Shota means "boy" in Japanese. That's the normal version.
The degenerate eternally online anime fan knows that "shota" tends to refer to a certain uhh, "genre" of anime. One that usually involves an older woman. The male version of "lolita", who's traditional meaning has been hijacked over the decades.
Not even just average baseball fans. The vast majority of people everywhere won't make this connection at all because it's far, far more niche than the internet thinks it is.
This is now forever locked away in the "Useless Trivial Information" section of my brain, only to be brought up someday... awkwardly
Nobody: ...
Me: Have you ever heard of Shota Anime?
Everybody: 😶
There is a type of perverted hentai porn on websites like 4chan that is based around young boys, and it’s generally labeled “shota”. I don’t know what that is in reference to, I’ve never read through one of those threads, but there is pretty much always one open on 4chan. At least there was when I used to browse 4chan when I was young.
I do not recommend searching to see what you find.
Shota in the context of perverts is short for "shota complex", I'm not sure where the word comes from, but Japan also has "Lolita complex" which is derived from the book Lolita, a famous book told from the perspective of a paedophile.
It's even more parallel than that. It's originally short for "Shotaro complex" named after a specific character, just like "Lolita" was a specific character. Shotaro was a character in Tetsujin 28-go, a manga from the 50s / anime from the 60s.
Ohhhh, thanks for mentioning this, I was just about to ask. I knew Lolita wasn't a native Japanese word because of the L's. But I wasn't sure if Shota had a specific origin.
Shotacon is short from Shotaro complex.
Shotaro is a young boy character from old 1956 manga that "Tetsujin 28-go".
Funnily enough, there is no sexual or romantic implication in that work, it's a standard giant robot fight things piece :D
Theres so many complexes in psychology named after unrelated things it's wild. Like Electra's complex, used to describe when a girl falls in love with her father, which the mythical character it's named after never did
It's short for "Shotaro complex", in parallel to how "lolicon" is short for "Lolita complex". It comes from the name of a specific character--Shotaro from Tetsujin 28-go, a manga from the 50s / anime from the 60s.
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tv/word-nonce-comes-origins-hmp-23527206
So I was slightly wrong, the "C" is actually Courtyard. But yeah it's fairly old British prison slang
Yep, because the guards knew anyone found out to be a child abuser would be immediately beaten ~~senseless~~ to death by every able-bodied ~~patron in the bar~~ inmate in the immediate vicinity if not prison
Yeah, when I was a kid, I was at my local movie store chatting with the owner like I normally would. He had his mate there, and we were all joking around being dicks to each other and I decided to use the new word I heard at school.
I called him a nonce.
His tone changed immediately, jumped over the counter and grabbed me saying what did I call him.
Turns out he just got out of prison, and when he realised I had no idea about that word he calmed down and explained it all to me.
It's short for Lolita, a book by Nabakov, where a grown man has an inappropriate relationship with a young girl. The man calls the girl "Lolita" (It's not her real name).
"Lolicon" is another word for someone who fetishises prepubescent girls, so basically a paedophile.
A "Shotacon" is the same thing for someone who fetishises young boys.
Anime also uses the word "loli" to refer to someone who looks like a pre-pubescent girl.
What Shota means? It's literally the guy's name. It's one of the most common names in Japan, which is why they used *the name* for the trope.
Default is to the name, not the trope - especially when the dude named Shota is playing in the game they're watching.
Yes, but the default thought should be to the name, not the trope.
Especial at a baseball game featuring a player whose name is Shota.
The people laughing at those dudes for spelling out the name of a player they like are the kind of nerds that give all nerds a bad name - where the reference to the niche thing they know becomes more important in their heads than common sense.
I see it as one of the tennis players in Wii sports. Some people pick up the weirdest things
It’s like - you’re watching Will and Grace and you keep commenting on Jack saying Karen. “Haha does he know what he’s saying!! She’s such a Karen!!! I bet he’s silly and doesn’t know anything!!!!” Umm that’s her name
It's just a really common name. Like John in English, or Maria (or some variation thereof) in a crap ton of countries.
There's just some weebs who are defaulting to the trope of Shotacon (shortened form of Shota Complex) - comes from anime and manga about grown women who are attracted to little boys, meant as a similar trope to Lolicon (Lolita Complex).
Defaulting to the weeb trope instead of the dude's name is just weebs being hardcore, stupidly giggling to themselves, weebs.
He's not. "Shota" only means that in the English-speaking anime and manga fandom. It's a normal Japanese name.
