>>149786227
>Japan has more people than the entire population of eastern Europe sans Russia combined
depends on what you consider "eastern Europe". Hungary, for example, is not even officially considered eastern-European, but USAians usually call it that anyway.
the OP also includes France, which is also not a language understood by anyone else, except québecians and maybe people from their past colonies.
>most of the audience is only interested in tumblr-adjacent shows and the like these days and the people who aren't generally either don't watch cartoons or are only interested in the stuff they watched growing up.
then the question should be "why do i only care about animation like that" and not "Why does good animation basically only come from the United States, France, and Japan?"
>The question is where.
the thread i linked to posted the link right there, and noone cared. what my previous webm is from, was on youtube for years with english subtitles, and had 70k views and 35 comments when it got taken down:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250304002508/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eUbpdlwoJY
the movie where this mp4 is from is on amazon prime and apple TV.
funny how whenever someone claims some generalized bullshit rooted in ignorance, and someone else proves them wrong, posters like you come and act as if it's the second person you should be arguing with.
someone claimed that good animation basically only comes from 3 countries, i presented a counter-argument, then it got derailed into how accessible things are to the general audience when that was never part of the argument. no need to claim something they don't actually know about, and i don't think i should be the one who has to explain himself.
also i don't know how much /co/ audience should be conflated with general audience, when this board developed obsession over things noone else cared about, see Ongezellig which is a single pilot.
so it ultimately comes down to willful ignorance
