all lasting change is slow and cumulative. Loss on the other hand can come with the suddenness and severity of any disaster in the relative blink of an eye. We must both instigate and support progressive change, and guard against regressive motion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyone who has seen the fine documentary series <a href="https://youtu.be/SUfTaey7NGk" target="_blank"><i>Housos</i></a>, knows that Australia is what happens when a bunch of cognitively dysfunctional weirdos get trapped on an island full of spiders and snakes, surrounded by sharks and murder-snails. From this Southern Hemisphere version of England with more land and on-fire-ness to it, comes a flash in the pan news tidbit: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So Australian Senator Stirling Griff (yes that's a real name of a person, not a fictional character... somehow), wants literally every single anime and manga ever, inspected by the <i>government</i> for "child exploitation" and subsequently banned in the country if it does not fit some existing standard as defined by said government. Apparently Mr Griff saw some anime with bouncy boobies and tighty-whities and is mad about it, probably because it makes him feel like his pants are shrinking. The entity responsible for government censorship in Australia, which is officially called the Australian Classification Board, has since responded with what could be paraphrased as "<i>you don't tell me what to do, now go fuck yourself</i>" essentially. They already have a government censorship rubric in place for everything and don't need to create a special one for anime or manga. Making this idea more or less dead in the water. Common sense should prevail, as a drawing of "child exploitation" is no more evidence of an actual crime than a drawing of Conan the Barbarian chopping someone's head off constitutes evidence of murder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well that should be it right? One politician has a stupid idea that up and disappears like a fart in the wind. Senator Silver Trench will go pout in the corner and that will be it right? Probably, but like those instances where only the last of the redundancies avoids total disaster, so too does this small event illuminate the tenuous nature of a global market for art and entertainment properties. One where one government can influence sales and license valuations for a global property, to a degree based on their own market size. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When discussing government censorship of entertainment media and art, the usual suspects always spring to mind, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Thailand, Russia, Singapore, all that. But in reality, the government regulation of creative output is embraced by countries which tout their self-celebrated socially progressive atmospheres such as Germany, U.K., Canada, France, Holland, Australia, and so on. But these countries have a long history of maintaining actual thought-police and continue to do so while performing the mental gymnastics required to label them as positive entities which benefit society. They justify their actions in state enforced censorship by arguing they are simply enabling the <i>greater good</i> but in reality are just another way to implement a <b><i>what we say goes</i></b> socio-cultural policy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As mentioned, Australia being one of England's side-projects, and as England loves doing this, so too is like Australia to blindly parrot such thinking. What is somehow second nature to these quazi Euro or Dynastic modes of thinking, are extraordinarily repugnant to Americans. So much so that when the USA was forming an absolute set of laws just after making England go away by shooting their army guys in the face, the very first one was a law expressly forbidding the government from legally regulating written works in any way, and through case law has been extended to art, music, performance, and software. Actually if you look at the U.S. Bill of Rights, Amendments 1-8 can basically just be called "shit the English did that is not allowed anymore." And #1 is a bit crowded, but government censorship is in there. The continued strong aversion to such regulation, is cemented in American cultural identity and jurisprudence, through lots and lots of Supreme Court case law. It is still seen as a very relevant subject today, because throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, it was often American cultural and literary output that has been the target of such government suppression efforts; Don't wanna participate in the SS book burning? Too bad, do it or we shoot you. Get caught with "Amerikanski rock and roll album" behind the Iron Curtain? Time for re-education in Siberia. That book about Robert Ingersoll and modern Atheism? Off with your head you dirty kuffar! Looking at that wrong American website in China? To the Laogai you go for your state sponsored re-education. Hell, if Salmon Rushdie tried to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy" target="_blank">publish The Satanic Verses</a> today, the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/08/29/in-europe-hate-speech-laws-are-often-used-to-suppress-and-punish-left-wing-viewpoints/" target="_blank">UK would probably go crazy trying to ban the thing and lock him up for "<i>hate speech</i>" or whatever it is they're calling it now</a>. No wonder he moved to New York.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This ongoing tension has lead to the one important thing. No other country has explicit prohibitions against the government regulation of any artistic or entertainment content. Those MPAA or ESRB ratings? They come from private organizations and they are not legally binding. The local theater near me does not enforce those ratings and rather makes their own decisions about age restrictions if any, breaking no law. That simply could not happen in Australia, or any other country out there. </span><br />
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<br />Those who fail to learn from the past are... baby boomers. Only from the boomer mind that thinks it's just too cool to keep up with new developments would a notion of a TV studio acting like a record label make sense. In 1995 having a Blackberry made sense too. Since these people have insulated themselves in positions of power which no one would dare offer up an incongruous or critical counterpoint, their clunky outdated ideas will drop on top of the existing market only to smash into it like a rusted 1970 Mercury Zephyr into an electric car show. Theirs is the idea of owning a show from top to bottom and forcing an environment where an interested consumer would have to join a paid service just to watch the one good show that's on it. The days of consumers buying an "album" to get one or two hit songs from it are gone, and it seems as if TV executives don't think that is going to mean anything to them as they try the exact same failed strategy with streaming services.<br />
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If anyone who sees this has seen other stuff written here previously, it would be apparent that I usually take a very negative view of piracy, as it de-values any property and makes it less likely that more of that property will be made. But in this context, "be made" does not only mean produced, but also be made available to potential consumers/audiences/whateveryouwannacallit. By not doing so, a vacuum is created which will collapse in on itself, and never is that seen as a profitable venture. Even though these properties lack tangibility in the literal sense, the rules of logistics are going to apply just as they would to any commodity. Ignore those rules at your own peril, guys. <br />
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There is a reason that Nike.com was never the #1 seller of Nike shoes online. It's because no one goes to a store that sells only one brand of one item. No one wants to register or any nonsense at a different website for every different product they want to buy. Amazon made it possible to look "across the shopping isle" to other brands, other items, and alternative products while never abandoning a shopping cart. Similar thinking in the strategies of TV streaming, forcing potential customers to sign up for an entire service just to get the one thing they want, will similarly kill these studio attempts. We had Hulu, Netflix, or even (shudder) cable providers, which offered all the programming with little barriers of going in between them as a consumer, push a few buttons, and bam you're watching the other thing you want to watch. Throw properties behind a paywall of a completely exclusive service with its own user registration and billing cycle? Yeah, the RVR (reverse value ratio) there is far too big to make it worth it to the point of continuing.<br />
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So why is this even happening if it's so crazy universe ass-plodingly obvious doing so is a terrible idea? Because baby boomers. I am serious, baby boomers are desperate to keep other baby boomers running the show rather than allow opportunities to become available to other generations, will literally do anything to stop younger people from ascending to any type of positions where they would have executive authority. Baby boomers will invent new positions which sound great but don't do anything and put younger people in them, they will abandon entire projects/divisions to get rid of them there youngins, or they will just keep hiring their own generation even if they are way past their expiration date. The generation that says "there's no such thing as a free lunch" but wants to pay you in "experiences" is gonna <i>keep on truckin'</i> and just say "what the fuck are you gonna do about it?"<br />
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They may end up changing the strategy, but boomers won't "learn" anything, they never do. The reason is actually because the boomer mentality is so conceited that despite having ample opportunity to learn new things when they were new (the internet, corp. strategy, environmental responsibility, logging on to wifi, how to rotate a fucking .pdf), they feel they <i>shouldn't have to</i> learn such things. They are just <i>too cool</i> for that stuff. The generation that has such ignorance that finds not until it feels, is not going to avoid a problem in advance. So like many things boomer, this is another one where the solution is going to have to wait until they run out of other reasons to blame it on until they finally end up having to look into a mirror. <br />
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The show <i>Picard</i> itself isn't actually very good. This is going to cause a lot of buyer's remorse and trigger a kind of resentment that people on the receiving end of a <i>bait and switch</i> inevitably feel. It promised so much and delivered a pile of nonsense antithetical to the entire identity of the entertainment entity that is the character Picard and the brand of Star Trek. This should be no surprise as it's coming from Alex Kurtzman. They guy who ran the SpiderMan franchise into the ground, who screwed up Universal Monsters so bad it couldn't even get off the ground at all, the mind behind the box-office juggernaut that was <i>The Mummy</i> with Tom Cruise. Alex "I want a franchise NOW and I don't care what it is" Kurtzman was a bad choice for this. Also, they've given creative input to Patric Stewart... and he's an awesome guy but he's not a Star Trek Writer. He's an MCU actor and has been in a rich-person bubble for a long time. He has so much money he hasn't had to wash his own dishes since before I was even alive, and he's on half-his-age hot trophy wife #3, so, what are we really get from that? Nothing relatable.<br />
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Same has been true with the <i>Harley Quinn</i> series available only through DC Universe. You see it? It's not as good as you were thinking it was gonna be was it...? Sure you're still excited because because of the novelty "ooo animation where they say fuck and tits! ha! Take THAT people who say cartoons are just for kids... like SPAWN, remember AEON-SPAWN & STIMPY?" but that will ware off soon enough. Now imagine you paid for that up front and there's nothing you can do about it. The warning signs were there. The delays, and the character design change to full on suicide-squad Harley and away from the original Paul Dini version (which should always be a red flag that someone involved doesn't know what they're doing). But I am biased in favor of the original version of Harley Quinn and not the Suicide Squad anorexic with a face tattoo played by someone who speaks in a condescending Mary Poppins accent IRL.<br />
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The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-16416259350368581852020-01-28T11:46:00.004-05:002022-09-25T14:06:13.414-04:00The New Sheriffettes: Anime Conventions Write a Modern-Day Comstock Act with Ahegao Restrictions.-<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Keep Making That Face and it will Stay That Way.<br /></span><br />
Anime conventions in flyover country have started “banning” (it's just prohibiting) clothing and other items with ahegao images on them. Prints, books, commissions, videos, towels? What about… a tattoo? Like any amateur we-know-best bunch, they haven’t really mentioned them in any specificity, so apparently non clothing items are permissible. The reason that seems to be given by one of the conventions for such prohibitions is “<i>social climate</i>.” Now, there is no way to successfully parse “social climate” with the notion embodied by the phrase “<i>what other people think</i>” since they are the same thing. Thusly, a sweeping policy which is being applied to everyone is now in place because of … “what other people think.” Following that logic, it becomes very apparent that the actual end of that equation goes from “what other people think” to “<i>what <u><b>WE</b></u> think</i>.” You don’t need to be well versed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin" target="_blank">post-Revolutionary France and the Société des Jacobins, amis de la liberté et de l'égalité</a> to realize where this leads and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_General_Security" target="_blank">CRG squads</a> that will inevitably <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards" target="_blank">prowl the convention halls looking</a> for any and all infractions contrary to the new Little Red Book of obscena- prohibetur. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The New <a href="https://mashable.com/2015/05/27/swimsuit-police/" target="_blank">Sherefettes</a></span>:<br />
The blatant hypocrisy of this development has already been exposed by writers and commentators out there who are quicker on the draw than I am. <a href="https://animemotivation.com/ahegao-banned-anime-conventions/" target="_blank">Animemotivation.com has handily pointed out</a> that the new “rules” are <i><b>only </b></i>applicable to clothing items which have “ahegao” images in an effort to promote a “<i>family friendly</i>” atmosphere. In a telling indicator that this may be also influenced by Anti-Sex conservative creep effect, these rules do not apply to cosplay in this case, just a specific image on clothing items (more on this later). So we end up with:<br />
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This dynamic alone is a red flag made of red flags. Not only is the regulation so specific mentioning ahegao as to suggest an intentional targeting of certain people, but relies on definitions which are beyond vague. What <i>IS</i> ahegao and more importantly what <i><b>ISN'T</b></i> it? Is it a cropped image which depicts sex outside the frame? Is it a cropped image with depicts simulated sex? Is it just that facial expression, which a character could be making while performing an otherwise mundane task? Is it only applicable to female or female-appearing characters? Can masculine characters make an “ahegao” face and would such depictions also be against these new rules? How crossed do the eyes have to be? How far does a tongue have to stick out? They gonna make a chart or something? A new anime convention <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code" target="_blank">Hays Code</a> is no doubt in its infancy right now.<br />
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But wait there’s more; <b><i>Colorado Anime Fest</i></b> has added another tier of inappropriateness. From their stated rule policy, “…will not permit ‘ahegao’ or <i>similar</i> clothing with graphic sexual imagery to be worn on the convention floor” (emphasis added). The danger of such ambiguity can be summed up with the simple explicit question of; <i>Well what the fuck does that mean</i>? Will individual conventions come up with their own criteria for “graphic sexual imagery” and go around enforcing them with vigor? Does such a development remind you of something?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Missing a history lesson:</span><br />
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A social <a href="https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/panhandle-boy-in-home-for-extensive-therapy-after-reading-manga-6557140" target="_blank">conservative resistance to anime</a> and blatant <a href="https://ncac.org/update/acclaimed-japanese-art-book-pulled-from-libraries" target="_blank">hatred of everything from manga</a> to video games was once a real threat to anime fandom itself. When one has to invoke <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California" target="_blank">Miller v California</a> in order to establish one’s “innocence” in wearing an <a href="https://teeshirt21.com/product/lum-of-urusei-yatsura-t-shirt-shirt-Vy3GY" target="_blank">Urusei Yatsura t-shirt</a>, it is indeed a civil rights issue (not the biggest one, but one none the less). From book confiscations to the decades-long <a href="https://techliberation.com/2009/01/23/video-games-and-moral-panic/" target="_blank">moral panic around video games</a>, anime and otaku fandom has been attacked numerous times in the name of social standards and anti-LGBTQ and <a href="https://forward.com/culture/345085/uri-geller-and-the-case-of-the-anti-semitic-pokemon/" target="_blank">other sentiments so ridiculous</a>, that they were (until recently) simply laughed out of the public sphere by fans and <b><i>non-fans</i></b> alike. These new convention authorities seem to be completely ignorant of how hard fought the evolution of otaku fandom was going from fringe element to massively accepted and commercially viable sphere of influence, and so bring such threats back to bear, this time from within the fandom itself. This is what you get when you let people with undergrad degrees from Evergreen State College (<a href="https://youtu.be/kMc8pczn-hs" target="_blank">or any SJWs R Us campus</a>) actually exert authority over entities that operate outside the academic bubble of their <a href="https://youtu.be/i_g9uIHCAZs" target="_blank">calcified nodes of absolutist thought</a>. <br />
