Aniblog Tourney: War

In AD 2012, war was beginning.

I don’t want to be an asshole, but closing CSW’s poll simply because we have a influx compared to the other blogs is a direct attack at not only my pride but at our viewership. If I do not get an apology, I will cause CSW’s army to spam and raid various anime blog sites. Apologies, but this has gone far enough. – AvuKamu (SPIRAL of Chocolate Syrupy Waffles)

Reactions to the the 5camp-moderated tournament continued to vary:

drmchsr0 I thought I’d hate on the ABT, but then I realized I don’t particularly care about it :V

predederva despite my off the cuff remarks, I’m not a hater of the aniblog tourney. i do think it will produce a lot of drama though

kabitzin https://t.co/KTeh0o3E Man, polldaddy is so shitty

Kuroshinko If this whole aniblog tourney is in suspicion of being rigged, maybe let’s restart this whole thing?

KyokaiTM Open question to all my aniblogger tweeple. What’s your opinion on fair voting in the aniblog tourney? How you do it yourself?

Dez691 VOTE MANIPULATION for a minor internet tournament made for fun but VOTE MANIMPULATION

lvlln It’s a tournament for people who blog about anime. You’re surprised they take anything more seriously than it’s worth?

quattro_maeda  it’s fun and you get introduced to new blogs. And psgels is gonna win anyway

5camp @lvlln It’s more what @quattro_maeda said. Interest spikes in the first batch but wanes quickly

And there is betting.

Aniblog Tourney: Chicago Style

In light of the recent discovery that 5camp’s Aniblog Tourney had put dozens of active polls up weeks ahead of the actual contests, leading to possible vote fraud, SCCSAV organizer vuc had this to say:

That’s the Chicago way.

concept by Shiwasu no Okina

Perhaps no statement better underscores the potential for corruption, miscalculation, and misrule inherent in the Aniblog Tourney’s systems – systems that Tournament official mefloraine acknowledges will take quite some time to reset by hand. Amid jokes about “voting early and often,” other bloggers raised more fundamental questions of validity: is the entire tournament just a big “circle jerk” in a closed population?

Aniblog Tourney Strikes Back

Twitter might be likened to a continually-bubbling cauldron of drama: there is never an absence of it, but sometimes the cauldron gets hotter.

5camp’s Aniblog Tourney, which spawned such greats as “Help Me Stroke My E-Peen,” has returned.

Though 5camp stated that all participants have already been contacted, the cart-driving judge was quick to add that new challengers are welcome to submit their information and brave the scrutiny of naysayers along with the rest.  The tournament’s mildly adversarial “bracket” format promises interesting drama for weeks to come.

Buildup

When is a buildup too long?

The unreal world

“I’m going to make out with like 30 chicks tonight.”

- Wes Bergman, Real World: Austin

What is the proper follow-up to America’s Greatest Otaku?  How do you bring a slice of obsessive anime fan life to the public?  If you are the twitter blogosphere, the answer is clearly an Anime-fan-only Real World.

Art and Oreimo

I, for one, am not yet convinced of the purity of its intentions. The girl has only interest in sis con eroge, not yaoi or other shoujo shipping fodder. That’s weird no matter how you cut it. Then, she’s a pro model in middle school(?), without her brother or parent’s knowledge. I’m not saying it couldn’t happen, its the way the episode brushed it off like it was nothing was what set off alarm bells. And finally, like you noted, it’s preoccupied with framing the girl in compromising positions, like on top of her brother in bed late at night. It’s saying one thing, but doing another, which makes me believe its intentions aren’t as kosher as it seems.

Kadian1364

Kadian and others point out the use of risque scenes in Ore no Imouto, which raises an interesting question: such scenes appear throughout other anime. Are we being hypersensitive about them here because of the undercurrent of normalizing incest?

If we agree that the show doesn’t make a big deal of it, what then? Do we actually think that is going to cause something to happen in real life? (Do violent video games cause violence? Do rape eroge cause rape?) Or are we simply reflexively shuddering at the thought because we are trained to do so?

Questioning society’s taboos is the most essential function of art, so even if the show is pandering and risque, in this context, it would be in some sense artistic. In this case, it’s also questioning some of anime’s conventions as well. Sure, the sister is framed in incredibly weird positions. But when that sort of thing occurs in other shows, our normal reaction is to laugh.

Are we so dead set on our taboos that we can’t even discuss them?

The Ides of Drama

Like the turning of clockwork, like grains of sand through an hourglass, like the succumbing of humanity to zombie plagues – dorama is inevitable, and its production continues.

Ed Sizemore weighed in on Chu-Bra with this:

Chu-Bra may be the paradigm shift that finally helps us understand how to live authentic lives in the 21st century. We can’t ignore it.

Which prompted this response:

Oh look. @edsizemore has discovered sarcasm. Someone give him a cookie.

Yuuka_Kazami went on a block rampage:

Pruning the followers list. Everyone who doesn’t interest me in the slightest will be instantly blocked. Goodbye to those people.

deviryuu http://yfrog.com/4eyzop ;__;

5camp discovered the joys of self-censorship:

That makes me sound like a rapist….

Fightbait demanded satisfaction:

WHERE THE FUCK IS MY BLOWJOB?

Mefloraine wished she could quit Extrange.

I’m never greeting you again. orz

AniBlog Tourney sparks criticism

Mefloraine, 5camp, and rabbitpoets began an elimination tournament for 96 hand-picked anime blogs.  Characteristically (for the drama-laden blogosphere), this effort resulted in controversy and recriminations.  Perhaps the most heated criticism came at Kurogane’s blog and at NovaJinx.  Zaitcev briefly accused 5camp of desiring more traffic before retracting the statement.

“People” do not organize these things because they are “bored”. All it is, is a cynical scheme by Scamp to drive visits to his site, nothing more, nothing less. It has less with boredom and more with advertisement revenue.

Although, the current site is away from the CD and runs no ads. So, maybe he is bored after all.