noun
A non-Japanese person who takes admiration for Japan to an obsessive, delusional, and disrespectful level. A weeaboo doesn’t just enjoy anime or manga — they treat Japan as the greatest country on Earth while insulting their own culture and traditions.
Weeaboos often think watching a few anime makes them fluent in Japanese, dropping random words like “kawaii desu” or “senpaiii” without context. They exaggerate cosplay into something unhealthy, sometimes confusing anime costumes with traditional culture, and blur the line between fiction and reality.
The issue isn’t liking Japan — it’s fetishizing it. By worshiping Japan as flawless, weeaboos reduce a complex culture into shallow stereotypes and even objectify Japanese people as “anime characters.” Instead of admiration, this obsession comes off as cringe and insulting.
NOTE: Enjoying anime, Japanese games, food, or studying the culture does not make you a weeaboo. You cross the line when you:
Claim Japan is better than every country just for anime/manga.
Trash your own nation’s culture.
Use broken Japanese for clout.
Treat anime as everyday Japanese life.
Fetishize or stereotype Japanese people.
A non-Japanese person who takes admiration for Japan to an obsessive, delusional, and disrespectful level. A weeaboo doesn’t just enjoy anime or manga — they treat Japan as the greatest country on Earth while insulting their own culture and traditions.
Weeaboos often think watching a few anime makes them fluent in Japanese, dropping random words like “kawaii desu” or “senpaiii” without context. They exaggerate cosplay into something unhealthy, sometimes confusing anime costumes with traditional culture, and blur the line between fiction and reality.
The issue isn’t liking Japan — it’s fetishizing it. By worshiping Japan as flawless, weeaboos reduce a complex culture into shallow stereotypes and even objectify Japanese people as “anime characters.” Instead of admiration, this obsession comes off as cringe and insulting.
NOTE: Enjoying anime, Japanese games, food, or studying the culture does not make you a weeaboo. You cross the line when you:
Claim Japan is better than every country just for anime/manga.
Trash your own nation’s culture.
Use broken Japanese for clout.
Treat anime as everyday Japanese life.
Fetishize or stereotype Japanese people.
“Bro watched two episodes of Naruto and now he’s saying ‘konnichiwa, senpai’ at McDonald’s. That’s some straight weeaboo behavior.”
“She said Japan is perfect and her own country is trash, while wearing a $5 cosplay wig in public. Classic weeaboo.”
“Liking Demon Slayer doesn’t make you a weeaboo. Screaming ‘Nezuko-chan uwu’ at strangers definitely does.”
“This dude thinks anime high schools are how Japan really is. Somebody save him from being a weeaboo.”
“You can enjoy sushi without being a weeaboo. You become a weeaboo when you say sushi is the only food worth eating because it’s Japanese.”
“My cousin studied Japanese history and culture respectfully — not a weeaboo. My other cousin painted his face to look like an anime character and said he’s renouncing his passport — total weeaboo.”
“She said Japan is perfect and her own country is trash, while wearing a $5 cosplay wig in public. Classic weeaboo.”
“Liking Demon Slayer doesn’t make you a weeaboo. Screaming ‘Nezuko-chan uwu’ at strangers definitely does.”
“This dude thinks anime high schools are how Japan really is. Somebody save him from being a weeaboo.”
“You can enjoy sushi without being a weeaboo. You become a weeaboo when you say sushi is the only food worth eating because it’s Japanese.”
“My cousin studied Japanese history and culture respectfully — not a weeaboo. My other cousin painted his face to look like an anime character and said he’s renouncing his passport — total weeaboo.”
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Furries and Kpop stans have a propensity to emulate Japanese culture. What a bunch of weeaboos they are.
by UltimateDoge July 13, 2021
Get the Weeaboo mug.Though the term ‘weeb’ originated from this word and were originally interchangeable, nowadays they have two different meanings. Weebs are simply normal people who watch anime.
Weeaboos are non Japanese people (typically males but there are also female weeaboos) who are not only obsessed with anime but obsessed with Japan in general and its culture to the point where the weeaboo usually denounces their own culture and wants to become Japanese.
A common stereotype with weeaboos is that they have “waifus” (or “husbandos”) and own bodypillows of their fictional crush. Another stereotype is that they do creepy furry roleplay stuff and speak in broken Japanese (i.e. one thing I see often is calling people “san” or “chan”).
Weeaboos are non Japanese people (typically males but there are also female weeaboos) who are not only obsessed with anime but obsessed with Japan in general and its culture to the point where the weeaboo usually denounces their own culture and wants to become Japanese.
A common stereotype with weeaboos is that they have “waifus” (or “husbandos”) and own bodypillows of their fictional crush. Another stereotype is that they do creepy furry roleplay stuff and speak in broken Japanese (i.e. one thing I see often is calling people “san” or “chan”).
“I want to fuck Lisa Lisa”
“Shut up weeaboo”
Again I would like to stress that weeb and weeaboo are not interchangeable anymore.
“Shut up weeaboo”
Again I would like to stress that weeb and weeaboo are not interchangeable anymore.
by Auntie Cleo February 23, 2021
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My life had no purpose and I would often push myself to heart failure. Filled with rage, i flipped the entire county upside down looking for the man, my feelings getting the best of me. Finally, five hours later I found the cunt. I walked out, gun in hand and approached the man. I spoke with him and fired in his direction, what I did not realize was that Ariana was watching me and that the MP5 knocked me back on the ground, making me miss my shot,
The cunt ran off, Ariana too. I knew that this was the end.
Sirens wailed in the distance, giving me a scare, making me shaky. I positioned the barrel to my mouth and fired, the bullet going through my right cheek, however the pain was enough to knock me out.
Dreaming about an alternative reality where I was the one on top was clearly just a dream amd I knew it. I was in a coma due to being dropped by the reckless EMTs.
After the realization, my bootcamp duties were releived, and I was a free man. I am now paying in my bed, crying myself to sleep because I know I cannot win her back, the man she is with must be super rich, I am here sleeping in an alleyway near my house because my mother does not want to see me anymore, ever. I figured my chances are zero, I should give up. But that was never an option I would consider, ever. And so my last chance started, I was ready to be a man and give a pause to my feelings, Ariana, here I come~.
My life had no purpose and I would often push myself to heart failure. Filled with rage, i flipped the entire county upside down looking for the man, my feelings getting the best of me. Finally, five hours later I found the cunt. I walked out, gun in hand and approached the man. I spoke with him and fired in his direction, what I did not realize was that Ariana was watching me and that the MP5 knocked me back on the ground, making me miss my shot,
The cunt ran off, Ariana too. I knew that this was the end.
Sirens wailed in the distance, giving me a scare, making me shaky. I positioned the barrel to my mouth and fired, the bullet going through my right cheek, however the pain was enough to knock me out.
Dreaming about an alternative reality where I was the one on top was clearly just a dream amd I knew it. I was in a coma due to being dropped by the reckless EMTs.
After the realization, my bootcamp duties were releived, and I was a free man. I am now paying in my bed, crying myself to sleep because I know I cannot win her back, the man she is with must be super rich, I am here sleeping in an alleyway near my house because my mother does not want to see me anymore, ever. I figured my chances are zero, I should give up. But that was never an option I would consider, ever. And so my last chance started, I was ready to be a man and give a pause to my feelings, Ariana, here I come~.
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