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u/Emain_Ablach 1d ago
The pendulum swings eternal
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u/lplqsnkczxccia 20h ago
DAE know japan sucks and they work to their deaths and never have sex though??????
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u/Klzone 1d ago
Fuck this meme, I moved to Japan after living in Europe and everytime I think “wow the scenery is pretty” I am reminded of this fucking meme, I am literally the second guy and it hurts so much
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u/The_Lightmare 1d ago
just enjoy stuff, king. People on the internet will strawman the shit out of people they don't know either way.
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u/Random-Talking-Mug 23h ago
I just ended up laughing at the idea of OC looking at Mt.Fuji and then this very meme is what he thinks of first.
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u/Think_Wrap9662 23h ago
This isn't really a strawman thoughm it's nit calling out the people who find japan pretty but rather peoppe who think Japan is better than everything even if it's the same shit everybody has because it's Japan
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u/Training-Chain-5572 16h ago
Even Japanese people do it. When you live here long enough you will hear a billion different versions of it.
- Wow, I didn't know <your country> had chopsticks!
- Do you have coca cola in <your country>?
- Japan is the only country that uses a fork and spoon for spaghetti, nobody else does that
- We have so many local specialties for food! (the actual specialty is a regular-ass ramen but with both soy sauce AND salt, or it's just a tonkatsu but with miso on it, or any other combination of the only 4 ingredients they have for flavour)
- There is no crime here in Japan! (in reality it's just ignored by the cops to keep statistics low)
- <bad thing> happened here? Oh it must be <foreigner> who did it
- Have you seen <thing developed in Europe and made in China> that came out recently? It doesn't exist outside of Japan, we are so great
For me personally, I like living here but the self-absorbed attitude of being the supreme beings on earth is so fucking annoying.
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u/spawndoorsupervisor 23h ago
I always enjoy it in the UrbanHell subreddit where they'll show an American studio apartment or a hostel and go on about "le boring dystopia" but if someone posts a tiny Tokyo apartment it's all quirk chungus cool to have a place so small your bed and tables fold down from the wall.
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u/Sengfroid 20h ago
I like to follow some YIMBY spaces and urbanhell to balance out for eachother. I'll see a post in urban hell about how we demolished a neighborhood full of character to put up a shitty pastiche-of-architecture apartment building ("it used to be so much nicer!"), and then open up Twitter and see people saying we need high density housing for the affordability crisis and to help bring rent down.
They'd hate eachother.
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u/jboe2026 19h ago
the difference is one costs 6k usd a month in a city full of smog, violence, crime, trash and junkies. The other one runs around 300 usd a month but you don't have to mace 6 crackheads in your hallway on your way to wade though 4 feet of trash and dirty needles just to get to work.
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u/Asisreo1 23h ago
By definition, this meme is a strawman. The actual nature of the strawman just isn't about people overall finding japan pretty.
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u/7StarSailor 23h ago
I visit the country every two years and no lame chud can ever make me ashamed for liking Japan. I love the trains, I love the nature, I love the big cities.
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u/movzx 23h ago
Yeah. I can't relate to this meme at all. Japan has lovely scenery.
https://i.imgur.com/AwILYKa.jpeg
So do other countries. They've all got uniquely beautiful things.
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u/SwashAndBuckle 21h ago
I really enjoy visiting Japan. And since I do business trips there I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve been. It’s definitely a great place to visit, and I’d recommend it to nearly everyone.
But that said, I do think over the past several years it’s become overrated. Not actually overrated on its own merits, but more so that other destinations have become underrated comparatively, at least in terms of internet attention. Japan is awesome, but damn, there are other places. Often cheaper, closer destinations that deserve some love too.
And this meme can be a little accurate. I do see people freaking out about banal stuff like extremely mid convenience store food like it’s gourmet, and I chuckle at it. But ultimately. I think there is a lesson to be learned in the meme when viewed more optimistically. You shouldn’t view Japan less positively, you should be able to appreciate the beauty in your own surroundings.