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But now, the threat to the fandom comes from <i>within</i>, and begins as always with all but seemingly innocuous pleas of “for the children!” cloaked in a self-projected righteousness. Such restrictions and prohibitions on creative works and thought shall slowly spread as their efforts progress, much as an unhealed wound slowly expands from repeated puncturing by those who seek to add unnecessary remedy. If allowed to continue unchecked, such efforts will bring their exclusionary authority to increasing more types of expression and art (be it commercial or otherwise). What will the result be? A convention bereft of the qualities that make anime and anime conventions fun. <br />
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No fun allowed you counter-revolutionary sex racist!</div>
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<a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2016/08/wizard-world-is-terrible-convention.html" target="_blank">I warned you people</a>. And <a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2017/03/wonder-woman-identity-politics-wonder.html" target="_blank">here</a>. And <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2016/09/cinematic-suckage-oh-shit-hes-talking.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Here <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2011/05/ching-chang-chong-racism-and-not-racism.html" target="_blank">too</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I say, You Can’t Have a Negro"<br /><span style="font-size: small;">-Charles Murphy, Comic Code Authority, 1955:<br /></span></span><br />
For those of you who don’t <a href="https://youtu.be/nMYNpvoiBJw" target="_blank">know the story about that line</a><a href="https://youtu.be/nMYNpvoiBJw" target="_blank">, here is the primary source account</a>. It can be distilled into the basic singular event; specifically the publication of Incredible Science Fiction in 1955, and story in it called “Judgement Day” a short comic where only at the end, the “Hero” astronaut is revealed to be a black person from Earth. This had already been published to accolades before the CCA came into being. The head of the CCA, Charles F Murphy rejected the story based on the notion “<i>you can’t have a negro</i>.” So it was asked of him, “where in the code does it say <i>you can’t have a negro</i>?” to which Murphy responded simply with “<i><u><b>I say</b></u></i> you can’t have a negro.” From that moment, the Code became simply whatever the Chair said it was, and it wasn’t until decades later that a <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2011/02/and-i-helped-mangas-contribution-to.html" target="_blank">wholesale rejection of its necessity did the CCA</a> become unable to exert influence on creative works. If you are under the impression that this ahegao thing won't lead to something similar, the shoehorn for getting your head out of your ass is somewhere around here.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estes_Kefauver" target="_blank">Total Assholes</a>, ruining <i><b>my </b></i>fandom? It's more likely than you think.<br />
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It is easy to dismiss this incident, as Charles F Murphy (who somehow attained the rank of Judge) is the kind of guy who you would absolutely expect to find vigorously helping to frame the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case" target="_blank">Central Park 5</a> in his free time. The platitudes of being far more socially enlightened (which some people think means “<i>woke</i>” but it doesn’t), do not, in fact, shield such overzealous entities, be they groups or individuals, from the exact same perilous cognitive entrapment. The misplaced notion of the need for censorship can find itself misplaced under any guise, be it the preservation or morality, blatant racism, or the happy fun-time feely feels safe space rainbow of the all-encompassing greater good. Once that happens, the individual whims of someone, whoever they may be, in such a position of absolute authority will become the exclusive maxims, and <i>limits</i>, of toleration. This scenario has played out many times in history, always for the worst. What fans have now witnessed is the emergence of micro-tyrants within the convention space. What fans must decide, is how they will fight such an emergence. <br />
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What <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre" target="_blank">such an threat once looked like</a> (<i><b>before</b></i> they shot him in the face and chopped his head off... It's ok, he <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermidorian_Reaction" target="_blank">really had it coming</a>). </div>
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<a href="https://youtu.be/bWeyUTBkTss" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The Penis is Evil! </span></a><br />
So is this a case in which Dworkin style feminism has managed to creep into the fandom? Who fucking knows… but what other mechanism would so necessitate banning ahegao images and nothing else which could be considered equally or even more sexualized? Ahegao does seem to indicate a particular enjoyment of a female character engaging in, as they say, the fucking. Dworkin is notoriously <a href="https://countercurrents.org/2017/02/the-dworkin-mackinnon-anti-pornography-civil-rights-ordinance/">sex-hostile</a>, so by singling out ahegao and it's potential to be sex-positive, it does seem as if this is something that fits the prohibitionist puritan agenda. I promise none of the links are about fart-rape. Except <a href="https://thewaterpipe.wordpress.com/2013/12/22/can-a-fart-be-misogynist/" target="_blank">this one, this link goes to fart-rape</a>. To be honest, this is just a notion of a possibility which may or may not be the case, Kind of a "hey look at that" type of observation, but it is more likely than aliens, a secret cabal or whoever, or something stupid. <br />
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No I don’t mean get naked, this isn’t some off the rails furry convention. What I mean is someone needs to get a 2 or 4 person team, one presenting male and one female, have them walk around a convention each in the exact same ahegao gear, and set them up with hidden cams and mics (<a href="https://youtu.be/b1XGPvbWn0A" target="_blank">kind of like the 10 Hours of Walking experiment</a>). Document what kind of differences there end up being between the two if any. Send them out the next day with ahegao images of exclusively male characters, see what kind of things happen then. Put yourself out there to expose inevitable double standards that will apply to female and male attendees regarding this policy. I would love to see a shirt/hoodie made of characters making “ahegao” expressions but engaged in mundane tasks like buying a drink from a vending machine, or using a calculator. Have the whole image shown so as to clearly demonstrate that these faces do not spring from any sexual activity. See what happens then. Will you be asked to take it off / leave? Then expose that hypocrisy to the world. <br />
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Contact any sponsors of the convention and tell them you can no longer support their products or services if they will sponsor this kind of censorship. Companies have a serious phobia of this kind of thing. I know it sounds like “ok Boomer” advice, but an actual printed letter with a stamp on it via snail mail to whatever company might have a bigger impact than most people think. Just keep in mind there is a difference between a sponsor, an advertiser, and a venue. In marketing, people who do this are called “brand terrorists” but I would shy away from self-identifying as that unless you want a visit from the FBI. I've had that, it's not fun and doesn't look like some innocuous little Mulder and Scully jam session, when the FBI agents show up they <i><u>show up</u></i>. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shut the Fuck Up about your “rights” and stuff.</span><br />This is important because someone is going to go straight into "doing it wrong" when it comes to this subject. None of the First Amendment or its relevant case law applies here. These are private events that have rule sets you agree to follow by buying a ticket. Your First Amendment Rights don’t protect you from any rule these convention entities decide to put in place. Challenge that by deciding not to leave if you’re asked to, and you will most likely be charged with a crime. That crime won’t be “wearing an ahegao shirt” either, it will be “criminal trespass in the whatever degree” which, if you’re lucky will get dropped down to something like <a href="https://law.onecle.com/new-york/penal/PEN0240.20_240.20.html" target="_blank">Disorderly Conduct</a> (that’s what it is in NY, I have no idea what the equivalent is in MN or CO, I’m not licensed to practice there). So stop thinking this is some fight against the great oppressors, it’s not. This is an internal fandom thing. Going on about “free speech” (or “free expression” if you’re in Canada), is not going to get you anywhere. You will just make yourself look dumb. <br />
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Thus, dawn shows its light on the convention floor, where some seek to enforce a wall of incongruity between creative art and high context self righteousness, and others seek to fight against it. Nobody can say they don’t have a horse in this race because arbitrary rules are just that, arbitrary. The longer they are allowed to manifest, the closer the chances that something you like will end up being disallowed skyrocket to 100%. Keeping your head down is not a good option.<br />
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One might easily dismiss these developments as the inevitable excretions of Middle America. Flyover country where semi-sentient MAGA hats <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy" target="_blank">Teach the Controversy</a>, and Jesus is your birth control. Where wild Karens roam the land in their I want to <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/speak-to-the-manager-haircut" target="_blank">speak to the manager haircuts</a>, all complaining in unison about how Amerika has lost its small town feel while driving for 35 minutes each way in their SUV to buy groceries at a Wal-Mart. What they do can easily be bathed in the beige light of insignificance since these places are not epicenters of… well pretty much anything really.<br />
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But one must remember that the most virulent cancer can have its start even in the most vestigial of places, and if not addressed quickly, will metastasize to interfere with the functions of the primary organs. So too has this cancer of thought come out of the provincial interior to potentially effect storied and more progressive conventions of the higher qualities. The notion that a truly great international convention would even entertain such similar nonsensical regulations is both ludicrous, but now also terrifyingly real. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In summation; <br /></span>These types of vague knee-jerk regulations are antithetical to what the anime fandom was, is, and strives to continue to be. They should not be welcomed, entertained, sympathized with, or defended. An initial backlash combined with fandom efforts to force these rules to be more trouble than they are worth is the remedy which must be administered immediately and with unending consistency. Give no ground, lest it be taken by those would evict you from it and leave but salted earth. <br />
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The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-44737328858778777382018-07-25T15:11:00.002-04:002018-11-15T10:29:29.228-05:00The Wrong People for the Job: Keeping CEOs in media and business that are going to sink the boat.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Failure to learn from past mistakes begins with the belief that what happened was never a mistake in the first place."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> -Me, just now.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/09/hbo-change-direction-flourish-says-new-boss/" target="_blank">"HBO made $6 BILLION net profit the last 3 years, has 43 million subscribers, won 29 Emmy Awards in 2017. So we need to go in a new direction!"<br />-AT&T... because, of course.</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although it may seem as if you, dear reader, are in for an art history lesson, it is the actual Medusa event that is the inspiration here. It is something I have been thinking about as it applies to contemporary matters. Famous for being immortalized in "<b><i>The Raft of the Medusa</i></b>" by French master Théodore Géricault in 1819 currently on display at the Louvre in Paris, <i>The Medusa Affair </i>was a horrific event involving incompetence, cronyism, class-ism, and not only epic, but <i><b>consistently </b></i>poor decision making by "management" you could call it. <br /><br />Since Wikipedia exists, the <a href="https://youtu.be/S1KAn6JrPm4" target="_blank">entire story</a> need not be retold here, only that due to the above stated reasons (and maybe a shark or two), the evacuation of most of the people on board met with an 8% success rate, and in case you were wondering, that would be -92% return on living people. The result was mutiny, murder, suicide, and eventual cannibalism. It is a situation with striking parallels to the result of current business practices in these the times in which we live. The more things change, the more they stay the same.</span><br />
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For more information, visit your local youtube video where a college freshman will blur the lines between explain, extol, and pontificate, while talking about what they read about this in an art history book published in 1992. It will be followed by a google ad-sense link for where you can find the best deal on a sub-par print you can hang in your tiny apartment to make people who come over think you're smart. (Which is good because you have really got to stop telling people that <i><b>"The Scream"</b></i> is your <i>favorite Van Gogh painting </i>when you point to that old poster of it you got from the campus bookshop that's still up in your kitchen). ...wow I put so many miles on this joke I could take it to an antique dealer at this point.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Moving on; The recent episodes of corporate death and disease we have been seeing, which range from MGM to Toys R Us, and from G.E. to Toshiba, are not specific to any one industry, but rather the result of a potent mixture of a failure to adapt, generational disconnect, staunch baby boomer self-righteousness, Executive Worship, immense <b><i>misplacement of corporate social responsibility</i></b>, politically complicit corporate corruption, and simple greed in the notion that selling the soul of the company to an investment bank so you could have more money to carry out your bullshit was somehow <i><b>not </b></i>going to end up like a real life version of <a href="https://youtu.be/OzMejWGirJs" target="_blank">Faust</a> (but hey, you're <a href="http://americablog.com/2012/12/hostess-employees-to-get-8-pay-cut-but-not-acting-ceo.html" target="_blank">"executive level" so what do you care</a>...). <br /><br />As these companies navigate the turbulent seas of global business, success and even survival depends on command decisions with the health of the vessel in mind as paramount. All too often in the past two to three decades, concern for such welfares have found themselves replaced by some nebulous commitment to unknowable collectives of financiers, with priorities far too narrow to sustain anything other than the monetary equivalent of theoretical physics that only finance majors could hold so dear. This has elevated the concept of the <b><i>all-star CEO</i></b> to something of value. An asset of luxuriant necessity who's lack of presence is as inconceivable as the absence of air-conditioning in a car owned by someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/3h7ejr/phoenix_arizona_should_not_exist/" target="_blank">living in Arizona</a>. It is not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such is the function of self aggrandizing smoke and mirrors. But much like smoking cigarettes, it only looks cool in the movies, and that intangible <span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>coolwill</b></i></span>* can dangerously overshadow the real irreparable damage to very tangible healthy tissue. Damage which is obscured from being a cause of concern until the lifeblood of the drained body-corporate pours from a gasping desiccated mouth twisted in the physical pain of necrotic tissue attempting in vein to maintain its life, quivering below eyes widened by the fear of inevitable mortality, dripping with impotent tears impregnated with the lamentable knowledge of the fact such a fate as final as this death was by their own hand, preventable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Basically their way of running a company is very harmful but they don't realize it until it <b><i>bites them in the ass</i></b>. This is because like the Captain of The Medusa, they have gained their position through favoritism and noble title, not by showing an ability to navigate an overloaded military naval vessel in the dangerous shallows off of West Africa. Being appointed to such responsibilities leaves most executives genuinely questioning how their "brilliant plan" which relies on strategic metrics and business sensibilities which fully petrified in 2002 could have missed the mark by so much. And why their concerns for rescuing things from their disastrous endeavors are egregious cries of "assets and golden parachutes first!" when filling the few lifeboats who's shortage and inadequacy seems to exist by design. </span><br />
