This is interesting, because I feel like weebism is in many ways an effort to recover teen love...not just because people missed out on it, but because America's version of teen love is not very romantic, fun, or fulfilling.
https://twitter.com/sh1nxi/status/1378483743640403968
I need to write my General Theory of Weebism in a blog post.
The preview: Weebs imagine Japan is a place where dorky, awkward young people get to be romantic and sexy. And whether or not they're right about that, they end up using Japanese media to create a not-very-Japanese subculture in which they DO actually get to be romantic and sexy.
No one has ever made a good movie or TV show about weebs, and yet it's one of the most complex and interesting (and in my opinion, beautiful) subcultures on the planet.
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