This may not be a good topic to go into as the first thing to post in over a year, but I wanted to express my take on it while it's still relevant.
Basically Matt Walsh (a right-wing political commentator) was asked on a podcast about anime and he said "I have no argument for it, I have no argument for why it's satanic, it just seems that way to me".
To say that people overreacted to this is an understatement, some people talked about the lives of animators who poured their sweat and blood into making anime, it all makes you think Matt Walsh threatened to nuke anime studios or something, when all he did was express his brief opinion in a matter of seconds and even admitted he has nothing to back it up in an argument.
What makes this even more ridiculous though, is that people didn't consider that the guy was being sarcastic to begin with, and yet articles made by people who hate him for political reasons, managed to manipulate this community into making a big deal out of it, just to give Matt more hate.
Now I don't care about the politics, I'm here to talk about the anime community, and how people are apparently still insecure about anime being hated.
Haven't we lived our whole lives knowing that people have a bad impression of anime? Whether they thought it was for kids or judged you for being a nerd. Today anime has become mainstream and almost everyone watches it, we're already living the dream, so why are people so offended by one man not liking anime?
The moral of the story, please stop being over-sensitive, it's hard to see people lacking in critical thinking being manipulated so easily. I hate politics getting into things that I like.
(Quick note: I'm not talking about this community on ecency, I'm talking about the anime community on the internet as a whole, specifically youtube and twitter).
