Otaku vs Weebo

First off I need to say something Being somewhat nooby to this fandom, my knowledge of the Otaku dictionary is rather....low. If you were to talk to me about personality archetypes that end in -dere, I will probably get lost really quick (except for tsundere cause my fav females are kind of classified as such, still not entirely sure what the actual meaning of it is). So with that out of the way I need to ask something and I am not trying to offend anyone here. Before I dove deeper into the Otaku culture, I assumed Otaku and Weebo were the same thing. Now that I have more knowledge of the culture I'm starting to see the term 'Weebo' as something rather really negative (like how a white person who is more urban/ghetto would be referred to as a whigger by some people). I'm here asking this because of a chat I had with my coworker today that left me without words. Again I hope I didn't offend anyone, I'm just a confused man looking to not be confused.

See it's things like that that confuse me. Is it like one term is bad in one part of the world, but in another part of it's not a bad, maybe even positive. For example the word American

Yeah true, i see it as Otaku meaning Anime/Manga/gaming fan at least in america. Weaboo meaning obsessed to the point were you want to move to japan and only do and have Japanese things.

I read none of these comments, nor the original post. I'd just like to say that the thread title gave me cancer. If I ever start calling myself an Otaku, or worse, if I become a Weeaboo. Someone shoot me before I infect others. 8D

Haha I used to called myself an otaku but then I learned the harsh background it carries in Japan so now i just say I'm really enthusiastic about anime and manga

Weebo is like someone who is not a Japanese person but tries to be. As in they try to say Japanese words in there every day basis. Like when they see something cool they go like ' Oh wow look at that! That is so sugoi! ' Or they see things in anime and they put it in there every day lifestyle thinking it makes them more ' Japanesey ' Like saying itadakimasu before eating and trying to use chopsticks for everything..Lmao It just really makes them look ridiculous because they are trying to look or appear more Japanese because they want to be more like an anime character or whatever. BUT ANIME Has made them do this. Like I Know some girl who goes to college now (went to my highschool as well, wearing SEIFUKUS. She has like at least 5 different ones and everyone thinks shes weird as hell and she does the ' I'm late for school desu with slice of bread in my mouth ' routine all the time. And she calls the guy who likes ' Her Senpai ' And hes like 1 CLASS BELLOW HER. And a senpai in japan is someone who is ABOVE YOU. But yeah. It's stupid and she carries a Japanese school bag and has a pink bento box that she fills up with her disgusting mexcian food...NOT EVEN JAPANESE FOOD. BUT SHE Tries to make it look that way she like gets red mexican rice and shapes it like a riceball and puts like ham or something around it instead of seaweed. LMFAAOOO. And omg its terrible. AND EVEN If it was Japanese food she still looks STUPID AS HELL. Because shes trying to look like some anime character. And she wears her hair like an anime character too, Its dyed pink or sometmes she changes it to other colors but like puts pig tails with ribbons and omg... Yeah it's just pretty bad. IT LOOKS Like everyday she goes to school she looks like shes cosplaying. And the most annoying thing ever is she likes to call herself ' Kawaii ' and does the weird anime poses all the time. Even flails like an anime character or omg.. It's terrible and that my friends is maxiumum weeebo. Her name is something like Maria but she wants people to call her Mimi-chan or Ma-Chan. And omg she thinks she is so cute and desu but she looks ridiculous acts stupid and everyone in college thinks she has some problems because she is an adult and still does this. Then she does these stupid speeches abotu what is right and wrong and she sounds like an idiot not knowing what she is saying. The one thing I hate the most of her, Is her voice. She doesn't speak like a normal person she has a super high pitch voice and she makes sure she has it all the time. So annoying.. She puts people who like anime to shame. She is such a weebo the college anime club denied her from entering it. That my friends is a REAL Weebo.

Way too fucking long, too lazy to read. BUT IT'S NOT CALLED WEEBO. Why are half of you spelling it that way? Jesus christ. Me and others used the correct spelling for it on this very same page. ._.