Too true. I still remember the girls in Japanese/anime club in High School using Japanese words to openly talk about their yaoi hentai obsessions as if no one knew what they were saying.
I remember going to uni and my friend told me he would share his "adult content" with me and he said he'd share his hentai with me but I couldn't 🍆 to it. Then my other roommate was like, what else are you supposed to do with it? follow the plot?
Yeah, I never expected a Scottish viewer on my video game stream to mention futanari. My Japanese ancestors would be proud to know how hard Japanese softpower is making people.
In my experience, everyone has been aware of hentai since 1995. What’s less popularly understood is non-pornographic anime and manga. This is proven by the many times in my life someone has taken one glance at my screen and asked “Are you looking at porn?” Yep, I’m watching tentacle hentai right in the middle of this Wendy’s.
18 Comments
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 62 pts · 42d
You can't both call it niche and also say the whole world is watching.
weeeeum@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 42d
Yeah like what lmao
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 62 pts · 42d
Hentai isn't anywhere as niche as it used to be. I'd guess most millennials are aware of it.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 42d
Aware of it? We pioneered it!
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 42d
Too true. I still remember the girls in Japanese/anime club in High School using Japanese words to openly talk about their yaoi hentai obsessions as if no one knew what they were saying.
einlander@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 42d
Reading fanfics on Livejournal and Xanga, posting photos to tumbler and Photobucket.
Blibly@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 42d
Just cuz we know about it doesn't mean it ain't niche..
harmbugler@piefed.social · 10 pts · 42d
And quartz, of course
lobut@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 42d
I remember going to uni and my friend told me he would share his "adult content" with me and he said he'd share his hentai with me but I couldn't 🍆 to it. Then my other roommate was like, what else are you supposed to do with it? follow the plot?
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 41d
Yeah, I never expected a Scottish viewer on my video game stream to mention futanari. My Japanese ancestors would be proud to know how hard Japanese softpower is making people.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 41d
It wasn't even niche back in the dial up times.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 42d
Niche? What year is it 1995?
tkohldesac@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 42d
AOL didn’t censor hentai way back when I was an “Early Teen”. Ahh, those were the days. Hentai and scrambled porn.
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 42d
In my experience, everyone has been aware of hentai since 1995. What’s less popularly understood is non-pornographic anime and manga. This is proven by the many times in my life someone has taken one glance at my screen and asked “Are you looking at porn?” Yep, I’m watching tentacle hentai right in the middle of this Wendy’s.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 42d
Niche porn?
What?
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 42d
They knew. They very much knew.
Townlately@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 42d
Doesn't matter now, they will just use AI for everything.
Sabata11792@ani.social · 4 pts · 42d
Nope, never heard of it, not at all, ever, I swear.
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d