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The story
In a chat thread on 5ch’s Newssoku VIP board, a post mistaking Friday for Saturday touched off a wave of sympathy from unemployed and shut-in (hikikomori) posters whose sense of the days had gone completely haywire. As usual, the thread ran in its familiar format, with the recurring ASCII-art character ‘Pomi-kun’ firing back replies throughout using the emoticon (っ´ω`c). The rambling, disconnected chatter ranged from griping about stingy Google reward points, to complaints about the mobile game ‘Mahjong Soul,’ to talk of the original ‘Castlevania’ app being handed out for free. Above all, the post declaring ‘a weekday alone at home is when I feel most at ease’ drew the strongest wave of sympathy, sparking an outpouring of honest feelings about days off.
What people said
I feel that
(っ´ω`c) Oh, you're a shut-in too, huh
(っ´ω`c) Mine was 56
(っ´ω`c) Would be nice to get this much every week
Do you look up to Gay-kun or something?
(っ´ω`c) You seem pretty close with Gay-kun
(っ´ω`c) Obsessively checking who's replying is just standard practice (a nod to '必死チェック,' 5ch slang for stalking someone's post history in a thread)
(っ´ω`c) As long as you always post things you wouldn't mind a stranger seeing, you should be fine
(っ´ω`c) Ooh, nice, congrats
I want a Rachana Mama too
(っ´ω`c) ……
(っ´ω`c) Huh? What do you mean
(っ´ω`c) You get curious about it even though you don't bet on horses?
(っ´ω`c) Whoa, is it any good?
(っ´ω`c) Yep ♥ I run Stallion as my main on my Wind team a lot ♥ he's strong 😤
kinda creepy lol
(っ´ω`c) Huh. Huh. Huh.
(っ´ω`c) Man, I'd love to play this on a tablet
The Touken Ranbu puzzle game came out yesterday and I've gotten even busier, so I haven't even had time to go see Stallion…
(っ´ω`c) Stallion will always be waiting for you── just play whenever you get the time──
Puzu-Giri, huh── enjoying it so far──? Sounds like Fit Boxing's coming out too──
It's kind of weird that today's Friday
This is NEET-me, who thinks every day should be Monday
(っ´ω`c) Been a while. Being unemployed really scrambles your sense of the days, huh. Every day should be Monday? Not Sunday or anything — I wonder why
I love my family, but a weekday alone at home is when I'm most at ease 🥺🥺🥺🥺 I still technically know what day it is, at least
(っ´ω`c) Being home alone is nice since you can do whatever you want… what do you end up doing when you're home by yourself?
I totally get that
I wish they'd go out on weekends
(っ´ω`c) What do you end up doing once you're home alone?
(ꐦ·᷅ὢ·᷄ꐦ ) Wouldn't it just be solved if you went to work on your days off?
(っ´ω`c) Oh, I've seen that one before
Background and talking points
This thread follows the familiar format seen on 5ch’s Newssoku VIP board, where the recurring character ‘Pomi-kun’ fires back reply after reply using the emoticon (っ´ω`c) — less a news story than a slice-of-life glimpse into how the unemployed and shut-in crowd experience their days. The ‘Mahjong Soul’ game mentioned in the thread is an online mahjong title tied to a Chinese company; while some posts in the thread griped about opponents, this article has left out posts that singled out and mocked specific nationalities. ‘Stallion,’ meanwhile, appears to be a character from a mobile game Pomi-kun plays, though the thread gives no further explanation and its origin remains unclear. Posts mistaking Friday for Saturday, or expressing a preference for weekday solitude, offer a glimpse into the disrupted daily rhythm common among the unemployed and those who rarely leave home.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Newssoku VIP) thread “(っ´ω`c) Huh. It’s Friday today.”
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