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YouTuber HIKAKIN revealed on October 12 via his own channel that he had been hospitalized with pneumonia. Despite running a fever of around 39°C (102°F), he kept working and gaming, and said his biggest regret was that he only called an ambulance “after a lot of agonizing.” The confession sparked a thread on 5ch where criticism of pushing through symptoms until they worsened clashed with defenders arguing that, as a major taxpayer, there was nothing wrong with him using an ambulance. Whether he’d gotten a flu shot, and even whether the pneumonia diagnosis itself was accurate, also became topics of debate.
HIKAKIN Was Hospitalized with Pneumonia — “After Agonizing, I Called an Ambulance…”: YouTuber Confesses to His Own “Regrettable” Behavior – Livedoor News – Oricon
October 12, 2026, 10:16 AM
YouTuber HIKAKIN updated his YouTube channel on the 12th, revealing that he had been hospitalized with pneumonia.
Source: news.livedoor.com / Original article here
What people said
Lack of sleep and overwork tank your immune system.
Makes illnesses take an unexpected turn for the worse.
It's not gaming, it's his job.
Actually, weirdly enough, gaming at times like that does seem to make things worse.
Just hope he's careful not to make weird enemies who end up hurting people close to him.
Well, he'd probably monetize even that too — that's some serious talent and guts.
The hospital that usually writes his medical certificates is pretty cold too.
He should just donate an ambulance or something.
It's because of people like this that someone who actually needs one gets delayed.
Losing HIKAKIN would be a loss for Japan 🤕
I worked a factory job for a week with a 39.5°C (103°F) fever.
Use a family member's car or a taxi equipped to handle that.
I've never had it just clear right up in a day.
Yeah, something's off about it.
Even a tiny shadow on the lungs counts as inflammation, so I guess it's pneumonia in the broad sense.
Though you'd probably recover just fine by quietly cooling your head or neck and sleeping it off.
Pneumonia varies in severity, so it's hard to say either way.
When my daughter had pneumonia, she only had a fever of 37°C (98.6°F) and seemed fine, so we were slow to notice.
In the end it was just oral medication and a few clinic visits over two weeks.
Even with the news reporting how widespread it is.
Even if you get vaccinated, you can still get infected if the flu strain that actually spreads differs from the one doctors predicted.
What bugs me is there's no mention of 'I should have gotten vaccinated' as a regret…
Is this guy anti-vax?
Flu shots normally start rolling out around October anyway.
It takes 3-4 weeks after the shot for it to become effective.
The vaccine timing is usually set for the winter flu season, but this year, for whatever reason, it was already spreading as early as summer.
Then a classmate told him, 'You still watch HIKAKIN or something?' (said in a regional dialect)
What prefecture do you live in?
Background and Key Points of Debate
Flu season typically peaks around December, but this year infections were already spreading as early as October, and since a flu shot is said to take 3-4 weeks to become effective, getting vaccinated now wouldn’t provide immediate protection. On the thread, criticism of prioritizing work and streaming over a high fever clashed with defenders who argued that, given his income and tax contributions as a self-employed business owner, there was nothing wrong with using an ambulance. Several commenters also questioned whether it was really pneumonia, but pneumonia’s severity varies widely from person to person, and medically speaking, it’s not unusual for mild cases to resolve with only outpatient visits or a short hospital stay. Some comments assumed he hadn’t been vaccinated, but since he hasn’t publicly disclosed his vaccination history, that remains speculation.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou Sports Breaking News+) thread “HIKAKIN Was Hospitalized with Pneumonia — “After Agonizing, I Called an Ambulance…”: Confesses to His Own “Regrettable” Behavior.”
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