There is nothing wrong with gatekeeping

There is nothing wrong with gatekeeping

you say that but if this site was properly gatekept you would not be here

The average Anon Babbleedditor will preach about the importance of gatekeeping yet will turn around and contribute to Twitter screencap threads

i love v somtimes

Okay tough guy how would YOU get into Dr. Gero's impregnable lab?

blow up the earth around it

gero salted the earth with door particles beforehand

dammit

OPEN SESAME

I would use the key because I'm the one doing the gatekeeping. Not the one being gatekept.

Jojosissies? FAIL to STALE the DOOR

Kinda sucks that all it takes is like, 10 retards to keep a thread alive. The moderators should be the ones to enforce gatekeeping since they can delete threads, but all they do is keep up the relevant new game advertisement threads.

Oh fuck you OP

post characters that fail the door challenge

The only thing wrong with gatekeeping is that it doesn't work unless you have power in some way.

Wait my internet is just being shit.
I thought OP posted a still-frame gif to troll me. Sorry OP.

gatekeeping means eventually banning people
banning people means less users on your site
less users means less ad bucks (yes there are retards who don't know how to use an adblocker)

"communities" can't gatekeep shit.
Only the games themselves can do that, I'm gatekept from every puzzle game for example, because of retardation and impatience.

bros... we should have gatekept MGRR/Ace Attorney/Yakuza...

LITERALLY HOW? You can't stop some youtuber or eceleb from making normalfagbait.

specially when tiktok has been a thing for years now

You ain't "gatekeeping" anything that is able to be acquired or taken part of easily. The content in itself has to be niche enough for most people to not care about it, and those "communities" that are you won't see being discussed frequently, even in place like Anon Babble. Social media sites don't help either (and yes this place does count as such).

With a gun

Piccolo now knows your location and is on his way to punch your limbs off.

You shit up the fandom as hard as possible so that any youtuber who wants to associate the game becomes permanently stained in filth

I doubt you can shit up a "fandom" as hard as twitterfags and tiktok users.

Indeed

I don't know about you guys, but my efforts to gatekeep Kinnikuman have been working for the past 10 years. Hahaha it's not like people aren't interested in the series even despite a new anime series ....right?

Gatekeeping usually amounts to nothing but purity tests for those that already made it through the gates properly, and more often than not just whittles more and more people away to be outside of the gate until your faction is so small that you become insignificant enough to be ignored. The only time gatekeeping is possible is when the actual means to engage with the hobby are able to be controlled by the community, or are otherwise unfeasible for someone not exceptionally impassioned and interested in the hobby to set up--and ironically, it usually ends up being buyfags, faggots, and trannies that control such things and cause anons to complain about being gatekept.

Dude Ultimate Muscles aired here in the states when I was like 10, you aint gatekeeping shit.

Dig under it
DUHHHH

blue archive does this, did it work there?

Anon Babble is still trying

It isn't. The most active threads are inevitably some form of cancerous unending general, a storytime, or bait.

It's fun seeing Anon Babblefags seethe when they correctly get called out as Anon Babbleermin

The only people saying that are fellow Anon Babbleermin who think they're among good company. The reality is, they are- they just don't realize they're also shitting up the board while trying to maintain this idea that they're actually preserving it.

Anon Babble has been dead for years. It is just Anon Babble. There is nothing left of Anon Babble there and anyone saying otherwise is an idiot or underage.

You mean like how trans women gatekeep chuds out of video games?

It's more fun to see Anon Babble go completely schizo blaming Anon Babble for literally anything. Especially around Christmas and Uma being a controversial pick, so it was just endless shitflinging of

damn those Anon Babbleermin, they're dying on the hill of defending this shitty show because they like the shitty gacha game

damn those Anon Babbleermin, they're dying on the hill of hating this wonderful show because their tastes aren't refined enough to enjoy idol shows

It's kind of funny that they actually can gatekeep shit.

add stupid flag or egg joke (probably added by localizers without approval)

Anon Babble: oh wow I'm not buying that!

And boom, the gate was kept.

No one has answered yet how are you supposed to gatekept when the IP holder is putting all efforts to make it mainstream

This question is posted in every thread and no one can answer it with something effective. It's always "uhhh be annoying online!!", as if that works.

Create horrible fanart and fetish art so normies avoid it by association. Here's a secret, the Sonic fandom has no autists, just gatekeepers.

