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The funny part is how that awful meme backfired so bad. I feel bad for the person responding and hope he never found out it was a Skyrim meme.
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Eruonen posted:The funny part is how that awful meme backfired so bad. I feel bad for the person responding and hope he never found out it was a Skyrim meme. this picture is less funny when the related story is the fans are giving ejaculate handshakes at events. they stopped doing handshake events since the recent saw attack on the girls.
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Jun 7, 2014 11:49
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Fauxtool posted:this picture is less funny when the related story is the fans are giving ejaculate handshakes at events. they stopped doing handshake events since the recent saw attack on the girls. what the gently caress
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Jun 7, 2014 11:50
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Fauxtool posted:this picture is less funny when the related story is the fans are giving ejaculate handshakes at events. they stopped doing handshake events since the recent saw attack on the girls. Your avatar suggests you know what you are talking about.
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Jun 7, 2014 11:51
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Eruonen posted:what the gently caress Some CDs comes with a ticket to the handshake event or a popularity poll. Some people buy as many 4000 CDs to get several minutes of time with the girls or skew the polls to boost their favorite girl. I talked to a lot of people in Japan and nobody listened to them, yet they are always way up on the music charts. The whole thing is terrible for all people involved  Here is a fan shouting how much he loves her “CDs come with one handshaking event coupon and you need several to get an actual ticket, so many fans will buy a great many CDs in order to get this. Once they have it they just throw the CD away or sell them off at dirt cheap prices. I doubt many of these fans buy them to actually listen to the music.” “Rapidly increasing numbers of fans are actually resorting to shoplifting to get the CDs. One person even got arrested for going around at an event intimidating other fans into giving him their coupons.” “Their discs get to number 1, they have repeated million-seller chat-topping hits. But that’s because their fans are incredibly desperate, sometimes buying 10 discs each.” “Only the promoters get anything out of all this. Some of the latest handshaking events are being referred to as ‘touching events,’ and increasing numbers of their more reckless fans are busy groping their breasts and sticking their hands up their skirts. That’s why idols like Tomomi Itano have reputations for hating their fans and find any excuse not to attend the events.” “Before the handshaking, they go to the toilets and onanise there, and attend the event with it on their hands. When one of the members goes to shake their hands, thinking them an ordinary fan, they get a sudden sticky sensation. Some members responded with a shocked ‘What the hell is this!?’” Fauxtool has a new favorite as of 12:01 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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Jun 7, 2014 11:56
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Fauxtool posted:“Their discs get to number 1, they have repeated million-seller chat-topping hits. But that’s because their fans are incredibly desperate, sometimes buying 10 discs each.” Yes, as many as 10 each!  I remember reading about this poo poo years ago, that there for example is from a dude buying 3000 copies of the same CD, and it's easy to find other examples of people buying hundreds, if not thousands for this purpose. Idol culture is scary. (e: of course like most stuff in the media this "thing" is grossly exaggerated, but a few crazy fans actually did/do this stuff)
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Jun 7, 2014 12:17
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Your Computer posted:Yes, as many as 10 each! Japanese reporters reporting on Japan are very guilty of softening news that makes Japan look bad.
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Jun 7, 2014 12:20
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That's pretty sad.
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Jun 7, 2014 12:36
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Can anyone give the rest some context? Who are those girls?
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Jun 7, 2014 12:45
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Non Serviam posted:Can anyone give the rest some context? Who are those girls? AKB48 a japanese pop group with rotating members. As they get old or if they have a scandal, they are "graduated" and replaced by new members decided by fan votes. There are several feeder girl groups underneath them to select from. Its the music industry taken to its logical extreme. The music is garbage and the videos have very little dancing or actual singing, mostly just synchronized hand motions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNg3mcjhq9w A scandal for them is being pictured with a boyfriend or being recorded saying "my fans are insane" Fauxtool has a new favorite as of 12:57 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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Jun 7, 2014 12:52
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Man, Japan is so god drat hosed
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Jun 7, 2014 13:01
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Very informative posts, thanks. I knew Japan was weird and kinda hosed up, but I didn't really know it was that bad. I just thought the guys shaking their hands were greasy or smelly nerds and the girls were grossed out by that.
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Jun 7, 2014 13:06
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Eruonen posted:Very informative posts, thanks. I knew Japan was weird and kinda hosed up, but I didn't really know it was that bad. Well, I mean, it's that in addition to the jizzhands.
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Jun 7, 2014 13:07
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cobalt impurity posted:Well, I mean, it's that in addition to the jizzhands. requesting jizzhands emote, not to be confused with jazzhands
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Jun 7, 2014 13:09
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cobalt impurity posted:Well, I mean, it's that in addition to the jizzhands. Yeah but it sort of stops being funny with the jizzhands. It's still funny, but in a "haha that's so hosed up" way.
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Jun 7, 2014 13:20
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Eruonen posted:Yeah but it sort of stops being funny with the jizzhands. It's still funny, but in a "haha that's so hosed up" way. Sounds like a job for the  .
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Jun 7, 2014 13:29
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i would just quote him and say "same"
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Jun 7, 2014 13:42
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Just want to chime in and say that South Korea is hosed up just as much as Japan. China is getting there, too. Thank you.
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Jun 7, 2014 14:09
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With how hosed up culturally Asia seems to be, is there any light at the end of the tunnel?
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Jun 7, 2014 14:33
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Triskelli posted:With how hosed up culturally Asia seems to be, is there any light at the end of the tunnel? America/Europe is as hosed up as Asia but for different reasons.
