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	By November 2015, it was documented that Anime News Network forums began to ban the discussion of GamerGame related topics, wordfiltered terms such as SJW, and more "problematic individuals" reportedly had posts censored and intercepted by forum moderators and administrators.		By November 2015, it was documented that Anime News Network forums began to ban the discussion of GamerGame related topics, wordfiltered terms such as SJW, and more "problematic individuals" reportedly had posts censored and intercepted by forum moderators and administrators.
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	In June 6, 2018, Anime News Network made a list on some of the unique yet interesting light novels, that are not yet translated.<ref>The Best Light Novels Not Yet in English (ANN/archive) - [http://archive.li/n6MGm]</ref> Kim Morrissy classified some of them through a feminist and Western lens, like "The Witch of Tata" (which was the 24th Grand Prize winner) were she also surmise that the fantasy "isekai was also a social commentary documentary. "And Despite some tacky moments, it's ultimately more thoughtful than you'd expect about the social pressures that face young adults in Japan." Also, stating that a Dengeki Bunko title, "86", was about "a white supremacist nation" that removed the rights and citizenship of minorities and sends them to fight drone. "The plot follows a group of child soldiers, which is commanded from afar by a well-intentioned yet painfully priviled handler."		In June 6, 2018, Anime News Network made a list on some of the unique yet interesting light novels, that are not yet translated.<ref>The Best Light Novels Not Yet in English (ANN/archive) - [http://archive.li/n6MGm]</ref> Kim Morrissy classified some of them through a feminist and Western lens, like "The Witch of Tata" (which was the 24th Grand Prize winner) were she also surmise that the fantasy "isekai was also a social commentary documentary. "And Despite some tacky moments, it's ultimately more thoughtful than you'd expect about the social pressures that face young adults in Japan." Also, stating that a Dengeki Bunko title, "86", was about "a white supremacist nation" that removed the rights and citizenship of minorities and sends them to fight drone. "The plot follows a group of child soldiers, which is commanded from afar by a well-intentioned yet painfully priviled handler."

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 Anime News Network in one cold December 17, 2014, stated that Gamergate was formed over complaints about "social justice warriors," controlling game journalism and colluding with developers, yet was "absurd and poorly substantiated"<ref>The X BUtton (ANN/archive) - [http://archive.fo/UnnHd]</ref> yet it can be broken down to its basic elements according to Todd Ciolek, but its also still going on and leaving terror in its wake: "people were harassed, other people lost jobs, and companies pulled ads from websites.<ref>ANN Gives GG a Mention (KiA/archive) - [https://archive.fo/bblyQ]</ref>
-As the debacle of Gamergate went on into the mid 2010s, many of its head staff would come to find camaraderie and solace in the beliefs of the SJW and LGBTQ+ Pride acceptance movements, as well as cancel culture, the MeToo movement, ultra feminist extremist leaning counterculture such as Pussy Riot, as well as the closely intertwined late 2000s hipster fashion and lifestyle scene. Many believe and have correlated that their leanings and standing as anime fans of their variety and disposition from the 2000s intertwined well with these movements and subcultures, from posturing on liking anime "ironically", engaging in shitposting memes like "Cory in the House is the best anime" to "Anime was a mistake -Hayao Miyazaki", and praising older anime classics for social cred, to touting shojo anime like ''Sailor Moon'' and ''Revolutionary Girl Utena'' as shining examples of femininity and progressive LGBTQ+ examples in media, despite the values and mores on the aforementioned shows contrasting and contradicting greatly with the engaged counterculture movement based mindsets of its members. Becoming more steeped in these movements' beliefs, so would this come to influence Anime News Network to be "anti-gamergate", and with ties to other prominent internet media groups of the same allegiance, such as That Guy With The Glasses. The SJW movement's activeness during these times is also what helped spur writer Jacob Chapman transition into a male, and had his fiancee Zac Bertschy open up that he was actively bisexual during their relationship.
+As the debacle of Gamergate went on into the mid 2010s, many of its head staff would come to find camaraderie and solace in the beliefs of the SJW and LGBTQ+ Pride acceptance movements, as well as cancel culture, the MeToo movement, ultra feminist extremist leaning counterculture such as Pussy Riot, as well as the closely intertwined late 2000s hipster fashion and lifestyle scene. Many believe and have correlated that their leanings and standing as anime fans of their variety and disposition from the 2000s intertwined well with these movements and subcultures, from posturing on liking anime "ironically", engaging in shitposting memes like "Cory in the House is the best anime" to "Anime was a mistake -Hayao Miyazaki", and praising older anime classics for social cred, to touting shojo anime like ''Sailor Moon'' and ''Revolutionary Girl Utena'' as shining examples of femininity and progressive LGBTQ+ examples in media, despite the values and mores on the aforementioned shows contrasting and contradicting greatly with the engaged counterculture movement based mindsets of its members. Becoming more steeped in these movements' beliefs, so would this come to influence Anime News Network to be "anti-gamergate", and with ties to other prominent internet media groups of the same allegiance, such as That Guy With The Glasses. The SJW movement's activeness during these times is also what helped spur writer Jacob Chapman transition into a male, and had his fiancee Zac Bertschy later open up that he was actively bisexual during their relationship.
