rendakuenthusiast:

kontextmaschine:

did the “Hispanic guys are just really into Dragonball Z” moment of like 2006-2016 just pass without explanation or resolution?

Cartoon Network Latin America was a thing well before 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8JF9KaEfLA

So was it something that American-born kids could bond over w/new arrivals? Cause in the dojo, kids of Reagan amnesty parents were big into it.

Is it like the Wu-Tang/kung fu thing that it was available to poor people who had limited options? But that doesn’t account for how much of it was in static image/top text/bottom text fluent “macro”-era memes.