Ver archivo adjunto 724421
archived 13 Apr 2019 15:54:25 UTC
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"Comicsgate was totally a failure guise, and so will Animegate"
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Gamergate was kind of a failure given that the big-wigs like Anita and crew got to make a lot of money and cozy their way into the tech commissars' good graces, and as Null pointed out, that was because GG was too cocky and disorganized.
Comicsgate was looking like it would go down the same route Gamergate did until the most recent lawsuit dropped and combined with Marvel's flagging sales (and the lower bar of entry in making successful comics as opposed to video games) and it seems to be a case of a tactical stalemate but a strategic victory in the long run, especially once the MCU bubble bursts and Disney stops churning out capeshit movies ad nauseam
Weeb Wars is still ongoing but it is looking it will be the major turning point. The mainstream media and tech commissars aren't really that involved in it (if at all) so the SJW woke-meisters don't have the media to fall back on like they did with Gamergate and can't control the narrative as easily.
Anime is also not as colonized by the hipsters and dangerhairs who serve as the cannon fodder in the culture wars like comic books and video games are, meaning there is more resistance naturally than there was in comics and gaming.
Tellingly, when geek culture went mainstream in the early 2010's, it was cool to like superheroes but it was not cool to like anime, and weeb shaming probably became more prevalent than it was before geek went chic.
You don't see a lot of anime references on Big Bang Theory like you do with comic books and Star Wars, know what I mean?
Even the usual suspects like Anita Sarkeesian, Vice, and Buzzfeed haven't said jack shit about any of this for the most part, and the normies are feeling a sense of paranoid fatigue from being bombarded by a constant stream of male celebrities getting #MeToo'd since 2017 with no real pause that they didn't pay attention when a niche figure like Vic was accused.
Vic also has not been criminally charged or investigated in any of this, and unlike previous men who were #MeToo'd on either false or heavily exaggerated claims (Aziz Ansari, Al Franken), he didn't apologize, admit guilt, or concede defeat. He remained polite and kept cool, but fought back by lawyering up and taking the accusers to civil court, an arena where Twitter likes and having the proper "woke" thoughts won't do jack shit for them.
Unlike Gamergate, which was disorganized and cast too wide of a net with no real tangible goal or strategy, the Weeb Wars are focused and tangible, mainly focused on clearing Vic's name and putting all the bad actors involved on the spot (and likely removing them from the anime industry in the long run as a result) which would likely prevent anime from going full woke like comics and gaming did.
Because anime wasn't fully colonized by the hipsters and dangerhairs yet, it's easier to spot the SJW bad actors than it was with other hobbies and we can act in a more concentrated way, with tangible goals and objectives.
The KickVic smear campaign and the whole "broken stairs" bullshit was probably the first major step to bring anime fandom under their control and it's visibly backfiring horribly.
We may win this in the long run, but even after the lawsuits are finally settled, we have got a long way ahead of us before the pendulum swings back. It will likely get worse before it gets better, but there's finally a ray of light at the end of this tunnel.
In previous posts, I compared the Culture Wars to the American Civil War and I will further that analogy a little bit. In this analogy, we're like the Union, the SJW's are like the Confederacy, and the normies and casual geeks are like Britain and France (the only way the SJW's can realistically win is by getting the public on their side, much as the Confederacy's long-term strategy was to get the European powers on their side)
Gamergate was our Bull Run. We underestimated the upstarts and lost the battle, looking foolish and giving them a massive boost of confidence in achieving their goals.
Comicsgate was our Antietam. We've been locked in a bloody stalemate but the enemy has worn themselves down in the process so badly that it will likely be a tactical victory for them but a long-term strategic victory for us as the general public is starting to grow weary of them and the public opinion is starting to turn against them.
The Weeb Wars will be our Gettysburg, the point of no return for both sides. They are going to use their same strategies as before, but with fewer resources and greater resistance as they push deeper into uncharted enemy territory and due to their overconfidence, they will exert themselves too far and be crushed, forcing them to go on defense until they finally falter.
I shudder at what cultural battleground will be our Petersburg Campaign or the Burning of Atlanta. Maybe tabletop gaming or sci-fi literature? Who knows at this point.
TL;DR-Never give up. We might actually win this one.