I got a feeling it's the whole (Thing) vs (Thing) in 💖JAPAN💖 because selfshipping is associated with cringe culture and is a known term to folks outside the know (see that one Youtuber who made a vid making fun of selfshippers), so I feel like people want to distinguish with something better sounding or new away from the stigma the regular term has.
It's also just orientalism. It just comes off as more "aesthetic" sounding.
Yume. Why?
Huh. Never understood why selfshipping is associated with cringe culture in the first place. People like fiction. People on the internet have fictional crushes. Who are they to judge. Personally I’ve never seen other people mock selfshippers but I’ve heard that we do get a bad rap(often unfairly).
And yeah the whole orientalism thing… I will never understand. What’s so aesthetic about it? Sure, Japanese is a beautiful language. So is every other language. I don’t see why it’s considered particularly beautiful.
Is yumeshipping different from selfshipping? Is it better than selfshipping? If so, why yumeship in English-speaking selfship spaces instead of moving to Japanese yume spaces?