Piccolo can't do shit to me.
I'm real and he's a drawing

Because it's impossible for an end user to gatekeep a video game. You can't stop people downloading and playing a game. The developer is the one that can gatekeep (such as by making a game actually difficult and not providing any kind of easy mode).

implying chrischan was an inside job the whole time

Yeah sure. And if that worked then Persona 5's fandom wouldn't be full of zoomers who go "uhm Ann is like 15..." and have never played the game.

No! We can't do this without Goku!

wrong

t. sonic autist

The Icebreaker

Used to think if we open the gates for something, it would increase the popularity, fandom, etc with nothing changing besides series getting popular

Proceed to watch everything I loved get co opted by people who wanted to change it to what they want and shit

I now see why gate keeping was so important. How naive I was, I just wanted niche things I liked to get popular and not fucking ruined.

Seeing what happened to homestuck is what made me into pro-gatekeeping.

I just wanted niche things I liked to get popular and not fucking ruined

The line has to go up, the IP holders want more money and their product being niche means less money. They have the keys of this gate. If ruining the thing you love means they MAY get bigger numbers then you bet they will do it.

I've never thought this way. I did however know at some point media like games, comics and the internet would become more corporate and homogenized for the masses. It was just a matter of when and how.

From far away it looks like a Purple Popsicle.

so uhhhhh let's say you go back in time when it was niche, what would you have done to "gatekeep" the things you liked? just not talking about them?

just not talking about them?

That's just delaying the inevitable. But hey at least you would get to enjoy that thing you like for a little longer. And then streamer/eceleb finds out about it and it's over.

You're telling me sticky fingers couldn't get past this

Nobody can gate keep you unless you let them. Any time you feel resistance just keeping going after being knocked down. Being discouraged is the key to winning at gate keeping.

it shouldn't be taken as an absolute statement over the belief of the character speaking
same way that The World is the ultimate stand with no equal, up until it's surpassed

Pile up a bunch of TNT up against the door and blow it up.

I hate these threads because they're exactly the same every single time.

LET'S GATEKEEP!!!

ok how

...

how?

y'know... be toxic online or smt?

how does that prevent people from buying massively marketed "product" where they pay streamers to shill their shit

... YAKUZA IS RUINED REEE I SHOULD'VE GATEKEPT HARDER REEE

Gate kept out of something is something that only happens if you let it happen.

I'm silly but this time is accurate.

Anon Babble should not be talking about gatekeeping, as judging from the absolute state of the board Anon Babble knows nothing about gatekeeping

There is no fucking gate to keep you idiots

The only people who dislike gatekeeping are people being kept at the gate

you retards say this shit every thread but never answer this

/thread kek

It's kind of weird how much people on this website like to pretend that they are doing anything remotely meaningful with the time they spend shitposting here. I'm not sure if it's a symptom of something greater or if the modern Anon Babble userbase really is so pathetically lacking in self-awareness.

Pretend to be delivering pizza

Reminder OUR HERO, the PRINCE was able to EVISCERATE Door-Kun in a single blast.

If people are trying to get into a community and that community actively makes them uncomfortable then what the IP holder is doing is completely pointless.

The fact that appeal to the mainstream is even a feasible business model for previously niche franchises is the result of failing to gatekeep. It's also the result of piracy, but Anon Babble isn't ready for that redpill yet.

Refer to for more information about why your idea of gatekeeping anything is a fantasy.

Any examples of this happening? Persona 5 having so much porn didn't gatekeep zoomers who would cry and call anything slightly appealing "gooner shit", they invaded and took over the community anyway.

Hey Nulybro

Lol how the fuck was Anon Babble going to gatekeep a game as immensely popular as Persona 5? Do anons seriously think this website is the entire world? 1/20 people don't even know what the fuck Anon Babble is-- just that they've heard of it and that it's a website with a nasty reputation.

I'd break it the same way Tien did.

True but it is largely unnecessary
The best games and fandoms will naturally filter normies out on their own.

Gatekeeping is actually really easy. Like 90% of Japanese media is gatekept because all anyone cares about is anime, and even then mostly shonen.

As for games, I'd personally argue that everything release on the NES is gatekept now. It used to not be the case but time has treated it well and now a lot of retro stuff is unapproachable to normalfags, even with easy emulation and Switch Online they get filtered.

Have you tried asking nicely?

Gatekeeping is actually really easy

why didn't you gatekeep Anon Babble, anon

All the P5 spinoffs including the anime are gatekept. Same with Arena and to a lesser extent Q.

the truth is only games that aren't normalfag friendly can be gatekept but Anon Babble is not ready for that conversation and will swear it was thanks to them

Anon Babble is containment
it is full of the most retarded assmad "gamers" (no one on here actually plays videogames) on the planet. Any sensible person would look at this place and steer clear for the rest of their lives.

