Support Waifu Pulse

Hello! I am Masab Farooque, and I run Waifu Pulse completely alone. Every review you read here, every news update, every spoiler discussion comes from me watching the actual shows and reading the manga myself. There is no team, no big budget, no fancy office. Just one person who really cares about anime writing for other fans who get it.

I have been watching anime since I was young and writing about it for over six years. But things have changed a lot recently, and not in a good way.

Google Made Things Really Hard for Small Creators

Google keeps changing how they decide what content people see. The problem is their changes usually hurt real creators like me while helping big companies and AI written garbage get more views.

Machine-written Articles that clearly show the writer never watched the show or read the chapter. Those rank higher than actual fan content now. Sites that pump out 50 articles a day beat independent blogs that actually care about quality.

It is backwards, but that is how it works now. Google says they want helpful content, but their system does the opposite.

What Makes Waifu Pulse Different?

Everything here is written by someone who actually watches the shows. I don’t use AI to write articles. I don’t copy and paste from other sites. I don’t write reviews for anime I have not seen.

When I write about a new episode I actually watched it. When I review a manga, I actually read it. When I discuss plot points, I know what I am talking about because I experienced the story myself.

This takes way more time than just copying what everyone else writes, but it means you get real opinions from someone who cares about the medium.

The Costs Keep Adding Up

Running this site is not free. Web hosting costs money every year. The time I spend watching shows and writing could be spent on other work that pays better.

But I keep doing this because I believe anime fans deserve better than the low effort content that floods the internet (You probably know which corporate entity I am talking about here).

I don’t accept paid reviews or fake promotions. I don’t write positive reviews just because someone paid me. This independence costs money, but it keeps the content honest.

How You Can Help Keep This Going

Support Me on Patreon

If you like what I do here and want to help me keep writing about anime the right way, you can support me on Patreon. I am not putting my articles behind paywalls or making exclusive content only for supporters.

The Patreon is just a way to help cover costs and show that people value this kind of content. Even small amounts help a lot.

Monthly Support Through Patreon

You can become a patron at patreon.com/waifupulse. There are no locked articles or special tiers with exclusive content. Just a way to help keep the site running.

You can cancel anytime, and even two dollars makes a real difference. It shows me that someone out there thinks independent anime content matters.

Why This Matters for Anime Fans?

The internet is full of anime content, but most of it is trash and AI paraphrased. Sites that don’t care about anime write about it anyway because it gets clicks and money. Instead of hiring writers who actually watch anime or read manga, these sites cut costs by asking the same writer who reviews air purifiers to write anime content as well.

That writer has never seen an anime in his whole life, but ends up copying from other sites, and Google rewards them anyway. AI bots generate articles about shows they never watched. Big companies push out quantity over quality because it is cheaper and faster.

This pushes down the voices of people who actually care about anime. Fans who want real discussions about the shows they love have fewer places to find that content.

The Current State of Anime Content on Google

Google’s algorithm changes and their AI overview feature made things worse for small creators. They show AI-generated summaries instead of sending people to actual websites.

After Google’s helpful content update in 2023, many websites that lost traffic pivoted to anime and gaming content. These big publishers saw an opportunity when genuine anime sites got killed by Google’s changes. Anime is a huge industry with tons of shows to cover, and these publishers found a way to cover most of them through AI by scraping other people’s content.

For example, NotebookCheck, which is basically a laptop review site, now publishes anime content like articles about Lord of Mysteries. They do this just because the anime was recently released and is popular due to the source material. Google rewards the site because of its domain/site authority.

Then there is IndianTimes.com, which has copied many of my Blue Lock articles. They use AI to paraphrase my content and then publish it. Their articles show up on Google Discover news and top results because of their site authority and Google’s preference for big sites. Meanwhile, my original article gets pushed to the bottom after these big sites scrape my content and republish it.

AI Overviews are completely broken when it comes to anime and manga queries. They hallucinate information constantly. For example, when you ask where to start reading TBATE manhwa after the anime, it will sometimes say chapter 33 or chapter 109. Both answers are completely wrong. It tries to fetch random Reddit threads that are not even about this query.

I wrote the actual article about this topic, and the correct answer is chapter 56. But when the AI Overview shows wrong information at the top of the search results, who will visit the actual site? Even when the AI information is complete misinformation, people trust it because Google puts it there.

There are so many cases in anime content where AI Overviews give wrong information. But Google shows these wrong answers above the real content from people who actually know what they are talking about.

Independent creators who built their sites over the years get pushed down while corporate content farms get promoted. It is not about who knows anime better anymore. It is about who has more money and resources.

What Your Support Actually Does?

When you support Waifu Pulse, you are helping keep independent anime content alive. You are showing that fans want real reviews from people who actually watch the shows.

Your support covers hosting costs, gives me time to watch more anime and write better content, and proves that quality matters more than quantity.

I run Waifu Pulse because I love anime, and I know other fans do too. But staying visible as a small independent site gets harder every year because of how search engines work now.

If you have ever found something useful here or if you think anime fans deserve better content, then supporting the site directly is the best way to help.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for caring about anime content that actually comes from fans who understand what makes these shows special.

Masab Farooque
Founder, Writer, Otaku at Waifu Pulse