...interests with respect, and to not mock their sincerity, and especially writers. It's easy to imagine a writer will not feel good if their works get ridiculed like that. (Holy yappacino 😭😭😭)

...In the end, I think it's good to be respectful on both ends. It's good to understand why someone finds something corny, but it's also good to understand why there is pushback against it. I think it's not hard to avoid being hated, just as long as you treat people and their...

...that someone has consumed. Such disrespect towards work, especially if broadcasted to the internet, will always come with pushback. There are very few situations where laughing at sincerely-written works is fine, but the WuWa 2.8 situation is far from constituting one...

...in anime and eastern media), then it is not surprising that you would be ridiculed for such disrespect, and ostracized as a "tourist". When people say "tourist", they often refer to the disrespect and mock that comes from such tourists, not the low number of anime or manga...

...as one, and you engage in such media only superficially (for "hype moments"), then it is unspokenly expected that you treat sincere media with respect rather than ridicule. If you laugh at something made with sincerity (even when it's far from the corniest dialogue common...

...vulnerable and connected towards be made fun of for that same reason. There are cases of genuinely bad dialogue, but what I see get made fun of is usually nowhere as corny as what actual couples say to each other. The problem is, when you're an "outsider" (or at least seen...

...vulnerable. This vulnerability usually appears to outsiders as "corny" (which literally just means sentimental, but used demeaningly). It's fine to be such an outsider and to feel that way about such media, but few things feel worse than seeing something you loved and felt...

...referring to such a scene with "What’s with this Disney Channel ass dialogue?" when it was a perfectly good dialogue). A lot of the people moving away from western and towards eastern media are doing so (whether consciously or not) to find media that has the courage to be...

...themselves. This is very common in media by Marvel as many people known, and results in the "Marvel dialogue" ("he's right behind me isn't he?", "well, that just happened", [Music stops], etc). A lot of the outliers that try to be sincere get ridiculed (there was a tweet...

...and towards more "comedy" (sometimes cynical). A big part of that is what are known as bathos (see Trope Talk: Bathos video) where writers intentionally comedically interrupt/subvert their own stories' vulnerable moment to avoid being ridiculed for being vulnerable...

A rant thread about vulnerability, "tourists", and vaguely WuWa 3.8 This isn't an attack on anyone in particular, and feel free to respond/add something you think is interesting. There's been a shift in mainstream western adult media away from "vulnerability" and "sincerity"...

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@LiterallyVera99 @1WeebTrash @JWonggg Listen, ya gotta understand that EVO moment #37 is a legendary moment where Daigo made the greatest comeback against Guy who got parried by Daigo.

Teddy doing the Daigo Parry was NOT on my bingo card for 2025😭

Huh, since when did PGR add English dub to some of the older cutscenes? (Weirdly, the combat lines in that fight are still in JP. Also, if you set the voices to EN in settings, newer dubbed stuff also features EN dubbed dialogue)

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No way the director of one of my favorite niche games had to see some degeneracy. I feel bad for him 😭😭😭

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