>>16987624Those nine get spread around on all of the "what anime should I watch" charts, so there's a fuckload of people who have only seen those shows and Naruto, or those shows and Fairy Tail, etc.
It's not that they're trying to fit in so much as they have no frame of reference as to what a good show is. They can't find it on their Crunchyroll subscription or whatever and they certainly can't find it reading Reddit posts.