re: an image of two Japanese Geeks peeing at urinals, as another Geek enters, dressed as a touhou-

- but surprise, he's a Man! "Oh fuck, a touhou fan!" the Piss filled dweebs cry. This image was presented to the group with no additional context, it's all set up and alleged punchline.
ah.
I think it should be legal to punch down harder when it comes to Anime fans.
they deluded themselves into wholeheartedly thrusting themselves into supporting a medium that for the most part doesn't respect anyone's time (with a few exceptions, please dont tell me what they are, I already know)
and not for no reason, the appeal of something with a high level of rarity and a built in history to dig into is very high, it makes it feel special.
It's why I listen to every Girl I've ever dated tell me about her days in Middle School and High School, as I had never attended myself, I was homeschooled and thrust into academia at the earliest possible age.
But now that Anime is a more broadly appealing "product" accepted and enjoyed by a wider scope of people, and I am no longer 12 years old and unable to discern taste, I must declare
Anime has gone triple commercial.
It was always a consumerist hellscape, but now people are acting like it's normal to be all Anime all the time.
Meaning that it's now taken for granted that the language of the medium, the distillation of imagery into reusable symbols and iconography pushes those using those tools spends more time looking backwards and into more of the same old stuff rather than outside itself, leading to a regression I at present don't have a word I can describe other than as just that, a regression. Jokes that people were making back in the 80s they are still making, but because they were particularly good or exhaustively funny, but because there wasn't anything else to pull from.  Normally I try to find a solution to this sort of critique, but I dont have one as of this date.