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*What is "<b><i>coolwill</i></b>"? Related to the business concept of <i>goodwill</i>, <i>coolwill </i>is an intangible asset not generated not by deeds which create general feelings of gratis and dependability in consumers, but by deeds which create feelings of envy in competitors. This can include everything from innocuous flamboyance, to seriously self-destructive behaviors such as the insanity of CEO Dennis Kozlowski. While Tyco is an extreme example, the notion of the "cool kids" having the run of the school despite being anything other than human garbage, is a long and storied one and continues into just about every aspect of society. So <i>coolwill </i>is when a Company or Executive benefits from such <i>enviable</i> and not rewarding or <i>dependable</i> behavior. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This brings us to today, where a mix of said "coolwill" and baby boomer selfishness have created an invisible monster that is giving corporate sepsis to companies that make the things we love and which employ the people our communities depend on. Nothing appeals to older executives like being atop a social pyramid and older such people are finding out that the only such pyramids they can stand atop of are ones where they stand on the shoulders of those simply too economically terrified to ever contradict them. Even if that pyramid is one they are ill equipped to take command of. While the <a href="https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/science-ceos-are-such-bullshit-1792484736" target="_blank">myth of the CEO being something valuable</a> is well known and documented, they react like the owner of a pit-bull which has already ripped open 2 Yorkies and human toddler's face, <i>oh well that's not ME and MY doggie, I'm totally different</i>. Yeah, sure you are. But that's only a small part of the reason these companies are showing signs of ill health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The more important part is that the solution to these problems is going to have to include the strategy of filling positions based on ability and competency, not experience and seniority. Nothing makes a baby boomer start worrying more than the realization that their skill-set of telling other people what to do and their "experience" of working with dot matrix printers is not an asset. We see these people paid more for doing less. The notion of "not being able to set up your own email" was cute in 1998, but 20 years on that's like proudly admitting you don't know how to dial a phone or order a pizza. Why does the VP of marketing need someone to explain to them what tent-poling is, or how to analyze new market data? The notion that the keeping of their positions might get tied to their demonstrable abilities and not simply the fact that they just have been there forever will make them dangerous wounded animals. Anyone who says "<i>I've been in the business a long time</i>" needs to be told "<i>yeah, and look what you've done to it.</i>" But of course that's always someone else's fault.</span><br />
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Social issues are also very important, especially in creative and entertainment media. No one wants to work for a generation that <a href="https://youtu.be/fZkK2_6H9MM" target="_blank">denies civil rights to Americans</a>, and calls video games (a multi-billion dollar industry that pays enough taxes to keep their precious Medicare, bailouts, and unending wars going) <a href="https://youtu.be/x1udjd2Aq3E" target="_blank">as dangerous as lead-poisoning,</a> unless they get paid enough to ...<a href="https://youtu.be/pUanS5OWy_k" target="_blank">pay off their student loans</a> I guess.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although this argument could fill pages upon pages, I will simply conclude that this economic environment of terrible terribleness is only going to bring us more bad decision making by a management with inherited and artificially portable power, and unearned reputations of competence value, and a desperate need to stay relevant despite sucking at their CEO jobs. (Jeff Immelt I'm talking about you... You can only sell NBC once).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So what does this mean for media creation and consumption for Otaku? Well I think it means this:<br /><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>For the USA:</b></span><br />This means that media companies will finance irrelevant projects, use outdated strategies, and fail to give the necessary importance to emergent technology ("disruptive technology" is the wrong term, it is just something the old world execs use for new inventions that they can't figure out how to turn on or off). Companies will make crap, and eventually we will see a decline in creativity and content. Just look what FOX did to every single good show they had... yeah, we really need that Tim Allen reboot of whatever it is. Look how well <i><b>Rosanne </b></i>did ammiright?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">You just know Fox is gonna bring this one back in such a socially tone-def manner, the lack of self-awareness is going to create a vacuum which rivals a black hole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's getting there, but recent events indicate that Japan is still playing more of a long-game, which seems like a good idea since we're now in a current climate where the only way to win is almost not to play (at least for the moment).</span><br />
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The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-78899465261882653032018-06-22T09:20:00.000-04:002018-07-26T07:28:15.710-04:00CalArts: The sad end of the American animation renaissance. .<br />
For many, the exact moment when the creative outlet that CalArts provided, metastasized into the unhealthy black mold of media entertainment is easy to identify:<br />
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Like many such situations, the confluence of different emotions and negative expectations give rise to a lackadaisical pessimism that at once is so palpable yet in turn, so difficult to articulate. To summarize; we can call it a galvanization of assumptive reasoning which over time has evolved to invoke a general negative. To <a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/32044.html" target="_blank">summarize the summary of the summary</a>; CalArts is a problem. Much like a movie using the words “<i>Staring Adam Sandler</i>” will guarantee you won’t be watching it, now a CalArts design will serve as the singularity of information which will be interpreted by potential fans as “<i>avoid this in general</i>.” It is the entertainment equivalent of vegan ice cream. <br />
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As with any modal thing, CalArts by itself is not by default “good” or “bad” but becomes associated with one or the other as time progresses (fool me once, blah blah blah). What seems to have developed is a transition from CalArts being associated with creative, progressive, socially attuned, and intelligent ongoing/connected story-lines, into simply the packaging of recycled properties which are considered financially safe and churned out with a rubber-stamp monotony only permeated by the occasional reversal of a gender dynamic or a reference of an internet meme from 8 years ago. <br />
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Much as Adult Swim had many years ago gone from something creative and funny to the mental hellscape of what it is today; something which only holds entertainment value to suburban stoners who couldn’t remember what shows they watched the very next day if their life depended on it and subsisting on a diet of 50% weed, 50% Cheetos, and 50% Mountain Dew (common core math, it totally works), CalArts seems now to simply be the indicator of a production with the least amount of animation effort set to a script that would make a better radio-show than anything else, and will seem just forced as all fuck.<br />
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The only positive to come from this situation is that it may possibly spur a backlash strong enough to push truly well-made, and beautifully animated new and original productions to the forefront. The people will demand change and will vote by changing the channel or whatever. It is difficult not to become outraged when one sees this CalArts repackaging crap-fest brain child of an actual <a href="http://www.elaquelarre.com.mx/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Thundercats9.png" target="_blank">man-bun sporting parody of a parody of "woke" hipster</a> given priority over amazing artistic works like this:<br />
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Animation is a visual medium. Those visuals communicate immense amounts of information in both the form of a singularity and of a linear progression. Not only has CalArts become the new face of over-homogenization, but it is also now associated with rehashed, unoriginal productions which are treated far too much like financial instruments based on "bankable properties" and not enough like creative endeavors.<br />
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<br />The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-6311312129968564442018-03-01T18:17:00.000-05:002018-03-01T18:17:29.366-05:00Returning to Normal.-<br />
I'm back. No, I didn't get deep-sixed by goons, I am not in jail, and no I haven't died from liver failure (yet, but it is on my to-do list). I was in a physical accident involving the, I think the medical term for it is; Nut-Sack, which ended up causing a few other problems as I did the classic early Gen-Y think of just waiting for it to go away because you don't have health insurance, even though now I do (and with only a 12 million dollar deductible! Isn't America just the best?). Short story is a long hospital stay, a massive change in diet, and lots of pills. I am not out of the woods yet even either. So people out there, a steady diet of aspirin, 72oz of 7% ABV beer, and nothing else for 9 days is bad... m'kay.<br />
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Then my internet was out because of my own hardware issues. Just had to use my phone of the wife's tablet when she wasn't using it.<br />
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So after all of that, I am hoping to resume. And gosh, quite a bit has happened... or has it? Something something names change something something stay the same, something something <i>complete</i>. <br />
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The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-47755581634943350072017-10-29T14:34:00.001-04:002018-07-19T09:45:29.284-04:00The Cheeto In Chief and You; How the FCC is about to change your media consumption for the worse.Making America great again, because having 6 channels on your black & white Zenith was just oh-so much the bestest!<br />
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You might have read that (do people read this?) and thought well tell us something we don't know. Fine, as Billy Mays said maybe once, <b><i>but wait there's more</i></b>! The FCC is a massive entity. They do everything from regulate broadcast content, to ensure your new stupid 4G whatever doesn't end up jamming ambulance radios. Their budget is larger than the GDP of quite a few countries (no not just Bhutan) and they can bring it to bear (more or less) however they feel like for whatever reason. Recently the FCC has past new regulations which have deregulated the need for any major broadcaster to maintain a studio within a reasonable distance of a local community it serves. Major broadcasters are going to love being able to shut down expensive local affiliates while making the same amount of revenue by just keeping the tower and having one guy to stick in the carts for the local adverts that will run during a canned news show filmed somewhere in the state with the least regulations, or just reruns of <i>Seinfeld</i>. <br />
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Now it may just seem that this just means something like say goodbye to your local news team (you can bet your ass that's gonna happen if you're some small town resident), but there is going to be more to it than that. To get the regular stuff out of the way, people will lose their jobs, and all of a sudden, second-hand studio equipment is going to become really cheap for a while. That degree in journalism or audio engineering is going to become about as valuable as one in post-modern feminist abstract art theory, and all of a sudden studio buildings will become either parking lots or snapped up by colleges to teach degrees in that now-useless degree I just mentioned.<br />
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You are probably thinking; well so the fuck what, I watch all the things I want to on streaming service whatever, Crunchyroll, I have Youtube channels I like, and I am still torrenting stuff even though it devalues the license and you're a <a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2008/02/response-to-justin-sevakis.html" target="_blank">horrible person for doing it</a>. Lulz. But you need a bit of some harsh reality.<br />
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You ever watch <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Room_(film)" target="_blank"><i><b>Green Room</b></i></a>? There is a scene in there where one of the bad guys explains the difference between a <i>bullet </i>and a <i>cartridge</i>. See, a cartridge is the whole thing that you put in the firing chamber of a gun. It consists of a casing, containing the propellant (AKA gunpowder), with a firing cap at one end and the actual bullet on the other. It is the bullet that is launched out of the gun at dangerous speeds, but without all that other stuff, as well as the gears and springs of the gun itself, it is just a little hunk of more or less useless metal.<br />
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The worst part, is that I pretty much look like this guy (minus tattoos ...needles... ick!) but women still cross the street to get away from me and call me a creep when I volunteer for Community Board 6 in order to get petition signatures for more traffic lights and better traffic safety enforcement in my neighborhood because there are 2 schools right here and cars and trucks drive way too fast past them. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero_(New_York_City)" target="_blank">Vision Zero</a>.</div>
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See ok, the same thing is going on in this situation. This is just the cartridge or even just the shell part of what the FCC is doing. There is more than just the deregulation of local stations going on here. The result of this will be that <i>cord-cutting</i> will become more prevalent. We all know it is going to increase rather than decrease. So you are not worried. Well you should be, because here comes part two:<br />
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<i>Listen, and understand. Th FCC is out there! It can't be
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If you are a Weird Al fan, you might know about a movie called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHF_(film)" target="_blank">UHF</a> that he made. And I think it at this point strangely and inadvertently prophetic. These studios can become epicenters of... rent-able creativity. Everyone creative can create, but an artist can't paint without an easel. A sculptor can't sculpt without a table. A musician can not compose without air. These studios can become a facilitation for local creativity, eliminating the need to move to LA or New York (please stop moving to Brooklyn, I already charge you people $2400 a month for the bunch of 1 BR apartments I have, but I am getting so sick of you transplants). You will be able to be content creators in local municipalities or just towns or even less. But it can reach a global audience only if Net Neutrality is preserved. The FCC and their Corporate Partners are counting on that being able to be legally abolished. They will try anything to make that happen. You just have to write a letter with a stamp on it and stick it in the mail box (you know, those blue things that you pass 100 of while you walk around all day...) Just make sure they know that if they kill Net Neutrality, it will cost them votes. </div>
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The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-19272539967757219652017-10-16T15:26:00.002-04:002022-02-15T15:04:55.917-05:00There's No Business Like Show Business, Unfortunately; #MeTooWell this is something.<br />
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First let me say that I was never sexually harassed while working at any entertainment or licensing company. Where I was sexually harassed was when I worked at a beverage company (juices and soft-drinks) when I was the only male worker in the entire accounting department, and was walking down the hall when one of the other workers (she was Jamaican and the rest were all from DR) was twerking right there and as I walked by the other girls stopped me and asked "isn't that a nice ass? Here get some!" and grabbed my hand and put it right on there with the bouncy bounce not skipping a beat. Keep in mind I am at least 10 years older than anyone else there and was clearly wearing a wedding ring, but noooooooooo they did not give a shit and slammed my hand on that ass. And I am not talking about the outer round part, they shoved my hand right in that <i><b>lil jon</b></i> to-the-window-to-the-wall, kill zone. ...her vajayjay if you couldn't tell. I was told by the head of the department to "lighten up" ...Imagine the opposite, some dudes are in a hall and grab the hand of the only woman in the department and put it on some guy's dick? That's a lawsuit if you're lucky, but for me... it was "lighten up." I quit a little bit later over their illegal accounting practices. All I can say is ...don't buy any <b><i>Tropical Fantasy</i></b> drinks.<br />
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But I am not here to talk about my own experiences like that today. What I am here to talk about is Harvey Weinstein. It is shameful and disgusting that it took so long to have this slime-mold in a human shaped condom held accountable for what he has done. The Weinstein once had a company called Dragon Dynasty, which was in the same business as Crash Cinema; martial arts movies for home media and other streaming outlets. I was once in the same room as that guy at a reception and then again at a somehow different reception later in the year but it was pretty much exactly the same. I did not rank high enough in the scheme of things to be allowed to talk to him (it was made explicitly clear by his handlers) but I was very close in proximity and I can tell you that the creep-factor was at about 1000% with this guy. The only reason I stayed was because there was an open bar with some top-shelf booze.<br />
