Agreed, and this is why one could easily and probably fill a book with valid examples for a thread like this.MajinMan wrote:I feel that the casual DB fanbase is very meme driven and annoying (for the most part). You can't go anywhere on the web without someone making a stupid joke or talking about nonsense and somehow getting like 50 likes on their comment.
I've made no secret of my personal pet peeve example though:
This is the one that this community in particular is REALLY especially guilty of. If you were to go by some of the folks here, you'd almost get the sense that DB is the manga/anime equivalent of Sesame Street, but with characters maybe occasionally shooting lasers from their hands at stuff.
Its a kid's show, we get it, but playing the "Nakama" thing up to such an absurd extent (particularly when in reality its all but close to non-existent in the actual series itself and is in large part the product of total revisionist projection from later fans) is literally the EXACT same wrongheaded thing as what some people do when they go all Nu Metal Faux-Grim N Gritty with their take on it, just in the opposite extreme.
I've numerous times in the past, during my original tenure here back in the day, almost made an entire thread dedicated to examining and dissecting this whole phenomenon and the origins of where it might've stemmed from (in Western fandom anyway), but the more I dug into it, the more that lead me down a deep, deep, DEEP Lovecraftian abyss of utterly, freakishly bizarre millennial Otaku fanboy psychosis that nearly broke my mind like a twig.