Anon Babble is the crown example of how to gatekeep

Anon Babble was never meant to be gatekept, it's a dumping grounds. There are games that release every month which anons corral around and avoid shitposts, but you have to actively search for them. Otherwise it's just a matter of waiting for someone to make a thread that invites community participation.

Really, Anon Babble is overall gatekept. This is a hobby website, and barring a handful of boards people know how to be civil and stay in their lane. Anon Babble's splinter boards were unnecessary but if you are interested in the sort of thing they individually offer you're mostly safe. Likewise, generals all across the site offer a niche and stable, if at times circlejerky experience.

Even on the most active boards you'll find small groups of anons bunkered up in their fun zones where they know people won't fuck with them.

homestuck was trannycoded from the outset and has the fanbase it deserves

Tien?

TANKED that, btw

What on earth are you talking about? How the hell were they "gatekept"? They're just spinoffs that no one cares about except hardcore fans.

And, no, "normies" ignoring a game entirely is not the same thing as it being gatekept. The game was literally not designed with them in mind to begin with.

Anon Babble > Anon Babble

Using the reddit frog

Considering all it would take to improve Anon Babble is to ban several third-world IPs there isn't much that can be done.

I am inclined to disagree. Anon Babble is not for otaku, it's just idolslop and Touhou spam. If you want to discuss Japanese culture there you're outnumbered by coomers and retards, both of whom think posting their entire image folder on a daily basis counts for a personality.

I will reiterate this: Threads about Japanese stuff that aren't centered around mid women or a shmup no one actually plays get zero traction on Anon Babble. The admins are aware of this and will ban you if you point it out.

Based, this guy gets it.

Still, I can't help getting annoyed by the audacity of the retards on Anon Babble when threads like this get made and anons take it completely seriously. Anons believing that they're part of something that is constructive or powerful by posting here is just so goddamn pitiful that I get triggered by it.

impregnable

Plap plap plap plap plap.

fuck your door

I don't know what to tell you anon other than that we probably have differing definitions of what the term really means. Nothing wrong with that though, it's hard to really codify.

Gatekeeping doesn't work if the gatekept audience actively looks to be mad, they will stay and shit on the floor

Dragon ball is the prime example that shows should be as silly as possible (while also taking themselves seriously)

Yes, very little infighting too, everyone's busy contemplating all the fresh cunny that artists like dorontabi and CHILD pump out.

The admins are aware of this and will ban you if you point it out.

Reminds me of when I first started browsing Anon Babble a few years ago and made a thread about how much I was loving Violet Evergarden, only to have it pruned after getting shit on for starting a flamewar or something lmao. I guess it had become a meme on the board at the time, but for some reason I was genuinely hurt by my sincere desire to discuss it by other anime enthusiasts utterly shut down for no explicable reason.

I fucking hate people who handle their authority so irresponsibly, but I guess some admins would just rather not have anyone stir the pot no matter how right they may be. It's an lazy strategy on their part since eventually they're going to have to deal with it one way or another when they realize that being hypocrites is an unsustainable moderation tactic, but I guess it is what it is.

You didn't gatekeep Elder Scrolls and now it's a generic action-adventure series.

You didn't gatekeep Diablo and now it's a braindead jingling key simulator.

You didn't gatekeep CoD and now Nicki Minaj is in it.

You didn't gatekeep -insert fighting game here- and now the community is run by petty rulefags who piss themselves over minor trash talk.

There's something you're not gatekeeping right fucking now and it's gonna cost you. You aren't being autistic enough.

the STRONGEST humans couldn't break down a metal door

ningen bros...

more proof that the average person can't gatekeep shit, you need power or actual support from the thing you wanna gatekeep (for example: ) or else it will be all impotent rage

Yosemite Sam > every DBZ human

KWAB

hard to really codify

I don't know about that. It's an active measure to prevent undesirable entities from shitting up a community. I highly doubt the devs made the game with gatekeeping in mind. They likely made it with the Persona audience in mind, not gamers at large. That doesn't mean they "gatekept" it, that means they understood the audience they were hoping to attract.

Anon Babble isn't doing anything to prevent undesirables from playing the game because undesirables couldn't give a shit about the game to begin with. I can't see how you can consider that to be gatekeeping.

