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erin (erin@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 13:25:58 JST erin Never forget that Empty Spaces, internet laincels, Miladys, etc are still trying to do what Touhou successfully did over a decade and a half ago - MondoBizarrro likes this.
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erin (erin@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 04:42:07 JST erin @neuvalis i'll try to explain myself as best i can
it feels like touhou managed to be a coherent counter-cultural online movement dating back to ronald mcdonald insanity and eosd posting on old imageboards. as is the case with any online movement that picks up steam, it was extremely flexible and has often been co-opted by losers such as chuds and heterosexuals. however, touhou has ultimately managed to avoid becoming irredeemably tied to these groups, unlike the imageboards that spawned it.
es/laincels/miladys are contemporary aspiring online counter-cultures. i have to give es some credit for building things with trauma which is cool, but at the same time i cannot really see it being helpful to anyone outside of a specific type of dysfunctional internet queers, so the idea ultimately feels too rigid to me. for laincels i guess my main issue is that no one seems to have come up with better interpretations of lain than "im sad and i like computer". miladys of course are dreadfully self-important and don't have any fun with it as a result.
touhou just doesn't really have these issues. its primary production via music, art, cosplay etc are creative and accessible while still being weird and eccentric especially outside of japan (to the point where "touhou hijacks", touhou appearing in Official Important things, is seen as funny). at the end of the day i think reimu is Our Guy (female)MondoBizarrro likes this. -
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h a e l g a (neuvalis@outerkosm.us)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 04:42:16 JST h a e l g a @erin@social.xenofem.me
how so?
most of those spaces turned to toxic trash anyway.
well, m*lady was always just a terrible miya cult.
and Lain? .hack was playing with the same themes but we barely hear about that anymore :(