This thread is for discussing Japanese internet culture and websites which have greatly influenced otaku culture (such as 2ch, Futaba Channel, etc)previous thread:>>49919094
I forgot about the thread title. Kill me.Anyways, I was searching for the earliest mentions of 4chan in the 2ch archives and found a 2004 /b/ raid.https://kako.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/news4vip/1101642131/
What's the Japanese equivalent of Wojak, which is to say funny little picture that people depict others who have opinions they don't agree with as?
>>50088047It depends on who they want to mock, I don’t think there’s a standard model.If they want to mock an otaku, they will use the chigyu.If they want to mock a random troll on Futaba, they will use picrel character.On 2ch, they used stupid looking ASCII characters, etc
>>50088031I went looking for threads about 4chan on futaba after the hack and it looked like the only thing some of them knew this place for was being a racist incel terrorist website. To which some of them said "isn't that just like our site". I wish I actually archived that thread. The only site I can find that has archives that go back more than a couple days is paywalled,
>>50088047japanese equivalent of wojak is the basedjak
Young hiro talking about 2chhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbo5rODUg6c
>>50071942https://nyaa.si/view/1623701There was a group that ripped anime blurays in the name of koushinism but they eventually got jailed for something unrelated
https://krsw-wiki.in/wiki/Main_PageSome information in english about karasawa
>>50089395>they eventually got jailed for something unrelateddo you know why they were arrested?
>>50091460https://web.archive.org/web/20230823023624/https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASR8Q6TZCR88UTIL011.htmlBomb threats. Uncomfirmed, but it's around time they stopped releasing.
>>50088402the saddest thing about futaba is the fact that it has no archives. imagine how much history has been lost.i found a 2008 2ch thread on 4chan with both japanese and americans participating this one is pretty interestinghttps://kako.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/dejima/1216779563/
>>50092067i seriously wonder how someone reaches that level, especially in japanese society where obeying laws and being collectivist is sacred.either mental illness, awful childhood or both
>>50092213>the saddest thing about futaba is the fact that it has no archives. imagine how much history has been lost.There's definitely stuff out there: https://tsumanne.net/I actually disagree though. Much of the magic around imageboards initially, intentionally or not, was hosting fleeting conversations without a complete record. It creates sort of a folklore around events. Events and timelines end up lost this way, but it also creates a culture of saving what matters and passing it around organically. I'm fairly sure you can find posts from Moot in some of his Q&As where he said automatic archivers beyond selective archives like 4chanarchive changed the nature of the site and exacerbated trends like generals.
>>50092283I honestly completely understand your point, it's trueI also think there’s the fact that when there are no archives, we are technically more anonymous. Not that the archives reveal our identity, but everything we say is stored there, everything we delete, everything. It’s even possible to search for posts with specific images we post.But at the same time, I can’t deny that for emotional reasons, I think very old archives from both Futaba and 4chan (the first three or two years of each) would be amazing. It would be like a time capsule. Of course, we know about the big moments from that time, but for me it’s more about seeing a typical thread from that era, cultural differences compared to today, etc.It’s more of an emotional thing for me that I would find incredible.By the way, thank you very much for this site, I’ll take a look later
>>50092540>It would be like a time capsule.I think the sage.moe archives for example are a good proof of that, which only exist because someone decided to upload a huge batch of old scraped threads to the IA in 2018. Automatic archives make everything indexed and searchable immediately, while I think ten years is a good breathing room to consider something a historical record online. It's undoubtedly impossible to enforce and not why most people use archives, but if I were running an auto archive for an altchan or something, delaying the public archive is an approach I'd probably entertain . Maybe not at a delay of ten years, but one year or even a month would keep some of the "you had to be there" energy alive.
What is this noise about mebukich, is it an actual public board or just how the exodusfags/schizos are calling their D*scord server?
