| Over the past 5 years or so I've seen more and more Anime fans start referring to themselves as Weebs and even consider it "cool" to label yourself as one. You even have fans that consider weeb to be a personality trait. This shit is just absolutely bizarre to me as someone who came up when being a "Weaboo" was the last thing any Anime fan wanted to be referred to as. Even calling yourself an Otaku back then wasn't considered "cool". I think part of why this is happening is because "Anime fan" and "Weeb" have some how become synonymous. You can't just be an Anime fan that enjoys Anime without caring much for Japanese culture anymore. You have to be well versed in Japanese/Weeb culture to be an "Anime fan" as well and if you aren't, you're considered a "normie" by community standards. I feel like all this does is just create more "Gate Keeping" and division among the community. What are your thoughts? disagree or agree? |
| It's just a meme word equivalent to simp. Taking it seriously would only mean you belong to that group, or at least that's how it would be portrayed on the internet. |
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| It's not weeb, it's disgusting weeb. |
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| come on now, that is a large stretch, it was probably better to call yourself xXthot_slayer_69Xx than a 'weeb'. i don't think people use 'weeb' as a way to make themselves look cool. hell, even saying you watched anime is enough to have a kick me note behind you every day for a month. |
| Honestly, I mostly see Weeb used in an ironic/self-deprecating way these days. It kind of has the vibe of "anime was a mistake... and yet here I continue to love it." |
| I myself prefer to be called a beew. It sounds even cooler. |
| Wasn't there already a thread similiar to this one? |
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| It's for the ironiy bois. If you call yourself out first nobody else can call you out for it. It's an insecurity thing. |
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| No one ever used to call themselves a ‘weeb’ since you’d definitely get picked on or people could have some bad ideas about you but now people use it as a way to call themselves anime watchers? I personally find it embarrassing and people who do surely haven’t been a part of this community for a long time. |
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| "Weeaboo's" are culturally insensitive/naive to what actually goes on in Japan... |
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| I tell people I hate anime yet watch it |
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| i prefer to go by "degenerate" not weeb |
AkiIsMyWaifu said: I still live in the world where weeb was used as an insult... I used to call weebs weebs to spite them back in the day. Glad to see they finally accepted themselves tho. Me too lol but personally I don't see an issue with whatever term you use |
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| most seem to do it with an extent of irony now unironically calling yourself an otaku though - that's kinda cringe |
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| I believe that many people identify themselves as "Otaku" or "Weeaboo" without actually figuring out the actual definition behind those derogatory terms. One does not simply go around and declare themselves as a "Retard" or "Mentally Deranged Person" especially when they are aware of what those terminologies meant. For myself, I am proud of my Japanese Popular Culture Hobbyist ("J-Hobbyist") identity as it is more appropriate to describe a Hobbyist who is into Japanese Popular Culture than some derogatory terms. |
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| Meh, I never cared about such labels to begin with, and I don't plan too start anytime soon either...People can call me whatever the hell they want, but I refuse to refer to myself as anything more than an anime fan. |
| Huh? The term Weeb is considered cool now? I always saw it as one of those labels that the internet throws at a certain group of people, and then it get's repeatedly used as an insult until the original meaning of the word is lost. |
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| Blame the self hating "ironic weebs". |
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| Don't take it to seriously. In most cases, it's just irony and nothing more than that. |
Nikiforova said: Don't take it to seriously. In most cases, it's just irony and nothing more than that. It's still extremely cringe worthy regardless. AbdirahmanS said: Is it really cool? I thought it was just a joke, like self deprecation lol. I think calling yourself a weeb as depreciating humor is supposed to be cool now at the very least. So even if calling yourself one seriously isn't cool, joking about being one is cool. |
Zeroflamez said: Nikiforova said: Don't take it to seriously. In most cases, it's just irony and nothing more than that. It's still extremely cringe worthy regardless. Is it more cringey than having a dakimura or wearing ahegao shirt? The word 'cringe' doesn't exist in dictionaries of many people who are members of anime and games fandoms. |
