Yesterday I was saw something I thought at first was great, anime referenced and shown on Good Morning America. Of course that quickly turned to anger as GMA went on a pointless tirade on how circle lenses are dangerous and how this was all started by anime and Lady Gaga. The whole thing smelled of the typical mainstream negative news bashing and scapegoating of things that are completely foreign to the mainstream and that of the brain-dead teleprompted news anchors reporting it.
Watching that news report gave me the same feeling you get when your parents drop in on you on facebook and they start complaining about the popups they clicked on after being on the internet for a total of 10 minutes in their life time. GMA was completely ignorant and clueless in what they were talking about. They even tried to point fingers at the famous otaku makeup artist and Lancome spokes person, Michelle Phan.
Now if Good Morning America would get off the backs of their advertisers, probably including 1-800 Contacts and contact lens companies that are scared by the growing trend of custom contacts; they'd give out the full picture that yes, circle lenses can ruin your eyes...but the same risk goes for EVERY contact lens! How much of the "breathing" contact lenses thrown at us in ABC commercials are FDA approved?! Don't get me started on all the prescription drug commercials with products that will have of a 90% chance of killing you in many various and colorful ways just to alleviate the sniffles 100% of people get from being outside in the middle of a flower field in the height of summer. This on a so-called "drug free" channel of course.
Know your facts and my fellow anime fans, do have caution when using those very expensive custom contact lenses. Make sure an actual eye doctor (not a scripted news broadcast one) checks if you have the eyes that can handle contact lenses, because if you can't wear circle lenses, drop the iPhone if you are about to call 1-800-Contacts since those will make you go as blind as a bat.
Click here to view GMA's angering post about this..and please, comment there how their advertisers put them up to not putting out the entire picture on contact lenses.
(it is cool to see anime , yet again, being the main fuel behind the fastest moving trends though)