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Just me or dragon ball is REALLY popular among black people, why is that? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not joking and I'm not trying to be racist in the slightest (I'm mixed lol), and if you don't believe me search the reactions on YouTube from the latest game Sparking Zero, 95 percent are black YouTubers, even the smallest channels. Why is that? I'm not from USA, if that changes anything.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For a serious answer, as someone who grew up in a family that couldn't afford cable television. DBZ, Sailor Moon, and Pokémon all aired on network, antenna, televison in the morning before school or after school throughout the 90's.

So it's probably a function of income more than race. All the poor white kids I grew up with worshiped those three shows too.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There's a scene in the netflix show, Daybreak, where RZA as a narrator explains how eastern warrior culture became popular in the black community. Which is what i thought of reading your question. I couldn't find a clip but here's an article about it, and the relevant quote:

"It's not your fault you want to be a samurai," says RZA. "See, that's the economical pressure being expressed as warrior code. It started when young black men couldn't afford to go to the movies, so we watched kung fu reruns. We found beauty in things that had been neglected." He explains the socioeconomic forces that raised a whole generation of "blerds," spinning out into everything from Jim Kelly to The Last Dragon to Kendrick Lamar's "Kung Fu Kenny" to The Boondocks to Wu-Tang Clan itself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pokemon, yes. But DBZ and sailor moon were on Cartoon Network which was on cable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Eventually, first two seasons of DBZ aired on syndicated TV. Cartoon Network picked it up in 98