The Age of the Average Weeb is Dropping
Apr. 7th, 2025 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elyusionEveryone wasn't lying; anime really has gotten big the past couple of years. For context: for all intents and purposes, if you imagine me as someone who hasn't talked to anyone outside of a very very small amount of friends and hasn't left the house since 2019, that's close enough to my actual situation.
Today I was babysitting a 7 year old.You know, I'm learning that these new kids are still rather strict about gender roles, but that's a story for another time. When I was helping her with her "quarter to/quarter past" clock homework, she saw my phone lockscreen and asked "is that anime?" which I instantly denied because 1. I come from a time and place where liking anime was weirdo shit, sorryyyyyy, and 2. I have a hard time talking to other irl anime fans about this stuff because I don't normally watch popular seasonal stuff. My lockscreen is a bunch of Peepee chibis by the way :3
She also asked to see my room, so I indulged her. In my head my room is very boring, but I recently put my cork board with all my key chains back up (I should post a picture of that here eventually) and she was enchanted. She really, really, really loved them. She kept walking around and saw plushies and my Peepee figurine too 😔 Even the mousepad with the 3D Peepee ass 😔😔😔 Which she called inappropriate by the way, and I had to swear her to secrecy. I'm so used to watching babies I failed to consider a 7 year old would recognize the mousepad depicts a human in an ass-up pose. I'm glad she didn't catch that so much of my anime stuff was the same guy, because then I'd look crazier than I already did. She also went into my closet and then asked for my old Hetalia wallscroll... girl.............. Well, I found a keychain in a drawer of Yuri Leclerc and attached it to her belt loop. She really liked it. It's hers now. When I asked her to name even a single character on my cork board she started naming Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Dragon Ball characters. None of those characters are on my cork board (only two are actually characters from anime as in animated TV programming, even), but hey, I know what's popular with elementary students now!
Another thing is that we played Mario Kart together and she wouldn't shut up for even a second, and I was wondering why until I realized she's probably copying streamers. Damn you streamers. I've always disliked how they overreact to every single little thing, from what I've seen. <- doesn't watch them
Anyways, now she's basically obsessed with me and her mom told me when she got home she wouldn't stop talking about me 👍🏾 Kinda crazy since kids' show hosts are always so hyper and smiley and I'm Not 👍🏾 Kids love me though 👍🏾 Sad I can't be a teacher because I would beat up a parent and get fired one month in 👎🏾 I hate parents so much 👎🏾
One last thing!!!!!!!!! It's crazy to me still how these kids more-or-less do what I say because I'm an adult. I suppose I'm still thinking of babysitting as watching my own siblings, who did not respect me at all, so I'm used to having to repeat what I say increasingly angrier until we start fighting. I won't yell at or punch a child who's not my sibling, duh, but I'm learning I shouldn't be indirect with them like I am with adults either. It's bad to say "I can't talk to them like adults," but what I mean is, they don't have manners down pat yet and won't understand commands unless they're very obviously commands. (Ex. "I don't think that plushie wants to be naked." ❌ "Please don't take the clothes off my plushies." ✔️) And when I command them (nicely!!!!!!!) to do things, they usually will actually do it. Wild stuff. It's crazy out here.
Today I was babysitting a 7 year old.
She also asked to see my room, so I indulged her. In my head my room is very boring, but I recently put my cork board with all my key chains back up (I should post a picture of that here eventually) and she was enchanted. She really, really, really loved them. She kept walking around and saw plushies and my Peepee figurine too 😔 Even the mousepad with the 3D Peepee ass 😔😔😔 Which she called inappropriate by the way, and I had to swear her to secrecy. I'm so used to watching babies I failed to consider a 7 year old would recognize the mousepad depicts a human in an ass-up pose. I'm glad she didn't catch that so much of my anime stuff was the same guy, because then I'd look crazier than I already did. She also went into my closet and then asked for my old Hetalia wallscroll... girl.............. Well, I found a keychain in a drawer of Yuri Leclerc and attached it to her belt loop. She really liked it. It's hers now. When I asked her to name even a single character on my cork board she started naming Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Dragon Ball characters. None of those characters are on my cork board (only two are actually characters from anime as in animated TV programming, even), but hey, I know what's popular with elementary students now!
Another thing is that we played Mario Kart together and she wouldn't shut up for even a second, and I was wondering why until I realized she's probably copying streamers. Damn you streamers. I've always disliked how they overreact to every single little thing, from what I've seen. <- doesn't watch them
Anyways, now she's basically obsessed with me and her mom told me when she got home she wouldn't stop talking about me 👍🏾 Kinda crazy since kids' show hosts are always so hyper and smiley and I'm Not 👍🏾 Kids love me though 👍🏾 Sad I can't be a teacher because I would beat up a parent and get fired one month in 👎🏾 I hate parents so much 👎🏾
One last thing!!!!!!!!! It's crazy to me still how these kids more-or-less do what I say because I'm an adult. I suppose I'm still thinking of babysitting as watching my own siblings, who did not respect me at all, so I'm used to having to repeat what I say increasingly angrier until we start fighting. I won't yell at or punch a child who's not my sibling, duh, but I'm learning I shouldn't be indirect with them like I am with adults either. It's bad to say "I can't talk to them like adults," but what I mean is, they don't have manners down pat yet and won't understand commands unless they're very obviously commands. (Ex. "I don't think that plushie wants to be naked." ❌ "Please don't take the clothes off my plushies." ✔️) And when I command them (nicely!!!!!!!) to do things, they usually will actually do it. Wild stuff. It's crazy out here.
