It is lame seeing Brazilian people act racist towards Japan when Brazil and most of South America in general had better exposure to anime/manga than the US.
To the point people even make jokes like "if you go to Mexico and badmouth King of Fighters, they'll send you to a cartel and take you to Funky Town" or someshit.
Because a lot of things wrong with anime/manga discussion online come from America such as:
SomethingAwful making crude jokes about Japan
the overall "lol weebs" attitude
localization drama (which is usually started by the localizers themselves)
whining about sexy characters or skin tones (both in fanart and official art)
self hating weebs (see /a/)
Ghost Stories dub and the lies around it ("it flopped in Japan so it's good we ruined it")
Or even Cowboy Bebop and the lies around its dub ("it flopped in Japan but we saved it because it was too good for Japan, I guess")
"what's a good anime for someone that thinks anime sucks?"
"Evangalion is a deconstruction of anime"
"Kill La Kill is actually mocking fanservice"
"Mad Bull 34 is legit how Japan views America"
"Miyazaki said anime was a mistake lol"
The way how people discuss yuri, making it seem like an inherently woke fetish tied to Western identity politics and associated with terms like "sapphic"
Shartyguys shouting "TRANIME!"
A lot of the errors and mistakes and lies in The Anime Encyclopedia (by Helen McCarthy e Jonathan Clements, I think)
Lot of lies and bullshit takes from ANN
People worried about being seen as "weirdos" by "the normies"
"I love Made in Abyss but the icky stuff can go"
"You're supposed to watch Space Adventure Cobra IRONICALLY"
"I'm the good taste weeb who doesn't watch SHOUNENSHIT"
Rightwingers trying to make Frieren a "based anime about why racism is cool" because they saw some people think the demons represent minorities and thought that "was based and redpilled"
People who think Dragon Ball is a parody of Journey to the West
People who think Panty and Stocking is a parody of Western cartoons and not just a fun show taking inspiration from them
People that thought One Punch Man was meant to "shit on shounen before it became what it mocked"
Ironic visual novels (DDLC and Class of 09 for example) by people who think they're "cleverly subverting a saturated genre" as if their audiences aren't already overly exposed to parody/ironic VN's to begin with and never saw a legit/sincere VN before
People who think anime is "inherently white supremacy because it was inspired by Disney who used to adapt Euro fairy tales" as if anime didn't develop its own identity and various works from various points of views
People who want anime to be 100% seperate from Western influence, while forgetting that some of it is good: Lupin the 3rd was inspired by Looney Tunes and a MAD artist, lots of Japanese games were inspired by 80's action movies, even Berserk somewhat takes from some Western cultures and fantasy etc.
Lots of anime/manga inspired works that are too "trope aware" and take surficial elements from anime/manga (While also carrying basic Western elements like "self aware writing" or "blog/beanmouth" aesthetics).
4chan guys going "grrr tourists, gotta gatekeep" when they're themselves responsible for what's in the above
newer Touhou fans worried about "the creeps ruining the fandom" that were probably there before decades before the new fans worried about them
There's probably more to add and my PC crashed like 3 TIMES when making this post.
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