It's really concerning to me, young people today seem to get stuck in these content ghettos and a lot of them don't even seem to be aware of it. If it's not in

It's really concerning to me, young people today seem to get stuck in these content ghettos and a lot of them don't even seem to be aware of it. If it's not in the streaming catalogue, they probably haven't heard of it. And when they hear about something they might initially be interested, but then all interest evaporates once you tell them they'll have to pirate it. It almost feels like media companies are erasing the past so that their modern slop doesn't have to compete with the portion of past content that was good (I'm not saying that all old anime was good of course. I just want to say this before somebody trots out the "ackshully, most old stuff was bad and you just don't hear about it anymore" argument.) Piracy lets you watch the best content of past eras, which gives you context to evaluate modern content. And a lot of modern content doesn't come out looking very good once you have this context. Fortunately classic literature is still easy to get, but with anime/movies it's becoming difficult.