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I’d forgotten all about C/FO because it had been such a long time since I’d heard of them.
It was really local groups who organized anime showings on college campuses who kindled me to take a more serious interest in anime.
Tape trading is where those groups from the 70s and 80s got their imported show from, but tape trading happened in all kinds of media, e.g. rock concerts.
Often we’d wind up watching 3rd or 4th gen VHS copies, i.e. grainy, washed out with bad sound, because we were so far down the chain.
It’s weird that this /c !anime@lemmy.ml doesn’t show up on neither Feddit’s Community Browser https://browse.feddit.de/ or Lemmy Explorer https://lemmyverse.net/communities when searching for “anime”
Instead anime@(the-instance-that-shall-not-be-named).social shows up first on Community Browser, and
I’m not sure what to make of that.
Is someone trying to shadow deprecate this /c/ ?