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

[Dom Cruise]

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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.

I never said it isn't still a thing, I just said weebs are more self conscious and self deprecating now, the certain innocence it had in 2005 isn't really the way it is now.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Kpop aka Koreaboos fans are the new weebs tbh.

And the funny thing is that the modern day K-pop songs pale in comparison the songs made in the 90’s and 2000’s.

If it’s not BTS, NXT-127 or Blackpink, then they’re not even going to give it a chance.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

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 unironically like the Girugamesh guy, though, I've come to embrace that kind of cringe. Wonder what he's been up to.

I think the weebs have fallen in one of two camps. They've either just mellowed out while still having fond memories of their favorites, or they've become bitter "critics" (SJWs or not) who bitch about modern anime not being to their standards or how it's "not the same" because it had to go mainstream. Something about newer/younger fans gives off a "meh, it's cool" feel when it comes to their approach to anime now that it's no longer shameful to watch it, but even like before, they're still getting into slapfights about their animu, but it's not really in good fun anymore? You'll get some shitposts, but on the opposite end they can get really vicious and take personal offense to someone talking smack about their favorite show (see: the shitshow that was OPM fans on MAL).

The rise of anitubers and other online communities on top of extensive weeaboo documentation may have allowed for anime fans to chill out, but social media slapfights and headbutting ideologies/headcanons can get nasty. Also the con scene had to go through changes to ensure a more "safe" environment, even though I don't think much has changed in that department outside of no longer hearing about glomp attacks and yaoi paddles.

 

[Creep3r]

They all trooned out.

Just look at any gross famous weeb on youtube. Digibro is probably the most famous example.

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.

Pretty much this. Weebs have either moved on either because they realized they can't be NEETs all their lives or they're contrarians that got mad after weeb shit went mainstream, while others have just moved on to other creepy crap to obsess over like trooning out. It also doesn't help that most anime nowadays is just made up of boring high school slice of life moe garbage and those that aren't that and do seem good usually have either shit endings or go to shit halfway.

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

It got mainstream simple as that. Maybe I'm too much of a zoomer for this topic, but when I was in highschool watching anime was still considered cringe largely. I would wear lowkey anime shirts(like a basic symbol or something), but I never openly talked about it with the majority of my classmates. My friends even gave me shit for it, though it was mostly jokes. Come graduation and the transition to college my whole friend group seemingly out of nowhere got into anime, choosing harem anime as their entry for some reason?(don't get me wrong theres some decent harem anime but most of it is utter shit).

3 years later and my little brother was a senior at my old highschool, him and his friends were far from social outcasts and they all openly talked about watching anime. Like they would just discuss it without anyone batting an eye. I would cringe anytime one of my classmates brought it up because it was usually some sped making a fool of themselves, and just 3 years later it was totally normal.

 

[I Love Beef]

Pretty much this. Weebs have either moved on either because they realized they can't be NEETs all their lives or they're contrarians that got mad after weeb shit went mainstream, while others have just moved on to other creepy crap to obsess over like trooning out. It also doesn't help that most anime nowadays is just made up of boring high school slice of life moe garbage and those that aren't that and do seem good usually have either shit endings or go to shit halfway.

If you ask me, it's practically the 2008 Great Recession. Nothing is like a hard time like economic hardship. Everyone's still feeling its effects and probably nothing kills artistic pursuits better than to get people to worry about their survival and money.

Another perspective from me is that weeaboos practically killed themselves in the long run. Putting Japan up on a pedestal and thinking you can't make anime anywhere else was one of the bullets.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Where did all the weeaboos go?

They moved to Japan, made a fortune teaching English, married 12-year-olds with breasts the size and shape of volleyballs, and lived happily ever after.

 

[Maurice Caine]

They're all on discord.

 

[polyqueerandrosensual]

They got replaced by the jigaboos.

Fuck no.

Also back when I was on Facebook, I had to block this obnoxious Injun because he thought "weeaboo" was a slur for niggos and kept trynna get me zuccd. Thank God I quit that shithole.

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.

True, now there's so many monthly subscription services to have nip shit delivered right to your door.

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.

It was always popular to bully you guys lmao, you were just oblivious to it, then finally gained awareness after what seemed like an eternity.

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.

Anyone here remember the whole MRirian saga on early YouTube??? She was an early af lolcow. Wonder what happened to her.

Kpop aka Koreaboos fans are the new weebs tbh.

They're bland normies who obsess over their favorite boy bands or girl groups. Oh and sometimes mukbangs. Korea just doesn't have anything degenerate enough to be interesting.

