I started Anime Motivation in 2016. That same year I decided to dominate Quora as a social media platform (questions and answers, but still).
With my plan implemented for platforms like Pinterest, in which I built the largest anime account for until they censor it and shut it down, I started writing answers every day on Quora.
- How strong is Dangai Ichigo? Bleach?
- What would happen if Goten was never born?
- Is anime for pedophiles?
- Why are anime trash?
- Why are their few black anime characters in the anime?
- Anime white characters?
- What is a loli?
No matter how stupid or triggering the questions were all along or over time, I was just answering them knowing that it would pay dividends down the line in terms of definition and promotion, consolidating the “Anime Motivation” name, etc.
I also used my sarcastic personality to go viral (unintentionally) and that’s what triggered the account to gain a huge amount of traction.
Remember, we’re talking about a platform that few people use compared to others at that time (even today), and a platform where anime was small compared to 2024.
Today, he is followed by millions of people Quora, but at the time, only 50,000 or 80,000 people followed anime topics.
I answered questions so often that I even had a question about it.
See:
With a lot of consistency and giving people what they wanted, people wanted to know more and more about the person behind the account, why it’s behind a logo, essentially, why they post so much, etc.
And that leads to virality, starting with that from what I understand.
Comments started pouring in, and I went from 30 followers to dozens and dozens, then hundreds overnight.
This point happened in 2017, which then created a whole bunch of shit in 2018 and beyond.
Questions poured in (examples)
When people start asking you what you do and why you do it, and:
- How you started.
- How you came up with this name.
- And why you were banned.
You know you’re doing something right.
And I was.
He was too much directly from Quorale’s point of view.
A group of sensitive people, you know what’s in Quora started having problems with my plus politically incorrect answers on their platform. This became evident when we see what happens later.
This was a personal attack that I was able to verify behind closed doors.
Being invited as part of a “search” in the anime community
Finding more relevant images or information is more difficult than it seems, but this image is sufficient and what’s more, it was private, so I prefer to show only what is necessary to make a point.
After gaining so much ground and surpassing other “accounts” on Quora in the anime space that had been around for a while, Quora couldn’t ignore the pull because it was becoming millions of views (it happened very quickly).
It officially became the most viewed anime account of all time on Quora, which will exceed 100 million views in 2024 (lots of anime on this one account platform).
Now comes the Quora of censorship
The censorship was so bad that fans made it a meme
And death threats + troll questions
Now, even if it seems out of context to someone who doesn’t understand Quora, fans on the platform know exactly what happened.
Also, Quora has a “report” button to simplify things. Some trolls may be misreporting the problem. account, which results in censorship, much like YouTube strikes for copyright infringement.
Or Quora se right after interviewing me would start censoring my content in the 100s and 1000s.
They even deleted it an entire blog and erased him from existence.
They did this twice, and these blogs (when Quora blog (that was one thing) were extremely popular and influential.
- I was writing a response about Pokémon, and a year later they deleted it for “violating their policy”.
- I would write about Elon Musk, shown in the screenshots, and they would claim that the images “violate” their policies.
- I would write about Goku vs Vegeta, and they would say I promote explicit content.
I even shared my opinion on their platform, without sounding like a madman, and they told me that I was breaking their “be kind and respectful” policy. Which means “politically incorrect content” and all too true.
I wasn’t the only one to say these things. It’s just that I wasn’t spared when I did it, and I never understood how popularity could have triggered this wave of daily censorship and on occasion, weekly censorship rather than daily.
Quora’s team hates and silently monitors my account
Call it one whistleblower situation. I knew someone, and he happened to be talking with Quora during this “interview” phase. I wasn’t the only one invited.
When my name was brought up in conversation, Quora implied the employee’s reaction (and wording) to me them and several employees had a specific problem for some reason.
I would have liked to take a screenshot at that time but The founder of Quora the account followed during this phase of censorship which lasted a few years at worst.
But that same day, the founder stopped following the account, and I wondered why he would do it in the first place, which is suspicious to say the least.
He might have discovered the existence of account, the website, and myself, and the, then when he heard about what was causing “them” problems personally, he unsubscribed from the account.
Speculation, but I can’t say anything else.
One thing is certain: Quora deleted thousands of posts, and blogs, and made it difficult to post on Quora with excessive shadow banning, censorship, content removal, apologies, gaslighting, suspensions and everything except banning the account entirely.
Which I nonchalantly told them to do if they had a fucking problem with what I had to say, what I stand for, or whatever the problem wasn’t hurting anyone (on the contrary).
A wave of my followers sent me a Quora email in bulk, and the number of followers continued to increase even during censorship.
I feel angry like that Quora even more and they hammered even harder while all the other “little” anime accounts, some who said stupid things, were allowed to steal, scam, republish, repackage and continue to respond to questions without interruption.
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Despite the bullshit, the account continued and continued to gain millions of views
It’s not the views actually, it was the process, the bullshit, and going against Goliath like David and always “winning” despite Quora desperately doing everything they could to strangely break my mind.
And for a relatively small platform like Quora (compared to other social networks or similar), that’s an impressive number for a small anime account that turned out to be the largest in its class.
Benefits of Quora as an anime platform:
- Although trolling exists on the platform, there is less compared to other platforms.
- Some questions are solid.
- There’s a ton of content if you’re an anime fan.
- You can learn a lot about many anime topics because there are legitimate sources if he writes in-depth content.
- Compared to 2016, 2017 and 2018, there are now many content creators, which is good for readers.
Besides that, if we talk business performance or create a profile, QuoraIt is no longer the platform for this as before.
Censorship in the anime community, who started with my account, is excessive in 2024 and happens to many anime accounts. Even those who are not “big” in the context of Quora.
Quora has become more like Reddit in the wrong way, but there’s always an advantage if you’re just looking Anime. content or memes.
References:
I’m at war with Quora, and there are only 2 ways to solve it
The reality of “social networks” like Quora