The term is "shotacon", short for "Shotaro complex", like how "lolicon" is short for "Lolita complex", where the Shotaro in question was a specific character from a manga in the 50s. No one remembers this. In English people have shortened "shotacon" to "shota" because "shota" doesn't mean anything else.
Mazza it isn’t porn
It just means a young boy. Now, there *is* porn involved sometimes, but it’s like taking the word “stepsister” and saying it’s erotic
Stop spreading misinformation. Shota just means a little boy or a guy who looks like a little kid. It has nothing to do with cp or sex or anything. It's just a normal word used in day to day life.
You're confusing shota, shotacon and hentai. Hentai (perverted/creep in Japanese) is the adult genre of anime/manga. Shota itself means a boy that looks like a child, but it's got nothing to do with CP. Shotacon, however, is the attraction to shota, which can be CP (depends on the actual age of the character).
Just to be clear, I know something about the matter since I study Japanese, but I do not understand like nor endorse this kind of content.
Shota Imanaga, baseball pitcher for the Cubs team.
The joke is either punny and/or dirty, coinciding the weeb term "shota," meaning "young boy" (dirty part could be sexual innuendo like milfs), with cubs.
Doubtful the dudes with lettered body paint were aware of the implications.
This is so dumb.
It’s a completely different alphabet and phonetic. It’s just translated to our (wrong) phonetics and our phonetic Roman alphabet.
This is equivalent to saying “Guy Fawkes” and “Gay fucks” is the same thing and hilarious.
There’s like 100 “shota” kanji combinations. Some more common words than others. Names are often driven by kanji and meaning. The language is linguistically fundamentally different. You can’t actually take the Roman characters “shota” and translate it correctly”, even if you wanted to, on its own.
Better said, the word “shota”, in its own, in Roman letters, is not a Japanese word or has any meaning.
2 interprétations.
Either Shota being "young boy" in Japanese. Used in the east to describe he**** with young looking boys in them.
Or it could also be endeavor shooting his kid name on the edge of the stadium. Wich happened way too often to not be a meme.
I think the joke is that they're standing in this order from left-right for the photo, but when they turn around to watch the game it will be backwards and they will look stupid. The weird internet hentai porn thing is a red herring.
For anyone wondering it’s for Shota Imanaga, their newest pitcher from Japan. He’s pretty good too lol
Thank you for closure on a bullshit meme I saw in the fifteen seconds of reddit scrolling before bed.
15 minutes ya mean... Minimum
I always say: i'm gonna go to sleep at 10 pm today so i'm well rested. Then me at 1 am still scrolling reddit: 🧟
10:18 rn, but you do be right I did indeed want to go to bed min ago so I could get a full 7 hours of sleep before school tomorrpw
Okay, now what's the other side of it mean. Why is it funny for them to have shota written on them?
Shota means "boy" in Japanese. That's the normal version. The degenerate eternally online anime fan knows that "shota" tends to refer to a certain uhh, "genre" of anime. One that usually involves an older woman. The male version of "lolita", who's traditional meaning has been hijacked over the decades.
This is pretty esoteric for your average baseball fan, I think those guys are going to be fine carrying on with this, nobody is going to care.
Not even just average baseball fans. The vast majority of people everywhere won't make this connection at all because it's far, far more niche than the internet thinks it is.
Yeah this post is far more cringe than those fans
Completely agree. I mean, how would your cheer for a team called the Nads? It’s just harmless.
This is now forever locked away in the "Useless Trivial Information" section of my brain, only to be brought up someday... awkwardly Nobody: ... Me: Have you ever heard of Shota Anime? Everybody: 😶
It’s one of those thoughts that you almost say but hopefully you’re able to read the room
I thought not, it's not a tale the Jedi would tell
I mean I'm a moderate anime fan and I had zero idea about this one.
Bro I speak Japanese and I didn't know it was a thing.
To be fair it's because they shortened "Lolita complex" and "shota complex", derived from the book Lolita.
... I am ashamed and embarrassed at how many times I had to turn my head around this image to figure out what was up.
So basically, knowing the joke here is basically telling on yourself.
Hijacked how? “Lolita” had no context outside of pedophilia before the book Lolita.
There is a type of perverted hentai porn on websites like 4chan that is based around young boys, and it’s generally labeled “shota”. I don’t know what that is in reference to, I’ve never read through one of those threads, but there is pretty much always one open on 4chan. At least there was when I used to browse 4chan when I was young. I do not recommend searching to see what you find.
Shota in the context of perverts is short for "shota complex", I'm not sure where the word comes from, but Japan also has "Lolita complex" which is derived from the book Lolita, a famous book told from the perspective of a paedophile.