Those gates are wide open, it's just that normalfags don't care about those games anon.

for example:

what did that game do to support the gatekeeping?

w-we didn't get gatekept, we just didn't care

sour grapes, you lost

Anon Babble be like: gatekeeping is le heckin based and le readpillederino

also Anon Babble: makes hourly threads pissing and shitting themselves over being banned from games

You didn't gatekeep Elder Scrolls and now it's a generic action-adventure series.

It was always a genric action-adventure series even before tard howard took over.

You didn't gatekeep Diablo and now it's a braindead jingling key simulator.

As if it wasn't before? Diablo's gameplay didn't get any simpler. It just got heavily monetized to the point that it isn't even worth buying.

You didn't gatekeep CoD and now Nicki Minaj is in it.

Was always the bottom of the barrel shooter slop

You didn't gatekeep -insert fighting game here- and now the community is run by petty rulefags who piss themselves over minor trash talk.

Didn't DSP get his start over this shit? How far back do you want to go because there were always rulefags ever since tournaments existed for fighting games.

Don't you fags have daily threads seething about how fighting games are too hard?

No but daily threads about how guilty gear's bridget gatekept them.

he thinks being a keyboard warrior will keep people away from his toys

I hate normalfags too, but don't act like pissing in the wind means anything.

Yeah, more proof that only IP holders can actually gatekeep people.

Acting like Call of Duty was some super niche shooter that deserved any gatekeeping and wasn't the most normie shit ever

for fucks sake, Call of Duty 2 was being played in an episode of The Office

It's just a symptom of being terminally-online. Once your whole world starts to revolve around it, it's kind of hard to remember your place.

during the androids saga, Tien/Krillin/Vegeta/Trunks are trying to stop Gero before he can activate 17 and 18. he's got a big blast door preventing them from getting in. Krillin and Tien stupidly try and push it open which wastes enough time for Gero to activate the androids.

It's a fools errand that turns men who try to engage in it mad.
If you wanna protect your thing from progressivism you're gonna have to work to fight the progressive movement as a whole.

Actually that is the original Call of Duty but my point still stands. It was always normie shit

This. While Anon Babbletards were crying and pissing their pants, the people they wanted to gatekeep so much actually got jobs in the industry. This is why we get daily thread about how localizers ruined their niche rpg or titty gacha.

Feel like people on Anon Babble are desperate to pretend mainstream and popular things are actually niche so that they're special.

It was gatekept by a diehard fanbase who supported the product they desired. The audience drives the market, not the other way around.

I would just simply be powerful enough to break through the doorway, obviously.
Anyone with a different plan needs to redouble their training.

Even a game like Fear and Hunger couldn't be gatekept.

It wasn't niche. But at one point it had a consistent military aesthetic and a fanbase of dudebros. Those dudebros didn't gatekeep.

Now you can play as Snoop Dogg and kill a man with unicorn farts

why didn't that work with Monster Hunter? seems like veterans are the ones getting gatekept

people talking about cawadooty as if it was some kind of obscure niche series

This is what happens when you don't gatekeep Anon Babble.

I need to make up things to get mad at

What exactly was the fanbase doing to gatekeep Monster Hunter besides shitposting on Anon Babble?

it is, was, and always will be retarded slop and if you actually are upset that retarded slop got worse then you are either a normie for enjoying it or are getting upset over nothing.

Being mad on 4tran isn't real gatekeeping.

what do you expect them to do exactly? being annoying online and supporting the product they desired didn't work

there really isn't. but sadly, it's actually really fucking hard to do and it is in the hands of the devs more than the gamers. and the devs typically want to do the opposite of gatekeeping.

being annoying online and supporting the product they desired didn't work

No shit, that's the entire point of what we're getting at. This idea of "gatekeeping" is a total fucking delusion made by lazy retards whose lives have so little meaning that their survival instinct kicked in and caused them to fabricate a narrative that gives them the illusion of purpose.

This website is practically an echo chamber. Sitting around posting angry thoughts to other angry people who already agree with you to begin with and then acting like you're somehow playing a significant part in the future of the franchise is nothing short of pathetic.

you have never played COD 1, 2, WaW, or MW1

what the fuck does this even mean

normalfags were gatekept because... fans bought the games?

you dumbasses that keep talking about gatekeeping something that cant be gatekept gave trannies ideas.
Now every community is hijacked by trannies banning everyone and everything because trannies believe they are gatekeeping chuds from their own communities.

Damn sounds like chudcels are losers.

Violet Evergarden

i've put this show off for 7 years somehow. is it as good as most people say or hype?