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A lot of random animeonlies were super confused because all they took from the meme scene is Subaru saying he loved Emilia and they forgot everything else that happened. Doesn't help because of the large gap between the seasons so people that didn't keep up with the series forget details. When I first watched it as an animeonly I still took the replacement scene with him and Rem after the whale fight as romantic because even though its not technically explicit and its softened compared to the novel version, compared to your average anime "romance" they might as well have fucked. But a lot of other people forgot, didn't pay attention in the first place, or got gaslit by years of meme spam.