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

[Mr Pancakes]

They all overdosed on ramen and pocky.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Anime sucks now so weebs stopped liking Japan.

Personally, what’s really funny to me is that this year’s season for anime related shows in 2021 is actually good so far. There’s a lot of diverse, interesting groups of genres that make the isekai and slice of life anime pretty good to watch. Even the idol/VTuber animes are pretty fun, to say the least.

They started to go all out consoom mode for Western Woke media instead, i.e. The Last of Us 2.

I like to think that they only reason they do that is because they don’t like to read or appreciate manga. Most of the Western consumers for popular culture still read Marvel comics that have inserted way too many political/sexual themes that have nothing to do with the material.

 

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

The same place all the Potterheads went. They grew up and the world got smaller.

Back in the 2000s the internet was starting to explode and we should find out more about the world with a push of a button. But it was still around that time when people would know very little of a country outside a movie or testbook on a war decades ago. You can explore Tokyo on Google maps today to which back in the 2000s what most people usually got out of Tokyo was on animes. So when you have all these crazy characters acting like they do and it's your only knowledge on said country you will assume it's really like that. Most of the former weeaboos today are also too busy. They have jobs and are starting to have families. They don't have the time and money to go to every con anymore. They probably haven't spoken to to anime club buddies from school in years. I was in anime club in high school and only talk to a few of the members from it now. And even then it's only once in a while. I'm sure they still like anime and manga but they now know Japan itself is not an anime. I'm guessing some Asians called them out on it and in tune of not being called racist they put a stop to it. While anime is still popular I don't think it's like it was during the boom. Just like Harry Potter it will always be popular and have fans but not like in it's heyday. It's the same with emos. When was the last time you saw a real emo? They wither grew up and moved on or they went to the next fad. I'm guessing many of them are the woke people now.

 

[Spangled Drongo]

Classic weeb-ism lives on in the form of online trannies, the type who overuse “uwu”, “nyaa” and go on about girldick. I’ve never seen anyone criticise them for it the way the weebs who called everything “kawaii desu!” were back in the day tho because being part of a group considered oppressed by the woke crowd protects them from criticism, but there definitely are similarities.

 

[Travoltron]

Back in the 2000s the internet was starting to explode and we should find out more about the world with a push of a button. But it was still around that time when people would know very little of a country outside a movie or testbook on a war decades ago. You can explore Tokyo on Google maps today to which back in the 2000s what most people usually got out of Tokyo was on animes. So when you have all these crazy characters acting like they do and it's your only knowledge on said country you will assume it's really like that.

If an anime is set in Japan, it is almost always set in Tokyo. So anime is a gross distortion of Tokyo culture. It doesn't really reflect Japan as a whole.

We have the same problem in American media where everything is set in either California or New York and foreigners think that's what America is.

 

[VIPPER?]

They got older and calmed the fuck down. The modern equivalent is zoomers who make pog faces for tik tok dances or whatever

 

[DungeonMaster]

 

[I Love Beef]

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[Ser Prize]

I miss when teenage cringe was LARPing kingdom hearts fanfiction in a parking lot and not cutting off your balls to appease discord admins.

 

[Sandraker]

You can break up your classic weebs into 2 categories really which mirrors today's standards.

The Fan and The Consumer.

Many of the anime and manga back when it was somewhat taboo was enjoyed by both, but the fan actually gave a shit beyond the eye candy digging deeper into the medium which honestly had plenty more gems at the time. The fan also would understand some of the more cultural relevance that it had at the time. Its some stuff you really had to know to get why it had so much impact. To them its more than just titties bouncing and action scenes. It was a work of art from a foreign land, so they still enjoy it to this day without all the teenage sperging in most cases. Comes with age.

The consumer is just the guy that you know today. Flash over everything and anime had alot of that, especially since the consumer more than likely wouldn't touch a manga. They're mostly what populate what we have in the broad social media (autism) spectrum today. Mindless guys that was always the weirdo, who today would have bland carbon copy personality waifu figures by the dozen. They drive the market and once all the quality left they stayed eating any of the shit left over from jp overworked masses.