 In June 6, 2018, Anime News Network made a list on some of the unique yet interesting light novels, that are not yet translated.<ref>The Best Light Novels Not Yet in English (ANN/archive) - [http://archive.li/n6MGm]</ref> Kim Morrissy classified some of them through a feminist and Western lens, like "The Witch of Tata" (which was the 24th Grand Prize winner) were she also surmise that the fantasy "isekai was also a social commentary documentary. "And Despite some tacky moments, it's ultimately more thoughtful than you'd expect about the social pressures that face young adults in Japan." Also, stating that a Dengeki Bunko title, "86", was about "a white supremacist nation" that removed the rights and citizenship of minorities and sends them to fight drone. "The plot follows a group of child soldiers, which is commanded from afar by a well-intentioned yet painfully priviled handler."

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 Anime News Network in one cold December 17, 2014, stated that Gamergate was formed over complaints about "social justice warriors," controlling game journalism and colluding with developers, yet was "absurd and poorly substantiated"<ref>The X BUtton (ANN/archive) - [http://archive.fo/UnnHd]</ref> yet it can be broken down to its basic elements according to Todd Ciolek, but its also still going on and leaving terror in its wake: "people were harassed, other people lost jobs, and companies pulled ads from websites.<ref>ANN Gives GG a Mention (KiA/archive) - [https://archive.fo/bblyQ]</ref>
-As the debacle of Gamergate went on into the mid 2010s, many of its head staff would come to find camaraderie and solace in the beliefs of the SJW and LGBTQ+ Pride acceptance movements, as well as cancel culture, the MeToo movement, ultra feminist extremist leaning counterculture such as Pussy Riot, as well as the closely intertwined late 2000s hipster fashion and lifestyle scene. Many believe and have correlated that their leanings and standing as anime fans of their variety and disposition from the 2000s intertwined well with these movements and subcultures, from posturing on liking anime "ironically", engaging in shitposting memes like "Cory in the House is the best anime" to "Anime was a mistake -Hayao Miyazaki", and praising older anime classics for social cred, to touting shojo anime like ''Sailor Moon'' and ''Revolutionary Girl Utena'' as shining examples of femininity and progressive LGBTQ+ examples in media, despite the values and mores on the aforementioned shows contrasting and contradicting greatly with the engaged counterculture movement based mindsets of its members. It is of note that the SJW movement's activeness during these times is also what helped spur writer Jacob Chapman transition into a male, and had his fiancee Zac Bertschy open up that he was actively bisexual during their relationship.
+As the debacle of Gamergate went on into the mid 2010s, many of its head staff would come to find camaraderie and solace in the beliefs of the SJW and LGBTQ+ Pride acceptance movements, as well as cancel culture, the MeToo movement, ultra feminist extremist leaning counterculture such as Pussy Riot, as well as the closely intertwined late 2000s hipster fashion and lifestyle scene. Many believe and have correlated that their leanings and standing as anime fans of their variety and disposition from the 2000s intertwined well with these movements and subcultures, from posturing on liking anime "ironically", engaging in shitposting memes like "Cory in the House is the best anime" to "Anime was a mistake -Hayao Miyazaki", and praising older anime classics for social cred, to touting shojo anime like ''Sailor Moon'' and ''Revolutionary Girl Utena'' as shining examples of femininity and progressive LGBTQ+ examples in media, despite the values and mores on the aforementioned shows contrasting and contradicting greatly with the engaged counterculture movement based mindsets of its members. Becoming more steeped in these movements' beliefs, so would this come to influence Anime News Network to be "anti-gamergate", and with ties to other prominent internet media groups of the same allegiance, such as That Guy With The Glasses. The SJW movement's activeness during these times is also what helped spur writer Jacob Chapman transition into a male, and had his fiancee Zac Bertschy open up that he was actively bisexual during their relationship.
