is it just me

“Emily-Chan” u just look stupid if u have some shit like that tbh.   1 reply

as a chinese person i don't mind until they're racist. how could you profit off a culture but not give the people (the literal backbone of culture) any respect? i get a little bit bitter thinking about the rampant sinophobia my friends, their parents, and my family had to go through and how its likely that nobody would've stood up for us but its no......   reply

Not me, don't care, and I'm Asian, and I know a friend from Japan who wasn't bothered by the "aesthetic" use of their language, so why should anyone here in mangago (assuming that no one is Japanese) be bothered or be overly dramatic about the usage of the language when it's not even theirs to begin with. I cannot even begin how I just laugh at som......   4 reply

So I am korean man (no japanese, sorry), and people use korean as aesthetic too. I see it is nearly the same thing, but I am not bothered. No one here is. We wear english t-shirts and use english letters the same as people do with korean and japanese. As long as no one is racism, we do not care! Please know that opinions vary, but all of my frien......   1 reply

nope im a first gen east asian immagrant that shit is annoying as hell to me youre not sensitive   reply

i think some of you all are gatekeeping things too much... speaking on this as a chinese person, having "可爱emily (which literally just translates to cute emily!!)," "mochi," and "sakura," isn't hurtful (to me, at the very least, and i doubt it will affect any of the gigantic landmass of asia...), nor racist, nor cultural appropriation or whatev......   1 reply

maybe that foreign language is also a language they speak? also mochi and sakura are not a foreign language   1 reply

As an aesthetic yes, at the very least it's cringey as hell, and it shouldn't be hard to see how it can pretty easily slip into problematic territory.   reply