Is there an official definition of weeaboo?
I've heard it defined as a wap or as anyone who is interested in anime or manga. So what are the requirements for someone to be a weeaboo?
It was a wordfilter on 4chan /b/ for "wapanese". Same definition.
The etymology is no longer obvious, so it makes a useful euphemism. I think that's why it's found wider use than most (stupid) replacement words.
Otaku?
>>1
random fact: a wotaku isn't a non-japanese otaku. It's the complete opposite, in fact...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wotaku#In_English.2FInternationally
>>1
Weeaboo is the word they use to replace w-a-p-a-n-e-s-e on 4-ch. I have no idea why they use it instead of the actual term.
As was pointed out, "weeaboo" isn't a real word, and should never be used outside of 4chan.
>>13
It was a wordfilter for a while, and it gained popularity. The mods got it from a webcomic. I'd track it down for you, but I can't be arsed right now.
We are wasting too much time on "weeaboo", let us try and concentrate on more important issues at hand.
weeaboo
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>I've never known the Japanese to defend anything they did
during World War II, or say it was okay at all.
AFIAK though, Japan never apologized for anything they did during the war. What kind of message does that send? I think if they would just swallow their pride, and apologize, it would greatly improve relations with the rest of the Pacific Rim, but yeah, the PM that does this will be commiting political suicide most likely, so the odds of it happening are very slim. Nations as a whole aren't nearly as cold towards Germany as Asia is with Japan.
>Japan never apologized for anything they did during the war. What kind of message does that send?
They're saying then that they failed in their goal but their methods were reasonable, and now that the past is irrelevant to the future, which is of course wrong.
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Yay for tripfaggotry.
Seriously, any joke or meme that comes from 4chan can die slowly... I mean fast.
But it didn't come from 4chan, it came from Perry Bible Fellowship, as you'd see if you read the thread!
>>27
Yeah, but people use the word "weeabo" for "wapanese" because of the wordfilter that was on 4chan!
I thought the definition had distinctly changed to being any person, of any ethnicity other than Japanese who is a Japanese "wannabe", or wishes they were born Japanese. Is the term still just 4chan specific? I like it a lot more than the racially-specific, derogatory "wapanese".
>>30
Cocks, this is an old thread but I anyway. Wapanese had come to mean wannabe japanese. Blah old thread is old.
Kill them owl.
Don't watch any japanese cartoon that was made after the year 2000. Anything that is deliberately stupid, done without effort, with the intention of degrading all to more stupidity is weeaboo.
All weaboos should be taken out and shot.
Worthless shit that tries to assume good things, turning them to shit in the process. No investment into the creations, no love. Made things damned without a future in which they were made better. Already done the unforgivable so never able to have anything good.
Everyone is capeble of better. There is no excuse for this shit.
I am a proud weeaboo
Y'see, once upon a time, people who liked japan and japanese shit could be a fucking plague, always interjecting as to how japanw as the best country and anime was superior to all other artforms, etc etc. Generally hating them became a thing.
Ain't really seen that in years.
Seen plenty very eager to interject obnoxiously about how much they hate weaboos, though.
weeaboos are people in any country that isn't japan who has an extreme obsession with japan and even denounces their own culture for japan.
wapanese stands for "wannabe japanese" and pretty much means the same thing.
Wonder if any of these weebs of the past are still alive, or if they went the usual hikikomori route.
