>>712503907 (OP)
The problem was never the content. It’s the fandom and the community. What draws in leeches and bandwagoners is a weak fanbase. BS community it’s completely incapable of keeping people out. They fell into the same trap oldtaku did: wanting validation, wanting people to say, ‘Wow, this work is so deep, so edgy, so meaningful.’
It ends up the same way as MIA.
Even though the content is full of child abuse and exploitation scenes. Or Monogatari, which also got sucked into the mainstream.
If you want your work to stay real, stop acting like some insecure kid begging for others to validate it. More importantly call out that mindset in others too.
MIA is now being defended by mainstream anime fans. Even though it’s obviously fetish bait. The author even looks like one of those stereotypical fat lolicons from NTR doujins. But because the work is so good amazing visuals, music, atmosphere it ended up winning awards from the mainstream.
BS is way more niche in comparison. It’s an 18+ psychological RPG made by a single obsessed guy, spread purely through underground word of mouth. And that kind of thing is always at risk once people start talking about it more, normie flood in and eventually shift its entire direction.
like FnH. Started out super underground, but once it got popular, the original fans lost their space to talk about it. BS different, though. It’s unapologetically porn, and the story openly talks about pedo. And society treats anything related to pedo as way worse than most other crimes.
Worst?
Once those normies realize that the little girls in the game are referencing Lewis Carroll, the guy who took photos of real children. They’ll start twisting the narrative: ‘It’s art, actually~ It reflects the creator’s inner world~’
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Alice_Liddell_2.jpg
If you want this kind of work to survive on its own terms, don’t expect ‘normies’ to ever understand it. Because the moment they do, it’ll all get devoured.
