Editing Waifu (section)

==On /tg/==
On /tg/ ''any'' female character is often referred to as Waifu, particularly if she is a [[List of /tg/ Characters|character made on /tg/]]. Occasionally it is used seriously to express love for (or the desire to have sex with) a female character. More often, it is used negatively, as a slur - implying that said character is only popular because she is female and /tg/ wants to bone her, or to suggest that the person being addressed has an unhealthy obsession with said character. Some have gone so far to use waifu to mark entire entities or groups, such as the [[Sisters of Battle]]. Such usage of waifu is most often accompanied by much [[rage]]. In fairness their predecessors were called the Brides of the Emperor.

This new usage has come about as the direct result of meme decay, specifically the meme leaving forums like 4chan and finding its way into broad use by the [[weeaboo|anime community as a whole]].  The term became, like the much older ''desu'', so overused by immature and irritating 12-year-olds that /tg/ has summarily executed any worth it had left.