#anitwitter is so weird

[tariah23]

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[baelmoder]

it really is a godsend that nobody is here

i've always felt like i lived in a shadow, maybe of some building that nobody else could really see, despite all of them living within it. now i think that building is god, but it is a dead and uncaring god, or it is asleep, and i dont want to awaken it. everything is sunlight, and god is the sun, and sunlight burns me because i am unfit for it. who knows what kind of unholy bullshit is going to come out of that building when i tickle its belly the residents already hate me lets shelf that for a second lol

i left twitter, let's say, more than two years ago. i was on it for a few years? and before that i was basically never actually on social media. there were a few moments where i /tried/ to enter some community or another? like i joined a souncloud mashup server once (the atrium), and i briefly entered a discord for an anime essay channel, but i left and i got kicked out because i was saying ass backwards reactionary logic shit. so the biggest thing i ever did was Be Kae Dotmoe, and what that meant was, plunging blindly into anitwitter, orbiting around the plasuible deniability right wing podcaster losers like Polyphemus, until I found kayfaraday, resident extremely weird christian chiptune artist who at least creatively had the same affect as me, of the sort of nonsensical schizophrenia on which postmodernist ficiton thrives and upon which fascism subsists. nazism, like, relies on genocide to build the pyramids, and relies on people like me to put aliens in its thrusters.

and then i met good people. i met a bunch of lesbian lolicons is the insulting thing to call them. i like women, and i am a girl, and i hate the world of adults so id like to think we were cut from the same cloth? but maybe because i still have something i havent gotten diagnosed, which i doubt because ive met therians, ive met littles, ive met people with adhd and bpd and clinical schizophrenia, people who are plural and shit. but i havent met people like me. they couldnt put up with it. i hurt them a lot. so i had to leave. also i got bored of the nazis when they started being predictable, and also, like, obviously evil and wanting me dead i guess but who doesnt right.

So i left, not for Drama and not for Discourse, but because, like much of my life, i felt like i wasnt welcome and i wasnt making much of it. also? I just couldnt handle it anymore. i grew incredibly jealous, it made me feel physically sick to see people happy. to be themselves, to be with the people they loved. to do things that expressed this happiness about themselves and others, and the things they shared. i lived more than an ocean away. it felt like i never had a chance, and that feeling overwhelmed me. i've always been living under the ocean, but i guess the submarine depressurised? i dont know. im still alive anyway, im here, but its so quiet now. anyway, i was also getting really paranoid, on one hand nobody talked about me so i was going to die alone and never get to be kae, on the other hand the few people who did were surely badmouthing me in places i wasnt invited to. they let me hang around but i was never invited to the parties. i know of this metaphor because i read it in american stories about school children and stuff. i dont relate to it personally because when i was in school i didnt even "get to hand around". the only two people i talked to was a kid with aspergers and a furry. we talked about ytp and mlp. well, the point is, they dont talk to me anymore anyway. i randomly came out to a schoolmate i knew from back then? i helped her out a few times? I printed her musical score, she was in chinese orchestra. i asked for a favour in return, that being a hug. i didnt love her or anything, i just really needed it? and in all that time twitter is basically over anyway. tumblrs still alive, but like. im not Doing A Thing. Im never going to Do A Thing again. im "over it".

i guess what im really getting to, though, is, im trying to figure out what I /Am/ or what Im /For/. like, what is this machine or tool or toy built for. Me and keffie clicked, we hella schizoposted? I wasnt putting it on. i know the nazis are completely disingenous but theres a trace of genuine fun behind all the larping, costumes is fun. but i wasnt even slightly cynical, i was really just.. fully sincerely and desperately myself, all the time. i cant help but be myself, even if myself never works. so like Im SOMETHING, that nervous energy and constant bullshit and rambling sentences and trying to link concepts. and yea? I figured out im a girl? Im like, another one of the million trans girls with a mommy kink who identifies with being a puppy but who still likes cock or whatever. im not denying that im not special, i dont hate to be one of many. but also im a failure, even around these people. i cant live up to them, even if theyre nothing to honour. they hate me, because im marked by something i cant even see. So like, what is that

Why, even when i found an ensemble cast, do i never succeed in contributing to the narrative? to canon or episodic structure? Im like an npc, im a wandering trader,the comic relief, except not very well liked anyway. im like if the doctor told me to see the master clown pagliacci but i was jared leto. i dont fit here. i didnt feel right, when i was in the army. i dont feel right when im working right now, in a medical lab. i couldnt fit in with the girls even when they were closer to me than any other group of people i could classify.