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRSWLockerKarasawa-themed ransomware. Author also got arrested and now became some security blogger https://xcancel.com/cheenanet
this OP is kind of obscure, had a bit of trouble finding it, hope it keeps busy and doesn't fall offgood general to have on here
>>50092540on a side note, I wish Japanese were more into torrents, at least for archival purposes, I realize the laws there and the culture probably make it why it is, but it is sad to think of all of the stuff that disappears never to be found again.... even youtube videos that I used to count on being on youtube forever sometimes get deleted and gone forever
>>50088020The creator of Akita Neru (yes the vocaloid) is a frequent poster on this one altchan and recently answered a question about how 2ch is seen in Japan these days
>>50092628sage.moe is my favorite archive precisely because of thatIt’s like a museumeven if it’s not possible to view the images, it’s amazing that we can still see what people were talking about, how they acted, how much everything has changed, it’s honestly incredibleI also think your archiving idea is good>>50095858Unfortunately, I forgot to put a title on the thread. On the first attempt to create it, there was a title, but an error appeared when I tried to post it, and on the second attempt I completely forgot.I apologize, if you and others on this thread think we need a new thread after the eventual archiving of this one, I promise it won’t happen again.And well, even though this isn’t as active as the idols, JAV, hololive, or some Touhou threads, I think we can still have good conversations, even if at a slower pace.
>>50096094holy shit this is actually amazingi never expected someone this important to otaku culture to be casually interacting on a chan with regular people these days. though by checking his other social media, he seems to actually interact with fans pretty often, which is quite surprising.anyways, it’s interesting how many of his points can be applied worldwide in a way, people got into social media and abandoned BBS all over the world.but it’s still interesting how much influence 2ch has lost considering it was one of japan’s biggest websites. it makes sense when you consider all the drama between its ownership and mods, people migrating to SNS like twitter, etc, but it still had so much influence that you’d expect people to be talking about it more and visiting it from time to time. yahoo, for example, is still kinda popular in japan (especially with older people) because of how early they entered and adapted to the japanese market, despite there being many other modern options.
Nice to know they have these type of images as well
>>50092678it is a new Futaba like anon imageboard that was made by the refuge discord server of Futaba's 2D board. seems it requires a discord login to use and can't be accessed outside Japan so they can post lolis without caring about international law
So, what's the best place to lurk for sort of old 4chan vibes with anime, otaku topics, OCs and stuff?As far as I understand, 2channel is mostly normies and futaba went to shit, right? Any altchans worth checking out?
>>50100156>2channel is mostly normiesI can't imagine this is broadly true. Most of the riajuu and normals were driven out to Xitter ages ago.Are you asking specifically about Japanese boards, though? There are a few western altchans I think would be that spec (I don't really like promoting them openly here or really anywhere though, if I'm being frank). A lot of interests are very scattered away from the hub 2ch was. Lots of things that would have been 2ch threads are now Discord servers. Xitter is still huge for discovering niche things (I found a teen making OC art for Ayashii World) though the Discord swell is in part due to Japan having some fatigue over it too. If you want a big tent approach to otaku interests, I really like Nyalra's server (ﾕｸｰﾘしていってね), which might be the only justifiable reason to have like 100+ channels in a Discord server.
I want to find some private japanese filesharing communities. I know they're out there ever since their p2p networks are dead.
>>50088020the japanese internet makes me depressedits admirable though how they discuss random things. in the last 10 years the western net has truly lost its curiosity and interest in the world.
I wonder if Japanese AI creators are pixelating the private parts still.... sad with technology giving us so much power that we are still being held back by ridiculous aged moral judgement and laws, the internet should be freeing
>>50101341They are, theres even automated workflows to do it for them so they can post it safely.
>>50101341stop derailing thread with your brimmed ai talk>>50099394link for mebukich?
>>50101391mebuki dot moe
>>50099394>seems it requires a discord login to usekinda sad that it’s not anonymous at all but it makes sense considering the only reason they’re creating it is that they couldn’t control the amount of trolls and other messed up people on Futabai guess it's time to test some vpns
>>50101808I guess you can’t even lurk without logging inI wonder if this will make Futaba’s activity decrease a lot
>>50101846How many people are in that Discord refuge now, a few thousand? I doubt this really changes the existing dynamic of things if it requires linking Discord just to lurk. Really seems like it would only appeal to the subset of people already willing to join a Discord.It's such a weird server too. Verification required to post, everyone's display name gets set to としあき, but you can still click through to see who's behind every post or search their username.
