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2ch /poverty/
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Over time, this line of thinking resonated with a lot of users that /poverty/ gradually became one of the more popular boards by the 2010s, yet it's notably slower as the userbase is considerably mature, not as reactionary, and hypothetical bots would be de-incentivized.
Etymology
The term '
It should also be noted that this brand of 'left-wing politics' on /poverty/ is somewhat similar to Leftypol, since they do openly criticize Black Lives Matter and Twitter-brand feminism as reactionary movements. Of course, far-right netouyo and reactionaries never care about this sort of nuance, insisting that they must be 'non-Japanese Koreans' or calling them 'Chonmomen' (チョンモメン).
History
2007–2010
Around 2006 to 2007, affiliate-funded VIP blogs were becoming a point of contention on /news4vip/ as users believed they attract newcomers, manipulate threads, and ultimately profited off their community's posts. It even resulted in a /news/–/news4vip/ skirmish. This would eventually result in Hiroyuki setting up /poverty/ on December 28, 2007,2)3) where reprinting was autonomously banned as quickly as they could.
2010–2020
However, /poverty/ had primarily been a /news/ refuge,4) until they worked with /anime4vip/'s “Anime DVD and Blu-Ray Sales Watch Thread” against summary blogs around October 19, 2011.5) Then in 2012, /news/ had discovered that Shaft allegedly had ties to a summary blog,6) triggering a massive migration of /news/ users to /poverty/ by January 9, 2012, fighting against shill behavior on /news/.7)
With the 2ch Viewer Leak of 2013, a huge ethical reason to be against summary blogs had surfaced, as users became concerned about leaked information and post histories being reduced to 'internet drama' despite the severity of the situation. Then in 2014, /livejupiter/ allegedly exposed a big multi-level marketing operation,8) which helped sentiments that NTTEC should install a site-wide 'reprinting' ban after the takeover.
In 2015, 2channel had a strange situation where Hiroyuki was slamming the API and actively stealing threads for his clone, so NTTEC changed the API storage method, but forced all dedicated browser developers to deanonymize themselves to get access9) which goes against the website's ethos of anonymity. This would lead to a small migration to the /r/newsokur subreddit on Reddit.10)
2020–
The beginning of the 2020s marked a high for 'anti-establishment' sentiments as the COVID-19 pandemic response came under criticism, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had suddenly retired on August 28, 2020,11) the Japanese Yen was falling, then Shinzo Abe had been assassinated12) and public sentiments on Jimintō had seriously started to wane with the party's slush fund scandal amongst other issues.
Glossary
Be warned that most of this is self-derogatory Japanese insults.
These will carry a different connotation if you aren't Japanese and aren't with people who are openly critical of the Japanese government.
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- JAAAAAAAAAAAP lmaooo (ジャアアアアアアアアアアアップ wwwwwww) - Another example of this.
- Jap Land (ジャップランド) - Statesian grandmaster Bobby Fischer was detained in Japan because the United States revoked his passport for an unofficial 1992 rematch in Yugoslavia, so Fischer angrily shouted “fucking Jap land” and “filthy country”15)16) before Iceland took him in.17)
- Medieval (中世, Chūsei) - In the May 2013 UNCAT session, Domah from Mauritius commented that Japan's justice system was 'medieval', so Hideaki Ueda insisted that it was 'advanced', which got laughed at, and he ended up telling the room 'don't laugh!' and 'shut up!'.18)19)20) He later resigned.21)
- Medieval Jap Land (中世ジャップランド, Chūsei Jappu Rando) - An extension of the two insults.
- East Korea (東朝鮮, Azuma Chōsen) - A derogatory nickname for Japan which emerged during the big reprinting ban in 2014, likely to anger the far-right Netouyo as they're predictably Koryophobic.
- Elite Citizens (上級国民, Jōkyū Kokumin) - The Tokyo 2020 Olympics' logo plagiarism scandal saw Toshirō Mutō say 'general citizens' (一般国民),22) implying the existence of 'non-general citizens', so it became a joke that the Olympic authority were 'elite citizens', like the bourgeoisie.
- Tyon (テョン) - The anti-Korean slur, Chon (チョン), can easily be miswritten if the vandal rushes and writes 'cho' (チョ) as 'tyo' (テョ). It's like the 'right-wingers can't draw a swastika' joke.
- Honto Kore (ほんとこれ) - This means 'this is true' (agreement), but can be misread as 'book and this'.
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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