3 things about Otakus/Weeaboos that everyone hates.
An Otaku is, loosely speaking, a nerd. Usually an otaku is someone obsessed with one of two things: Videogames, and Manga/Anime. It is typically the latter. A weeaboo is someone obsessed with Japanese culture. Weeaboos are almost always otaku, though otakus are not always weeaboos. Like squares and rectangles. Lots of people usually hate both for lots of reasons, but even people who like them hate these things about them. Even I, who is quintessentially both an otaku and a weeaboo, cannot stand these horrible character flaws which me and my brethren possess.
Almost always the first thing that everyone thinks of when asked what they hate about otakus/weeaboos (if they don’t just stare at you like you’ve got two heads) is the fact that they all think they can speak Japanese. The key word here is “think”. In truth, at least 99% of Otakus/weeaboos cannot recite one accurate Japanese phrase if their manga collection’s lives depended on it. Sure there are a few, (maybe 5, at most) who actually take the initiative to take real Japanese lessons, go to Japan, and/or find some way to learn to speak true Japanese. But the majority simply regurgitate meaningless babble that they have inferred from their mangas and their anime shows, and doubtless pronounce it wrong yet continue to use it and infect others with misinformation. It’s an epidemic. There should be some sort of regular public service announcement about this. I’m not going to pretend like most otakus can’t read or write in Japanese much better than they speak it, but nobody except other otakus really care about that.
Yaoi. It’s infectious. It’s irresistible. It’s so friggin annoying. Yaoi (another word universally mispronounced) is guy-on-guy romance. It’s gay guys who love other gay guys. And it’s sweeping over the world as one of the most popular genres in otaku-dom ever. I’m not even going to pretend I don’t love this stuff. But it pollutes the mind. Girls who get hooked on yaoi become infatuated with a gay community that doesn’t even EXIST. That’s right yaoi fangirls! Gay guys don’t really act like that! Whats worse, they become obsessed with the dreaded “yaoi pairings”. That’s where they create a fantasy couple of two guys who are not together (and usually not gay in the least) and imagine a romantic love story where they go on little escapades, typically of sexual nature. And they will fight to the death over them. My favorite is Riku x Sora from Kingdom Hearts. :P Anyway, most of the time, these are just harmless fictional characters from some manga or anime or videogame. The dangerous ones are where they do it to real people. *shudder* It gets bad.
Last, and certainly not least, HORRIBLE COSPLAYS. Every otaku has done a horrible cosplay once in their life. Some do it every weekend. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good cosplay. Some people do amazing cosplays. But not everyone. And I’m sorry, but there is a weight limit for cosplays. If you weigh like 500 lbs, you shouldn’t cosplay as the Tomb Raider. It just isn’t socially acceptable. It would probably help us with the horrible cosplays if the characters weren’t so complicated to begin with. Have you seen Sora’s hair!? How are you supposed to do that??? But in that aspect it just makes the really good ones seem that much more amazing. My advice, if you don’t have the lack-of-a-life that allows you to create these amazing cosplays, just buy an “I heart Pokemon” hat and spare us all your 10-minute thrown together shamble.