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The only problem is, this reminds me of my old boss. Scott C Mauriello, former Managing Director of Crash Media Group, Crash Cinema, or Anime Crash, whatever you want to <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2014-05-30/.74675" target="_blank">call that mess</a>. And no, he was not actually co-owner, he didn't own even 1% of Crash Media Group despite what he would say in some sort of Trump-ish grandiose bellowing. First and foremost, he seemed to be illiterate. You would give him a memo and then 2 hours later he would act as if he never saw the thing but tell you to your face he read it in detail. Secondly, he is an audacious liar. He kept telling everyone that his "Japanese Girlfriend" killed herself back in Osaka or something, but she is in fact very much alive and well and part of a jazz band that plays regularly at the Chelsea Piers. And finally, he is a walking boner with no self-control. He once actually started having sex with the 16 year old who worked at Copy Center 2 doors down from Anime Crash, and just taking money out of the register randomly to pay for their dates. ...uuuugg. <br />
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He would relentlessly hit on any woman who had less than a 34" waist and visible tits regardless to if it was reciprocated or not. We had so many potential licensing deals and other projects ruined because he would just not stop coming on to women involved. He would use tarot cards as some sort of intro to his shtick, and say ridiculous nonsense like "you have an old soul" or something similar. The biggest disaster was the almost-happened project that Crash had with DJ Honda. His North American Manager was really ready to make a deal to do background music for martial arts montages (we had 300 titles it only makes sense to make cool music videos out of all the best parts of guys getting kicked in the face) but all that Scott Mauriello tried to do was get her in the sack. Spoiler alert, the deal fell through and I spent hours on the phone with this poor woman telling me everything that the slimy jerk did to her. On the plus side we traded recipes, I gave her my marinara one, and she taught me some cool Korean cooking tricks. And I did get to meet DJ Honda. There were plenty of other things he screwed up too, from the new mascot, to totally fucking up the casting for Geisters because he put girls he wanted to fuck in important roles. (Hey baby, come back to my place and then I'll make you a star... of voice acting).<br />
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So anyway, I watched Scott C Mauriello act like Donald Trump without the money for 12 years and I didn't do shit about it. I am thinking "hey ladies, you know when a skeeve is skeeving on you, so just tell them to shove off" but it often doesn't work that way does it? I remember feeling trapped and helpless as the youngest person in the room, while all the other guys were busy making jokes about how some female employee's tits were awesome or some other female employee (who had the highest sales record for that year) was an ugly dog and how they should get rid of her because the office needs more "eye candy" or some shit. Sipping their Grey Goose pear flavored martinis and all hyuckle bucking about things that belong in the stone age and hardee har har. I sat there, silently. I couldn't have changed their minds but I could have at least thrown a wrench in the gears. I didn't. I knew what was happening. And I did nothing but let it happen for fear of losing my job. Unemployed in New York City is a terrifying prospect. I currently only have 4 clients but if I lose even one I am going to start to worry. And that is how it continues to happen. The oppressed are oppressed, and the good people do nothing for fear of becoming the former. ...12 years.<br />
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Oh and Zenger standard applies so ...fuck off. <br />
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<br />The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-4782535495430654332017-10-09T20:21:00.000-04:002017-10-10T10:07:47.268-04:00It's a Trap! Philips 4K TVs allure but disappoint. In brief: AvoidWhy the Philips 4K TV is a Ford Pinto in Ferrari Clothing.<br />
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The modern TV. It's that and a whole lot more... well it should be. When people hear "Smart TV" they associate it with a generally understood number of set features, but in reality, there is no such set list. I could add a quad-core to a set and give it some random OS that I made which basically does nothing but provide you access to pornhub and vine, and call it "smart" with no problem. What the Philips series does is call a dumb TV smart with the Google Chromcast series. This is a result of their lack of any on-screen menu/interface for streaming apps. Looking through commonly used apps like Netflix, Crunchyroll, or even something like iHeartRadio, is impossible to do on the TV itself. It requires a separate wireless device which you then use to "cast" the individual program you selected to the TV itself which will simply begin playing it. Your expensive tablet is now a glorified TV remote. They also don't even work with Amazon Prime. I am sure it's because Google TV or Youtube Red or whatever they are gonna call it, sees Amazon as a direct competitor. <br />
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This is like if Chevy only made their cars derivable if you were also wearing Chevy-brand shoes with the RFID pedal activator embedded in the shoe-sole as well. It is an extra unnecessary step that no one wants to deal with. Every other "smart" TV can have something "cast" to it, but the other option is to use the on-screen menu, which everyone is not only accustomed to, but also expects. This is like Chevy selling a car with no steering wheel and simply telling drivers to use their new Chevy pedal activation shoes to steer with by pointing your toes in the direction they want to go in. Customers bought a car, they are expecting a steering wheel. Philips has decided you don't, and you're not going to get one.<br />
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The technical specs next to the price tag are the siren song they sing. With more than your standard HDMI ports and some great resolution they are indeed utilitarian and impressive, but even these are not as impressive as they could be. No localized-dimming, speakers that could be better, and a remote that like it was designed by <a href="https://youtu.be/SJBmlM-4lb0?t=6m58s" target="_blank">Jackson Pollock Jr, son of Roy Lichtenstein</a>. All in all, if you don't know what you're in for, you'll see the price tag (which makes a Vizio look like Bentley next to a Kia), ad think something like:<br />
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Well don't be fooled, I am here to let you know that after you get this home and start it up, you are going to start regretting buying it and thinking; "Should I haul out my old PS3 so I can at least get an onscreen menu so it's easier to watch The Orville on Hulu while I am lying on my couch and my tablet is way over on the other side of the room?" The answer will be yes and you will be annoyed. Google seems to not have learned from the mistakes of Apple, and it's probably because they think they are so much better than they are. The proprietary technology and software Apple has famously alienated itself with, will be the proprietary consumer behaviors and end-user activities will eventually create a significant reverse-value-ratio to make Samsung or even SONY products look attractive again.<br />
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This review is mostly based on the Philips PFL5922 series, but looking at others in the showroom were pretty much the same. Don't you hate it when you get "gifts" of things you want but the exact type of said thing is something you'd never want... like when you were growing up and you wanted an NES so you could play it and talk about it with your friends and then one day there's a wrapped up box at home, you get all excited, and it's a ColecoVision. You know you can't be mad, but at the same time you know you're gonna use it once and then just ...not anymore.<br />
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The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-90412584799597891132017-10-02T23:22:00.000-04:002018-07-26T08:14:04.171-04:00I Luvz Mah Gun... Luvs Mah Gun! Guns and their role in entertainment media.Well, if I had one I'd love her... her name would be Alligator.<br />
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So <a href="http://time.com/4964649/las-vegas-shooting-music-festival/" target="_blank">Las Vegas happened</a>. Yeah that was a thing. Although Alex Jones is already screaming "false flag" because, of course he is, it won't take long for other people who actually live on planet Earth to start looking at the idea of guns, the ownership of guns, the use of guns, and the availability of Guns. But in all that, there is going to be one term that keeps getting mentioned I'm sure; "Gun-Culture" and the thing is, you can't really have that without the need to include the concept of "guns-in-culture" along with it.<br />
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I think everyone who grew up in the 80's or 90's knows that one kid who's mom wouldn't let them play with any type of toy gun or gun-like object and if she caught them watching The A-Team there would be hell to pay. These were the days of Dr. Spockian absolutisms of hippy-dippy child rearing and Mel Leveneish notions that literally everything in the environment a young person is in will have some sort of indelible impact on someone growing up, even if it is an abstract concept. Yep, the baby boomers believed that if you just shielded your child from anything negative, then they would grow up to be perfect little conformers to your specific set of values. ...You go ask the Mormons how well that actually works. One of the first aspects of popular entertainment this phenomenon was that moment when you realize G.I. Joe went from being good to sucking ass.<br />
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Fast-forward to post-Columbine and all of a sudden it's; Leather duster jackets are potential warning signhs! Mortal Kombat did this, quick get <a href="https://youtu.be/x1udjd2Aq3E" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton</a> and Captain Kangaroo (no seriously <a href="https://youtu.be/ZbzT5jdx8e8" target="_blank">he was a part of that insane shit</a>) they will ban them there vidja games! Schools need more security than airports and every student is guilty until proven innocent! Marylin Manson! ZERO TOLERANCE! ...oh and people shouldn't keep loaded guns where victims of prolonged sanctioned bullying who may show signs of mental illness can get them ...ya know, just maybe.<br />
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Did entertainment media get less violent as a result? I'd say not really. What happened was the kind of person who was "allowed" access to it was changed. And it was based on age. The generation that said "<i>never trust anyone over 30</i>," smoked weed in public but then embraced the <i>war on drugs</i>, and would gladly give a blowjob to Holden Caulfield because he was just the best, does a 180. All of a sudden there was now a <i><b>wrong </b></i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Manson" target="_blank">kind of music</a>. A <i><b>wrong</b> </i>kind of <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trenchcoat%20mafia" target="_blank">clothing style</a>. A <i><b>wrong</b></i> kind of <a href="https://youtu.be/y2e3frGx8sw" target="_blank">media entertainment</a>. And <i><b>they </b></i>are the ones who knew everything (I mean they totally <i>changed the world</i>, <i>man</i>!) so you will obey them and do what they say. They declared a straight up war on cultural evolution. A war they <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2011/02/and-i-helped-mangas-contribution-to.html" target="_blank">would eventually lose</a>, in part thanks to anime and manga being so out there and so under the radar and shared through technology they did not understand, that they didn't know they were supposed to hate it until it was too late. Even before you could download anything, in my college anime club running days I had a VHS trading network that
reached from Canada to Bolivia and it was all arranged online (yes I am that old). But the "guns-in-culture" problem popped up in that "zero-tolerance" zealotry. So kids; Bring a 1 inch plastic accessory gun held by an action figure to school? Oh, you criminal scum! Wear a clip in your hair that might have a gun-like image as part of it? You're aiding terrorism! Bite a pop-tart in the shape of a gun? IT'S <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal" target="_blank">CARLOS THE JACKAL</a>! And Big Brother is <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Student-suspended-for-liking-photo-of-airsoft-gun-11134361.php" target="_blank">always watching</a>. Even when <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/dan-ackerman-school-sdmin_n_477935.html" target="_blank">you think he isn't</a>. That has unfortunately more or less continued and will probably keep happening for another 10 years until the kids who ended up on the business end of that retarded retardedness get their hands on the wheel.<br />
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So, like I said, now Las Vegas happened. And what are we going to get? First we're going to get people asking for motive, and the NRA going into full head-up-ass damage control mode. Some people are going to say we should ban all guns, some people are going to say we should ban some kinds of guns, and some people will say <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_my_cold,_dead_hands" target="_blank"><i>from my cold dead hands</i></a>. The thing is, the weapon used in the video of the event which is widely circulating is clearly a fully automatic machine gun or sub-machine gun and those have been banned and prohibited for decades.... It is not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_AR-15" target="_blank">one of these</a>. So what are you gonna do, give them super secret double probation banning or something? Guns are a Constitutional issue and as such will take a Constitutional level action to change the question of availability.<br />
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*Edit as of 2017-10-08: I did not know what a bump-stock was when I wrote this and now I do know. I also find that disconcerting. <br />
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Seriously if a Constitutional action can let <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman%27s_Christian_Temperance_Union" target="_blank">some salty dried up cunts</a> make <b><i>this</i></b> Constitutionally illegal in the USA for over a decade, then the gun thing is not impossible if that's what you want. oooo language. ...Hey, the sister blog of this one is called <i>Pinky Mixology</i>, you think I don't want to dig up Carrie Nation and piss on her dead body while her relatives have to watch on CCTV? Anyway that means that one time, all three branches of the US Government once banned <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/the-best-hard-cider-brand_n_1949105.html" target="_blank">this</a> because they thought it was too dangerous for America, while letting anyone buy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun" target="_blank">one of these</a> at a hardware store. Yeah, nice one guys.<br />
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But actual Constitutional Legislation is not not what I am here to talk about. What I am here to talk about is the entirely different universes that "gun otaku" live in between the USA and Japan. In Japan, a gun-otaku may not even like anime, but loves a certain aspect of firearms, that being the engineering (in most cases... I am sure there a few weirdos out there that do sex-stuff regarding them). But that's the engineering of every part, from the action to the aesthetics, so "looks cool" is a big part of why someone might favor a type of gun. The thing is, gun-otaku in Japan really aren't considered dangerous because being a gun-otaku there is like being an F1-otaku here in the USA. You are never going to own an F1 car (deal with it). In Japan, thanks to one of the most intense firearm prohibition policies in the world, coupled with the geography of the country making enforcement of said policies highly effective, it is inconceivable that there would be a proliferation of firearms. Not so much so in the USA, where you can go get one at Wal-Mart while you buy bananas and underpants, and then potentially modify them to have illegal rates of fire (the gun... not the underpants bananas). So since anime are Japanese productions gun violence is treated something akin to wizard-magic in other American forms of entertainment. A scenario so fantastic that it is unrealistic both in the idea that it could ever motivate someone to engage in such a thing for real, and in the way it is even portrayed as happening. <br />
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So for Japanese audiences, in anime, guns might as well be light-sabers, because there is an equal chance of the average person getting their hands on either. In the USA you get all into violent gun anime and then combine that with the fact that you can buy them from vending machines more or less, the impression is that you now pose a danger to public safety, just as much as that F1-otaku could if they actually got their hands on an F1 car and maybe decided to take it for a spin around the neighborhood. And that makes guns, gun-otaku, and entertainment (anime included) with guns in it something that will be subject to such sensitivities now in the USA. This could potentially cause a rift in the number of and type of anime that become licensed by companies here. But I think such an effect would be minimal if it happened at all.<br />
