I agree with you, I am fairly large and I changed schools frequently. Every new school id be bullied for first few weeks and it would only stop when bullies realise I can beat them more than they can beat me, and that i wouldn’t shy away from confrontation. But liking Anime was like top two reasons
The most memorable is I was new to school and 12. I had a Keychain attached to my bag of bato from GiTS, not even motoko, at first this guy thought he was GI Joe and it was fine, then he asked more about the figure and upon learning it’s anime, he stole it… And about 2 days later decided with two of his friends, I need to taught anime bad by shoving it down my throat. Two friends held my hand and the psycho was getting me to open my mouth to shove it in, when I broke free from one of the friend and punched him so hard it broke his nose, then kicked one other guy in nuts. I fucking ran to staff room to have some adult around. Well I almost got kicked out of school. But some 16-17 year old bystander girl went out of her way to explain everything. And I only got suspended for a week. Stories like this were common everytime I change schools, bullies test me, they realise I am not willing to fight before going down and thankfully being large, I could do some serious damage. They’d give up bullying after a few months. And then a year or two later, new school. Rinse and repeat.
Etterra@discuss.online 5 hours ago
Same with d&d and video games.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
Or the “wrong” kind of music
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yep true! I think it went from “all Video Games get you bullied” -> “not playing the right video games gets you bullied” -> videogames now widespread and won’t get you bullied, but I there’s probably a bit of the previous two going on in some schools.
johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
I remember being teased for liking Halo 3 because everyone else was obsessed with COD for being “realistic”.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
lol i still get bullied for playing video games. but it’s mostly from people my own age who basically think it’s a shameful horrible thing to do… but will spend hours on social media or watching brainrot tv.