It's uh, a little complicated and not for polite company. It's shortened from "weeaboo" which you'll probably notice has absolutely nothing to do with anything because it's a nonsense word made up for that one Perry Bible Fellowship strip. At the same time people were being normal on 4chan and making fun of Japan-idolizing dorks with the term "wapanese" and a favorite /b/ modgame was to occasionally add an automatic wordfilter just to stir things up. Well at the bottom of the list there you can see wapanese=weeaboo and that stuck around for a while so the nonsense word picked up a meaning. You still see it written out sometimes but people are lazy so it's usually truncated.
tl;dr it means anime fan and like most web culture of a certain age it's 4chan's fault.
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reminds me of this furry version of the meme format :P
Art by Tirrel.
Furries made me rethink the whole "Homo homini lupus est" thing
This is a great manwha BTW.
Skeleton Soldier Couldnβt Protect The Dungeon
Official link because idk the rules on sea worthy links. Google it for more.
The difference is self awareness
Weebs fucking weebs?
No. Never. :(
2000s anime conventions were very horny, or are you too young for glomping and yaoi paddles?
I don't go outside...
Well you've identified the problem at least.
As a weeb, I have in fact done that.
I'm too lazy to actually make the Andy Dwyer meme, but I don't know what a weeb is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
It's uh, a little complicated and not for polite company. It's shortened from "weeaboo" which you'll probably notice has absolutely nothing to do with anything because it's a nonsense word made up for that one Perry Bible Fellowship strip. At the same time people were being normal on 4chan and making fun of Japan-idolizing dorks with the term "wapanese" and a favorite /b/ modgame was to occasionally add an automatic wordfilter just to stir things up. Well at the bottom of the list there you can see wapanese=weeaboo and that stuck around for a while so the nonsense word picked up a meaning. You still see it written out sometimes but people are lazy so it's usually truncated.
tl;dr it means anime fan and like most web culture of a certain age it's 4chan's fault.
Thanks for the explanation. I gathered from context that it was a derogatory term, I just hadn't ever looked up what it really meant.
Light derogatory, most of the time it's used half-ironically by other people in the same fandom. (Which is the OP joke)
Isn't one of the guys popularized it is Filthy Frank by making a video focusing on Weaboos?
Edit: this is the video https://youtu.be/OFQQALduhzA
That probably signal-boosted it for normies but "weeb" was already very well established among nerds by that time.
Wait, it's weebs all the way down?
... like weebs and other weebs
Skubnder storm
https://www.reddit.com/r/goodanimemes/s/dzJ9WOIJk8