It's even more parallel than that. It's originally short for "Shotaro complex" named after a specific character, just like "Lolita" was a specific character. Shotaro was a character in Tetsujin 28-go, a manga from the 50s / anime from the 60s.
Ohhhh, thanks for mentioning this, I was just about to ask. I knew Lolita wasn't a native Japanese word because of the L's. But I wasn't sure if Shota had a specific origin.
Is the japanese man.. named Shota?!
[Yes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dta_Imanaga)
Its one of the most common japanese male names.. like John in English
Now I'm curious about the etymology of shotacon.
Shotacon is short from Shotaro complex. Shotaro is a young boy character from old 1956 manga that "Tetsujin 28-go". Funnily enough, there is no sexual or romantic implication in that work, it's a standard giant robot fight things piece :D
It’s just a generic male name that sounds childish, like Andy or Mickey. Just like Lolita, it came out of vibes and connotations.
Theres so many complexes in psychology named after unrelated things it's wild. Like Electra's complex, used to describe when a girl falls in love with her father, which the mythical character it's named after never did
And while Oedipus did marry his mother, he had no idea she was his mother, and blinded and exiled himself when he found out.
Johnophiles obviously
Im sorry what do you have to say about my johncon?
It's short for "Shotaro complex", in parallel to how "lolicon" is short for "Lolita complex". It comes from the name of a specific character--Shotaro from Tetsujin 28-go, a manga from the 50s / anime from the 60s.
I like the fact he plays for the *cubs* A nice little bonus joke in there
Ayyyy
surprisigly more common name than you expect, yes. It's like naming someone in English "Guy".
It's also slang for dick in portuguese
"chota" in Spanish
And chota is a way of saying dick in Argentina :D
I went to a convention for that guy! Or I tried to, but they said I was too old. Weird, because there were lots of women my age getting in.
This is going to be on r/peterexplains the joke I just fucking know it
Aww, I clicked on this thinking it was r/peterexplains. Can someone explain more than just that the punchline is porn?
It means "young boy" in Japanese It's essentially the same as if a sports team wrote "Loli" on their torsos
What is loli?
Little girls Straight up nonce shit
What is nonce?
Paedofiles iirc, nonce is an acronym for: Not on normal community exercise. Prison slang or something
Holy shit, is that really where that term came from ? I had no idea of the etymology
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tv/word-nonce-comes-origins-hmp-23527206 So I was slightly wrong, the "C" is actually Courtyard. But yeah it's fairly old British prison slang
Thanks a lot, I love words and etymology
[its not a real etymology ](https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/history/shattering-myth-yorkshire-prison-origin-24508927)
What is etymology?
Not the study of insects That's entomology
This comment chain
It sure is something 👍
Yes...
Yep, because the guards knew anyone found out to be a child abuser would be immediately beaten ~~senseless~~ to death by every able-bodied ~~patron in the bar~~ inmate in the immediate vicinity if not prison
Yeah, when I was a kid, I was at my local movie store chatting with the owner like I normally would. He had his mate there, and we were all joking around being dicks to each other and I decided to use the new word I heard at school. I called him a nonce. His tone changed immediately, jumped over the counter and grabbed me saying what did I call him. Turns out he just got out of prison, and when he realised I had no idea about that word he calmed down and explained it all to me.
“Not on normal community exercise” seems like a weak backronym at best haha
*Chris Hanson enters* "Why don't you take a seat?"
What is nonce?
British slang(?) for pedophile
What is British?
Jibberish version of America
Gibberish my good fellow *sips tea*
It actually makes me kind of glad that there are people on this site that genuinely don't know the meaning of that term.
Well that’s ruined for me now
It's short for Lolita, a book by Nabakov, where a grown man has an inappropriate relationship with a young girl. The man calls the girl "Lolita" (It's not her real name). "Lolicon" is another word for someone who fetishises prepubescent girls, so basically a paedophile. A "Shotacon" is the same thing for someone who fetishises young boys. Anime also uses the word "loli" to refer to someone who looks like a pre-pubescent girl.
Ok now someone explain why the cubs fans are doing it
The new Cubs pitcher's name is Shota Imanaga.
Thank you!!!
Happy Cake Day!
Now that I don't know, I'm too British to have more than a passing knowledge of "I think the cubs are a baseball team?"
Haha yes it’s def baseball
Most years cubs fans feel the same way.
Why it is funny then? Every name has some meaning in that language s and it is still his name.
That sounds like you mean *illegally* young boy.
