>>155535same tbh when I finally made my mal in 2020 I had to think really hard what anime ive seen over the past decade and I'm pretty sure im still missing some titles, let alone scores
I never thought to catalogue things I watch, I don't catalogue live action movies either I am surprised that people have stuff like letterbxd how would I even fill it, I don't remember every single film I've seen on tv since childhood, like wtf
I think sites like mal are some kind of flex, people do it to flex their hobbies and especially their numbers before others, they will boast about how many anime they've seen and stuff their ratings down your throat to prove to you and themselves how superior their taste is to yours
it's a shitshow, part of the social media problem that's been plaguing otaku community for the past decade or more
I only watch like ~30 anime a year on average, only if something seems interesting to me. And thus, after like 10 years I had like 300 anime titles on my list, half of which dropped. And people on these cataloguing sites and discord servers associated with them would jump on me "wow only this much after 10 years, I had 300 already after getting into anime last summer!" yeah good for you kohai, enjoy your 2x watching speed or whatever