Why do anime clubs attract the worst kinds? In high school the one I went to watched the same mainstream shounen/shojoshit everyne already knew about and was house to the school's known turboautists. I went to one the other day as a grown-ass man and the club was just the same highschooler types but grown up. You had:
- the genuinely retarded girl who hasn't seen anything new in twenty years
- the collection of meek shounentards who can barely speak
- the young guy with shit taste
- the twenty-something who's obsessed with 2000's anime because FOMO and it's trendy
- the old dude who grew up on mecha and robotech but attends to try to pick up fat brown chicks
- the older millenials who are actually cool and barely want to be there

Talking to the twenty-something was funny. We were all talking about conventions and he says that he wants the "hare hare yukai" and "lucky star" dances to be popular again. I asked him "Didn't you get enough of that the first time around?" and the other guys laughed and agreed with me, but he started talking about how he got into anime too late and some other sad shit.

I honestly don't know why people still go to these things. The Internet is a much better place to find people that actually watch anime; if I want to find cool people IRL I'll go to a convention.