Anime is GOOD actually!
great video and ok also can we talk about
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how this weird little dude was the coolest shit of all time
how this weird little dude was the coolest shit of all time
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we need more rock lees
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haven't watched the video
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but
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rock lee was robbed
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ROCK LEE WAS ROBBED
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in the video one of the things Signifier keeps bringing up is how certain characters/things 'look cool' which thus makes them more appealing portrayals of masculinity and leads people to elevate and agree with them
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which is something I've thought abt in the past also, that people are more likely to sympathize with characters who look cool, and conversely are more likely to demonize characters who look lame
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GESTURES AT EVERYONE IN MDZS FANDOM WHO UNIRONICALLY SAY SU MINSHAN IS THE WORST PERSON IN THE BOOK EVEN THO HE'S KILLED LIKE EXPONENTIALLY FEWER PEOPLE THAN HALF THE CAST AND IS JUST KIND OF A TOOL
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anyway Rock Lee is a great character to examine from that lens in how like
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LISTEN NO ONE CAME OUT OF THE GAARA VS ROCK LEE FIGHT LIKE "MAN ROCK LEE IS AN UNCOOL LOSER LMAO HE DESERVED TO GET DUNKED ON"
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no one watched THE GAARA VS SASUKE FIGHT and came out of THAT like "this proves that Sasuke is just better and cooler than Rock Lee"
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the fact that Rock Lee worked so damn fucking hard for it is what made him cool. Sasuke was a punk ass bitch in comparison
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the fact that the only time Lee ever caught up again was when naruto gave him super special fox chakra in the war was just like. Ow.
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"why bother working hard if you weren't born into a cool family?"
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rock lee just had such a Vibe that made him cool and like, his unique design wasn't ugly it was just Different which I think helped
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vs, so many others in naruto lol
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to a lesser extent it's kinda like Froppy from early mha fandom days
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oh I have absolutely seen people call Rock Lee ugly
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if you know nothing about mha you look at froppy and go ???? t,this is who people are fawning over?
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where as the fans are like I'LL KILL YOU FOR FROPPY
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large swaths of anime fandom are exceedingly unwelcoming to anything that does not entirely genero
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OH YEA he was def called ugly, esp by shippers lolol
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but he didn't go the way of like, choji since he wasn't truly 'ugly' if that makes sense
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I meant to put the word "look" in that sentence somewhere but I guess it works in a more general sense also.
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