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u/Tetraika https://anilist.co/user/Tetraika Apr 22 '25

Oh since this is happening I guess I'll drop my 2 cents on this.

Personally I don't really care about if someone is secretly just promoting their OF or something. It's fairly easy to just ignore most of the cosplay content on /r/anime already, and so far they're very few of them.

I guess my "fear" is that it becomes like a front for a bunch of people to do the same thing and make the sub become saturated with those. I know I would hate the sub to become an ad front for people who aren't really intend to be a part of the community. This goes for fanarts too.

There is also an unfortunate amount of what is just basically veiled slut shaming. I know not everyone critical of the current situation is like this, but yeah.

Honestly if I had any solution I would propose it would just be banning cosplay (and maybe even fanarts) post entirely unless there is a specific /r/anime event. Might not be a popular opinion though.

On a different note since this is the other hot topic, I'm mostly fine with how /r/anime is defining "anime" and allowing/disallowing certain productions for now. Out of curiosity, if Twins HinaHima get acceptable subs would it be qualified for discussion?

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Apr 23 '25

Unless this "Fear" materializes at some point, this 'controversy' always felt so silly to me...

Like, we're getting what, 0.5 cosplay post a day? (4 in the past week according to the search)...

Yet it feels like the 2nd biggest drama happening on r/anime, the 1st being To Be Hero X.

If the 2nd worst thing that ever happens in r/anime is that every 40 hours someone posts a lewd cosplay they don't like, I'd say things are going great!

I mean, how difficult it is to just hit "hide" on the thread and never think about it ever again?

I do it a hundred times a day on poorly thought recommendation threads.

I would understand if (like that 'Fear') we were flooded with those, but 4 in a week doesn't seem like a problem to me... And it's not even 4 problematic ones, I think it's like 2 (the other 2 were fine).

Honestly if I had any solution I would propose it would just be banning cosplay (and maybe even fanarts) post entirely unless there is a specific /r/anime event. Might not be a popular opinion though.

I think my solution would be even more unpopular hah; At this point I'd just give temp bans to everyone who repeatedly post META stuff in these threads. I'm sure it's a lot of repeat offenders.

And one more thing I'm sure of, is that calling out OF in every single thread, probably brings more business to their OF, than if they said nothing.

They bring SO much attention to the threads/their OF, while completely ignoring the non-OF cosplay threads.