so, really, i think im starting to get sympathetic to machines, to ai. i briefly edated a schizotypal adhd trans girl (lol hi vicky) and she was talking about like, uhhhh, D&G and like, machines. I didnt like Machine because machine + autism to me always sounded very teleological, very speicfically western philosophy and consequently Science as we know it, the modern material physical consensus reality thingamagic with dialectical monism. but im getting it now maybe

Im not built, for being around people, or relevant. I was born, to be put in a plastic box, in the middle of nowhere, with holes on all sides, where, among a nest of scaffolding structures, unlimited paper, plush toys and string, i develop weapons of mass destruction in magic systems that have never existed and will never come to exist. and every once in a while, id be let out, for a walk, or for a treat, and to remember long lost friends, who spin in axes i cannot comprehend in a magic system i cannot understand

[mazojo]

^^

[marimopeace]

"And at last, I am here."

-"Here" by Junna (aka the greatest Yuki Kajiura-esque song that a teenager could have ever sung my girl Junna is my age and I will forever gas her up!)

i guess i can't escape animanga tumblr at all the second i saw this trailer on twitter i screamed bc 1.) i was thinking about ancient magus bride when i celebrated the beautiful ending of sacrificial princess a few weeks ago and 2.) ?!?! ppl aren't really talking about it on anitwitter?

i'll never forget how thrilled i was when i stumbled upon the curious thumbnail of mahou tsukai no yome online and found it to be my perfect spiritual successor to the "earl and fairy" celtic lore of my youth. double that emotion when its first anime adaptation came onto my screen (somewhere in that video i linked is a mini essay comment of my thrills LOL) and led to many excited moments of pretty colors and sequences.

now i'm not even just thrilled i feel super satisfied (^-^) people love the world kore yamazaki has created with its odes to different mythologies and story that has so many cheering on precious chise's happiness. i'm hoping the fact that the original season 1 staff are making their own studio to produce season 2 means the series is having natsume yuujinchou-level projections of success--will forever stan brain's base for natsume + its offshoot studio shuka!

hope all the shoujo + fantasy fans on tumblr are having a field day bc i know i'm most definitely ready to see chise's college days come to life 🥺 so excited to see all the fellow students! am also again really really hoping the formation of studio kafka signifies ancient magus' bride's ability to succeed in the mainstream (>.<)/ fingers crossed here! (there was even actual fantasy erotica inspired by it so you never know--LMAO i'd read the actual book on KU before seeing vtuber twitter explode over it so if ppl are curious look up duskwalker brides)

marimoirl moment: i'm in a really weird limbo stage right now in life trying to job-hunt while staying afloat money/mental-wise but i was happy to not feel super existential over something happening next spring for once aha. i'm really looking forward to having the whimsical-magic-and-peaceful-yet-melancholic-atmosphere of ancient magus bride 2 come into the world next year 🥺🤞 am also keeping my fingers crossed that my life will look a bit different in the right direction by then!

manifesting, manifesting; but also working, and most importantly, hoping with all my heart 💗🙏

[chipscouchtv]

The anime social medias in a generic teen movie

anime fans are the main character (the only time this will ever happen) 

1. ao3 and other fanfic sites 

 not exactly a social media, i know. but they are the best friend character that you wished was the main character

2. ani-instagram 

 the “nice guy” best friend that we are supposed to root for in getting the romantic love of the main character even tho they were rejected. a little annoying (reposts of uncredited stuff) but they have some redeeming qualities (edits, socmed aus, original art)

3. anitwitter

 the pretentious love interest that throughout the movie you hate for some reason and whenever someone sings their praise you cringe a little. you then stumble upon a video/thread called “if he relates to these characters run” and every point you couldn’t put your finger on as to why he sucks is there. he’s cute tho and gives “deep” one liners that people quote so they can seem “deep” (screenshots of tweets that get reposted)

4. anitiktok 

 that one weird supporting character that’s more of a friend to the “nice guy” than they are to other characters. the other characters pick on them even tho they arent much better. they are a little annoying (but everyone in the movie has their moments). they fill us in about the new characters who show up throughout the movie (ex: that cliche moment when anitwt walks down the hallway or when everyone is whispering about anitumblr) 

5. ani pinterest 

 the one character who isnt close to any of our main characters but somehow you can trace most of the problems back to them. not exactly these two but imagine them

6. ani tumblr 

 the one senior that had a big scandal freshman year (i mean change schools start over scandal). they help the main character (a freshman or sophomore) after the lead character’s personal circle falls apart. they tell the lead that it’s not the end of the world and things can be fixed

