Troll Epidemic: Identifying Anime Avatars to Prove a Point
By Hailinel 126 Comments
Over the past several months, if not longer, I've noticed an absurd trend among the more intellectually challenged members of Giant Bomb's community. Apparently, if your avatar is that of an anime character, or drawn in a style that resembles Japanese manga, that automatically makes you a Japanophile nut job, and these imbeciles will use this notion as their sole point of argument in a ridiculous attempt to discredit their targets. Example:
"There sure are a lot of people with anime avatars in this thread."
All right, then. That may be a statement of fact, but that does nothing to discredit the arguments or opinions of those that use such images.
Now, for those of you hastening to your keyboards, ready to point out that yes, my avatar is in fact an anime character* (I fully expect to be on the receiving end of at least one such accusation for merely posting this), allow me the attempt to lodge these equally absurd arguments into your brains:
- If you have a Master Chief avatar, you're a Halo fanboy.
- If you have a Mario or Zelda avatar, you are under the age of 13.
- If you have a Final Fantasy character as an avatar, you are an unabashed hater of western RPGs.
- If you have a Mass Effect character as an avatar, you are an unabashed hater of Japanese RPGs.
- If you have a sports team logo as an avatar, you are both a jock and a moron.
- If a picture of one of the Giant Bomb staff members is your avatar, you're a zealot who thinks disagreeing with Jeff is treason.
Now, how many of you think that the above statements are 100% accurate in all cases?
The answer, in case you need it spelled out for you, is none. Not that that fact will stop the dullards among you, anyway.
*Actually, no, she is not an anime character. She is a character from Samurai Warriors 2.
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