Unheard of American-British kickboxer Andrew Tate has managed to stir up the anime community with his rather mean tweets, condemning anime fans as losers and stating that women have no respect for them, a true statement for some individuals but one that has enraged hordes of anime-loving incel barbarians regardless.
Andrew Tate’s vile tweet (and then some) that started it all, widely suspected to have been used to provoke the community and earn himself attention in a cunning viral marketing low blow:
Some of the responses made by upstanding anime fans trying to stick up for the honest hobby:
Perhaps attempting to re-earn points with anime fans, Funimation even became involved in the affair:
No stranger to making statements that generate controversy and subsequently attention, Tate had previously enraged online netizens with his opinion on depression:
Unsurprisingly, once the attention-seeker lost interest in chiding anime fans, he instead started trying to enrage other groups:
“Unheard of”, I have to agree, never heard of this prick before, so I’m going to ignore them. Leave him unknown, if he has to insult us to be known then he deserves to die in obscurity.
What an asshole… but i do agree that there really is only two genders, all other genders that are not male or female are all delusional & imaginary.
Anime is life, man. He doesn’t know what he’s fuckin’ with. He better apologize to all the cute anime girls in existence. NOW.
Tate is just a troll, this is one of the last communities I would expect to eat the bait this hard
Honestly, much as I love this community, the self-awareness ain’t that strong here sometimes. Just look at the last part of that article, throwing in that bit about Tate attacking the non-binary/queer community as a way to show what a bad guy he is. I mean sure, there are a lot of folks who would argue that “There are only two genders” is pretty much the battle cry of bigots and assholes… but doesn’t Sankaku kind of hate those people?
The articles and most of the commenters don’t exactly hide the fact that they lean pretty hard right–and not the free market, libertarian right of Ron Paul, or even the law and order, ultra-nationalist conservatism of Reagan, but the more recent alt-right that seems entirely focused on battling BLM, feminists, and all sorts of queer people who they see as trying to change society for the worse.
And as much as I disagree with that s♥♥t, knowing that folks have different opinions from mine isn’t going to stop me from enjoying my love of geek culture and anime titties with them. But in this case, I feel like I have to call out the hypocrisy of a guy who frequently takes cheap shots at feminists and LGBTQ folks condemning some other guy for taking cheap shots are LGBTQ folks.
I’m surprised he can still type with such brain damage.