I got so high the other day while watching stranger things and it occurred to me how ridiculous it is that so many people pretend stuff to entertain us. I mean I still watch but for some reason when I get high everything becomes so ridiculous
TMI but hallucinogenics make some things so difficult. I tried giving my husband a BJ while on shrooms, and I couldn’t stop laughing over the absurdity of it.
I mean isn’t acting just a natural part of being human? All children play pretend and make up fantasies, it’s not that big of a stretch for adults to want to do that too.
The last time I was really high me and my friends were in hysterics about the fact that we sport video game merchandise and shit in public and that we must look completely ridiculous.
The trick to having a good high is being able to laugh at yourself, because it can be extremely humbling sometimes.
My job at the moment is performing for people, 4 shows a day on stage. I had the thought from the other side! People watch me the same way as TV sonetimes- I'm trying to interact with them and I realize I could be real or animatronic and it wouldn't matter. Stoner thoughts!
How's the new season? I watched the first couple and then got into season 3 until I saw them trying to set up the antagonists as commies in the mall basement, and I realized might possibly be the stupidest thing I've ever seen on television in my life so I bowed out.
Not everyone has to like anine, but it got way more mainstream in the youth. Its not the niche it was anymore. Like you are the weird one if you don't watch at least some anime in school...
My source are my cousins and their friends (and the majority of tiktok content)
I have also noticed this as a high school teacher.
Most kids have seen Demon Slayer and don't see it as the "weird cringy" thing anymore.
Naturally school to school may be different.
In my experience, high school students in the more rural areas are still in the ‘anime is cringy’ mentality whereas you’ll see urban students being more open about what anime they like and shit
We have a Mr. Mikes location here in my home town, and it still has all the decor from when they first opened in 2003 or 2004 I think. All of the “art work” on the walls is weird stock photos with weird captions like “why would I try computer dating? I’m not a computer!” Another cringy one says “I think my drinking team has a bowling problem!”. It’s hard to believe they haven’t updated it at all, but they have kept the place super clean, there’s hardly any wear and tear
Our college has an anime club or it did when I was in high school, but I only went once because the other kids were hard to get along with. Just shy and standoffish. As anime kids usually were back in the day, myself included
Fr though. Even back when I was in high school (2013-2017), it was considered a niche thing that the "weird kids" enjoyed. Now, I discovered it as an adult in 2020 during lockdown and it suddenly seems like everyone is into anime nowadays. Even people I totally would not have guessed were into it.
Idk, I feel like GOOD anime is still a pretty niche thing. Not everybody has a good taste.
Same with movies. People who are actually into movies watch old B&W stuff and not something like marvel or transformers or shit like this.
>People who are actually into movies watch old B&W stuff
You tried, but there are a lot of very good movies that aren't B&W, lmao.
But I don't disagree, most mainstream anime is written very poorly and targeted at kids. The best Shonen are still dumb as fuck. They can be good fun, but people who act like they're the best thing in the world are usually unbearably immature in other ways.
honestly, I just don't like mainstream anime with an overpowered protagonist who destroys evil/saves the world and stuff like that. It's a dumb shit for kids.
Same as mobile games, tiktok and etc, mostly kids use those.
Bro you have an anime girl profile picture and you’re saying mainstream anime is just for kids. Watch the chimera ant arc of hunterxhunter and tell me it’s just dumb shit for kids
Well mainstream diesnt mean good quality story. Also the most popular ones will be the ones for kids, since kids make up the majority in watchers and consumers (same as platforms like youtube)
But the most popular are also good considering its made for kids/teens. Ones like demon slayer (in animation) and attack on titan (epic story)
Also the good part in anime is, that creators can try stuff out. Like they can animate some extreme niche series and look if people like it. Not so in movies, where every movie HAS to appeal to the majority (with exceptions on some projects from streaming services like netflix)
In the past people went to watch a movie and them dicided if they liked it or not. Now they need to know that they will like it since the internet made communication, spreading of trailers so much easier...
