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People TwitterYou can't both call it niche and also say the whole world is watching.
In my experience, everyone has been aware of hentai since 1995. What’s less popularly understood is non-pornographic anime and manga. This is proven by the many times in my life someone has taken one glance at my screen and asked “Are you looking at porn?” Yep, I’m watching tentacle hentai right in the middle of this Wendy’s.
Niche? What year is it 1995?
AOL didn’t censor hentai way back when I was an “Early Teen”. Ahh, those were the days. Hentai and scrambled porn.
Hentai isn't anywhere as niche as it used to be. I'd guess most millennials are aware of it.
Aware of it? We pioneered it!
Too true. I still remember the girls in Japanese/anime club in High School using Japanese words to openly talk about their yaoi hentai obsessions as if no one knew what they were saying.
Reading fanfics on Livejournal and Xanga, posting photos to tumbler and Photobucket.
Just cuz we know about it doesn't mean it ain't niche..
And quartz, of course
Niche porn?
What?
Nope, never heard of it, not at all, ever, I swear.
They knew. They very much knew.
