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The story
In a thread on 5ch’s “Whatever’s On Live” board, a running gag took hold: posters kept sharing images they liked, each tagged with the stock phrase “Glad I was born in ___.” Posts like “Glad I was born in China” and “Glad I was born in Kagawa Prefecture” came one after another, while the conversation kept veering off into riffs on old-fashioned Showa-era names and snark about game companies’ obsession with remakes. True to the scattershot nature of a live-commentary board, there was little coherence to the discussion, but the fast-paced back-and-forth kept things lively.
What people said
Ohh-hoo 😍
It's needed so the newbies can get some experience
Nah, you should probably focus on what you like or what you actually need to do instead
This isn't the DoublePan thread
Exactly!!!
It's fun 'cause it's Asobi-tai's debut
Glad I was born in China
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Boards like “Whatever’s On Live” are live-commentary boards where users post in real time while watching TV broadcasts or streams, and it’s typical for a single thread to jump between topics every few seconds. In this thread too, the stock refrain “Glad I was born in ___” gets repeated over and over, but this isn’t really a statement of opinion about any particular country or region — it’s just a set phrase (a kind of running-gag copypasta) tacked onto whatever image a poster likes, with no deeper meaning to read into it. The topic wanders without much logic, touching on Kagawa Prefecture jokes, Showa-era naming humor, criticism of the game industry, and mentions of VTubers and entrepreneurs — typical of live-commentary threads. Note that this article omits posts comparing a real politician’s appearance to something else, baseless accusations against a real entrepreneur, and an exchange mocking a particular poster using the name of a disability, since these touch on personal defamation and political topics.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch “Whatever’s On Live” board thread “🏡🤓☀Glad We Weren’t Born in the Empire of Japan🪖⛴✈🏡.”
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