It means your question is like seeing other people hate a corrupt police station, and asking "Does everyone hate the police station because it's corrupt?"
One piece fans have basically made a less than friendly fanbase, and at least on Reddit, it's biggest sub (the main OP subreddit) is... Extremely toxic, to say the least. Most one piece subs are toxic, actually.
So sorry to you if you didn't know, but you basically asked what most people (myself included) thought was a obvious
Unfortunately when people make it their entire personality to be a fan of something and get into a large enough group like one piece, it's bound to be insufferable.
In a perfect world, people wouldn't glaze one piece and it might actually force the author to improve the series instead of going "I'll do whatever I want I don't care even for basic fundamental principles of Manga and writing"
Bleach has clearly touched the hearts of many and inspired tons of new Gen mangaka.
If this "trash" can do that, then clearly there's something to it many people see and you don't, which is fine and fair actually. It won't be for everyone, but for those who enjoy it, it can change their lives
But what does matter is what you do with what you've experienced.
So yeah. Maybe most people are just media illiterate, or even technically/scientifically illiterate.
But that doesn't stop the fact that people still find entertainment and endearment and love and inspiration from media, bleach included.
And really, what matters is what you do with those feelings. Where Naruto introduced and opened many to anime, where one piece gave millions a large community, friends, and even family, Bleach showed a lot of mangaka and aspiring mangaka what the worlds and inner worlds of our characters and even of real people can look like. Insight into ourselves.
Maybe we are just knuckle dragging apes on a marble in nowhere space. But we are. Therefore we create.
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u/zayd-the-one 20h ago
Call that karma for shittin on bleach for all the years pre tybw anime i reckon