YouTuber commits crimes in Japan for views

Nope, it's already been removed by YouTube lol

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And also, s/ if.*/./

A lot of streamers have made a name for themselves by being assholes in Japan. Because you largely have the British "if I ignore this buffoon they will go away" coupled with racist "ha ha, they said ching chong ching" bullshit if someone does confront the youtuber.

Ludwig/Mogul Mail has a good video about some dipshit who would run up and say "hiroshima nagasaki" to people who eventually got his ass beat, repeatedly, and was arrested. But the norm is that Japanese folk just want to move on with their day and hope the asshole leaves them alone after a minute or so. Although, I want to say that also somehow became one of Lud's love letters to (deranged wannabe rapist) ishowspeed, so... yeah.

Also, while I don't watch the assholes, I have seen mention of a lot more IRL streamers who are hoping they can get into a video (or just have footage of) the more popular streamers ever since OTV included a chance meeting with (Anime with) Alvin Zhou during one of their recent Japan videos. And lots of other streamers and youtubers have been making Japan content since basically everyone with patreon cash in the US were annoyed we couldn't go to Japan for like two years of COVID

On a serious note though, why anyone do this, in Japan of all places, and think it would make for a good Youtube video?

Well, it got shared here, didn't it? We're all engaging in it, driving ad revenue. (Or, would be, had it not been removed)

think it would make for a good Youtube video?

Because it does, for a certain definition of "good". It's blatant ragebait and OP swallowed it whole, then felt like sharing. That's exactly how it's intended to work and OP is either in on it or was played like a fiddle.

We have them often begging or selling stuff in tourist spot in Malaysia, and we call them Begpacker, because that's what they are.

panhandling and cheating drivers out of their fare lol

If only they've tried it with a guy called Taichi Suzuki. If only.

If you want to watch a similar experience that doesn't ruin other people's days, I recommend checking out Vagrant Holiday's videos! The guy tries to spend the least amount of money possible while traveling without being an asshole. he's even done a video in Japan! I should really binge his stuff again

I don’t know how anyone thought this was a good idea for a video.

The dumber and more infuriating a video is, the higher the chance that viewers will start arguing with each other and/or the creator, and share links offsite to show others just HOW dumb and infuriating the video is. It's the entire point of Rage Bait to be as obnoxious as possible to make people interact with the video in one way or another, because the creator gets "paid per click" in ad revenue. It doesn't matter to those people whether the comments are actually civil discussions or literally every youtuber just commented "f- you!", because both are worth one click = same amount of cash. Sharing links offsite is free advertisement on top of that.

Long story short, it is deliberate. And the best way to deal with those is to report and ignore them.

I love the way he says it's like an action movie, like I'm just imagining what kind of boring ass action movie that would be, sitting on a toilet pretending to shit for 2 hours 💀 (watched Penguinz0 video didn't support original)

That was kind of adorable lol

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