having a favorite character who originally came from a gacha game sucks sooooo bad bcuz even though i look at them and im like “oooohhh you’re so precious” or “oooohhh you’re so insane i desperately need to study every bit of you like a bug”, at the same time im also horrifically aware that this is all just one carefully constructed piece of the twisted capitalistic model of gacha games. giving these overdesigned anime pngs/3d models as much fun charming personality and deep interesting backstory as possible so you and many others get deeply uncontrollably attached to them, which in turn acts as a huge drive to get you into grinding and rolling for these characters, wasting huge amounts of time and/or money all just to obtain your waifu/husbando/comfort scrunkly blorbo scrimblo of choice.
It feels so fucking evil, using the natural response of getting attached to fictional characters for such capitalistic gain. Planting the seeds for fandoms to grow all just to make them eternal customers of your product. This shit’s nearly ruined my life, even without spending money i still spent so much precious time progressing in the game yet never progressing anywhere in real life, and yet still the one character i simp for the most is from fucking genshin impact.
idk man. youtubers should stop getting sponsorships from gacha game companies. every time ginja ninja owo makes a (sponsored) video where they draw fanart for the next hit game from mihoyo a part of my soul dies
why waste 20 bucks on a ten pull when you could waste 20 bucks on an obscure indie game on steam that will permanently influence and change the perception and trajectory of your life forever
i find it interesting as much as it is ever so slightly concerning how some people will make miku into this absolute paragon of moral purity, the ultimate apex of doing no wrong whatsoever. Like some angelic god i guess, even without being religious in the slightest there’s still that compulsion to worship idols into higher beings. Man miku can be whoever tf she wants, wholesome edgy scary weird melancholic funny cute, she prolly doesn’t give a fuck
im reeeaaaaaally not a big fan of the “hatsune miku made mincraft” hatsune miku wrote harry potter” “hatsune miku is the president of canada” meme ngl. I find it kinda icky, like it feels like a form of denial and ear-plugging from ever coming to terms with how shit people exist in the world by using hatsune miku as a sort of psychological “positive vibes only” shield. idk maaaaaan
i think i have a weird “reverse social anxiety” where im like pretty comfortable chatting and hanging with IRL flesh people most of the time but when it comes to online interaction and the idea of hitting it huge on social media i get very anxious and mind-racey, compared to other people who i THINK are more socially anxious IRK but more chatty online…??? Idk. But If i ever get a sudden “Wally Darling” type megafandom situation instantly surrounding me without buildup i’d just fucking shit myself and die.
sometimes i wonder if the reason why im hesitant to post on social media is cuz it’s going to actively damage my thoughts with paranoid thinking cycles and i will not be able to think calm unless i just not post shit. But idunno. Dippin my toes one inch into the water like im the most thalassophobic man alive tryin to face his fears.
probably the greatest (and perhaps only good) example of a 4kids-esque anime dub name change i’ve seen was when in the english Doraemon dub they changed this guy Suneo’s name to “Sneech”.
like yeah you see this mf and you just KNOW “yyeeeep. that guy looks like a Sneech”
i wonder if people back then got extremely sick and tired of the frutiger aero aesthetic and thought of it as “corporate and soulless” just like how we today think of the allegra aesthetic
>video is titled “How I Made a Vtuber Design That Stands Out”
>creates the most boring-ass basic bland cliché easily-forgettable milquetoast Most Common Denominator lab-grown manufactured Nekopara-reject catgirl maid waifu in existence
the chicken jockey meme doesn’t feel real. it feels like one of those made-up memes they’d put into a mid-2010’s cartoon for a dedicated “meme” episode which cartoon reviewers at the time would call severely unfunny dated and cringe. but instead it’s a real meme in the 2020’s and people are going buck-wild over it and it makes me feel so weird about everything
who da hell turned everyone’s dashboard icons Round
>be me
>find that every art youtuber i watch is getting milanote sponsorships
>they all describe it as being “completely, utterly, 100% free to use” and like the coolest goddamn thing ever and don’t say anything else other than that. they all show off their crazy inspirational milanote boards they fully made themselves. my interest is now piqued
>look inside
>requires monthly subscription service for it to actually be functional at what it does
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