>>50100195>I can't imagine this is broadly true. Most of the riajuu and normals were driven out to Xitter ages ago.Ah ok. That's just what I have been told, that 2channel is just huge website that discusses normalfag things and futaba is more akin to 4chan.>Are you asking specifically about Japanese boards, though?Yea, I'm learning Japanese and would like to see how does it look like on chans on the other side of the world.>Lots of things that would have been 2ch threads are now Discord servers.Oh that's a shame.>If you want a big tent approach to otaku interests, I really like Nyalra's server (ﾕｸｰﾘしていってね),Well, I'm not really looking for discords, but thanks. I might check it out if they do not do any initial filtering if I just want to lurk around.
>>50102344The harsh truth is they're both decaying sites. The dynamic you're describing was the broad case maybe a decade or longer ago but I would say 5ch is even moreso just antisocials now. 2ch splintered too many times and shot themselves in the foot with bad management, Futaba became overrun with spam and trolls. There's still stuff on both for sure if you want to lurk.Vtubers have some of the healthiest 5ch discussion and splintered boards if that's in your sphere of interest. Check out したらば (rentalbbs.shitaraba.com) and JPNKN (bbs.jpnkn.com) if you just wanna check out a bunch of refuge boards.
>>50102376Alright, good to know. Thanks!
>>50101846>auto troonslated the siteif you cant read japanese gtfo /jp/ kek
>>50102291>How many people are in that Discord refuge now, a few thousand?around 13.600k peoplesaid server is often shared on may which is futaba most active boardits a lot
>>50102529For now, things seem to be good on Futaba
>>50102556futaba's problem is it has close to 0 influx of users so the average age there is something like 40 years old on top of trolling.for 5ch everyone just left for twitter.
>>50102376>Futaba became overrun with spam and trolls.Do they have their own sharty or what's the reason behind such a long trolling campaign that people are forces to go to discord/make spinoffs.
5ch mental health board is depressing.i've never felt so bad reading stuff on a textboard before.https://mevius.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/utu/1757241599/l50
>>50103009Similar problem on Nico these days. The plurality of users crossed over to their 30s from 20s around 2021, while overall MAU and DAU continues to collapse. The Blacksuit hack accelerated that trend, though there's some discrepancies between Kadokawa and surveys by Japan's telecommunications ministery. I'd guess there's pretty similar coupling to Futaba and 5ch demographics. https://note.com/beefkosogod/n/n585670e0831fThe downward premium users trend I think is well recognized (at least from what I read in the Japanese press), but I'll note Kadokawa's last quarter actually saw the first increase in premium users since 2017. No small thing after the price increases, credit card blocks, sensitive content purge, and the Blacksuit hack.
>>501061305ch depression threads are some of the saddest things online its hard to explain why thoi think in the english world we always believe there's a solution or some kinda hope, but japan leans more towards pessimism and thinking some people are just hopeless
>>50106338You tend to get very calcified in your career and social standing over there at a young age. Not to get into the weeds of frameworks like the "American dream" and all but westerners mostly want to believe there is upwards mobility that we can always grab on to. The more brittle those frameworks begin to look and act, the more we'll probably see hikiNEET helplessness adopted by the western world.
>>50106370>You tend to get very calcified in your career and social standing over there at a young age. true but it runs deeper than economics. the phrase most emblematic of japan is 仕方ない. they see human beings as these passive victims of forces 1000x greater than them like ants under a magnifying glass, who shouldn't try too hard to fight the forces of nature because they're so out of their control. japan's outlook on life is really depressing once you get down to it. which is ironic because it descends directly from chinese materialism, which is a super uplifting and optimistic "religion".
>>50106580Life is suffering. It's true realism is liable to descending into pessimism, thought it's an easier philosophy to adopt when you're already weakened.Appropriate that SZS features 2ch more than once. Besides that it was a more modern cultural reference then.
