I'm just baffled by this revisionism that anime only recently became mainstream when I've been bombarded with "those weird Japanese cartoons that are all the rage with the youth"

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I remember downloading Evangelion in 20mb .rm real media player files.
Also the age of quality fansubs, where people would autistically translate every sign and piece of written text in the background, and include ful paragraphs explaining japanese culture that you had to pause on the right frame to read.