 In June 6, 2018, Anime News Network made a list on some of the unique yet interesting light novels, that are not yet translated.<ref>The Best Light Novels Not Yet in English (ANN/archive) - [http://archive.li/n6MGm]</ref> Kim Morrissy classified some of them through a feminist and Western lens, like "The Witch of Tata" (which was the 24th Grand Prize winner) were she also surmise that the fantasy "isekai was also a social commentary documentary. "And Despite some tacky moments, it's ultimately more thoughtful than you'd expect about the social pressures that face young adults in Japan." Also, stating that a Dengeki Bunko title, "86", was about "a white supremacist nation" that removed the rights and citizenship of minorities and sends them to fight drone. "The plot follows a group of child soldiers, which is commanded from afar by a well-intentioned yet painfully priviled handler."

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 Anime News Network holds relevance to Gamergate due to many viewers and dissenters of the site finding fault and distaste with the site's offhand staff commentary and disposition on anime despite disclaimers contrary, with some closely witnessing and suggesting the site shares many workplace factors similar to [[Kotaku]], in that coworkers and the hierarchy is based around like minded individuals with shared ideas and an agenda. This includes observation that the lead editors and staff are merely entitled fans who have been given a platform to voice their opinions through a major newsource while being able to deny accountability through freedom of speech and right to a free press, while claiming their opinions do not represent the views of the site by use of legal wraparounds. The surrounding core community and forum population is also of note to be just as fervent and in line with the opinions and dispositions presented by its cult of personality.
-Much of the bias Anime News Network is associated and accused of is regulating the originating Japanese anime, manga, and video game market's freedom to create content as according to what suits the "tastes" of the Western market by use of a major news information outlet, appropriating societal subjects found in anime and manga that mostly pertain to Japan itself to the Western hemisphere's own for the sake of egocentric virtue signaling and an ironic case of cultural appropriation, acting in collusion with various North American anime distributor sponsors to further their agenda, and whose said agenda is mostly based around accusations that their core lead staff consists of more older fans whose interests in anime have burnt out, yet are acting out of vindication and justification for their hobbies in a job whose focus is said hobby whose output is mostly still unreliant on western markets, and by which the staff has little than other feedback and input than reviewing and critiquing media they have and continue to consume. This has lead to the idea that Anime News Network essentially "gatekeeps anime importation", as along with importers and distribution companies being commercial sponsors, the news outlet as the major only existing western hemisphere anime news source uses its position to decide by their own whims to what sees international releases, and gives feedback of their own for Japanese producers to influence what they create and greenlight for entertainment value. It is believed that the purpose of this control by their influence is to "help" convince the public that anime, and in turn, animation, is a legitimate form of entertainment, with tame and restrained works that do not touch upon more mature topics and subject matter anime has been known to tackle in its originating country, despite societal and cultural factors that go beyond disposition of formats and mediums of entertainment, and with disregard to this freedom of expression and creativity that has long contributed to anime's global popularity.
+Much of the bias Anime News Network is associated and accused of is regulating the originating Japanese anime, manga, and video game market's freedom to create content as according to what suits the "tastes" of the Western market by use of a major news information outlet, appropriating societal subjects found in anime and manga that mostly pertain to Japan itself to the Western hemisphere's own for the sake of egocentric virtue signaling and an ironic case of cultural appropriation, acting in collusion with various North American anime distributor sponsors to further their agenda, and whose said agenda is mostly based around accusations that their core lead staff consists of more older fans whose interests in anime have burnt out, yet are acting out of vindication and justification for their hobbies in a job whose focus is said hobby whose output is mostly still unreliant on western markets, and by which the staff has little than other feedback and input than reviewing and critiquing media they have and continue to consume. This has lead to the idea that Anime News Network essentially "gatekeeps anime importation", as along with importers and distribution companies being commercial sponsors, the news outlet as the major only existing western hemisphere anime news source uses its position to decide by their own whims to what sees international releases, and gives feedback of their own for Japanese producers to influence what they create and greenlight for entertainment value. It is believed that the purpose of this control by their influence is to "help" convince the public that anime, and in turn, animation, is a legitimate form of entertainment, with tame and restrained works that do not touch upon more mature topics and subject matter anime has been known to tackle in its originating country, despite societal and cultural factors that go beyond disposition of formats and mediums of entertainment in the entertainment world and industry, and with disregard to this freedom of expression and creativity that has long contributed to anime's global popularity.