>>50103910Some boards on futaba seem to go unmoderated for days. People get mad or discouraged when something that breaks the rules is still there only after few hours and you don't need a group as malicious as sharty to ruin a board, you just need to be consistent in breaking the rules, you can post anyting really and people will get tired of that shit if it goes on for long enough.
>>50101846i saw some toshiaki saying activity on mebuki was like 3x that of futaba, i havent actually looked tho
>>50106580>仕方ないI hate this like you wouldn't believe.
>>50106580Probably buddhism's influence.
>>50101808It's anonymous, only the admin knows who you are, but that's true for 4chan as well
>>50106338It’s really sad to think that someone from that thread probably jumped onto the train tracks the next day or a few weeks later.Mass suicide threads used to be a frequent problem on the old 2ch, one person would announce their suicide and several others would also express their suicidal thoughts.Of course, there were many people who were just venting or having breakdowns, but thinking that there were actually people who killed themselves after writing their last words there is depressing.>>50107508Can you talk about your personal experiences with that?
>>50112738>Can you talk about your personal experiences with that?I had a Japanese person ask for advice(whine) about their life situation. Even so the solution wasn't really difficult, he would rather not just suffer through it themselves but also let other people to be lied to and hurt simply because he was too much of a pussy to go against the current. Shouganai my ass, this is just cowardice that actively makes it worse for everyone around just so you can avoid a short term confrontation and speaking up your mind. It accomplishes nothing.No, I won't go into situation's details. But it pisses me off so much.
>>50112738>Mass suicide threads used to be a frequent problem on the old 2chJust found a 2008 thread asking if said threads could be removed;https://archive.md/Hcyc9#selection-1905.43-1905.47This thread was posted after threads about hydrogen sulfide suicides were spreading and people were linking them to dozens of deaths that happened that year.Apparently, the police requested Hiro to delete such threads, but he refused because they did not break any Japanese law.You can see people talking about it in the thread
>>50117164I found many suicide threads on 2ch, there were some trolls and concerned people in them but overall most of the replies were extremely sad.
Apparently there’s an exact replica of 2ch called “open-2ch”It's often mocked, with people saying its users are all kids romanticizing a past they never lived
>>50096094Surprised no one's mentioned 39 (that site), wap or kissu. I'd say they've made their mark by now.
>>50118470This thread is about Japanese internet culture, not altchans.
>>50118546The difference is nebulous when it's clear the Japanese use both
>>50118550Okay, let me clarify then: this isn't a thread about western altchans, which are clearly out of scope for Japanese internet culture.
>>50101846Are there any pictures of what the site looks like when you log in?>>50118470>>50118550I use it and there's barely any Japanese there aside from Hioka. I don't count the /live/ gaijins who live in Japan.
>>50119847I went ahead and tried looking at it. After logging in for the first time there was a terms of service page that was more or less the same as futaba's rules. The UI is more modern looking and there are emoji reactions for posts. It has a dark theme that looks a little like 4chan's tomorrow css. There's also a sidebar that has buttons for viewing the catalog, notifications, threads you favorited, or viewing your own post history. And unless I'm missing something there are no boards, everything just goes to one central catalog.
>>50120479I looked at the site some more and there actually are "boards". There's a small list of tags that the OP can mark their thread as and you can filter the catalog for a specific tag.Personally I don't particularly like these features but I still think it's neat how different this is from most imageboards.
>>50119847>>50120479here's what the mobile version looks like (not my pic)
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2003 2ch meetupthey met up to watch the new matrix moviehttps://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm9503994
>>50122528That might be second only in noteriety to this 2ch offkai. I believe this was organized on the /campus/ board, not sure on the exact year. There's a photo around somewhere of them supposedly gathering in 2022-2023 but I don't think it was ever verified.There's also the litter collection offkai, which supposedly had hundreds of people in Enoshima. Sort of a light protest of Fuji TV's reporting during the 2002 World Cup. https://togetter.com/li/2441492
>>50122621Funny how most people there seem to be on their 20s and 30s and then there's a guy who looks 60>There's also the litter collection offkai, which supposedly had hundreds of people in Enoshima. Sort of a light protest of Fuji TV's reporting during the 2002 World CupGreat pic and funny context, were they mad at Fuji TV or were they just joking around?