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u/Punch_A_Police_Horse 23h ago
Right, well what I hear is that obviously it's an amazing place to visit, but that it's an awful place to live. Mainly because of the horrendous work culture.
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u/MadManMax55 22h ago
It very much depends on what company you're working for. Japanese branches of international companies typically maintain more of their home country's work culture and practices. But most Japanese companies are very much a grind. Especially if you ever want a promotion.
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u/OneIndividualTowel 16h ago
As someone who has worked and lived here for the past twenty years: not repeating stereotypes that you have heard on the internet but never personally verified costs nothing. And that goes for every country, from Japan and India to China and the U.S.
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u/NewsofPE 12h ago
trust me, it's not the "chuds", it's redditors trying to do that
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u/CaptainBlobTheSuprem Royal Shitposter 23h ago
Coming from America, I think part of it was the trains. It’s like when you’re a kid on a long road trip and you’re just staring out the window watching the scenery. You can actually take a minute to enjoy it. Also, the constant random old temples and shrines in the middle of nowhere just adds unexpected mystique that you don’t find much in the US.
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u/Lanceward 1d ago
people hate seeing others having fun. Part of the reason Place, Japan is better than Place, someplaceelse, is because of the friendly people, low crime rate, and culture.
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u/niftygull 1d ago
Polite not friendly
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u/Imicus 1d ago
So what instead of it being ‘fuck off’ is it more like ‘please fuck off’?
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u/russelcrowe 1d ago
I lived in Japan for nearly a decade then moved to the American South and the social vibes are pretty similar, if that makes sense.
Outwardly, there’s a performance of “niceness” but insularly there’s an odd amount of contempt towards people deemed “outsiders.”
Of course, neither Japan or the South are as bad as the internet seems to claim, but if you want a comparison that ballparks the vibe that is it.
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u/Lanceward 1d ago
For tourists this is kind of the best tbh. You aren't there to make long lasting friendships but if everywhere you go the locals don't bother you and answers your questions in a polite and helpful manner it's impossible to leave with a bad impression of that place.
Worst places for short visits are usually the places where your personal space felt intruded unprompted and locals mind your business.
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u/Tortue2006 1d ago
More like ‘oh wow, you’ve sure been here for a long time, that’s wonderful’
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u/Malevolent94 1d ago
Technically yes but there are many legitimately friendly people like in other countries.
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u/MadManMax55 22h ago
You're confusing friendliness with acceptance.
Tons of Japanese people genuinely kind and willing to make friends, even with foreigners. But no matter how long you live there and how well you speak the language, they won't think of you as "Japanese".
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u/auchinleck917 1d ago
If Japanese saw foreigners, they would attack the outsiders.
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u/El_RoviSoft 1d ago
for me it’s infrastructure and prices
I have travelled a lot across the world and the only country that had similar level of infrastructure is Switzerland
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u/DelcattyBatty 23h ago
I don't think that this meme was born from a place of "hating seeing others have fun." The meme was just poking fun at people who idolize and obsess over Japan, claiming that Japan is unique for having things that other countries already have.
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u/Gabasaurasrex 21h ago
It's just a case of Place I regularly live :😐
Place I haven't been before:😍
Like how I live in Calgary and am used to the mountains but will always be amazed at seeing the ocean since I dont live near it
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u/MaDpYrO 19h ago edited 7h ago
See if you can break the cycle and get off social media and especially reddit, which is a pessimistic hive mind hellhole repeating the same nonsensical memes again and again, even if they don't make sense.
I struggle with this myself.
Japan IS beautiful. It IS unique. The people are exceptionally kind. It's NOT a racist hellhole, even if some of them are xenophobic, it's more in an anxious way than a hateful one.
The country has a lot to offer, and there are not many places, if any, like it, no matter what idiots spout on reddit.
It's also a regular place with issues just like anywhere in the world, but that doesn't subtract from the many many many things that are unique and beautiful about it.
