Seeing Jersh and the Kiwis having a massive hate boner for anime, you'd think he would embrace it to promote Kiwi Farms. So here's some culture war lore I'm going to drop here.
Back in the 1980's, Punk Rock was the rage with young people (Gen X) back in the day. The Hippie movement was fading away, flower power became cringe by the 1980's. But here comes a new youth movement called Punk Rock; it was edgy, offensive, and pissed off a lot of retards back in the day (leather jackets, leather boots, body piercings, tattoos, and dyed hair was the style for the rebellious youth back in the day). The 1980's is where bands like Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, Green Day, Sex Pistols, the Misfits, and others of the like would get their start here.
Truth be told, Punk Rock as a music genre is a big tent genre because punk rock artists can adopt a wide range of political ideologies (which range from being libertarian to being liberal because Punk Rock put a heavy emphasis on individualism). But there was one section of the Punk Rock community that was different from the rest, the white supremacists.
The 1980's would see a revival of white supremacy in America because a lot of younger white supremacists really liked Punk Rock and they saw it as a way to express their beliefs. White supremacy was on its death bed because groups like the Ku Klux Klan had far too much baggage attached to them which made white supremacy a really unpopular idea. But then comes these young white people being into Punk while also reading Mein Kampf and these younger white supremacists saw Punk as a way to promote their cause. Far-right groups like the Ku Klux Klax were hesitant at first (because the KKK and other far-right groups saw Punk as degenerate) but if Punk could get people to join the far-right, the older generations of far-right extremists were willing to tolerate the degenerate aspects of Punk Rock if it lead to more white people joining the far-right. Punk Rock saved America's Far-Right from the brink of extinction.
Which brings me to now. It's clear that Anime and Manga are no longer these niche forms of foreign entertainment anymore, they have become very popular within the Western world. But if you remember the Kirche collab with Metokur, she commended how the anime community has always been pretty edgy and if we're talking politics, the anime community has always been pretty center-right to right-leaning; she is completely right in this observation.
If you go on social media right now and you look at how the anime communities there are like; with the exception of leftist shitholes like Reddit or Tiktok, much of the anime community is edgy, offensive, and leans more towards the Right on the political spectrum (especially these days with Leftoids trying to subvert Japanese pop culture content).
One of my observations that I see on social media is seeing edgy weebs use cute anime characters to express some really spicy right-wing political views (think Moon Man levels of edgy). Part of the reason why the online anime community hasn't been fully subverted by Leftoids (or by other authoritarians seeking dominance) is because of how edgy the anime community is; especially considering that origins of the online anime community as we know it can be traced back to 4chan culture when 4chan was new.
Anime and Manga is the new Punk Rock. Even some far-right groups on the Internet (like some people on the Dissident Right) are taking advantage of this because much like how Punk Rock recruited more people into the far-right, they realize that they can use Japanese pop culture to recruit more people into the far-right and some of the people on the Dissident Right are willing to tolerate some of the more degenerate aspects of Japanese pop culture (Yaoi, Yuri, Harem, Lolicon, and Shotacon) if it means they can steer people into the hands of the Right, much like how the KKK tolerated some of the really edgy and degenerate aspects of Punk Rock to get more people to join them.
This is what I find laughable about Jersh's hate bonor for Japanese pop culture. Jersh has made an enemy of the anime community where most in the anime fandom won't join Kiwi Farms on the count that the anime fandom is simply not welcomed there. It's no surprise that the anime fandom will be attrached more to people like Pippa or Kirsche because they're as edgy as Jersh but without being hostile towards the anime community. Jersh's hostility towards the anime fandom has costed him a lot of potential new members because him being irrationally angry against anime has made him more alone. If someone wants to learn more about today's lolcows and they just so happen to like anime then they're going to watch edgy vtubers like Pippa or Kirche and they're never going to go on Kiwi Farms for this. Anime and Manga are the new Punk Rock and Jersh is too retarded to capitalize on this in order for Kiwi Farms to grow.