Running University Societies pt I - Ingratitude and Elitism

[obscuritan]

Well, now that the dust has settled on my Uni career I thought i'd finally vent a little steam on my experiences there. A good place to focus on (and a way of stopping it rambling on into infinite boredom) I thought i'd talk a bit about how the three societies I was a proper member of - the Anime Society, Writer's Guild and LGBT Committee - shaped

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[stormbringer986]

Oh dear sweet cat ear-wearing Jesus, you pretty much summed up every thing I ever hated about anime clubs in high school and college. And I don't just mean "It was a little irritating to me." I mean "I fucking hated that club with the burning passion of 10,000 angry and napalm-soaked suns." I had the misfortune to be elected president of my high school's anime club one year and it nearly drove me to mass murder. Our members sound a lot like the guys in LUMAS you mentioned - talking over every damn thing we ever put on, just not showing up and not participating when they did, whining when things weren't OMG EXACTLY PERFECT HOW DARE YOU SHOW THIS IN DUB INSTEAD OF SUB, and generally being idiots.
Then I tried going to the anime club my first year at FSU, figuring I'd meet some new people with similar interests. I did meet two reasonable people. The rest were more of the same morons who talked over everything and generally annoyed me. I guess it worked out ok in the end though since the series they were showing were total crap anyway.

I've enjoyed anime for a really long time. I cosplay at conventions and nerd out with other fans when I get the chance, and I enjoy it. But those stereotypical entitled little asshole fanbrats? I would sooner punch them with a brick than socialize with them.

And that Haruhi thing? Yeah, I definitely agree with you on the "everything wrong with anime today" comment. I don't give a rat's ass how popular it is, I won't ever touch it with a 10ft pole. Not that my taste in anime/manga is superior or any of that bullshit. (One of my favorites for a long time was Dragon Ball Z, and you just need to read one chapter of Violinist of Hameln to figure out it's totally ridiculous.) I just happen to like stuff that's more than just "Teehee fanservice" and pretentious garbage.

[obscuritan]

Dude, your "Crush the Hipsters" icon never fails to make me smile, as do your metaphors :D

The worst bit was I was constitutionally obliged to show mostly new series, and back then most of it was shite moe shows which even the douches got tired of after awhile. I had the misfortune of watching the whole of Haruhi on my own time, and lo and behold the final episode revealed it to have been a magical girlfriend show all along, so you're not missing much.

It was actually a running joke among the members that I was the first Anime and Manga soc president who didn't watch Anime for pleasure, and they wondered why. I'm only now starting to watch it on my own again :(

[stormbringer986]

Hahahaha. Replace "Hipsters" with "Idiot stereotypical anime fanbrats" and I'd also like to crush them with my mind.

We kind of had the opposite problem with my high school club. Someone would occasionally bring in a fansub of something new and different, and every moron in the club would be like "Nooo we want to watch the same old shit for the 800th time!" And God forbid something had subtitles. That was just the Apocalypse waiting to happen.

I don't blame you after garbage like that. The vast majority of new anime just doesn't appeal to me at all. I guess I'm just a stick in the mud. Either that or I suppose I'm just being too picky when I expect new stuff to be as good as the older stuff I like. It just makes me be like ":/ Seriously?" when I'm at a convention and some little punk has no idea what I'm talking about when I mention Ranma 1/2 or other stuff I liked back in the day.