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This video is easily Digibro at his worst. He made no attempt to analyze the characters and themes, and instead he just ranted about singular problems and issues without context or explanation. He made a passing surface reading and even claimed that this anime only can be viewed with a passing surface reading. I wish he would have scrolled down to my positive review of FLCL Progressive because then maybe he could have seen their are deeper things going on in Progressive. The peak Digibro in this video is that he had the audacity to claim that he knows what FLCL is better than the people in Japan who made Progressive. The great irony is that the evidence he provides to support that claim shows there are considerable gaps in his knowledge. FLCL is a franchise; both novels and a manga were created to support and expand the anime and both made their way to English. FLCL becomes more complicated when you recognize that the characters are better in the novels, the themes are better in the manga, and the presentation is better in the anime. FLCL Progressive is clearly an anime where the creators loved all three just as much as Digibro loves the anime.

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I do agree with Digibro that the anime was a mess, and ultimately failed in what it was trying to do. What I do want to point out is that FLCL Progressive is one of the most authentic attempts to move anime forward I have seen in a while, and I personally appreciate the effort. There were some really cool ideas in it that that should be recognized, with the hope that creators will learn from this and do better in the future.

I found these ones that are exactly the same on Ebay, but they're used and there's only three days or so left on the auction. Bonus: Looks like the same carpet as Digibro's old house. 99% chance just a coincidence, but that 1% means you might be buying the actual pants from the video.

I also found something pretty close. It's the Gen 1 starters, but there's no black background and it's uniform all over instead of having big pictures of them on the left leg. In my opinion it looks a little better.

I also found this one that's a little bit closer, but it's all the Eeveelutions instead of the starters and still isn't different on the left leg.

There's a lot of research available in regards to the kinds of accusations you present at the start; online sociology and psychology has a field day with any behavioral patterns online.

This issue of being put into a group is largely due to an aspect of what's called the 'Online Disinhibition Effect', where interaction through the medium of the net makes people less inhibited against certain behaviours, in 'benign' or 'toxic' ways. The relevant aspect to this subject is what J. Suler calls 'Solipsistic Introjection' (bear with me on these long-ass words). In short, Solipsistic Introjection is the phenomenon of how what people read online is processed into a kind of narrative. What they read or even hear is ascribed a kind of voice from their mind, and that voice is simplified into a role they see what they read or hear filling. This person is the 'feminist', this one the 'SJW'. This one the 'hipster'. And those roles are framed in a narrative that the person likes to facilitate online; they like to see the 'SJW' get criticized by the 'anti-SJW' in a good guy/bad guy dynamic. They love seeing the 'postmodernist' get argue against by what they think of as the 'rational human being'. And so on.

This ties into how Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize-winning recent work on how our brains make decisions. He argues there are two 'systems' of thought; that the first is 'fast' and runs on instinct, while the second is slow and skeptical. The fact we have so many people who will rush to rally under one side of a mental narrative of 'the people vs the Digibro' is likely due to a lot of thee people running on the instinctive 'system 1' of their brain. Those who operate on the slower 'system 2' have no part in Suler's 'Solipsistic Introjection', and are actually trying to listen to what you have to say.

I think the latter group are your viewerbase, and the former can be ignored for how they will regularly, inevitably come into error because they replace the complex question of 'does Digibro have a point' with 'do I like what he's saying' or 'do I like how he sounds'.

Just some scholarly stuff to put in the background of this issue.