I think one of the best ways to tell how a weeb is (along with their age) is their take on Jojo if they're not indifferent to it. You had to be a complete giant faggot to like it outside of the game when nobody even gave a fuck about these characters except knowing "funny road roller man" or if you watched the OVA. Fast forward to modern and you'd think its the second coming of christ the way it gets hyped up along the fact that the standard weeb consumer tries to sell you on the fact that all parts are good or some shit like that when not too long ago part 6 was considered a mess.

Now that degenerative behavior is pat on the back in the west and online most of them stick to their safe spaces without having the social interactions and embarrassments that come with it.

Weeb consumers are just as rampant as capeshit consumers which MHA is a golden goose for considering its obvious influences.

But as stated in this thread they moved on, got more mature, trooning out on Twitter/discord as they plague other entertainment mediums or in some cases are here being little kiwis.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Anime is mainstream now so weebs don't stand out as much.

 

[Retired Junta Member]

Japan isn’t that exotic anymore. Millennials are now looking for more exclusive, exotic and unexplored lands.

 

[celebrityskin]

Koreaboos are the obvious successors. Instead of Namie Amuro it's now BTS and Loona

 

[Red Hood]

They finally figured out they can't all be the next hokage and fought to the death until only one survived.

 

[AbyssStarer]

I haven't been a big anime fan or manga reader in a long time since I only liked the girl shit that barely cracks the top series on any list. Once the anime/manga phase was over for me I dove into J-music and have otherwise cooled off and mostly hide it from people (unless I'm blasting my imported CDs in my car.)
I've come to detest most weeaboos. They only care about Japanese culture as far as their precious cartoons take them, not even bothering with the music (unless it's from and anime), fine art, or literature there is to enjoy. Anime avatars have a stigma against them for damn good reason. Not even gonna touch on how many weebs are degens like coomers and stoners.

So yeah, their interest was really shallow and they grew out of it and or sequestered off into small cliques. Same will happen with the Koreaboos and MCYT fangirls you see now.

 

[Dom Cruise]

It really does break my heart how forgotten so many even once popular animes and mangas of the late 90s and early 2000s are today, I have been told that many younger weebs refuse to watch anything older than 2008 which damn, shit doesn't start getting really good until before that year, it's insane to me to think of people calling themselves anime fans but missing out on everything that is good.

I miss when teenage cringe was LARPing kingdom hearts fanfiction in a parking lot and not cutting off your balls to appease discord admins.

Indeed, that kind of stuff was a lot more charming compared to today's insanity, even more extreme examples like the Final Fantasy House is more charming than what you see today.

Trouble is so much of that sort of thing has been hijacked by radical politics where things used to be more for fun.

 

[Tranimal Farm]

They either trooned and 41%, or are at least on that waiting list, or they're black and so harder to automatically clock as weebs

 

[Lurk McDurk]

Found them...

 

[ToroidalBoat]

First there was the "Golden Age of anime" in America, circa 2000.

Then came the "weebs", circa the early '00s. Anime was marketed as "it's Japanese" in America.

Then came "weeb shaming" - and later identity politics - circa the late '00s.

I guess "weebs" went woke? Or like @From The Uncanny Valley said, they went subtle? Or as others said, tech oversaturation made everything bland and it's hard to keep up with trends? I think it's all 3.

Like @Dom Cruise said, seems "weeaboo" is a '00s thing that went the way of '00s culture when "social" media became a thing, paving the way for Clown World.

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

Seems the Cult of Woke doesn't want any escape from the West. Not even mentally.

But what they don't want you to know is Japanese usually don't mind foreigners interested in Japan.

(being full otaku openly is another story though)

 

[John Titor]

It really does break my heart how forgotten so many even once popular animes and mangas of the late 90s and early 2000s are today, I have been told that many younger weebs refuse to watch anything older than 2008 which damn, shit doesn't start getting really good until before that year, it's insane to me to think of people calling themselves anime fans but missing out on everything that is good.



Indeed, that kind of stuff was a lot more charming compared to today's insanity, even more extreme examples like the Final Fantasy House is more charming than what you see today.

Trouble is so much of that sort of thing has been hijacked by radical politics where things used to be more for fun.

Which is ironic in that JoJo is still an 80s-90s series that just happened to have an 2010s adaptation.