{"id":12766,"date":"2011-02-07T10:52:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T01:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=12766"},"modified":"2011-02-07T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T01:52:57","slug":"japanese-web-community-as-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/japanese-web-community-as-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Web Community As Person"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gijinka (anthropomorphization) is what Japanese anime\/manga people love, and it often passes the language barriers.
\nOn giant anonymous bulletin board 2-channel, some amateur cartoonists seemed to vie in their personification sense<\/a> [J].
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\n2-channel: They know who they are well. derision for everything is their basic attitude.
\nNico Nico (Douga)<\/a>: Hatsune Miku<\/a>, young girls’ livestream on Nico Nico Namahousou, people distantly watching her
\nMixi: typical host men image, drinks and smokes. implies how 2-channeller look down the current mainstream Mixi users
\nHatsugen Komachi<\/a>: another gigantic discussion board occupied by Japanese housewives. it is said that everything is driven by jealousy there.
\nHatena: Japanese geeks community. well-schooled, critics (from Japanese average), who think (only) they are logical
\nPixiv<\/a>: Social illustration site boasting millions of amateur (and pro) illustrator members
\nDifferent from deviantART’s one (see below), this person is given an introverted personality. Beret is a symbol of the father of Japanese manga Osamu Tezuka<\/a>, often used to draw professional cartoonist and wannabe.
\nFutaba<\/a>: The origin of 4chan
\nFutaba added image upload feature on 2-channel<\/a>-like bulletin boards, then moot made an English version. Futaba’s domain name is 2chan.net, 2-channel is 2ch.net if you are confused.
\nThis Futaba’s character must be copied from 4-chan’s one. See below.
\nYahoo! Chiebukuro: Japanese Yahoo! Answers, though US Yahoo! Answers were made after seeing the Chiebukuro’s success
\nNet-savvies are irritated with never-ending dorky questions and useless answers.
\nMobage-Town: possible Japan’s No.1 social network<\/a> is full of games
\n2-channellers seem to believe that some use the social network as a dating site to find high-school girls.
\nEnglish social services were personified before, you might know,<\/p>\n

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\nYajiuma Watch tells that those personifications might be inspired by this<\/a>. [J]<\/p>\n

See Also:<\/h3>\n

Asiajin \u00bb Q&A: What\u2019s The Japanese Equivalent Of [enter foreign web service here]?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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