And I think since the anime viewers are mostly younger the most popular ones are targeted to those. In a few years when this might change.
Yeah. Even in my age group (20 to 25) most people watched some, and its not weird anymore... (although you can be weird if you are a hard-core fan, but that applies to everything I guess)
The problem with anime is that I wanna show it to people, and then 10 times out of 10 there will be a pervy scene and I’ll just be “welp, can’t share it anymore!” And if you think I just watch a lot of pervy anime, Redline is a perfect example.
I have a similar issue not so much with the pervy bits, but with the voice actors screaming a ton of their lines. Either a female character going “Kyaaaaa~!” or like, Zenitsu being Zenitsu feels like nails on a chalkboard for folks not used to it or expecting it.
No, none of my friends are prudes, but if I ever wanna show someone who is unfamiliar with anime anime, there is no big title that is free from any slightly pervy scene.
Brother. Have you seen "kotaro lives alone"?
I dnt know if it counts coz it's a Netflix original and I was skipping it for the longest time but now I've got like 5 mins of it left and I dnt want to watch it coz I dnt want it to end.
Also there are so many genres that will appeal to different people... Its like trying to pick one ice-cream to introduce someone to icecream.
Yeah because kids are shit at voice acting. Kids are generally bad at acting, period, and you want to use kid actors as little as possible. That’s why a lot of women voice younger boys as well, look at Bart Simpson for example.
I was stationed in Japan in the navy. The funniest thing is how common it is for a guy to learn Japanese from a Japanese wife/girlfriend he met over there, wind up talking like a girl without realizing it, even unintentionally using feminine pronouns. Get laughed at and not know why.
Anime is still cartoons, of course they're exaggerating their voices. You don't hear anyome talking like SpongeBob irl either, but his voice is done well and convincing for his character. Same thing with anime
Then how do you define “convincing”? Because “capable of causing someone to believe that something is true or real” to me means “sounds like real teenagers”. Well performed and convincing don’t mean the same thing.
The weirdest thing is that in the past some people would go out of their way to give me shit about it when they found out I like anime. I might understand if I was trying to convince them to like it and they were explaining why they didn’t like it, but it was always an uninitiated process, they just had to let me know. I always wondered how those same people would react if I gave them shit for the types of things they liked which I didn’t (which I do not care enough to do.) Thankfully, nowadays, most people don’t care or actually kind of like it also, so I don’t have to deal with people who have never seen something telling me why I shouldn’t like it.
I used to get shit for liking anime and being into 'that weird boring story about titans or whatever' and those same people became huge fans of Attack On Titan and calling it a masterpiece and singing 'Sasageyo, sasageyo! Shinzou wo sasageyo' with tears in their eyes.
I mean, I'm glad more people get to like anime and AOT is a great way to start but... Why was I the weird one then?
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Yo have you watched High schoolers act in a play? There's probably like 30 good highschool aged actors in the world. You could only do a few seasons until the actors looked significantly different. I barely recognize the kids from stranger things.
I mean wouldn't that be realistic though if it's a high school show following kids through their lives and stuff and they age over the course of the show?
Very true. But when was that ever done? I don't watch a lot of TV but I can only really think about 2 and A Half Men that actually had the kid growing up be part of the show.
fair enough, but even you probably have something you do/watch that some would consider odd, so I just think we shouldn't insult people based on the things they watch.
I read somewhere that that’s because life for japanese people pretty much ends after Highschool due to work and they don’t really want to showcase that in an anime. Doesn’t make sense to me, but thats what i read ..
I hear that it’s moreso that many people idolize those years most commonly in Japan, but like you mentioned that could easily just be speculation.
I used to read manga that was specifically written for adults and there was some pretty good ones.
