People totally did get bullied for liking anime, I’ll just say that now.
Anon was bullied
Submitted 7 hours ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Etterra@discuss.online 34 minutes ago
Same with d&d and video games.
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 hours ago
I agree with you, I am fairly large and I changed schools frequently. Every new school id be bullied for first few weeks and it would only stop when bullies realise I can beat them more than they can beat me, and that i wouldn’t shy away from confrontation. But liking Anime was like top two reasons
The most memorable is I was new to school and 12. I had a Keychain attached to my bag of bato from GiTS, not even motoko, at first this guy thought he was GI Joe and it was fine, then he asked more about the figure and upon learning it’s anime, he stole it… And about 2 days later decided with two of his friends, I need to taught anime bad by shoving it down my throat. Two friends held my hand and the psycho was getting me to open my mouth to shove it in, when I broke free from one of the friend and punched him so hard it broke his nose, then kicked one other guy in nuts. I fucking ran to staff room to have some adult around. Well I almost got kicked out of school. But some 16-17 year old bystander girl went out of her way to explain everything. And I only got suspended for a week. Stories like this were common everytime I change schools, bullies test me, they realise I am not willing to fight before going down and thankfully being large, I could do some serious damage. They’d give up bullying after a few months. And then a year or two later, new school. Rinse and repeat.
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 hours ago
That being said, I also hated kids who did Naruto runs and called me senpai. I didn’t bully them, but I don’t think I ever tried to stop them from being bullied.
coolie4@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Anime was never a problem. Sailor moon, Pokémon, and DBZ were super mainstream, and you had stuff like Voltron and Speed Racer before that.
The issue is people who either only talk about their hobby, try to force other people into it, or in the case of anime, expect real life to be the same way or act it out themselves (see naruto running comment in OP’s screenshot)
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
This completely depends on your age and what kind of peers you were surrounded by. You’re nuts if you think no one was ever bullied for liking stuff because it was mainstream at the time and place you grew up in. Kids can be vicious little creatures and would bully you for liking the wrong Pokémon when I was in school.
There’s probably something very wrong with you if you actually think that bullying is acceptable under any circumstances. Even if some kid is behaving weirdly or likes something deeply unpopular - so what? That’s not harmful behaviour and even if it somehow was, bullying is still the wrong way to deal with that. I barely trust most adults to have a working moral compass, let alone kids. I know there’s been a resurgence in this kind of thinking on social media where people push the idea that bullying is an acceptable form of social “correctional” behaviour, which isn’t just incredibly stupid but also deeply disgusting. If you look at any of the most serious bullying cases of teenagers being driven to suicide by their schoolmates, none of it was ever justified or even had an apparent reason other than: this person makes for an easy target.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 hours ago
You really think that bullies pick victims that deserve to be bullied?
coolie4@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I said no such thing, and I’m not sure what type of victims you think “deserve to be bullied”
People who stand out from the herd are those that are either idolized or shunned, depending on other factors. But bullies target those who they think they can victimize. So as I said in my first comment, its not really about anime or specific hobbies, at all.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Anon got bullied, it’s true
They still need to grow the fuck up. They sound like a millennial based on when anime went mainstream in which case, my god, get a therapist already.
Imagine still being salty over people being mean to you 20 years ago. Fuck
forrgott@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Let’s not forget the pictured message they were replying to specifically mentions growling at people and sprinting around.
That shit never went mainstream. Fucking hell
lath@lemmy.world 27 minutes ago
Bish please. It was mainstream as fuck before social media.
Naruto runs were being a fucking airplane, complete with sound and spittle. A dumbass kid’s game probably as old as the Wright brothers…
Every fucking generation in the last century has been playing it without anyone giving a damn, ffs.
Dojan@pawb.social 2 hours ago
My initial reaction was to agree with you because, yeah that’s pretty weird, but honestly fuck that.
Kids playing and being a bit embarrassing? That’s perfectly normal. They don’t deserve to be bullied and the problem lies entirely with the bully.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Therapy is no substitute for well earned grudges
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Grudges often (not always) are just a second bully victory, because they make your life, not theirs, worse. You don’t need to forgive them, even if it can help (help you, not them), but therapy can help you move on with your life more lightly.
yakko@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Same. I got my face pushed in by a bully who was on the boxing team. The principal later put me on the spot, asked me to forgive him to his face and I said no.
I could have easily needed therapy for that, but I’ve been fortunate enough to have come through it liking myself more, even being proud of how I handled it. I can take a punch and walk away calmly and deliberately (then cry through a giant red snot bubble in the nurse’s office later).
Besides… Last I heard he was in jail for armed robbery. Ha! And double ha! Ever thus to bullies.
sexy_animal_fucker@kbin.melroy.org 7 hours ago
People who know about my interests and hobbies tend to not like when I go near their pets
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Only when you bring the taxidermy kit
ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Do you fuck sexy animals, or do you consider yourself an animal fucker that is sexy?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
the moment that anime went mainstream is the moment that it got stupid and uninteresting, that’s when i stopped watching it. the quality just dropped to adapt to the mainstream
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
You must wear plaid and have a beard with a curly mustache.
affenlehrer@feddit.org 6 hours ago
When was that moment and which anime was the first stupid one?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
idk maybe bad anime was always a thing and i just ignored it until then, but i’d say around 2015 maybe.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s because OVA doesn’t exist anymore. Like all the interesting niche anime were almost always OVA.
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 42 minutes ago
Adaptations can be niche, weird and interesting too, but original anime just tend to utilize the medium more fully and even push the boundaries occasionally. It really is a shame that almost no studios are willing to take the perceived risk of original concepts without an established following.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 minutes ago
The image anon is using as an example does not say they were not bullied. It says they weren’t bullied just for liking anime. Like, read the rest of the god damn sentence, anon.