They became wehraboos

I wanna meet a wehraboo.

Kabuki theatre > Anime
Don’t @ me

Bucket list to go see a Kabuki performance tbh.

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.

I hate how much I relate to this shit. I deleted social media because I felt so out of place and like I couldn't relate anymore.

And the funny thing is that the modern day K-pop songs pale in comparison the songs made in the 90’s and 2000’s.

If it’s not BTS, NXT-127 or Blackpink, then they’re not even going to give it a chance.

In addition to being boring, Koreaboos can only name like 5 bands of the thing they supposedly obsess over, and they all look and sound the same, and are wannabe niggos.

They moved to Japan, made a fortune teaching English, married 12-year-olds with breasts the size and shape of volleyballs, and lived happily ever after.

Jap wimmin be flat as paper though lol.

Also gonna add that Western animation has tons of fandoms now that it previously didn't. Originally, it was for kids, or the" adult animated sitcoms" that 10 year olds watched to feel rebellious, like South Park.

In addition, Western animation expanded its influences and audience, so now adults watch daytime Cartoon Network stuff.

So anime lost a bit of its niche.

 

[White Girl]

They're bland normies who obsess over their favorite boy bands or girl groups. Oh and sometimes mukbangs. Korea just doesn't have anything degenerate enough to be interesting.

Have you seen how crazy the fans are? They're 20x worse than western celebrity fanbases. They go to extreme lengths to stalk their icons like buying private info to sit on the same jet as their stars. https://www.koreaboo.com/lists/btss-distressing-encounters-sasaengs-went-far/

 

[draggs]

Null's tough border enforcement must be working

 

[DiscoRodeo]

With modern 1080p Youtube and Google Maps, Japan is merely a click away, meaning that it's shed its mythical status from exposure.

Ah, I know what youre saying, but I remember watching 200+ episodes of Naruto on youtube back in the day in the mid 2000s. It was a different time. I don't think it was so much the technology or websites which enabled things, but more that anime had to be subbed & translated first that dictated access.

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.

This. What I currently am into is more manga than anime. I havn't seen a show that really captivated me in a long time. Last show I was really into was probably Re:Zero, but as a guilty pleasure more than anything else. The anime that are coming out and have been just have zero interest to me, and its very different from the shonen that used to be released. Ill look at shows like Great Teacher Onizuka or Goldenboy and really its quite nostalgic.

Just saw different groups of weebs multiple points this past week doing some cosplay thing somewhere around Seattle.

Cosplay is an interesting thing. I think its somewhat been unironically culturally appropriated by the average person, and it means very little to me anymore. There is also Thotplay too, but- as loserish as this is, the average weeb is probably very dysfunctional, nerdy, and not good at social things or looking good. Cosplay got amped up when normal people got into it, and instead of some weird kid pulling out a soul reaper uniform and you and them laughing because its an inside joke, now, its meh. Not an inside joke anymore.

 

[God of Nothing]

Anime went mainstream, repetitive almost willfully derivative shit came out in mass, and every show started getting a whack ass English dub.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

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.

A mix of both. Also, being a hardcore weeb, at least in HS now, isn't a one way ticket to an ass kicking. It was when I was there. Those are now reserved for troons and furry wannabes.

Fuck no.

Also back when I was on Facebook, I had to block this obnoxious Injun because he thought "weeaboo" was a slur for niggos and kept trynna get me zuccd. Thank God I quit that shithole.

True, now there's so many monthly subscription services to have nip shit delivered right to your door.

It was always popular to bully you guys lmao, you were just oblivious to it, then finally gained awareness after what seemed like an eternity.

Anyone here remember the whole MRirian saga on early YouTube??? She was an early af lolcow. Wonder what happened to her.

They're bland normies who obsess over their favorite boy bands or girl groups. Oh and sometimes mukbangs. Korea just doesn't have anything degenerate enough to be interesting.

I wanna meet a wehraboo.

Bucket list to go see a Kabuki performance tbh.

I hate how much I relate to this shit. I deleted social media because I felt so out of place and like I couldn't relate anymore.

In addition to being boring, Koreaboos can only name like 5 bands of the thing they supposedly obsess over, and they all look and sound the same, and are wannabe niggos.

Jap wimmin be flat as paper though lol.

Also gonna add that Western animation has tons of fandoms now that it previously didn't. Originally, it was for kids, or the" adult animated sitcoms" that 10 year olds watched to feel rebellious, like South Park.

