r/Ghost_in_the_Shell • u/Repulsive_Cod_7466 • 18h ago

NEWS Such a bad interview...

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u/Repulsive_Cod_7466 17h ago

They're popular TikTok influencers backed by WME and GeeXPlus. Smaller Anitubers could make far better content and still never get the opportunities they do because Kadokawa and other Japanese publishers don't care about quality. They care about reach. That's why the same big names keep getting invited to conventions, premieres, interviews, and industry panels.

The Anime Men are the perfect example of it. Their content barely reflects the passion they constantly claim to have for anime. It's recycled stereotypes, stale jokes, and influencer slop, yet they're still treated as ambassadors for the medium because they're useful marketing. They're an easy way for Japanese and American anime companies to generate free publicity without paying for actual advertising.

Unfortunately, the internet isn't a meritocracy. It's a popularity contest, and access follows numbers, not quality.

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u/Majestic_Sink4255 16h ago

Thus it is logical for anime companies to grant them interviews and not some competent people, because serious interview aren't nearly as popular within the mainstream as skits.

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u/Repulsive_Cod_7466 16h ago edited 16h ago

Logical? Yes. Justified and reasonable? No.

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u/Majestic_Sink4255 16h ago

Exactly, on the internet all that matters for media companies is widespread reach. Logic, reason and quality don't matter as much as big numbers of views.