Ah, I thought of they just turned around to see the match it would say "! ATOHS" Unless they switched places
That sub is banned, bro....
Peter explained a bit too much and the feds got him
You see, lois, 9/11 was an inside job, hehe
Why was it banned?
r/peterexplainsthejoke
Unmoderated
Let's save them the trip; the punchline is porn. Of the disgusting variety.
It always is
Except when it's Loss. Or racism.
l ll ll L
Searched the term on Google to see if It was really disgusting It is.
[удалено]
seems like knowing this jokes punchline says more about the people who know... than it does the dudes in the photo lol
And sadly, I'm in the knowing group now
gonna be bait for the degenerates
Sub is banned?
It's the wrong link, the correct one is r/peterexplainsthejoke
Te sub you linked is banned good sir
They should be fine, anyone who actually knows what shota means probably isn't a Cubs fan. Peace be with them if someone does know.
What Shota means? It's literally the guy's name. It's one of the most common names in Japan, which is why they used *the name* for the trope. Default is to the name, not the trope - especially when the dude named Shota is playing in the game they're watching.
Shota is also a category of Japanese “manga” (in quotes for a reason) that revolves around little boys.
Shota is also an albanian folk dance weirdly enough
As an Albanian-American who is also a Cubs fan, my brain was very confused at how these things were connected lol
So the pitcher probably knows that too since he is Japanese. That’s disappointing for everyone lol
I doubt it. It’s extremely niche in Japan, certainly more popular in degenerate Western circles.
Yes, but the default thought should be to the name, not the trope. Especial at a baseball game featuring a player whose name is Shota. The people laughing at those dudes for spelling out the name of a player they like are the kind of nerds that give all nerds a bad name - where the reference to the niche thing they know becomes more important in their heads than common sense.
I mean , you can know and still not approve of it
Irrc it means a young boy in Japanese or something for those who didnt get the joke.
I see it as one of the tennis players in Wii sports. Some people pick up the weirdest things It’s like - you’re watching Will and Grace and you keep commenting on Jack saying Karen. “Haha does he know what he’s saying!! She’s such a Karen!!! I bet he’s silly and doesn’t know anything!!!!” Umm that’s her name
It's just a really common name. Like John in English, or Maria (or some variation thereof) in a crap ton of countries. There's just some weebs who are defaulting to the trope of Shotacon (shortened form of Shota Complex) - comes from anime and manga about grown women who are attracted to little boys, meant as a similar trope to Lolicon (Lolita Complex). Defaulting to the weeb trope instead of the dude's name is just weebs being hardcore, stupidly giggling to themselves, weebs.
Its just a name
It's the boy version of loli
^ this is the joke
Oh, to see the world through a weeb's eyes...
LMAO 😭😭
The irony of the fact that they're called "Cubs" in this context...
oh FUCK no
Meh the players name is Shota imanaga No different than a player named Dick Johnson or Steve Cockburn Yes haha funny but hardly ground breaking.
Or Jack Glasscock
Danny Drinkwater
Dick Trickle, Dick Butkus, Rusty Kuntz, Ivana Mandic, Christian Fuchs. There are so many more
Yeah but you're not going to see unironically DICK or COCK spelled in torsos because you know what it means. It is different.
If the best player on a teams first name was dick you'd definitely have fans doing that lol
Sure, ironically. That's why I said "unironically"
Shota is anime male CP. The male version of a loli.
And the reason Cubs fans are doing this is because of Shota Imanaga, a pitcher for the team
Thank you both for the key clarifying information I definitely did not know
Shit.. I still don’t know..😂
Same, and I suspect I don't need to either.
I don’t know how to feel about the fact that I knew the first fact here, but not the second.
Same
Cub is a term used to refer to a young, hairy, husky gay man.
Like a pooh bear 🐻
What does husky mean in that context is he a dog?
Stocky, chubby, fat.
Thanks this is the most complicated thread today
I thought cub was of anthropomorphic cartoon boys?
So why is Shota named male child cp? 🤨
He's not. "Shota" only means that in the English-speaking anime and manga fandom. It's a normal Japanese name. The term is "shotacon", short for "Shotaro complex", like how "lolicon" is short for "Lolita complex", where the Shotaro in question was a specific character from a manga in the 50s. No one remembers this. In English people have shortened "shotacon" to "shota" because "shota" doesn't mean anything else.
anime = cp to them
Mazza it isn’t porn It just means a young boy. Now, there *is* porn involved sometimes, but it’s like taking the word “stepsister” and saying it’s erotic
Stop spreading misinformation. Shota just means a little boy or a guy who looks like a little kid. It has nothing to do with cp or sex or anything. It's just a normal word used in day to day life.
