The why

 The why of it all

13 May 2022

TL;DR: fell through the rabbit hole. Found a lot more than I bargained for and needed to organize

It all goes back to sometime in early 2020 when I was watching anime series back to back to back. Big titles and small I was on them. I had always enjoyed anime but I knew there was much that I still was behind on. Funny enough we all had to stay inside for the vast majority of that year and I can definitely say I caught up well enough. 

Then struck Instagram that probably took all my search information and thought “Oh you would probably like this to have merch of the show” and they weren’t wrong. Much like how in Mr. Brightside describes the descent of the mind of a worrying young man who asks “how did it end up like this”. I too was saying the same things when I saw the sheer number of new merch accounts that I was following within a span of five months. I was also saying “let me go” with the bills that I was racking up buying from some of the shops only to get an “eh” product. 

After a while I was having aneurysms trying to sort through Instagram's abysmal following section just to find the one seller who I knew had the Satsuki that had her sword in a power stance or for the 2B that was doing the leg lift. At least I never had to worry about finding a Zero Two anything (seriously I think we all lost our gosh dang minds over her, TBF she is an S on my tier list). 

My over analytical and organized mind had enough and I knew that the Tier list thing was all the rage so by sometime in early 2021 I made my own. Yeah I didn’t use the standard template for a myriad of reasons. I never thought I would share this with anyone out there and I just wanted fast links so a document would suffice. Now it’s completed with some moving around. 

It was never my intention to be “oh don’t buy from these guys because they suck” I never really came across anyone I had utter disgust for. Everyone had their strengths and weaknesses and I spoke my mind on them. As an aspiring author I have taken solace in the fact the quote “no one book can be all things to all readers “- James Hynes. It’s the same for every store, not everyone is going to have what I want. An A tier store might be a C tier for you and vice versa and that’s ok. I’m a nobody who wanted to organize a bunch of storefront accounts that Instagram did a piss poor job at keeping track of. What I say or think should have any lasting impact or sway on how these great creators execute their business. So with all that I hope we all just had some fun with this and don’t take it too seriously. I’m just here because I like to have the opportunity to purchase some waifu stickers at a moment's notice.