seriously my friends tell me to watch a bunch of shows and so fuckin many of them are obnoxiously pervy right out the gate :stalin-stressed:
Yeah for real. Either people are only watching the shit that creepy weebs are pushing or they think that sexualization of minors is when minors exist and the more minors there are the more sexualized they are.
You don’t have to hand it to them but even in r/anime some of the shit is controversial e.g Made in abyss. There is definitely also some hopelessly outdated notion that weebs are still 2000’s nerd with glass type people that are constantly obsessed with porn.
Your 12yo sister that watched Demon slayer would be considered a “weeb”.
Oh yeah don’t get me wrong, there’s some really fucked up shit in the anime medium. The problem is that most Western discourse about anime treats it like one coherent body of work when it’s really just a medium.
Everyone can understand that My Little Pony and Rick and Morty aren’t the same kind of media, or that the latest family friendly Marvel movie isn’t the same as Cannibal Holocaust, so I think people need to put more effort into not always lumping all anime together.
Also, I think the definition of Weeb has changed a lot. Same as how Star Wars and comic book movies used to be “nerd shit” not too long ago, Anime has gone mainstream.