| But no one thinks it is cool. Almost anytime someone calls themself a weeb, it's done ironically. |
| "If it's not big, it's only a bust," some guy on the internet |
| Ehhh, i love calling myself a weeb, its like a convenient term. I also am Interested in stuff like Manga, LN, WN, VN, Games and the japanese culture itself so i think the word is easy to use to generally define my interests. About gatekeeping, I think most gatekeeping about "Being a real anime fan" comes from people who want their "Normie" friends to genuinely enjoy the stuff that they do. Thats why, in a way, i like to do so myself. I don't attack someone who doesnt watch anime, but i also ALWAYS recommend some hardcore Weeb stuff when i see someone getting into this culture... |
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Nikiforova said: Is it more cringey than having a dakimura or wearing ahegao shirt? The word 'cringe' doesn't exist in dictionaries of many people who are members of anime and games fandoms. Is this a trick question? The people owning Dakimura's and Ahegao shirts are the ones calling themselves Weeb most likely. AbdirahmanS said: Zeroflamez said: I think calling yourself a weeb as depreciating humor is supposed to be cool now at the very least. So even if calling yourself one seriously isn't cool, joking about being one is cool. I guess it's just turning a bad word into a positive like many other communities do. Now if someone insults you with that word, you wouldn't care as much. Yeah but being a Weaboo is loving Anime and wanting to be Japanese. Now Anime fans unironically call themselves weebs even if they don't fit the definition of Weeb. So it's kind of dumb altogether. Would make more sense if they just called themselves Otaku instead like before. But I dunno a lot of fans tend to really jerk off to Japan lately so maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they do fit the weeb definition after all. |
ZeroflamezAug 24, 2020 10:56 PM
Zeroflamez said: Nikiforova said: Is it more cringey than having a dakimura or wearing ahegao shirt? The word 'cringe' doesn't exist in dictionaries of many people who are members of anime and games fandoms. Is this a trick question? The people owning Dakimura's and Ahegao shirts are the ones calling themselves Weeb most likely. Nope, it's a genuine question. Calling themselves weeaboo is just one of many cringe-worthy actions anime fans take part in, and honestly - it doesn't bother me a bit. It's their life and I don't see how it will affect me or you or any other anime fan. |
Nikiforova said: Zeroflamez said: Is this a trick question? The people owning Dakimura's and Ahegao shirts are the ones calling themselves Weeb most likely. Nope, it's a genuine question. Calling themselves weeaboo is just one of many cringe-worthy actions anime fans take part in, and honestly - it doesn't bother me a bit. It's their life and I don't see how it will affect me or you or any other anime fan. I tried to make a joke. Woosh. unfortunately lol. I personally don't care what Anime fans call themselves. I just don't really like the idea of a vocal minority/majority constantly calling themselves weebs and romanticizing cringe activities and behaviors all over the internet so openly. Kind of makes us all look like memes. Even if we don't act like that. |
| I just think it’s cringey when people refer to themselves as a “weeb”, even more so with “otaku” since I’m pretty sure in Japan it means you’re someone with no social life and only watches anime / reads manga. |
| I don't like the word weeb, I still don't know how it even came to be. I prefer otaku which means "nerd" in Japanese. And since I consider myself to be a nerd, it fits. |
| I don't care if it creates more gatekeeping and all that. I just hate the sound of the damn word. |
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Zeroflamez said: Nikiforova said: Nope, it's a genuine question. Calling themselves weeaboo is just one of many cringe-worthy actions anime fans take part in, and honestly - it doesn't bother me a bit. It's their life and I don't see how it will affect me or you or any other anime fan. I tried to make a joke. Woosh. unfortunately lol. I personally don't care what Anime fans call themselves. I just don't really like the idea of a vocal minority/majority constantly calling themselves weebs and romanticizing cringe activities and behaviors all over the internet so openly. Kind of makes us all look like memes. Even if we don't act like that. Yeah, good luck with trying to make a joke out of a statement that was interesting around 2016. Anime community is not the only one that has this kind of 'problems.' At one point you'll reach the stage where you just enjoy in anime/manga without giving a damn about vocal minority/majority that shares the same hobby. |