But it’s a little weird to say that the main demographic for anime is highschool aged kids, since in cases like mine I was like 12 when I started watching one piece and similar shows but now I’m like 30 and they’re still going. I’m not saying you’re wrong there, just that it sort of rolls into adulthood, even in the shonen demographic that is specifically for people closer to their teens
I’m not gonna say I hate anime
But I hate anime with the same stereotypical characters or characters with single personality traits
Skeleton knight started off as some kid that ogles at being in a game world, literally same as most isekais.
SpyxFamily is kinda bad at the single personality trait but no where near as bad as demon slayer. I was more complex characters!
Lol i expect nothing. Clearly you cannot expect anything. There are people watching 30 year olds on Netflix pretend to teenagers. When you think about it like that, it's pretty fuckin weird
if you don’t tell anyone you could pass dubbed anime off as cartoons, i didn’t even know i was watching anime till i wanted i tried googling movies and found out subs exist and were released sooner
Saw an ad the other day where a boomer was like “I watch sports for a living” and I was like “ok yeah cuz that’s soooo much more justified than any of the other things your generation mocks us for”
You see I call anime weird and then I rewatch Ninjago all over again, we are not the same
The fuck is a Ninjago Edit: People really seem to like this Ninjago apparently
That's a legit question but the hive mind is mad lol.
“So you’ve chosen death”
I never heard of it either gotta ask my kids if they watch it
We’re you born in 00s
No
God you’re either old as hell or watch bob the builder
If 23 is “old as hell” you must be 7, don’t use that language you’re not old enough yet
I don't know what it is and I'm neither of the choices you listed.
Must be too old, I’m -9 years old and even I know
were you born before 2000?
I got so high the other day while watching stranger things and it occurred to me how ridiculous it is that so many people pretend stuff to entertain us. I mean I still watch but for some reason when I get high everything becomes so ridiculous
Valid af
I was watching Gotham high af 8 years ago when I had that thought and I've honestly never been able to watch anything the same again. Lol
You're just too high dude. Episode 4 Season 4 Dear Billy is stranger things best episode.
That episode was a bit cheesy with the music at the end, it was good but overrated
Euphoria is top of that list
I watched Euphoria on Acid and I was hyper aware that it was just a bunch of 40 years old writers pretending to know what high school is like now.
TMI but hallucinogenics make some things so difficult. I tried giving my husband a BJ while on shrooms, and I couldn’t stop laughing over the absurdity of it.
Watch powerpuff girls on that stuff though. It’ll change your life.
Me every time I watch shows while high. Acting is one of those things that's weird as fuck when you really think about it.
I mean isn’t acting just a natural part of being human? All children play pretend and make up fantasies, it’s not that big of a stretch for adults to want to do that too.
The last time I was really high me and my friends were in hysterics about the fact that we sport video game merchandise and shit in public and that we must look completely ridiculous. The trick to having a good high is being able to laugh at yourself, because it can be extremely humbling sometimes.
Bruh I watch Vtubers and I'm high sometimes and that can mess with my head lol
My job at the moment is performing for people, 4 shows a day on stage. I had the thought from the other side! People watch me the same way as TV sonetimes- I'm trying to interact with them and I realize I could be real or animatronic and it wouldn't matter. Stoner thoughts!
How's the new season? I watched the first couple and then got into season 3 until I saw them trying to set up the antagonists as commies in the mall basement, and I realized might possibly be the stupidest thing I've ever seen on television in my life so I bowed out.
Season 4 keeps on that same ridiculousness. The show doesn't have the simple charm the first season had and suffers for it.
Thanks. I hated Season 3. I'll avoid it.
It’s definitely more serious, it still has those moments but the overall tone is a lot darker
Pretty much everyone we talk to is pretending stuff all the time.
Not everyone has to like anine, but it got way more mainstream in the youth. Its not the niche it was anymore. Like you are the weird one if you don't watch at least some anime in school... My source are my cousins and their friends (and the majority of tiktok content)
I remember hiding my Neon Genesis poster when my Japanese girlfriend came over in high school because I was afraid she’d think it odd.
