a weeb, or weaboo, is a non japanese person who fetishizes japanese culture and people. usually they’re white, and it’s a lot more harmful when they’re white. i do not like the term koreaboo bc it’s appropriating a word that was unique to the japanese struggle. go find your own word.
first of all, it’s not my obligation to go through the ‘am i a weeb’ bingo card with you. i’ve got better shit to do with my time. but for some reason i’ve decided to be patient and answer some of these asks so read this and if you still don’t have an answer you may ask me in a respectful manner. do know that i am not obligated to answer you kindly or at all, since i deal with this shit on a daily basis.
being able to choose to learn a language that is not yours and not face harassment for it is an immense act of privilege. read this and draw your own conclusions.
guess what! white people don’t get to decide what’s racist and what’s not. and non japanese people don’t get to decide what’s japanese appropriation, and what’s not. read this.
anime is gross. yup, you heard me. anime started off as an art style in japan characterized by animation and bright colors and voiceovers. but it’s devolved into this gross, pedophilic, imperialist spectacle that’s marked towards white people, specifically old white men. and it’s fucking gross as hell.
how many times have you seen images where the background turns to sun rays to show motivation? that’s a direct reference to the rising sun flag, otherwise known as the flag that was used during ww ii. the flag that was flown while the asian holocaust happened. while unit 731 happened. while comfort women were exploited. how many times have you seen that in your precious shows?
attack on titan? imperialist propaganda. ouran highschool host club? portrays feminists as nazis. hetalia? once again, imperialist propaganda, and the creator thinks that asia should be under imperial japan’s rule. how many times have you seen sexualized little girls in anime? how many times have you seen racist caricatures of korean and chinese people in anime?
the anime industry is literally built off of the remnants of imperial japan. it is built off of the dehumanization of korean and chinese people. it is built off of fetishization, off of rape, off of pedophilia. so we’re starting off with a disgusting, harmful industry and the effects only serve to amplify that.
japanese people are being raped, sexually assaulted, and harassed by white people with “”yellow fever”” in our own countries, wherever that may be. yellow fever existed before anime, but it was mainly confined to crusty old white men. but now? now it’s spread to young teenagers, and i see so much of that in the queer/trans community and it breaks my fucking heart. little children are being stalked by weebs with ‘loli’ or ‘shotacon’ fetishes. my white classmates look at me and call me ‘senpai,’ ‘haru-chan,’ different fucking names of anime characters because to them all i will ever be is an anime character. so i side eye anyone who says they enjoy anime, because how can you enjoy a product of a system that is so goddamn awful?
I do not like anime. I do not like the industry or its products. go read this.
If i didn’t address your weeb related question here, it’s probably over in my ‘am i a weeb’ tag. go look over there first.
stop policing my expressions of frustration against an oppressive system that has caused me to hate myself. this is my personal blog and i deserve a break from dealing with racist white people, but for some goddamn reason i have chosen to take my precious time and educate you. so be fucking grateful that i even bothered to respond to your ask and don’t even fucking dare police my tone. i have no obligation to deal with your bullshit.