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> India has a huge movie industry (which is unusual enough) but it gets almost no attention from outside India except by expats.

Do you have enough evidence to support this claim? Anecdotally, I have seen a lot of folks in Africa, the Middle East obsess about Bollywood movies. To me, anime (outside Asia) is a niche whose obsession is heavily correlated with young American/Western/white men. Could possibly be a reason why tech (with its demographics) has a lot of anime lovers.