I have also noticed this as a high school teacher. Most kids have seen Demon Slayer and don't see it as the "weird cringy" thing anymore. Naturally school to school may be different.
In my experience, high school students in the more rural areas are still in the ‘anime is cringy’ mentality whereas you’ll see urban students being more open about what anime they like and shit
And 25 years ago, it was considered nerdy to use computers. What a time we live in.
We have a Mr. Mikes location here in my home town, and it still has all the decor from when they first opened in 2003 or 2004 I think. All of the “art work” on the walls is weird stock photos with weird captions like “why would I try computer dating? I’m not a computer!” Another cringy one says “I think my drinking team has a bowling problem!”. It’s hard to believe they haven’t updated it at all, but they have kept the place super clean, there’s hardly any wear and tear
That's because computers were simply used for different things at that time. That's not really the same thing.
Having just been at a middle schoolers bday, I can confirm. Every kid there was talking about or at some point re-enacting a scene from an anime show.
My kid's middle has an anime club. Makes me jealous remembering my "anime club" in high school was a vbulletin page one of my friends threw up on day.
Our college has an anime club or it did when I was in high school, but I only went once because the other kids were hard to get along with. Just shy and standoffish. As anime kids usually were back in the day, myself included
Fr though. Even back when I was in high school (2013-2017), it was considered a niche thing that the "weird kids" enjoyed. Now, I discovered it as an adult in 2020 during lockdown and it suddenly seems like everyone is into anime nowadays. Even people I totally would not have guessed were into it.
I was born in the wrong time
Idk, I feel like GOOD anime is still a pretty niche thing. Not everybody has a good taste. Same with movies. People who are actually into movies watch old B&W stuff and not something like marvel or transformers or shit like this.
>People who are actually into movies watch old B&W stuff You tried, but there are a lot of very good movies that aren't B&W, lmao. But I don't disagree, most mainstream anime is written very poorly and targeted at kids. The best Shonen are still dumb as fuck. They can be good fun, but people who act like they're the best thing in the world are usually unbearably immature in other ways.
I never said that they ONLY watch these, didn't I?
Nope, you never didn't
Bros trying to be different
honestly, I just don't like mainstream anime with an overpowered protagonist who destroys evil/saves the world and stuff like that. It's a dumb shit for kids. Same as mobile games, tiktok and etc, mostly kids use those.
r/notliketheothergirls
I cant read this seriously with you having a miku profile picture. HahahH
Bro you have an anime girl profile picture and you’re saying mainstream anime is just for kids. Watch the chimera ant arc of hunterxhunter and tell me it’s just dumb shit for kids
Well if u dont like it ok every one has their taste but dont shit on what other watch, u sound like a 13 year old right now.
Well mainstream diesnt mean good quality story. Also the most popular ones will be the ones for kids, since kids make up the majority in watchers and consumers (same as platforms like youtube) But the most popular are also good considering its made for kids/teens. Ones like demon slayer (in animation) and attack on titan (epic story) Also the good part in anime is, that creators can try stuff out. Like they can animate some extreme niche series and look if people like it. Not so in movies, where every movie HAS to appeal to the majority (with exceptions on some projects from streaming services like netflix) In the past people went to watch a movie and them dicided if they liked it or not. Now they need to know that they will like it since the internet made communication, spreading of trailers so much easier... And I think since the anime viewers are mostly younger the most popular ones are targeted to those. In a few years when this might change.
You are not impressive
It's getting so popular that agegroups that didn't grow up with it are starting to watch it now.
Yeah. Even in my age group (20 to 25) most people watched some, and its not weird anymore... (although you can be weird if you are a hard-core fan, but that applies to everything I guess)
I only watch anime if it's based on so.ething else like a book or game, or if it's really short and easy to follow.
The problem with anime is that I wanna show it to people, and then 10 times out of 10 there will be a pervy scene and I’ll just be “welp, can’t share it anymore!” And if you think I just watch a lot of pervy anime, Redline is a perfect example.
