Plagued Waifu culture - Cartoon fuckpillows and the men (and women) who love them

This user is one of the more obsessive ones.
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I'm very familiar with this waifu stuff. It always baffled me that people would unironically call an anime character their "waifu" or what not. For one, it's super weird because the character isn't real. Also the character will probably fall in love with another character in the show. So that makes you a cuck of sorts. Cucked by a fictional character. How lame. I guess that's why I never bothered with having one. Oh and I also was around back when it was mostly a joke. Those pics of guys with body pillows "sitting" in front of a plate of food? Yeah that was a joke by /a/nons. It's even become a yearly thing. Some guys do it and forget about it for the rest of the year. Within that ironic section you have people who actually think that character they call their waifu is aware of them, almost like OPL/Chris-chan.

Weaboo cringe is even worse when you only sort of like anime. So this hits very close to home. I also happen to know many of the guys on Tohno-chan. Good peeps really.
 
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very cool awesome said:
This user is one of the more obsessive ones.
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Yes, you love Megumin so much that you have to let your discord be reminded of it every second. Gonna cast some doubt here: You don't love it in a way that's consequential. Going back to the Greeks, there was a statesman in history called Pericles, he loved a fictional person: Athena. Difference is, he embodied Athena, a paragon of wisdom, in action through his populist policies advocating art, literature and general education for the masses.

Point is, I don't see a demolitionist license. Hop to it chief.
 
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Negi Springfield said:
. Oh and I also was around back when it was mostly a joke. Those pics of guys with body pillows "sitting" in front of a plate of food? Yeah that was a joke by /a/nons.
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It wasn't a joke originally. It started as real, co-opted as an ironic joke, but then the shitposting anons got bored/grew old, and now it's back to being all real again.

As people have pointed out, "waifu" stuff has precedent stretching back to the Ancient Greeks - possibly not coincidentally, given how degenerate and libertine Greek culture was back then. However, the oldest really contemporary "waifu" stuff I can remember encountering online was the story of Rom the Space Knight. Sadly, the main page archive is borked, so I can't find the testimonials, but if I recall correctly, basically the story was like this -

back in 1982, a lonely dude found out about a comic book character named Rom the Space Knight. Something about Rom *clicked*. Lonely dude got really, really obsessed with Rom, to the point where he felt as though Rom was a real person, part of his actual family. Dude grows up, gets wife, has kids. A couple decades pass. Suddenly, from out of the blue, some comic book writers decide to kill off Rom. Lonely dude finds out, and doesn't take the news well. He suffers a mental breakdown. Like, a literal mental breakdown. Full-on PTSD! He falls into a depression, has constant nightmares about the incident. Eventually, his Rom flashbacks get so bad that it ends his IRL marriage. But then, when all seems lost, the dude has some sort of fever dream where Rom descends from heaven, hugs him, and tells him that everything will be alright; that Rom will never truly be dead, and will always be watching over him. This divine visitation from his husbando gives our hero a new lease on life, and he starts his own memorial website for Rom, in honor of his one true love.​
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That was all in 2002. Rom Guy is not the first person to get into waifuism, not by a long shot, but it is waifuism documented online from well before it became an /a/ meme.

IOnceWasAWaifuFag said:
From personal experience I agree with both of these points. What makes r/waifuism a genuinely horrible place to be in is not the degeneracy they practice but the cult-like mentality they force upon young and/or stupid people. How they'd like the members to experience it is, ironically, like rule 3, a hugblanket. The moderators want the users to depend on r/waifuism, That usually works for a time, until people start to branch out to other communities or they find out the hard way that the discord server is not the wonderful safe haven that's advertised.
It's always about being "comfy". Everyone has to be "comfy". Your delusions are completely valid no matter how extreme they are and no one can tell you otherwise because that wouldn't be "comfy".
"You are in a cult. You will have no outside relationships. You cannot leave." is actually the perfect way to sum it up. I knew people who stuck around in the community despite not being as willing to participate because they just felt like they couldn't leave. The place traps you. There are still people there right now that know the place sucks but can't bring themselves to leave. Because it's a cult and it has them by the neck. Where are you going to go to get people to validate your 'relationship' if you leave? There is no alternative. r/waifuism is the way. I escaped by dumb luck and despite that my activity here kind of proves that I can never escape it.
The truth is that if the community allowed people more freedom, there would be less people in it, because everyone would realise just how bad it really is. So it's an echo chamber, because I know that at least to one person in that server, the number of people in it actually matters. It's a trap.
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lol, shit man. ngl, I've noticed your username, and wondered if you actually had a story about this. Sorry to hear you went through that, and glad to hear you got out alive!

I actually had a waifu, too, back when I was a kid (maybe 10, 11 years old?). I didn't know about online waifu communities at the time, so I didn't get any positive reinforcement, and I grew out of that phase pretty quickly. But I notice a lot of the same patterns of thinking from testimonials on Waifu sites, and it's scary to see how easily impressionable young people can get sucked into Waifu and Otherkin cults.
 
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i think i watched a video back in the day about a japanese man who got married(idk if legally)to either a doll or his pillow waifu. So odd lol.

Also remember some hologram companion for sale in japan that talks to you and greets you. They (Japan) seem to have an awful lot of products of services (think cuddle cafes) catering to lonely, isolated men. Would be interesting to examine what makes the nation unique in that regard. Tons of shut ins called "hikkikomoris" too.
 
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gigglemilk said:
i think i watched a video back in the day about a japanese man who got married(idk if legally)to either a doll or his pillow waifu. So odd lol.

Also remember some hologram companion for sale in japan that talks to you and greets you. They (Japan) seem to have an awful lot of products of services (think cuddle cafes) catering to lonely, isolated men. Would be interesting to examine what makes the nation unique in that regard. Tons of shut ins called "hikkikomoris" too.
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Pretty sure it was this dude


They even made an anime about renting a girlfriend.
 
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Vingle said:
Pretty sure it was this dude


They even made an anime about renting a girlfriend.
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lol yes thats it, unless theres more than one which frankly wouldnt shock me at this point

the gatebox thing had the potential to be cool, like an alexa to control lights and stuff at home, maybe as some sort of help for depressed ppl like an ai chatbot, but its weird they made it an anime girl living in a bubble lmao, and the way the guy speaks to it in the ad is hilarious.
 
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Negi Springfield said:
Oh and I also was around back when it was mostly a joke. Those pics of guys with body pillows "sitting" in front of a plate of food? Yeah that was a joke by /a/nons.
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There were people who joked about it but it wasn't seen as a joke overall by /a/ and in fact the people who didn't take it seriously were shit on for just being new people trying to get in on a "quirky trend", this was especially apparent during valentines and Christmas where people who posted pictures but didn't put in enough effort were dogpiled for it. I think a lot of people forget 10+ years ago 4chan was sigifcantly more genuine than it is today, especially boards like /a/ that were incredibly elitist and proud of their board culture. It wasn't until moot came in and had to outright crack down on /a/'s self moderation did the board spiral into just becoming reddit/tumblr/MAL
 
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Today's spotlight on the r/waifuism discord.
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"scared and alone on a cargo ship" that they likely entered of their own accord

"fight for her survival in a crew of equally hostile people" as those people run for their lives, with their only method of possibly killing it being releasing an airlock


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perfect daughter material


you know, until she makes you a mom
 
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