Happy Friday, everybody, and happy birthday to me! This year’s birthday has been especially interesting because it fell on the supposed Mayan apocalypse—everyone around me has been counting down the days with even more excitement than I have.
Since the world’s still spinning, it’s time for Otaku Links. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week:
- This is the fourth birthday I’ve celebrated on Otaku Journalist! Here’s my 25th, 24th, and 23rd birthday blog posts.
- My favorite kind of investigative journalism: Nerd Caliber interviewed the woman who has become the poster child for “fake gamer girls” and listened to her side of the story.
- io9 reviews “the best anime series you’ve never seen.” Now there’s a blast from the past.
- Make your friends question their own realities just in time for the holidays! Manga Therapy put out his psychological manga gift guide this week.
- The day I quit being a journalist is a thought provoking Thought Catalog article that exposes the side of reporting that nobody likes to talk about.
- On the same note, my former colleague Fernando wrote about his experiences as a 4chan target. I attracted 4chan’s ire once, years ago, but it wasn’t that bad.
- Finally, my meme of the week: Cats that look like pinup girls (NSFW)
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