| "Weeb has also become popular outside of 4chan. Whereas on 4chan weeb is meant as a harsh insult, it is usually used jokingly on other social media sites to describe someone as an ardent fan of Japanese culture. Some people even proudly self-identify as weebs." The definition and the use of Weeb/Weeaboo has changed. As simple as that. Normie, Anime fan, Weeblet, Weeb, Veteran Weeb. These are titles given to anime fans according to how experienced one is when it comes to anime. I don't see whats wrong with it and I don't understand why are you so bothered by it? These are literally joke titles given to people to determine how much experience does one have in anime, most of the time use it in a joking manner, or make memes with it. People around the anime community have made it a running gag when normies call anyone and everyone a weeb, people just started saying "Yeah, we are weebs, so what?" thats it. The reason why Otaku is cringe worthy is because Otaku is a term that is explicitly used in Japan, only the Japanese people can say that. So yeah when some outsider declares themselves to be an otaku, its cringe. I'm starting to think that the MAL community is the cringe part of the anime community filled with people with superiority complex. I've already seen this thread twice, becoming salty cause of one simple issue, Jesus, grow up please. |
| 私は禁止されています、これは偽のアカウントです |
| Reminds me of a guy who made a yt cringe video about furries only to be flooded by furries in the comm section who very much enjoyed the video. |
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| Weeb? nah boi, disgusting creep is where it's at. |
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| Because the anime community's sense of humor is limited to HA LOOK AT ME AREN'T I IRONIC AND SELF-AWARE PLEASE DON'T JUDGE ME I DON'T TAKE THINGS SERIOUSLY HAHA See also: "(not anime) is my favorite anime!" and "Anime was a mistake - miyazaki haha" Everyone being a weeb is an extension of that mentality. Nothing more, nothing less. Shit is aids, trying hard not to look cringey only makes you look more cringey |
ManabanAug 25, 2020 4:27 AM
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| The easiest way to disarm a word like weeb is to show that it doesn't mean anything. Embrace it . It's a meme. Just like 4chan anons dividing themselves in oldfags and newfags. They don't take the term faggot serious. |
| I LOATHE the term. People misuse it like there's no tomorrow and it even sounds really stupid. Just let it fcking die. I just call myself a 'geek', 'nerd', 'fangirl' etc. |
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| "The more I live, the more I despise being an obvious ironic piece of shit." Well I know quoting oneself may come across as sucking one's own dick, which frankly I don't really mind. But never have I said anything more accurately to encapsulate my current stance on this shitty ironic personality that has zero satire value due to its impressionable obviousness. Anyway, this is to say that I honestly believe these people you were mentioning are only being quirky ironic characterless hoi polloi. It's been some time now since they think being outwardly self-aware would make people accept them. I honestly don't think they even think it's cool, or uncool. It's not even about that at all. Moreover, the amount of people doing so is never concerning to me. So can't say this is even a problem in the first place. |
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Nikiforova said: Zeroflamez said: I tried to make a joke. Woosh. unfortunately lol. I personally don't care what Anime fans call themselves. I just don't really like the idea of a vocal minority/majority constantly calling themselves weebs and romanticizing cringe activities and behaviors all over the internet so openly. Kind of makes us all look like memes. Even if we don't act like that. Yeah, good luck with trying to make a joke out of a statement that was interesting around 2016. Anime community is not the only one that has this kind of 'problems.' At one point you'll reach the stage where you just enjoy in anime/manga without giving a damn about vocal minority/majority that shares the same hobby. You asked me if it's more cringe to have a dakimura pillow or an ahegao shirt than it is to call yourself a weeb and I said someone calling themselves a weeb likely does all 3. That was the joke but I guess you're a stick in the mud? Yeah sure, you can not give a damn but when you're apart of any group a vocal minority/majority is the representation of the entire group. So it can potentially lead you to be judged prematurely by saying you're apart of said group. Hentry said: "Weeb has also become popular outside of 4chan. Whereas on 4chan weeb is meant as a harsh insult, it is usually used jokingly on other social media sites to describe someone as an ardent fan of Japanese culture. Some people even proudly self-identify as weebs." The definition and the use of Weeb/Weeaboo has changed. As simple as that. Normie, Anime fan, Weeblet, Weeb, Veteran Weeb. These are titles given to anime fans according to how experienced one is when it comes to anime. I don't see whats wrong with it and I don't understand why are you so bothered by it? These are literally joke titles given to people to determine how much experience does one have in anime, most of the time use it in a joking manner, or make memes with it. People around the anime community have made it a running gag when normies call anyone and everyone a weeb, people just started saying "Yeah, we are