Yakiu no Onii-chan

Yakiu no Onii-chan (やきうのお兄ちゃん) is an AA character, resembling this yellow-orange barbarian in the style of a picture scroll, since their design came from a user-submitted picture scroll that would be uploaded on December 12, 2010.¹⁾ At the time, it represented /livejupiter/ users.

Brief history

During the /livebase/–/livejupiter/ migration on May 13, 2009, one of those /livejupiter/ natives replied “Yakiu no Onii-chan, leave our hideout!” (やきうのお兄ちゃん達は僕らの秘密基地から出ていってよ！) and the rest is history.²⁾ Then on December 12, 2010, a user illustrates the 'NanJ Invasion Picture Scroll' (なんJ侵略絵巻)³⁾ which show the cucumber-worshiping Shobon being subjugated by the baseball bat-wielding barbarians.

Summary

The character is barbaric, despite his friendly name, and speaks with a 'Ferocious Tiger' dialect, which actually mocks Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers fans. As a full-body character, his eyes often pop out like a fish, but he doesn't have a fixed head or body size, so he typically ranges from being 2–8 heads tall. As a one-line kaomoji, the character is reduced to his hair and bulging eyes.

Text artwork

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Graggle Simpson

'Graggle Simpson', also known as 'Gumbly Simpson' or 'Weird Matt', is an internet meme and hoax which pretends that Yakiu no Onii-chan was apart of The Simpsons. Some 4chan user writes the 'Weird Matt' creepypasta in 2021,⁴⁾ then Twitter users joked that 'Gumbly Simpson' was being shoehorned in,⁵⁾⁶⁾⁷⁾ then the rest of social media collectively decided his name was 'Graggle Simpson' in May 2022.⁸⁾⁹⁾¹⁰⁾¹¹⁾