MTV2 Is No Friend to Anime Nerds
Be warned: This video is not for the faint of heart. See, it’s apparently “Otaku Week” over at MTV2 (“The Channel which Occasionally Has Music”) which means they’re showing videos taken from last year’s Otakon in Baltimore of otaku being otaku, and thus utterly embarrassing themselves and the entirety of the human race. Now, I’m a Friend to Otaku–and I’m certainly a bigger anime fan than most–but I also have enough sense to know that if I dress up like Astro Boy in little green shorts, MTV2 isn’t interviewing me to learn more about my hobbies.
Regardless, this video of fans playing what seems to be Yu-Gi-Oh–and conversing as if they were in a Yu-Gi-Oh game–is by far the most horrible. My skin literally crawled off my body and fled my house mid-way through watching. So if you see a large sack of flesh running around sobbing somewhere, please tell it the video is over and it can come back. I’m cold. (Via AnimeVice)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.