Talk:best girl
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"(fandom) One's favorite female character in a piece of media, especially in anime or video games." Had a very brief look on Tumblr (big fandom place these days) and found mostly references to a specific scene in Titanic where Jack/DiCaprio calls someone his "best girl" in the other (girlfriend) sense. Equinox ◑ 06:25, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
- google:"asuka is best girl". Compare waifu. A related phrase is "<name> a shit" ("your waifu a shit") but it's probably not as common. —suzukaze (t・c) 15:32, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, maybe this comes from the My Little Pony Internet meme of "Fluttershy is best pony". In that case it's just an SoP, with a whimsical omission of the definite article. Equinox ◑ 15:33, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- Yeah, this is almost certainly SoP. See best girl. It just means "a favorite female character", "favorite" = "best", "female character" = "girl". Philmonte101 (talk) 06:46, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- I feel like the unusual grammar would drive readers to search for "[[best girl]]" though. Personally leaning towards keep if verifiable. —suzukaze (t・c) 06:55, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
- I can affirm that this is a commonly used phrase within the online anime fandom community (often used cynically or sarcastically, might I add), however I'm not sure whether it counts as its own thing, or whether we should just treat it as two words used together for a specific context. -- 李博杰 | —Talk contribs 08:42, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
- As someone with weeaboo friends, this is a staple of their slang. Spend some time on boards like 4chan's /a/ and you will see it all the time, always without definite article. I think it should probably be kept. — Kleio (t · c) 21:35, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
- I can affirm that this is a commonly used phrase within the online anime fandom community (often used cynically or sarcastically, might I add), however I'm not sure whether it counts as its own thing, or whether we should just treat it as two words used together for a specific context. -- 李博杰 | —Talk contribs 08:42, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
- I feel like the unusual grammar would drive readers to search for "[[best girl]]" though. Personally leaning towards keep if verifiable. —suzukaze (t・c) 06:55, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
- Yeah, this is almost certainly SoP. See best girl. It just means "a favorite female character", "favorite" = "best", "female character" = "girl". Philmonte101 (talk) 06:46, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, maybe this comes from the My Little Pony Internet meme of "Fluttershy is best pony". In that case it's just an SoP, with a whimsical omission of the definite article. Equinox ◑ 15:33, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- Uncited in a month. Ergo deletable. DCDuring TALK 00:19, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
- RFV failed. —Granger (talk · contribs) 16:17, 17 November 2016 (UTC)