People that like anime are profiled as weeaboos
because anime is Japanese. This subject is very personal because it has happened to me. I’ve sometimes posted images of anime with funny captions on social media. On each there were
several responses such as “weeb” ( what weeaboo is commonly referred to as). I tried
to correct them telling them that I’m an otaku, not a weeaboo (Weeaboos are people who are insulting to Japanese culture by watching anime and acting like they are “Japanese” when they are not. Otakus are people who spend the majority of their time in their room. They typically
play video games and/or watch anime). When they then tell me that there isn’t a difference between the two, I’m left feeling that their not knowing and having an unwillingness to learn makes them seem ignorant. Some profilers are ignorant, many people just don’t know or understand, but are willing to learn. This negative profiling is a big part of bullying today. Throughout our school lives, we’ve been told that bullying is bad, we’ve had counseling, class discussions, and even assemblies. We’ve learned that bullying has a very negative impact on people’s lives. But, disappointingly enough, people don’t take cyber profiling as seriously as bullying. Cyber profiling, just as cyber bullying, harms a person’s self esteem. They try to make
themselves feel better by making another person feel less important than they are. It is always a bad idea to raise your self esteem on another person’s lack thereof.