OMG, Anna! What's Going On?!: Are There Really Social Media Sites For Anime Fans?

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Are There Really Social Media Sites For Anime Fans?

How's it going lurkers? Since last month, I have been meaning to share this news with everyone.

As you already know, Adult Swim's forum was abruptly shut down literally 2 days before Christmas and without warning posters and their own volunteers about it. Shortly after its shut down, I joined Anime League. Like I already said earlier this year, Anime League is a breath of fresh air compared to Adult Swim's hateful community.

To expand on the topic of Anime fans and online communities, are you a fellow Anime fan on social media sites like Facebook, who does NOT want your news feed clogged with selfies, spam ads, SHIT posts, divisive news, memes, and topics about politics and religion, sharents, NEEDY and ATTENTION-seeking status updates, etc?

Imagine if there was a social media site like Facebook except for Anime fans. Well, it turns out you are in luck!

In fact, last month I joined the social media site, World of Anime. Anime fans should definitely check it out.

This Anime-centric social media site could possibly be the social media site you have been dreaming about for years. World of Anime is a pleasant social media site for Anime fans BUILT by an Anime fan.

Much like the forum, Anime League, World of Anime is a very welcoming community. Sometimes I feel badly about not having enough time to socialize with more people on this Anime-centric social media site.

Whenever I have the time, I do talk to some friends on World of Anime, including its site owner, Meeko.

In addition to creating his very own social media site for Anime fans, Meeko created his own video gaming site, Raccoon's Cave for gamers.

I recently informed the social media website owner on World of Anime, that I would be publishing this blog about his site.

It somewhat feels as if Meeko and I are similar to each other.

He understands the struggle of building his own website, generating traffic to it, and having pride in what he built for social interaction and for public exposure.

Even though there will always be trolls on the Internet roaming around and terrorizing people within communities, Meeko places an emphasis on kindness.

This is something I wish forums like Adult Swim would've emphasized before shutting down rather than promoting, condoning, and enabling misogyny, misanthropy, cyberstalking, revenge porn, social division, etc.

This is yours truly speaking from personal experience after ENDURING the preceding from Adult Swim's hateful community.

World of Anime seriously feels like an inviting online community with real fans.

Sure, there are probably some Anime gatekeepers and zealots around the social media site, but I have yet to encounter any of them.

Much like Facebook, World of Anime also has an IM chat feature, a forum page, blog, private messaging, and many other features.

Speaking of the private messaging, if you send out mass private messages, everyone you send that message to CAN respond back to you in the form of a thread. It is like posting on a public message board.

Mass PM'ing is a lot like having a forum's thread contained inside of an e-mail inbox message; It is an e-mail party line.

Depending on your preference and what you choose to send to other friends, this can be a double-edged sword. Because it CAN cause he said, she said flame wars and community divsion, you may want to be more cautious about telling something in confidence to somebody and GOSSIPING to certain posters.

So, would you be interested in joining an Anime-centric social media website such as World of Anime?

You may want to consider liberating yourself from most of today's extremely toxic, divisive, and polarizing content found on a plethora of other social media sites.

Because I am a Supernatural, Horror, and Anime fan, who features Anime in my Cartoon Sunday blogs, it would not hurt to re-share and revisit these previous blogs with fellow fans.

It does NOT have to be Cartoon Sunday, in order to enjoy a Cartoon Sunday blog with Anime videos and links to them.

Anyway, here are previously published Cartoon Sunday blogs with Supernatural and Horror Anime in the links below!

Cartoon Sunday: Anna H's Horror Anime Reviews (2014)

Cartoon Sunday: Hell Girl (Anime) Pilot (2014)

Cartoon Sunday: Death Note's Pilot (2014)

Cartoon Sunday: Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) "His Butler, Able" (2014)

Cartoon Sunday: Ghost Hunt (2014)

Cartoon Sunday: Bleach's Pilot (2014)

Cartoon Sunday: Hellsing Ultimate OVA 1 (2014)

Cartoon Sunday: Devil May Cry (Anime) (2015)

Cartoon Sunday: Shojo Anime That Need Re-Dubs (2015)

Cartoon Sunday: Tokyo Majin (2015)