/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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I'm not really sure when "otacool" happened myself. It was probably part of people thinking "nerd" stuff was cool in general, but I don't remember anime stuff being particularly bad to like anime before a certain period. I mean the 80s and early 90s was a pretty weeb period in general. Stuff like ninja and samurai were in, martial arts movies and other eastern shit were still in. I lost as much interest (in anime) after the 90s wave and didn't really get as into it again until the mid 2000s(after all the early 2000s stuff people like, like Tsukihime and Azumanga but before the moe shift in the latter 2000s.) when I began watching it of my own volition online.

It seems like sometime during that point people came up with the concept of wapanese. It's not like it didn't exist before, but somehow it became "wrong", at least among internet types, to like anime or anything Japanese. It might have something to do with the concept of "hentai" becoming popularized in the west because I remember people online complaining about people thinking anime = hentai, but more than anything I think it was the anti-anime faction on SA and 4chan throwing around wapanese until it got filtered to weeaboo that this idea of liking anime being "cringy" took off. I don't know what was going on in other (offline) places though. I do know 4chan is the only place I've seen that ever got its panties in a bunch over a video game being from Japan.

I also seem to only remember it being associated with "Narutards", like in this image, and such, never with DBZ or Jojo or HnK or fans of any older popular thing. (weirdly Japan's (anime) stereotype of wapanese seems to be of narutards too a lot, maybe its just because a blonde ninja is funny. Or Naruto fans are just worse than I thought, even over there, since there also seems to be some occasional bitterness about Naruto type ninja.) Before then, it was like emos and goths that got made fun of. Maybe they just evolved into DarkSasukeXxX types.

It seems like video games became "cool" all of a sudden, despite them never really being "uncool" outside of maybe stereotypically uncool characters on tv. I remember more stuff about parents disliking their children being into video games than that. They probably became most uncool when MMOs became popular and those kinds of autists flocked to them. But then they became cool, liking old cartoons became cool, liking anime became cool, liking other nerd shit became cool. And nerds got angry because so called normalfags started invading their hobbies after being mostly left alone, despite that the people were mostly associating with the types that called themselves otaku in the west(who were basically just uncool normalfags) rather than with the nerds directly. I have no idea when those types started calling themselves otaku either, come to think of it.
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