Westaboo (n.): A Non-Westerner Obsessed With Western Culture

Westaboo

English

Part of Speech: |  IPA (Approx.): /ˈwɛstəbuː/

Katakana: ウェスタブー

“A non-Westerner who idealizes and fixates on Western culture.”

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Definition 1:
A non-Western person, often a Japanese national, who becomes intensely fixated on Western culture, aesthetics, or media, usually in a romanticized or unrealistic way.

Definition 2:
Someone who idealizes Western culture beyond reason or reality.

Quick Study Definition:
A non-Westerner obsessed with Western culture.

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Example Sentence:
After spending a semester abroad in California he returned quoting sitcoms and eating burgers for every meal and his friends teased him for becoming a full westaboo.

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Etymology:

• west: relating to Western countries or culture
• -aboo: slang suffix indicating exaggerated cultural fixation, patterned after weeaboo

Literal Meaning:
One who is fixated on the West.

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Related Terms:

• Weeaboo — Westerner obsessed with Japanese culture
• Koreaboo — non-Korean obsessed with Korean culture
• Occidentophilia — love of Western culture (formal)
• Cultural fixation slang — terms marking exaggerated fandom of other cultures

The Ache of a Life Imagined With Someone You Never Had

Alloanthropic Adumbral Mnemalgia

English

Part of Speech: |  IPA (Approx.): /ˌæloʊˈænθɹəpɪk əˈdʌmbrəl nɪˈmældʒiə/

Katakana: アロアンソロピック・アダンブラル・ニモウマルジア

“The pain of dwelling on the shadowed memory of an idealized life imagined with another person.”

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Definition 1:
A form of emotional suffering that arises from dwelling on the memory of an idealized life with someone who was never yours. It is the ache of recalling a lost future that existed only in outline, imagined yet unrealizable.

Definition 2:
Painful, vague, or shadowed memory of another person.

Johnson O’Connor Style Definition:
Pain from remembering an imagined life with someone you never had.

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Example Sentence:
He felt the pull of Alloanthropic Adumbral Mnemalgia whenever he slipped back into the shadowed memory of the life he imagined with her, a future that never belonged to him.

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Etymology:

• allo- (ἄλλος): other, another person
• anthropic (ἄνθρωπος): pertaining to a human being
• adumbral (Latin adumbrare): shadowed, existing only in faint outline
• mnem- (μνήμη): memory
• -algia (ἄλγος): pain, suffering

Literal Meaning:
Pain of the shadowed memory connected to the other person.

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Related Terms:

• Nostalgia — longing for a lived past
• Oneiroalgia — pain from dreamlike imaginings
• Counterfactual longing — desire for an alternate life path
• Phantalgia — pain from imagined images

Schrödinger’s Gay: The Paradox of Uncertain Orientation

Schrödinger’s Gay

English

Part of Speech: |  IPA (RP & GenAm): /ˈʃrɜːdɪŋərz ɡeɪ/

Rhymes: -gay

“A humorous philosophical term describing the uncertain state of sexual orientation under technological mediation.”

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Definition:
A humorous philosophical term describing the uncertain state of sexual orientation that arises when a person engages in a technologically mediated act, such as with a robot or avatar, whose operator’s gender is unknown. Until the identity of the operator is observed, the participant exists in a superposition of being both gay and not gay, much like Schrödinger’s cat, which is both alive and dead until the box is opened.

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Example Sentence:
Schrödinger’s gay perfectly captures how technology blurs lines between sexual identity, knowledge, and intention.

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Origin:
Popularized by Asmongold, a Twitch and YouTube personality known for his irreverent philosophical musings and gaming commentary. The phrase arose from a speculative discussion about the morality and legality of intimacy with remotely controlled robots, where the identity of the remote operator (and its implications for orientation) remained unknown.

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Asmongold Clip:
Below is the original YouTube Short where Asmongold humorously discusses and contextualizes the term Schrödinger’s Gay in conversation about robotic intimacy and moral ambiguity.

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Related Terms:

• Quantum sexuality — playful expression for identity fluidity in mediated or virtual contexts.
• Tele-intimacy — emotionally or sexually charged interaction through remote interfaces.
• Simulacrum desire — attraction directed toward artificial or represented identities rather than real persons.