Where did all the weeaboos go? - Wheh dey @????

[polyqueerandrosensual]

I know they still exist, but they're nowhere near as common as they used to be. I'm referring to cringey anime-obsessed, speak random Japanese sentences, have a dream life in some idealized utopic version of Tokyo, borderline lolcow material. They used to be everywhere. Their peak years were I'd say 2006-2009, then they declined and now you never hear of them, except the occasional troon cow posted on here, or alt-rightards on Facetwit with a waifu pfp.

The anime fans I find now are too fucking self aware, call themselves weebs as a joke, and seem to have social skills. Kinda boring.

Oh and don't even bring up Koreaboos and K-pop stans, they're boring af and cannot hold a candle to weebs.

A part of me wants to say that the whole "cultural appropriation" thing curbed them a bit, but they were mostly gone before that point (and it does stop Koreebs from being as rampant). So idk if it was just yet another fad dying down or what.

I can also say that maybe widespread video streaming and social media usage made Japanese stuff become so commonly known about, that weebs abandoned the tryhard attitude because their niche got overexposed.

Or maybe they were all bullied out of it.

Thoughts?

 

[Captain Fitzbattleaxe]

They all trooned out.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

They went away when Joji made a song about it.

 

[Geralt of Rivia]

Anime just sucks these days, it's either boring, mediocre or flat out terrible/disappointing, at least in my opinion. I would say it's either so mainstream that weebs are more common than ever and we've adjusted to it, or they had to get jobs and learn how to be functional because the parents couldn't tolerate them being in the house anymore.

 

[furūtsu]

They either became normal adults or adapted and moved on to the next trend.

The increasing homogeneity of the Internet and pop culture in general means that liking anime (at least, the more common ones) has become entirely acceptable and mainstream, as with most "nerd" hobbies. Easy access to media, as you mentioned, stripped away the sekret club aspect of it as well, depriving weebism of its allure for the social rejects who used to enjoy it as a way of sticking it to all the Chads and Stacies of the world. The equivalent of weebs who engaged in it as autistic rebellion would be edgy Pepe-spamming Discord Zoomers today.

As for the crazily obsessed aspects-remnants of that can be found in the Kin and Plural communities. Instead of claiming to be a reincarnated Japanese himesama goddess and be ridiculed by the internet at large, you can now say you kin with Deku or share a headspace with the entire cast of Demon Slayer and be told that's totally heccin valid my dude. It's ableist to tell those people they're insane now, so they gather in cesspools on every social media platform and infest fandoms.

 

[Kyururu-kun]

Yeah, Japan sucks tbh, they have interesting food, but even that has a lot gross stuff. I just like anime mostly for the cartoon aspect, much like Looney Tunes or Mickey Mouse or Duck Tales, etc.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave]

A complete lack of gatekeeping meant Normies overran the Weeaboos, and with the Normies came the Tumblr crowd. The traditional Weeaboo either became somewhat self aware and mellowed out over the years, or got sucked into the alphabet soup group.

Add in Anime becoming more mainstream - guess people started getting sick of nothing but cape shit and reboots - and the unfortunate Isekai boom pumping out some actual garbage (thanks SAO), Weeaboos don't stick out as much anymore compared to the other crazies online.

 

[Bad Gateway]

Look around you, fucking weeaboo

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

We're afraid of being called cultural fetishists or some shit and the mob coming for us

 

[mr.moon1488]

They got replaced by the jigaboos.

 

[DumbDude42]

anime nerds are still alive and well but they are more self-aware (and 'ironic') now. there is less obsession with IRL japan in general now, instead the focus has shifted more towards obsessive anime escapism (waifuism especially)
it has also changed much more towards being entirely on the internet. no more anime clubs at school or college, instead theyve all moved to imageboards, discord servers, and even twitter.

 

[jje100010001]

Aren't they still there but now scattered across the political spectrum?



But yeah, like what everyone else has been saying, I guess the Millennials that formed the core weeaboo community grew up and moved away from anime, and anime became more mainstream and less culturally prominent/iconic in this day and age. So as such, there's still weeaboos (you can always find them at fan conventions), but they're more evenly mixed into the whole fan culture now.

I think the 90s-early 2000s weeaboo culture was born of a specific time and age when anime was becoming widely available but social media and modern internet hadn't taken over yet. As such, you had anime as a cultural product of Japan, but it still took some effort to travel to it, meaning that it was perpetually out of reach as some anime holy land. With modern 1080p Youtube and Google Maps, Japan is merely a click away, meaning that it's shed its mythical status from exposure.

