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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This author is a serious prude. They have an interesting definition of Otaku and makes it seem as if all doujin were porn.

[–] demonsword 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Japan’s culture of hermetic male obsessives…sort of an primordial Incel, if you will

yeah, s/he does not seem to have any clue at all

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He, apparently:

Biz Davis is a producer & writer who's spent 20 years in the world of underground music, events and eventually advertising. His work focuses on obsessives and their obsessions, circular economies and cyberpunk aesthetics.

[–] demonsword 5 points 1 year ago

His work focuses on obsessives and their obsessions

then he should know better than make the false equivalence that otakus are all incels I guess