>>50122721Pixiv or Nicopedia might do a better job than me of describing the circumstances. Some of it was the pressure cooker of it being a Korea-Japan joint World Cup, some of it was the usual split hairs over mild reporting fouls that they love to get in a tizzy over. It's hard to tell with how much seriousness people actually got upset at it being referred to as the Korea-Japan World Cup and not the Japan-Korea World Cup. https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/2ch%E6%B9%98%E5%8D%97%E3%82%B4%E3%83%9F%E6%8B%BE%E3%81%84%E3%82%AA%E3%83%952ch residents especially then were more cynical romantics than just outright cynics, so animosity would get expressed in more creative ways. The event itself was sort of a mild troll. A regular part of FNS27, a Fuji TV annual summer special, is that they clean up the Shonan coastline. The idea was that 2ch would get out in front of that so they'd have to acknowledge that 2ch was responsible. They instead attributed it to lifeguards, which only fed the resentment.Slideshow of the event, originally a Flash: https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2122626Another part of what the fed animosity was Korean fouls not being called, compiled here: https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm664723
>>50122769Thank you so much anon, amazing info!
im asking some 5chan users how their textboard is viewed in japan and they're saying that stories from there are quite popular, with tons of videos telling them... it's the japanese equivalent of greentext stories.the worst part is that its true, search for 2ch on youtube and you'll see many channels just dedicated for that.
Some 5chan boards are so dead that it's genuinely sad.Their touhou board still has threads from 2019 and 2018 on the catalog
"A clerk from some store selling 2channel merchandise on the streets of Akihabara.Wearing 2channel goods, he enters a maid café and, while staring at the maids’ butts, live-updates his blog on a laptop he brought with him.This is the trendy Akihabara style!Very funny wwww"
them japs are so wacky
>>501328852ch merch being sold on akihabara
>>50134252I'm be curious when this photo is dated, or if it's related to >>50132885. The attempted trademark and commercializtion of mona was a pretty watershed 2ch event in late 2005. I suppose the difference is in a large conglomerate trying to exert that power instead of a small Akiba shop selling doujin tchotchkes.https://nonexistentfandomsfandom.neocities.org/AAcats/nomanekohttps://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%AE%E3%81%BE%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B3%E5%95%8F%E9%A1%8C
>>50134977The second photo was taken around 2007 or so, the controversy had already died down a bit.As a side note, it’s amazing how so many stories like this are completely unknown outside of Japan. Please don’t hesitate to share more if you know any.
>>50136276>As a side note, it’s amazing how so many stories like this are completely unknown outside of Japan.The influence of 2ch and other regional sites has been overwritten by the way the web has explosively grown in the last decade. Everyone uses global platforms that have mostly converged on endless feeds, so I think it's probably unavoidable that these events become forgotten history even to the Japanese. Sort of like if you yanked your nephew's phone away while they were browsing TikTok and tried to explain the importance of silent films. The big touchstones like Charlie Chaplin might register, but getting beyond that would be tough.Since we mentioned offkai earlier, I think Muneo House is a hugely important one if you want to parse the creative influence of 2ch. Basically collaborative music, Flash PVs, and club events themed around Muneo Suzuki (corrupt Japanese politician still in the House of Councilors, probably most known overseas for being tight with Russia and Steven Seagal).https://denden.garden/2023/07/30/muneo-house/
>>50134977Even Taito was involved in this?
>>50139013Taito contracts with everyone and anything so they have junk to fill their UFO catchers. Really that's what they've done for the better part of two decades, it's probably the strongest aspect of the brand.Good example of this: a Lawson crane game, installed by Taito, imported by Safari Games, developed by a firm in China that purchased a melody from a stock music site, was ultimately an unauthorized copy of Tenkomori's music.https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2502/27/news139.html
>>50127252Very interesting stuff. By the way, how are you in contact with all these 5ch/Futaba/whatever users? From that Futaba discord server?