 == Pre-Gamergate ==

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	Anime News Network in one cold December 17, 2014, stated that Gamergate was formed over complaints about "social justice warriors," controlling game journalism and colluding with developers, yet was "absurd and poorly substantiated"<ref>The X BUtton (ANN/archive) - [http://archive.fo/UnnHd]</ref> yet it can be broken down to its basic elements according to Todd Ciolek, but its also still going on and leaving terror in its wake: "people were harassed, other people lost jobs, and companies pulled ads from websites.<ref>ANN Gives GG a Mention (KiA/archive) - [https://archive.fo/bblyQ]</ref>		Anime News Network in one cold December 17, 2014, stated that Gamergate was formed over complaints about "social justice warriors," controlling game journalism and colluding with developers, yet was "absurd and poorly substantiated"<ref>The X BUtton (ANN/archive) - [http://archive.fo/UnnHd]</ref> yet it can be broken down to its basic elements according to Todd Ciolek, but its also still going on and leaving terror in its wake: "people were harassed, other people lost jobs, and companies pulled ads from websites.<ref>ANN Gives GG a Mention (KiA/archive) - [https://archive.fo/bblyQ]</ref>
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		+	As the debacle of Gamergate went on into the mid 2010s, many of its head staff would come to find camaraderie and solace in the beliefs of the SJW and LGBTQ+ Pride acceptance movements, as well as cancel culture, the MeToo movement, ultra feminist extremist leaning counterculture such as Pussy Riot, as well as the closely intertwined late 2000s hipster fashion and lifestyle scene. Many believe and have correlated that their leanings and standing as anime fans of their variety and disposition from the 2000s intertwined well with these movements and subcultures, from posturing on liking anime "ironically", engaging in shitposting memes like "Cory in the House is the best anime" to "Anime was a mistake -Hayao Miyazaki", and praising older anime classics for social cred, to touting shojo anime like ''Sailor Moon'' and ''Revolutionary Girl Utena'' as shining examples of femininity and progressive LGBTQ+ examples in media, despite the values and mores on the aforementioned shows contrasting and contradicting greatly with the engaged counterculture movement based mindsets of its members. It is of note that the SJW movement's activeness during these times is also what helped spur writer Jacob Chapman transition into a male, and had his fiancee Zac Bertschy open up that he was actively bisexual during their relationship.

	In June 6, 2018, Anime News Network made a list on some of the unique yet interesting light novels, that are not yet translated.<ref>The Best Light Novels Not Yet in English (ANN/archive) - [http://archive.li/n6MGm]</ref> Kim Morrissy classified some of them through a feminist and Western lens, like "The Witch of Tata" (which was the 24th Grand Prize winner) were she also surmise that the fantasy "isekai was also a social commentary documentary. "And Despite some tacky moments, it's ultimately more thoughtful than you'd expect about the social pressures that face young adults in Japan." Also, stating that a Dengeki Bunko title, "86", was about "a white supremacist nation" that removed the rights and citizenship of minorities and sends them to fight drone. "The plot follows a group of child soldiers, which is commanded from afar by a well-intentioned yet painfully priviled handler."		In June 6, 2018, Anime News Network made a list on some of the unique yet interesting light novels, that are not yet translated.<ref>The Best Light Novels Not Yet in English (ANN/archive) - [http://archive.li/n6MGm]</ref> Kim Morrissy classified some of them through a feminist and Western lens, like "The Witch of Tata" (which was the 24th Grand Prize winner) were she also surmise that the fantasy "isekai was also a social commentary documentary. "And Despite some tacky moments, it's ultimately more thoughtful than you'd expect about the social pressures that face young adults in Japan." Also, stating that a Dengeki Bunko title, "86", was about "a white supremacist nation" that removed the rights and citizenship of minorities and sends them to fight drone. "The plot follows a group of child soldiers, which is commanded from afar by a well-intentioned yet painfully priviled handler."

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 In mid January of 2019, news within the North American anime convention community had come to reveal sexual misconduct and rape accusations against prominent figure Dylan Keilman, whose Twitter userhandle and fandom alias was also known as Hazukari. Dylan Keilman was known to be a close associate and guest writer for Anime News Network. Stories from ex-girlfriends, victims, and eyewitnesses accused him of emotional and sexual abuse, harassment, and scouting and grooming male minors at conventions for associates close to him. According to Twitter accounts, lead and some former staff of Anime News Network expressed regrets towards his actions, while former writer and ex-That Guy With The Glasses/Channel Awesome contributor Kaylyn Dickison, is believed to start a smear campaign to divert attention to this.
-Immediately after the news, ANN published an article about Funimation voice actor Vic Mignogna and accusations by female coworkers, including Monica Rial and Jamie Marche of sexual abuse while working at Funimation Studios in Houston, Texas. <ref>"Far From Perfect"(archive) - [http://archive.is/4CE0A]</ref><ref>ANN Goes All-In (KiA) - [https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/aldtco/anime_news_network_goes_allin_publishing_banner/]</ref> This would lead into the North American anime industry and community scandal known as ''Kick Vic'', where lack of substantial evidence and the large scale influence of cancel culture would cause a schism in the anime fandom community, and continues into 2020 as Vic Mignogna pursues legal action against the claims made against him in a court of law.
