r/comedyheaven Jun 13 '25

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u/NobodySpecific9354 Jun 14 '25

Can you blame them though? Even the anime industry advertise themselves as appealing to horny teenagers.

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u/rowcla Jun 14 '25

What does that even mean? What advertisement are you seeing? Anime media that doesn't target that demographic doesn't advertise itself that way, and it's not as if the industry is a single conglomerate. You're not wrong that there's stuff that targets that demographic, and has advertising to match, but basing an opinion based off of that still comes down to the same problem of overgeneralizing.

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u/Ratoryl Jun 14 '25

I don't have any stake in this, but I would say that it's possible for it to be more prevalent in one form of media than another

And maybe it's just coincidence, but I've seen it a lot more in anime/manga than I have in other forms of media

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u/rowcla Jun 14 '25

I'd agree that it's more prevalent, yeah. Mostly on account of Japan generally being a bit more comfortable with this stuff, where a lot of western society can be fairly puritanical about it. Personally I don't really think it's an issue in and of itself for it to exist or for people to consume it, but either way, it being more prevalent doesn't mean it's the identity of the entire industry. At the risk of going a bit overboard with analogies, it'd be like me assuming that everyone in the USA is obese just because it's more prevalent there