Zero Japan-Born Apps Among the World’s Hit Social Networks — 5ch Debates the Origins of TikTok and LINE

Isn't Japan just really bad at making content?

Whatever happened to that thing where Hiroyuki and them were going to make an SNS?
There was talk of him doing it together with Gackt and others, right?

>>17
Pretty sure they pulled out
I think they already said it flopped

>>17
They did make a mixi knockoff once

Wait, LINE is Korean?

>>18
To be precise, it was made by the Japanese subsidiary of a Korean company
There's no LINE in Korea itself
But LINE is itself a knockoff of another Korean company's app, KakaoTalk, so it's Korean-rooted either way

>>28
LINE actually did exist in Korea, but there were suspicions people's chats and personal info were being monitored, so everyone moved over to KakaoTalk

>>28
Huh? LINE shows up all the time in Korean dramas though

TikTok's just the famous one — China's had a bunch of video social networks for way longer

>>24
Kwai has an insane number of users but it's completely unknown in Japan
It's like the best parts of TikTok and Niconico combined, pretty handy
And best of all there's tons of local video posted by users from rural areas, it's fun

>>36
I installed Kwai and used to watch it back in the day
This was before TikTok came to Japan, so it must've been around 2017
I remember thinking, wow, China's got some amazing social networks

🇺🇸Facebook → graciously borrowing America's
🇺🇸Instagram → graciously borrowing America's
🇺🇸Twitter → graciously borrowing America's
🇺🇸YouTube → graciously borrowing America's
🇺🇸ZOOM → graciously borrowing America's
🇺🇸WhatsApp → graciously borrowing America's
🇰🇷LINE → graciously borrowing Korea's
🇨🇳Douyin (TikTok) → graciously borrowing China's
🇨🇳Xiaohongshu (RED) → graciously borrowing China's
🇨🇳Kuaishou (Kwai) → graciously borrowing China's
🇨🇳Weibo → graciously borrowing China's
🇨🇳WeChat → graciously borrowing China's
🇷🇺Telegram → graciously borrowing Russia's

So what about Japan?
What SNS has Japan made a worldwide hit in the past 10 years?

>>33
We don't have one, but they let us use theirs for free, so who cares

>>33
Did you really need to force Russia into that list?

>>33
Don't throw in random Chinese apps nobody's heard of

In Japan a post only gets like 10,000 likes tops,
but I've seen Chinese SNS posts with over 100 million likes

Feel bad for people who only use Japanese social media
I think they're missing out on 90% of life
Nothing but boring posts and hate

>>67
What even is "Japanese social media"?
X, Instagram, TikTok — none of them were made by Japan lol

A lot of Japanese companies chose to scatter their content across every existing platform and sell broadly, rather than building and running their own platform

>>76
Even though it only appeals to Japanese people?

>>50
It's great for killing time
There are so insanely many users you never get bored
Even farmer uncles and folks who'd never stream in Japan are posting videos — all ages, all walks of life

>>86
The problem with Chinese SNS is the content quality is way too low even if the quantity's huge
It's like filling up on mediocre fast food
If that's the case you're better off watching original, high-quality content on Instagram or YouTube — it sharpens your sensibilities more

We're losing on batteries too

"Most Trusted Country" ranking
https://www.asahi.com/sp/articles/ASV3F3WLTV3FUTFK00KM.html

#1 🇨🇳China
…
#3 🇯🇵Japan




Times are changing and there's no stopping it — Japan is in decline

Japan: the country where even liberal-arts grads who barely speak English can land jobs at big corporations

>>90
Bashing Japan with stuff that's totally off-topic for this thread seems kind of dumb honestly, let's keep it a bit more intelligent and constructive

>>74
Whenever some viral security-camera footage shows up it turns into a meme and everyone posts copycat versions
Well, I think that happens in every country though
Personally I like watching cooking videos and stuff about ethnic minorities' daily lives, so I don't really notice that
I think it depends on what kind of content you're watching

>>94
Fair point — now that you mention it, posts about Chinese traditional crafts are seriously fun to watch
You can really tell that far more young people there value their country's traditions than young Japanese people do

Rakuten Viber actually has more users worldwide than LINE,
but for some reason it's a half-hearted messaging app even in Japan, Rakuten's own home turf

>>97
Japan probably just can't handle a scale of 3 billion users