>>1 I don't know that anyone ever claimed "denpa" was counter culture, or that it even exists in a clearly defined way. But setting that aside, I think you have a bit of a strange view.
By that year, everyone was already going insane in their rooms from watching too much anime.
I'm not sure why you think this, the average person, even millennial or gen z or whatever, hasn't seen much anime at all. Even something we might think of as fairly mainstream such as k-on, well I think it's unlikely that the average person has seen it or is even ware that it exists. We may have a classic xkcd 2501 moment. Bishoujo anime is still mostly unpopular outside of otaku circles. Beyond anime, the average person has never played a visual novel, read a manga, and they don't know what a drama CD is, etc. But of course, all of this is just otaku subculture rather than denpa subculture.
Regarding your primary point, could you point to a real counter-culture? The prime examples might be hippies and punks, right? Punk was invented by the fashion industry and the british music press, hippies grew up to become literally boomers. You seem to be heavily invested in this concept of counter culture as if it somehow is really important. I don't know you OP but your post gives me a sense of adolescent angst at the discovery that the world isn't how you thought it was as a child. You seem to believe that culture stands on it's own, and that something real and authentic is just over there, just out of reach. I'm sorry to break it to you OP but that reality is always deferred, you will never find it. And what would you do with it if you did find it? It seems that you think cultures are out there, born of individual choice, but actually choosing a culture is merely a consumer choice, and therefore can't be counter culture because it's commodified. Either you are too young to be using this site, or you've taken far too long to notice this. You thought you could solve the world's problems if you found a niche enough label to put on yourself.
I hope you will forgive me for psychoanalyzing you OP, but this is what it looks like to me. You came here looking for a trendy aesthetic you could put on, so you could feel cool. You thought you had found something obscure and edgy you could claim in lieu of growing a personality. But then you discovered, this is not cool at all! These people are losers! I can't market this! So then you come here, to purity test us? You see the flaws in yourself, and you project it onto something you've made up (denpa counter-culture), and you attack us? To be honest with you OP, I find people like you pathetic and disgusting. Can't you just leave us alone.
I don't know that anyone ever claimed "denpa" was counter culture, or that it even exists in a clearly defined way. But setting that aside, I think you have a bit of a strange view.
I'm not sure why you think this, the average person, even millennial or gen z or whatever, hasn't seen much anime at all. Even something we might think of as fairly mainstream such as k-on, well I think it's unlikely that the average person has seen it or is even ware that it exists. We may have a classic xkcd 2501 moment. Bishoujo anime is still mostly unpopular outside of otaku circles. Beyond anime, the average person has never played a visual novel, read a manga, and they don't know what a drama CD is, etc. But of course, all of this is just otaku subculture rather than denpa subculture.
Regarding your primary point, could you point to a real counter-culture? The prime examples might be hippies and punks, right? Punk was invented by the fashion industry and the british music press, hippies grew up to become literally boomers. You seem to be heavily invested in this concept of counter culture as if it somehow is really important. I don't know you OP but your post gives me a sense of adolescent angst at the discovery that the world isn't how you thought it was as a child. You seem to believe that culture stands on it's own, and that something real and authentic is just over there, just out of reach. I'm sorry to break it to you OP but that reality is always deferred, you will never find it. And what would you do with it if you did find it? It seems that you think cultures are out there, born of individual choice, but actually choosing a culture is merely a consumer choice, and therefore can't be counter culture because it's commodified. Either you are too young to be using this site, or you've taken far too long to notice this. You thought you could solve the world's problems if you found a niche enough label to put on yourself.
I hope you will forgive me for psychoanalyzing you OP, but this is what it looks like to me. You came here looking for a trendy aesthetic you could put on, so you could feel cool. You thought you had found something obscure and edgy you could claim in lieu of growing a personality. But then you discovered, this is not cool at all! These people are losers! I can't market this! So then you come here, to purity test us? You see the flaws in yourself, and you project it onto something you've made up (denpa counter-culture), and you attack us? To be honest with you OP, I find people like you pathetic and disgusting. Can't you just leave us alone.