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What are we going to see? It is too early to tell. Is it possible that people will become hostile to media that features the use of guns and all kinds of murdery murder even if it is clearly fiction? Is Netflix never going to stream <a href="https://youtu.be/_FvJoU25SKk" target="_blank">Smokin Aces</a> again? (movie would have made a better anime anyway). Are people under 18 going to be given even harsher punishments and <a href="http://www.myajc.com/news/crime--law/body-search-students-leads-sexual-battery-charge-for-sheriff/nN83WDD9PjytSlLo9bGHqI/" target="_blank">treated like criminals</a> for owning a copy of <b><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunslinger_Girl" target="_blank">Gunslinger Girl</a></i></b> or watching something like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_(1999_film)" target="_blank"><b><i>Kite</i></b></a>? Will just having an image of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upotte!!" target="_blank"><i><b>Upotte</b></i></a> as the background on your pc get you abducted and sent to a "rehabilitation" camp when in reality <a href="https://youtu.be/LoF_a0-7xVQ?t=1m26s" target="_blank">all you wanted was a Pepsi</a> (just one Pepsi), but your parents have bought into the fearvertizing of <a href="http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1680-5-things-i-learned-escaping-troubled-teens-facility.html" target="_blank">for-profit <i>teen crisis</i> programs that don't give a flying fuck how they keep their beds full</a>? Maybe it will happen. I think because the guy who did it is apparently one himself, the baby boomers will do everything they can to point attention away from that fact, and whenever they need a scapegoat, the come for the millennials. They are going to really need a scapegoat now, since this guy isn't around to talk, and so said scapegoat is going to be the information we consume. It will be the entertainment media we seek out that the boomers do not, which they will culturally and politically denounce the heresy of, and those youngins who perpetuate its continued cultural consumption, are going to get treated like like they started the fucking Reichstag Fire. Our generation doesn't have as much control of the steering wheel as we think we do (yeah, we have to do the boomers homework for them because they can barely work anything more than a calculator... but George McFly did Biff's homework all the time and who was <b><i>runnin</i></b> that school? Wasn't Georgie). <br />
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One foreseeable yet inevitable problem is that the ADD addled mind of most of us who exist in a world where not being able to stream a show for an hour because you're in another time zone or something will have you lose your shit, is that this will quickly develop into some gasoline on the Alt-Right vs Antifa mess we normies have to walk around in our everyday lives like compost piles no one had permission to set up in public. And most of the people I know are going to say it's all the alt-right's fault because "the left" doesn't do the guns thing. Well... ya know. <br />
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That bullshit between those two groups is what is going to be the sugar-in-the-gas-tank that derails any progression towards normal thought of how to proceed after this. Cops will be edgy and then end up ruining (or ending) people's lives, and these two same poles of separate magnets will continue to push themselves further apart while the 24 hour news monster takes the rest of us just that much further with them. The end result is going to be a bunch of nothing and then another even worse attack will happen. Here terrorists, you want one, I'll give you one;<br />
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The NYC, subway. A line with the newer cars you can move freely between. A team of 4 (but can be done with two) with two in the extreme front of the first car and two in extreme back the last. Do this latter half of morning rush-hour, when the train is packed and wait a river crossing (ideal lines are 4/5, A/C, L, or F, they have the longest tunnels with curves that make them go slower... except the L, but when does that thing ever NOT move slow, ammiright?). Wait for the train to get half way through and then have someone hit the emergency break. That break takes 20 minutes to reset. Once the train stops, both teams start shooting moving towards the center of the train. Use 9mm semi-autos and carry extra magazines. Make sure one person on the team keeps firing when the other has to reload (reloading is how they stopped <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Long_Island_Rail_Road_shooting#Perpetrator" target="_blank">Colin Ferguson</a>). You are not going to hit everyone so don't try, and don't fire too fast like the <a href="https://youtu.be/m0evZywnnx4" target="_blank">shooting up in the air scene in Point Break</a> that's worthless. You will most likely not have to worry about anyone else on the train who is armed because even if they are, gun-control laws in NYC mean it wouldn't be many people, cops drive to work because they don't actually live in NYC (sorry Staten Island doesn't count as NYC and everyone knows it) and on a rush-hour train, the panic that will immediately set in will have a stampede of people running away from you pushing, knocking down, or at least blocking, anyone who could stop you from continuing to fire. Do this on a rainy day, so that people have umbrellas to trip over but also because you can wear large rain ponchos and no one will see what you have under there. Make sure you get on early on the train line so you can get in position and pick a shitty neighborhood because they won't be doing bag searches there. Once you've done enough damage or run out of ammo you can ditch the ponchos and disappear into the panic and since you have an all new outfit on, no one will know it was you. Do with with 6 people with 2 in the middle and holy shit! ...most of you will probably get caught though.<br />
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There, I just gave you a freebie. See? That's what's gonna happen when these polarized idiot morons, in a country under a really shitty President who thinks playing golf is literally part of his job, prevent real things from getting done. ...Jesus now that I go read that back that sounds like an insane and psychopathic...<br />
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<a href="http://missdynamite.com/" target="_blank">Miss Dynamite</a>. Great series by Canadian writer, illustrator, cartoonist and all around artist of amazing amazingness, <a href="https://twitter.com/sirkowski" target="_blank">Sirkowski</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/4chan-party-van" target="_blank">Oh shit</a>... Well, wouldn't be the first time... Seriously, it wouldn't. If they send anyone I hope the cute one comes back. Oh shit I just realized I totally fit "the profile" for this kind of thing too... <a href="https://youtu.be/gzHfPN2SC1I" target="_blank">Goodnight Everybody</a>. Ah, they know I'm an f-ing joke. Actually if they're reading this, they should be happy about it because I just gave them something they should have been worrying about anyway.<br />
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<br />The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-66035876293054874082017-09-24T16:59:00.003-04:002020-01-29T14:22:38.110-05:00Kya is a lesbian! Why does nobody tell me these things?- <br />
So I bought the <b><i>Legend of Korra </i></b><a href="https://moviepilot.com/posts/3767984" target="_blank">comic</a>, and I haven't read it yet... mostly because I've been spending all of my spare time really drunk, because I have once again lost every single ounce of ability to be happy about anything ever and I am contemplating suicide attempt #4 ...although if you get to #4 and still can't fucking do it, then you just must suck at everything. I mean I could do it but I don't want to go splat off the roof and all the other options would be messy. Living in NYC I have about as much a chance of buying a gun as I do of buying a space shuttle, so I'll just keep eating high-cholesterol foods and just wait for the inevitable.<br />
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So anyway my wifey reads the thing and I mention in passing that I thought Kya was pretty hot and she was like "oh well you wouldn't stand a chance she's a lesbian" and for some reason I actually felt disappointed. Seriously, I've never felt that way before but I must have actually had a thing for Kya that I didn't even realize I had because it felt like it was such a "swing and a miss" moment I was just like ...uhhhhgg. At least Kuvira doesn't mind getting a bit of hetero-action (if you told me she was off the table I would have just lost it). It might be because they are just so intelligent and confident, which I very much dig, or you just know that either gay or straight Kya could teach you a thing or two about how to fuck like a pro. ...And it's definitely the choker + silver hair also. I mean I don't even think Bumi or Tenzin would mind at this point, she's a big girl she can make her own decisions ...like to want Poon and not D... DAMMIT, I can't keep her on the waifu-list now!<br />
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Why the fuck am I even bringing this up? Because AMERICA. No not monster trucks and guns (though that stuff is cool, I mean... you <b>know </b>it is), and not MAGA hats and flags (I am much more likely to burn a flag in protest than to wave one ...thank you <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson" target="_blank">Texas v Johnson</a>), what I mean is that the United States of America is a diverse country, probably one of the most on the planet. The limited history of the USA allows for legal limitations regarding what in other parts of the world are strictly protected cultural institutions. The USA has no anti-blasphemy laws, you can't say that about Pakistan or Ireland. The USA has no official language, you can't say that about China or Poland (or even Canada). And although it wasn't always the case, the USA has no official <b><i>race </i></b>that people have to be in order to be citizens, you can't say that about Saudi Arabia, or Japan (seriously, <a href="https://globalvoices.org/2009/04/11/japan-filipino-girl-sees-her-parents-deported/" target="_blank">Japan is awful about that kind of thing</a>, go look it up). </div>
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That means that although Japan makes most of the best anime, some of it isn't as relatable to American audiences as domestic American productions because there is simply less genuine diversity. Everyone looks exactly the same. (<b><i>OMG he's turned total SJW holy shit</i></b>!) ...no. What I mean is that no, there aren't zero examples of other people who are not Japanese, but have you ever thought about how many characters are supposed to be Japanese that you have actually been imagining as Caucasian this whole time? Yeah... let that sink in. So when a character is put in a Japanese anime that isn't assumptively Japanese, it is usually (not always) done in an exaggerated form to just scream at the audience "GAIJIN" or "GAY" or "WEIRDO" (of course there are definately some gay Japanese Weirdos out there... good for them) or just exaggerate whatever they are going for. Of course there are exceptions, <i>Tokyo Godfathers</i>, <i>Gunsmith Cats</i>, <i>Cowboy Bebop</i>...almost anything about WW II, all that, but those are exactly that... exceptions, not average occurrences. <br />
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The same is true for LGBT characters. Not only do most anime out there telegraph the most stereotypical aspects of what people assume about LGBTQ people, they are super unapologetic about it. (I left out A-sexual and I guess all the other things to be... I don't know... people that have sex with alligators ...which is not animal abuse because if you are having sex with an alligator, that alligator is <b><i>letting </i></b>you do that, no two ways about it. And do not search for "alligator sex" ok, remember when I warned you about giraffe-porn?)... I mean, <i><b>Tiger & Bunny</b></i> was a cool show, but ...c'mon nobody acts like that. OK I actually know someone who basically acts exactly like that (Daemon from the comic store was a huge muscular black dude, spoke like a valley-girl and was gay as a fairy *his words not mine* and I actually flirted with him when I was a freshman in high school just to get the employee discount... nothing ever happened, but I wonder how he's doing) but T&B was still going over the top with the thing.<br />
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So coming back to why the fuck shit hell am I even mentioning any of this, is that there are now shows, movies, and books out there like <i>Korra</i>, and like the new <b><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Elves" target="_blank">Lego Elves</a></i></b> series (yeah it's for kids, so people aren't going down on each other or dropping dead left and right like an episode of <i>Game of Thrones</i>) and even <b><i>My Little Pony </i></b>(seriously there is no way that <a href="https://youtu.be/mNfrKQ65wjg" target="_blank">Vinyl and Octavia</a> are not an item) that have diverse characters in them that don't make a point of 4th wall obliterating exposition regarding the fact that they are who they are. The not-making a big deal about it is what's cool. Maybe it's just because I grew up in NYC and seeing 2 dudes kissing or playing strikebox with an interracial kid my age was no big deal, but with things being what they are today, you can't do enough to make sure that people understand how to avoid bigotry through collective experiences and not simply use pontification to get the point across. American entertainment media is a powerful tool in that process. And for fans of animation, it is important to remember that in the USA, it will be our domestic productions that have the largest and most significant impact in creating that environment. ...Also probably Canada. ...With their stupid metric system.<br />
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This... this is the worst thing I have written. Not that the message is something I think is terrible, but I think this reads like a high school freshman's Livejournal or something equally retarded. I used to be better at the word-making but I either have mid-stage mad cow disease or after all these years the Wernicke-Korsakoff is finally kicking in. But there is so much issue-fatigue out there that these issues can seem not even interesting to talk about anymore. And I get blowback. Seriously, just this year alone I have been called sexist, alt-right, gun-nut, libtard, faggot, nationalist, white nationalist (because that makes a difference apparently), racist, communist, and some wackadoo sent me a message who was convinced I was part of an organization which used chem-trails for something.... dumbass, if I was, I'd be getting paid way more than I am now! At least I wasn't putting it in the water to turn the frogs gay. Stupid frog-metric system. ...<a href="https://youtu.be/D1wzRSBIMy8" target="_blank">that's a thing, shut up</a>. <br />
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The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-74181757871096661682017-09-19T19:11:00.001-04:002017-09-20T16:36:54.770-04:00Toys "Я" Fucked: Why this should be a surprise to no one.-<br />
Fatal blows. Rarely are they instantaneous. Oh sure, there's the <a href="https://www.tvfanatic.com/quotes/pink-mist-what-pink-mist-thats-what-the-bomb-squad-calls-you-whe.html" target="_blank">pink-mist</a> and the head-shot, but most of the time it's a seemingly agonizingly slow process (like when that lady got stabbed by her boyfriend then rolled around and died in front of Taco Madre on Montague Street... that shit took a few minutes. After seeing that I decided I didn't want tacos after all). So it's no surprise that large companies can keep going along as if everything is fine, until finally, the merely <i>potentially</i> fatal wound they've been ignoring for years becomes an inescapable reality.<br />
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While the concept of Toys "Я" Us could have been brought into the modern day by smart people, the outdated CEO mentality of "cut cut cut" was firmly in place and has pretty much spelled doom for the place. See, you could have a company that makes rotary telephones at 1000% efficiency from any other company at any time in history, and you will still go down in flames because you forgot what year this is. This is called "doing it wrong" in business. Trying to be more efficient doing something that is no longer viable as a business strategy in and of itself is how CEOs and Corporate Boards run companies slowly, but surely, into the ground. <br />
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What Toys "Я" Us failed to realize is that they didn't sell toys. Other places sell toys. Toys "Я" Us sells <i>fun</i>. Now of course that means different things to different people, and Toys "Я" Us was never going to be able to sell every kind of fun out there (<i>Six Flags </i>sells fun, but it's not the same, that's destination-fun, not portable-fun). Toys "Я" Us had the chance to learn this early on, when they were the largest video-game retailer in the entire country. Video games are not toys and never were. All they had to do was realize that. Whoopsie. They stayed so long in the waters of traditional retail that their fingers became so pruney they couldn't climb out. <br />
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So the media narrative is going to be that Toys "Я" Us was murdered and not the victim of its own incompetence and ignorance-fueled inertia keeping them in Sargasso until they ran out of provisions. I am sure the Wall Street Journal will try to blame this on "those darn millennials" because we don't drive out to a shopping center to look for out of stock Transformer reboot hunks of plastic made by slave-labor in China, and instead just buy shit on Amazon because our bosses made us stay 2 extra hours to make a spreadsheet/power-point that they are going to take your name of off and put their name on tomorrow at the company retreat (twice a year I had to teach the CFO of a giant multinational education company what "cut+paste" was in Excel so he could stop printing out pages and literally re-typing them). <br />
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LEGO is a great example of how a company can "<a href="https://youtu.be/Vl1NQi_Vit0" target="_blank">stand up on a surfboard after 14 pints of stout</a>" as it were. Meaning that as things move forward in time (as they are like to do), if you read the momentum of your supporting environment, then use your own skill and resources to move forward <i>with</i> that momentum, rather than ignoring it (or worse, fighting it) you can stay afloat and maybe even surpass some other surfers out there on the same ocean. Even Amazon is realizing that it's important to <i>sell what you own</i>, not just <i>own what you sell</i>.<br />