+Immediately after the news, ANN published an article about Funimation Studios, a prominent commercial sponsor on their website, on associated freelance voice actor Vic Mignogna, and accusations by female coworkers, including Monica Rial and Jamie Marche, of committing acts of sexual abuse while working at Funimation Studios' headquarters in Houston, Texas. <ref>"Far From Perfect"(archive) - [http://archive.is/4CE0A]</ref><ref>ANN Goes All-In (KiA) - [https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/aldtco/anime_news_network_goes_allin_publishing_banner/]</ref> This would lead into the North American anime industry and community scandal known as ''Kick Vic'', where lack of substantial evidence and the large scale influence of cancel culture would cause a schism in the anime fandom community, and continues into 2020 as Vic Mignogna pursues legal action against the claims made against him in a court of law.
 == Trivia ==

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 Although not the entirety of Anime News Network's controversial editorial base's antics, by 2003, Zac would start to host ''Answerman'', a Q&A column for viewers, and it was by this point Zac would become more vocal and outspoken about his beliefs and views on anime as a whole, which plenty had interpreted as a purist mindset. Of one of many highlights during these times would be Zac addressing the constant influx of mail about younger fans of anime at this time wanting to create their own anime due to the explosive popularity of anime at this respective point in time; Zac's answer to all of this was to say that Japan doesn't care, and that the scripts and concepts aspiring and inspired artists and writers had were dismissed as immature fanciful garbage. Other answers included stating Japanese culture as supremely unliberated and unfriendly to the female gender, and that anime portrays women like subservient and submissive sex dolls.
-The most infamous incident of his Answerman editorials was however, that of responding to a question regarding ''Kodomo no Jikan'' or Nymphet, a moe manga series detailing a male elementary school teacher needing to handle a female student who had extremely premature and erroneous misconceptions about sex and love, in 2007. Zac's response was to dismiss the series and the moe trend as "pedophile bait", and claimed that moe was but a controversial sexual desire for prepubecent driven fad that Japan was engaging in its entertainment world. After this, the event would snowball into a debacle regarding the series' importer Seven Seas Entertainment dropping the series due to Zac's influence, to which would draw ire towards Zac for his rather blase statement. After a year, Zac would then leave the mantle of Answerman for another writer. Ultimately, it is believed that this was influenced by the American internet pedophilia panic of the 2000s, including the popularity of Chris Hansen's ''To Catch A Predator''.
+The most infamous incident of his Answerman editorials was however, that of responding to a question regarding ''Kodomo no Jikan'' or Nymphet, a moe manga series detailing a male elementary school teacher needing to handle a female student who had extremely premature and erroneous misconceptions about sex and love, in 2007. Zac's response was to dismiss the series and the moe trend as "pedophile bait", and claimed that moe was but a controversial sexual desire for prepubecent driven fad that Japan was engaging in its entertainment world. After this, the event would snowball into a debacle regarding the series' importer Seven Seas Entertainment dropping the series due to Zac's influence, to which would draw ire towards Zac for his rather blase statement. After a year, Zac would then leave the mantle of Answerman for another writer. Ultimately, it is believed that this was influenced by the American internet pedophilia grooming and sex predator panic of the 2000s, including the popularity of Chris Hansen's ''To Catch A Predator''.
 Perhaps reinforcing the elitist fandom roots the site had, by 2009 on Zac's hosted podcast, the ANNCast Zac had guest stars from Colony Drop appear for a show. Colony Drop was a website started in the mid 2000s by disillusioned western anime fans who were beginning to become dissatisfied with the line up of anime Japan had been showcasing, and had began to write articles and attempted to start its own magazine for its viewer base. However, Colony Drop by its starting years began to showcase a perhaps belligerent and extremely aggressive campaign that happened to run on extreme forms of consumer entitlement and a much darker psyche of the elite proclaimed anime fanbase, beginning a series of aggressive trolling to outside fans whom they did not deem had the taste that the site's core founders had, continued this trolling phase into an anime reviewer internet journal site contest, gathered other likeminded individuals to participate in their community, became extremely vocal about how Japanese moe anime was secretly pedophile porn, showcased bizarre psuedo-intellectual criticisms on Japanese culture, and began to make appearances at conventions. Zac would later reinvite Colony Drop for another show in 2013.