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The story
At a show for Hello! Project idol group Rosy Chronicle, a male fan started leading his own self-invented call — bellowing “Speak up louder!” — and it blew up into a hot topic on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. While posters defended long-running staple calls like “sei no” (a cued “all together now”) and “oi! oi!,” the act of someone unilaterally crowning himself “leader” and directing the crowd drew criticism like “management should step in” and “he’s no better than a nuisance fan.” The thread turned into a debate over where venue tradition ends and personal self-satisfaction begins.
What people said
Personally, that guy out there solo shouting "Gao gao gao!" and "Speak up louder!" is just kind of hopeless.
Why act like you're the leader during the performance? Personally, I think management really ought to step in on that one.
not to listen to some random old guy's voice that has nothing to do with the show.
If you can't read the room, you should just retire.
even though a guy like this wouldn't dare pull this in front of a crowd with a different vibe, like newer fans (the original post uses some obscure slang here).
He's probably just desperate to keep the group from getting too popular.
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Takes one to know one!
so he slinks off and does it at Rosy Chronicle instead — that's lame.
That said, 'Speak up louder!' is rough even so lol
And honestly, I'm surprised that's even allowed.
No, actually this kind of thing has been around forever.
Is this some kind of throwback/atavism?
I went to Ocha Norma's fall tour stop at Nissho Hall, and Kitahara's fans were doing the pre-encore chant — I couldn't help but scoff.
Self-satisfied calls are a nuisance, please stop.
Seriously, complain too much like that and this is what you get.
These days it's just one-sided lynching on social media instead.
Of course it's not allowed.
Just a variant of 'hai, sei no!'
Don't need that, what an amateur lol
There's also the thing where you do a member call and then realize — wait, we don't do that one here?
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Idol fan “call” culture has long-running staples like “oi! oi!” and “sei no,” but when an individual unilaterally leads a chant nobody remembers the origin of, opinion tends to split. Hello! Project draws a relatively young and family-friendly crowd, giving it a different atmosphere from the underground idol scene’s call culture, which makes a freshly improvised lead call like “Speak up louder!” stand out awkwardly. The thread split between those arguing traditional calls should be tolerated and those arguing that self-appointing as lead caller is itself the nuisance — suggesting the debate isn’t really about condemning one individual, but about where to draw the line on how much call culture a venue should tolerate.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “‘Speak Up Louder!’ Guy Appears at Rosy Chronicle Shows wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww“.
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