> I've known people to never even go near the Artists' Alley at cons because, in their words, "fan art isn't real art".
I KNOW PEOPLE LIKE THIS TOO. They're bffs with the "fanfic is for losers" crowd, and I feel so bad for them. Like, what did they see on LiveJournal that traumatized them so badly that they formed an opinion and haven't deviated from it in... Wow, it's been more than a decade since this attitude was mainstream, I think.
I also feel that there was a corrosive undercurrent of misogyny in the culture of the 2000s. These days, I'm ambivalent about labeling a piece of media as "problematic," but there was something sinister going on with the music and movies coming out of the US and the UK around ten to twenty years ago. I'm not sure what sort of crisis of masculinity was being expressed by sentiments like "Twilight is gay," but people sure weren't shy about expressing it.
I feel a little bad for elder Millennials in particular, many of whom understand that sexism in fandom is toxic but carry around the prejudices they unconsciously absorbed when they were teenagers and college students. That sort of nonsense is really difficult to unlearn.
Anyway, I haven't yet played Umineko, but I think the art style of Higurashi is one of its primary selling points. People on Reddit are entitled to their opinion, but their opinion is wrong. Haters gonna hate.
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I KNOW PEOPLE LIKE THIS TOO. They're bffs with the "fanfic is for losers" crowd, and I feel so bad for them. Like, what did they see on LiveJournal that traumatized them so badly that they formed an opinion and haven't deviated from it in... Wow, it's been more than a decade since this attitude was mainstream, I think.
I also feel that there was a corrosive undercurrent of misogyny in the culture of the 2000s. These days, I'm ambivalent about labeling a piece of media as "problematic," but there was something sinister going on with the music and movies coming out of the US and the UK around ten to twenty years ago. I'm not sure what sort of crisis of masculinity was being expressed by sentiments like "Twilight is gay," but people sure weren't shy about expressing it.
I feel a little bad for elder Millennials in particular, many of whom understand that sexism in fandom is toxic but carry around the prejudices they unconsciously absorbed when they were teenagers and college students. That sort of nonsense is really difficult to unlearn.
Anyway, I haven't yet played Umineko, but I think the art style of Higurashi is one of its primary selling points. People on Reddit are entitled to their opinion, but their opinion is wrong. Haters gonna hate.