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Too true. Unless it's something like Nazism or pedophilia, you should never bully someone for what they find joy in doing on their own.
I mean there are people that like the Leafs. They're wrong, but that's their own business. I may look at them a little funny but not bully them.
People totally did get bullied for liking anime, I'll just say that now.
I agree with you, I am fairly large and I changed schools frequently. Every new school id be bullied for first few weeks and it would only stop when bullies realise I can beat them more than they can beat me, and that i wouldn't shy away from confrontation. But liking Anime was like top two reasons
The most memorable is I was new to school and 12. I had a Keychain attached to my bag of bato from GiTS, not even motoko, at first this guy thought he was GI Joe and it was fine, then he asked more about the figure and upon learning it's anime, he stole it.. And about 2 days later decided with two of his friends, I had to be taught anime bad by shoving it down my throat. Two friends held my hand and the psycho was getting me to open my mouth to shove it in, when I broke free from one of the friend and punched him so hard it broke his nose, then kicked one other guy in nuts. I fucking ran to staff room to have some adult around. Well I almost got kicked out of school. But some 16-17 year old bystander girl went out of her way to explain everything. And I only got suspended for a week. Stories like this were common everytime I change schools, bullies test me, they realise I am willing to fight before going down and thankfully being large, I could do some serious damage. They'd give up bullying after a few months. And then a year or two later, new school. Rinse and repeat.
That being said, I also hated kids who did Naruto runs and called me senpai. I didn't bully them, but I don't think I ever tried to stop them from being bullied.
That's suddenly reminded me of how I had a high school friend who tried to use me as a bodyguard, always getting himself into the stupidest situations and aggravating random people
Same with d&d and video games.
Yep true! I think it went from "all Video Games get you bullied" -> "not playing the right video games gets you bullied" -> videogames now widespread and won't get you bullied, but I there's probably a bit of the previous two going on in some schools.
lol i still get bullied for playing video games. but it's mostly from people my own age who basically think it's a shameful horrible 'unproductive' thing to do... but will spend hours on social media or watching brainrot tv.
Or the "wrong" kind of music
I think both the greentext and tweet are wrong.
It's not liking anime, it's the type of person who gets obsessed with anime. Most of the anime kids at my school were VERY immature and wouldn't shut up about Japan. They'd call you baka and say a dog is kawaii
Only my metalhead friends and internet friends knew I liked anime. I didn't want to be associated with that type of fan.
Yet if you go around using sportsball terms as slang and tossing the ol' pigskin in the hallway, nobody bats an eye.
Do you have an example or is this from an 80s movie? I can't think of a single sports term someone would use to insult you or say something is cute.
Not sure how common it is outside of media for people to be throwing footballs around in the hallway, either..
Cover all your bases
From left field
Thow you a curveball
Roll with the punches
Throw in the towell
Move the goalposts
Par for the course
There are plenty more but its basically so ubiquitous no one even notices all their cringy sports terms in every day life.
(/s on the cringy, just a play on op)
Those are idioms. The anime kids were weirdly incorporating Japanese words into their communication with English speakers and doing kamehamehas in the hallway.
Here's something more analogous: A friend spent the summer before senior year in France and when she came back, you could not get through a conversation without her dropping a French word or relating something to "how they do things in France". And yes, we made fun of her until she stopped.
Thats kind of how language works though. Words get borrowed and absorbed from other languages all the time.
People will get bullied over anything, it's not just anime. It's a clash of personalities or cultures. Sometimes, it’s about power dynamics, other times it's just about tearing someone else down to feel better about themselves or for status in some group.
My girlfriend has twins and one of them gets bullied for not wearing dresses. The other doesn't. She is so young that the other girls who bully her just started to even understand the difference between a dress snd pants.
You can also bullied for not doing something, as much as you can for doing something, or not doing something in a sufficiently symbolically popular way.
Like the Ribbon episode in Seinfeld, where Kramer supports the AIDS walk, but he doesn't want to wear the AIDS ribbon on his shirt, so he gets assaulted by a gang of ribbon wearers.
I had a similar incident where I didn't want to wear trans pride flags for an event, but I supported the event, but still pro-trans bullies wanted to paint me as trans hating bigot for not wearing their flag. It was just power-tripping weirdos, for whom the irony of their insistence of social conformity of others appearances and behaviors was lost. Because hey, they bullying you doing it for a Good Cause, so it's OK when they do it.
Yeah, this is ultimately why utopias are impossible. It's not that we can't come up with a fair system that would distribute resources fairly and not abuse any group for labour or anything else. It's that no matter what system we come up with, there will always be power hungry fucks looking to abuse that system for their own gain and corrupt fucks that will take advantage of what powers or privileges that system grants them and use it to abuse and dominate others.
It's why we both need police and militaries in some form and why they so often turn into something just as bad or worse than what they were intended to prevent.
Bullying is just the same thing at an individual or small group level.
The only way a utopia is possible is with no humans in it.
Anime was never a problem. Sailor moon, Pokémon, and DBZ were super mainstream, and you had stuff like Voltron and Speed Racer before that.
The issue is people who either only talk about their hobby, try to force other people into it, or in the case of anime, expect real life to be the same way or act it out themselves (see naruto running comment in OP's screenshot)
You really think that bullies pick victims that deserve to be bullied?