 

[Ikvion]

In the early 2010s, it became popular to make fun of weeaboos, so weeaboos started becoming self aware and dropped most of their cringe behavior. I was a weeaboo in high school, and I remember my friend group having this "Am I a weeaboo?" phase where we all realized we were acting like stereotypes and stopped. Maybe that's just the process of growing up though, like others have suggested.

 

[Dom Cruise]

We were forced to become more self aware due to mockery, once that fucking Sakura Con ad came out in 2009 it was pretty much over as far as what it used to be goes.

I miss the more innocent days of it though, I would say the peak years weren't 2006-2009 but 2003-2007, 2009 is when a backlash really grew against weeaboos with the aforementioned Sakura Con ad being one of the reasons why.

There's also the fact that anime itself just isn't in as exciting a place as it once was, modern anime isn't bad but there is less risk taking than there used to be, compare something like My Hero Academia to the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime and MHA definitely seems bland and not as bold as FMA was with it's political content.

It's just a bit bland at the moment, nobody's really trying to push things as far as they tried to push it in the past, it's a lot more "settled in" if you know what I mean and less experimental, you're not really seeing real out there stuff like Paranoia Agent or Serial Experiments Lain anymore.

Weeb culture of the 1990s and 2000s is one of my big obsessions in life.

 

[White Girl]

Kpop aka Koreaboos fans are the new weebs tbh.

 

[Lemmingwise]

They became wehraboos

 

[Mnutu]

We were forced to become more self aware due to mockery, once that fucking Sakura Con ad came out in 2009 it was pretty much over as far as what it used to be goes.

I miss the more innocent days of it though, I would say the peak years weren't 2006-2009 but 2003-2007, 2009 is when a backlash really grew against weeaboos with the aforementioned Sakura Con ad being one of the reasons why.

There's also the fact that anime itself just isn't in as exciting a place as it once was, modern anime isn't bad but there is less risk taking than there used to be, compare something like My Hero Academia to the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime and MHA definitely seems bland and not as bold as FMA was with it's political content.

It's just a bit bland at the moment, nobody's really trying to push things as far as they tried to push it in the past, it's a lot more "settled in" if you know what I mean and less experimental, you're not really seeing real out there stuff like Paranoia Agent or Serial Experiments Lain anymore.

Weeb culture of the 1990s and 2000s is one of my big obsessions in life.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

Kabuki theatre > Anime
Don’t @ me

 

[Megaroad 2012]

We were forced to become more self aware due to mockery, once that fucking Sakura Con ad came out in 2009 it was pretty much over as far as what it used to be goes.

I miss the more innocent days of it though, I would say the peak years weren't 2006-2009 but 2003-2007, 2009 is when a backlash really grew against weeaboos with the aforementioned Sakura Con ad being one of the reasons why.

There's also the fact that anime itself just isn't in as exciting a place as it once was, modern anime isn't bad but there is less risk taking than there used to be, compare something like My Hero Academia to the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime and MHA definitely seems bland and not as bold as FMA was with it's political content.

It's just a bit bland at the moment, nobody's really trying to push things as far as they tried to push it in the past, it's a lot more "settled in" if you know what I mean and less experimental, you're not really seeing real out there stuff like Paranoia Agent or Serial Experiments Lain anymore.

Weeb culture of the 1990s and 2000s is one of my big obsessions in life.

this whole post is literally what and go out more. Just saw different groups of weebs multiple points this past week doing some cosplay thing somewhere around Seattle.

People dunked on the ad and made memes yeah but lol if that had any effect.

 

[Videowatcher69]

They went where all the atheists went. Into introspective coma.
People are fucking old now man. 9gag is a good example, they are all old fucks who use memes from 10 years ago. Its more clear than ever to spot age on the internet if you ask me.

But seriously, ya, they grew up. Those two guys who filmed themselves LARPing kingdom hearts in a parking lot? Probably married with kids now. Or pursuing a career. Or if they ARE still a weeb, they are a doomer shut in who never expresses themselves anymore because they grew up and realized how spergy and cringe they were. Forever living in a perpetual state of misery since they know they can't express who they are, while at the same time desperately wanting to. Kinda like actual pedophiles. Or, or, they became progressive lefty's. OR.....orrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Hear me out. They became kiwi farmers...As a self deprecating semi weeb myself. The levels of weeb hate I have glimpsed here makes me think everyone here has done the caramel dancing or haruhi dance in their house a few times over. Or at the very least practiced a kamehameha, at least 10 times in their life; I only did the later 5 times and was tricked into the former...I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking about the former...I physically convulse whenever I conciously remember it...like right now, it just gave me a charlie horse.

Atheists, hm, I would say they refocused efforts on politics rather than religion (anti sjw's).

TLDR: They got old.