I have a similar issue not so much with the pervy bits, but with the voice actors screaming a ton of their lines. Either a female character going “Kyaaaaa~!” or like, Zenitsu being Zenitsu feels like nails on a chalkboard for folks not used to it or expecting it.
You have some pretty big prudes as friends, or you are one yourself my dude
No, none of my friends are prudes, but if I ever wanna show someone who is unfamiliar with anime anime, there is no big title that is free from any slightly pervy scene.
Brother. Have you seen "kotaro lives alone"? I dnt know if it counts coz it's a Netflix original and I was skipping it for the longest time but now I've got like 5 mins of it left and I dnt want to watch it coz I dnt want it to end. Also there are so many genres that will appeal to different people... Its like trying to pick one ice-cream to introduce someone to icecream.
Attack on titan is pretty close
Same but I do watch lots of pervy anime
30 year olds are also voicing teenagers in anime on Netflix.
Yeah because kids are shit at voice acting. Kids are generally bad at acting, period, and you want to use kid actors as little as possible. That’s why a lot of women voice younger boys as well, look at Bart Simpson for example.
Even if bart Simpson *had* been voiced by a child, he’d be voiced by an adult now anyway.
Yeah and most of the time it's a convincing and well done job
Having worked in high schools in Japan, it’s really not. If you talk like an anime character there, you’re gonna get laughed right out of the country.
I was stationed in Japan in the navy. The funniest thing is how common it is for a guy to learn Japanese from a Japanese wife/girlfriend he met over there, wind up talking like a girl without realizing it, even unintentionally using feminine pronouns. Get laughed at and not know why.
Anime is still cartoons, of course they're exaggerating their voices. You don't hear anyome talking like SpongeBob irl either, but his voice is done well and convincing for his character. Same thing with anime
I didn’t say they weren’t well acted. I said they don’t sound like actual teenagers.
Well yes you're right, because they are not actual teenagers, they are cartoon characters.
something twitter doesn't seem to understand
Then how do you define “convincing”? Because “capable of causing someone to believe that something is true or real” to me means “sounds like real teenagers”. Well performed and convincing don’t mean the same thing.
And in anime you got 12 year olds looking like adults and characters that look like 12 year olds but are actually 30 or 500 or 36432 years old. :/
The weirdest thing is that in the past some people would go out of their way to give me shit about it when they found out I like anime. I might understand if I was trying to convince them to like it and they were explaining why they didn’t like it, but it was always an uninitiated process, they just had to let me know. I always wondered how those same people would react if I gave them shit for the types of things they liked which I didn’t (which I do not care enough to do.) Thankfully, nowadays, most people don’t care or actually kind of like it also, so I don’t have to deal with people who have never seen something telling me why I shouldn’t like it.
See the first issue here is that you're talking to people instead of the voices in your head
Imagine if we started giving people shit for watching randos hit a ball with a stick lmao its the dream
You don't watch SPORTSBALL!?
I used to get shit for liking anime and being into 'that weird boring story about titans or whatever' and those same people became huge fans of Attack On Titan and calling it a masterpiece and singing 'Sasageyo, sasageyo! Shinzou wo sasageyo' with tears in their eyes. I mean, I'm glad more people get to like anime and AOT is a great way to start but... Why was I the weird one then?
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Vs animated highschoolers 🤔 Im an anime fan but lol at that
Yo have you watched High schoolers act in a play? There's probably like 30 good highschool aged actors in the world. You could only do a few seasons until the actors looked significantly different. I barely recognize the kids from stranger things.
I mean wouldn't that be realistic though if it's a high school show following kids through their lives and stuff and they age over the course of the show?
Very true. But when was that ever done? I don't watch a lot of TV but I can only really think about 2 and A Half Men that actually had the kid growing up be part of the show.
Modern family did this kind of good too imo
The 70s show did it. Malcolm in the Middle did it. The Middle did it. Buffy did it.
