When you move past just liking an anime or video game or whatever, and move into liking anime or video games specifically because they are Japanese.
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The term "weeb" and its current definition.
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The only example that springs to mind for me is teaboo to refer to people obsessed with a very specific idea of british culture informed by the media they consume. Usually stuff like Sherlock and Dr Who.
Either way fetishising an entire culture based on a tv show or cartoon you've seen is weird. Maybe don't do that.
I'd be hard pushed to called other East Asian weebs, there is a lot of cross cultural things across different countries, anime and manga are mainstream and arguably the main cultural export from Japan.
I always understood as people - obviously not from Japan - who have some sort of romanticised/idealised view of Japanese culture and people, which borders obsession, and it is usually shaped by anime.
"Man. Did you see Elfenlied? It is an anime and totally not for kids! Watch it! You will learn to love anime!!!"
"Yui-san is such a baka! I went to the Toshokan with her and man, she got on my nerves, dayo ne?"
"Anime is far better than trash western animation. Just look at Adventure Time. Looks like drawn by a kid. Now look at Attack on Titan. It goes into depth of what death and life is, what rebirth is. It has so many philosophical themes!"
"Japanese culture is far better. They care about family and just live their life! I wish I would be Japanese."
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"Yui-san is such a baka! I went to the Toshokan with her and man, she got on my nerves, dayo ne?"
"Anime is far better than trash western animation. Just look at Adventure Time. Looks like drawn by a kid. Now look at Attack on Titan. It goes into depth of what death and life is, what rebirth is. It has so many philosophical themes!"
"Japanese culture is far better. They care about family and just live their life! I wish I would be Japanese."
Look at how clean and neat the room is
and how much effort they put in the shelf in the back
that can't be your average weeb, that's a weeb who gets laid.
Originally it's for people who are obsessed with Japanese culture to the point where they think it's the one superior culture and tries too damn hard to integrate into it.
These days anything remotely Japanese gets labelled Weeb which I assume is because people gotten too lazy to use "Otaku" and Weeb is just easier and faster to reach for.
These days anything remotely Japanese gets labelled Weeb which I assume is because people gotten too lazy to use "Otaku" and Weeb is just easier and faster to reach for.
Yes to both of these
Why non asian? Plenty of asian weebs in western countries
To me, the definition of weeb is someone who fetishises Japanese culture from being exposed to anime.
I was friends with a couple of weebs back in my days. They use "Chan" or "Kun" suffix with my name constantly, throw out Japanese greetings, ate western food with chopsticks...
The new wave of weebs are known as weeblets, as my brother likes to refer them.
Those who found a calling to anime with a now increasing exposure in the West.
I was friends with a couple of weebs back in my days. They use "Chan" or "Kun" suffix with my name constantly, throw out Japanese greetings, ate western food with chopsticks...
The new wave of weebs are known as weeblets, as my brother likes to refer them.
Those who found a calling to anime with a now increasing exposure in the West.
You don't see people made fun of as francophiles or w/e because French cinema fans or w/e don't take up nearly as much space in the internet culture sphere. Japan obviously makes most (or all, if you're a pedant) anime and a huge chunk of the video game industry, both backbones of early and current internet dwellers.
I mean, I don't think it's still used in its original context.
But I always knew weeb to mean "Japanophile whose only understanding of japan comes from shallow impressions from anime"
Basically a weeaboo isn't somebody who likes anime
Nor is a weeaboo a japanophile
A weeaboo is a japanophile purely because of their love of anime
But I always knew weeb to mean "Japanophile whose only understanding of japan comes from shallow impressions from anime"
Basically a weeaboo isn't somebody who likes anime
Nor is a weeaboo a japanophile
A weeaboo is a japanophile purely because of their love of anime
I can only speak for myself and my experience with other Asian Americans.
Japanese media is already so prevalent and ingrained in the countries our families are from, or the stores we go to from a young age. It's not really foreign to quite the same degree. Like Tamiya models, Gundam, and Saint Seya aren't really "Hey check out this thing that is specifically from Japan and is distinct from western media". Same with a lot of Japanese candy and food.
I assume Hello Kitty is kind of like that for most western people, because it's so popular. We're definitely moving toward a point where all media is international, but there's still a fetishization(? Poor/exaggerated wording, but I think it makes sense) of 𝒥𝒶𝓅𝒶𝓃𝑒𝓈𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝒹𝒾𝒶, in specific. Like do you know how upset the weebs get when you call a western animation an "Anime"?
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That's pretty much it
What the fuck.
Would not want to be seen eating a meal in public with a person doing that, the sole idea makes me cringe
Does it include people who like to drop their Hentai/R34 knowledge casually regardless of if anyone wants to/is comfortable hearing it. Or is that more of an otaku/internet culture thing?
Number 3 is annoying. We are both talking in English, there is an English name, why are you calling it by its Japanese name? It comes off as putting Japanese things on a pedestal and superiority. It's not far from when white supremacists praise Japan for being a homogenous, ultra conservative country with no outside influences or "SJW" stuff.
Luckily my school didn't offer chopsticks, though didn't stop them from saying "itadakimasu"
Actually true, they own a kimono and school girl uniform. Good times. Good times.
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I don't think there's an exact definition for it but if you get into hardcore figure collection you're pretty weebish imo. There's a couple of girls I follow on Twitter who occasionally post these fully explicit nude anime girl figures that they've bought and I think if you're that far in you've gotta be a weeb.
Maybe cosplay as well, basically taking your appreciation of anime to realms outside of just watching anime. Not anime style avatars though, that's what I do for 90% of the time so that can't be weebish.
Maybe cosplay as well, basically taking your appreciation of anime to realms outside of just watching anime. Not anime style avatars though, that's what I do for 90% of the time so that can't be weebish.
It depends on why they married said Japanese person.
Mutual respect, love, and understanding: Fine
Because of exoticness or thinking Japanese women are submissive: Beyond weeb and into dumbass scumbag territory.
I define weebs as foreigners who fetishize or are obsessed with Japanese culture as the best and their only exposure of it is through anime. They also tend to interject chan and kun into their everyday language. They may have shelves of figures, wall posters, cosplay, and body pillows.
Nice room, he's a huge Fate fan. Total weeb, but its organized and clean.
A Weeabo is just a person who is obsessed with anime and Japanese culture to an unhealthy degree. Normal people who just like the medium aren't weebs
This is how I feel about it lol. I'm pretty much a weab. Who gives a fuck?
Would the 90's Nissan Quest minivan my parents gave me as a hand-me-down when they upgraded to second hand BMWs count?
lol i mean it's pretty dedicated to marry someone in the hopes they turn into the anime waifu of your dreams
My older brother has waxed rhapsodic almost his whole adult life on how much he desires a nice, submissive Japanese wife. Fortunately, he's still very much single in his mid-40s because no woman--Japanese or otherwise--wants to date his pathetic ass.
There's literally nothing weeb about marrying a Japanese person in the first place. There are two legitimate reasons to get married. To scam for taxes or because of love.