>>50139376I’m really out of the touch when it comes to this kind of stuff. The only game company I knew that made UFO prize figures of everything was sega.You’re wise, anon.
>>50139400I’ve had a Japanese friend for years who’s a 5chan user, and he introduced me on LINE to a group of his friends, some of them also use 5chan and other Japanese textboards. I sometimes ask him and his friends questions about 5chan and such.As for Futaba, I really had no choice but to get in touch with some members on the Discord servers they post there.
>>50143371I always wondered how their piracy scene is these days after death of PD. Do they all just use nyaa like the rest of the world?
>>50145081Winny and Perfect Dark still trudge on in some form, don't they? Japan definitely uses Nyaa, or at least they are in the swarms with everyone else downloading anime and JAV based on the peers. Largely it's all Bittorrent now though. Japan will send copyright infringement notices through to ISPs like everywhere else in the world, but ISPs will actually ask you first if you want to voluntarily disclose your identity. If you say no the owners can then go through the courts and compel disclosure, which unmasks you and usually means lawyers pestering you for damages. Also like everywhere else, this is an effective/popular tactic for people that download porn.Article from a law firm going over the disclosure process and negotiating claims.https://www.aichisogo.or.jp/column/954/5ch's current general about Bittorrent disclosure requests (トレント関連開示請求相談). Lots of discussion of the aforementioned, people posting their threat letters, and some VPN help.https://mao.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/shikaku/1759988104/WinMX to Winny to Share to Perfect Dark is a really rich history, I'd like to see someone write a good outline of it in English at some point.
>>50145516PD has around 1500 users right now, it's nowhere near as popular as it used to be and all new files are sources from other places, no original uploads. Winny also kinda works but I didn't check it as far as fresh files are concerned.>WinMX to Winny to Share to Perfect Dark is a really rich history, I'd like to see someone write a good outline of it in English at some point.Agreed, I definitely regret missing out on japanese WinMX having only experienced Share and Winny. I'd love to see what kind of stuff power users shared back then and read up some history on these guys, so many files from that era are completely lost now and even if someone still has them on their old hard drives, there's no way they're sharing. I heard WinMX was where fansubbing groups used to source their anime raws in early 2000s but good luck finding those people.On opennap servers there are still some users but it's a ghost town as well, not even 100 people on there, at least on the public ones. These are the only people who might remember the old days.
>>501456161500 is more than I would have thought frankly. Shit was always a huge pain in the ass to setup right and get port forwarded, plus having to reserve the cache. >I heard WinMX was where fansubbing groups used to source their anime raws in early 2000s but good luck finding those people.I'll ask around about this, not sure how many of the fansubbers I knew from the heyday of speedsubs were active at its height. But it's definitely true WinMX had a lot of westerners crawling it for raws and such, even after Winny's support for >2GB files. Also much illicit mterial. There was definitely an etiquette around trading that probably kept a lot of gaijin out, so you could hold a lot of power just taking WinMX shit and mirroring it on a DCC bot or whatever. Soulseek hoarders probably can't handle a candle to the trading culture that was the norm back with WinMX/Utatane.
Ah fuck, KeyDB is also going down I guess any day now soon.http://keydb.telegrip.info/>2025年9月中か遅くとも10月中に、当サイトは閉鎖いたします。>(新規データ登録は停止しました:2025年10月02日)>ついては、当サイトのDBデータをShareに放流しております。>「ファイル照会DB」で検索していただけます。(サイズはおよそ1.2GB)If someone has Share set up they should mirror that DB, but I guess that says it all about the current state of P2P in Japan.
>>50145797>1500 is more than I would have thought frankly. Shit was always a huge pain in the ass to setup right and get port forwarded, plus having to reserve the cache.It used to be close to 10k, even more.>Soulseek hoarders probably can't handle a candle to the trading culture that was the norm back with WinMX/Utatane.Yup, on public servers nobody opens their shares. On private ones it was more common but you still need to keep manners every time. A silent queue is guaranteed to get you blocked.From hearsay, on mx there used to be a lot of users who instantly shared their anime and eroge iso very first day but of course they were super pissy about trading that shit. Winny and Share normalized sharing in the open.I'm just interested in doujin content that was shared back in the day because gaijins didn't exactly do a perfect job archiving everything.
