feelings yakuza

If you've managed to find this article after being slandered and called a proshipper, I'd like to reassure you, "Don't worry about it, those are just American feelings yakuza."

Must-know for Japanese fandom: the meaning of "proship" and the concept of "proshippers" in Western f｜オレンジア オレンジア 2024

In fact in 2023, in a weird full circle moment, Japanese internet users learned about this new distinctly American online ugliness, which is especially prevalent in western fandom spaces, and coined the term “feelings yakuza,” to describe it. They use it to mean "those who turn their personal discomfort into a social evil and try to erase the target completely.”

Everyone's very angry online right now Ryan Broderick 2026