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2ch /poverty/
The Breaking News (Kenmo) (ニュース速報(嫌儲), Nyūsu Sokuhō Kenmō) board is a 2channel board that was created on December 28, 2007, in response to debates over affiliate blogs that would commercialize /news4vip/ threads for profit with the original users receiving no cut.
It would grow to be one of the more popular boards by the early 2010s, though it isn't quite fast as the users are generally considered more mature. At some point, users were once known to make scripts intended to spam affiliate blogs and boards with said infestation.
History
2007–2010
The rise of affiliate blogs for /news4vip/ became a point of contention, with people arguing that they ruined /news4vip/ by attracting newcomers, doctoring threads, were profiting by commercializing other people's posts, and even started a skirmish between /news/ and /news4vip/. In response, Hiroyuki would disregard the intentions of those against them and spun /news4vip/ off into /poverty/ on December 28, 2007.1)2)
Shortly after its creation, users autonomously voted to ban reprinting to strike down any affiliate blogs that emerged, flaming said blog owners to shut it down. It's said that the board was fairly populated, but began slowing down by the end of the decade. Most early immigrants were /news/ users who migrated since /news/ couldn't handle the thread3) or the server died.4)
2011–2014
The first notable strife against affiliate blogs was with /anime4vip/'s “Anime DVD and Blu-Ray Sales Watch Thread” around October 19, 2011,5) but the first major strife involved an affiliate blog discovered to have connections with Shaft on January 1, 2012,6) resulting in a mass migration from /news/ to /poverty/ around January 9, 20127) and what seemed to be the beginning of an all-out war against affiliate blogs.8)
With the 2ch Viewer Leak of 2013, more people stood up against affiliate blogs as you now had the ethical dilemma of affiliate blogs commercializing leaked personal information with post histories. Then in 2014, a massive multi-level marketing operation was unveiled by /livejupiter/,9) contributing to their swift, site-wide ban of reprinting after NTTEC hijacked 2channel.
2014–
In 2015, NTTEC changed the API storage method and controversially forced dedicated browser developers to de-anonymize themselves to “Jane, Inc.”,10) so some of its users moved to /r/newsokur on Reddit.11) During the COVID-19 pandemic, they were eager to critique Japan's response. They've also become a lot chipper following the sudden resignation of prime minister Shinzo Abe on August 28, 2020.12)
Glossary
Kenmō (Kencho)
The “Kenmō” (
Some believe that critique of the Black Lives Matter movement and Twitter feminists contradicts the claim that they are leftists, but I'd argue that similar anti-reactionary stances are shared by Leftypol. Despite this, far-right Netouyo and reactionaries call them “Chonmomen” (チョンモメン) after the ethnic slur, blindly insisting that they must all be non-Japanese Koreans which is meant to be an insult.14)
Self-derogatory insults
- Jap (ジャップ, Jappu) - An abbreviation that is now an ethnic slur, more offensive than Nip.15) It's believe that it caught on in /poverty/ around May 24, 2010.16)
- JAAAAAAAAAAAP lmaooo (ジャアアアアアアアアアアアップ wwwwwww) - A simple variant.
- Jap Land (ジャップランド, Jappu Rando) - American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer was detained in Japan over a revoked United States passport for an unofficial rematch in Yugoslavia, so he angrily said “fucking Jap land” and “filthy country”17)18) before escaping to Iceland.19)
- Medieval (中世, Chūsei) - An UNCAT session in May 2013 saw the Mauritius delegate calling Japan's justice system “medival”, so Japan's ambassador Hideaki Ueda insisted it was “advanced”, but people laughed so he told them to “shut up”.20)21)22)23) He later resigned.24)
- Medieval Jap Land (中世ジャップランド, Chūsei Jappu Rando) - A variant combining the two.
- East Korea (東朝鮮, Azuma Chōsen) - A derogatory nickname for Japan that emerged during the big reprinting ban in 2014, likely meant to anger the far-right Netouyo.
- Elite Citizens (上級国民, Jōkyū Kokumin) - In the 2020 Olympics' logo plagiarism scandal, Toshirō Mutō said “general citizens” (一般国民, ippan kokumin),25) implicating the existence of “non-general citizens”, so users began to ironically call the Olympic authority, “elite citizens”. This term later evolved to refer to celebrities, officials, politicians, wealthy people, the bourgeoisie, etc.
- Tyon (テョン) - Racist graffiti often feature the word “Chon” (チョン), but “chi” (チ) can be written as “te” (テ) if done too fast. Some Zainichi Koreans have ironically adopted this typo.
Miscellaneous terms
- Honto Kore (ほんとこれ) - It means “this is true”, but can be misread as “book and this”. In short, it's the equivalent of saying “↑ this” (agreement) in an online discussion.
Notes
- In contrast to /news4vip/ and /livejupiter/, it's believed that /poverty/ users are significantly older.
- To reflect this, the (ヽ´ん`) kaomoji represent the middle-aged residents' antics and grief.
- With /news4vip/'s decline, /livejupiter/ and /poverty/ are said to have a friendly youth-elder rivalry.
External links
- NewSoku (Kenmo) - The front page of 2channel's /poverty/ board.
- Breaking News (Kenmo) on the Niconico Encyclopedia
- Breaking News (Kenmo) Board on 2channel's Wiki
- NewSoku (Kenmo) on Japanese Wikipedia
- NewSoku (Kenmo) on Namu Wiki [KO]
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