HaseKara Calamity - or why you should always be anonymous online, especially in Japan

[Frank D'arbo]

Someone on /v/ just sent me a link to this. (read Kotaro Hanawa's answer for the story)
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-use-of-their-real-names-not-popular-amongst-Japanese-Internet-users

This shit makes Kiwi Farms look like a fucking joke

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

It is a joke.
I mean, we're all here to laugh at shit, right?

 

[Frank D'arbo]

It is a joke.
I mean, we're all here to laugh at shit, right?

Life's a laugh and death's a joke its true.

 

[Wendy Carter]

I didn't know Maddox lived in Japan for a while.

 

[Cubanodun]

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I didn't know Maddox lived in Japan for a while.

Should have hired creppy porn lawyer

 

[💗Bitchstopher Columbitch💗]

The best part of that read:

 

[JM 590]

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I didn't know Maddox lived in Japan for a while.

Nick Rekita meeting his long-lost half brother, who has a show on NicoNico where he makes fun of that lawyer:

 

[Frank D'arbo]

Nick Rekita meeting his long-lost half brother, who has a show on NicoNico where he makes fun of that lawyer:

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wew

 

[Manah]

This has basically been a thing in Japan since at least the early '00s, probably as soon as the internet got to be mainstream there.

 

[Frank D'arbo]

This has basically been a thing in Japan since at least the early '00s, probably as soon as the internet got to be mainstream there.

English Internet needs to know this

 

[Bunny Tracks]

What I'm finding the most odd is the fact that there seems to be little to no other English information about this. No articles, no blog posts, not even any Youtube videos-at least none that I can find. You'd think something this big would've garnered international attention.

 

[Manah]

What I finding the most odd is the fact that there seems to be little to no other English information about this. No articles, no blog posts, not even any Youtube videos-at least none that I can find. You'd think something this big would've garnered international attention.

Search for articles on things like Facebook usage in Japan.

There are other cultural reasons, and just the fact that Mixi and LINE are more popular, but lack of anonymity is a major reason people don't use it.

You can also try looking at Japanese Twitter usage. A lot of Japanese Twitter users keep their profiles private, and those that don't typically use aliases and don't post pictures of themselves.

A relatively recent example of something like this was Japanese artist lolicept (note: he drew true and honest big titty hentys, not lolis, honest) basically deleting his internet presence out of fear of people actually tracking him down irl because he made a crass joke.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Atrocity Guide posted a video on the subject.

 

[Cosmos]

Atrocity Guide posted a video on the subject.

I had no idea what this was until I saw this video. Very interesting, albeit scary. People on the internet can be crazy.

 

[Black Waltz]

I wonder if they have a Dink of their own over there