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Someone on here posted it the other day, it was an anime creator musing about how anime today is made by otaku for otaku and it's basically stale and lacks substance. It's the same for games in a lot of ways.
You're probably talking about a famous/infamous interview from Hayao Miyazaki, which includes him saying:
"It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans" is the best encapsulation of the issue, imo
It's also just tropes all the way down. I'm misanthropic, but that's not because I truly hate people, I just hate what I've seen us become. At least I interact with people enough to be original though.
It doesn't try to derive meaning from real human experiences, only other anime, so at best it can become a copy, an imitation of other existing anime, and then those anime get copied and so on until you get anime that is just a series of disconnected cliches and tropes derivative of other anime without any substance.
This is the feeling I get when someone tells me they're studying Brandon Sanderson to be a better worldbuilder.
I couldn't have put it better myself, exactly this.
Even misanthropy becomes a pale, sickly thing in the absence of genuine human contact.
Misanthropy is already a hopelessly disgusting thing, I don't think it means much to make this distinction.
I don't watch anime, so I won't comment on that part. But I stopped bothering with post-pandemic games a long time ago. The new Doom games are an exception of course.