Man I feel you. I actually had the opportunity to go to ComiCon in San Diego a couple years ago (I had a business trip in the area at the same time and a buddy had an extra pass) but I passed on it.
I work in tech. I'm nobody important or special, but I can't help but thing of the poor guys from "Dongle-Gate".
I got doxxed back during gamergate, and fortunately had a good HR director who laughed at the accusations. It's just not worth the risk.
Last time I went there were what I assumed to be nonprofit workers going up to people in the smoking area talking about how there are too many white men in elected office and don't we need to change that.
At a fucking gaming convention. These people are actual monsters. I hate them. It doesn't consume my life or whatever and I still focus on home, family and career, but if a SJW type person comes around me and I have any capacity to try to ruin them I fucking do and will.
This gets into another point I've tried making to the more evangelical SJW's in my life before: Pursuit is bad.
Let me explain: We live in three "modes". There's our work life, our public life, and our private life. Work life is typically pretty sterile for most people, as we are on our best "professional" behavior, and kept separate more or less from our other modes. Public life is being out in public with friends or just grocery shopping, we are still quite conscious of our surroundings and what we say. Our private life is a little more complex in the digital age, as its both our home life with family/loved ones/trusted friends who we feel we can let our guard down with, and also our anonomized via pseudonym online life where we can discuss matters without the fear of reprisal.
The fences (I wouldn't call them walls as a bit of each "container" wafts into the others from time to time) between these aren't respected anymore. We have people who will dedicate themselves to pursuing you from mode to mode trying to destroy you simply for expressing an idea they do not like.
When you pursue someone with destructive intent, you aren't a victim, you are the monster. If there is disagreement in a "mode" or container of life, that is where it should remain and be hashed out.
We've lost this decorum, and we all suffer for it.
The high road is the losing road at this point, not destroying them mode to mode like they do to us. When we had the chance in our communities (like vidya and anime) we took the road of tolerance, and lost everything.
We are in serious conflict now with the children of darkness and we are losing pretty badly. Only way forward is scorched earth, then plant anew on the barren grounds.
I used to go to Katsucon for like probably 20 years (aging myself hahaha). It used to be about watching poor dubs, shitty homemade anime music vids and getting drunk with other people like you.
The costumes were shitty, but no one cared. The buyers rooms were amazing since that was the only place we could get shit without driving to the one anime store 60 miles away.
Now is is 50% "SQUEEEE" thots who are so annoying you just want to punch and 50% weird fucking dudes taking pictures of the thots.
It sucks. 'Social Justice' and their nonprofit funders (rich white people and liberal jews) ruined fucking everything. We need to make some conventions for people but probably need to do it on private land since we will get fucking attacked by 120 pound trannies who have the full force of 'civil society' behind them.
I don't think it's the anime's fault, I think the fandom is to blame. They're always the problem, and almost all fandoms are infested with SJW trash. I used to love searching through Tumblr for fanart and silly headcanons for the anime I watched, but in recent years the fandoms have been utter trash, claiming characters are gay or trans when they're not. They're insane and delusional. They've also become extremely political, inserting politics into everything.
It's best to watch anime by yourself or with your friends, don't bother seeking out and interacting with the fandoms. They're going to ruin everything for you. It's not worth it.
Katsucon wasn’t much better, we were back to back with CPAC and the woke cultists were out heresy hunting in FORCE!
They were going after every shield hero and Raphtalia they saw, pestering them about being every ist-phobe in the book. Even to call them slavery apologists.
There’s still some cool people at anime cons though, and I think the really woke cons have taken a double whammy from COVID and the Vic Mignogna lawsuit. I’ve been hearing rumblings of new based cons thinking about springing up to fill the market gaps.
Holy shit last MAGfest it was like 10% trannies sitting in the middle of the floor so as to be the most disruptive complaining loudly about nazis.
I had gone for 8 or so years, started before they moved it into the Gaylord National in National Harbor across from DC
No more. I can't go out of fear of these weak fucks trying to ruin everyones life and good time.
