About
“Your Waifu Is Shit!” and “Your Anime Is Shit!” are online expressions used by anime fans to insult or make a snide remark towards each others. The phrase and its variants are often paired with a two-pane exploitable image featuring Saber from the Japanese visual novel series Fate/Stay. As the variety of image macros bearing the caption continue to grow, the phrase went on to inspire the snowclone template “Your X Is Shit” and other methods of insulting someone’s anime or waifu.
Origin
The earliest archived instance of the phrase “your favorite anime is shit” dates back to a 4chan thread on the /a/ (Anime & Manga) board.[3] However, discussions about one’s favorite anime have resulted in snide remarks already before that, making it impossible to date the actual start of the phrase. The original panel comes from the Fate/Zero Doujinshi: Fubin Sugiru Zero Saber ga Ijikeru[1] (Translation: A Very Pitiful Zero Saber Grows Timid) by Hiroyuki,[2] which was first published in October 2012.
Spread
Image edits of the origina doujin page started first appearing on forums and imageboards in October 2012; such as Youchew, SpazioGames, and Foolz’ /foolz/[4][5] board; less than a month after its release, although initial edits weren’t used to insult anime in general yet. Likewise a panel edit from a page of the third volume of the Corpse Party: Blood Covered horror manga[6] began being used in similar ways (shown below, right).
On September 9th, 2013, several posters on 4chan’s /a/ (Anime & Manga) board started a ‘Shitty waifu chart’[11] to describe what made numerous waifus bad. The chart updated several times in that month,[12] but paused until January of the next year, with the last update being from January 17th (shown below, left).[12] In December 2013, a Facebook page titled Your Waifu is Shit was created,[9] which managed to gain more than 20,000 likes as of February 2015. On September 20th, 2014, Youtuber LilyRaichu uploaded a voice-over of an animated GIF of the Strike the Blood anime (shown below, right),[10] which managed to gain nearly 200,000 views and 4,000 likes over the next 5 months.
Various Examples
Related: Don’t Talk Shit About My Waifu
“Don’t Talk Shit About My Waifu” is a catchphrase often used as a reply by the targeted party following a “your waifu is shit” and similar demeaning remarks.
Search Interest
External References
[1]G-E Hentai – A Very Pitiful Zero Saber Grows Timid(NSFW: Explicit Content on Website)
[3]Archive Moe – Oldest Archived Your Favorite Anime is Shit
[4]Foolz – Cure Thread
[5]Foolz – Welcom /a/
[6]Mangafox – Corpse Party: Blood Covered(NSFW: Horror & Gore Content)
[7]Youchew – Manga/Anime Spam
[8]SpazioGames – Jrpg World Bar
[9]Facebook – Your Waifu is Shit
[10]Youtube – Your favorite anime is shit
[11]Archive Moe – Shitty waifu chart thread
[12]Archive Moe – Shitty waifu chart thread
[13]Archive Moe – Shitty waifu chart thread