Hmm, I’m not sure what “half of the people” is intended to mean since it’s mostly just me. I wont deny that a lot of what I post is arousing, but as loppy says, sexy isn’t mutually exclusive with moe.

It’s not a catch-all for sexy anime women, but neither is it limited to girly, cute and platonic stuff. It’s a feeling, not an archetype.

Your definition seems in-line with the one google gives you when you look it up, and it’s literally wrong, because it describes the word as if it defines an archetype, and not an emotion experienced by the onlooker.

I think western otakus got the definition wrong from the start, and the misconception of what japanese otakus meant by it is only recently beginning to right itself. I recently watched a playthough of Titanfall 2 by Oozaro Subaru, an actual Japanese person, and she exclaims several times that BT, a 40 ton war-machine, is making her feel “moe”.

To me it’s not even mutually exclusive with scary, hence !murdermoe@lemmy.world