Topic: Is 4chan responsible for weeb culture?
+Anonymous A — 6 months ago #67,565
4chan is an off-shoot of the 2channel imageboard, a community for Japanese people.
Christopher Poole clearly was a weeb to make an English equivalent to that.
Sure, Toonami may have brought exposure to anime, but wouldn't 4chan have popularized the culture?
It just seems to make sense.
+Anonymous B — 6 months ago, 41 minutes later[T] [B] #671,011
I think it's more likely that imageboards became popular because Japan invented them so they were automatically cool to weebs. moot was just the first person to make one that wasn't in moonspeak.
+Anonymous C — 6 months ago, 12 minutes later, 54 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #671,012
a combination of toonami, 4chan and manga being licensed to the West from companies like Tokyopop, yen press and Viz media.
at its height bleach, DBZ, naruto, Death Note, soul eater, Samurai Champloo, Trigun, FMA, gantz, elfen lied, sailor moon, chobits, clannad, ouran host high school club lead to the weeb culture. Neon Genesis Evagelion, Ghost in the shell, Akira and Dragon Ball were some of the Earlier introductions towards to Gen X. (makes sense because anybody born roughly in the late 70's well into the late 80's started getting exposed to it as well the early development of the internet. Along with video games like Kingdom hearts, final fantasy to be exact.
by 2005-2015 now anime/weeb culture was pretty much permeated into the American zeitgeist then from 2015-present it's just mainstream commodity slop to point where you can get away with mentioning a generic anime like the ones I listed along with an obscured anime(like an isekai anime) and you're pretty much "based" or whenever jargon is cool now.
The imageboards helped like 4chan/2chan but there also places like Gaia Online that had people gooning over their waifu and rp as characters from various shows.
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+Anonymous D — 6 months ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,013
C has the best answer. I never considered the chins popularizing anything but toxicity so it's pollution more than anything. I've still never seen an animu, despite the supersaturation. Life is okay, my only regret was leaning into sloppy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCQw_eD0e3U+Anonymous E — 6 months ago, 3 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,022
@671,011 (B)
I’ve heard that anime is actually more popular in the west than it is in Japan before… I tried googling it but then quickly realized I have no clue how to verify this statistically.
·Anonymous B — 6 months ago, 1 hour later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,028
@previous (E)
If it's not true, then it's certainly a very enduring myth because I've also heard that years ago. You probably wouldn't find much statistical evidence, just anecdotes from tourists and native otaku.
+Anonymous F — 6 months ago, 20 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,030
@OP
Moot sold 4Chan to the owner of 2 Chan.
+Anonymous G — 6 months ago, 2 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,033
@previous (F)
I’ve never heard of 2chan. Is that like 8chan? Why is it called 4chan? Who is Chan?
+Anonymous H — 6 months ago, 21 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,034
@previous (G)
jackies nerdass brother
·Anonymous G — 6 months ago, 1 hour later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,035
@previous (H)
Back during my freshman year of college there was somebody named Jackie who dressed like a girl and wore a purse and a skirt who I shared a bathroom with.
·anon — 6 months ago, 9 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,036
@previous (G)
Did the HeShe give you a handjob?
·Anonymous B — 6 months ago, 3 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,043
@671,028 (B)
> You probably wouldn't find much statistical evidence
Actually that might not necessarily be true. We have Nielson TV ratings, Japan probably has something similar.