Bort - 2016-04-07
In about 200 years the OED will be able to point to the exact origin of the term. They'll even have an illustration next to the word:
http://pbfcomics.com/71/
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Wheelie McJesus - 2016-04-07 Matthias, in 2005 a word filter was set up on 4chan to change "wapanese" into "weeaboo". That's the how, but I can't help with the why.
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EvilHomer - 2016-04-07 What I love about all this is the fact that the word "weeaboo" has invaded meatspace.
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Herr Matthias - 2016-04-08 Thanks BiggerJ, but I'm still a little lost between steps 2 and 3.
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BiggerJ - 2016-04-10 So is everyone else. As far as anyone can tell, whoever created the 'weeaboo' word filter saw 'wapanese' as being like the comic's term 'weeaboo' - a stupid word that stirs drama whenever it's spoken.
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SolRo - 2016-04-07
It's easy to be accepting of that in the abstract, but people that are obsessed with another country without having lived there can latch on to a very narrow aspect and blow it out of proportion to the point that it can be annoying or even insulting to a native.
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BiggerJ - 2016-04-07 There is a fuckton of stuff that has arisen in the internet age that sounds fine in principle but procedurally become terrible. That's how they were able to develop in the first place.
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Stopheles - 2016-04-07 Yeah, it really hurts to see how the Japanese have bastardized pro wrestling and heavy metal.
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Sanest Man Alive - 2016-04-08 The Japanese have actually done to France the very thing Solro describes, though it's less insulting to natives than inflicting psychoses on tourists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
You might even call those susceptible to the condition "ouiaboos"
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Nikon - 2016-04-09 I thought the dominant term in use for that was Westaboos.
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BiggerJ - 2016-04-08
I haven't even watched this yet but I think I know what's going on - they would have reacted very differently if they'd just said 'otaku', but instead they used the western term and gave a simple definition, thus dodging the stigma. Whether or not this was deliberate, I cannot speculate.
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