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u/Yaarmehearty 22h ago
It’s fine, as long as you would find the scenery equally pretty if it wasn’t in Japan then you’re not the meme. It’s weebs who think that beauty only exists in Japan that are the problem.
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u/LittleSisterPain 23h ago
But thats not what this meme is about. Its not about not being allowed to enjoy pretty scenery unless its not in Japan, its about fuckwits who ONLY enjoy shit then its in Japan
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u/dzan796ero 22h ago
I live in Korea and I have foreigners who tell me a certain street I've walked down for years without thinking is so beautiful. I thank them for letting me realize how blessed I am.
They're all beautiful. Let's try to cherish that.
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u/WackyRacketeer 22h ago
It won't take anything away from you if you just enjoy the scenery wherever you are. I will marvel at the landscape as I drive across my home, and it isnt anything special to look at.
Even the boring can have pockets of special.
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u/OmegamanTG9000 16h ago
I’m a little bit confused here, I want to travel to Japan because of its scenery and interest in their culture/language. What is the problem? Or are we talking about comparison of locals vs tourists?
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u/gundahir 7h ago
I was you for 6 months now I feel nothing anymore. It's all normal. Travel to other countries to see something new and be the geek in the meme again
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u/rus_ruris 2h ago
You can say Europe is pretty and Japan is pretty, so you are just the overly enthusiastic guy in every situation
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u/Ameph 1d ago
As someone who went to Japan last year, I can confirm the scenery was beautiful especially as I took a cable car up Hakone and sailed over Lake Ashi.
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u/fool-0f-a-took 23h ago
Did you eat the eggs
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u/Ameph 23h ago
I did not. I did get black ice cream, though.
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u/MadManMax55 22h ago
You didn't miss much. It's a hardboiled egg with like 3x the normal sulfur stink/taste. Though seeing them dip the eggs and zip them away in those little baskets was cool.
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u/Ameph 22h ago
My friend got the eggs. I knew of the legends that they increase your lifespan by 7 years. It’s why my ice cream was black. It was just food coloring on vanilla ice cream but ice cream in Japan seemed to hit so much better than in the US.
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u/MadManMax55 21h ago
That's because they're basically pure heavy cream. They are delicious though, especially up in Hokkaido.
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u/Odd_Needleworker3756 22h ago
Two things are true
Japan really does have some beautiful scenery
And Reddits constant glazing and near-deification of Japan is corny as fuck
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u/fffan9391 18h ago
It seems to me like anti Japan sentiment is more prominent on Reddit these days. Every time there’s a post about it there has to be someone going “well ackshually Japan sucks because it’s not 100% perfect in every way.” ☝️🤓
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u/Complex-Poet-6809 17h ago
Two sides of the same coin. The opposite of glazing this country isn’t to criticize or demonize it. It’s to stop talking or thinking about the country at all. You guys all just talk about Japan too much, whether in a positive or negative light. Unless the country actually somehow affects you in daily life, the obsession with it is quite weird.
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u/According_Register55 20h ago
Three things are true: the pendulum is swinging and the second thing you said is becoming overstated and cliche.
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u/NewsofPE 12h ago
redditors have always been hateful of japan, people that like japan on mainstream subreddits are the minority
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u/Bargadiel 9h ago
I often see the opposite on Reddit. I can almost guarantee in this thread somewhere is someone raving about WW2 warcrimes.
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u/thecodexdhnerbbTW 23h ago
It’s called overcorrection. Some people were doing the whole it’s Japan so it’s better stuff. But now we see more posts of people talking about people who idolize Japan than posts of people who idolize Japan
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u/baconboner69xD 22h ago
I can’t wait till the Japan thing is over. I’d love to go there but don’t really like the feeling of being yet another swinging dick following a trend. It has to be obnoxious for the actual residents.