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Yeah I know Mr. Commenty McComment-face, I literally have a graduate degree in this stuff. Chapter 7 is a liquidation event with creditors then shareholders getting to be first in line at the buffet of what comes in. Chapter 11 assumes that the entity will reemerge after a bit of a corporate "time out" so to speak. Here's the thing, Blockbuster filed Chapter 11, so did Radio Shack, Circuit City, and Borders Books. Lots of examples end up with vultures picking the bones clean anyway, and Toys "Я" Us is going to be added to that list, Sears is gonna try but the court probably won't let them because they're that far gone, and then Best Buy somewhere around October/November 2018 . A company you don't expect to do so in a few years is Fresh Direct, but you watch what Amazon does to it with their new toy, Whole Foods. So Toys "Я" Us is going to file Chapter 11 and during that time, under the guise of restructuring, things are going to be monetized, surreptitiously liquidated, and funneled into executive retirement packages and dividends (the X-mas holiday season is gonna be the big juicy one they just suck everything out of while they sell things "at cost"). Then they'll just toss up their hands, blame "the market" or "that there internet," local news will run paid-for stories about the lowest level workers losing their jobs and how sad is this turn of events that couldn't be helped because "new economy" or some shit, and the top level execs will have it on in the background while they are sucking down champagne on Barbados or something. You won't care because you'll be waiting for your Amazon.com or LootCrate delivery from UPS and wondering when was that fucking time you were even in a Toys "Я" Us? <br />
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The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-31108526486225252352017-09-19T06:00:00.000-04:002017-09-21T13:52:51.973-04:00Busybody timeYep I've been inactive on this for a while, but that doesn't mean I am outta here. There is a bunch of stuff that is the happenings.<br />
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LSATS; I scored slightly higher than the national average on the LSATs in June. I might have done better if I had remembered I was signed up to take them... or was sober (I drank 2 bottles of wine before realizing I had to go to the thing, but at least I got in, I can't tell you how many test takers were crying on the sides or in the hallway because they brought their cellphone with them or didn't have a #2 pencil... The were all Asian looking actually...they were, what do you want me do to about it? Lie?) . But it's good enough to get me to where I wanna go. This means that in a while I'll be able to win internet arguments by saying "fuck you, I'm a lawyer" and it won't be a lie. That is not the only reason I am going to law school, but it is the most fun one.<br />
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Speaking of legal things, I am also currently suing the crap out of a certain City Agency for sucking at their job. After that, I will then be suing the private company that was involved. If that works out I will not have to worry about law-school tuition now that I think about it. Although I am still gonna go get a bottle of Jonnie Walker Blue Label.<br />
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I have been taking on new clients so I am actually a bit busy. But we will try to bring you plenty more of this nonsense.<br />
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Apparently Hulu has decided they hate their customers and no longer wants to be in business, because that new interface/menu they came up with is complete garbage. I was lucky in that I used the PSN to access it, and they didn't get around to ruining that until September of 2017. Much as I love some of their original programming and the fact that I could rely on HD quality of programs I wanted to watch (no, Time Warner, I am never signing up for cable TV ever ever again), that menu is just so atrocious that the reverse value ratio it creates is just way too high and I'll just go back to pirating the shows I want to see. Seriously, was this designed by the nephew of the CEO or something? Because that shit pile seems exactly like the crap you get when nepotism and cronyism is involved (remember that Obamacare website disaster that happened because they no-bid farmed it out to one of their friends? Yeah, this is that). Dear Hulu, fuck you so much for doing that.<br />
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Also the target of many a "fuck you" from their users in recent memory is <i><b>Photobucket</b></i>. Yes the photo hosting service with the unsustainable business model has decided to change their game in the most Martin Shkreli-esque way they possibly can and charge exorbitant fees to anyone who wants their photos back. Now this should tell you something about Photobucket; the company (formerly owned by Fox News, so you know the kind of people there are just going to be absolute gems... oh no wait, germs) has absolutely no plans to exist past 2018. They're outta here. They know they're outta here, and they are gonna loot as much out of whatever they can before it happens. The MBA types (I already have one of those so ha), are doing some down and dirty ratios and have figured out that there is a significant percentage of users who <i><b>will pay</b></i> that fee. Either they have businesses that absolutely need to have images hosted and can't function of they go down even for one day, or they have more money than smarts and who gives a fuck. They are going to get as much money as they can, and then fold, because someone there is not gonna have this end without a golden parachute.<br />
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So box office revenues are down and this year <a href="http://www.thewrap.com/no-box-office-relief-sight-summer-hits-25-year-low/" target="_blank">has apparently been abysmal</a>. As for reasons, I tend to subscribe to the <i>perfect storm</i> scenario. The ingredients for this perfect storm are three main ones I think; <br />
#1; stagnant wages. Let's face it, the generation that is supposed to be going to these movies has been screwed hard and nothing is going to get better. years ago, someone with a minimum wage job would only have to work 2 hours to afford to go to the movies (to say nothing about the baby boomers who didn't even need to work more than one to afford a movie ticket). Today, that is a laughable fantasy. When a movie ticket costs close to your entire shift at your shit-job, you are not going to purchase one lightly. Jacking up prices and charging extortion rates for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twizzlers" target="_blank">flavored wax</a> and carbonated sugar water is going to really bite into the whole <i>willingness to pay</i> part of consumer behavior. <br />
#2; There is something better out there now. If you are already paying for Netflix, you are going to maybe say "<i>fuck going to that 5th reeboot of whatever the crap it is</i>" and just binge-watch Stranger Things or get caught up on episodes of <i>It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia</i> or <i>Dragon Maid</i> or something. Online content, streaming whatever, that youtube show you like, all that stuff is the "<i>something better to do</i>" part of the decision to not go to the movies. <br />
#3; No one wants your shit. Seriously, blaming Rotten Tomatoes for falling movie revenue is like Hillary blaming Bernie Sanders for losing the election to Trump. Not only does everyone realize that is complete horse shit, but you come off looking like a out of touch artard who simply thinks so highly of themselves, they can't accept reality. No one is going, because the movies are crap, mostly made that way in a <a href="https://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2011/05/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-chinese.html" target="_blank">transparent cash-grab attempt at the Chinese market</a>. Adding fuel to that fire, is the fact that marketing movies seems to be the only industry where it is permissible for the advertising to straight-out lie to consumers about the product. We have all seen trailers which basically show a completely different idea of what the final film is about, or even use scenes that are not delivered in the film itself. No other industry is allowed to <a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/10/09/woman-sues-over-drive-trailer" target="_blank">lie to consumers with such impunity</a> like that. So it has fostered a heavy skepticism regarding making the decision about whether it's worth spending money on.<br />
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Those three things all at once are a perfect mix of factors that are going to keep people from buying movie tickets. And like any industry dominated by head-up-ass CEOs, Hollywood will absolutely not figure it out until more studios go the way of Blockbuster Video.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The New York Post; Still stupid as hell.</span></b><br />
In a September 8th article the NY Post proved that once again the lights are on but nobody's home, by using a photo of the helmet from <i><b>Skyrim </b></i>in a <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/09/08/viking-skeletons-dna-test-proves-historians-wrong/" target="_blank">story about an actual Viking era burial site</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Whoop Whoop that's the sound of a cash-cow:</span></b><br />
Long-running manga and excellent anime series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochira_Katsushika-ku_Kameari_K%C5%8Den-mae_Hashutsujo" target="_blank">Kochi-Kame</a> (full name; <i>Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo</i>) which ended its 40 year run last year will be <a href="https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/40-year-old-manga-'Kochikame'-returns-one-year-after-officially-ending" target="_blank">back as a manga again</a>. In terms of animation there are no plans announced so far as I know. While based on police officers, they're Japanese police which are not as horrible as our American <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-missouri-crime/st-louis-police-probe-whether-officers-chanted-whose-streets-our-streets-idUSKCN1BT1YC" target="_blank">badged thugs</a> so it makes it easier to like. Plus the <a href="https://youtu.be/WXgLuLws268" target="_blank">cast of the anime</a> is superb.<br />
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This is a fun one and one of those perennial titles that are more popular in Japan than the rest of the world. However if you are learning Japanese, it is a good one to read to improve your abilities and/or stay sharp. Lots of every-day type conversations in there but with some decent jokes as well. There is also some frequent nudity. Because butts are funny.<br />
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<br />The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-24321462369753158072017-06-08T06:00:00.000-04:002017-06-24T00:18:27.617-04:00Waifu Tourism: Using Japanese IP to market "Content Tourism"<br />
Japan see the potential in Content Tourism; Government immediately starts doing it wrong.<br />
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So what is <i>Content Tourism </i>and why are they putting it in a blender with <i>Cool Japan </i>and then just pouring it randomly all over the place? Well apparently, it is in the hopes of increasing international tourism in Japan. Content Tourism is simply capitalizing on people's desire to visit specific locations because said locations were featured in a particular work (novel, TV show, movie, youtube video, whatever), this is slightly different from historical tourism (civil war battlefields, Jack the Ripper crime scene walking tour), only in that the source material for the impetus behind undertaking content tourism is fictional. Both try to attract visitors by providing an intangible value to their tourist activities, in this case access to places connected to things they find interesting. Or tangible value depending what's available in the gift-shop.<br />
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Japan, being a popular setting for many modern fictional works of popular culture, has no shortage of such locations, but has been sorely lacking in the ability to genuinely connect them to the "Content" of Content Tourism. Yes, you may have loved <i>Initial D </i>but are you gonna go rent a Golf GTI or whatever and drive around Gunnma? You might think <i>Crayon ShinChan </i>is hilarious but are you going to go wander around Saitama trying to just drink it all in? (Side-note, It's best just to never ever go wandering around Saitama, seriously, there be some strange things that happen there, arg). So the conundrum is obvious perhaps, connect places with popular anime and you'll get your tourists looking when where that thing happened that time in their favorite anime. How do we connect things? Well technology, it's Japan how else are they going to approach this, you expect them to hire some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animegao_kigurumi" target="_blank">kigurumi people</a> to just walk around and wave at everyone?<br />
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Rather than go with that potential creepy-factor, the geniuses at JETRO have decided to Pokemon-GO the hell out of this idea. Now you can use a mobile device to look around a specific site or building and see that hot little waifu of yours peaking out from behind a corner. Maybe they'll even narrate self-guided tours or tell which nearby kissaten is going to tolerate your weaboo-speak that you think is Japanese. This is an interesting add on and another way the government is going to spend money on a good idea, look back at in 4 years, and say... "well that didn't work either, so what's next?" Well that "conundrum" I mentioned earlier is probably not the impediment in this scenario which is going to be the most immovable. What is happening is something like the Yamato effect. No not that Yamato. More about this later.<br />
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So who <b><i>is</i></b> coming to dinner?<br />
Well, according to the JNTO, the countries that send the most tourists by far are the countries in close proximity, so it's not surprising to see Korea, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong be the top sources of international visitors. But guess who's #5 on the list... that's right it's 'Murica, which so far is beating out Thailand. This is also based on tourist visa numbers so US Armed Forces in Japan don't get included in these numbers. You would expect Australia to have high numbers as well but they don't. And if you combine the USA with Canadian visitors, it outnumbered all visitors from the entire EU. Outside of East Asia, North America is the next most important contributor to tourism numbers from Japan (combined figures <a href="https://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/ttp/sta/" target="_blank">2012-2016 from the JNTO</a>). <br /><br />So, are the increased foreign tourists going to be likely coming from countries that are already among the top contributors, or will they come from new sources that previously hadn't been significant sources? Well that's the big question isn't it, but with geopolitical instability being what it is, Japan and Russia not becoming besties any time soon, and the growing competition out there, it looks like the man source is going to be an increase from the cash cows. But that means there's going to be another problem.<br />
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<a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2010/10/in-brazil.html" target="_blank">Exchange rates are something I have talked about before</a>. Or <a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2011/04/donations-are-worthless-economic-issues.html" target="_blank">here too</a>. But it should be brought up again because the JPY and its stubborn immobility when it comes to rates against the USD and other currencies , it creates the perfect storm of antidote to any pull efforts that this program is going to have with many foreign tourists who would find value in this type of Content Tourism. They are all young, and underemployed, paid stagnant wages, have student debt that is astronomical, and have basically been all kinds of screwed. If you're not a baby boomer, then you are statistically nowhere near the type of person that has the money or time to go an international vacation to one of the most expensive countries in the world. Coincidentally if you're not a baby boomer, you're exactly the type of international tourist that this program is supposed to appeal to. <br />
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That means that this program is probably so much more effective on domestic tourism markets rather than foreign tourism (with the exception of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea" target="_blank">ROK</a>, but ROK to Japan is like USA to Canada, it almost doesn't count as an international excursion). Domestic Japanese will feel a great appeal for this more than foreign fans but more importantly will have the means to capitalize on this opportunity for a valuable experience. They ill not be tethered by tourist schedules and the need to see things in order of importance. Seriously, if you're from outside Japan and it's your first time in Kyoto, you <i><b>will</b></i> be going to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyomizu-dera" target="_blank">Kiyomizu</a> regardless of what this program has to offer. If you live in Japan you might have seen it before or can come back to it. If you live in Japan you won't be worried about international data charges on a wireless device or having to have a whole other one just for this to work. If you live in Japan you would know that acting like an anime character in public is just as socially frowned upon as if you were in the USA and lived as if you were one of the characters in <i>It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia</i>. If you live in Japan, you are the market that this would bring the most value to. But where are they taking it? Where it doesn't belong. If the Japanese government were serious about getting more foreign tourists to visit, they would focus on ways to make it affordable for a young American couple in their 20s who were born the same year as Otakon started, to be able to get there at all. But that would mean falling out of love with Tokyo, and it's not really in keeping with Abenomics (whatever it happens to be this election). <br />
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So now, connecting that to the Yamato effect at this point should be easy. The Yamato was truly a magnificent piece of
engineering. It could shoot at you from so far away that the curvature
of the earth itself prevented you from seeing it. It had an elite crew,
lots of power, and was the perfect flag ship for any navy... if it had
been in the Battle of Jutland. They had the best, most bad-ass Arceus
they could have, and threw it at 10,001 Charmeleon who were all in a
really bad mood. Results were as to be expected. So the Yamato effect
is when you have something that's amazing at what it does, and do
incongruous things with it. Yes you could cut 9 feet of plywood with a
premium Dremel router bit, but a table saw is going to do that better.
