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Cromalin [she/her] @hexbear.net

1y ago

lmao jp twitter is confused by shinzo abe memes

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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Shinzo Abe must be spinning in his grave knowing people are out here trying to understand anglo memes instead of having sex
- 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
  
  Modern politicians are cowards, he should've had FDR style fireside chats encouraging people to fuck.
- Very clear evidence the Japanese people are confounded by these simple instructions tbh, they even released an official statement

Sometimes I wonder about people from non english speaking counties coming across hexbear and being like
- 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"
  
  Gay western communists can have a little Islam, as a treat
- Most English speakers coming across hexbear would be like
- Like the obelisk and apes scene from 2001 but from the perspective of the obelisk
- Hexbear isn't in English, it's in Maoist chronically online vernacular
- In most of Europe we do have a similar internet culture. Although, Hexbear is quite US centered
  
  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.

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

our memes can get a bit obtuse also:
- Meanwhile in China they have "The Good Doctor" memes for some reason
  
  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
  
  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....
- 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

アドベンチャーくん❤️
- lmao
  his name is tetsuya, you don't need to call him adventure-kun
  
  Didn't know you were on a first name basis with him lol
- Japan is the one place you wouldn't ever have to say "NEED A DISPENSA HEA"

Abe

Donezo Byebye

I don't get it...
- 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
  
  This was already funny without the explanation, but it's nice to understand what I'm laughing about
  
  i mean darling in the franxx is so absurdly horny what other conclusion can you draw other than it being a government conspiracy
  
  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).
  
  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
  
  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.
  
  Shinzo Abe sucked and was a piece of shit for a ton of reasons, but if you're running a country with declining, non-replacement birth rates, being concerned about it isn't "very fascist."
- Abe had raising the birthrate from 1.4 per woman to 1.8 as one of his policies.

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