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A post claiming to be from a “music critic” who called Mrs. GREEN APPLE “creepy” became a hot topic on 5ch. But no one could find the poster’s account or the original post, and searching the critic’s name turned up no matching person, so suspicion that it was an “AI-generated image” surfaced early in the thread. With the truth never pinned down, the conversation drifted away from the critic’s remark itself and into a taste debate over how to judge Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s songs and the vocalist’s singing ability.
What are we even supposed to do with this
Source: imgur.com / Original post here
What people said
If it doesn't sell, it's not.
Simple as that.
Eh, that's not quite right either
"Creepy" isn't a critique, though
Ah, so that's what's going on
There's zero trace of it ever going viral,
so it's definitely an AI-generated image
So it was an AI image after all
What a waste of time
His personality is unbelievably creepy, though
Sorry, not trying to troll or play contrarian here, but I honestly think the songs are super creepy too
Can't speak for the songs
Nah, if anything his singing ability is on the weaker side
It's the kind amateurs can all imitate easily
Please, Yuyu, show yourself (nickname of one of the group's members)
Yuyu has an Instagram, right?
People who like it, like it
That's just a difference in taste, nothing to say there
What's not okay is idiots who dress up their personal likes/dislikes as objective good/bad
This "critic" (lol) is exactly that
Kind of depends on the person, honestly
When I asked why, I got "the girls vetoed it because of that comment. Sorry, man."
That's basically a religion at this point…
You don't get the "people who like it, like it" thing
I know full well the rock I love is seen as an old-fashioned hobby these days
so I don't go pushing it on anyone
My parents were classical-music zealots who rejected rock entirely, and yeah, that was rough
Honestly, both sides are a little at fault there
Makes no sense to me
Yeah, fair point
Nothing will ever hit me that hard again
These days it's just weird, nonsensical songs coming out anyway, not that I even listen anymore
I can't wrap my head around Onyanko Club
For me it's basically Onyanko Club vs. everything else
Onyanko Club is genuinely on a different level
Guess everyone's got their own thing
For me personally, "Obus" was the shocker
That's when I finally got what "so uncool it's cool" means
Mannaka Mokkori Wednesday (a nonsensical meme-ish phrase, roughly "Bulging Middle Wednesday")
The real irony here is that a "music critic" couldn't come up with anything beyond "creepy" without ever touching on the actual musicality
In other words, there was nothing musically worth evaluating in the first place
Sounds like they just lacked the ability to evaluate anything
Just some idiot calling themselves a critic.
We don't even know if this "critic" is a credible person in the first place, so hard to say
🤖YOU.HAVE.SEEN.THROUGH.ME.WELL (written in katakana to sound like a robot talking)
Good catch
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Mrs. GREEN APPLE is a major band with a large, loyal fanbase, but it’s also a group whose vocalist’s high register and androgynous look have repeatedly sparked love-it-or-hate-it debates on social media. The “music critic” post that kicked off this thread couldn’t be traced to any account or original post no matter how thread members searched, and with “not even a trace of it going viral,” posters questioned whether the critic existed at all. There’s a familiar pattern online of posts inventing a fake expert title to make inflammatory comments, which then spread via aggregator sites — and once again, an AI-generated image was suspected here. What’s easy for readers to miss is that the core premise — “a critic trashed Mrs. GREEN APPLE” — was never actually confirmed, even at the 5ch stage; by the second half of the thread, the debate had moved past whether the remark was real and split off into its own separate argument over the songs themselves and opinions on the vocalist’s distinctive style.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Sad News] Music Critic: “Mrs. GREEN APPLE Is Creepy” ← Massive Backlash.”
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