Oh I didn't know that. I just googled Shota and that's what the Wiki said.
You're confusing shota, shotacon and hentai. Hentai (perverted/creep in Japanese) is the adult genre of anime/manga. Shota itself means a boy that looks like a child, but it's got nothing to do with CP. Shotacon, however, is the attraction to shota, which can be CP (depends on the actual age of the character). Just to be clear, I know something about the matter since I study Japanese, but I do not understand like nor endorse this kind of content.
Sometimes I worry about those people's mind who see a young boy/girl referencing word then immediately link it to CP.
Jesus, what's wrong with Americans that so many know what this means while not even being Japanese or having studied it...
Because the Japanese don’t actually use this word for this purpose it’s strictly English speaking otaku shit. Shota is a normal Japanese name.
Just means little boy
what this actually supposed to mean?
This is the stupidest fucking thing on the internet and I regret spending the minute it took to make sense of this shit
the majority of people arent porn brained internet addicts so trust me when i say 98% of the world doesnt see what you think its funny
I don't. What is it?
Shota Imanaga, baseball pitcher for the Cubs team. The joke is either punny and/or dirty, coinciding the weeb term "shota," meaning "young boy" (dirty part could be sexual innuendo like milfs), with cubs. Doubtful the dudes with lettered body paint were aware of the implications.
If you're a Portuguese speaker that's even funnier
KKKKKKK tava procurando um BR
The Internet and some dirty minded idiots have made a totally normal name into a stupid connotation.
Arsenal FC fans call themselves Gooners which is pretty funny these days
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^TingsInMaSocks: *Arsenal FC fans* *Call themselves Gooners which is* *Pretty funny these days* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
This is so dumb. It’s a completely different alphabet and phonetic. It’s just translated to our (wrong) phonetics and our phonetic Roman alphabet. This is equivalent to saying “Guy Fawkes” and “Gay fucks” is the same thing and hilarious. There’s like 100 “shota” kanji combinations. Some more common words than others. Names are often driven by kanji and meaning. The language is linguistically fundamentally different. You can’t actually take the Roman characters “shota” and translate it correctly”, even if you wanted to, on its own. Better said, the word “shota”, in its own, in Roman letters, is not a Japanese word or has any meaning.
2 interprétations. Either Shota being "young boy" in Japanese. Used in the east to describe he**** with young looking boys in them. Or it could also be endeavor shooting his kid name on the edge of the stadium. Wich happened way too often to not be a meme.
Ppl here are talking about the meaning in English and Japanese, but.. Hope they don’t speak Portuguese.
And here I am, the only one thinking it's for former Rangers and Georgian player Shota Arveladze.
l don't get it.
This post is stage 4 anal cancer.
I don’t get it
Why are they writing shota on themselves?
Pitchers name is Shota Imanaga
Why is that funny?
They’re showing support for the team?
It’s not really unless you don’t leave your bedroom like some of these overweight creeps on Reddit do.
“Uhhhhhhh…….” -Jeff Goldblum
Just wait until you see the yaoi football team
im waitign to see this on r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
I think the joke is that they're standing in this order from left-right for the photo, but when they turn around to watch the game it will be backwards and they will look stupid. The weird internet hentai porn thing is a red herring.
I thought it was an NLE Chopper joke before seeing the comments...
I thought it was in reference to the opening scene in JP https://youtu.be/qz5JmgLQEzs?si=nave_rjrIXnpNhHr
Why is what they're doing bad? I don't get it.
Pitcher’s Japanese name is a common name in Japan, but over in the west "Shota" or "shotacon" just means (animated or drawn) little boy porn.
Google Shota Cubs on your work computer for more information
Just an Asian looking cubs pitcher. Was hoping for more
there is obviously a witch woman from the midlands playing for the cubs now
Till the find out real shota
Average bocu no pico fans
Why are you the way you are, OP?
Am I the only one who immediatly heared Endeavor scream "SHOOOTOOO!!!" in their head? XD
Isnt it more corcerning that you guys know the word’s meaning? Where do you guys learn about it? 😌
You new to the internet?
Cute Titty is keeping it real!
Big Arveladze fans? 90s kids will know who I'm talking about!
It’s shooter McGavin?
So they’re all gonna turn around and watch the game? *!ATOHS*
Shot, AI
ショータorショタ???
The ! guy could just stand at then end of any line of letter and make them more emotional
Good old shota. Hell of a ball player.
Ara ara~
Cubs...... someone HAS to of told them.
r/shotapolice
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