>>110768 (OP)Logic-wise it would've been better if you wrote newfags as soyfags very often are oldfags (a large chunk of fartists are oldfags who moved because 4ch isn't what it used to be and turned too shitty and got too ruined by jannies) who watched anime in 2003 or earlier, and sometimes - although it's rare in comparison - soyfags are originalfags. And it should be pointed out you don't need to be an originalfag (posting on 4ch in its earliest days) to have been watching anime prior to the year 2004 as 4ch didn't invent anime (but of course if you were an originalfag then extremely likely you were also watching anime at the time). Finally while your post isn't directly saying that the anime that people "watched back in 2003" was new anime back then (made in 2003/2002), that might've been what you were thinking when you wrote your post; you may've been thinking of anime new in 2003, it sort of comes off like that, and (regardless what you were thinking) some people who read that sentence of yours will read it like that; they'll think about animes new in 2003. And THAT, it ought to be pointed out, is logically incorrect. It's wrong to think that way. Those who watched anime in 2003 were watching anime mostly (overwhelmingly so) from the 90s and 80s. The reason this should be pointed out isn't just due to the sentence you wrote but because the idea/thought that "people who watched anime in the first years after 2000 were watching anime that was new back then / whatever was new back then is what they were watching" is a belief/perception many young people nowadays have. One can see this belief/perception in posts they write sometimes, where they write about anime-oldfags (what to them feels like anime-oldfags: anime has existed way longer; we who were into anime in the years around 2000 [counting the latter half of the 90s], while we today don't feel like newfags, to us people who were into anime in the mid-80s feel more like actual oldfags) and write for example something like "this is what oldfags were watching" combined with a pic of some anime that was new in 2003. Or they write some other type of post wherethrough they - in one way or another - show that they're assuming people who were into anime back then were watching what was new, and associate people who saw anime then with the animes new at that time. This belief/perception also reveals itself in other ways, in different types of posts: for example a few months ago some teenager posted basically "only people who are 50 years old have seen this anime" where the anime in question was something from the late 80s and the teenage poster assumed people can only have seen an anime when it was new and thought people who saw that anime must've been teenagers at that time so thus they must've been born in the mid 70s (thus 50 years old). That's the very same belief/perception in action: it's the same weird non-logic where the poster associates the year of someone watching anime with anime that was airing at the time / was new at the time; he assumes the anime must've been new when it was seen, because he believes in any year people are watching anime that's new in that year - so if someone has seen an anime from the late 80s, that individual must've seen it in the late 80s.
> the idea/thought that "people who watched anime in the first years after 2000 were watching anime that was new back then / whatever was new back then is what they were watching" is a belief/perception many young people nowadays have. And it's a very strange thing to think and it's somewhat puzzling why people would think like that, but it's probably connected with how they didn't grow up downloading movies/anime/music/etc…
(because they didn't/don't have their own computer - grew up with a cellphone instead - and because the whole "I have a computer so obviously I'm going to download movies and music with it and not pay for anything digital" way of thinking was much more commonplace in people 24-17 years ago; it was the standard way nearly every boy with a computer thought; in school basically everyone downloaded, the only ones who didn't were girls - who usually didn't know how to do basic stuff on a computer and sometimes didn't even have one; it, the culture of downloading, became less common over time with the introduction and normalization of the idea of paying for digital things [without getting a physical copy] through "services" likes Netflix and Spotify and due to Steam with regards to games)