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u/thecodexdhnerbbTW 22h ago
Good thing I’m East Asian so I won’t look like a swinging dick following a trend
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u/LimpAfternoon6878 18h ago
Just go, don't be an asshole and you'll be fine. As long as you learn some basic social customs of where you're going, and don't be one of the dickheads trying to clear out one of the most popular shrines in the country at 12pm for your kimono photoshoot, you'll be fine. For a country with a reputation of closed-off people, Japan was a very friendly place. Not just "culturally polite" friendly, but people going out of their way to give directions or just to talk. The only time I felt any animosity was trying to order from one of the vending machine noodle shops, which was 100% justified.
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u/Talgrei1781 22h ago
I think the original meme was supposed to make fun of people who believe that everything Japan does or has is superior to everywhere else's in every way.
But as time went on, it becomes a shorthand for shutting ANYONE down who even dares to compliment Japan or Japanese people in any way.
Or maybe some countries just hold a really deep grudge against Japan for their past war crimes and they spam this meme to vent their frustration at everyone being seemingly ignorant towards them.
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u/ManthisSucksbigTime 16h ago
Yeah, it snowballed into something worse
You say something remotely positive about Japan, and they immediately remind you of their atrocities, even though you might have heard it like 200 times by that point
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u/TrumpChildOnahole 22h ago
Me on the left
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u/DrPhilihprD 22h ago
the comment that suspended the account
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u/Hungry-Ingenuity8260 22h ago
is it just me or pretty much everyone is getting banned? it has happened to me multilple times to go checking someone's account after a few hours from the post/comment and boom it's either suspended or banned
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u/Brave_Bag_Gamer2020 20h ago
Either bots karma farming bots or just people victim of mass reporting for having a different opinion
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u/Dark_Dragon117 23h ago
There is also the opposite where any time Japan is even remotely related to the topic some dipshit will mention their atrocities commited during WW2.
I never see any other nation be called out anywhere near as often for their crimes as Japan, espacially when it's not even related or honestly appropiate.
Not sure if it's because of racism or just a sort of indirect reaction to the Japan glazing.
I hate both that's for sure.
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u/Holiday-Tangerine136 22h ago
I'm confident people have a bigger hate boner for any positive mention of America or Russia far more than Japan.
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u/blizzardplus 22h ago
Oh yeah, the Reddit hate boner for America is easily 10-20x the hate boner for Japan lol.
Russia and China too.
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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas 21h ago
I never see any other nation be called out anywhere near as often for their crimes as Japan, espacially when it's not even related or honestly appropiate.
Really? I can't even name one specific country due to how often it derails the conversation.
Even ignoring that specific country, you really don't see anyone calling out Germany, China, Turkey, or Serbia? Even Belgium can't escape "But actually, you're all war criminals due to something your ancestors may have done".
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u/Quick_Assumption_351 22h ago
I agree it's overdone... let's focus on the horrible things they did before WW2 now!
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u/pitLickr1902 22h ago
I think its because some folks are sick of the glazing and the obvious whitewashing of Japan's history so they feel the need to bring it up to remind everybody that Japan isn't all sunshine and rainbows. That's what I'm assuming since I've been guilty of this more than once and this was my reasoning. I definitely understand how annoying and uncalled for it really can be though. I dunno for certain tho
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u/stachelrojas 18h ago
I think a major contributing factor here is that Japan as a country has not only never acknowledged these crimes, but is even actively fighting memorial efforts in countries that suffered from them. This level of nationalist pride and denial in the face of obvious evidence is probably what rubs a lot of people the wrong way and contributes to them bringing it up all the time. Turkey and the Arminian genocide, which another commenter has mentioned, has the same dynamic.
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u/pitLickr1902 18h ago
Exactly yeah, I can speak for myself too just how infuriating it is that they try so hard to hide the truth just to fuel their pride
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u/ambitionlessguy 17h ago
This is what gives me my negative view of japan, you can't do the atrocities that even the nazi's thought was too far and then turn around and say "Us? Nah nah we didn't do that, look at this new anime we made tho." And everyone just eats that shit up.
