"Weeaboo" or "Otaku"?

[Anonymous No.]

i just wanted to know which one other people preferred, if either. in 2016, i'd have used the former, but now i find ironic weebs to be a plague, so i hate using the term now.

[Anonymous No.]

How many boards are you going to post this on?

[Anonymous No.]

>>39321316
just here, since it got removed from /a/ for some reason

[Anonymous No.]

>>39321290
Weeb is an insult for losers and funny redditors with ahegao hoodies. Otaku is the actual term, but people seem to use them interchangeably. I prefer otaku since my image of weeb is tainted but dogshit brought on by the western community. Calling yourself an otaku feels like admitting you have a big interest in media aimed at the demographic, while weeb feels like you're proudly proclaiming you only watch anime and only care about the western community.

[Anonymous No.]

>>39321290
Otaku written in Hiragana

[Anonymous No.]

>>39321290
There was a brief period between the 'I'm such an otaku' behaviour of teenagers just getting into battle manga anime adaptations during the 2000s and the ironic weeaboo behaviour of the late 2010s when you could use the word weeaboo as a rough Western equivalent of otaku without the bad connotations, but nowadays there's no name for a Western enthusiast of otaku subculture that isn't tainted by normalfaggots.

[Anonymous No.]

i think otaku because it encompasses more, and also more internet people use weeb as an insult to literally anything remotely anime

[Anonymous No.]

'zu

[Anonymous No.]

I reject both. Go back to calling people smelly nerds

[Anonymous No.]

While related I don't think the terms are interchangeable. I've always known weeaboo as an insult describing the people who lack self-awareness. The dorks and try-hards broadcasting their interest without regard for where they are. The ones who would wear Naruto headbands, peppering their sentences with Japanese words or liking things solely because they're Japanese. I imagine this is most common in teens due to their attention and approval seeking tendencies. It's also part of why they tend to stick to the surface level stuff.

An otaku, in a western context, has a significant interest in particular forms of Japanese media and satellite elements of those media cultures. The primary difference is they don't feel the same urge to indiscriminately broadcast their interest. They're more in it for themselves, often leading to deeper dives of the aspects they like.

[Anonymous No.]

Weeaboo means wapanese. There's no interpreting it. Wapanese isn't the same as otaku.

[Anonymous No.]

>>39321357
For me weeb means japanophile, otaku means nerd, usually for anime but sometimes trains or whatever.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>39321290
Do your own homework, fag.