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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Strange, because Wikipedia tells me that the highest-grossing film in Japan of all time was an anime, as were the next five and most of the others on the list:
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_highest-grossing_Japan…
That’s a whole lot of losers for one small country.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Japan does have a lot of losers
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
In Japan not everyone that watches anime is a weeb
Or are you disputing that they have other forms of entertainment?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 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.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I didn’t make that comment, I think you’re in the wrong thread