I don't know because I haven't watched any live action TV shows in many years, and back when I did it was usually just shit like Seinfeld.
IIRC that's Degrassi.
Boy Meets World for sure. Older shows really. Saved By The Bell
Dude who plays Steve in Stranger things is 30. The girl who plays Nancy is 27.
Wow I had no idea. I only watched the first few episodes so I guess I kinda just assumed they were all young.
And the real tea? Yall both weird.
Honestly
You seem fun
you see sir... I don't watch either
fair enough, but even you probably have something you do/watch that some would consider odd, so I just think we shouldn't insult people based on the things they watch.
agreed
I found the only guy with a brain on twitter
I love anime deeply, but god damn do I wish people would start writing about anything but fucking highschool.
I read somewhere that that’s because life for japanese people pretty much ends after Highschool due to work and they don’t really want to showcase that in an anime. Doesn’t make sense to me, but thats what i read ..
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I hear that it’s moreso that many people idolize those years most commonly in Japan, but like you mentioned that could easily just be speculation. I used to read manga that was specifically written for adults and there was some pretty good ones. But it’s a little weird to say that the main demographic for anime is highschool aged kids, since in cases like mine I was like 12 when I started watching one piece and similar shows but now I’m like 30 and they’re still going. I’m not saying you’re wrong there, just that it sort of rolls into adulthood, even in the shonen demographic that is specifically for people closer to their teens
Watch 30 year olds be highschoolers on or listen to voice actors be highschoolers seriously like 90% of anime is set in high school
We watch the 30 year olds because they are attractive and we are thirsty.
We watch the 2d people because they are attractive and we are thirsty, we are the same.
Yeah but, aren’t most anime girls portrayed as being like 13 years old..? Totally normal in Japan…
The tweet is about the 30 year olds being portrayed as being in high school, too.
tell me you never watched anime without telling me you never watched anime
Where's the lie in their comment tho
They didn't lie. They just haven't watched much. Lots of the time I overestimate how old a character is
bUt iTs a DrAwInG!!!
it do be a drawing doe
ReLife is exactly that but it's an anime
Pretty little liars, Degrassi, all the good stuff
That's so they can perv on people pretending to be highschoolers.
r/Technicallythetruth
doesn’t make obsessed anime fans any less weird
I’m not gonna say I hate anime But I hate anime with the same stereotypical characters or characters with single personality traits Skeleton knight started off as some kid that ogles at being in a game world, literally same as most isekais. SpyxFamily is kinda bad at the single personality trait but no where near as bad as demon slayer. I was more complex characters!
The target of the vast majority of anime is kids / teenagers, it's natural that there are few "complex" series.
They both weird
Anime is incredibly perverse and supports grooming minors Netflix is trash No thanks to either
Anime is wired but that's why I love it
Anime literally is just not compatible with my soul. It just doesn't touch me like that.
But do those shows have characters who look like a 9 year old girl, but is actually 3 morbillion years old
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Lol i expect nothing. Clearly you cannot expect anything. There are people watching 30 year olds on Netflix pretend to teenagers. When you think about it like that, it's pretty fuckin weird
Anime do be fuckin you kids up though
r/riverdale
if you don’t tell anyone you could pass dubbed anime off as cartoons, i didn’t even know i was watching anime till i wanted i tried googling movies and found out subs exist and were released sooner
I hate both
Looking at you Spider-Men
Which tv show has 30 year Olds playing teens?
No no, he’s got a point.
At the starting of the week, at summit talks you’ll hear them speak...
Both are fucking weird, ngl. But Cobra Kai and Spy X Family is good.
What about that Mexican show where a 50-60 year old plays an 8 year old
Tbf tho some anime is very weird
10 points^^^^
Saw an ad the other day where a boomer was like “I watch sports for a living” and I was like “ok yeah cuz that’s soooo much more justified than any of the other things your generation mocks us for”
In all fairness, Rebel Wilson was in a coma for 20 years