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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Cromalin@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

imagine if you learned that japanese twitter was full of baffling memes about jfk that required a specific context that doesn't exist anywhere in america

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 100 points 10 months ago

Shinzo Abe must be spinning in his grave knowing people are out here trying to understand anglo memes instead of having sex

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 58 points 10 months ago

the funniest thing about these memes is i'm like 90% sure abe wasn't even that big on the birth rate thing, or at least not in the way that he was portrayed in all these memes

like, he was a conservative politician so i'm sure it bugged him but i don't think he was connected to any of the big things that the memes ascribed to him

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago

Modern politicians are cowards, he should've had FDR style fireside chats encouraging people to fuck.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

ギャットをぶつけるなさい

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago

Very clear evidence the Japanese people are confounded by these simple instructions tbh, they even released an official statement

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 90 points 10 months ago

Sometimes I wonder about people from non english speaking counties coming across hexbear and being like cat-confused

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 87 points 10 months ago

I had this for Lemmygrad but it's the same thing, I was wondering why the fuck a bunch of gay western communists were replying to my comments with "inshallah" and "mashallah"

[-] VHS@hexbear.net 94 points 10 months ago
[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

Why you have to come for me like that?!

kitty-cri-screm

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[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 61 points 10 months ago

Gay western communists can have a little Islam, as a treat

[-] BovineUniversity@hexbear.net 73 points 10 months ago

Most English speakers coming across hexbear would be like cat-confused

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 58 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Like the obelisk and apes scene from 2001 but from the perspective of the obelisk

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hexbear isn't in English, it's in Maoist chronically online vernacular

[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 10 months ago

In most of Europe we do have a similar internet culture. Although, Hexbear is quite US centered

[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

The European internet culture is people who are fluent in English hanging out on the Anglo internet and then doing the same things as there two years later.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 73 points 10 months ago

honestly it's probably a good thing that japanese people see as little of what english speaking twitter users say about them as possible

[-] SkibidiToiletFanAcct@hexbear.net 64 points 10 months ago

our memes can get a bit obtuse also:

[-] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 47 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile in China they have "The Good Doctor" memes for some reason

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 50 points 10 months ago

If it's specifically the scene where the white doctor is throwing a tantrum and the Asian doctor is sitting in a chair barely reacting, I can see how that can be a meme for when the west throws a tantrum

[-] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I google it and it seems to just be a generally memed show, i think your thing is more the english version?

"Amputate everything below the neck" is the caption

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago
[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Coincidentally I was talking to one of my Chinese doctor friends who works in the West and she said that basicly the same thing happened to her but with a Neurotypical colleague. To quote her: "He's not doing that because he's autistic. Hes doing that because he's white."

[-] voight@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

I feel like something about that guy's performance in Good Doctor should be punishable by law but maybe I'm a self hating autistic

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Because the actor's prbly screwed up his job or he intentionally type-cased the protagonist, "the Good Doctor", as ebil or unintentionally malicious for some reason...

I think it's gotta do with that episode with the autistic patient character....

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 46 points 10 months ago

The first pic is from some meeting between him and Putin. Putin asks who’s in charge of transportation and Xì replies with “the ministry of transportation” and Putin just nods lol

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago

yamagami アドベンチャーくん❤️

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 36 points 10 months ago
[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago

lmao

his name is tetsuya, you don't need to call him adventure-kun

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

Didn't know you were on a first name basis with him lol

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[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

Japan is the one place you wouldn't ever have to say "NEED A DISPENSA HEA"

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 43 points 10 months ago
[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 41 points 10 months ago

Donezo Byebye the-doohickey

[-] pudcollar@hexbear.net 35 points 10 months ago
[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago
[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 66 points 10 months ago

ok so shinzo abe, the former prime minister of japan had a reputation in some english speaking anime circles as a man obsessed with japan's birthrate (which is obviously a very fascist thing to be obsessed with) that started when wild stuff like darling in the franxx got made. there were a couple shows that had major plot threads about people learning the great power of heterosexual marriage and sex and procreation. so people made memes about him secretly sponsoring anime to try and get the youth to fuck without birth control. he was a conservative politician who definitely cared about the birthrate but this became his defining trait among some weebs, and every time an anime came out that had a cute kid in it people accused him of having his fingers on it.

when he died people had a field day with it as it related to this, and the pictured meme is a reference to cowboy bebop. it's like an in memoriam thing for him, where he's telling the viewer to have sex in reference to the popular perception of him. naturally if you aren't in western anime spaces that were constantly making jokes about "imma be real with you 57th prime minister of japan shinzo abe, this will not solve japan's declining birth rate" every new anime season when a show showed a happy family it would make no sense. this does include japanese people, who seem very confused by this long trail of memes about the former prime minister of japan

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

This was already funny without the explanation, but it's nice to understand what I'm laughing about

[-] flan@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

i mean darling in the franxx is so absurdly horny what other conclusion can you draw other than it being a government conspiracy

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

And not just horny to an absurd degree, but horny in the most absurd ways.

Mecha are piloted doggy style

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[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

it also went from a plot that was clearly headed for revolution to something weird and nonsensical really abruptly, like the studio got told no you can't air that, around episode 15 or so

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

obsessed with japan's birthrate (which is obviously a very fascist thing to be obsessed with)

White people try not to be obsessed with East Asian birth rates challenge (Impossible).

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Ha! Thanks for tying it together for me! I get a lot of the stuff surrounding it. But the space cowboy piece sent my mind to Steve Miller Band's Joker! 🤣

Also, rest in piss, bozo.

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

i am literally always happy to explain things. they call me the explainer

all i can think of with steve miller band joker is

Some--
People call me the space cowboy
(wicky wicky)
(wicky wicky) Cowboy
Wicky wicky wow, wicky wow, wicky wicky
Wild Wild Wild Wild Wild West
Desperado, Rough Rider

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[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

that started when wild stuff like darling in the franxx got made.

I remember seein' Shinzo Abe birth rate memes as far back as 2014 when this slap banger dropped comfy-cool

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[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Abe had raising the birthrate from 1.4 per woman to 1.8 as one of his policies.

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