Yakiu no Onii-chan

Yakiu no Onii-chan (やきうのお兄ちゃん, lit. “Baseball Lad”) is a unique AA character representing 2channel's /livejupiter/ board. He's an orange barbarian, designed like a picture scroll caricature, that represented the /livebase/ users who took over /livejupiter/ in May 2009.

He speaks in a strange Kansai dialect called the Ferocious Tiger dialect (猛虎弁, Mokoben) and despite his casual-friendly name, he's actually quite barbaric and tends to go over the line. As a one-line kaomoji, his eyes and hair is shown as such: 彡(ﾟ)(ﾟ). As a full-body character, his eyes pop out like a fish, but he doesn't have a fixed head or body size, so he can range from being 2 heads tall to 8 heads tall.

History

On May 13, 2009, /livebase/ refugees fleeing harsh board regulations took over /livejupiter/ and one Shobon native exclaimed “Baseball lads, get out of 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！, Yakiu no oniichan-tachi wa bokura no himitsu kichi kara dete itte yo!), thus naming them.¹⁾ As for design, the concept emerged in late 2010.²⁾

Text artwork

彡(ﾟ)(ﾟ)
彡(^)(^)
彡(ﾟ)(^)
彡(-)(-)
彡()()
彡(｡)(；)
彡(●)(●)

 　 　 i⌒i
　　　|　|　　　(ﾟ)(ﾟ)
　　　|　|　　彡　　と
　　 　| |　＿ﾉ　　　ー､
　　　（ミ)、　　　　!ﾌ　/
　　　￠＼二二二__ノ　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ﾎﾟｲｯ
　　　　　　|　　　 /　　　　　　　　　　　　　 ◯ ⌒　⊂(・ω・`)、
　　　 　／ ソ⌒ 、ヽ　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ヽ　　と)
　　　　(　< 　　　ヽ　）　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　｀ｕ-ｕ'
　　　⊂＿）　　　（＿つ

Notes

During the mid-2010s, Yakiu no Onii-chan was added to an image of The Simpsons.
- This association with The Simpsons would strengthen after the Western internet discovered him in 2021. Somebody tried naming him “Weird Matt”,³⁾ but most people called him “Gumbly Simpson” and began pretending that he was always apart of the show.⁴⁾⁵⁾⁶⁾ Then in 2022, social media users spread a false rumor that Graggle Simpson was always his name.⁷⁾⁸⁾⁹⁾¹⁰⁾