Does the majority of Sup Forums still hide their power level?

Does the majority of Sup Forums still hide their power level?

The majority of Sup Forums is still in high school so yeah probably

To an extent.

>The majority of Sup Forums is still in high school
This can't be true. I don't believe it.

Admitting you like anime past 20 is basically saying you are a pedo, so yes.

I watch anime at work these days.

This

Friends know, family doesn't.

Yes, and with almost complete success.

I'm studying for a meme art degree and like 20% of my class are weebs, I still try to hide it but I've stopped caring so much.

I don't even acknowledge the existence of anime offline.

Why wouldn't you

Have you not seen this boards shittier discussions? Just look at only a dumb teen would actually believe this

forgot an apostrophe, but you get the idea

Kind of, but not really. I don't think I could hide my lack of social skills succesfully, but I do try to avoid talking about anime and otaku culture in public.

>so user what are your hobbies?
>oh you watch those japanese cartoons?
>wait, aren't those the ones that have sexualised little girls? why would you watch that?

hid it pretty well, even from myself even though i've been going to this site for over a decade now.
funny though since i read a lot of manga in hs, been playing catch up this past month.

I guess, but nobody ever talks to me, not sure if that counts.

That's why you go full pleb mode and bring up shit like One Punch Man and ReZero instead of recommending them Kodomo no Jikan and Astarotte no Omocha.

It's fun to talk about anime IRL when you're with someone somewhat as knowledgeable as yourself. I have pic related as my smartphone background and it makes me smile every time I see her.

>>her

>Sup Forums is full of high school girls

As opposed to western TV where little girls aren't sexualized?

Don't be retarded, user. Crazy shit goes down in the western TV/film industry. Just look at all the sexual stories coming out of hollywood and realize that those are just the tip of the iceberg. Get over your stupid insecurities.

Why would you do that?

GOD YES!
I've become an executive recently. Don't really want my employees to know that their boss watches Japanese cartoons for little girls

Imagine making a concerted effort to conceal one of your interests/hobbies around people who you pretend to have a close relationship with - sounds exhausting.

I went to a nerd college so no I don't.

Yes, I don't really want other people to know about my hobbies, especially when such hobby is watching a childish and inferior medium.

GOD YES!
I've become an astronaut recently. Don't really want my mission control operators to know that their boss watches Japanese cartoons for little girls

They would respect you more if you watched it right in front of them and didn't give a f***.

Another user is here.
It sure is exhausting. Every time one of my friends asks me if he can use my computer I'm in panic

I've never really hidden my power level and I've been here since 2003. Somehow some people have trouble with the idea that you can refrain from forcing your hobbies on people who don't share that interest without actually hiding your interest altogether.

I don't really want to talk about tokyo ghoul or whatever the fuck is popular with normalfags so I have to.

>not being the first human to watch anime in space

I wouldn't be surprised if someone already watched anime in space.

when i was getting blood drawn yesterday, the nurse asked me what i do for fun
she wouldnt accept vague answers so i had to tell her that pretty much all i do is watch anime but it turned out she actually liked anime too so that was funny

PLANETES or SpaceBros marathon hosted from the ISS fucking when?

Well. It's not that kind of work and lots of people I work with are more then 10 years older than me. Besides, in mother Russia most people don't really have a good opinion about anime

I don't really try to hide that I like anime, video games, and other weeb stuff, but I don't really advertise it either. The only stuff I actively hide is the lewd shit I have saved.

IKTF

>when you spend two hours hiding everything on your computer just in case, only for them to cancel on you and not show up
>when they ask what music you listen to
>when they ask what you did on your days off
>when you cant use anime avatars or wallpapers in anything
>when youre afraid they would lose all respect for you even though you dont even like them that much but youve known them enough years that you just put up with it

I neither hide it nor go out of my way to advertise it to everyone.

This, as long as you aren't a faggot about it, no one really gives a shit what your hobbies are.

Only ironic anime weebs hipsters show it off

As always depends on the context, you have to be retarded to show it off on people who has 0 interest on it.

Among friends? somewhat
In public? yes

I don't want to get beaten up by my dad, so yes

And the worst thing is I'm over 20 y.o.
I understand that this shit is ridiculous but can't do anything about feeling uncomfortable about it

That happened to me once.

Should've asked if she wanted to watch Nightshift Nurses together.

>Making friends who can't accept your interests
>Not just saying Japanese music
>Specifying the content of what you're watching
>Not proudly caring about your hobbies
>Seeking validation from pleople who don't care about your interests

Yeah exactly this

I even have drug dealer friends, and know people that robs and even one of them have alrready been in a shootout with the Police and when they ask me, i just tell them i watch anime and don't give a f

As I've gotten older I've started giving less of a fuck

My family knows I'm a huge weeb but I avoid bringing it up in the workplace

wtf 3d? no

this

I can't discuss the normal airing television shows or what's playing on Netflix at the office because the majority of what I watch is anime and I honestly don't have a clue what's on the tube.

