This is not it

I don’t have a clear idea of what I want to do with lolitron. I don’t know if I ever had one.

Back in the days, after being banned for the nth time on 4chan for flooding /c/ with slightly risqué loli pictures on a daily basis, lolitron gradually became the outlet where I would say the most inappropriate things possible in the hopes of being flamed.

During that period, anime blogging really began to take off. Most people wrote summaries or in-depth analyses of individual episodes. I never really understood the point of summaries or in-depth analyses. Instead, I tried to pair out of context one-liners with screencaps. The result was, admittedly, often not clever or witty at all, but it was my shtick – that and the creepiness.

In the end, the old paradigm of episodic blogging is what held me back and eventually led to the downfall of lolitron. (more…)