With your username, it is probably on the low end, but for uniniated it is probably nightmare material.

If you look closely to my comment, I said "much less stigmatised" and not "no longer stigmatised".
I've gotten my fair share of disapproving looks while living 9 years in Japan for being otaku, but I don't seem how not using the word is going to help us getting less stigmatised.

Overgeneralisation but, you only play the lottery IF you're terrible with money.

It is only one study to my knowledge, but stock and accounting performance suffer more the more you pay your CEO:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/16/the-highest-paid-ceos-are-the-worst-performers-new-study-says/#6aeb77117e32

Research shows that CEOs actually makes a company worse, so playing them to do as little as possible is probably not wrong.

Just like "nerd" has lost most of its negative connotations by today, "otaku" too has become much less stigmatised in recent years.
I'd rather go by "moe otaku" than the actually hurtful alternative "moe buta" (=moe pig) or the too weak alternative "moe-suki" (=likes moe).

No problemo, Kaeru-san.
It is still better than Japanese who write ninja like ninzya because that's how you (can) input it on a computer.

*looks out of the window*

Never seen anyone transcribe ショ as "shyo" before.
Hepburn says "sho" and some Japanese might write it "syo", but the in-between?

As many Americans thinks the constitutuon gives them FREEDOM = do whatever they want, so Walmart disallowing you to lick on food "invades" those people's perception of their "constitutional rights".