weebs, so what?" thats it. The reason why Otaku is cringe worthy is because Otaku is a term that is explicitly used in Japan, only the Japanese people can say that. So yeah when some outsider declares themselves to be an otaku, its cringe. I'm starting to think that the MAL community is the cringe part of the anime community filled with people with superiority complex. I've already seen this thread twice, becoming salty cause of one simple issue, Jesus, grow up please. Did you even read my post? I really would consider re-reading my post if you even read it before making a response. Also you sure sound like the salty one. I'm starting to think that the MAL community is the cringe part of the anime community filled with people with superiority complex. I've already seen this thread twice, becoming salty cause of one simple issue, Jesus, grow up please Why are YOU bothered by me questioning it? You even say that I somehow have a superiority complex and I'm "cringe" because of it. Yet you're the one getting triggered by me not wanting to be apart of your joke. If anything you and people like you are the cringe part of this community. Expecting Fans to just conform to whatever you guys think is funny throwing labels at everyone and getting defensive when people don't want to be apart of it and question it. DirtyPeasant said: Out of all the things the general public got wrong, one thing they never fail to do correctly is judging weebs. I used to think they were wrong until I opened up CE. If you think CE is bad go into CD, the first I went into CD I had to detox from the amount dumb shit I read. Preachee said: "The more I live, the more I despise being an obvious ironic piece of shit." Well I know quoting oneself may come across as sucking one's own dick, which frankly I don't really mind. But never have I said anything more accurately to encapsulate my current stance on this shitty ironic personality that has zero satire value due to its impressionable obviousness. Anyway, this is to say that I honestly believe these people you were mentioning are only being quirky ironic characterless hoi polloi. It's been some time now since they think being outwardly self-aware would make people accept them. I honestly don't think they even think it's cool, or uncool. It's not even about that at all. Moreover, the amount of people doing so is never concerning to me. So can't say this is even a problem in the first place. That kind of humor is only funny for so long. Eventually it becomes unfunny and when these people continue to do it thinking it's funny, from the outside it really starts to look like they just want attention and are making fun of themselves at the expense of it. Chiibi said: I LOATHE the term. People misuse it like there's no tomorrow and it even sounds really stupid. Just let it fcking die. I just call myself a 'geek', 'nerd', 'fangirl' etc. At first I could see the satire but now it's just become tragic. It's kind of like the kid at school who makes fun of themselves for attention at this point. |
| I believe it has to do with the recent surge of popularity that anime has gotten. Anime fans are more comfortable with expressing themselves. It's usually just irony, and anyone who does take it seriously is probably fucking weird. |
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Zeroflamez said: Nikiforova said: Yeah, good luck with trying to make a joke out of a statement that was interesting around 2016. Anime community is not the only one that has this kind of 'problems.' At one point you'll reach the stage where you just enjoy in anime/manga without giving a damn about vocal minority/majority that shares the same hobby. You asked me if it's more cringe to have a dakimura pillow or an ahegao shirt than it is to call yourself a weeb and I said someone calling themselves a weeb likely does all 3. That was the joke but I guess you're a stick in the mud? Yeah sure, you can not give a damn but when you're apart of any group a vocal minority/majority is the representation of the entire group. So it can potentially lead you to be judged prematurely by saying you're apart of said group. You realize that I wanted to say that your joke was funny back in 2016 when anitubers overused it or do I have to explain it to you? Anyway, as I stated already, how about stop giving a damn? You are losing your nerves and time over something you can't change instead of just enjoying your hobby. As for people who are judging you, again, why would you care? If someone will judge you based on vocal majority (which seriously is not that bad in anime community - vocal majority here is actually made up of shounen/seinen lovers) I don't think that their opinion should be relevant to you at all. |
Iune said: I myself prefer to be called a beew. It sounds even cooler. Well, I beew anime so it's kind of accurate. |
| I never thought weeb can be cool (lol). I know people called them disgusting weebs or normies its pretty much insult btw I'm proud to be weeb. |
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| They are called ironic weebs. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ironic%20Weeaboo |
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