• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        You realize weebs are losers there too right?

        They have plenty of non-anime related entertainment

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          5 months ago

          Look, I know there exists a certain stereotype of the “Weeb”, as an overweight bearded man obsessed with Anime, unemployed, living in his parent’s basement surrounded by hentai posters and waifu body pillows. I’ve met this kind of person before, they do exist.

          But this is still just a stereotype, and it absolutely does not apply to the vast majority of Anime watchers. I know plenty of professionally and socially successful people who love geeking out about Anime. It’s really hard to think of any of them as losers.

          The real losers I’ve met in life are the intensely negative assholes that always have an excuse for hating other people. The people who decide that everyone who likes something they don’t must be stupid. Nothing says “loser” like your brand of antisocial close-mindedness.

          If it makes you feel better thinking everyone else is a loser, more power to you, but everyone else sees who the real loser is.

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          5 months ago

          To be a loser, you must first lose something. Like your sense of wonder and virginity.

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          5 months ago

          Strange, because Wikipedia tells me that the highest-grossing Japanese film in Japan of all time was an anime, as were the next five and most of the others on the list:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Japanese_films#Highest-grossing_Japanese_films_in_Japan

          That’s a whole lot of losers for one small country.

          Of course, that’s just the highest-grossing Japanese film in Japan. The highest grossing film made anywhere in Japan is… the exact same anime, followed by another anime.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films_in_Japan

          • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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            5 months ago

            In Japan not everyone that watches anime is a weeb

            Or are you disputing that they have other forms of entertainment?

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              5 months ago

              Sure. Not everyone in Western countries went to see Avengers movies. I wouldn’t suggest that the vast numbers of Westerners who did go are all losers just because they could have been listening to Delta Blues instead.

              May I remind you of your original comment:

              Good. Even one less person watching anime is a win for humanity

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          5 months ago

          For one, they’re not weebs they’re just anime otaku, but also that is only a subset of anime and it’s mostly just a judgemental stereotype. They have ads on the subway for birthday events for popular anime characters ffs. Many pachinko machines are anime themed, including after late night anime which are the negatively stereotyped ones. You know who doesn’t have enough money to be a profitable target for gambling establishments? People with no job living in a basement.

          And that’s all while ignoring that pretty much no one chooses that life style voluntarily and I see no reason to make fun of these people.

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      5 months ago

      I don’t watch anime, but let everyone watch what they want. Even if they like to watch the “most degenerate” versions of Hentai. I don’t fucking care.

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      5 months ago

      While you hate anime for no reason whatsoever, I hate you for hating something for no reason whatsoever. My hate still makes more sense.

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      5 months ago

      I don’t know if you meant this as a joke but it’s legitimately funny.

      I watch anime btw.