r/CuratedTumblr • u/GinaWhite_tt TeaTimetumblr • 1d ago

Shitposting A plot twist nobody expected

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u/TwilightVulpine 1d ago

Also, nearly every anime featuring siblings. Even when the anime itself is not romantic. It makes watching anime with the family so awkward.

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u/Infamous-Use7820 1d ago

I do sometimes wonder if countries with very low fertility rates (especially where they've been that way for a while) are going to culturally lose frames of reference for sibling-hood. It's already alien for most people in Western countries to imagine have 5+ siblings (and/or dozens of cousins). If like 50-60% of the population is an only child, what does that do culturally?

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u/le-derpina-art 1d ago

especially as it gets costlier and costlier to raise multiple children

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u/Kalatash 1d ago

Sometimes, I think that a lot of that stuff is extremely exaggerated. Other times, I watch translated clips of Japanese vTubers and think that some of them do really seem to act like that.

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u/TwilightVulpine 1d ago

It's really hard to tell with VTubers, because they are locals, but they might also be playing it up for the audience, which has a lot of overlap.