ThisVid is one of those sites that has not changed in years, and honestly, I kind of respect that. No fancy redesigns, no AI chatbot, no "new experience" pop-up begging for feedback. It just sits there, black and simple, doing its thing. I have been around it before, so I knew what to expect. What I did not expect was a number so big and so fake that I actually laughed out loud at my desk.
Today we are looking at gay anime on ThisVid. It is a community-driven tube site, so most of the stuff here gets uploaded by regular users, not studios. That usually means two things. You get some hidden gems nobody else has, and you get a whole lot of random shit tagged by people who clearly did not care. Let's see which one wins.
Two million gay anime videos? Yeah, right!
The design is the same old ThisVid. A black background, a simple grid of thumbnails, and a dropdown in the corner that says Show Straight / Gay. Each thumbnail has an HD badge if it is in HD, the length in the corner, and a green circle with the rating in percentages. Hover over one, and you also get the view count and how long ago it was uploaded. Clean, simple, and kind of old, like a pair of jeans you refuse to throw away.
There is also a sidebar with a long list of categories, plus a Friendly Websites box at the bottom. Guess who is in there? Yours truly! Thanks for the shout-out, ThisVid, I appreciate it…but I am still going to be honest with you, so do not get too comfortable. Being friends does not mean I will go easy on your bullshit, trust me.
Now, that number. The top of the page proudly says it is showing 1 to 36 of 2.141.659 videos. Two million! That would make it the biggest gay anime collection on the planet by a mile. The page counter even goes all the way to 59.491 pages. I almost believed it for a second. Almost…but I am no fool!
So I did what any curious reviewer would do. I jumped straight to page 300, just to see what was there. Surprise, surprise. Not a single anime dude in sight. Instead, I got a wall of real guys on webcams, a long numbered series of the same two guys jerking off on camera, desi guys, a guy doing exercises naked, and a bunch of homemade stuff. The two million number is clearly the whole site, not gay anime. It is complete bullshit.
How much real gay anime is there, then? Honestly, I have no idea, and the site will not tell you. Page one is almost all animated. Page nine is still mostly animated. Somewhere between page nine and page 300, the anime runs dry and the real guys take over. If I had to guess, you are looking at a few hundred proper anime videos at best, maybe a bit more. Nowhere near two million, that is for damn sure.
Goblins, bara, and a lot of uploads from one guy
Let me start with what is actually there, because some of it is really good. Page one is packed with videos called gay animation, video this and video that, clearly from the same uploader, numbered one after another. A lot of it is 3D game-style animation with huge muscle guys, orcs, and big armored hunks going at it in dark castles and on rooftops. Some of it is 2D, with bara art and a few manga-style pages.
Page nine gets more mixed, but in a fun way. There is BL anime with subtitles, a bara anime video, a goblin gangbang, a few Final Fantasy animations, a video called Dio Brando animation that I absolutely had to click, and even a couple of yaoi crossover parodies. Then there are the Western cartoons, the furry stuff like Starfox and some dragons, a Sonic music video (do not ask), and an orc farting animation. Yes. An orc farting animation. Who uploads this stuff? More importantly, who rates it 80%?
The furry and western cartoon stuff counts as bleed, technically, but at least it is animated. The real bleed starts later, when the real guys show up, and by page 300, it is all live-action. So the deeper you go, the less this looks like gay anime and the more it looks like any other amateur gay tube. Kind of a letdown, if you ask me.
Private videos are also mixed in, marked with a little lock icon. Those are locked by their uploaders, so you need to be friends with them or get access to watch. Some of the best-rated animated stuff is locked, which is really annoying when you are just browsing as a guest. You click, get excited, and…nope. Locked.
Quality is pretty good for an amateur site. Most of the animated stuff is labeled HD, and the 3D game animations look really sharp. The catch is that a lot of the videos are short, like under a minute. Some are 15 seconds. You barely get started before it is over. There are some longer ones, like a 36-minute video and a 43-minute BL anime episode, but they are the exception, not the standard.
Now the part that really pisses me off. You can see all this info when you hover over a thumbnail, like the views, the upload date, and the rating, but you cannot filter by any of it. No duration filter, no quality filter, no date filter, no tag filter, nothing. You get that Straight / Gay dropdown, and that is pretty much it. So what is the point of showing me all this info if I cannot do anything with it? Honestly, it feels kind of pointless.
The best you can do is sort by top rated or most popular instead of new. That at least pushes the junk down a bit. Otherwise, you are stuck scrolling through thumbnails and checking the timestamps with your own eyes like it is 2009.
Straight ads, fullscreen surprises, and a player from the past
The ads on ThisVid are a special kind of annoying. Right in the middle of the grid, you get banners for straight hentai games with big-boobed anime waifus, a straight blonde AI game, OnlyFans promos, and Stripchat cam girls. On a gay anime page. I chose gay in the dropdown, ThisVid. I literally told you. Why the fuck do I keep seeing tits?
Click a video, and you might land on a fullscreen ad first, with a continue button you have to click to get to the actual video. The old trick still works, thankfully. Open the video in a new tab, and that page just does not show up. Then, when you hit play, you get another ad before the video starts. At least that one waits for you to press play instead of jumping at you the moment the page loads.
The player itself is about as basic as it gets. Play, pause, volume, resolution, and a little preview when you drag the slider around. The resolution options gave me a good laugh last time, with 240p sitting there like a fossil from a museum. It does the job, but it could really use an update. Seriously, guys, it is not 2007 anymore. Even my old phone recordings are in better quality than that damn option.
ThisVid is free, and you can watch public videos without an account. Making a free account lets you add friends, which is the only way to get into those private videos. There is no paid plan here, so your wallet is safe.
Is ThisVid worth it for gay anime?
There is some good stuff here. I will give it that. The first pages are packed with highly rated 3D and 2D gay animations, bara, goblins, BL anime, and some fun parodies. Most of it is HD, everything public is free, and the hover info gives you a quick look at views and ratings even if you cannot filter by them. If you stick to the first few pages and sort by top rated, you can find some gems.
Still, the two million number is total bullshit, since the anime runs out long before page 300. There are zero real filters, a lot of the best videos are locked behind private access, many videos are super short, and the straight ads in the grid are just insulting. Stay on the first pages, open videos in a new tab, and do not trust that counter.
