Funimation is just barely doing well now

Furries began in the 1970’s.

And they were a branch-off of DND stuff.

He is basically they are both nerd fandoms and he is upset furries are looked down on

Despite furries doing nothing to ever further a positive image

also a reason that anime is large and furry...dom(?) isn't is because furries are a small offshoot, an inherently niche group

anime had an entire *country* to back it up

^^^

and a productive country at that

Anime is a countries culture Furry is a degenerate sexual preference

what with their crazy work-centricness

But isn’t that the origin of most fandoms? A small odd-shoot of one genre that eventually takes off and grows?

Anime isnt a fandom

Furries got it bad mainly because the media conflated it with “beastiality.”

Its an entire countries animated media

as Ehzek just said, anime is not a fandom

anime is an entire country's form of entertainment, it is an extension of Japan's culture

furries are just a weird group of people who like anthros

Its like the difference between NFL and Fantasy Football

which is something that could never be mainstream, or larger than it is

NFL has fans

FF is a fandom

Anime is a fandom as well because they are a weird group of people obsessing over another country’s animation.

in the west maybe, but the west isn't important to Japan and anime

as I went over already

You can be an anime fan and not in a fandom

if an anime bombs in Japan, even if it is a huge hit in the west, companies don't care and will stop

You cant be a furry fan and not in the furry fandom

But it is important when considering the fact that weeaboos are not from Japan and are from other countries.

That is the key difference

Without furry fandom there are no furry at all

yea but weaboos / western fans aren't all anime fans, a majority are actually Japanese

Or european or russian etc

No, that would not make sense.

how do

so*

A weeaboo is a term for someone from the west who is obsessed with anime.

You cannot be Japanese and a weeaboo.

Just like you cannot be British and a teeaboo or Korean and be a koreaboo.

no, weaboos are people who obsess over anime *to the point they hold Japan on a pedestal*

but anyway