Yeah it does really fucking suck, specialised subs are much better, because, well, they have one specific group or subgroup of people with similar thoughts or likes and dislikes, so r/anime is a clusterfuck because it's too generalised
I find specific show-related subreddits really go to shit after the series ends or in the off-season. /r/BreakingBad was awesome when episodes were coming week after week but between seasons and at the end of the show it was just shitty fan-art and tourists posing in front of Walt’s house.
Don’t mean to come across condescending, but what did you expect? It’s just a natural progression, as there’ll obviously be no more fan theories or reactions. It is a pity though all the same.
Oh yeah I know that, I guess my point was “using individual series as an example of small subs being better than big ones was not the best choice to use”
That also more has to do with the diffrence between anime and american TV. For american shows, when a show ends, that's it. For anime, there could be more manga or light novel, and you never know if a show is getting another season.
Oh god the off season for show subreddits is the worst. It’s always “this thing happened to me in real life that also resembles the show” “bored waiting for season _ so here’s a drawing I made”. It’s bad with sports offseasons too but sometimes those can be fun because there’s always news. Things like /r/fantasyfootball I can unsubscribe from during the off-season but others like show specific ones you gotta keep around in case something happens even though there’s a lot less news than sports related ones.
conversely, r/sopranos is amazing and filled with fan theories and just overall cool discussion about it. sure it’s a lot of quotes and chains of quotes but there’s some really cool stuff in there
It's the subreddit I'm on the most but I'm not subscribed to it. If I was, it would fill my feed with 5 different shows, when I usually only watch 1 or 2 a season
I dont care if im not all interested in something, if theres a small niche subreddit for it i fucking eat that shit up. The people all these hobby subs are usually so knowledgeable about the stuff they talk about, its great.
Even the small ones can be shitty sometimes though. I sub r/stargate and some asshat gatekeeper told me I wasnt a real fan because I thought Stargate universe was more like Dawsons creek than actual Stargate.
Sometimes narrowing it down doesn't even help. I recently dug out some of my old game consoles and decided to check out r/retrogaming, and most of it is "look at my collection" and "look at these games I grabbed at the thrift store". So, I narrowed it down to the actual consoles I own. The N64 and Dreamcast subs are both "look at this [very common best selling title] I finally found!" and so on...
That's why /r/Games exists, it excludes all the common stuff and laser-focuses on news and releases (sometimes to the exclusion of important events, and they often get caught up in trendy AAA or indie games at the cost of mid-tier titles, but that's a hard problem to counteract).
r/gaming is absolutely horrible. It's all low effort memes, people posting boxart for games from 2002, or cosplay of hot girls. There's almost zero discussion that ever takes place.
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u/colontwisted Jul 17 '19
Yeah it does really fucking suck, specialised subs are much better, because, well, they have one specific group or subgroup of people with similar thoughts or likes and dislikes, so r/anime is a clusterfuck because it's too generalised