#but even then most people are like ''i've seen a bunch of muscly men in technicolor'' or ''i knew i was in for a multi-generational story'' | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

haarute · 1 year

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i feel weird being like a hardcore jojo fan who actually didn't get introduced to it because of memes at all because i just had a friend recommended it to me and i read it without knowing anything, and this was before the stardust crusaders anime blew up. so the fact that the common experience for jojo fans is now "oh you saw a weird funny meme and wanted to know what's up same bro" is still a bit alien to me because i just Grew into making memes about it after the fact, but never saw them as a way into the franchise despite that now being the reputation it upholds

#sorry that video i reblogged got me thinking about this.#even going backwards in time people were memeing the jojo capcom game in flash animations in the early 00s #so even Then it was common for memes to be your way in. but i just. missed all that.#i read everything in jojo being COMPLETELY blind. i didn't even think it was super weirdly funny until later #because jojo plays itself with SUCH honesty and every monologue in the manga is a panel rather than a time-freezing 30 seconds of animation #with a voice actor (usually koyasu) going fucking ham or whatever.#so the jojo that exists now for most people is not the same experience that i had back then. which feels. odd.#and i'm just honestly really curious as to what that experience is like #which is why i think i'm just really into watching videos and listening to podcasts of people getting into jojo now #it's fun to hear their thoughts!#but even then most people are like ''i've seen a bunch of muscly men in technicolor'' or ''i knew i was in for a multi-generational story''#i didn't!! i watched the page of [REDACTED] dying in phantom blood and it fucked me up!!

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