An anime fan does not have to be a part of a fandom.

correct

so idk what your point is

either you are not making it clear enough, or you think you're making a point that you're not

Just like someone who watches a Star Wars film does not have to be a part of the Star Wars fandom and not everyone who watches Star Trek is a Trekkie.

Anime fandom and weeb fandom are seperate you dolt

Weeaboos define the fandom for anime in the West.

no they don't

weebs are a minority of western fans

A fan does not have to be a part of a fandom.

fandoms would be groups of fans of specific series, not fans of anime as a whole

now you're just going in circles

Like anime harem fandom or anime shonen fandom

whatever point you think you're making,
you're really not fam

Weebs are seperate from them all

No, I’m trying to make it extremely clear that there is a larger fandom surrounding and encompassing all anime.

You are literally trying to say furry arent worthless because they are less annoying than weebs...

it's not a fandom though

All of the smaller fandoms are connected into one, larger fandom.

It is, though.

fandom is the wrong word

Weebs are like Japans equivalent of white supremacists

Its an extremist believe

No, it’s appropriate for this.

Its not

Anime is a media type, furry is a genre

Ehzek is right

The early, western anime fandom, just like furries, were an extremely small, niche group. However, unlike furries, they were not hounded into the ground because, unlike the other groups, they were not necessarily a part of any sort of “nerd” culture, so to speak. Anime, the genre, could appeal to a large enough audience to grow.

They arent comparable at all

anime is not a genre

anime is, as Ehzek said, a type of media

Furry still is an extremely small and niche fandom

anime could also grow in the west because irrelevant of what in the west anyone thought, anime would continue to grow in Japan

furries have no such thing to back them up and ensure their growth

And, as a result, the larger anime fandom (I.e. all of the fandoms that make up the larger whole) grew quickly because, due to a lack of persecution early on, there was less of a sigma in joining them.

because there's no justification to a stigma

But anime isnt persecuted weebs are

unlike furries

furries are freaky

anthros are freaky

fursuits are freaky