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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2022-03-21 05:30 pm

[ SECRET POST #5554 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5554 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2022-03-21 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
As with almost anything else dismissed, mocked, and whispered about, it's not the interest itself, it's the cringe trappings. Even cosplay itself (okay, I'm a cosplayer) is admired and emulated. What people inside fandom consider weeby is all the cringy behavior - like airt mentioned, talking like kawaii desu, posting pics of you spooning your dakimakura, and so forth. There's a level of performative acting-out involved in being a weeb that people look down down.

I mean, you don't hear derogatory names being slung at Marvel fans for going to midnight showings, wearing Captain America t-shirts, having posters framed on their walls, and cosplaying. Not until they display negative behavior aspects like not showering, mansplaining comics, rudeness and superiority toward fans of other things, etc do you start to consider them idk neckbeards or fanboys or whatever the bad word is this year. These days fandom is so mainstream that there's going to be negative behavior endemic to the specific fandom property for every property. Anybody calls you a weeb for watching anime, they're so out of touch. Clap back for that.