Clever feminist: "How do you like it?! You like anime? Name every anime!"

True fan: "Liking a genre isn't about naming every show. It's about appreciation of major hallmarks. Anime aesthetic, as you know I'm sure, started its first steps when the creator of Astro Boy was inspired by Donald Duck's animation style, and brought it up to Kobunsha in the fifties..."

"I was trying to make a snappy point, shut up! Shut up! You're oppressing me with your legitimate knowledge!"

What the fake poseurs don't seem to get, is that true fans will willingly talk about what they like. It isn't some safeguarded cell, impenetrable to all. It's not even a library, with information coming and going. The average weeb is a soapbox ranter. Give them even the illusion of a platform, and they'll give you their entire sermon, freely and immediately. They WANT to talk about their likes, their hobbies.

I know a girl who is practically narcoleptic in social situations, she literally just falls asleep anywhere, anytime, the moment she isn't needed in conversation. But bring up otome games, and hooo boy, she'll talk your ear off about Best Husbando.