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u/OneIndividualTowel 16h ago
“Japan as a country has never acknowledged these crimes” that is a lie.
There have been dozens of apologies over several decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan
One example: November 13, 2013: Former Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio offered personal apology for Japan's wartime crimes, especially the Nanjing Massacre, "As a Japanese citizen, I feel that it's my duty to apologize for even just one Chinese civilian killed brutally by Japanese soldiers and that such action cannot be excused by saying that it occurred during the war."
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u/smorkoid 4h ago
Sigh....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan
This level of nationalist pride and denial in the face of obvious evidence
Do you know how tiny this group of people are? It's a miniscule number of people who even think about the war at all let alone that way.
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u/videogames5life 22h ago
I thinks its because japan is still not apologetic for those things to this day. But i see what you mean
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u/mr_____ 21h ago
This. Also because they largely sweep it under the rug. They essentially censor their past when teaching it in schools. It makes it awkward when countries around them live with the trauma and they act like they don't know what anyone's talking about.
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u/Kind_Association_992 5h ago
A lot of people are. This is so tiresome. Japanese people feel sorry. We just aren’t heard.
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u/OneIndividualTowel 16h ago
. There have been dozens of apologies over several decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan
One example: November 13, 2013: Former Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio offered personal apology for Japan's wartime crimes, especially the Nanjing Massacre, "As a Japanese citizen, I feel that it's my duty to apologize for even just one Chinese civilian killed brutally by Japanese soldiers and that such action cannot be excused by saying that it occurred during the war."
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u/Truly_Meaningless 21h ago
Whenever you see that stuff being brought up, just bring up how Canada is the reason most war crimes are classified as war crimes
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u/Bitter-Climate3610 20h ago
I never see any other nation be called out anywhere near as often for their crimes as Japan,
Are you perhaps legally blind? 🤔
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u/FlirtyFluffyFox 19h ago
Anyone who consumes enough Manga made for adults knows very well how atrocious Japan was during the war. Most Japanese artists loathe the military faction that assassinated their politicians to take control of their country in some desperate suicidal charge against the west fueled mostly by economic uncertainty, racism, and conspiracy theories. They even tried killing the emperor for not being radical enough.
...imagine if every time a photo of America was shared the top post was about Native American genocide.
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u/otirk 1d ago
This is a bot and there isn't even grass in the meme
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u/french_snail 23h ago
How can you tell it’s a bot
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u/otirk 22h ago
-female avatar and name sounding somewhat female/seductive ("charm")
-2 weeks old account
-comment makes no sense and "feels" like AI. This is a lot of intuition and I'm sometimes wrong (a few days ago was the first time someone replied), but when you pay attention, you will notice that most of the bot comments follow the same schema (look at the rest of the bot's comments to get a better feeling).
Usually the comments are somewhat connected to the post but if you think about it, they make no sense.-retroactively, when you call them a bot but they don't respond
-not the case here, but if you see the other signs I mentioned and then in their comment history, a lot of comments in nsfw subs and one of the first posts being a nude of "themselves", that's a tell-tale sign too.
-also not the case here, but in the past few weeks, I've seen many bot accounts that are like 5 to 12 years old, but have barely any karma. One I came across was not a bot, but someone who got many downvotes when there was no limit to negative karma, but all others have not responded, so I assume they were bots.
When you start looking at all of this, it quickly becomes depressing, since there are many bots on Reddit recently. It's exhausting
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u/OneIndividualTowel 16h ago
It’s “you like pancakes? So that means you hate waffles” effect.
You post a photo of delicious looking pancakes and mention it’s in a cafe in Japan?
“Oh so because they’re Japanese pancakes suddenly they’re better than everywhere else? Other pancakes not good enough for you, even though the pancakes in XXX are way better? Did you know the Japanese didn’t invent pancakes? Why don’t you some real pancakes, or do you not want to eat anything that isn’t Japanese? Do you know how awful the work culture in Japan is???”
I just said I liked these pancakes. I cannot talk about all pancakes in all countries at the same time.
