^ Even so, the online communities of DOA are small compared to actual DOA players as a whole; you only have a handful of consistent people with newcomers coming and going. It's easy to get into that linear type of "welp... this is it" mentality, especially with the language barriers. I live in the states and Japan, and can tell you that the offline community is dead in the states in comparison (even before DOA5UA released). The states do have bigger gatherings though, thanks to EVO-- though that accounts for the FGC as a whole and not DOA. Japan is more consistent with DOA tourneys though small, but several times a year and at several locations (locally)-- and 80% of the players I know don't even use social media. "Loud" English fans online typically use social media to get their points across to TN, and they're a very small number so that creates a sort of hourglass thinking that, that's all DOA has. Definitely not the case here. It's also a cultural thing as well. Japanese fans tend not to be as loud as some international fans are. I'm not saying that's bad but y'know-- it is what it is.
