I do get the idea that Zachary "Spokker Jones" Gutierrez is making this page out to be a bit more serious than I take it to be.
"For as long as I can remember there have been websites devoted to hating a certain thing, whether it be anime, Sailor Moon, Star Trek, Star Wars, what have you. The problem with these sites it that the people who run them are usually no better than the morons who like the shit they are professing to hate. It's like the kawaii otaku ^_^ person is one end of the spectrum and the person devoting hours of their time to hating that person is the other end. Both are morons and the only sane person is the guy in the middle calling them both fags and moving on. I'm that person."
See, while I can't claim to be completely sure of the motivations of the person who runs that site, I think the whole page is just fanboy bait from normal, reasonable, pragmatic anime fans like me (even if they deny it) who get a chuckle from and like yanking the chains of anime fans who take these sort of things far too seriously and far too personally, since they are just cartoons; a fun, exciting, or emotionally-moving time waster and nothing more.
Most of the excerpted posts are pro-anime, though.
In other message board-related news, for more information than you could ever have possibly wanted to know about me, please check these Rotten Tomatoes forum posts (for the last one, the part I'm talking about is when I'm talking about Yuki Sohma from Fruits Basket). It's all completely true, but I would be lying if said that I didn't write them secretly hoping that someone would be kind enough to send them to "Spokker" for consideration for the "Weekend Web", since, to quote Magnus Buchan from Rushmore, "I've always wanted to be in one of your fucking plays". ;)
posted by Steve Brandon @ 4:58 AM
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