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>Anime mostly available on specific VHS tapes with terrible English dubs and translations
>Most stuff on TV was shounen garbage
>Limited toilet paper editions of manga with even more terrible English translations
>Most anime games available only in Japan. Never published in the West
>Extremely small niche fanbase with zero good organized events

Not really. The 90s were a barren desert if you were a weeb living in the West. The 2000s were a great decade for being a weeb. The fanbase of people who generally liked Jap stuff became a lot bigger, and as a result, we got a lot more stuff published, localized, and available in the West. You had fuck ton of great weeb games like Persona 3, Shadow Hearts 2, Digital Devil Saga, Dot Hack, FF10, and many others. You also had a great era of anime with amazing, varied, and experimental series like Death Note, Stand Alone Complex, Code Geass, Monster, Haruhi Suzumiya, Eureka Seven, and many others that you could watch not only on many TV stations like Toonami but also on the internet with decent subs. The manga market became a lot bigger and professional, while at the same time not being oversaturated with too many mainstream series. Don't even let me start on internet forums and fandom events. That shit was fire