/jp/ - Otaku Culture

You could have prevented the public humiliation of Tae Kim and the gradual obsolescence of his guide. You could have prevented it. But you didn't. You twiddled your thumbs and cheered him on, hoping everything would resolve itself. But you should know better. A single person can't fight back against a circlejerk of eternal beginners alone.

You could have prevented the death and obsolescence of DJT and the end of the filtering-out and fixing-in of sane learning materials. You could have prevented it. But you didn't. In the name of fairness and neutrality, you filled the guide with garbage, triggered hundreds of hours of arguments about RTK, redistributed terrible anki decks and kanji books made by people with negative amounts of understanding of Japanese, and exposed it all to the wider internet, attracting political spam so bad the thread got banned from /a/. But you should know better. Neutrality attracts conflict, of all kinds, intellectual, ideological, and civil.

You could have prevented the rise of Matt and MIA and the degradation of input-based learning methods. You could have prevented it. But you didn't. You pointed and laughed, saying, that's hilarious, nobody's going to buy that. But you should know better. Underage weebs and mentally unwell young adults don't have such clear judgment as you.

All we've got left is George, our nico nico douga memes, and our porn. Lots, and lots, and lots, of porn.