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You Want to Disrespect Anime? is a series of parody videos in which people ironically dress up in mall ninja outfits, wield knives and katanas while and scold those who have mocked anime online with the theme song from the anime series Sword Art Online playing in the background.

Origin

On February 24th, 2016, YouTuber Griffith Did Nothing Wrong uploaded a video titled "You wanna disrespect anime?," featuring footage of a young man wearing a black hat saying "you want to disrespect anime? I hope you have a good place to hide, mother fucker" before swinging a large knife as if it were a sword (shown below).

Spread

On April 25th, 2016, YouTuber mollyrulz9999 uploaded footage of a computer animation sequence dubbed with Griffith Did Nothing Wrong's video (shown below, left). On June 9th, YouTuber Mysterious Shitposter uploaded a video of a young man wearing a fedora and a panda hoodie who says "So you want to disrespect anime, huh? Pathetic. Think again" before dancing in his room with a pocket knife (shown below, right).

On February 20th, 2017, the Mysterious Shitposter video was reposted to the /r/justneckbeardthings^[2] subreddit. On July 28th, YouTuber kyle Ω uploaded a video of a young man saying "So you just thought you could disrespect anime on my timeline, and get away with it you mother fucker?" (shown below).

On July 25th, Twitter user @addison_angelo tweeted a video of a young kid saying "Don't fuck with me! I have the power of god and anime on my side!" (shown below). Within two weeks, the video gained over 50,000 likes and 29,600 retweets.

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