In post 76, callforjudgement wrote: In post 73, Vi wrote:Also in practice people are bad at identifying anime.
Clearly we're going to need a list of animetells, not-anime-tells, and things that are Not Anime Indicative.
well
First off there's the anime style. If you can't pick that out, maybe you shouldn't be the first to call people weebs.
There are several media that USE the anime art style, though. Cobalt kept insisting that one of his avvies (not the one he has now) was a vocaloid; my current avvy is from a video game (that tries its best to be a cartoon, but nonetheless). These are somewhat gray areas (are vocaloids weeaboo? ehhhh yeah but they're also niche), but if the source material is not actually a work of media passively consumed and few other animetells are triggered, the avatar is Not Anime Indicative.
From there, the list of animetells in ascending order of severity looks something like...
*Lighter colors - relatively few dangerously anime avatars make extensive use of dark colors
*Females featured - or more properly, anime males are markedly less of an animetell than anime females
*Non-normative-sexual fanservice - animal ears, heterochromia, etc.
*"Cool" factor - the masculine equivalent to normative-sexual fansevice (thinking of DeathNote's avatar, which is decisively anime but not damningly so)
*Well-known characters - A Hatsune Miku avatar would be judged more harshly than any other vocaloid.
Any
Haruhi or K-On! avatar will be judged harshly.
*Normative-sexual fanservice - of varying degrees ranging between boob windows, misshapen breasts, unrealistic poses, exposed panties, etc.
*Moe - in general the larger the blush, the more egregious, especially if it extends beyond the character's face
*Caricature art - characters presented in a simplified art style from their original incarnations for purposes of looking "anime cute"
In short, if I saw someone with an animated
Carmelldansen avatar I would push them through a rope so quickly I wouldn't realize what was going on until their body stopped twitching. Pure reflex.
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