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Dracospirit121
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Surprised she's anime fan... she must be more of a nerd than her image surgests!
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AiddonValentine
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To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if Kanye gave her some gateways so to speak as he's a HUGE anime nerd.
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EricJ2
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Wow, "Anime characters have pink and blue hair", I literally haven't heard that one from first-time newbies since the 90's! We're talking the days of Apollo Smile. 
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Crystalyn
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We just picked some famous anime girls with pink hair, we weren't insinuating at all that those were the specific characters she was imitating, and our language in the article reflects that.
We do write anime-related news from Japan, in our News feed. This is an Interest article, where our staff (a different staff from our News team) write about things we think might be "interesting" to our readers. We're not writing about this instead of anime-related news, but in addition to the normal content we already provide. We've had the News/Interest separation with separate writers for years.
Please see the above explanation, we'd write this article whether it was a "slow news day" or not (Fridays are also often our busiest news days actually). |
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MJKS
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Gotta be honest I didn't care at all about/had mild distaste for the Kardashians; but now that I've seen all the performative anguish in this thread, I will defend my pink-haired weeaboo queen to the death.
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Mhora
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Wow, how salty and overly protective folks are about their anime. Everyone can enjoy it in their own way. How is this triggering some of you this much. She's spreading your animuuu to a huuge audience on social media. She's not even that bad. Very harmless. U just jelly or some shait. I do not get some of these responses like you have any ownership over this content.
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SWAnimefan
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I'm glad I'm not alone with my thoughts regarding this article.
While I like to give KKW the benefit of the doubt that she really does watch anime and loves it. But given all her years in the limelight and never hinting to such tastes, makes me believe she's full of it and using anime as a means for another attention seeking moment. |
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Fabe
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If this is enough to make people stop being anime fan then I wounder if they were even true fans to begin with and not just posers hipsters pretending to like it because it wasn't mainstream.
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shiranehito
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I don't know if Kim have ever mentioned anything about anime before (since if she had, it probably would make into an article too), so her claim that she's obsessed with anime is probably bogus. I think it's just her way to make a headline.
(Though if she really does like anime, good for her if she's enjoying it. I'd like to hear if she has a favorite series or a favorite character, or perhaps, the ones that inspired her.) |
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Kadmos1
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On celebrities liking anime: If it was a member of the Trump Admin that was headlined in this article, we would have gotten maybe over 5 pages of comments by now.
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fuff
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she wants u to buy to read her articles...
honestly she is just using it because of micheal b jordan got so much love from the fandoms when his tweets for 2011 were shown. nothing but a thirst trap opportunity for her |
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Fenrin
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The fact that people are triggered over others being triggered about Kim K. liking anime is hilarious. No one on this site is actually going to stop watching anime because of this, with how invested in anime most of the people here are, they're just expressing their shock in a (selectively) comedic way. Whether or not you find it funny to mock celebrities like her is another matter.
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AnimeLordLuis
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That fan must have been high or he/she is just incredibly stupid because kim kardashian doesn’t look anything like an anime character unless of course that said “anime character” is a hobbit.
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secondkas
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"inspo" is a thing?! Godammit, you young'uns, I can't keep up with you and your words anymore.
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Usagi-kun
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I don't think this news warrants the attention it is apparently getting, but either way, negative or positive, anime is an emotional experience for many of us. We have spent a powerful part of our lives, money, and time in this hobby, but without calling it gatekeeping, it really is. The caveat I take away from it is the same with any other high-profile (despite dubious origins) celebrity and their related claims: Throwing references at a wall will only stick for so long. If she keeps her pink hair more than a few weeks, retweets Funimation and engages other fans, posts her watchlist, or if six months from now still makes the same claims, I will be inclined to believe her, despite any personal feelings.
What I am trying to say is that in this moment, we are giving her exactly what she wants, what I personally have felt about her all along, is that this is an grab for attention, piggybacking on a popular fandom, and making more desperate claims to stay relevant without generating any sort of contribution or effort into what we ourselves love more than just a hobby. Time makes us all mortal. We'll still be here in the end, and she may or may not be with us. We definitely don't need to validate ourselves by her standards, whatever those may be. |
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