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🕑 Added 2021-11-23 05:13:36 +0000 UTCI recently had an interesting conversation trying to define what MOE is...(￣ω￣)ﾉ
Here is an excerpt from the conversation:
MOE is a really complicated thing, even after all these years I have trouble defining it...
Really long academic papers could be dedicated to explaining the phenomenon.
If I had to put it in a nutshell, I would say that it is a highly idealized form of fetish (not necessarily sexual) or passionate interest in a very particular aspect of an object or topic. (Most of the time it's a non-rationalized interest)
In this particular case you may like sexy girls (Very rational expectation), but a sexy girl wearing glasses immediately boosts her attractiveness to you. And the girl herself may not be too interesting for you, but her wearing glasses makes you more interested in her.
However, the glasses themselves are not the object of your interest. It is an ad-on, +1, boost to your interest and excitement for something.
So Moe can be defined as an interest in something due to some appealing extrisic characteristics.
However, I don't mean to say that this is a definitive answer at all...!
The concept of MOE was created while trying to define a very fuzzy, fleeting and warm feeling and as such it is almost impossible to assign it a solid definition.
Sorry if you are now more confused than before...┐( ´ д ` )┌