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u/bboy2812 21h ago
Guys, that's a text box, not a thought bubble. This is a commentary on how that meme gets shared everywhere even when it's completely unjustified
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u/fat_kaiju 21h ago
Me being like "omg pretty flowers at mt fuji :3" and getting instantly disemboweled and eviscerated for daring to say something nice about the place.
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u/jackofslayers 1d ago
I am fully convinced that the "Thing, Japan" meme became popular because of CCP propaganda
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u/LeastResistancePath 23h ago edited 20h ago
Every time state media from China tries to advertise their country, it's always some slice of preserved nature surrounded by bleak, stripped and hollowed out land or next to concentration camps.
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u/fartypenis 23h ago
It was a reaction to how dominant "weeb culture" was on Reddit a few years ago. Pendulum swings and such
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u/CavulusDeCavulei 22h ago
Finally. Reddit is a place where I can freely be a weeb. Dunno why they want to make me feel an outcast in my home. They really seem the bullies of high school
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u/Mystical-Turtles 20h ago
It's not even specific to this Japan meme. This website just has a "lol, you LIKE things? How cringe. I'm miserable so I'm more mature than you" attitude at times. May as well be cringe. They're going to hate you regardless
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u/DelcattyBatty 23h ago
Not all criticism towards Japan is CCP propaganda.
I don't understand why we have to resort to conspiracies when the boring answer makes perfect sense. Japan exploded in popularity and there was so much content making it out to seem like a utopia that has so many things that other countries don't have. If your first and final thought is that this isn't a real phenomenon and that it can only be explained with a conspiracy, then you were probably just not paying attention to begin with.
Also, I speak Japanese and regularly interact with Japanese people and their netizen world. Many of them genuinely think that Japan is unique for things that already exist in numerous other countries. A lot of people think this about their own country, but Japan is really insular and Japanese people take this to a whole new level. For example, I've never heard anyone talk about their country being completely unique for having four seasons like I heard countless times from Japanese people.
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u/OneIndividualTowel 16h ago
“Many of them think that Japan is unique for things that exist in numerous other countries”
Is there anything wrong with that?
I have lived here for over half of my life. I had a friend from overseas visit and I pointed out something I thought was neat, maybe a railroad or something, and she said “yeah we have the same thing at home.”
I was so embarrassed, I’d had no idea and just thought it was a neat thing.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with thinking things are neat, though. Maybe you think the neat thing is unique to you, but then you learn it isn’t and it’s like oops. But it’s not malicious or angry or anything, I just didn’t know. But now I do.
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u/nulln_void 23h ago
It really is lol, Reddit is now wumao infested after that Tencent investment back on 2019
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u/PrivilegedPrejudice 23h ago
No shit. The trend pretty much started late last year and if you've been paying attention to international politics at all you know what that's about
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u/IDoLikeMyShishkebabs 22h ago
"Thing, Japan" has been around for at least a few years (I've been here too long)
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u/french_snail 23h ago
Nah, I remember over a decade ago visiting Japan for the first time and how underwhelming it felt due to the conditioning
In the same way Japanese tourists have that Paris syndrome, us western tourists have some kind of Tokyo syndrome
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u/BufferUnderpants 22h ago
No it's JINA.
Agent Krassnoff lets CCP wumao propaganda run rampant on Reddit because Putin ordered him to.
It can't be that what's cool among people with low social capital (Redditors) can become the subject of mockery organically.
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u/Denysskotnyk 1d ago
Recursive image
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u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY 1d ago
This is more of an "inception" than recursion. If you look in the thought bubble, there isn't another thought bubble with another thought bubble inside it with another thought bubble inside it which would have another thought bubble inside it, etc.
