"We need to bring back bullying" - Twitch streamer Northernlion jokingly gives his take on anime fandom

Ryan “Northernlion” is a popular Twitch streamer known for his dry wit and hot takes. While interacting with his chat during his April 12, 2024 stream, someone brought up something an anime fan did in their town. This led to a joke from the streamer himself, while also discussing how popular certain things were in the anime fandom.

After hearing about the car that had “Waifu Hunter” in a huge font across the back of it, the Twitch streamer Northernlion joked that maybe, it might be time to start bullying people for the things they liked again:

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While playing Balatro, the popular Twitch streamer read a comment from his audience, from “Punky_wood.” According to the viewer, someone in their town has “Waifu Hunter” on the back of their car. This is almost certainly a reference to anime, or gacha games, where players collect a variety of pretty female characters. Northernlion reacted to this with a statement he immediately claimed was a joke after:

Specifically, the Twitch streamer was discussing anime car wraps—a special vinyl decal someone can put on their car. These are incredibly popular in real life in anime culture, and can even be found in GTA Online. Northernlion would say that anime is different from other fandoms in his follow-up:

This culture in the anime fandom is known as Itasha, which translates roughly to “painful” or “cringeworthy,” the act of putting anime, manga, or video game characters on your car using one of these vinyl wraps. The Twitch streamer would continue to discuss the car wraps, even saying he was often jealous in these situations because the cars are very nice in most cases:

The streamer would joke about it for a bit longer, discussing seeing incredibly nice cars, with a wrap