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The story
Comedian Sugichan (53) updated his X account on the 15th, writing about something he witnessed on the train. He says he was present when a stumbling passenger was met with tsk-ing from people nearby, and the post laments the state of the world with, “Man, we’re done for.” On the 5ch thread, many voices sympathized, saying society as a whole has lost its capacity for patience, while others questioned the post itself — “Isn’t it a stretch to say people tsk just because someone stumbled?” — and pushed back against comments that pinned the blame on a specific gender, showing reactions to the story were far from uniform.
Sugichan sees someone stumbling on the train… laments the passengers who click their tongues at them: “Man, we’re done for”
Comedian Sugichan (53) updated his X (formerly Twitter) account on the 15th.
He wrote about an unbelievable scene he witnessed on the train.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
Like they're about to blow a fuse.
Proof that richness of heart — morals included — can't grow unless society itself has richness (mainly the economy and hope for the future).
Exactly.
It's mostly people using strangers as a human stabilizer while they fiddle with their phone.
Now that you mention it, true.
What could you even do in that situation?
and they kept tsk-ing at me over and over,
so I completely snapped.
Wild, right~ (Sugichan's signature catchphrase)
You'll even see young guys just casually sitting with their legs crossed, hogging the priority seats.
Even if it wasn't happening to you, doesn't it still feel awful just to witness?
But then again, being like that at work
and then playing the nice guy out in public
seems kind of messed up too, if you ask me.
Describe it more accurately.
People used to keep their honne (true feelings) separate from tatemae (public face), only showing their honne to close friends and family. But now all of that gets dumped online instead, so the line marking where someone's true nature stops has vanished — and people started acting that way in real life too.
I bet Tokyoites only act that way for white folks too, huh.
Saying 'excuse me, getting off' does nothing — they won't notice unless you actually bump into them.
On a packed train you can't even touch your phone, so going without earphones is rough.
Background and key points of this story
Sugichan debuted in 1993 and made a comeback as a 53-year-old comedian on the strength of his catchphrase “Wild, right~.” This post wasn’t from a TV appearance — just a personal account of something he witnessed, shared on X. It’s worth noting that the tsk-ing passenger’s circumstances and the stumbling person’s actual condition are described purely from Sugichan’s own point of view, with no footage or third-party testimony available to verify what happened. On the thread, many agreed with the sentiment that “society as a whole has lost its capacity for patience,” but reactions weren’t uniform — comment #42, for instance, which pinned the blame on a specific gender, was immediately met with pushback calling it discriminatory. Contact and tsk-ing incidents on packed trains happen all the time, but the fact that they only go viral when relayed through a celebrity’s post is part of why this kind of story keeps resurfacing.
*This article was compiled by excerpting and summarizing the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] Sugichan sees someone stumbling on the train… laments the passengers who click their tongues at them: “Man, we’re done for”.”
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