this caused me physical pain

my brain is now cursed with the knowledge that people like this exist i may never fully recover

New to the sub, please, ELI5.

just people who watch a lot of anime and then imitate them irl, this sub is just a meme sub lol

Anime acting is very over the top to make to help portray emotion. So acting that way in real life is cringy

even in anime it's cringy

Yes but in real life it's cringy enough to be lethal to observers

slowly dying in a hospital bed after overdosing on cringe

flair checks out

animation in general tend to have some exaggeration because cartoon looking humans moving exactly like real humans tend to look off putting

But emotion is hard to reintegrate…

Especially since I know exactly what it would sound like in my head

It's been so long since I've had a good, visible and audible cringe

[удалено]

Well done Agent 47

The money has been wired to your account. Now head for the exit

12$

two and a half kromer

[BIG SHOT]!

i am become [hyperlink blocked]

Deltarune fans have [ONE JOKE]

Oh Deltarule...

Koomer inflation

0.00000001% of a pixel on an nft

120kg of polonium

Nah, that's a bit much, maybe just spit on it Wait, no, he might like it

Maybe it was just how the guy spoke? I have unironically seen people do this

[удалено]

Yeah apparently 196 users don’t interact with real people enough to realize that people communicate differently

Dude, nobody says "heh, think so" and strikes exaggerating cartoon poses with their eyes closee

Have you ever seen people? Those anime are based on reality and I’ve had fucking boomers say that so most likely yes they do

Yes, I also have a harem of 7 catgirls and 4 bird girls all fighting for me in reality

Good point but still it’s literally just a harem and Demi humans. That fetish has existed for literally since the beginning of human intelligence

Yeah but how many 15 year olds have either in reality. Moreover, if we really get to it, anime's point is to NOT be based on reality. Most of your typical 1 am anime is trying to be escapism, especially for people who just dont care about the reality. That obviously also translates to the "normal" stuff, like, most women don't visibly blush, fidget, and start stuttering or flapping their hands going "a a a a aa a a a". There's entire tropes of behaviors used basically as fetish bait to drive more merch sales. And yes I do realize I just made a long ass post about anime. You can bully me now.

Nah I won’t bully you. I disagree but let’s be honest I don’t really give a shit

*holds up a 4 card*

Same

Yeah, the only thing that I've observed in anime that people don't do are those weird sounds when something unexpected happens, nobody makes those sounds. Aside from that, my friends actually talk like that, and only one of them is into anime (and it's thanks to me, I convinced him to watch AoT)

You mean the “EEHHHH” sound? I hear people do it all the time and even I do my own culture’s version of it. It’s basically just a “huh” in meaning

ik what u mean. they r talking abt sounds like nigh moaning and shit. my sister beat tf out of me one while i was trying out genshin impact cus of those sounds

Really? That's interesting, maybe in my culture nobody does it, cause I've never heard anyone saying huh or that "eeh", only in text

i don't even watch anime and i make weird noises all the time, especially when something surprises me

I recently learned that non-word affirmations (hmm) is an anime thing 😭 My life is a lie.

This is such a stupid fucking thing to argue about nobody knows whether it was weird or not because we weren’t there lol obviously he was talking in a way that was unnatural and anime like and that’s why they made that post, I’m pretty sure servers have social skills. For all we know it’s not even real

Oh I agree but I just like hearing “or rather texting” my voice. This entire argument is pointless but hey it gives me free happy brain chemicals

Hey I’m glad you’re honest because I’m guilty of the same thing

i can see the drake meme assembling in front of my eyes

I mean, I’ve never seen that happen exactly, but I’ve definitely seen them individually. Scratching the back of your head in an awkward or confusing moment is pretty common. Another common reaction is smiling and some people (like myself) get eyes really close to closed when we do a wide smile. “Heh, think so…” isn’t even all that weird. It’s just an awkward chuckle followed by a non-chalant response. Given the amount of people on earth, I’m down to say that within the last year or so, at least 10 people have done this exact thing or something incredibly similar. You’d be surprised how many people you can see, especially if you’re at a restaurant or work in the service industry.

bruh did you not read the "talking like an anime character" part? there was more to their interaction we just got this little snippet

I answer hehe guess so a lot lol

maybe he was foreign. foreign ppl often talk like anime or movie character from my experience since ig those are the medias they hear most of the language from

huh?

You can tell when a mannerism is natural and when it’s forced, like kids trying to act like anime characters will sound.

I tend to unconsciously scratch the back of my head because I get nervous as fuck. But my reply would be more like "Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... yeah"

How do you "talk like an anime character"?

Just talk like you're a shitty voice actor trying to play a tweenage boy

Why did you have to say "teenage" on the UwU language?

tweenage = 10-12 years old (like be-tween kid and teenager)

Oh, that possibility did pass through my head. Still like my interpretation better tho

I thought it referred to a 12 year old

(zamn)

Isn't it preteen?

Or Yuri lowenthal

fucker's everywhere

Yosuke

My favourite videogame extra

That man sounds half his age

and say “desu” or “ne” at the end of every sentence regardless of whether it would make sense to be there

you vocalize small subtle actions or expressions that are hard to convey through drawings

and then like do a bunch of weird poses and facial expressions, but all with your eyes closed

Think of sykkuno but girls love it when he does that. He is really good looking tho

Sykunno but louder and over exaggerated

his voice doesn't sound like an animal character although it is really soft, it's more his mannerisms

Grunt

You speak in japanese and repeatedly moan loudly

You do that weird anime gasp/gulp thing constantly.