The same is happening here. Japan has the best knife to win a knife fight with, and they're fighting someone with a gun they bought from a pawn shop.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kyoto State of Mind.</span><br />
In case you missed it, Crunchyroll is streaming <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=15205" target="_blank"><i>The Eccentric Family </i>(<i>Uchōten Kazoku</i>)</a> season 2. They actually started doing this in April, but it's still a slow release so you haven't missed much. There's something about this series that anyone who has lived in/near Kyoto is going to get all squee-squee nostalgic about. Ditching class to just hang out around the shrines and parks around Kyoto creates a special feeling that just stays with you. <i>The Eccentric Family </i>does quite a nice job capturing the Kyoto city-scape and overall vibe. <br />
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If you haven't seen it at all, <i>The Eccentric Family </i>is a well made series that incorporates elements of Japanese mythology with the inter-personal politics and foibles of everyday life. The characters have interesting faults and while not being completely free of trope-tastic deus ex machina plot navigation at times, it folds it in nicely and doesn't make investing your time in the series a painful experience. So if you haven't yet, go on over to <a href="http://www.crunchyroll.com/the-eccentric-family" target="_blank">Crunchyroll and give it a look-see</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anime-Style Novel Contest in Japan Bans Alternate Reality Stories and Teen Protagonists</span><br />
I am ok with this. You know why? Because if they didn't then 90% of the entries would be that same shit. Yes, Alck-Metal-Fullamist was great (the first time around), but we don't need to hear a million stories about how <i>in a world where they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people<a href="https://youtu.be/jt6_CDVgR_o" target="_blank">,</a> a 16 year old born without a left ass-cheek saves an entire planet of vaguely middle eastern weirdos with purple hair from magic-hitler</i>. Come up with something a bit more appealing to a broader audience.<br />
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Remember when I wrote <a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2011/07/video-killed-video-star-anime-music.html" target="_blank">that thing about AMVs and it got everyone in a tizzy</a>? Of course you don't, fresh', it was 2011 and you were taking the SATs. But what I did mention was how agonizing it was when certain trends become too prolific, and there was an unhealthy saturation of AMVs using the same Linkin Park song(s) to either <i>Evangelion </i>or that new <i>Vampire Hunter D</i> that came out at the time. So, so, so many of those were standing between the audience and the actual good AMVs that it was just painful. Such is the case here and now with writing. It is the same shit over and over and over just with different hair colors and number of "senpai notice me!" moments. If outside force is required to avoid that, then it should be applied. <br />
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Stories that can appeal to high-school aged consumers don't have to have any high school characters in them in order to have said appeal. Furthermore, by not pigeon-holing the type of narrative, there are now other segments of the audience that can be potential consumers as well. We can come back to <a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2017/02/jan-feb-2017-recap-and-leftovers.html" target="_blank">Dragon Maid for this one because back in January I mentioned exactly that</a>. Dragon Maid is popular with the high school crowd, but it's about a fully functioning adult protagonist (and a dragon). Someone well out of school, with a job, living on their own. This means that people in that situation can relate to the story and characters as well, not just students who have that part of their lives to look forward to. It's why it spans so many different segments out there.<br />
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Being a writer means being part of an industry. It's a business. And as a business, you can't do it by writing what <i>you</i> want, you have to write what <i>they</i> want. In this case "they" being any potential customers willing to pay money to purchase said writings in whatever format. When that matches up, then hey, good for you. When it doesn't, suck it up and deal with it if you want to keep doing this.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">AMAZON Japan to Buck Long Standing Tradition and Deal Directly with Publishers.</span><br />
Amazon Japan has recently <a href="http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Amazon-Japan-to-no-longer-force-vendors-to-offer-lowest-price" target="_blank">loosened its Wal-Mart like iron fist contract terms</a> with distributors in terms of demanding the lowest price, thanks to some prodding/investigation by Japan's FTC. Dropping the <i><b>most favored nation </b></i>clause, as it's called, means that Amazon can no longer make it a rule that every vendor must offer Amazon a lower price than any other e-commerce site they also sell to. It is perhaps to offset this new dent in earnings forecasts that Amazon Japan is now <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenduffer/2017/05/29/amazon-looking-to-deal-directly-with-publishers/" target="_blank">pursuing a direct distribution</a> strategy with Japanese publishing companies, rather than use 3rd party partners/vendors such as Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. With plans to order what are sure to be bestsellers straight from publishers, this will allow them to earn more while adhering to the SRP/Cover Price, or discounting it, or whatever it is they do; I don't know - I don't work there.<br />
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Japanese industry and business culture has always loved a middle man. So much so that there are giant companies in Japan providing middle-man services that have no market what so ever in countries like the United States or EU. Take <a href="http://www.cri.co.jp/" target="_blank">Creek & River Co. Ltd</a>. for example, a placement agency for freelance creative people and studios, which places the freelancers at temp jobs with very large companies. It's basically a big Rolodex of freelancers with subscription fee. In Japan, this is great because socially it's just unheard of to try and "cold contact" someone for something without a formal introduction by a mutually known party. In the USA, all Procter and Gamble has to do is post something on a website and BANG, everyone with a BA in graphic design is firing their folios at them that they'll be able to pick someone in 24 hours. C&Rs first foray into the U.S. market was mostly a disaster.<br />
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So Amazon is bring that "what do we need you for?" mentality to its Japanese operation, and it will probably be successful. Despite many aspects of Japanese society <a href="https://edinburghnapiernews.com/2011/01/26/%e2%80%98japan-high-tech-image-low-tech-reality%e2%80%99/" target="_blank">being in the technological dark</a> ages (ATMs have "closed hours" and major entities still use fax machines a lot), people buying stuff online is widely accepted because another thing that's super popular in Japan is getting stuff delivered.<br />
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Due to its serialized nature, manga will most likely be affected as much as other mediums such as novels and academic texts. Rather the terms at which Amazon can offer e-reader versions of manga will have a far greater impact on how the market develops, and now that they will be dealing with large publishing companies, the pendulum may be able to swing in their favor. We might see some very rapid manga releases as publishers hand off the legwork, and more importantly, the overhead cost of translation and distribution in non-Japanese markets to Amazon. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Japan and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Southeast_Asian_Nations" target="_blank">ASEAN</a> Release Joint Action Plan at the Intellectual Property Offices Symposium 2017, in Kanazawa.</span><br />
The <a href="http://ipophil.gov.ph/releases/2014-09-22-06-26-21/590-7th-asean-japan-heads-of-intellectual-property-offices-meeting" target="_blank">Seventh ASEAN-Japan Heads of Intellectual Property Offices Meeting</a> took place this month in Kanazawa, resulting in the joint ASEAN-Japan 2017-2018 Intellectual Property Action Plan. Before you get all excited and wonder why Anime News Network didn't plug this in the feed, keep in mind this was made by ASEAN industry heads and the JPO (that's "Japan Patent Office" in case you were wondering). Sorry to pour ice water on your boners, but no, fansub bootlegs and those pirated copies of <i>Pokemon Sun & Moon </i>that <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/news/349643/pokemon-sun-and-moon-pirates-banned-from-nintendo-online-net" target="_blank">got you perma-banned from Ninendo Store and bricked your DS</a> were not on the agenda. This was almost all exclusively to do with patent law, proprietary manufacturing processes, and chemical formulas. Also the entire detailed plan isn't available (or it is and I'm just bad at searching for it) but the joint statement, which consists of lip service and farts of well wishes, is online should you care to waste 93 seconds of your life <a href="http://www.meti.go.jp/press/2017/05/20170517001/20170517001-1.pdf" target="_blank">reading it</a> (.pdf file). However there is also the analytical data from the manufacturing sector - <a href="https://www.jbic.go.jp/wp-content/uploads/press_ja/2016/12/53380/sashikae_jan1.pdf" target="_blank">it's pretty detailed</a>. Good luck, ya weebos.<br />
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But don't go back to checking on that torrent just yet, some things are going to come out of this. Such as;<br />
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<li>Although not an ASEAN member, China is slowly being dragged in to these kind of agreements as such activity increases and pressure mounts to stay in the game. Bringing China along for the ride by 2025 is a major step in quelling the "wild west" type of environment when it comes to IP over there and that will include entertainment IP as well as technological. </li>
<li>New and streamlined avenues for prosecution of infringements may be able to (in the future) allow protection of entertainment IP as well, meaning ASEAN countries will be seen as stronger more viable markets for licensing rather than just write-offs to be ignored. Except Vietnam; they'd probably still censor the crap out of everything. </li>
<li>This is further strengthened by the listed objective of <i>enhancement of collaboration between IP enforcement agencies</i>, which will undoubtedly also enforce IP regulations on things like consumer products, well known brands, and entertainment.</li>
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Interestingly enough, there is a separate conference to deal with IP in terms of industrial databases computer codes, and AI software. It's called <b><i><a href="http://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2017/0419_001.html" target="_blank">Intellectual Property System Study Group for the Fourth Industrial Revolution</a></i></b>. With a title like that you know it's Japanese.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Wonder Woman</b></i>: Gender-Segregated Screenings at Alamo Draft House. ...oh here we go.</span><br />
<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/movies/women-only-screenings-planned-wonder-woman-162706171.html" target="_blank">It's a thing that's happening</a>. As fun and or empowering as this seems to be, it also seems to be living on the border of "grey area" and "illegal" as well as in no way keeping with the actual spirit of gender equality (it's really the literal opposite). Here in New York this may run afoul of some significant legal barriers, including <b><i>Seidenberg v. McSorleys' Old Ale House </i></b>(1970, United States District Court, Southern District, New York), which means having a liquor license comes with some very clear rules in terms of what you can and can't do regarding <i>public accommodation</i>. Also what are they going to do about staff? Is it going to be women only wait-staff? Because if that is the case, the Department of Labor might take issue with Alamo also.<br />
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I think my support for <i>Wonder Woman </i>as an IP (and an important one at that) has already been explicitly shown both <a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2017/02/jan-feb-2017-recap-and-leftovers.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2017/03/wonder-woman-identity-politics-wonder.html" target="_blank">here</a>. However, it is now tainted by the unfortunate social justice reaction which seems to be the same transparent and ridiculous strategy that was employed with the 2016 <i>Ghostbusters</i>. Every single source of criticism of a business refusing to sell to members of the public because they are such-and-such a gender being instantly labeled as sexist, misogynist, white-nationalist (yes I actually saw that allegation out there regarding this mess) and then is just followed with screeching as loud as possible with no salient argument regarding favoring the exclusion of a specific gender from a licensed business. I have seen some counterpoints which support doing these screenings, but I haven't seen a single one that seems to acknowledge what is actually happening.<br />
<i><b><span style="color: #38761d;">1) Bars and clubs have "Ladies Nights" or "Boy Nights" and that's legal.</span></b></i><br />
Yes, because that's incentivization, not exclusion. Specific groups, by gender in this case, are given incentives to patronize a business (which I still think is straight up sexist, but it's also so nebulous from a legal standpoint that it's not getting resolved any time soon that's for sure), but at no time can these businesses actually <i>exclude </i>admission to anyone based on gender during these or any other events. That's kind of a game changer. Alamo isn't offering discounts or free food or anything else to women in general, they are simply saying "if you are gender such-and-such you will <i>not </i>be admitted/served" ...that's a very clear difference.<br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b>2) It's a non-profit fundraising event so they can do that</b></i></span>. <br />
There's nothing that says something isn't subject to discrimination laws just because it's a non profit event or organization. Hell, Otakon is an NPO, but do you think they'd be able to get away with having scheduled events for gender <b><i>this one</i> </b>to the exclusion of gender <b><i>that one</i></b>? The answer is no, they'd be breaking the law regarding public accommodation, and they really just shouldn't do it in principle. <br />
<i><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>3) But Alamo has classified these as private events, so they can exclude whoever they want. </b></span></i><br />
Can anyone come up to the box-office and buy a ticket if they are the gender that Alamo has decided to allow? Yes? Well then that's going to have a hard time meeting the definition of <i>private event</i>, we're back to public accommodation territory.<br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b>4) But what about Curves? They are gender-exclusive and not getting in trouble so it must be ok!</b></i></span><br />
Sorry slick, but you might be interested to know it is indeed the case that a number of states allow for exemptions to gender discrimination laws. However it is limited to a specific type of business or entity, and almost always done on religious grounds (yes the original reason gyms and workout centers can gender segregate is because of religious demands). It is also not the same in every state. Guess what kind of business is not on that list... yeah, there's that liquor license. So <b><i>does not apply </i></b>is pretty much how that one ends. Probably. <br />
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See, I like Alamo Drafthouse, and if they get sued or fined, that's bad. If they lose their license, that's bad also. I don't want that. So making sure that this won't bite them in the ass if a state agency gets involved or someone straight up sues is important for them if they don't want to be at risk for something that might shut the place down.<br />
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The problem now is that the go-to strategy of 3rd wave is now firmly in place, meaning anyone pointing out that A) this is an example of an entire segment of the population being excluded from public accommodation by a licensed business based exclusively on gender and that B) such a practice is potentially illegal, is now automatically labeled a sexist and misogynist in as loud a shouty-shout voice as can be made. Woke ≠ Smart. The bad part about this is that unlike <i>Ghostbusters </i>2016, the ridiculous infusion of identity politics is going to tarnish what looks like a genuinely <i><b>good</b></i> movie this time, which is unfortunate. I am fully thinking that <i>Wonder Woman</i> is going to be kick-ass.<br />
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Now I could be wrong about literally all of this, but until someone comes to me with a cogent, salient argument about the matter, rather than some white-knighting bullshit insult screaming and name calling, that's where I see things landing on this one.<br />
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<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/united-nations-just-fired-wonder-192105367.html" target="_blank">Too sexist for the UN</a>; But not sexist enough for the Box Office.<br />
Makes all the sense you'd expect from people <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/portland-burrito-cart-closes-after-owners-are-accused-of-cultural-appropriation_us_5926ef7ee4b062f96a348181" target="_blank">who do stuff like this</a>.</div>
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Oh, by simply pointing this out I am now apparently, in addition to being a misogynist, sexist,
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bobby Moynihan Leaves Saturday Night Live.</span><br />
Piece of Toast seen laughing maniacally - Garmanarnar inconsolable. In other news, <b><i>Rick and Morty</i></b> season 3 is set to air just in time for the 2020 US Presidential election. <br />
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Yeah ok, they <i><b>say </b></i>it's <a href="http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/rick-and-morty/248392/rick-and-morty-season-3-release-date-trailer-news-and-more" target="_blank">going to air starting in July 2017</a>, but any bunch of fucktards who pull "April Fools" jokes with their own TV series after the year 2004 are both, not to be believed and should be the subject of physical violence whenever possible. Seriously... I hope someone gets kicked in the nuts over this bullshit.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jim Henson Exhibit to Open at Museum of the Moving Image July</span><br />
<a href="http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2013/11/06/detail/the-jim-henson-exhibition/" target="_blank">The Museum of the Moving Image</a> has announced that they will open a permanent version of a similar traveling exhibit form years earlier. According to DNAinfo:<br />