>>50145797>Also much illicit mterial.Before criminalization of possession, it was like downloading other kinds of amateur porn, probably still is. This used to be a completely normal thing among people technical enough to use p2p software, I bet you can find 2ch threads about this.
Do you have a favorite 5ch or futaba board, anon?
A ~70,000 image archive of nijiura maids from 2006-2012, originally sourced from http://kazumi386.org/~maidhttps://maids.plum.moe/ or https://plum.moe/maid.torrent if you're so inclined.It died earlier this year when I had server troubles but I've restored it now, thanks to the kind anon who emailed me.
>>50152166これを全部まとめるのにどれくらい時間がかかりましたか？
>>50152166>>50155426Sorry, I accidentally wrote in Japanese.How long did it take to compile all of this?
please forgive me if this makes me sound like a complete newfag, but can I ask, why is 4chan so close to Touhou?I have been in the fandom and in this website a good time but I never made the connection. I know is a popular japanese franchise but why so specifically that one?
>>50155850Everything that's popular in japan is naturally popular in the west
>>50159402I look forward to being force fed J-drama slop and even more narou-kei.>>50155850Again, this isn't a thread about western imageboards or altchans, but I'll humor you a little: Touhou was/is a huge component of Japanese online otaku culture in 4chan's early years. Much of the overseas fandom around Touhou predates 4chan's interest, including MotK and pooshlmer, and it would be appropriate to say the interest was imported here like ADTRW seeded 4chan as a whole. Touhou's doujin expressions are also very culturally exportable and entertaining to westerners, like the Flash PVs you're familiar with or more secondary creations like "McRoll'd". The introduction of this very board is maybe 80% the result of Touhou hijacks (yes, it's not just an image macro) overflowing /a/ and feeding that interest with a snowball effect, with another 20% being spillover from /v/ discussion about Touhou and VNs. This really is a blindingly newfag question, so I guess credit for recognizing it as such.
>>50106130They sound like my internal monologue. I should've been born Japanese.
>>50155850>>50159614There is simply so much fucking Touhou content being created by Japan - a lot of it at an insanely high level.And with Japan being way ahead of everyone else on the web at the time, it's only natural that Westerners would get attracted to it.We are talking about an age without YouTube. Flash was fucking insane at the time when 4chan came around.
I found some DIY figure kits related to Futaba culture that were being sold for 300 yen at the time
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Found these futaba-related flash montages/animations while lurking on niconicoPretty nicehttps://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm11130907https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9064323https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7819894
>>50168666>>50168660>>50168649I know about wahai and neikako ghost, not sure about the first one though.>>50171171Sweet mother of soul.
>>50171340>not sure about the first one though.Its a representation of Futaba's administrator. Just like how Hiroyuki is represented as a cute bunny girl/guy and such.
>>50173239>cute bunny girlHe really loves that representation. It's still his Xitter profile picture and it's all over merch now.Gotta say as much as I don't really care for the guy, it's sort of impressive how relevant he's remained across basically every era of the Japanese web.
>>50173299Now that I think about it he's pretty much the only creator of a traditional web forum in the world that still maintains a celebrity status?
>>50174756Hiroyuki's mega unique in his sort of celebrity and also that he's worn many "hats" so to say. The few founders or administrators am I thinking of are just famous for being investors that rub shoulders with people that run in Y Combinator circles. Reddit is fairly "traditional" in that it's majorly text based (I think I'd count it in this discussion knowing it was harbor for things like the ニュース速報 exodus) but I dunno if you'd want to count people like Alexis Ohanian, now showing up on broadcast TV as "the Reddit guy", or Aaron Swartz, when he's more of a martyr than anything else.
Found a 2007 OS-tans montagehttps://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9010Recently saw a nijiiura thread about them shortly after Windows 10 support ended.It was pretty nice.
This is a good thread
>>50173299>>50174756>>50178150how many projects and shows is this guy involved in? lol
>>50181266>sm9010Fuck was that early on.
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