To Amaterasu, I'm not so sure search tags are that basic of an internet function etc.
They are, but what I meant was Googling terms you're not familiar with is a pretty basic and widespread internet ability. I seriosly don't think you'd dispute this. If a person can't expend the energy to do that much, they'll be met with either a) Answer Men or, more likely, b) scorn and annoyance. Way it goes.
Are you really certain about that? I haven't come across them until years after I started surfing myself because I went to online forums, company websites, small image galleries, fansites, yahoo mail, yahoo chess and so on. b-Logs and news sites bored me since they weren't relevant to my interests. I somehow avoided YouTube for years and even when I finally was randomly linked to a video, I didn't know there were tags there due to a poor user interface. The noticing the teeny tiny
more info link you need to click to even see them is bad enough but to list them so sloppily makes them just look almost like et cetera clutter nonsense as opposed to anything useful. Usually other tagged websites have them readily visible next to the content, at the very least.
I won't dispute that searching for terms you're unfamiliar with is a pretty basic concept for the average web user. I do question if that assumption is valid, considering how YouTube links spread throughout the web but regardless, this isn't quite my point. I just mean to show how under differing circumstances, even fundamental basic concepts can be difficult, confusing or simply overlooked. Take the relevancy of this following example as you will, however I've got a question: Have you ever lost your keys? I think if you've ever had any, you probably have. Everybody does it from time to time. Don't you think that to prevent losing things, it's a pretty basic and simple concept to always put them in the same place? If you've lost them however you've clearly hadn't been doing that otherwise they'd not be lost. Now you're stuck searching all around the house for your keys because you have to go out grocery shopping and want to lock up the house to keep it safe and drive your car out to take care of some urgent errands. Is that idiotic and wasteful or just simply normal and human like any other number of matters?
Also, it's the scorn and annoyance aspect I find so utterly incomprehensible. This isn't the binary choice you make it out to be. There is a third option; ignoring it. It'd be far more polite to just overlook such posts if you think they aren't even worth the time, than to essentially troll them as is suggested in this topic multiple times. I also don't think that asking a simple question is all so dumb as people are making it out to be. I'd even go so far as to say that this question is one of the more intelligent, comprehensible things people do in the comments section on YouTube. No, really, I'm not kidding. I mean to say,
"You guys do go to the same YouTube I do, right?" Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you can't spam YouTube. For example, if one person repetitiously asking to the point where he'd expended more effort than the research would, I could definitely see it as annoying. To a lesser extent, I can see the same if the question phrasing makes the answer particularly self-evident. As things stand now though, it's a far more broadly aimed issue than that. This question is really not worth the emotion, at least not in my opinion.
As a separate comment, to whatever japanese person actually made the video, Yosline and also even to Donut to some extent for the translation suggestion, yeah this is a great answer. It's both very informative and quite polite. It's also long winded and dumbed down enough to serve as a gateway to filter out less savory fans who aren't so attentive or bore easily, thus keeping the fandom to a level of relatively pleasant obscurity. What? Don't look at me like that. I can say long winded if I want.
On the behalf of everybody involved, I'd like to say its a perfectly suited answer and give a heartfelt thanks. Well almost everybody, I'm not so sure I'd want a little kid finding out about eroge games just because of this. XD However, I'd like to add that having an answer ready, doesn't necessarily prevent people from asking though...