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The story
Hori Daisuke became the talk of the “Nandemo Jikkyo G” board (a 5channel forum tied to the “Live Galileo” livestreaming board) during a project in which he’s broadcasting his entire daily life, nonstop, for a full week. He’s reportedly kept going on roughly 30 minutes of sleep a day while still doing frequent collab streams, work, and weight training. Viewers were stunned, with comments like “his speech is totally clear and he’s still keeping up with chat” — while others worried about his health, asking “isn’t he out of breath just sitting there?” and “wouldn’t his blood pressure be spiking?” Some suspected he was counting mid-stream dozing as official sleep time, and a few posts mocked his thinning hair. Overall, the thread was a mix of admiration, suspicion, and concern.
What people said
You couldn't do it though, could you?
I get 8 hours of sleep, but if I could rack up impressions [i.e., viral engagement] and cash in while I'm awake, I'd do it too.
He'd never even say something like that. For him it's probably on the level of saying 'I eat three meals a day.'
His speech is totally normal though, and being able to keep up with chat like this is honestly incredible.
Right? He's wheezing nonstop even though he's not doing anything. His blood pressure must be dangerously high from the sleep deprivation.
There was never any such rule to begin with — he only ever said he'd stream his daily life.
That 'rule' is just something haters invented in their own heads. The whole premise was livestreaming a week of ordinary life — of course you're going to doze off sometimes if a massage feels too good.
He's a massive topic of conversation right now. Frequent collabs, his own work, and stream revenue could net him serious money — that's a huge upside.
I actually did send about 3,000 yen in Super Chat to cheer him on when it started.
Being able to pull off that intense a workout on day 3 is genuinely impressive.
People doubted he really does this every day, and now he's proving it live — that's exactly why it's getting called impressive.
He's making serious money off it right now, though.
He also bathes constantly — the cleanest man in Japan.
There's just no way to sneak it in, however you try.
I check in now and then — he's on camera the entire time except the bathroom, so cheating looks impossible. Even the bath is on screen.
This 'controller' gag format has been trending a lot lately.
Sad news [a common 5ch meme tag used to preface bad/unfortunate updates].
What are you harvesting that keeps you that busy?
Morning-picked lettuce. We start harvesting around 2am with a crew of foreign workers. Once summer hits, it's like that for months on end.
Impressive. Leading a crew of foreign workers for the harvest — farming's gone pretty global these days too.
What time do you actually finish work?
Background and Points of Debate
This project falls into a genre of “up-close” livestreams that broadcast someone’s entire daily life without cuts — and the more extreme the sleep deprivation on display, the more viewer attention it tends to draw. Where the thread split was on how to interpret the short sleep itself: as “talent or a rare physical trait” versus as “performance for the camera.” Medically speaking, people who can genuinely function on roughly 30 minutes of sleep a day — so-called “short sleepers” — are said to be extremely rare, and it isn’t something most people can train themselves into through practice. That’s why some users questioned whether time spent dozing off mid-stream was being folded into his official sleep count. At the same time, the thread also drew in posts from farmers who work on just a few hours of sleep during their busy season, with some arguing that extreme short sleep isn’t actually all that unusual. Note that this article simply relays statements made in the thread and does not verify his actual sleep duration or health condition.
*This article is an excerpted summary of the 5channel (“Nandemo Jikkyo G” board) thread “[Image] Hori Daisuke wwwwwwwwww” (the trailing string of “w”s is Japanese internet shorthand for laughter, equivalent to “lol”). Source thread.
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