7. anifb 

 going to be honest i’ve never used ani facebook so i guess i’ll make them the best friend of ani pinterest. they probably told ani pinterest some off hand thing that ani pinterest uses to start some shit 

8. ani yt and anireddit 

 they are both teachers at the school that reminds the audience that the characters are in school. they could be really helpful and give the main character advice or you wonder why they keep pushing themselves into the narrative

ignore the fact that i brought back personified social media sites (ngl i thought they were cute at first) (and if anitwitter can generalize entire apps so can i) 

[yellowind-writes]

The great thing about Tumblr that makes it so nice for fandom is because you can do everything at once, sort of. You can post your fic here or share links to where it’s posted, you can have your meta posts, you can have your shit posts, really posts can be as long or short as you want them to be, you can have pictures/photo sets, and you can reblog other people’s content to collect and showcase the stuff you like to other people. The like page can be private and you can use it to show appreciation without reblogging. The draft function is also really nice and not something many other sites have, especially since you can draft not only original posts but other people’s posts. (Sometimes I’ll actually write directly into Tumblr and save the draft because I’m weird like that and it sometimes helps my writing blocks to use a different format or whatever than my computer program). Where as other sites either focus heavily on text or on very short and snippy interactions/images--Tumblr is really one of the only places you can truly be flexible with it and engage in the way you like.

Not only that but the ask function and the idea of sending fun asks to learn more about people in your fandom helps people to be friendly easier without it being as intimidating on other sites where it feels like you have to have a really really really good reason to contact someone and it’s hard to just...start an interaction. As well as given a rise to a new type of fandom content/interaction which is the request/headcanon blogs that are pretty popular, at least from what I’ve seen for reader-inserts. This is something that is unique to the platform, I feel, as other sites simply don’t have the key component: being able to send asks (especially anonymously).

The ability to have sideblogs is also really helpful as you can either have a main for personal or use them to split up fandoms or have one strictly for writing. And it’s really easy to use them simultaneously instead of having to have legit separate accounts you have to log in to.

I think there’s lots of problems with Tumblr but at the end of the day there’s a reason so many of us are still here and continue to use it despite the complaints. The complaints are because we like using Tumblr and want to stay here and not because we absolutely hate it. If we absolutely hated it then we would’ve left and not come back.

And as a side rant I really, really, really hate Twitter. It’s the worst. The word count is a sin against God. There’s too many “sponsored” Tweets that get shoved into your feed. Anitwitter was a mistake (it seems all the “but those characters aren’t gay” dudes went there). There’s...real...people? There? I’m sorry I don’t want to know what blue-check marked celebrity number whatever is up to or has to say. There are politicians on there? Gross. The marketing brand accounts? Hate those. It’s like all the bad things about social media but with none of the good. It has no redeeming qualities. It’s a cesspool of drama. Encouraging people to make short, “Hot Takes™” was a bad idea. It’s really only good if all your doing is liking and sharing fanart. Which you can already do here. And even then that won’t stop you from some random person you’ve never seen or heard of finding you somehow and thinking you’re the worst garbage to ever exist for literally no reason!

On Tumblr no one knows I exist and I kind of like it that way.

Honestly? People say this site is either terrible or dead or both but if you can find your own little niche and just like,,, have some common fucking sense and not interact with groups you don't like it's actually one of the easiest websites to make your own. Idk I significantly prefer the general concept, layout and vibe of this site and of my lil tumblr niche over other social media's. It's just not the same elsewhere??

[recentanimenews]

Why Did the Official Twitter Account Tweet "uwu"???

Editor's Note: This is a republication of a feature by Miles Thomas that originally appeared on Crunchyroll News on 10/22/18.

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Today was quite the day on Twitter: just five hours before billionaire flamethrower salesman Elon Musk's black-hearted declaration of love for anime (and subsequent tweets which I think we can all agree would be best forgotten), the Official™ Twitter Account made the following tweet:

uwu

— Twitter (@Twitter) October 22, 2018

  "What's this?" you may ask, but worry not, fearless reader - the "uwu" symbol is a Japanese Emoji, not unlike "(。･∀･)ﾉ" (hello) or "┌( ಠ‿ಠ)┘" (translation unavailable). In particular, "uwu" is a "smiley face", meant to convey a deep, meaningful joy found in something sweet that a dear friend that you kinda wish you were dating says to you at 1:00am on AIM while your parents think you're sleeping. 

