I’ve got to say, though, The Touhou Boom™ and even nowadays the Touhou fandom itself is probably still unmatched for the sheer amount of raw talent and effort put into all the fanworks around it. It was and is insane, I don’t think we’ll ever see its like again.
And all this shit was started by a drunk dude in his garage.
Anything ever being at the top of this list over Touhou will be like the moon outshining the sun from the other end of the horizon
oh god this is just scratching the surface too, this isn’t even including music. you could look up an arrange in virtually any genre you can think of
Exactly, like half of old Youtube was Touhou, 80% of NicoNico was Touhou, Everything was Touhou, even this much time later it’s almost guaranteed someone’s at least seen one meme about it even if was applied to another series after the fact. It was like a fucking renaissance based around one series.
Touhou is something everybody (who wasn’t born prior to the late 80s, ay least) heard about in some form. Art, game, music, even in random moments like that one time a ‘please wait warmly’ intermission screen was shown on an NZ news segment back in about 2009, which was the first time I ever heard of touhou because I’d been absolutely baffled by the cartoonish picture on the news.
Despite having never played any touhou games and knowing very little overall, touhou has nonetheless left quite a big impact on my time on the Internet.
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