"Anime fans" who only like 1-2 modern shounens and constantly snipe at anyone who watches or reads anything else have always been a staple of anime fandom communities but it’s very different now because there’s 5000x as many, they’re far more resentful, and they all post the exact same way - they act like anything produced before an arbitrary year is "ancient" and stupid, they freak out about any other show being "muh fuh Epstein Diddy shit". They'll spend all day complaining about how the medium they claim to be a fan of is full of lousy shows and every other anime fan is problematic or a gooner and so on.

Current-day shonentards are significantly worse than the Toonami normies or whatever of yesteryear as they're entirely a byproduct of the post-2020 social media environment. At least the people who watched shows on Toonami and what have you in years past actually seemed to enjoy anime instead of coming off as fad chasers.

Ok

The Toonami core people are just as bad. They're tourists too, who jerk off to Cowboy Bebop as "the greatest work of art ever", even though it's all style, no substance.

The issue is that "modern" long-running shonen especially has become it's own separate universe/bubble from the rest of anime and manga, at least in the West and as far as the audience who watches this stuff goes.
They can probably count the amount of anime they've watched to conclusion on their fingers and toes, but exclusively watch "forever shonen" that go on for years and years so in the end they're still watching hundreds, or thousands of episodes.
They think they're above "seasonal anime fans" for being mindless consumers of current things, while consuming the latest, current thing episode or chapter of whatever they're watching.
They may not believe they're "above" the classics, but they won't even go back and watch the classics ironically BECAUSE it's not the current thing, discussion of these shows is essentially over because the classics have been discussed and dissected to death.
So you essentially get millions of people who only consume current battle shonen and maybe a handful of FoTM seasonal stuff, but only if said seasonal stuff has multiple seasons.

>blogpost old good new bad meta thread
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>>279835175
>old good new bad
Incredible reading comprehension, dipshit.

>>279834427 (OP)
Rare based Doremifag.

>>279834427 (OP)
To put it simply, anime has become too mainstream and with that kind of reach you'll get plenty of normalfags in the mix.

>>279835175
OP is talking about the audience you mong.

>>279834427 (OP)
I disagree that there are more of them relative to actual otaku, see DBfags, what did happen though is that these "people" started to use the interact and invade spaces previously occupied by actual anime otaku because lets be real 4chinz is mainstream and has been from since sloptubers started making videos on this god forsaken site.

>>279835859(me)
>I disagree that there are more of them relative to actual otaku, see DBfags,
more of the now relative to actual otaku than back then***