It's really sad. I feel like I am partly responsible for being so tolerant back in the early days. I am tolerant no more.
Man I feel you. I actually had the opportunity to go to ComiCon in San Diego a couple years ago (I had a business trip in the area at the same time and a buddy had an extra pass) but I passed on it.
I work in tech. I'm nobody important or special, but I can't help but thing of the poor guys from "Dongle-Gate".
I got doxxed back during gamergate, and fortunately had a good HR director who laughed at the accusations. It's just not worth the risk.
Last time I went there were what I assumed to be nonprofit workers going up to people in the smoking area talking about how there are too many white men in elected office and don't we need to change that.
At a fucking gaming convention. These people are actual monsters. I hate them. It doesn't consume my life or whatever and I still focus on home, family and career, but if a SJW type person comes around me and I have any capacity to try to ruin them I fucking do and will.
This gets into another point I've tried making to the more evangelical SJW's in my life before: Pursuit is bad.
Let me explain: We live in three "modes". There's our work life, our public life, and our private life. Work life is typically pretty sterile for most people, as we are on our best "professional" behavior, and kept separate more or less from our other modes. Public life is being out in public with friends or just grocery shopping, we are still quite conscious of our surroundings and what we say. Our private life is a little more complex in the digital age, as its both our home life with family/loved ones/trusted friends who we feel we can let our guard down with, and also our anonomized via pseudonym online life where we can discuss matters without the fear of reprisal.
The fences (I wouldn't call them walls as a bit of each "container" wafts into the others from time to time) between these aren't respected anymore. We have people who will dedicate themselves to pursuing you from mode to mode trying to destroy you simply for expressing an idea they do not like.
When you pursue someone with destructive intent, you aren't a victim, you are the monster. If there is disagreement in a "mode" or container of life, that is where it should remain and be hashed out.
We've lost this decorum, and we all suffer for it.
Well thought out.
The high road is the losing road at this point, not destroying them mode to mode like they do to us. When we had the chance in our communities (like vidya and anime) we took the road of tolerance, and lost everything.
We are in serious conflict now with the children of darkness and we are losing pretty badly. Only way forward is scorched earth, then plant anew on the barren grounds.
I used to go to Katsucon for like probably 20 years (aging myself hahaha). It used to be about watching poor dubs, shitty homemade anime music vids and getting drunk with other people like you.
The costumes were shitty, but no one cared. The buyers rooms were amazing since that was the only place we could get shit without driving to the one anime store 60 miles away.
Now is is 50% "SQUEEEE" thots who are so annoying you just want to punch and 50% weird fucking dudes taking pictures of the thots.
It sucks. 'Social Justice' and their nonprofit funders (rich white people and liberal jews) ruined fucking everything. We need to make some conventions for people but probably need to do it on private land since we will get fucking attacked by 120 pound trannies who have the full force of 'civil society' behind them.
I don't think it's the anime's fault, I think the fandom is to blame. They're always the problem, and almost all fandoms are infested with SJW trash. I used to love searching through Tumblr for fanart and silly headcanons for the anime I watched, but in recent years the fandoms have been utter trash, claiming characters are gay or trans when they're not. They're insane and delusional. They've also become extremely political, inserting politics into everything.
It's best to watch anime by yourself or with your friends, don't bother seeking out and interacting with the fandoms. They're going to ruin everything for you. It's not worth it.
Katsucon wasn’t much better, we were back to back with CPAC and the woke cultists were out heresy hunting in FORCE!
They were going after every shield hero and Raphtalia they saw, pestering them about being every ist-phobe in the book. Even to call them slavery apologists.
There’s still some cool people at anime cons though, and I think the really woke cons have taken a double whammy from COVID and the Vic Mignogna lawsuit. I’ve been hearing rumblings of new based cons thinking about springing up to fill the market gaps.
I honestly hope the bigger cons all go belly up. Better to start new, shit is too fucked.