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Jun 7, 2014 14:36
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Triskelli posted:With how hosed up culturally Asia seems to be, is there any light at the end of the tunnel? I think a lot of it is the western world imposing their morals on the rest of the world. Morals we never actually had. A lot of the countries with little to no western contact are still fine. No one ever says, "you wont believe what is happening in Mongolia" Fauxtool has a new favorite as of 14:41 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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Jun 7, 2014 14:38
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Paladinus posted:Just want to chime in and say that South Korea is hosed up just as much as Japan.
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Jun 7, 2014 15:05
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WebDog posted:Isn't South Korea really really intense with their soap stars. As in they have trouble differentiating actors from characters and will publicly heckle them if their character does something bad on a show? That happens here in the U.S. too.
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Jun 7, 2014 15:11
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WebDog posted:Isn't South Korea really really intense with their soap stars. As in they have trouble differentiating actors from characters and will publicly heckle them if their character does something bad on a show? So naive. More like mail letters written in period blood or sneak into their homes while they sleep to cut some hair off. Someone make a thread :PYF terrible thing that actually happens in Asia It will be entertaining and a honeypot
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Jun 7, 2014 15:12
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WebDog posted:Isn't South Korea really really intense with their soap stars. As in they have trouble differentiating actors from characters and will publicly heckle them if their character does something bad on a show? People from all over the world do this with actors. Try going on twitter after an unpopular season finale.
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Jun 7, 2014 15:12
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Fauxtool posted:AKB48 a japanese pop group with rotating members. As they get old or if they have a scandal, they are "graduated" and replaced by new members decided by fan votes. There are several feeder girl groups underneath them to select from. For gently caress's sake. Fauxtool posted:“Before the handshaking, they go to the toilets and onanise there, and attend the event with it on their hands. When one of the members goes to shake their hands, thinking them an ordinary fan, they get a sudden sticky sensation. Some members responded with a shocked ‘What the hell is this!?’” Jesus loving christ Japan, sort your poo poo out you prat!
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Jun 7, 2014 15:21
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The best part about the whole AKB48 situation is that some of the members are about 12.
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Jun 7, 2014 15:25
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Triskelli posted:With how hosed up culturally Asia seems to be, is there any light at the end of the tunnel? You have to remember, this is only a tiny tiny fraction of the population in a few countries. I have yet to meet a stable, working adult in Japan that also listens to idol music like AKB48 or watches anime. They think the people that do are just as weird as we do.
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Jun 7, 2014 15:25
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Istari posted:People from all over the world do this with actors. Try going on twitter after an unpopular season finale. I saw an article where Anna Gunn (Skylar in Breaking Bad) was saying she saw people online wishing death on her and talking about killing her just because they hated Skylar. People are loving crazy in every country.
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Jun 7, 2014 15:37
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tickle monster posted:You have to remember, this is only a tiny tiny fraction of the population in a few countries. I have yet to meet a stable, working adult in Japan that also listens to idol music like AKB48 or watches anime. They think the people that do are just as weird as we do. People really need to understand this. I once admitted to a Japanese coworker that I watch anime for Japanese practice and he laughed in my face and only then did I know true shame. That said, if you don't watch Miyazaki's anime you are viewed as a hipster iconoclast. Japan says "gently caress your shades of grey bullshit! Let's play fighting games!"   Disclaimer: I'm pretty sure those pics were taken at an American event. Sarchasm has a new favorite as of 15:53 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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Jun 7, 2014 15:50
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tickle monster posted:You have to remember, this is only a tiny tiny fraction of the population in a few countries. But it's so much more fun to antagonize entire countries based on subcultures 
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Jun 7, 2014 15:52
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Your Computer posted:But it's so much more fun to antagonize entire countries based on subcultures I know, those Asians are all crazy and hosed up perverts. And those Africans man, they eat people and live in mud huts and poo poo, I read that on the internet too. Anyway, 
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Jun 7, 2014 16:10
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New south wales plates huh? Australia has some good poo poo.
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Jun 7, 2014 16:31
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Maybe that is discreet for Australia.
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Jun 7, 2014 16:41
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tickle monster posted:You have to remember, this is only a tiny tiny fraction of the population in a few countries. I have yet to meet a stable, working adult in Japan that also listens to idol music like AKB48 or watches anime. They think the people that do are just as weird as we do. Yeah, day to day, Japan is really boring to be honest, but when things get weird they get really weird. Same thing with how Japanese people tend to be very conflict averse, but when shits ready jump off, better stand back, 'cause you'll have drunk middle-aged men using the judo throws they learned in high school gym class on a crowded train platform. Once lines start getting crossed, anything goes.
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Jun 7, 2014 16:43
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Shampoo posted:Maybe that is discreet for Australia. I'm guessing the obvious ones shoot dildos out of some cannon mounted on the top of the vehicle onto peoples doorsteps.
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Jun 7, 2014 16:48
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tickle monster posted:You have to remember, this is only a tiny tiny fraction of the population in a few countries. I have yet to meet a stable, working adult in Japan that also listens to idol music like AKB48 or watches anime. They think the people that do are just as weird as we do. How do the weirdos afford to buy hundreds or thousands of these CDs, then? Surely at least those must either have some sort of job, or inherited money (from relatives alive or dead).
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Jun 7, 2014 17:01
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Just The Facts posted:I'm guessing the obvious ones shoot dildos out of some cannon mounted on the top of the vehicle onto peoples doorsteps. "Paperboy" was a very different NES game in Australia.
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hooah posted:How do the weirdos afford to buy hundreds or thousands of these CDs, then? Surely at least those must either have some sort of job, or inherited money (from relatives alive or dead).
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Triskelli posted:With how hosed up culturally Asia seems to be, is there any light at the end of the tunnel? 
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