/a/ - Aryanime

Has anyone else found themselves consume a lot less new anime/manga lately almost to the point where you might find it hard to enjoy?
Maybe some of you have different reasons, but for me its because of what's happening to anime in this decade. How it had a mainstream boom during the pandemic that has only gotten bigger with things like Umamusume and even One Piece having a collab with a fast food chicken chain in America. Nothing is wrong with those things, but its rather about the kind of people that have been introduced into the medium in recent years. Just really weird fucking people. Not even explicitly loliniggers or normies but people who are extremely socially inept, aggressive, and maybe even mentally retarded. It saddens me how much anime has garnered a reputation as mainstream goyslop when in the old days it was a curated niche for the small amount of westerners that knew how to access it. Hell, most western anime viewers watched the toonami block on adult swim every weekend and whatever was on the schedule that night was what was discussed on anime forums and 4chan the next day. It was a simpler time and everybody was friends. There wasn't any bitterness, shitflinging, or harassment like there is now.
I feel alienated as someone who experienced the glory days of anime culture in the west. When someone irl asks me if I like X anime, I pretend like I don't know what that is or that I don't watch anime. My favorites like CLANNAD are fiercely gatekept for good reason because they're the last bastions of old anime culture in the west. I'd be devastated if it suffered the same fate as Azumanga Daioh because it has a very special place in my heart.