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I think both the greentext and tweet are wrong.
It's not liking anime, it's the type of person who gets obsessed with anime. Most of the anime kids at my school were VERY immature and wouldn't shut up about Japan. They'd call you baka and say a dog is kawaii
Only my metalhead friends and internet friends knew I liked anime. I didn't want to be associated with that type of fan.
Yet if you go around using sportsball terms as slang and tossing the ol' pigskin in the hallway, nobody bats an eye.
Do you have an example or is this from an 80s movie? I can't think of a single sports term someone would use to insult you or say something is cute.
Not sure how common it is outside of media for people to be throwing footballs around in the hallway, either..
Cover all your bases
From left field
Thow you a curveball
Roll with the punches
Throw in the towell
Move the goalposts
Par for the course
There are plenty more but its basically so ubiquitous no one even notices all their cringy sports terms in every day life.
(/s on the cringy, just a play on op)
Those are idioms. The anime kids were weirdly incorporating Japanese words into their communication with English speakers and doing kamehamehas in the hallway.
Here's something more analogous: A friend spent the summer before senior year in France and when she came back, you could not get through a conversation without her dropping a French word or relating something to "how they do things in France". And yes, we made fun of her until she stopped.
Thats kind of how language works though. Words get borrowed and absorbed from other languages all the time.