From our other sites
The story
Daisuke Hori, who advocates a “30-minute sleep” method and reportedly sells his own sleep technique as a paid course, started a livestream showing his “everyday life” exactly as it is. But just days into the broadcast, he began showing signs of distress, prompting a wave of comments on 5ch such as “Hasn’t he supposedly kept this up for 17 years — why call it a failure now?” and “Isn’t being watched on a livestream itself an abnormal situation, not really ‘everyday life’?” A post claiming a lawyer once called him a scammer also went viral, and many comments questioned the credibility of his course altogether.
What people said
This is exactly the kind of ugly excuse-making everyone was hoping for
Especially if he was tense from doing an unfamiliar livestream, that'd make it even worse
that kind of abnormal tension means there's no time to relax, so there's no way he could live like normal
It'd be a letdown if it just fizzled out quietly
Isn't it just his daily life?
seeing him in this sorry state, nobody's gonna want to live that way
https://x.com/kinnikuben/status/2099384545602883973?s=46&t=sAKYa9fvTz1TqcUvOWiSWQ
Guess all he can do is "cry himself to sleep" over this one (a pun on sleep/giving up quietly)
↑ Not very funny for a big-shot liberal-arts lawyer
Ignoring him would've worked best… but here we are, ugh
They say a lot of people are just angling for refunds — wonder how true that is
I think he should just get banned
He's probably the one who wants to get banned the most (for the extra attention)
Why is everyone suddenly calling it a "failure"?
He's taken the stance of "well then, YOU try sleeping 30 minutes a day!"
It was supposed to just be a stream of his daily life, but apparently it turned into a brutal challenge for him
He's been selling this exact method as an absurdly expensive course, and now he's saying "you try it" lol
His brain's not working right anymore 🤔
He's the one who's been marketing "30-minute sleep" himself — getting defensive about it now is on him
Wait, it costs 150,000 yen?
I figured it'd be more like 20,000 yen tops
Could this actually end up being treated as fraud?
Given how much attention this is getting, lawyers might start soliciting plaintiffs on their own
right now he's literally just standing there
I feel like he's missing the point there too.
The idea is supposed to be "cut your sleep safely with this method,"
then use that freed-up time efficiently for something else.
If you cut your sleep and just end up stumbling around dazed, what was the point?
Hezuma (a notorious Japanese "nuisance YouTuber") survives because he keeps causing scandals over and over, even getting arrested for it.
Does anyone even remember any of the other controversy-bait YouTubers?
Is "it's the victim's own fault for getting scammed!" really a valid defense lol
With stuff like cancer folk remedies or sleep problems, it's not just the person themselves — people around them get desperate too and grasp at straws trying to fix it.
You shouldn't lump that in with people who fall for "get rich quick" info-courses — it's a different kind of vulnerability
Background and Key Points of This Story
Daisuke Hori is known for advocating “30-minute sleep” and reportedly selling his own sleep method as a paid course, with thread posts putting the price at 150,000 yen. This livestream appears to have been meant to show that his lifestyle isn’t anything unusual, but by showing signs of distress right after it began, it instead ended up fueling doubts about whether his course actually works. Some pointed out that a livestream — a constantly monitored, far-from-normal environment — isn’t really a fair way to test “everyday life” in the first place, and opinions remain divided over what caused the failure. Note that the claims that he’s a scammer and the revenue figures mentioned here all come from forum posts and quotes of outside posts, and have not been independently confirmed.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread: “[Good News] Daisuke Hori Fails at “Everyday Life” lol.”
Leave a Reply