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<i><a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170524/astoria/jim-henson-exhibit-museum-of-the-moving-image-opens-july-22-2017" target="_blank">The Jim Henson Exhibition — a gallery of more than 300 objects from the famous puppeteer's career, including dozens of his best-loved puppets — will debut to visitors on July 22, the museum announced Wednesday</a>. </i></blockquote>
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The Museum of the Moving Image is <a href="http://www.movingimage.us/visit/directions" target="_blank">located in Astoria Queens</a> and is easily reached by Subway.<br />
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I've never liked the type of worship of the military-class that started gaining momentum in the USA after it was obvious the wars Congress voted for were going to continue in perpetuity. "You give me special parking spots - my spouse is active duty!" "You don't get to criticize the military because they're fighting for YOUR freedom" (just not the 1st Amendment apparently) "blaaaarrrrggg!!!" I really fucking hate that. Did you join the military just so that others would have to kiss your ass? No? Then stop acting like you're entitled to others kissing your ass. If you look at the books that Terry Frei has written, you'll see he's <a href="http://www.terryfrei.com/bio.html" target="_blank">really into the whole war and politics stuff</a> as well as sports.<br />
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So apparently it seems like that kind of thinking was behind the comment of (former) Denver Post sports reporter Terry Frei, stating he was "uncomfortable" with Japanese Professional Driver Takuma Sato having <a href="http://sports.usatoday.com/2017/05/29/indy-500-takeaways-takuma-sato-finds-redemption-with-win/" target="_blank">won the Indi 500 on Memorial Day weekend</a>. Well, unless this schmuck said the same thing about the race in 2012, 2011, and 2010, when England won (you know, that country that had a giant Empire which tried to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution" target="_blank">stop the USA from literally existing</a>... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812" target="_blank">twice</a>), then it just shows that he's basing his comments on racism, not nationalism... yeah, I'm gonna go with racism is kinda the worse one of those two. I'd bet he wouldn't even have said the same thing if a German or Italian driver won this year. I mean by this fucker's logic, you'd have to think the same "<i>uncomfortable</i>" thing if the race was won by a driver from; Japan, England, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Germany, Italy, Algeria, Turkey, Iraq,
Vietnam, The Philippines, Austria, Romania, I guess North Korea too (and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War" target="_blank">almost France that one time</a>). Something tells me this ass-face probably wouldn't do that. Therefore his is indeed an ass-face. ...fucking ass-face.<br />
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As an American who likes things Japanese, it's quite deflating to see things like this happen, and even more disheartening to know <i>why </i>they still happen. Yeah, firing this shithead is a necessary move for the brand of the Denver Post, but the unfortunate part is, it's not going to change the way this fucker thinks in the slightest. I don't even know if anything really can.<br />
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People are on different sides of the issue; was it a correct decision by The Denver Post to fire this twerp? Well yes I think it is, but I don't know if I myself would have done it if I were in charge, I'd really have to think about it. The thing is, Terry Frei is an author and sports reporter for The Denver Post, and is making a public comment about sports. Personal twitter account or not, keeping him on-board now damages The Denver Post's brand value significantly. So from a public relations, marketing, <i>and </i>finance perspective, separating the brand from the entity that is Terry Frei is the correct decision. This is the same kind of thing that <a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2017/03/march-2017-recap-and-leftovers.html" target="_blank">happened with JonTron and PlayTonic</a>.<br />
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<br />The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-61393013790212799672017-05-26T15:11:00.001-04:002017-05-26T15:20:36.221-04:00Get Off My Lawn: Miyazaki out of retirement, again.<br />
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So "<b><i>Your Name</i></b>" does all kinds of awesome, and 5 minutes later <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/14/13621108/hayao-miyazaki-last-film-boro-the-caterpillar" target="_blank">Hayao Miyazaki announces he's not "retired" anymore for the second time</a>. The <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/24/14723998/hayao-miyazaki-last-film-studio-ghibli-caterpillar" target="_blank">official story</a> is that he saw a Studio Ghibli short animation and was all kinds of motivated to do it better. There are two problems with that explanation:<br />
1) It's total BS it's much more likely that he doesn't like to be a figure who might one day be surpassed by someone or something else in the animation industry, and so he's engaging this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadaharu_Oh#Home_run_record_controversy" target="_blank">Saraharu O type strategy of making sure no one gets a chance</a> to do that no matter what it takes. But much like big O there, it's not going to last forever, and he can't stand it.<br />
2) Even if that stated official reason is 100% true it doesn't make the situation any better. Like Vladimir Putin can't stand to see the Russian government run by anyone else, Miyazaki simply will not stand to see Ghibli continue without him. Now we could take a look at <b><i>Earth Sea</i></b> and say to ourselves, "well maybe that's a good thing" but whenever someone is motivated by something like that, the results are inevitably tainted. <br />
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There have been rumblings out there. About what it's like at Ghibli when Miyazaki is actually around. Some of them disturbingly mirror descriptions of what it was like when Steve Jobs was around the office. Now, my big smug I told you so aside, it's at least obvious to everyone now that Steve Jobs was a massive gaping dickhole, as nice to be around as a flatulent badger with a toothache, and about as technically "creative" as Thomas Edison (that means he was good at stealing ideas). So no matter what some palpably perceived public persona permeates people's minds, there's always that potential of it being erroneous either through organic processes or deliberate interventions. <br />
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Am I saying that Miyazaki is just as bad? Well I'm saying it's <i>possible </i>that he is. He's coming back to a studio where he can walk around like God, where no one will ever tell him "no" to anything, and jumping back into a field that has seen some serious technological advancements that he undoubtedly does not completely grasp. Thankfully Miyazaki is actually genuinely talented and we probably won't see anything like Jar Jar on the horizon, but like Jay Leno, he's still barging back in even after stepping out and having others take the torch, only to be displaced by his desire to still be the main ingredient in theatrical animation. The Baby Boomer motus operandi as it were.<br />
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Nobody does something like that unless it's to win at something. </div>
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He's doing this to spite someone or something that he's fixated on. Yes, I could be completely wrong, but I'm the Angry Otaku, if there's one thing I know all too well it's the bitterness and spite that can only come from fine aging over years, and this smells exactly like that. The guy is 79, a bajillionaire, and openly admits he has actually no fun doing these things. His ability to communicate with people who are generations younger than him, which any production is going to depend on, may have atrophied or just disappeared all together, and he seems like the kind of guy who has one of those "don't make eye contact" rules that applies to most people in the office. Yes, I am a glass-half empty kind of guy.<br />
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If you're reading this and wondering how I could say such things about such a "nice old man" I would just reply; "shut the hell up, you've never met the guy" you're just going on visuals alone and the fact that you like the movies he creates or stamps his name on. If you think about he's also got be (inadvertently) responsible for at least a few cases of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome" target="_blank">Paris Syndrome</a> since his films seem to depict some sort of Disney-fied provincial Europe that never really existed but his Japanese fans end up thinking is completely true to life accurate. Much like what was done with Steve Jobs, his brand identity, and company he's associated with are all being portrayed in the most benign and flattering light as possible, not only from their own PR efforts but by a press and media that simply can't bring itself to even ask the questions that may lead to image-shattering revelations. They would just rather not look behind the curtain, and you can't even really blame them.<br />
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So until Miyazaki starts driving around a McLaren a Mercedes with no license plate and parking in the handicapped spot a-la Steve Jobs, I am going to hold out hope that this really is just him coming back to make more movies just for the sake of making more movies... but I don't think that's the likely version of what's happening. Come back in 6 years and we'll see what happens. <br />
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<br />The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-90459256525400431682017-05-18T06:00:00.000-04:002017-05-20T08:24:18.247-04:00You're Not Helping: Why some fan-based "marketing" is actually not that.<br />
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At <a href="http://www.japansociety.org/" target="_blank">The Japan Society in New York</a> on Wednesday, May 17 2017, there was a buzz in the air; <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2017-05-04/top-publishers-share-insights-on-the-art-of-adapting-manga-for-american-readers/.115700" target="_blank">Manga Manga Manga</a>. How does it come to exist in English speaking markets, what does the future hold, and all that jazz. From e-book/digital distribution platforms, to content that appeals to international audiences, and a weird look at the activity that is page layout, this was a picnic of forward looking optimism of English translated manga publishers (sans Vertical, because their scheduled staff member has taken a position at another company just a few days earlier, so they couldn't participate), Well of course it was, you are not going to hear companies badmouth their own industry. But over that picnic was a cloud of resentful tepidness that will steer the industry more than most people know, and the people who do know, will not care to admit. It was the black flag of <i><b>Piracy</b></i>.<br />
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YAR HAR HAR! HARDEE HAR HAR HAR HARRR!</div>
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After the stage lights were off, after the general milling around that happens at the end of these types of things, getting myself into the hushed whispers of people in the know wasn't hard, and it painted quite a picture. <br />
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Within anime/manga fandom there seems to be this notion that if someone translates and then makes available any IP on their own time using their own resources, then it's OK so long as they're not "earning a profit" on it... (just donate to my Pateron "squee"). The thing is, that's just not correct. I've <a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2008/02/response-to-justin-sevakis.html" target="_blank">mentioned it before regarding anime</a>, and now it's time to mention it about Manga. Scanlations are indeed theft. No, not theft of inventory, but theft of a <b><i>license</i></b>. Scanlators go out and do what a licensee intends to do, but scanlators don't pay for a license and for some reason don't think they should have to. Why? What makes you so special? Why should you get to do something that other people have tried to invest their money and time in so they can create a business that employs people and actually licenses IP through proper legal channels? Here are some of the BS answers that I've heard before:<br />
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-<span style="color: #6aa84f;">I'm just making it available for other people, since I'm not profiting from it, I'm not stealing.</span><br />
Really numb-nuts? If you rob a bank and get away with $20,000 but the operation cost you $25,000 do you think you still didn't steal anything just because it was a net loss for you? What you are stealing is revenue that the licensor has to count on to recoup their own costs.<br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">-It's really <i><b>helping </b></i>more than hurting. We're giving the title exposure and that will make it more popular!</span><br />
Yeah, so you just design our website for us, but we won't pay you, but you will totally benefit from the "exposure" right? What you're doing is actually hurting these artists, writers, publishing staff, and other employees the most. You are making these titles available for free to the people who are most likely to buy them in a legally published form. But now that they have unlicensed versions they aren't going to buy them just to have a second copy. ...way to go guys.<br />
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-<span style="color: #6aa84f;">I only use them for review purposes, so it helps with "brand awareness" and will generate sales.</span><br />
What, just because you don't disclose your source for where you got a scanlation means none of your readers will straight up look up where to find it? (Yeah Anime News Network, I'm looking at you). This is actually the worst argument of all. Again, it's something <a href="http://theangryotaku.blogspot.com/2011/07/video-killed-video-star-anime-music.html" target="_blank">I've mentioned before with AMVs</a> although this time unlike being helpful, it is indeed detrimental. That is because <i><b>publishing companies see this stuff</b></i>. They see their own title, out there, being reviewed, in (poorly translated) English, and know it's not from a release they created. You are just rubbing it in their face that scanlations not only exist, but you are now generating web traffic revenue off of something that was stolen from them.<br />
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I am sure there are many other arguments that try to paint the scanlators and their accessory helpers in an innocent light, but there is one fact that is indelible; They are all doing something that they literally <i>have no right</i> to do. They did not license the rights, someone else did, and they are not only stealing from that someone else, but from the entire artistic staff that spend their lunch break, stayed late, missed their mom's birthday, or maybe worked themselves to death (this is Japan) who made sure that said issue of One Piece, Monster Musume, Dragon Maid, Vinland Saga, or anything else, made it in on time. All that work, and no salary from the international markets that are consuming it at a ravenous pace? That's enough to make you wanna jump in front of the Yamanote. <br />
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Manga publishers are actually the last licensees of Japanese pop-culture to experience the bootleg hoards. This is because paperless-publishing is new development. The first industry segment to have to deal with this was actually the home media market. VHS was easy as all kinds of fuck to copy and yes a genlock was needed but there never seemed to be that much of a shortage of fansubs out there. DVD hits and not only does the entire VHS business go kablam, but now anyone and their idiot friend who just finished Japanese 201 in undergrad thought they could subtitle anything and send it out there on them interwebs (and they did). And you could argue that anime as a watchable commodity is still something that goes on, yet most of the companies that made it that way are no longer around for failing to capitalize on future developments (CPM,. AD Vision, Anime Villiage, hell even Manga Entertainment might as well be on that list). Before that, it was music that suffered the backlash against bootleggers, with "real" fans refusing to buy SM (Son Mei) CDs of their favorite anime music, although this was back before the recession and when having a job meant you could buy things other than food and payments to your student loan.<br />
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So now it's printed media's turn. Will we see a decimated landscape of former Titans of the industry before the new adopters create and support something like "<i><b>Crunchy-Scroll</b></i>" ...you know, something like an unlimited library of licensed and translated manga from a multitude of labels made available to subscribers for a set monthly fee (maybe with a few premium one-shots sold digitally for a little extra a la cart? Yes, yes we will. Because if history has taught us anything it is that companies that have found a big cash cow are really slow to change and that goes doubly so for Japanese companies. Their strategic planning moves at a glacial pace and their implementation is always a day late and a dollar short. This will lead to regression and insular strategies that ignore international markets and as such, may end up producing nothing but titles that resonate exclusively with a Japanese audience.<br />
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Human psychology says that there will always be bootlegging idiots who think their not stealing by creating scanlations, but they totally are. What the industry needs to do is be open to third parties that maintain digital subscription services which are ubiquitous to the point where it's actually easier for 90% of the fanbase to just get their manga fix from that source than it is to download it from a bunch of people who's translation skills aren't strong enough for them to get a job professionally doing it, and so they make scanlations to try and be cool.<br />
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After some "off the record" talking with people at this past event I don't think a single company has any plans to do so. Don't fear the reaper kids. Or the pirates. <br />
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<br />The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469636020759157043.post-27427491826614571942017-05-11T21:16:00.003-04:002017-05-20T12:30:28.230-04:00No post this weekNothing this week. Corrective eye surgery. No can see words on screen goodly. Writing more is happen later.The Angry Otakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17612607966215860535noreply@blogger.com0