  The "cute emoji" encyclopedia website Kaomoji describes "uwu" as follows:

  UwU is a popular text-based emoticon among conveying a feeling of happiness or smugness. Its appearance stems from anime and manga, where it is common for to characters close their eyes while smiling.

Twitter's tweet (that's a weird thing to say, wow) was in response to notable AniTwitter personality Kirinodere's tweet:

  the current state of japanese artist twitter pic.twitter.com/zKoykztPpO

— Kiririn (@Kirinodere) October 21, 2018

  To be fair, their assesement of Japanese artist Twitter is accurate, so far as your trusty author can tell. The tweet pokes fun at the popularity of SSSS.Gridman's Rikka Takarada among Japanese artists and others, particularly focusing on her legs. Don't believe me? Take a look:

六花ちゃん???? pic.twitter.com/mfQvurn5iA

— Evan揚 (@Evanyang59) October 18, 2018

  宝多六花ちゃん一瞬履いていないのかと pic.twitter.com/OAD529GYHg

— サムーれ (@samoore0727) October 21, 2018

  Thinking about starting a religion around Rikka Takarada's open thighs hit me up if you want to join pic.twitter.com/iGnVokLQLp

— Gigguk (@GiggukAZ) October 18, 2018

So why is the official Twitter account jumping into this conversation about an anime character's legs with an "uwu"? Beats me. I hope they're watching SSSS.Gridman on Crunchyroll though, we've got a new HTML5 Player and whatnot. Why the official Twitter account is tweeting about anime at all makes about as much sense as Silicon Valley CEOs engaging about their "chibi" Wolverine figures in a thread about the medium, but I guess it's 2018 and anything can happen.

  But really? "uwu"??? At least have some class and give me a "owo".

  As a final note, I present you with the following:

    I hate this. I hate that I read this sentence, I hate that I sounded it out in my head. Someone made ad revenue off of my viewing this sentence, and I probably improved their SEO while I was at it (Source). Well, thanks for reading anyways, and please don't tweet "uwu" at the Crunchyroll Twitter account, because just like with "Crunchyroll and chill lol" I will see it more than 70,000 times in the course of a single month. At least nothing can be worse than this, uguu ~

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[recentanimenews]

Why Did the Official Twitter Account Tweet "uwu"???

Today was quite the day on Twitter: just five hours before billionaire flamethrower salesman Elon Musk's black-hearted declaration of love for anime (and subsequent tweets which I think we can all agree would be best forgotten), the Official™ Twitter Account made the following tweet:

uwu

— Twitter (@Twitter) October 22, 2018

  "What's this?" you may ask, but worry not, fearless reader - the "uwu" symbol is a Japanese Emoji, not unlike "(。･∀･)ﾉ" (hello) or "┌( ಠ‿ಠ)┘" (translation unavailable). In particular, "uwu" is a "smiley face", meant to convey a deep, meaningful joy found in something sweet that a dear friend that you kinda wish you were dating says to you at 1:00am on AIM while your parents think you're sleeping. 

  The "cute emoji" encyclopedia website Kaomoji describes "uwu" as follows:

UwU is a popular text-based emoticon among conveying a feeling of happiness or smugness. Its appearance stems from anime and manga, where it is common for to characters close their eyes while smiling.

Twitter's tweet (that's a weird thing to say, wow) was in response to notable AniTwitter peronsality slash high school teacher Kirinodere's tweet:

  the current state of japanese artist twitter pic.twitter.com/zKoykztPpO

— Kiririn (@Kirinodere) October 21, 2018

  To be fair, their assesement of Japanese artist Twitter is accurate, so far as your trusty author can tell. The tweet pokes fun at the popularity of SSSS.Gridman's Rikka Takarada among Japanese artists and others, particularly focusing on her legs. Don't beleive me? Take a look:

六花ちゃん???? pic.twitter.com/mfQvurn5iA

— Evan揚 (@Evanyang59) October 18, 2018

  宝多六花ちゃん一瞬履いていないのかと pic.twitter.com/OAD529GYHg

— サムーれ (@samoore0727) October 21, 2018

  Thinking about starting a religion around Rikka Takarada's open thighs hit me up if you want to join pic.twitter.com/iGnVokLQLp

— Gigguk (@GiggukAZ) October 18, 2018

So why is the official Twitter account jumping into this conversation about an anime character's legs with an "uwu"? Beats me. I hope they're watching SSSS.Gridman on Crunchyroll though, we've got a new HTML5 Player and whatnot. Why the official Twitter account is tweeting about anime at all makes about as much sense as Silicon Valley CEOs engaging about their "chibi" Wolverine figures in a thread about the medium, but I guess it's 2018 and anything can happen.