I said no such thing, and I'm not sure what type of victims you think "deserve to be bullied"
People who stand out from the herd are those that are either idolized or shunned, depending on other factors. But bullies target those who they think they can victimize. So as I said in my first comment, its not really about anime or specific hobbies, at all.
This completely depends on your age and what kind of peers you were surrounded by. You're nuts if you think no one was ever bullied for liking stuff because it was mainstream at the time and place you grew up in. Kids can be vicious little creatures and would bully you for liking the wrong Pokémon when I was in school.
There's probably something very wrong with you if you actually think that bullying is acceptable under any circumstances. Even if some kid is behaving weirdly or likes something deeply unpopular - so what? That's not harmful behaviour and even if it somehow was, bullying is still the wrong way to deal with that. I barely trust most adults to have a working moral compass, let alone kids. I know there's been a resurgence in this kind of thinking on social media where people push the idea that bullying is an acceptable form of social "correctional" behaviour, which isn't just incredibly stupid but also deeply disgusting. If you look at any of the most serious bullying cases of teenagers being driven to suicide by their schoolmates, none of it was ever justified or even had an apparent reason other than: this person makes for an easy target.
tell that to my dates who see cowboy bebop dvd set and freak the fuck out at me that I'm a weeb.
People who know about my interests and hobbies tend to not like when I go near their pets
Do you fuck sexy animals, or do you consider yourself an animal fucker that is sexy?
It's gonna be both
Someone should tell animal fuckers that humans are animals, blow their fuckin minds
Only when you bring the taxidermy kit
Anon got bullied, it's true. And that sucks. I sympathize.
They still need to grow the fuck up. They sound like a millennial based on when anime went mainstream in which case, my god, get a therapist already.
Imagine still being salty over people being mean to you 20-30 years ago. Fuck
Signed,
A millennial who was bullied plenty
Inb4 "therapy is expensive"
Let's not forget the pictured message they were replying to specifically mentions growling at people and sprinting around.
That shit never went mainstream. Fucking hell
My initial reaction was to agree with you because, yeah that’s pretty weird, but honestly fuck that.
Kids playing and being a bit embarrassing? That’s perfectly normal. They don’t deserve to be bullied and the problem lies entirely with the bully.
Bish please. It was mainstream as fuck before social media.
Naruto runs were being a fucking airplane, complete with sound and spittle. A dumbass kid's game probably as old as the Wright brothers...
Every fucking generation in the last century has been playing it without anyone giving a damn, ffs.
When a six year old does it, it's cute. When a sixteen year old does it, it's sad. Context matters.
Same. I got my face pushed in by a bully who was on the boxing team. The principal later put me on the spot, asked me to forgive him to his face and I said no.
I could have easily needed therapy for that, but I've been fortunate enough to have come through it liking myself more, even being proud of how I handled it. I can take a punch and walk away calmly and deliberately (then cry through a giant red snot bubble in the nurse's office later).
Besides... Last I heard he was in jail for armed robbery. Ha! And double ha! Ever thus to bullies.
Therapy is no substitute for well earned grudges
Grudges often (not always) are just a second bully victory, because they make your life, not theirs, worse. You don't need to forgive them, even if it can help (help you, not them), but therapy can help you move on with your life more lightly.
Mexican here, we had anime on Saturday morning TV in the 90s and still liking anime as a teenager and beyond was a ticket to being seen as either immature or a pervert, and yes being bullied or ridiculed by saying you liked it.
I was into anime cartoons in the ‘80s, read Fantasy, D&D, and Sci-Fi, was into computers and gaming since the Atari, and a dose of neurospicy did absolutely no favors. Likely the ND drove me to the hobbies I enjoyed because they were escapes from the shittiness of the world outside of them. Yeah, I absolutely got bullied and pushed to the fringes.
At any rate, I don’t dwell on it, but the “mainstreaming” of things like IT and gaming has filled them up with assholes and jocks using them as dick measuring contests. It’s now a power play to be a CTO or IT coder or some kind of popular game streamer instead of a geek playing with computers.
It’s not the same world anymore. Probably why I haven’t used VoIP chat in any game for near a decade now. Too many assholes.
I remember in my Midwest college band, we stopped at a mall during a trip. Everyone broke off into smaller groups.
Timid kids were orbiting the anime shop for a while before I intentionally and loudly invited someone I liked to go in; "Woah, look it's [goku,(can't actually remember)], do you want to go check it out?" "Uh, sure." Within minutes, the crowd awkwardly coming inside.
I remember the anxiety. I am so insecure and never talk to anyone, so I thought this would define me as a perverted loser. I was so relieved man. Even people I didn't think could like anime were coming in.
As far as bullies, I feel like I remember the ones in highschool being fans of anime. Most people here who don't like anime just don't know it exists.
"lol you were never bullied" by jackasses...
The image anon is using as an example does not say they were not bullied. It says they weren't bullied just for liking anime, but for doing cringy stuff they saw in the anime like Naruto sprinting. Like, read the rest of the god damn sentence, anon.
"Not bullied" lmao I watched my dad beat one of my siblings for it (or maybe korean drama? I don't fully remember I was like 7) I remember their lips bleeding a lot.