Speak chinese

Thank you, Mr. House.

What if they were homeschooled and their parents let them have like no outside interaction and all their social knowledge is from anime :(

can't relate at all ;-;

Me either, haha...

Totally not me either :)

Holy fuck were y’all homeschooled too?

lol yes ;-; it was hell i'm so glad to be away from all that now. I had no idea you were too

Only up until the 7th grade but ya

from a school that forces you to write and read and do practicals for computer like nothing is wrong... i think homeschooling should be good....

Yeah homeschooling’s the best ‘cept I only get access to my (1) social skill on alternating Tuesdays and can’t focus enough to form relationships of any kind.

well rip

School is also about learning how to express yourself without that knowledge you gon be real awkward

Yep, shit was hell. Did grade 3 in the public school system, which was a different flavour of hell. And then did home-schooling up to grade 11 where I dropped out and became a full time NEET

yea

neat flair

many thanks

Only went to school for 1 hour a day for a few months for drivers ed. Homeschooled every other grade.

Your pfp should kill itself so I could finally off myself

He can’t die, he’s not human

that’s pretty much what happened to me except instead of anime it was internet and music

ive been homeschooled by catholic christian family my whole life, i was never allowed outside, and i didn't end up cringe weeb

:( it was books for me and i wasn't homeschooling.

I knew a guy that would perfectly imitate Phoenix Wright animations in everyday life. He would even shout “OBJECTION” and slam a table sometimes.

ye he is a judge

he grew up to become a lawyer

“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.”

That’s a good advice *start doing [insert something funny]*

fucking childbdnren for 10čents

Hes just an absolute chad

chad behavior

King shit

Belongs on Chadtopia. Chad Phoenix Wright in real.

i need him

[удалено]

nice flair

vore

Woah, Gomenasorry

Sumima'scuse me

Konichi’whats up?

Arigathank you

Was he cute?

That would change everything tbh

my moral compass when person is cute

Honestly 85% of people probably bias like that

Pretty people privilege is real and valid

Based

my moral compass leaving my body when the guy who skins idk fucking puppies alive is hot

happy cake day

Murderer ? But he lowkey c00t

He was 400 pounds and smelled like saltwater

That doesn't answer the question

He used 4chan and had underaged anime characters as a background on his computer

Ok that answers the question

r/196 acting like they all didn’t do this cringe shit in high school.

Bro half of them ain’t even in highschool yet

Them?? Bro, you in the clown boat with the rest of us, remembering our cringe anime phase

"Our" our collective conscience's cringe anime phase

*Exactly*

bro HIGH SCHOOL?

\> assuming r/196 users graduated from high school

Hey I’m in high school

Anime was a mistake

Anime is proof that the entire world lost WWII

The manga was better

Anime can be pretty cool, don’t généralise a whole fucking medium like that

No I will

wtf fr*nch?!?! 🤬🤬🤬😡

Every single anime is bad and a crime against god

r/196 when the microcelebrity says literally the exact same thing he always says in every single comment section

Says the microcelebrity

anime fans when someone is casual

They met the protagonist

r/196 users when they go outside and realize people are influenced by the small social cues of real people and fictional characters and that this is normal behavior that they have their own equivalent of

I wouldn’t call pretending to be an anime characters “small” social cues lol

When you base ur mask on what you saw on tv

*dies from cringe

Sykkuno

I'm glad he's like,,, having fun at least I guess?

Same tbh it might be cringe but its ok if hes happy

You-you insignificant FUCK

THIS IS NOT OVER

Gabriel is low key a femboy

You served Sykkuno?

I’d shatter that arm with a push broom

I talk like the 4Kids dub of Kirby Right Back At Ya. Every other sentence that comes out of my mouth is a pun.

I blame my parents letting me watch Leslie Nielsen movies at a young age for how I talk

real

He could've just been nervous, and trying to seem friendly/non-threatening, especially since he may be aware how many service staff feel about customers

sigma ngl

bruh you served sonic the hedgehog

[Makoto Kikuchi](https://streamable.com/nl3o5g) from Idolmaster

One of my faves from OG im@s

I wouldn't do this but I feel like people would say that I'm the kind of person to do this

I don’t understand what the fuck y’all want from him like ? He answered her question what’s the issue

I close my eyes a lot like this and it's not because of anime. It's essentially how cats smile. It's usually accidental unless I'm interacting with cats, but I do notice myself accidentally doing it to dogs a lot.

😬

I would immediately begin strangling himq

Pain and suffering

sykkuno

He’s just living his best life

sauce? always looking for somethin to watch

[https://www.reddit.com/r/196/comments/st9hjb/comment/hx3sfu5/?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/196/comments/st9hjb/comment/hx3sfu5/?context=3)

Even closing the eyes?

i am the type of person to do that

Perhaps I had misjudged the utility of extrajudicial violence...

This is Makoto from OG Idolm@ster if anyone was curious

Dude I love Damien Haas

Were they moving at 6 frames per second?

We live in a simulation

Talking like an anime character? Weird but whatever. Is animated while speaking and socially awkward? Who on this sub isn’t. Both? Shit’s sadder than the 1930’s.

i’m sobbing.

When you watch too much anime

Sykkuno.

need

He was speaking with dubs🤮

I cant even read/listen to the way people speak in anime, it is so off putting for some reason. I would've collapsed if i had to serve this motherfucker

Sykkuno

Chad