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Minami Minegishi appeared on the late-night TV Tokyo program “Achikochi Audrey” on the 20th, where the mansion her husband — YouTuber Tetsuya of Tokai Online — built in Aichi Prefecture became a hot topic. When host Masayasu Wakabayashi remarked, “That’s quite a house,” Minegishi explained, “It’s a house built entirely on YouTube earnings — built on my husband’s income alone,” adding with a wry smile, “and now this house that doesn’t match my persona at all is out there for everyone to see.” Her comment sparked a wider 5ch discussion about the real scale of YouTuber income, the upkeep costs and property taxes on the mansion, and even comparisons of who among her AKB48 peers has “won” in life.
Talent Minami Minegishi appeared on the late-night TV Tokyo program “Achikochi Audrey,” aired on the 20th. During the show, she let slip her honest feelings about the newly built mansion that caused a stir after its completion in September.
Wakabayashi brought up the topic with guest Minegishi, saying “That’s quite a house,” referring to the massive mansion her husband, YouTuber Tetsuya of Tokai Online, built in Aichi Prefecture — the group’s home base.
Wakabayashi said, “I don’t really get it since I don’t do YouTube myself, so I have no idea how much that kind of thing pays,” admitting he had no clue about real YouTuber income. He continued, “It really does seem incredible,” to which Minegishi, smiling wryly, explained: “It’s a house built purely on YouTube earnings — built on my husband’s income alone.”
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What people said
Oh, so she's the one who "became a nun"? (a joking callback to her 2013 head-shaving)
She doesn't have an act to begin with.
The networks would be grateful for the footage.
Is her whole "image" just… the shaved head?
So he's basically admitting TV talent rank below YouTubers now.
Sounds like he's just given up on keeping up appearances as a celebrity.
Apparently he'd been saying since his first year of high school, "I'm going to date Minami Minegishi."
Right?
I can't imagine they'll still be able to cover the property taxes on that thing 20 years from now.
It'll probably end up a tourist spot.
Itano and Minegishi haven't really accomplished anything.
Kojiharu's brand succeeded because her husband is capable.
Gotta be CEO Haruna Kojima, hands down.
Though Minegishi's actually cuter now than she used to be.
Dunno about winners and losers, but someone like Sashihara or Kojiharu is probably living in a condo worth around 500 million yen if bought outright.
Even a high floor in a tower condo around Higashi-Ikebukuro easily runs 200-300 million yen.
They're busy, so they need to live somewhere convenient in central Tokyo anyway.
It was earned by the team called Tokai Online, you know?
Tetsuya's just the leader.
He himself probably never expected to earn this much.
Whether they can keep this up once they're no longer popular is all on Tetsuya.
If you divide the subscriber count by the number of members, it's not actually that impressive.
Per-member, they'd beat Miyasako but lose to Kajisac or Eiko Kano, something like that.
the punchline's already "super mansion (but in the middle of nowhere)."
I live in a nearby municipality, but Okazaki isn't exactly the boonies.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Minami Minegishi shaved her head herself back in 2013 as an apology for breaking an AKB48 rule, so thread terms like “Shaved-Head Apology Palace” and “became a nun” are lighthearted callbacks to that incident, not jabs at her current looks. Her husband Tetsuya belongs to Tokai Online, a popular YouTuber group under the UUUM agency whose view counts rank among the highest in Japan. Opinion in the thread split over how to read the income gap between TV talent and YouTubers: some took Wakabayashi’s remark that “you can’t build a house like that no matter how hard you work in TV these days” as self-deprecating humor about the TV industry, while others read it as a simple statement of fact about how much YouTubers earn. Plenty of comments also raised the mansion’s upkeep costs and property taxes, plus doubts about how long YouTuber income can realistically last — suggesting the interest here goes beyond fleeting buzz into the underlying economics.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Geinou Sports Hou+) thread “Minami Minegishi Uneasy Over the “Massive Mansion” Built by Her Popular YouTuber Husband: “This house that doesn’t match my persona is out there for everyone to see…”“
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