Bad Touch Yakushi
Kage in the Making 👑
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I wanna analyse something about our community today that's interested me since I joined in 2011. I'm talking about the idea of fandom wars and all the bickering sh*tstorms that occur when any 2 characters are even hinted at being opposed (Kabuto/Itachi, Hashi/Maddy, Tobirama/Minato, Obito/Maddy, Naruto/Sasuke etc etc) and hell, sometimes even when they have nothing in common and have never met (Minato VS Itachi cough cough)
Well obviously, but there's people who still treat Naruto Shippuden like a story and just pick favourites along the way but then there's people (who I only discovered because of this site) who see the manga as a competition, like picking a sports team in the world cup, these people expect the manga to bend to their character and don't see a narrative, arcs or characters- just feats. :')
The majority of popular threads you'll get on this site ever since like the early days are ones made by people just making controversial statements that incite a pointless and long argument with no absolute answer. When 2 popular characters fight in the manga posters will pick one of the sides and end up treating it like a football match on who will win rather than what actually makes sense for the narrative.
For example: Of course Kabuto was never going to win Uchiha bros fight, the plot needed him gone yet people still argue he would win/is still stronger and vice versa. The amount of times me as a passive Kabuto fan have said anything about Kabuto and been met the above scan as if it's some kind of trophy and smart comeback is staggering. As if the totally unrelated point about Yakushi is now apparently redundant because Kabuto was a villain and villains get defeated.
Again, Naruto and Sasuke are clearly equals right now because for the sake of the plot they literally need to be otherwise Kishi is hypocritical and these chapters don't make sense yet fans of both side are so sure that their character is the better one before ultimately moving onto the next 'fandom war' and forgetting about the previous one. The word 'bandwagoner' has never been more relevant. Hell sometimes the two fanbases/characters in question don't even have to fight! They can be on the same team and fight alongside one another and fans will still treat dialogue and the tiniest little detail in comparison, like in the Juubito fight when Tobirama and Minato constantly got compared. Over-analysis.
Why do we do this? This isn't a normal fanbase geek mentality, it's a competitive community and you don't get it in many other places. So why does it happen? What's the difference with the anime/naruto fanbase?
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Well obviously, but there's people who still treat Naruto Shippuden like a story and just pick favourites along the way but then there's people (who I only discovered because of this site) who see the manga as a competition, like picking a sports team in the world cup, these people expect the manga to bend to their character and don't see a narrative, arcs or characters- just feats. :')
The majority of popular threads you'll get on this site ever since like the early days are ones made by people just making controversial statements that incite a pointless and long argument with no absolute answer. When 2 popular characters fight in the manga posters will pick one of the sides and end up treating it like a football match on who will win rather than what actually makes sense for the narrative.
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For example: Of course Kabuto was never going to win Uchiha bros fight, the plot needed him gone yet people still argue he would win/is still stronger and vice versa. The amount of times me as a passive Kabuto fan have said anything about Kabuto and been met the above scan as if it's some kind of trophy and smart comeback is staggering. As if the totally unrelated point about Yakushi is now apparently redundant because Kabuto was a villain and villains get defeated.
Again, Naruto and Sasuke are clearly equals right now because for the sake of the plot they literally need to be otherwise Kishi is hypocritical and these chapters don't make sense yet fans of both side are so sure that their character is the better one before ultimately moving onto the next 'fandom war' and forgetting about the previous one. The word 'bandwagoner' has never been more relevant. Hell sometimes the two fanbases/characters in question don't even have to fight! They can be on the same team and fight alongside one another and fans will still treat dialogue and the tiniest little detail in comparison, like in the Juubito fight when Tobirama and Minato constantly got compared. Over-analysis.
Why do we do this? This isn't a normal fanbase geek mentality, it's a competitive community and you don't get it in many other places. So why does it happen? What's the difference with the anime/naruto fanbase?
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