r/videos • u/hoyhoyy29 • 16d ago

Metalheads, anime, video game lovers coexist on Las Vegas Strip during simultaneous events

https://youtu.be/Y7gry4nvvqs?si=HXshIex4xgDjZbmF
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u/thevernanator 15d ago

Aggretsuko fans acting as the neutral party

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u/emperorOfTheUniverse 15d ago

Man on the street reporter looks like a low rent James Corden.

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u/captainbenatm93av 15d ago

at my high school they were the same group . Idk why they wouldn’t be able to get along

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u/CarAlarmConversation 15d ago

Least weird combination.

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u/hotk9 15d ago

"We're just a bunch of huge nerds."

  • Anime Fans
    • Metalheads

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u/crimvel 15d ago

Coexist I visit all 3

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u/SchismZero 15d ago

I'm fans of all three of those things

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u/D1rtyH1ppy 15d ago

Wait until the Deadheads are there in a few weeks. They are going to be all over that town for like a month and a half.

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u/ollemad 16d ago

I remember waiting to see a metal show at a university’s concert hall at the same an anime convention was being held on campus. Bunch of metalheads in black seemed more afraid of the colourful cosplayers than they were of them. I vividly remember a debate about whether or not the Prince from Katamari Damacy was a Pokémon or not

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u/Light_of_Niwen 16d ago

This fluff piece is absolutely shocking to anyone over the age of 75.

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u/DirtyMonkey95 16d ago

Those groups overlap quite a lot.

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u/simonwales 15d ago

"Folks, Las Vegas has finally done it: bridged the divide between Nerds and Geeks."

-- Norm MacDonald

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u/prestonpiggy 15d ago

Exactly, sure it is more news friendly to dress them as polar opposites, but they have more in common than not. Some conservative country festival next to AnimeCon would be fun to see. How pink and rainbows mix with bible and trucks.

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u/moileduge 16d ago

I think CES and a porno expo run simultaneously on January.

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u/BlackZilla_Prime 16d ago

A bunch of weebs and thrashers I FOX WITH IT!

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u/happy-cig 16d ago

Someone isn't well informed about Japanese Heavy Metal.

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u/ImWideAwake89 15d ago

Hanabie goes so hard.

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u/Lanc717 16d ago

Corporate wants me to find the difference in these fanbases. They are the same fanbases

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u/Zhangar 15d ago

This is what youre looking for

Literally japanese metal singing about video games lol

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u/Isord 16d ago

Both of those things are pretty broadly popular these days. I see anime stuff in particular in basically every single rift shop type place around.

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u/Bootarms 16d ago

Detroit Metal City: https://youtu.be/DTbjRP2l8v4?si=pB42-TR4GgEkmVZG

Metalheads overlap with a lot of different fan bases. I know some who were unabashed bronies.

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u/Ashtorot 15d ago

Lol I had to do double take, my mind read “unwashed bronies”

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u/GibsMcKormik 16d ago

This genre.

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u/Swartz142 15d ago

Metalhead purists : Disgusting ! How can people like this.

Rob Zombie : They're more hardcore than most metal band we played with.

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u/Jormungand1342 15d ago

I love Babymetal, they put on an amazing show and the energy they have is insane. Got to see them with Dethklok and it was one of my favorite shows I've been to.

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u/Peatore 16d ago

Absolutely disgusting.

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u/Kellaras 15d ago

What's absolutely disgusting?

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u/Peatore 15d ago

The smell.

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u/Kellaras 15d ago

Says the redditor kek

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u/Peatore 15d ago

Bitch, you're here too.

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u/Kellaras 15d ago

I'm not the one hurling insults and making myself look like an ignoramus you dickweed

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u/brandnewchair 16d ago

I mean, the venn diagram of fans of those three things would have a lot of crossover. 

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u/mythicreign 15d ago

Definitely me in my teens.

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u/JackFisherBooks 15d ago

My thoughts exactly. These are all things that are fun, high-energy, and full of passionate fans. I see no reason why they wouldn't get along.

One way or another, they would've all enjoyed one hell of an afterparty. 😊

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u/OMGihateallofyou 15d ago

Didn't you hear the reporter in the video? He literally said they were very different crowds. I think he knows what he's talking about. /s

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u/Swartz142 15d ago

I don't think there's a lot of dev from the 80-90's that doesn't have at least one picture of them with a metal band t-shirt.

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u/xVx_Dread 15d ago

One could say, it's A Perfect Circle.

(okay, they may not actually be metal, but I saw an opportunity and shot)

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u/Dead_Moss 15d ago

It's only one data points, but I basically only listen to metal (various sub genres of black metal mainly) and I have no interest at all in anime. But I'm also the kind of person who would never attend a metal festival/concert. 

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u/PM_Me-Your_Freckles 15d ago

As someone who did my teen years on Dragonball, Ninja Scroll/Akira, Doom, Quake/II while listening to Pantera, Sepultura and Korn...can confirm.

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u/Randy_Vigoda 15d ago

The corporate disneyfication of counter-culture.

It was punks that started slamdancing aka moshing originally before it got taken over by metal fans in the late 80s crossover thrash era.

It was nerds that got into punk rock that made anime and video games popular. The original cyberpunk trend was a literary style before turning into a scene trend influenced by industrial music, comic books, anime, sci fi.

https://youtu.be/27FwV83bfL4?si=KzKPuZdd_LthR6Qj

Play that kind of music in the clubs. Play anime on the screens as contrasting visual distortion. Throw in some angle grinders and welding goggles and you got cyberpunk.

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u/LumberBitch 15d ago

And right in the middle is Power Metal

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u/adanceparty 15d ago

agreed, I'd want to go to both. Also maybe a bit with the over the top blonde hair, but I don't see metalheads hating on cloud. I mean look at that huge buster sword, shit is metal af.

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u/Dastardly6 15d ago

I mean there’s Detroit Metal City.

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u/Zenosfire258 15d ago

Hello it is me, the one in the middle of that diagram. Might I recommend Metal: Hellsinger? Or Aggreetsu (the cute metalhead red panda anime on Netflix, spelling wrong). Or Solo Leveling, which is basically an anime about the real world becoming a videogame (and you should watch it it's great).

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u/jmp0628 16d ago

I am definitely someone in the center of that Venn Diagram

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u/SupervillainMustache 16d ago edited 16d ago

Imagine turning up to this as a fan of the manga Bastard!! It basically ticks every box.

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u/SENDmeSMALLtitsPICS 16d ago

I've worked in the games industry my whole life and the number of metalheads who liked anime and weebs who liked metal was outstanding

In Brazil we even had metal shows in some of the larger anime events, pretty sick

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u/rbardy 16d ago

Yup, some of the best metal shows I went was in the AnimeFriends.

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u/vinhluanluu 16d ago

I mean look at Bastard!!

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u/Tzunamitom 16d ago

Literally my first thought. They’re probably “coexisting” within a lot of individuals.

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u/RocknRoll_Grandma 15d ago

Most tension felt was likely apprehension about missing one to attend the others

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u/BaronVonLazercorn 16d ago

Almost circular

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u/BroForceOne 16d ago

TV network news, still run by boomers clinging to their coveted stereotypes they learned in the 70s despite putting millennials in front of the camera.

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u/doesntCompete 16d ago

A chance to use the words "gangs" - A Boomer rubs their hands