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catbot158
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Laugh it off, repress it into the furthest part of your memory...you know.
It's not like I know from experience, anyway. It's not like I asked Greg Ayres a really inappropriate question for a friend and didn't realize how inappropriate it was until it was too late... 
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Vaisaga
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This answer really only needed to be 3 words long:
"People are stupid." |
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Snakebit1995
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Yeah I really wanted to open the article and get a blunt direct answer. I mean it's so obvious, people are dumb, half the time if I'm listening to a panel anime related, video game related, YouTube related to otherwise I'm inclined to have my finger on the fast forward button to just skip the crying or inappropriate questions. Not to mention some of the worst panels ever where kids ask the questions and proceed to ask the same one over and over, a question that's been answered in the past or the worst of them all "Can you sign this or take a picture". There's almost always a meet up or chance to see someone, don't waste peoples time asking that at a panel. |
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
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I agree with the previously stated reason, but I'll bring up another one: people put celebrities on too high a pedestal. Far too high. That is *why* they get so tongue-tied, desperate, or otherwise flustered. It's not enough to simply respect their acting skills or whatever it is that makes them a celebrity, they then have to go on and turn them into these superhuman creatures that exist to be worshipped by such lowly beings as ourselves.
Just stop it. They're just people, probably very talented people, but they're still people. Treat them with respect, but not reverence. Maybe it's because I don't revere anyone living that I just don't "get it", but to me, seeing people act that way, or even think of other people that way, is just... it seems like warped thinking, which can blossom into hysteria. |
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GATSU
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In the few cases I went there, I was just trying to be funny, but not personal like that.
Anwyay...
To be honest, I know people who might've known him, and I've had to openly confide to them that I've said Tokyo Godfathers was my least favorite work of his. But at least he got people to attend his Q&A. I remember the one in L.A. at the AFI Fest-when the ticketing system didn't suck-where people walked out, just as he was getting on stage.
At an Ikuhara Q&A at AX 2002, some female fan walked up to him, and asked when we were gonna get the second season, after admitting she had seen it fansubbed. |
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Cutiebunny
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I honestly miss the marriage proposals that various men used to throw out at Japanese guest panels at Anime Expo. You knew they'd be shot down and you'd wonder why they'd bother...to say that they at least tried? It's like the people who wear the "Looking for a Japanese boyfriend/girlfriend" shirt at conventions. While there are many that wear it as a joke (I have a good friend that wears that shirt only during autograph sessions for cute seiyuu), I often wonder how many are seriously thinking it'll work for them.
I'd like to submit another answer. People often do dumb things around celebrities if they think there's even a .0001% chance they'll benefit (financially, sexually, etc.) from doing so. Several years ago while at AX, I overheard a conversation where one male friend remarked how happy a seiyuu looked, and the other guy responded with "She should be. I gave her a tennis bracelet." I just can't even begin with this one. Did he honestly think that she'd want to contact him and elope after receiving such a gift? Add to that that many people who attend conventions are socially awkward, and it's just a perfect storm for socially inappropriate behavior. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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To sum up the entire explanation: Some people can be total miscreants and ruin the party with distasteful thoughts.
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Emma Iveli
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Hey it's not just cons, people sometimes ask about characters' private parts in the SBS (One Piece Q&A for those unfamiliar). They seem to be pretty common too... One of the answers did show up in canon (Does Luffy's stretch too?) but yeah, people are stupid like that.
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
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Was it Justin who also previously recalled a Japanese guest being roped into diagnosing a fan's DVD player problems at a panel?
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TheMorry
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This serious request about getting an answer is as dumb as those dumb questions.
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Asrialys
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Ugh. I remember a Japanese voice actress panel where someone brought up some hentai an actress did under an alias. Seriously, dude?
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supersqueak
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Yeah I agree a lot of these people probably just didn't think it all through. I think its easy to just assume that this person is an idiot or a jerk all the time but I agree the adrenaline rush is probably a big part of it and I am sure that not all of these people are con going regulars so they don't realize that what they are asking or doing is stupid, inappropriate or unoriginal. If they have any sense of shame they are probably internally cringing every time they think about it. I am not speaking from experience or anything like that.
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ultimatehaki
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I can't remember the comedian who said this (I think it Daniel Tosh) but
"Some people suck" |
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HeeroTX
Posts: 2046 Location: Austin, TX |
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I actually think this mindset is part of the problem. I agree that hearing the 100th iteration of "how do I get into voice acting/animation/comics/etc" sucks, but really PART of the reason fans are interested in these people is they have a job that fans think they want and so they're naturally curious. I think it's disappointing really, how many people make a point of denigrating those fans. (including sometimes the guests themselves) So instead of asking the "obvious" question, fans try to think of something "unusual" or "interesting" or "obscure" to ask because asking "how was it to voice (insert most popular character here)?" is gonna get you an eye-roll and probably a bunch of groans. Do I personally wanna hear the 20th iteration of how "every character I've ever voiced is my favorite, I can't pick just ONE"? No, of course not. But to the person asking, that may be their first time ever attending a convention, or likely their first time meeting X even though they've been to 50 other conventions and probably the one they're currently at, 5 times previously. It'd be better for people to just accept "here's the 10 canned question/answers I'm ALWAYS going to get" and then prepare for "here's the 5 items related to my new work that I hope people are interested in" and be happy you HAVE fans rather than complaining about how 99 out of your 100 fans all have the SAME questions. |
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xchampion
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It's because a lot of these people are socially awkward and don't know how to communicate normally within society. Yes some are just stupid and trying to be that guy. I go to a lot of convention's and I run into this a lot of the time and from my experience it's just because they don't know any better.
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