In addition, Western animation expanded its influences and audience, so now adults watch daytime Cartoon Network stuff.

So anime lost a bit of its niche.

Uhh sir, Japanese women can and do have rocking tits and amazing asses.

Now as for wherabos, go to ANY WW2 reenactment, WW2 airplane/vehicle showcase that features at least some German gear, and certain Military surplus stores that have a LOT of German MILSURP.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Space Dandy was the last good anime.

 

[L50LasPak]

The people who called weeb shit a fad turned out to be right. I thought it was here to stay too, but it faded away into the larger cosmos of internet obessions. Now there's just too much shit competing for people's attention for weebs to keep up. Furries and shippers have publicly visible profiles on Twitter and get into arguements with celebrities for fuck's sake. Having an unhealthy obession with shit isn't even considered out of the ordinary anymore, its just the norm and people accept it like it was always a thing. You might as well be a boomer asking where all of the Trekkies have gone.

 

[I Love Beef]

The people who called weeb shit a fad turned out to be right. I thought it was here to stay too, but it faded away into the larger cosmos of internet obessions.

I wouldn't know about calling anime a fad. A fad is the kind of thing that has little to any significance on the culture other than as a brief and shallow curiosity and novelty. A trend or a boom? I'd call it that. Despite everyone's unwarranted self shame, anime was what reminded everyone that animation and comics could be written for just about anyone and be a legitimate medium while making detractors eat words and look like fucking idiots and dick sucking censorship apologists and sympathizers. Don't even get me started on video games either.

As much as denouncing cartoons and western animation as a whole is pretty fucking stupid, anime, in all of its forms and styles, was the medium that shook shit up, took names, and kicked the morality thumpers in the teeth before telling them to fuck off by the turn of the millennium in and out of Japan, and reminded everyone again that this is what creative freedom and expression looks, sounds, feels, smells, and tastes like. That's what got all of the fans during the boom wanting to create their own anime shit.

I admit though, that lesson is taking quite a bit of a while for others to soak up and comprehend. Weeaboos, on the other hand, like that song by The Offspring, were nothing but posers who "HEY HEY DO THAT BRAND NEW THING".

 

[L50LasPak]

I wouldn't know about calling anime a fad. A fad is the kind of thing that has little to any significance on the culture other than as a brief and shallow curiosity and novelty. A trend or a boom? I'd call it that. Despite everyone's unwarranted self shame, anime was what reminded everyone that animation and comics could be written for just about anyone and be a legitimate medium while making detractors eat words and look like fucking idiots and dick sucking censorship apologists and sympathizers. Don't even get me started on video games either.

As much as denouncing cartoons and western animation as a whole is pretty fucking stupid, anime, in all of its forms and styles, was the medium that shook shit up, took names, and kicked the morality thumpers in the teeth before telling them to fuck off by the turn of the millennium in and out of Japan, and reminded everyone again that this is what creative freedom and expression looks, sounds, feels, smells, and tastes like. That's what got all of the fans during the boom wanting to create their own anime shit.

I admit though, that lesson is taking quite a bit of a while for others to soak up and comprehend. Weeaboos, on the other hand, like that song by The Offspring, were nothing but posers who "HEY HEY DO THAT BRAND NEW THING".

I don't really disagree with this, but I wanted to clarify that I meant weebery was the fad, not anime as a whole, which is inarguably here to stay.

Though on second thought anime has seen something of a decline lately, but overall its still a presence in pop culture especially amongst the younger generations.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

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.

120% of all anime I’ve been exposed to has nothing to do with Japan at all and, if anything, jerks off generic European folk tale settings instead. The waifus are all big titty blonde women with names like “Yakuza Hirohito” and shit like that. It’s completely detached from the culture that makes it, carries a feeling of even disinterest in it, and that makes it even more hatable if you’re somebody who likes Japan as a subject of study in itself.

 

[Cabelaz]

Sadly like all things we grew up! I always hid the fuck out of my anime powerlevel so it really wasn't much of a change to me.

Plus like other dudes have said, the industry kinda sucks nuts right now. Production values are at all time lows and outsourcing are at all time highs.
Any series of value is stuck in hiatus hell or is being milked like the cashcow they are.

I mainly only watch anime for the animation and styles of directors I like, so really the only anime related things I watch are music PV's or ads with ridiculously high budgets and values. It's kinda sad to see my favorite studios go under now and my favorite directors die. We will never get a 2005-2016 SHAFT again.
It's only so long before the industry implodes and (They) pick it up.