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2ch /poverty/

The Nyūsu Sokuhō(Breaking News) (Kenmō) (ニュース速報(嫌儲)) board is the 2channel board that was created on December 28, 2007, initially in response to criticism that /news4vip/ should not be commodified by affiliate-funded VIP blogs if none of the profits go to the users who wrote the posts.

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 'kenmō(anti-profit)' (嫌儲(けんもう)), or 'kencho' (嫌儲(けんちょ)), is a pun on 'kenkan(anti-Korean)' (嫌韓(けんかん)) that surfaced in /news4vip/'s earliest wars against affiliate-funded VIP blogs in 2006.1) As a collective, they're called the 'Kenmōmin' (嫌儲民) or 'Kenmomen' (ケンモメン). They often exhibit 'anti-capitalist' and 'anti-establishment' ideals, which is why they are frequently disparaged as 'communists', 'socialists', or 'leftists' by the more reactionary boards.

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.

  • Jap (ジャップ) - A highly offensive slur at the Japanese13) that caught on in 2010.14)
    • 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.
  • The old board banner was a parody of Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People.23)

  (*´ん`)  *cough*
  ( つ旦O
  と_)_)
2)
"【news】ニュース速報運用情報73【ν】" (December 28, 2007). 2channel /operate/.
3)
"新板をねだるスレ@運用情報◆33" (December 28, 2007). 2channel /operate/.
4)
In 2010, the NHK-FM radio program, Kyou wa Ichinichi '○○' Zanmai, revisited 'anime songs' for their 64th broadcast on May 5, 2010, but /news/ wasn't able to keep up, so there was some overflow to /poverty/. Then on July 7, 2010, the /news/ server had issues, so some users went to /poverty/. Both of these events are unremarkable now, but did bring some activity to /poverty/ that lingered for a bit.
5)
According to the thread's wiki, they apparently held Thread #5833 to Thread #15200 on /poverty/, but eventually decided to move back once the ban on reprinting became sitewide in 2014.
7)
At the time, /poverty/ users were script bombing /news/ so much, the administration required users to have “BE” accounts at a certain level on /news/.
8)
This event is generally called the “2014 Kopipe Blog Continuous Flaming Scandal” (2014年コピペブログ連続炎上騒動), but may also be known as the “Katahira Uproar” (片平騒動) or “Affi Uproar” (アフィ騒動).
13)
"Let's shout "Jap" repeatedly." (February 20, 2015). Reddit /r/newsokur.
16)
"Good Morning Reykjavík" (April 8, 2005). The Reykjavík Grapevine.
23)
"嫌儲のロゴ作ってやったぞ" (January 11, 2012). 2channel /poverty/.
2ch_poverty.txt · Last modified: 2025-02-23 00:23:34 by namelessrumia