Such a shame that kids in the west found out about the hikikomori phenomenon in Japan. Now so many of them suddenly think that their shut-in existence is really the same thingm and now it's justified in their minds as a completely valid lifestyle just because it sort of resembles something else in a completely different culture. It even gives their entitled, hand-fed existence a kind of solemn dignity. Would rather sit in your room and fap 3 times a day to anime porn, fail school and complain about your parents failure to raise you than actually TRY at anything? That's okay! You're just a misunderstood genius and that it's everyone else who needs to change, not you.

BARF!