YouTube just recommended me an "anime history" short about Bubblegum Crisis, wherein literally every bit of trivia was completely wrong. Comments are all fawning and positive. Maddening.
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My favorite YouTube genre: People who have ZERO business talking about anime history, cheerfully spreading easily disprovable disinformation for clout.
I've seen and ignored so many of those channels, they read the wikipedia entry on a youtube short and act as if they were involved in the creation of the anime.
For those of you reading this comment and don't know who this guy is, look up Anime News Network. Yeah, the site is def dated to the 90s (nostalgia?), but Justin's insight on anime is, quite literally, legendary.
I haven't worked for ANN in many years, but I don't think getting every fact wrong in a YouTube video is an "old man" complaint by anyone's definition.
Even worse, when you itemize the mistakes in a respectful but accurate way, those same fawning commenters will call you a Luddite and defend their favorite channel in all-caps. We live in a world where it is significantly more profitable to lie and we've trained our children to defend those profits.
This is honestly how it feels being a fan of the magical girl genre too. Seeing any articles or videos (especially videos) about magical girl anything just has me bracing myself for wrong information. I'm so sorry.
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It's infuriating sometimes...
Pick an anime Pre-2010s or 90s and just make stuff up
Don't dismiss this as "old man". He's not wrong.