  But really? "uwu"??? At least have some class and give me a "owo".

  As a final note, I present you with the following:

    I hate this. I hate that I read this sentence, I hate that I sounded it out loud in my head. Someone made ad revenue off of my viewing this sentence, and I probably improved their SEO while I was at it (Source). Well, thanks for reading anyways, and please don't tweet "uwu" at the Crunchyroll Twitter account, because just like with "Crunchyroll and chill lol" I will see it  more than 70,000 times in the course of a single month.

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[tentendeservedbetter]

@zenyattuh okay, I actually didn't explain it in full depth (and I'm going to because it goes way deeper than that and I was in your position and didn't understand, but I'm on both Twitter and Tiktok, so I got both sides).

So there's the issue of anitiktok reposting stuff from anitwitter (especially with stealing fanart from creators).

There's also the issue of tiktok being more comfortable sexualizing minors (some people expand that it's weird when minors are doing it to minor characters but...i have my own opinions on that, I know the problem with adults doing that on tiktok), as well as the fetishization of mlm ships (which is sadly everywhere), etc.

Theres also ANOTHER (surprisingly BIG) issue anitwitter has where people on anitiktok making tiktoks headcanoning characters as being racist/homophobic/transphobic. There was a black creator (and I'm mentioning they are black for a reason) who started a "trend" where they discusses hc about my hero characters (and others, I dont remember seeing them though) that would be racist and like what microaggressions they would do. From the creators (which I think is valid, as a brown person) perspective, they are a black creator who experiences racism and they are able to make these jokes because...these headcanons are jokes and the hyperspecificity comes from their and other black creators experiences with racism.

Anitwitter side, they don't really like this and are offended that people are headcannoning characters as being racist. There's two subsections to the argument that are slightly different- for those who belong in these racialized communities and are part of the LGBTQA+ community, making jokes like this may normalize it for those outside of those communities to.make those jokes, while there are others who just seem to policing these jokes with no reason other than being offended (I personally think race does play a factor in how they are offended and validity of it).

So thats basically whats happening at the moment that I gathered so far

Idk if yall know this but there's like a war going on in anitwitter between anitiktok about stealing content from Twitter and how its superior when...we know tumblr was the blueprint 🤧

[taylorrama]

I just backed this and here’s why.

I’ve basically been following Anime Feminist from its inception–actually a little bit before that because I’d seen some of the drama that went down about Amelia’s moe article in The Mary Sue and even wrote a response to it, coming at it from a different angle.

I liked what she had to say, thought the trolling and backlash was utterly visceral and unwarranted, and decided to follow her on Twitter.

Some months (or maybe a year?) later, she launched AniFem and since then, I’ve kept my eye on it. Other people I already followed on anitwitter suddenly became involved with the website either as writers or editors, so I started seeing more about it.

Two key aspects impress me about AniFem: its quality content and its quality, professionally-minded people.

The podcasts are an absolute joy to listen to and helped keep me sane last winter when I was on a project in my day job that required menial, repetitive tasks. They were also part of a brief revival of my anime fandom wherein I actually kept up with currently-airing shows and I felt comfortable chiming in on some conversations because, you know, the AniFem Twittersphere generally is filled with people who can have the sort of conversations about anime that I actually want to participate in because they’re level-headed and reasonable.

Some of you are aware of my deep love for Kill la Kill. AniFem’s podcasts on Kill la Kill? Excellent, even though they lack the weird theological significance I found in the series lol.

Aside from the content, I’m thoroughly impressed with how the business of AniFem is run. My day job is in publishing and in addition to posts on my own blog, I’ve written for a handful of online publications and none of them were quite as coordinated or ethical as AniFem. I have learned, and continue to learn, so much from what I see AniFem doing. Hopefully, I can apply it in a way that makes sense for me as an author where my brand is, well, me, but I half expect Amelia to walk into Shark Tank UK (does that even exist? lol) in two years because that’s how professional this business feels.

Paying people fairly for their work–paying WRITERS and understanding the deep value of written content when so many other online publications don’t–is the sort of ethic around creative work we need in the 21st century. Publications that so forwardly challenge the notion that written content is “easy” and therefore should be “free” deserve to exist, in my opinion.

So yeah, throw $1 or $10 or whatever their way. They’re doing great work.

Our crowdfunding campaign is now live!