A few anime have always been mainstream, but the paradigm of anime consumption shifted dramatically in 2020 and has only been getting much worse since. I can't tell you the exact numbers, but the number of people who watch anime on at least a semi-occasional basis has increased by probably about an order of magnitude over the last 5 years. Netflix made a statement recently that about 50% of their subscribers watch at least some anime and almost always dubbed. Even the average MAL user these days is relatively speaking a hardcore fan and has more in common with someone who's watched 1000+ shows or been watching for 10+ years than either do with the new modal anime watcher. tl;dr: the medium got a bad case of Eternal September and any shared cultural identity the anime 'community' might have had before is fading and getting replaced with the kind of people who get opinions from TikTok.

>Anon notices that people, especially in those websites run by dopamine, only talks about recent anime or some older from the top 100 list. That's how you know you're getting old as anime viewer. And series of the 2000s/2010s with new seasons are still popular, things like Re Zero/konosuba... If you go to a forum or websites with different style you'll see people actively discussing old series, at least new people because the rest already discussed most topics.

>>72811 >If you go to a forum or websites Do any of those even still exist anymore?

>>72821 They exist but they're all dead. I don't remember the last time I saw an active forum