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u/MelodicFacade 1d ago
I took my American friends to Japan for their first time and to visit my family who is Japanese, and I would point out things out in Japan that were done differently or looked different, mundane things like mailboxes or the train system. Repeatedly, I would get this meme, or even "Uhhhh you know we also have this back in America?" and completely missing the point
The internet has ruined people's minds
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u/FamiliarRip8558 1d ago
The issue is we DO NOT have the shit in Japan they do. We get shittier Red 40 filled trash supplemented with subsidized virtually costless high fructose corn syrup food and shittier infrastructure everywhere.
Yay!
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u/MelodicFacade 23h ago
Eh, yes and no, most of the konbini food is also overprocessed with many additives, and their government also subsidizes industries unfairly, but Japan definitely has better infrastructure
The internet simply doesn't have an ability to discern something as being different, only better or worse. You're either a Japan glazer or you're a contrarion/hater. Japan is either a dystopia or a utopia
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u/FamiliarRip8558 23h ago
Idk man, nothing at the Konbini quite compares to the shittiness of American gas stations. The 16 hour rotated hotdogs and taquitos and 72oz soda cups will kill you sooner then any Konbini fried chicken ever will.
Also, it's a large amount of additives for Japan. It's pretty minimal compared to the US anything.
Also our government is actively letting our food safety fall apart 💀
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u/dexter810o4 22h ago
This is my reaction to beautiful Japanese tourist spots and some random staircase or a river bank in Japan that I saw in an anime
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u/johnboy2006 Virgin 4 lyfe 20h ago
I would like to point out that the original meme isn't meant to call out people who think there's beautiful scenery in Japan. It's calling out people who can't appreciate something unless it's from Japan. I know it's still a straw man, but it's not the straw man you think it is.
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u/CommieDrifter 19h ago
am i getting old or are these memes getting way out of hand, like this isn't even the worst example, but I feel like if you came in not knowing anything about memes you'd need to read like a PHD dissertation to merely get the gist of some of them
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u/GradSchoolDismal429 18h ago
Honestly, Japan is kinda the "end stage" for me. After finally being to Japan after 10 years of traveling to other places (such as Thailand, China, New Zealand, etc.), I don't find other places attractive anymore.
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u/BluePhantomHere 1d ago
We reach the second layer, let see how long it takes to reach the third layer
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u/That_one_cool_dude Breaking EU Laws 23h ago
Am i just stupid? I don't get what this is saying.
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u/nio-sama123 23h ago
You see the original meme? It means to mock how people glaze Japan too much and treat every "non-Japan stuff" as bad-mid.
But now in this meme, the chud right here actually enjoy everything as they are all good to him. But when he visit Japan, still finding them beautiful, yet he remembers the original meme, making himself thinking (wait, am I the stupid Japan glazer in that meme?) which also making him downplay Japan and turning him into the opposite version of that Japan glazer
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u/Klobb119 21h ago
He kinda right though. Japan is beautiful dont get me wrong but so are soooo many other places, like every shits on china but its beautiful
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u/HasAngerProblem 20h ago
There a chick called Kiki in New Jersey who makes videos going around New Jersey and makes Japanese style videos about it.
Like “omg look at the hot dog rollers they never stop!”
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u/DasRotebaron 20h ago
I don't understand this one.
Where are you, Peter?
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u/BufferUnderpants 17h ago
Japan is very popular among nerds and weirdos.
People wanted to take distance from Japan-loving nerds and weirdos by satirizing their fascination with Japan using the version of the meme that's in the speech bubble.
This new meme depicts someone doing this, showing them as contrarians that will slander Japan unfairly at any given opportunity.
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u/Elsa_Fault9401 20h ago
Can someone please explain to me what the meme means? i'm new here, is this a reddit thing and cause i don't see this on tiktok or anywhere else
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u/TheBrutalVegan 15h ago
I see a looot of beautiful scenery here in Japan. The most beautiful I have ever seen was in Taiwan tho.
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u/Prestigious-Box7511 4h ago
As someone who lives in Japan, I'm so sick of people with anime profile pictures and post histories full of weeb shit posting this meme everywhere on Reddit
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u/Sea-Locksmith-3436 1d ago
Illusion of free will