Some highlights:
- Garnt was actually a monk, twice (once as a kid the other as a twentysomething)
- Podtaku and the evolution of anime content on You Tube before and after
- ...early anitubers and how one of its founding fathers, uh, (content warning) killed his family and was planning to shoot up a school, while making a video seemingly hinting at that before he got arrested
Edited by Aleistar on Aug 7th 2020 at 3:43:49 AM
I actually was there when he uploaded his reaction video to that:
I wasn't really part of the anime community back then, but I imagine it must've been a rough time for them all.
Edit: Holy shi-his channel is still up!
Edited by HailMuffins on Aug 7th 2020 at 7:52:25 AM
i kinda like it as a relic of early anitube, his channel is like a time capsule
Bumbleby is best ship. busy spending time on r/RWBY and r/anime. Unapologetic SocialistIf Youtube didn't make a habit of constantly trying to wipe channels off the map, sometimes destroying people's livelihoods in the process, for often complete inane reasons, I wouldn't be mad.
But it does, and I take a lot of offence that the channel of a would-be mass murderer is still untouched all these years, like a turd preserved in ambar.
You know, with this whole Mr. Anime thing and that otaku yaoi fan who turned into a sexual predator in ep 5 or so, maybe this podcast will have enough horror stories to warrant a Nightmare Fuel page in the future
Also, Connor practically lived through a high school anime.
Edited by dRoy on Aug 7th 2020 at 11:32:41 PM
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.as for why his channel wasn't taken down, i have some theories:
- early anitube was tiny, he currently has 18.2K subscribers, he couldn't have had more than 25 000 subscribers at his peak, 30 000 if we're being optimistic
- people just forgot about him. unlike Elliot Rodger, he didn't become part of the national conversation, he couldn't have been in the news for more than a week or, if even that
- he did it before Youtube really blew up, which i think was somewhere along lines of late 2012/early 2013, anitube blew up roughly at the same time, with Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online leading the charge
Swansea Anime Society has apologized for banning Connor from their Facebook group
Bumbleby is best ship. busy spending time on r/RWBY and r/anime. Unapologetic SocialistThey should rename themselves "Swansea Anime Secret Society" so the acronym would be "SASS"
Welp.
Gigguk just won the chess finals against Connors via a win and a draw of repetition.
So clearly, this means Sydsnap is officially Best Girl.
new episode, with Shibuya Koha as guest:
where they discuss JAV, wrestling, doujinshi, anime merch, games and conventions
Edited by MABfan11 on Aug 14th 2020 at 2:33:09 PM
Bumbleby is best ship. busy spending time on r/RWBY and r/anime. Unapologetic Socialist-spits out drinks-
Holy shit they invited who?!
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.There's a chance you might feel called out here.
Gigguk: Hi, I'm Gigguk and I have a fear of being monetized.
Also, damn, she got far better English than mine in every way. I actually took TOEIC and the highest score I ever got was 970 out of 990. XP
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.Joey once interviewed her, in fact, because of course he did.
I'm honestly really liking the mix and conduct of nearly every episode (even the near/past 2 hours ones), if only because they get really educational.
Also: additional help in populating the page with tropes we missed is highly appreciated!
The things you learn…
And then he married a hentai reviewer.
Seriously though, it’s interesting to get a glimpse of how he became the Garnt we know. I personally tried to do a screenless week once, but I can’t even imagine getting rid of everything for months.
Syd, stop encouraging the degens, please.
Also, I wonder if those hardcore temples accept foreigners spending a month or two as monks, because detoxifying from the modern world like that genuinely sounds like sonething I want to experience at least once.
Edited by HailMuffins on Aug 25th 2020 at 11:56:39 AM
I'd try that too...except I have extremely low tolerance for bugs. XP
Edited by dRoy on Aug 26th 2020 at 7:43:57 PM
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.Trash Taste just posted a special episode about the chess tournament:
Edited by MABfan11 on Aug 26th 2020 at 7:59:46 PM
Bumbleby is best ship. busy spending time on r/RWBY and r/anime. Unapologetic Socialistnew episode, this time about piracy and the industry:
It’s neat that they cut up the podcasts into smaller videos because I have trouble listening to long podcasts. This show’s actually really freaking interesting − if only for the oddity of hearing a Welsh guy, a British-Thai guy and an Aussie-Japanese guy chat about their experiences in Japan and America.
As an American, I like to think that the rest of the world thinks of us like we think of Floridians. So, they're not entirely wrong.
Also, is this Maylene's first time on camera? I feel like she was part of thee shopping challenge episode but I can't remember.
Edited by Aleistar on Aug 31st 2020 at 2:24:52 AM
new episode dropped, where they talk about early anitube and their first friends they got through anime: