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Weeabos, maybe that's because I'm a furry myself. But damn, weeaboos do have the reputation of being unable to socialize with people outside normally and to leave their obsession with Japanese culture at home.

Intolerance is worse.

Although I did stop taking art commissions from furries because even listening to them explain what they wanted was leaving me emotionally scarred...

*Comment about how we shouldn't make fun of people we just don't understand*

I have heard of "weeabos" before but never cared enough to search for the meaning, that ended today!
...even the urban dictionary seems to hate them, I'm a huge anime fan and sometimes while with friends that also watch anime I can make fun of anime by attempt to pronounce some words in japanese but I don't see myself japanese nor I see japan as a good culture at all because of animes as well, seriously almost every single anime is girl makes food, boy fights and eats food, the concepts are so old fashioned but people like them as their are which bugs me (without saying that in japan there's a lot of weird involving porn/hentai... not referring to animations)
at the end I don't see myself as a weeabo, do I find them a bit mentally unhealthy? yes, obsession = blindness
do I find sports fanatics mentally unhealthy? YES!
which one is worse though? SPORTS! some sports are such freaking money grab, even worse than religion and these people can't even take 5 minutes to think for themselves, at least weeabos are obsessed by something they enjoy in the first place and not by something that they like because everyone else does

I don't mind furry hentai but... didn't even know there were people with costumes actually being furry and stuff... it seems... disturbing :V

This hierarchy has been around for a long time. It still remains true to this day.

I have had both as friends. I am neither as a geek. From experience, the furry is the least socially skilled of both.

The most disturbing thing that I have ever learned, and wish that I could to this day forget, is yiffing. I cringe at the mention of the word.

Weebs are annoying af, but furries are downright creepy.

As an expat living in the Far East, and I've been to Japan many, many times, Weeaboos win hands down.

There are 3 groups of weeaboos I've encountered though:

1. The Weeaboos who love Japan and think it's amazing based on visit or two, or not even that. They stay / return home and immediately start dreaming of their next trip before ultimately growing out of it (to a degree).

2. The people who are hit so hard by the Weeaboo bug, that they go to the extent of moving to Japan, often doing poorly paid jobs just to live the 'dream'. Generally they last a few years before the hardship grinds them down, or their visa runs out and they get deported. Despite the hardship they steadfastly remain Weeaboos, generally because life back home is worse.

3. The ones who move to Japan, get over the honeymoon period, and then realise that whilst Japan does have some big positives, there are also a lot of negatives too. Some of these people are so disillusioned they become entrenched in the lifestyle, whilst others turn completely, and often rabidly anti-Japanese (sadly some come over here to Korea to bore us all with their tales).

I've never met any of them, I mean my sister likes Anime but not in a weird way I guess. She just watches it. I watched LOST Desperate Housewifes and other american tv shows when I was her age. Can't say that I was obsessed with it, just regular stuff.

"DoflamingoGT" asks if the weebos are bad or not. :D

People have the right to be as retarded as they want about whatever it is they want.

Of course that is only a problem when they're assholes about it. But if they keep whatever it is they love to themselves/others who love it as well, then they're not really bothering anyone, innit?

I mean first of all the first comment of the topic already won it by a long margin ...

Ima just throw my 2 cents here .

Just cause someone is Obsessed with Anime and the anime culture , doesnt mean you have the right to judge that person .
More ofthen then not those ppl actually have a family , a stable job and enough disposable income to be able to fund their Hoby ....
So People get obsessed with sports , cars , guns ... all other random shit and its Totally fine ... but if its Anime its wrong and we should purge them all ... Yeah #Logic .

As for the Second option ... furrys ...
There was that woman who was sexually atracted to ..... a tree . Its open world let ppl masturbate to whatever the hell they want to .
Its really not my cup of tea ( costly cause its YAOI based ) .... but still just cause someone imagine the characters from Zootopia doing it and he gets turned on by it , doesnt mean hes a horrible person >.>

Humanity in general, including myself

Gamers.

3 - Both equally cringeworthy.

ha-ha-ha, "true" guy is better than furry or everybody else.
So stupid and arrogant

Flamingos
They are freakishly tall, always walking around looking pink has if they were doing a modeling contests
Also look hideous in gardens

I don't really like the tone of your thread and question.

I am not saying that either of them is bad

Actually it is easy and obvious to interpret your post that way. You are even aware of it, else you wouldn't have written this sentence. You could have simply used another - more neutral or positive - wording, like "Which one do you prefer?"

Not voting.

I'm not usually one to judge based on generalizations, but unfortunately groups like weebs and furries are pretty homogeneous when it comes to a number of traits. Weebs, furries, and bronies all share pretty common traits and they all generally exhibit alienation-induced obsessions with their respective fandoms. I'll refrain from any comparative analysis, but I do want to note that all three groups—among various others, such as Sonic fandom—originate from the same general psychosocial influences, namely that of social ostracism and alienation produced by antisocial and autistic behaviors which compel them to identify with an eccentric subculture that is itself largely ostracized and rejected by mainstream society. In that capacity, they resemble other real-life subcultures, such as punk, goth, and emo, only these Internet fandoms seem to be far less interested in authenticity and far more interested in circlejerking about, and roleplaying with, their respective obsessions.

All of them resemble a form of counterculture which rebels against mainstream society. That's why people in these subcultures tend to hold fringe beliefs, especially when it comes to political and economic beliefs. I've personally met furries, bronies, and weebs who are fascists, technocrats, socialists, anarchists, and communists, but few of them tend to be liberals (and those that are tend to themselves hold eccentric views within a liberal framework). In that way, they also resemble real-life subcultures, since punk, goth, and emo (for example) also tend to strongly diverge from mainstream political, economic, and religious thought. The one striking difference that I've noticed among weebs, furries, and bronies and other Internet fandoms which distinguishes them from other subcultures is that they appear to be predominantly composed of extremely autistic individuals whose interest in their respective fandom severely handicaps their ability to socialize with others online. Individuals in such fandoms also seem to have a dogged commitment to identifying with their particular fandom to the point of it becoming one of their most prominent and defining traits. My only guess for this phenomenon is that they feel highly persecuted in the global online community and use their group identity as a sort of scarlet letter to alert fellow group members of their identity; the fact that such individuals are frequently autistic only aggravates this issue.

More generally, these groups are ultimately produced by the same material and social conditions as all other counterculture groups and subcultures are, namely a capitalist socioeconomic system which induces alienation throughout society that expresses itself in a variety of unique and highly divergent ways. Weebs and furries (and bronies, etc.) are just another manifestation of this alienation, albeit a highly peculiar variation thereof.

Overall, I don't think it's particularly useful to determine which internet fandom is "worse", since that only further causes those groups to feel persecuted and further aggravates the very behaviors that many of you probably find annoying. A more helpful approach would be to understand why people are interested in such hobbies; why they are compelled to join subcultures, communities, and fandoms related to those hobbies; and what conditions produce such phenomena. Failing to understand that, any discussion about such groups will inevitably degenerate into an identarian pissing match of open hostility and discrimination.

I've had my own negative experiences with these subcultures, and I find some more personally irritating than others, but it's futile if not counterproductive to grade them in that manner in much the same way as it would be for grading the relative qualities of particular racial or ethnic groups. Just because it's fashionable to despise weebs, furries, and bronies now—just as it was once fashionable (and in some places still is) to despise people of African, Asian, or Latino descent—that doesn't mean it's worthwhile to partake in it. Doing so fails to address the underlying issues that cause this tension while only exacerbating those tensions even further. If we are to have a discussion about these groups, let's at least have one that is constructive and could better elucidate the reasons for their existence, if only to destigmatize these groups and diminish the tensions between them and greater society. Otherwise, we're just rehearsing our prejudices.

Someone kill me pls :D

Don't u daer mak fun of weebz! Nihon iz a majikaaru wondaalando with meidos and sushi and whyfus!!! Japen iz besto countrie in the wrolld! It also has anymeis and hentaizes! AMINE IS NOT 4 KIDZ!! It iz 4 adults!! Japen a besto! :v :v :v :v :v