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7/25/2025, 10:12:13 AM
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This isn't an ML specific phenomenon, but perhaps it's most evident with ML. You see it with all branches with people not feeling like they're "adequate" producers because they're either late to the branch and don't have as many years of experience or aren't into all facets of a branch (Lives! Games! Merch! Streams! Collabs! Other!) which make them feel "lesser" than other Ps who are into all branches.
It's why iM@S keeps making new branches even if people here for instance moaned about it when GK was first teased. If you're interested in iM@S even somewhat, it's a lot easier to get into the newest series where you'll be approximately at the starting line as everyone else compared to something like CG or ML where you've already missed out on a decade worth of content and there's literally no way to experience it with Mobamas/Greemas down.
Fandom in general is already a massive part of being into a series for a lot of people these days thanks to the rise of SNS, it's why you have people who go "Oh, I'm such a big fan of X series!" despite the fact that they've never played the games, watched the anime, etc., because they just want to be "in" with the newest hip thing rather than actually interact with the franchise and find out what they like about it. iM@S arguably has it even worse because the social element is only ramped up due to P culture.
I think this emphasis on fandom in the modern post-SNS era is objectively a bad thing; you shouldn't be "into" a series just so you're "into" whatever the newest hot thing is and can look hip online, you should be into a series because you actually like the series. But I do think that's why you see a lot of stuff like this where a whole lot of new Ps just literally will not flock to older branches no matter how hard said branch's management might try to pander.
This isn't an ML specific phenomenon, but perhaps it's most evident with ML. You see it with all branches with people not feeling like they're "adequate" producers because they're either late to the branch and don't have as many years of experience or aren't into all facets of a branch (Lives! Games! Merch! Streams! Collabs! Other!) which make them feel "lesser" than other Ps who are into all branches.
It's why iM@S keeps making new branches even if people here for instance moaned about it when GK was first teased. If you're interested in iM@S even somewhat, it's a lot easier to get into the newest series where you'll be approximately at the starting line as everyone else compared to something like CG or ML where you've already missed out on a decade worth of content and there's literally no way to experience it with Mobamas/Greemas down.
Fandom in general is already a massive part of being into a series for a lot of people these days thanks to the rise of SNS, it's why you have people who go "Oh, I'm such a big fan of X series!" despite the fact that they've never played the games, watched the anime, etc., because they just want to be "in" with the newest hip thing rather than actually interact with the franchise and find out what they like about it. iM@S arguably has it even worse because the social element is only ramped up due to P culture.
I think this emphasis on fandom in the modern post-SNS era is objectively a bad thing; you shouldn't be "into" a series just so you're "into" whatever the newest hot thing is and can look hip online, you should be into a series because you actually like the series. But I do think that's why you see a lot of stuff like this where a whole lot of new Ps just literally will not flock to older branches no matter how hard said branch's management might try to pander.
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