Stickyreiss said:
mega48man said:
I used to be into it in middle school, which is why i had no friends. then i grew out of in in late freshman year and realized how gay i was for being so into naruto. i mean come on, it's cool that they're ninjas, but they don't do it like the ninjas from the awesome 80's ninja movies, they're like technicolor ninja kids.
then when i went back to my home high school where all the kids i knew from middle school went plus a lot of other kids, i was a changed person. it took me a year, but i'm now right where i should be; in the video gamer clique, which is pretty damn big. halo reach and monster, you know it. so now i stay from anime because the anime/otaku group at my school is GAWD UGLY. i mean, if you show any communication with these kids, you're labeled "one of them". there's fat hidious and annoying goth girl, a super quirky asian kid who wears the same coat everyday, this one freaky black kid who looks like an evil bob marley, and then some other kids unwanted by society.
lastly, on halloween, my girlfriend went some 3-day anime convention instead of hang out with me );
so that's how i see it; not only does it make you unwanted by society but it also got in the way of my relationship. fuck you naruto.
pokemon is still the shit though, never forget that.
And another one is lost to the slavery of following societal norms.
Learn to be who you are, I was the one guy in highschool who interacted with every clique and had friends from every walk of life. People pick up on when you're trying to fit in and not being yourself.
Learn to bring things up when they are appropriate. Talk about anime with the anime kids, talk about vidya gaems with the gamers, talk about sports with the athletes. When you learn to separate and compartmentalize the different aspects of your life you can fit in in a lot of places without stifling who you are.
no, dude, i'm waaaaay past that. i have more friends now than i ever have in my entire life all because i quit anime, and i'm SO glad i did. i'm no slave, if anything, the master. i know how society and cliques work, and i know how to manipulate them and maneuver them.
you must of been lucky to have a school that has the cliques so well meshed. my high school is very clique oriented (and also pretty small).
here's how my school works;
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--there's the large group of black kids who come from out of district, close to detroit area. it feels weird b/c our school is in a quiet suburb, but parents from out of district rent or buy a lot in our district just so their kids can go here. that's probably the most seperated of the cliques. mainly b/c they all live way outisde the community, so none of them know any of the kids from the 2 major middle schools that go to the high school
--there's the cool kids, which is a lot of kids. almost all of them do at least one sport or activity. within this group there's still some separation but hardly any, just friends amongst friends.
--there's the band kids. and i don't mean the marching bands kids, these 5 guys made a screamo band called AS ATLUS FALLS. they're actually pretty good. me and some other dozen kids bought their t-shirt, it looked sick. these kids blend excellently with the cool kids. except for their lead guitarist (he's kinda out there, but not completely) and their old keyboardist (who had a falling out with the band for some personal reason, his life's also a train wreck thanks to his excessive pot use. a lot of kids at my school do pot, but he let his life go b/c of it)
--there's my group (N3RD L1F3, WH4T WH4T?!?!?) we're a large group, we play halo, drink monster, and have fun together. code monkey loe fritos......code monkey love tab and mountain dew.....code monkey very simple man, with warm fuzzy secret heart.... code monkey like you......code monkey like youuuuuuu
--there's my other group (my closer friends, it's like, 2-3 people i've known for a long time) i'm working very hard to get them to be more accepted into the 1337 group, they'd have a blast and feel so much better. if only sean wouldn't analyze everything and nolan wouldn't be so damn stubborn and a little more socially active. (one time at lunch, when some of the other guys are going on this hilarious rant, i tell nolan to check this out, so then he starts to tell this one hot chick at the table (who he doesn't even know) about how i was in middle school with the whole naruto crap i was into. i was SOOOOO embarased, when i chewed him out he said "jake, it's no big deal, i feel offended" i was like "YOU FEEL OFFENDED? WHAT THE FUCK? HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL?!?!?!" but i digest)
--now there's the real band kids. only a couple of them are seniors, one already being in our nerd group, another is the drummer from the scremo band, and the other well, he's special (BUT NOT TOO SPECIAL), and no one picks on him b/c he's trying, and we all love him for that. plus, you'd look like the biggest asshole to pick on micheal, he wouldn't hurt a fly. the rest of the band kids are, for the most part, pretty normal outside of band, but it's still like any high school; the band kids are kind of thier own clique, sort of.
--finally, there's the otakus, at the bottom of the food chain. these kids have no idea how to fit in normally with everyone else, and they show it to. they'll be doing the dumb naruto hand signs, and reading manga when we're trying to do a group project (which is extremely rude). this one girl, as ugly as she is slow, does nothing but draw anime. every seminar, draws anime. every lunch, draws anime, during class, draws anime. i understand that spirited away got an academy award and there was that one stuff animal from Toy Story 3 that was from that same movie, but jesus christ, it's life consuming for these people, it's scary. there's some more kids disperesed in there, and they all stand out.
-lastly, there's clark. we call him zero b/c he looks like zero from holes (except 4936 times creepier) he's super weird and has no excuse like a mental hadicap or w/e, he's just weird. he smells bad to. he's also ANNOYING. and the girl that's always drawing anime? thats his sister. he was voted homecoming prince, it was HILARIOUS, i feel so bad for the pretty girl who had to walk with him onto the football field at the homecoming game.
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anyway, the cliques at my school are very separated because of such a low population (200 in my grade alone) we actually have the lowest population in our area. so as you can imagine, with a smaller population the kids are more well connected which makes cliques stronger. when you combine that with such a groups of kids.
i went to a school freshman year where there were no cliques, very nice, meet a ton of freinds there that i still see almost everyday (my GF goes there to
so glad i went there!) then i moved back to my home high school and saw, well, what you see above.
thank you for your concern, and you're absolutely right, be what you are and let people accept that for what you are. (unless your in my case when what you are is gonna get you killed and you wanna be over in that other group over that way instead.)
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