K9Otaku
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I explained it below. Weebs behave like Hanuman worshiping Indian autorickshaw drivers or Mexican Santa-Muerte devotees. They carry around little pictures or figurines of their favored character/deity. They look up to them as an inspiration for how to behave. They escape the dreariness of their daily lives into the fantasy world of their cult. They can talk about it for hours as if it was real. They were inducted into the cult as children and practicing it evokes strong childhood memories. They can spend significant amounts of money on trips or paraphernalia linked to the cult (trips to cons/pilgrimage, books, clothing)what hallmarks exactly?
The criteria above are far from vague.you make everything purposefully vague so it can't be falsified.
And I never said that religion was vague. What I did say is that the frontier between "religion" and "pop culture" in India is hazy. What I mean by this is that in fact "religion" and "pop culture" are just 2 expressions that we use to describe different aspects of the same phenomenon. The problem we have is that, to us, the way we understand the word "religion" is biased by our Christian past. If we look at the world without this bias, we realize that "pop culture" and "religion" are in fact the same thing. Anime is just one particular sect inside this continuum.