The specific community, scene, or interest circle someone belongs to online — a particular fandom's corner of the internet, a hobbyist community, a niche subculture — used as a general-purpose word for "this specific online social world."
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"そのVTuber界隈は独特のノリがあって、外から見るとよく分からない。"
LORE & ORIGIN
A standard Japanese word originally meaning a neighborhood or vicinity, repurposed by internet and fandom culture to describe a specific online community or scene the way one might describe a physical neighborhood — you can move between kaiwai, and each has its own norms and inside jokes.
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