The Old School Otaku Lounge

Yea I fought over that name for awhile.
I didn't want to say it was the History of Anime in North America as then I would have to include all the stuff
that I would have to do research on which didn't involve me. Anyone could do that.
I was thinking Fan related Anime topics, was closer. So I just went with Fan Anime.
Hell, that was 7 years ago and 400 episodes ago.
At that time, there was so little information about how fandom actually was like
and how the whole fansubbing thing became the thing. So, it seemed like a perfect angle for a Youtube Channel.

Funny, now over 400 episodes later, after someone tried to write an essay about how r.a.a. is promoting misogyny
in modern day anime fans, I had to spend so many episodes going over what Google can't find for these
researchers doing cognitive bias research. It really goes to show how much about our North American past
about anime is not documented. I just hope I can do my part before I am no longer able to.

It has been a long time building up a database of episodes of stories and content.
Now that I can actually get some of the original customers and fansubbers back for interviews for their stories.

>> Lately he's been interviewing other old-school fans, but this has brought up a common struggle,
>> which is that some folks who are big fans of animated girls became that way due to their adversarial relationship with actual girls

I actually thought about that. As otakus, we have always been tagged as losers, weebs, incels and etc.
So I actually spent an episode making as list of the anime community around VJAS (Vancouver Japanese Anime Society)
The guys actually faired pretty well.

I go over it in this episode here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfBcJBfXCg