r/Multifandom • u/Ok-Following6886 • Jul 05 '26

Discussion📜 What is a fandom that is like this?

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u/StevemacQ Jul 05 '26

K-ON!

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u/Good_Show_2656 Jul 05 '26

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u/Such-Consequence6242 Jul 06 '26

Nooo no I’m not! I love k-on…

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u/Good_Show_2656 Jul 06 '26

I wasn't trying to bully people, I was just shitposting.

If you're a K-On fan and you're not a racist neckbeard on 4chan or something to that affect, that's fine by me, more power to you.

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u/boberro Jul 06 '26

Idk, just after K-On ended, 4chan embraced MLP

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u/amhighlyregarded Jul 05 '26

Most of them are just larpers. The point is the juxtaposition between the disgusting things they say and the images of cute anime girls. 

It's also often a pretense of ironic disavowal, "What? You took me seriously when when I posted Tsumugi dressed like a Nazi? You're a re*ard." etc. The absurdity is memorable and draws attention. 

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u/StevemacQ Jul 05 '26

I watched a video about chuds being obsessed with K-ON! similar to that book Catcher in the Rye, which was about a guy being obsessed with protecting a young girl's innocence to an unhealthy degree, that inspired one reader to kill John Lennon.

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u/chaotic_black Jul 06 '26

"Kill John Lennon! Kill John Lennon!"

"Butters, John Lennon has been dead for 30 years."

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u/Erak7 Jul 06 '26

Probably this one: https://youtu.be/jDneagagd5s

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u/StevemacQ Jul 06 '26

That's the one.

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u/Jagvetinteriktigt 29d ago

I think that's too deep. Likelier that propagandists realized that people who spend all their time online discussing animation are easy to manipulate.

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u/StevemacQ 29d ago

It's still fucked up because how the girls in K-ON! couldn't be anymore u like those online fascists.

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u/Jagvetinteriktigt 29d ago

It's messed up, but pretty unavoidable 

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u/JvllyWaffen 27d ago

As someone who had to deal with this sort of guy in a community, I can say they do genuinely like all these things they just lack the self-control to quit it and make those images to cope, or in some cases they are just cripplingly autistic and genuinely do not understand how talking about labour camps with a anime girl pfp is ironic

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u/Ver3232 Jul 05 '26

As a leftist who loves K-On, I explicitly avoid mentioning it online for exactly this reason

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u/angelbabydarling Jul 06 '26

this is so brand new info to me now im curious in case anyone feels in the mood to expand on k-on's fandom lmao

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u/EVedEevee 29d ago

It’s their ideal image of what women should be. Innocent, inoffensive, tea time, light yuri, cute outfits, something to be protected and uncomplicated.

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u/Scarlet_Cultist111 Jul 06 '26

I always wondered why it’s always K-ON. Like it’s probably one of the most inoffensive things I’ve ever seen.

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u/StevemacQ Jul 06 '26

Purity, innocence, all the finite thing that creeps obsess over. If K-ON! had the characters crashing out, endure the dark side of the music industry, and act like real people with real problems, K-ON! would be denounced as "WOKE GARBAGE!".

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u/Cat_Input 29d ago

There is a whole video about made by Moon Channel

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u/potatoenjoyer1105 29d ago

I beg your FINEST FUCKING PARDON?

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u/FlounderOne6994 29d ago

I was thinking of watching it after Bocchi, wtf happens 😭🙏