@why A couple of years ago, there were a few videos popular on Youtube about how pro wrestling is not in-fact dumb and stupid and how it's worth paying attention to. It did open me to the idea that maybe this thing that I had always dismissed as borderline retarded had something interesting at its core, and thinking about it I realize intellectually that yeah, pro wrestling is probably actually pretty cool and comfy to watch. But despite having an open mind about it, knowing fully that it's probably pretty cool, whenever I actually see pro wrestling on TV, I just cannot see past the oiled up shirtless dudes fake hitting one another, to see what wrestling fans actually see behind it. I understand it's someone's comfort entertainment, and that it's not inherently worse than my comfort entertainment, but at this point it's probably too late and it will never be watchable to me.

Anime is essentially the same, I watched a shitton of it in my teens and early adulthood and yeah, I can see past the anime bullshit. And whenever I kept bugging my open-minded friends to watch some anime that I thought was a masterpiece they probably thought the same as I now think of wrestling: "I understand there's something to like here, but man I just can't take it seriously with the giant eyes and gratuitous sexualization". So anyway, once past your teens the "window" to learn to take anime seriously is probably closed and people should just accept it on both ends of it.