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The story
During the charity marathon segment of “24-Hour TV 49,” broadcast August 29–30, actress Mari Hoshino completed her 80km run, but just before reaching the finish line near Ryogoku Kokugikan, a man in a light-blue T-shirt burst in front of the cameras holding up a placard. The man turned out to be a “nuisance YouTuber” with around 450 subscribers, and reports say his stated motive came off as self-serving. On 5ch, opinions split between those praising him for exposing TV’s phoniness and those dismissing it as a self-promotional stunt for content, with some also pointing out lax road permits and security.
Mon, Aug 31, 11:51 AM
During the charity marathon segment of “24-Hour TV 49,” broadcast August 29–30, Mari Hoshino successfully completed her full 80km run. At the finish line she was greeted by her daughter Fuka, who has a disability, and the live broadcast ended in tears.
But right before the finish, the marathon saw what’s practically become a tradition: a broadcast-disrupting “interruption.” With Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan in sight, a man wearing a light-blue charity T-shirt jumped in front of the cameras holding up a placard.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Why not, though?
He showed the kids there's more to it than pretty words.
it's not some noble cause at all,
he just did it for the money.
Re: #22
"A patriot," huh.
Gross.
which one's actually worse?
The embezzlement case has already been settled in court.
The broadcast interruption is still ahead.
Apparently he's a "nuisance YouTuber" type 💦
https://imgur.com/rpcn0PN.png
Guess that makes him a "nuisance" to Nippon TV specifically lol
The "Ohtani-san, zero yen donated" jab was hilarious lol
Not funny, just annoying 😡 go do that somewhere else 💢
Though suing would just spread this story even further, so they probably won't.
There's no way they got a permit to actually stop pedestrians, when you think about it.
If someone insists on walking through, there's no way to stop them.
Sue him for what exactly? lol
Stating a plain fact isn't a crime.
Just ask to see their permit.
If they won't show it, call the police — occupying public roads without a permit is illegal.
And even if they do show a permit, it almost certainly doesn't grant them the right to stop pedestrians, so that's the angle to push.
Guess you fight poison with poison, as they say.
There's a troll on some other thread who says stuff exactly like that and gets shunned for it.
I don't like that kind of reasoning, can't accept it.
For safety they should really run the marathon in a closed loop inside a track. Nippon TV can't even manage basic safety for their talent.
He probably interrupted it as a protest against Nippon TV for continuing to air this kind of show.
That kind of thing happens a lot overseas.
There's no "protest" angle to this at all.
He's just a streamer looking for content.
Same as a toddler screaming and crying, or someone blasting a hysterically loud engine from their bike or car.
Isn't cruising slowly down a public road for no reason just as bizarre a behavior, though?
If you're gonna demand meaning from this guy,
demand it from 24-Hour TV too.
They're both doing it for themselves.
Nippon TV does the same self-serving song and dance with their excuses every single year too.
Rumor has it the appearance fee is something like 10 million yen.
They had her secretly training for six months beforehand — no way the fee is a mere 10 million yen.
TV variety shows aren't much different, honestly.
Seeing a YouTuber I subscribed to back when they were in the low hundreds now have around 430,000 subscribers still makes me happy.
Not like I had anything to do with it lol
Can't just let it go.
Appreciate the damage control, Mr. Embezzler.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The 24-Hour TV charity marathon’s finish-line staging and security setup have long been a recurring talking point every year, and this kind of interruption isn’t unprecedented either. This time, the debate centered less on whether the act itself was right or wrong and more on whether his motive was legitimate — some saw it as a pure attention-grabbing content stunt, others as an act exposing television’s hypocrisy. There’s also the little-known legal question of how far filming on public roads can actually restrict pedestrians’ rights, and 5ch showed some confusion over whether a permit was even in place. It’s also easy to overlook that the label “nuisance YouTuber” itself doesn’t necessarily correlate subscriber count with actual real-world influence.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “’24-Hour TV’ marathon ‘placard interrupter’ is a ‘nuisance YouTuber with 450 subscribers,’ explains self-serving motive.”
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