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BBC News asking the real questions

I came in here thinking this was a Riff-Raff thread posted in the wrong section. Just seeing the video link, I wish I were right.

This video is… ooh man, okay, okay. What the fuck? I think this screenshot sums up the video pretty well:

BBC has been really retarded when it comes to covering news regarding Otaku culture in general. /a/ just loves to make fun of them every time BBC tries to do any of this shit.

Wonder what a latino based station would say.

WAIT!?
Isn't everyone from Glasgow autistic?

My expectations were high and that video absolutely delivered.

BBC Journalist 1: Why would you link autism with anime and manga.

BBC Journalist 2: Because 4chan told me so.

4chan IS where I found this video.

Also, no one going to point out "pikachew"?

>autistic people love anime
>autistic people love know your meme
>autistic people love Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich
>autistic people love encyclopedia dramatica

Boy, ED sure is going to have a field day when they see this video even it was uploaded not too long ago…

Whatever you prefer is okay by me as long as you don't create this as some sort of stereotype. It's like saying "why do Jews are all greedy?"

Here's a video about a bright young man discussing why not all autistics love anime?

All I can think about when I see that is a Pokemon branded can of chewing tobacco.

The BBC has no idea what they are doing when they talk about the internet. I thought this was a joke at first.

This company does not run ads and is funded by the British taxpayer.

Just throwing that out there.

Also yes they're very internet un-savvy.

Didn't BBC fire half their staff once because they're white and they needed more "diversity?"

Is nobody going to talk about how the guys who did the subtitles called Pikachu 'Pikachew'?

Isn't BBC News for stuff like… you know, world news and other stuff like that and not stuff such as this? To be honest, I'm pretty sure that people who have Autism and like Anime and Manga is not the kind of stuff you would find on major news outlets.

Is this documentary material? yes
Is this news material? No

For a minute there, I thought this thread was a misplaced Riff-Raff thread due to the title.

Yes.

Why do people really love manga?

Because anime tiddies.

BTW, BBC are sinking himself in a black hole of bad periodism since a long time. I'm not surprised about this kind of shitty coverage about nonsense stuff.

You know, I was about to give a long, detailed analysis about how, because manga is a visual medium that often stretches over a large multi-year period of time, and doesn't have a lot of variation via retcons, reboots, and different artist in the same way western comics do, that it makes it great for a person with a large focus on task completition to tear through the whole story.

But then I saw the video, and I have to wonder, "the fuck were they thinking?"

Anime = Autism

Anime and Autism both start with A

/a/ is full of anime and autism

illuminopoly confirmed

This has the same levels of bad as Who is this 4Chan guy?

I know this is a weird thing to get caught up on, but the host pronounced Nguyen as "new-jin" instead of "win." Pretty sure that's wrong.