This is an interesting topic but reporting on what some random people typed or clicked on social media is such a shallow basis for news. It's a subjective narrative of a subjective trend.
This is somewhat of a pet peeve for me, I'm getting really tired of both narratives this article discusses online. The internet is flooded with posts either calling Japan a perfect place, or posts that smugly call out the previous type by calling Japan a horrible hellscape. Both of them are making the same mistake: not realizing that Japan is just a place. Even those in the backlash are still falling prey to the same exceptionalism that they're trying to satirize. Every post I see on the topic of Japan makes me lose more hope for the ability of the internet to have a nuanced opinion.
Every place has good and bad, things you’ll like and identify with, things you’ll find fascinating, others you’ll find confusing, and a fair amount of hellscapes. The trick is to find a place you can fall in love with that’ll love you back.
In Brazil “US glazing” was very popular and, in many groups, still is. I’m not sure how it is now, but up to 10 years ago it was annoying.
This is an interesting topic but reporting on what some random people typed or clicked on social media is such a shallow basis for news. It's a subjective narrative of a subjective trend.
One good thing about the destruction of Twitter was that there were less of these "some 'people' on the Internet are mad about a thing" articles.
This is somewhat of a pet peeve for me, I'm getting really tired of both narratives this article discusses online. The internet is flooded with posts either calling Japan a perfect place, or posts that smugly call out the previous type by calling Japan a horrible hellscape. Both of them are making the same mistake: not realizing that Japan is just a place. Even those in the backlash are still falling prey to the same exceptionalism that they're trying to satirize. Every post I see on the topic of Japan makes me lose more hope for the ability of the internet to have a nuanced opinion.
Every place has good and bad, things you’ll like and identify with, things you’ll find fascinating, others you’ll find confusing, and a fair amount of hellscapes. The trick is to find a place you can fall in love with that’ll love you back.