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Nabiki GMYW ([info]nabiki_gmyw) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2004-05-08 20:29:00


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Current mood:Amazed

WHOA! Japanese Livejournal!?
Check out this article in the New York Times online about something called Channel 2... (Here) Call it a Livejournal in Japanese. Man oh man, this is one of those times I wish I had taken that Japanese class in my local anime store...

Random quotes:

In a society in which subtlety is prized above all, face-to-face confrontation is avoided, insults can be leveled with verbal nuances and hidden meanings are found everywhere, there is one place where the Japanese go to bare their souls and engage in verbal combat: Channel 2.

Insert Fandom Wank flashbacks here.

Unlike the real Japanese world, where language is calibrated according to one's social position, the wording on Channel 2 is often stripped of social indicators or purposefully manipulated to confuse readers. Language is also raw. "Die!" is a favorite insult - and the comments are blunt, often cruel and hurled with studied cynicism.

OMG STAB STAB DIE, anyone?

But Channel 2 is also a window into Japan's ugly side. Many of the contents tend to be nationalistic and xenophobic, especially toward Koreans. When Sony and Samsung recently announced a joint project, users attacked Sony for cooperating with the South Korean company. "Die, Sony!" read several comments. "Die, Koreans!" Many wrote that they hated Koreans, using a derogatory term to describe them.

My hed is pasteded on Sony?

And my personal favorite...

"Many people who write on Channel 2 are stupid," Mr. Nishimura [ED: the founder] said, making a statement that many Channel 2 regulars would agree with but one that will surely draw a flurry of attacks. "They cannot change the world by writing about it. If they really want to have an impact, there are other things they could be doing."

Hmm... that sounds eerily familiar...

Teh Stupid, it knows no bounds.



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[info]gorogoro
2004-05-09 02:53 am UTC (link)
Words cannot express my opinion of that article. However.

If you want to talk pointless spooge, Futsuba AKA 2-chan is just as good. (I wish I still had linkage to the one thread where they were mocking foreigners and going all "Please don't eat whales and dogs"... and people say the Japanese have no sense of sarcasm...) Then again, foreign language wank? Meh...

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Icon: WTF?
[info]khym_chanur
2004-05-09 03:14 am UTC (link)
As in, WTF is that thing that's bending over backwards and lifting up its skirt?

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Re: Icon: WTF?
[info]gorogoro
2004-05-09 03:24 am UTC (link)
That would be Serviceman from the craziest anime ever. Providing his "service." (sexual harassementomgwtf!!!!)

BTW, mmmm, Cherryh icon. kkkkkkt.

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[info]aloysius
2004-05-09 08:03 am UTC (link)
Ahhhh, the number of times I have wished there was a japanese_wank so I could report 2chan threads ... true wank goes on in there. The beauty of it ... *wipes tear*

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ataniell93
2004-05-09 10:10 am UTC (link)
I don't read futsuba, but I am an Ozaki Yutaka fan and you're not the only one...

My favouritest wank EVAH is the one about how the Japanese government supposedly killed Ozaki (somehow they made him take all those drugs and wander around nekkid through the streets of Tokyo until he got pulmonary edema) for 'inciting the youth to rebellion'. I used to know a guy in RL who *believed* this bullshit.

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[info]notjo
2004-05-09 12:07 pm UTC (link)
"Many people who write on Channel 2 are stupid," Mr. Nishimura [ED: the founder] said....

That is the best sum up I've ever heard.

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[info]necronomist
2004-05-09 05:33 pm UTC (link)
"Many wrote that they hated Koreans, using a derogatory term to describe them."

I can just imagine Channel 2's version of customers_suck.

"OMG, there was this Korean guy who keep taking too long to decide whether to get one order of [insert food here] or another choice! Pick something, you fat, drunk Korean bastard!!111!!"

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OT but...
[info]iczer6
2004-05-10 02:41 am UTC (link)
OMG!

ICON!

HP+KB=Squee!



Icz

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Re: OT but...
[info]necronomist
2004-05-10 02:50 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I wrote this Harry Potter/Kill Bill crossover, and this was the only line that actually was funny.

Although I like the thought of Ginny Weasley as Gogo Yubari, all school colors and a jumprope-like mace.

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[info]phosfate
2004-05-10 03:18 pm UTC (link)
Wow. People are alike all over!

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