It's extra hilarious because outside of "I like your cartoons and video games" there's a sense of them looking down on Japanese culture. Sure, maybe some of the smarter ones will recognize them as their fellow global north bourgeoisie. But it seems like a lot of them, even the biggest weebs see them as still "inferior brown people", but can be second in command because they amuse the WASPs. Some older CHUDs seem to have this dynamic with Israel. They're bad because they're not Christian, but they have the honor of being second bananas to the white man because Israel's Islamophobia amuses them.