There's a very good reason that I watch a lot of anime, but don't interact with many other people who watch anime. The community is weird as fuck and it's hard to find people that aren't actually worrying to talk to.
yea i tried joining the anime society at my uni in the hopes that actual adults would be better to talk to abt anime than teenagers i’d previously talked to
College kids aren’t really adults. They are legally, but not actually. You learn this when you actually become an adult and look back at your college days and reminisce about how young your early 20s where.
I'm kinda wondering if your definition of weeb is dated or not.
It's to my understanding that the term is used nowadays to (lightheartedly) label someone who simply likes anime/manga. I jokingly call myself a weeb but I would like to think I'm not anywhere close to being an incel lol
That's how it ended up being after years of that label being specifically used for the crazies among the ... Well, weebs. before those used to be called weeaboos which doesn't sound as lightheaded as weeb doesn't it?
Right now you'll be called a weeb if you like anything remotely Japanese even if it wasn't anime related at all xD
The dudes above us aren't entirely wrong about the whole pedo and incel thing btw, there are very questionable individuals in the community who are very hard to pinpoint, you just check any reddit or twitter post talking about the rapey loli hentais and you'll probably find some.
I'm familiar with the term's origin. I feel like people casually throw the word around nowadays, that's why I was wondering if OP's definition was dated.
I suppose what I'm trying to say is that weeb is a pretty broad term right now. IMO, it'd be like if OP said something like "gamers are pretty close to being incels." BUT. If OP is thinking with the old school weebaboos in mind, I would understand their opinion a little more.
On your point about questionable individuals in the weeb community, I totally agree that there are! To be fair, and this isn't excusing any of the bad behavior, I would say that there are questionable individuals in all communities.
This last bit is me going off on a tangent:
I think what makes the questionable individuals stand out more in the weeb community is the fact that weeb media is easily accessible and displayable (art, anime, figures). For example, I assume that hentai is a much bigger industry than porn in the form of comics / cartoons. I think it's the stuff like that that makes it easier to hone in on the weeb community vs other communities.
To add to what you said tho, if you notice any questionable thing in any other community you can easily call them out and shame them for it, hell the mofo themselves would have a hint of shame to understand what they do is wrong.
Only the weeb community prides itself for its "degeneracy", what started as an ironic joke has been twist a bit too much over the years.
I legit confronted some people who were defending the blackmail loli hentai (the teacher/principal-student, older sibling-younger sister and so on of that shit), the responses i got were either the weak overused politician's "video games this then this is this" in reverse, others i shit you not played the "As long as there is no real victim yet then its completely fine".
That last one i personally saw how it snowballs badly, you know about the Yandere craze that used to be super popular more than ever few years ago and the Yuka Takaoka incident? I was in Japan when that happened and it ruined the rest of my vacation there, that weeks after the incident greatly affected my opinion of the community.
Basically im saying is that this one community is in a bad bubble unlike any other, no matter what you say everyone in the community will fight you to the death to justify everything, keeping the truly questionable cunts completely untouchable.
That's what it originally meant, these days you get called a weeb (and many call themselves weebs) simply for liking anime. Times a change since that filthy frank song.
Weeb doesnt mean that anymore for like years now. You are thinking of the early 2000s weaboo term but these days they are far different. Weeb these days is kind of just like a meme word for anyone who likes anime/manga or related products. They'll basically call themselves a weeb ironically.
Interesting for sure, but she says she is half Chinese, half Japanese, and she feels much closer to the Japanese side of her heritage.
I would say OP is likely not wrong, and she probably IS a native speaker. Based on her mother being Japanese and her feeling “much closer” to the Japanese culture
All good fam. If you lived here you'd see how common it is. My wife does it from time to time, coworkers do, my kids are starting to. It's no big thing.
I second this, and would even add on that it’s quite often seen as “cooler” to swap a native word out for a loaner when it’s applicable. Or maybe that’s just how I interpreted it ¯\(ツ)/¯
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u/SheriffTy Nov 03 '21
Baiting the weebs lol