You as a fansubber: Secret or public knowledge

[Starks]

For me: Secret except for a few close friends offline and public online.

[CarrierZ]

Eh, excuse me? Can you formulate your question better? I don't get it.

[Cruzz]

Originally Posted by CarrierZ

Eh, excuse me? Can you formulate your question better? I don't get it.

I guess the question is "do you advertise the fact that you are a fansubber or do you try to hide it?"

[TougeSil80]

I don't advertise this fact to my rl friends at all. One of my friend is watching one of my release and he didn't even know I worked on it.

[LytHka]

Most of the people I associate with in real life know that I'm "translating" anime. Most of them don't know the details. Other than that, real life otaku friends know what I'm doing. It's quite fun to sometimes leak some info about a popular series I work on or something. It just reassures others and in the end that makes me feel good. I also held a lecture about fansubbing in some local open source centre which wasn't attended by many people, still, I offered some insight about the whole hobby, how it all started with anime fansubbing and so on. I even showed them, omg, Sabbu and Aegisub. The demonstration fansub was encoded respectively with x264.exe.
All in all, I can say that I'm "advertising" my hobby with a clear conscience.

[Bot1]

i say it if its fitting for the conversation... i don't care if people know but im not going around shouting "HEY LOOK AT ME!!! I'M A FANSSUBER DAMMIT!!"

[Ijuki]

I am not hiding whatever I am doing. This means everyone in real life knows what I do, not that I care if they think I am doing "cartoons" as they want it to be.

After joining Anime-Keep, some of my friends (those who watch anime that is), did react with "O.o - When the **** did you join them and how?" (funny to know more than them).

Basiclly, I am not afraid of telling it, if the people wants to know that is. ;D

[Zero1]

Nobody really knows, other than some people who I've told I "make music videos" or "compress video" when questioned about why I upgrade my computer on a fairly regular basis.

Joe Average wouldn't understand, so I don't go into detail. I just leave it at a simple answer.

[getfresh]

Don't worry guys, you don't have to hide the fact you sub. I mean if you are a subber the whole world already knows you are a dork without even subbing anime in the first place. ;p

[Ensign Shiro Amada]

It depends on who I'm with. Some of my friends are anime fans, so I feel free to discuss it with them. However, I've even stooped to lying when other people ask what I'm doing if I'm doing some fansub work at the time. I'm too lazy to want to explain it to them, so I just sidestep the issue.

[DryFire]

I don't announce the fact I fansub even on line. If asked I'll usually respond truthfully, but it's nothing worth shouting from the rooftops.

[Darth_E_]

Nobody knows I am a fansubber in real life, nor do I want anyone in rl to know that I fansub :P

[Sylf]

Half of my family knows I do "anime translation". My mother is a big Tezuka fan, so she has no problem of me being anime fan. In fact, she bought me an anime DVD for me last year, which is still in fansub works. Some day, I'll be able to watch that with my daughter.

Some of my coworkers know that I do stuff on line with the anime stuff. I don't go advertise much on it. It just is another conversation topic.

Most of my online friends from 1995 or so don't know that I'm fansubbing. Most of them are too old to care anyway at this point ^^;

[Access]

I don't make a habit of telling people, for me there is really no point telling anyone irl. Not that I try to hide the fact that I'm a fan, but I'm not an egotist either. I remember talking to one leecher who was interested about it, and some people who were interested in the digital-video-processing side of it, but that's it.

[Harukalover]

I only tell cute girls that I fansub anime.

Since it is a great pickup line.

[SCR512]

Hmm, well I really don't tell people except maybe the developers I work with when I want some code help I know that my g/f certainly knows and hence why I haven't been able to work as much as I used to do =p

[Schneizel]

The anime club at school knows. D: They want me to give some kind of detailed explanation of the process during a meeting next semester...

[relentlessflame]

Well, there are really two main reasons I keep my fansubbing/scanlation work (and even anime fandom, to some degree) a "secret" to most people:

1) It's far too troublesome to explain it to an "outsider"

2) People are far too quick to judge

It's not that I'd really care all that much about 2), but it's just annoying, especially with people you're forced to interact with on a daily basis (at work, etc.) Some people just stop taking you seriously once they're found a reason to make a judgement call, even if the issue at hand is totally unrelated. It's the same reason I don't have an avatar or signature on forums, actually. I wouldn't care if people think I'm a "geek" or anything - I make no efforts at all to hide that. But, having to defend anime itself in the process, or to have that held against you subconsciously when dealing with other things? It's just too troublesome... Now, if it's someone I know likes anime, then I wouldn't care much (though I still wouldn't tell someone online where I work, for instance, but I consider that common sense, too). I guess as much as I try to be a transparent, honest person, I still have my walls to protect me... mostly from things I find annoying or troublesome. (Which, I suppose, is the same with everyone.)

[Wade]

I don't tell people unless they ask me.

Surprisingly the question doesn't come up often in normal conversations.

[Animonger]

I usually don't tell people even if they ask. I'll just say I like watching an anime every once in a while. A lot of the people I'm associated with would probably think it's pretty faggy, and I've yet to find a good-looking girl who is into fansubbers...