Anime and anime fandom died in 2009. For me, it was obvious when AoT premiered and they had that Teens React channel (remember that) pretend to care about anime because it was decided around that time it was going to be usurped and forced into mainstream culture.

Most things die when iPhones were released.

>died in 2009
what are you, twelve?

"pop culture died in 2009" is something that isn't just said about anime.

>>279866534
Exactomundo. IPhone, OWS, MySpace/Facebook ushering in social media. The first decade of this millenium was the last gasp of real life before the technocratic Bolshevik dystopian shithole age we live in now. If he had any dignity and balls, we'd just off ourselves out of mercy.

TRVKE

>>279866480 (OP)
It started around 2010-2015, but it completely died in 2020 when anime exploded to complete normie levels of popularity. Suddenly you are the weird one for NOT watching anime.

>>279866663
This is a truthful post. Even back in 2019, I remember how otakudom still had massive stigma. As Gen Z came of YA age that's when the jig was well and truly up.

>>279866663
You still get called weird for watching anime that isn't the latest FOTM shounenslop/romcom shit. Everything else is considered "problematic".

>>279866996
Almost every anime romcom I can think of would be 'problematic' according to the twitter standards.
So I wonder what they're watching.

>>279867708
NOTHING. They like the idea of anime and being an otaku in a very ironic sense but obviously detest any real notion of anime and otakudom. Losers of the lowest kind. Pretend to be what they despise and shit up the sandbox people who actually are like that play in just for sheer senseless thoughtless reasonless spite.

>>279867708
Shit like Spy X Family where the main leads are both explicitly adults so it's morally okay to jerk off to them. They'll still call you a pedophile for jerking off to the loli though

>>279867864
They're just such oversocialized losers that they're tired of consuming the same old Hollypedo slop so they jump on this bandwagon for the fuck of it and then realize oh wait this is totally not for me but instead of getting off they make sure to fucking demoralize everyone in it.

>>279867864
Yet at the same time everyone seems to be fine with jerking off to Marin from bisque doll just because she has big tits. But the moment they see a petite character even if they ar e18+ they will spam the "FBI!" meme

>>279868114
>just googled it and marin is 15
what the fuck? don't these people shit on kohei horikoshi for drawing 15 year olds with big tits?

Anime died along with flipphones and Windows XP. So roughly 2009, yeah that tracks..

>>279866480 (OP)
>Anime and anime fandom died in 2009.
>when AoT premiered
That was like three or four years later retard.
>and they had that Teens React channel (remember that) pretend to care about anime because it was decided around that time it was going to be usurped and forced into mainstream culture.
You're underage. Anime was already mainstream among kids and teens by that point- Gundam Wing and SEED were fucking huge, Grisaia nursed a burgeoning VN fandom, and obviously Naruto, Bleach, and Dragon Ball were like fucking crack in the 00s. SnK was merely an extension of that.

Anyways, if you want timeframes
>When did anime die
1982 with the release of Macross. Alternatively, 1988 with the release of Gunbuster.
>N-no, I mean when it got big in America!!
1998, at the absolute latest, with Z Day and the already existing popularity of Ranma, UY, and Sailor Moon.

>>279868114
I still remember when Misty probably had the most porn on the internet and it was basically a rite of passage to jerk off to her.

>>279866480 (OP)
Everything died when the large hadron collider was first activated.

>>279866480 (OP)
Pic related
>>279866534
>MUH PHONES
Grow up queer

>>279868596
Back to Xitter. NOW.

>>279866480 (OP)
I see an "anime died in 2009" thread 3 or four times a week, I don't see how regurgitating an established opinion is some profound "truth nuke".

>>279868724
Sensationalist OP thread image meant to be more appealing to engage with but the point still stands. 2000's anime culture was the peak and the end.

>>279866480 (OP)
>nooooo my secret club!

>>279868760
>2000's anime culture was the peak
Why not start a thread about anime you like from 2009 then instead of wasting space on the catalog

>>279868885
thats the big secret, he doesnt like anime at all
he just spends all day on the computer waiting for someone to get mad at him

>>279866480 (OP)
Go back to /v/eddit faggot.

>>279868669
There's a degree of irony behind telling others to go to twitter when your entire thread is whining about shit on twitter that nobody cares about.

>>279868596
>>279869280
>guys look at how much i don't care!
Hide thread?

>>279869826
Retard

I went to a con today and everyone was a Frieren cosplayer. There wasn't even any fairly recent girls like Elaina or Megumin or Aqua. Anime is dead.

>>279870469
I've been to two cons this year and you're full of shit.

>>279870469
I doubt it was that bad, but cons have definitely changed. I see a bunch of small friend groups literally just sitting around in cosplay all day on their phone or taking a bunch of selphies/tiktoks.
Also way more obviously bought than self made cosplays and way less people talk to each other or want photos taken.
Just feels like anime/cosplay is one big trend hop now.

Just dumb, also it was really killed with FMA

>>279866663
4chan was pretty much dead and dying in 2010-2015 but was disfigured beyond all recognition in 2016 when the dumbest normalfags on the internet were sent here en masse by political interest groups

>>279866480 (OP)
Translating anime was a mistake. Should’ve gatekept harder from the dekinais.

>>279866480 (OP)
>>279866534
Not really a truth nuke when it's common knowledge amongst otakus but go on, try to explain that to subhuman normalfags

>>279866534
In anime's case the smartphone didn't do it.
Fansub -> Streaming transition did it.
Same mechanism though, that is, it lowered the barrier to entry for dumb nigger normalfags to flood in.

>>279866480 (OP)
Anime is dead and we killed it.

>>279866480 (OP)
It was long before 2009.

>>279872996
>it lowered the barrier to entry for dumb nigger normalfags to flood in.
Dude, I know you're like, 19, but normalfags were watching fansubbed Naruto and Bleach.
Code Geass was popular before it aired on English TV. Among normalfags.

>>279874579
By the way everyone with the misfortune of being old is completely immune to your gaslighting attempts. We know things aren't the same. The whole culture of hiding your powerlevel didn't emerge from this being a normalfag hobby.