So my coworkers think I don't really watch television at all and constantly tell me, "I wish I could do that."

I'm almost 30. I've hidden my hobby from my best friend for almost 15 years now.

How do I make Sup Forums friends IRL?

Basically this

People irl have shit taste

That's because there's not as much of a stigma to being a weeb when you're a nigger.

>How do I make Sup Forums friends IRL?
Well if you all stopped being such insecure morons about it, it might turn out you already know one or two, you're just needlessly hiding it from each other.

No, i am not a nigger, i am white and argentinian. And people of the streets have codes, when you like something, you like it and they shut the fuck up, is as easy as this.

>Argentina
>White

/thread

This is the best way to go about it. I feel sorry for the insecure idiots ITT.

I believe it but I also consider people under 25 to basically be high schoolers.

>hiding power level
What do you go around wearing a Naruto t-shirt while saying random Nip words otherwise? There has been literally no moment since I graduated where someone asked me if I liked anime. And I would never bring it up first because their taste is most likely shit if they even do watch any. The only thing that could tell people, who don't give a shit, that I like anime is if they got their hands on my phone and saw my cute/lewdish Rem wallpaper

>wanting to be dragged into a conversation with some Crunchyroll-watching casual

unpleasant

Surely someone's at least asked what your hobbies are, even if they haven't specifically asked about anime.

I'm already a pathetic loser in every other respect, I might as well own it

This
Also around age of 30 people don't care so much about stuff like this.
I'm saving and sorting my lewd stuff around friends and they don't give a fuck. Sometimes they can appreciate aesthetic or anatomical aspect of something and say what they like or not.

>not wearing a Haruhi armband and going to a disco full of normies just to see their reaction

You people know nothing about enjoying life.

Yes, there is no other way to live.

I got so tired of being paranoid about hiding my power level that for a short time I reverted back to the open weeb phase of my early years, before settling to this approach

Hide? From who?

From your parents. Or else you will get One Piece merch for christmas because that's the only chinese cartoon they recognize.

Someone once struck up a conversation with me about anime was when I was at a mall wearing a madoka magica shirt.

>Rem wallpaper
>claims other people's taste is most likely shit
At least they'd find themselves in company of a fellow shit-taste pleb

pretty much my interaction with my coworkers, which I keep separate from my friends. friends all know i'm a fucking fag, they don't give a shit. but i don't need the 40 year olds with kids i work with to know i watch upwards of 6 hours a week watching cute girls do cute things and jack off exclusively to hentai

I have nobody to hide it from.

>Implying I have anyone to hide it from

All of my friends know I'm a total weeb and they don't care at all. Some of my friends really like anime themselves and some don't care for it at all.

But besides my friends I don't let anyone else know. Like I'll only bring it up to someone if they've already admitted they watch it. I'll never stop hiding it.

>when I was at a mall wearing a madoka magica shirt.
I would literally laugh my ass off if I saw someone wearing anime shirts in public.

>talking to people

Worry not, I'll be your friend.

>talking

Someone I work with confessed that she liked me and I asked her who is best girl Rei or Asuka?
She answered wrong and I now bully her every day about it

I don't hide my power level st all

>not talking to yourself

>haruhi armband
just googled this, wtf is this neoironic nazi shit

I like some anime based clothes, just as long as it's reference to stuff that isn't literally based on little girls.

for what purpose?
>meet cool new people from wearing merch outside
>loved ones actually get you gifts you'd love
>automatic pleb filter
>friends that don't get it are still friends, friends that do will marathon shit with you
>indirectly influenced younger relatives into it. become senpai guide in tastes

>but i don't need the 40 year olds with kids i work with to know i watch upwards of 6 hours a week watching cute girls do cute things and jack off exclusively to hentai
So don't give them that much detail, genius. "Yeah, I watch a bit of anime" is all you need tell them.

Are all of the "must hide powerlevel" types here under the impression that they must either completely hide it or tell everyone everything about their watching habits, with no in-between?

Too much effort

To be honest, I do that quite often.

I do not understand what compels a man to use an anime avatar.

My friends know I watch anime but I almost never bring it up.

Living here is great, I got on a crowded train and went to Brisbane for four hours wearing a Kancolle shirt and no one bat an eye.

>Are all of the "must hide powerlevel" types here under the impression that they must either completely hide it or tell everyone everything about their watching habits, with no in-between?

Exactly this. My friends and family know that I enjoy some japanese cartoons, but they don't have to know what kind of loli lewds I search.

My nigga

If they don't give a shit in Queensland, none of the rest of you need to worry.

I have no idea what a persons impression of anime will be. At best if they're nerdy on some other topic I can bring up some popular/well-known stuff. At worst, they've had a run-in with a full-blown brony-tier autist and are convinced that's what anime fans are.

Though I'm also probably over-compensating for the fact that I was full-blown brony in high school and never want to relive being that guy again.

The fuck do you expect them to do? They probably just thought you're a weirdo and left it at that.