Is a portmanteau of the words "Wannabe" and "Japanese"
Specifically a White American Anime, or Japanese culture fan, though the definition has been expanded in recent years to include anyone of Western culture(no matter the race) who get hard ons for Japanese culture.
Weeaboos often want to be Japanese and hate Western culture in favor of Japanese, which often most have never even really experience irl, just from Anime. It's more of a phenomenon in gen y due to the fact that they came up in the anime boom, kick started primarily by Toonami, and hyper Japanese gaming of the mid 90s with Playstation.
They are often Anime addicted, and spend tons of money(or their parents money) on anime merchandise, including cosplay, whole DVD boxsets(imported a lot of the times) plushes, and and bad anime video games. They are often pretentious about it(the hardcore ones at least) and think that American animation is crap, not mature, or only uses "crude" art, ignoring the fact that there is nothing mature or realistic about most anime.
Most of the guy weeaboos think they're some kind of romantics, often swooning over anime girls and having no grip on reality because they think anime love is real, and coin themselves as "nice guys" that can't get girls because they're often on the friend line.
Specifically a White American Anime, or Japanese culture fan, though the definition has been expanded in recent years to include anyone of Western culture(no matter the race) who get hard ons for Japanese culture.
Weeaboos often want to be Japanese and hate Western culture in favor of Japanese, which often most have never even really experience irl, just from Anime. It's more of a phenomenon in gen y due to the fact that they came up in the anime boom, kick started primarily by Toonami, and hyper Japanese gaming of the mid 90s with Playstation.
They are often Anime addicted, and spend tons of money(or their parents money) on anime merchandise, including cosplay, whole DVD boxsets(imported a lot of the times) plushes, and and bad anime video games. They are often pretentious about it(the hardcore ones at least) and think that American animation is crap, not mature, or only uses "crude" art, ignoring the fact that there is nothing mature or realistic about most anime.
Most of the guy weeaboos think they're some kind of romantics, often swooning over anime girls and having no grip on reality because they think anime love is real, and coin themselves as "nice guys" that can't get girls because they're often on the friend line.
Ezra: Hey Steve, do you want to join anime club?
Steve: Nah man, it's full of pretentious weeaboos who look down on you if you like dubbed anime.
Steve: Nah man, it's full of pretentious weeaboos who look down on you if you like dubbed anime.
by RolphSemensDickOvensUWIDI July 26, 2010
Get the Weeaboos mug.Weeaboos We-ah-boo are not Asian people who try to be Asian. They have obsessions like: Yaoi, Yuri, Hentai, and Anime and they try to look asian by wearing loli costumes and wigs. If they are students, they join Anime clubs and act like anime characters who are perverts. Weeaboos are usually girls because of their love of yaoi. They also have horrible cosplay and don't take anime seriously. You could see your nearest Weaaboos in your Yaoi Section of any Book Store across the world. NO, OTAKUS ARE DIFFERENT FROM WEEABOOS.
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Weeaboos are generally people who are non-japenese, but convince themselves everyday that they are and are heavily addicted to anime. Weeaboos or weebs do not shower for weeks on end and you can easily spot them if they have died their hair, smell them for miles away, and make anime refrences. They watch a form of anime porn called Hentai. They do not have real lives, and they do not interact with their body pillows. You can also spot them at comicon, anime conventioms, and comic stores. Warning: do not attempt to be friends with a weeaboo.
"Weeaboos are such faggots"
by The_Dank_Memester May 25, 2017
Get the Weeaboos mug.A person who retains an unhealthy obsession with Japan and Japanese culture, typically ignoring or even shunning their own racial and cultural identity. Many weeaboos talk in butchered Japanese with the 8 or so words they know (i.e. kawaii, desu, ni chan). While weeaboos claim to love and support Japanese culture, counter intuitively, they tend to stereotype Japanese culture by how it appears in their favorite anime, which can be safely assumed to be offensive to the Japanese.
If you love and respect Japanese culture and your own, you are not a weeaboo.
Merely liking anime or wanting to learn Japanese does not make you a weeaboo.
Merely liking anime or wanting to learn Japanese does not make you a weeaboo.
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Get the Weeaboo mug.An obnoxious person that claims to ironically be a "weeaboo" because he's insecure about liking Japanese media.
The ironic weeaboo usually only "likes" anime and that are considered novel and low-depth like Maidragon, Monster Musume and Love Live or entry level such as Kill la Kill, Evangelion, and Jojo. The same goes for his Japanese game tastes which usually consists of equally surface-y series such as Neptunia, Senran Kagura, and Danganronpa of which most of the time he'll never actually play and will only claim so due to, again, it's novelty and "Japanese-ness"; The most the ironic weeaboo will ever actually "play" a game are pay-to-win mobages featuring fapbait girls such as Granblue Fantasy and Fate/Grand Order as it's easier to get into by just throwing hundreds of dollars at the screen than putting the investment in an actual, in-depth game as that would make them too "cringey" and "weird".
The ironic weeaboo is also quite fond of forced loosely anime-derived fads such as Earth-chan, Smug Wendy's, "Traps aren't gay", vaporwave, etc. and tired out phrases that have lost their meaning entirely like "waifu" and "thicc".
When the ironic weeaboo brings himself among the people that actually are actual fans of Japanese media he will immediately be hated which then the ironic weeaboo will become immensely butthurt. Thus he'll usually only ever be around other ironic weeaboos instead. You can mostly see them writhing about in Discord servers with anime girl avatars.
The ironic weeaboo usually only "likes" anime and that are considered novel and low-depth like Maidragon, Monster Musume and Love Live or entry level such as Kill la Kill, Evangelion, and Jojo. The same goes for his Japanese game tastes which usually consists of equally surface-y series such as Neptunia, Senran Kagura, and Danganronpa of which most of the time he'll never actually play and will only claim so due to, again, it's novelty and "Japanese-ness"; The most the ironic weeaboo will ever actually "play" a game are pay-to-win mobages featuring fapbait girls such as Granblue Fantasy and Fate/Grand Order as it's easier to get into by just throwing hundreds of dollars at the screen than putting the investment in an actual, in-depth game as that would make them too "cringey" and "weird".
The ironic weeaboo is also quite fond of forced loosely anime-derived fads such as Earth-chan, Smug Wendy's, "Traps aren't gay", vaporwave, etc. and tired out phrases that have lost their meaning entirely like "waifu" and "thicc".
When the ironic weeaboo brings himself among the people that actually are actual fans of Japanese media he will immediately be hated which then the ironic weeaboo will become immensely butthurt. Thus he'll usually only ever be around other ironic weeaboos instead. You can mostly see them writhing about in Discord servers with anime girl avatars.
BillyCoolGuy: So what's everyone's favorite Japanese game so far this year?
C u T e A n i M e B o I z: Senran Kagura is pretty dope has a lot of thicc waifus ngl fam tbh
BillyCoolGuy: Um...so did you actually play it?
C u T e A n i M e B o I z: Kek no uwu
Steve4322: Ugh, Just kick this guy out already. I can already tell he's one of those "ironic weeaboos".
C u T e A n i M e B o I z: Senran Kagura is pretty dope has a lot of thicc waifus ngl fam tbh
BillyCoolGuy: Um...so did you actually play it?
C u T e A n i M e B o I z: Kek no uwu
Steve4322: Ugh, Just kick this guy out already. I can already tell he's one of those "ironic weeaboos".
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