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The story
With the 3rd anniversary celebration for the smartphone rhythm game “Shanison” (Idolmaster: Shiny Colors) just a day away, fans launched a dedicated thread on 5ch’s News VIP board. Posters kept dropping commemorative artwork and preview images of the next gacha banner one after another, along with update news for the enza (browser) version. Partway through, though, the thread got hit by a troll who kept spamming nothing but meaningless 10-digit numbers, prompting regulars to discuss ways to mass-filter the posts with an NG (blocklist) word. The thread’s original poster calmly shrugged it off with “If it gets taken down, I’ll just rebuild it,” and in the end the commemorative art generated more buzz than the troll ever did.
What people said
Kind of like a "Notorious B.I.G."? (a pun on "Notorious Monster," MMO slang for a rare trigger-spawned boss)
Background and Key Points
“Shanison” is a smartphone rhythm game based on Idolmaster: Shiny Colors (Shinymas), and at the time this thread went up, its 3rd anniversary event was just a day away. In the pre-celebration mood of the thread, fans mainly shared commemorative character artwork, previews of the next gacha banner, and update news for the enza (browser) version, which drove most of the excitement. Partway through, however, a troll showed up repeatedly posting nothing but unrelated 10-digit numbers, and the regulars discussed countermeasures, including setting up an NG (blocklist) word via regular expression. The way the thread’s original poster calmly handled it — saying “If it gets taken down, I’ll just rebuild it” — reflected the laid-back mood typical of a fan thread. Neither the timing of the troll’s appearance nor the meaning behind the numbers was ever clarified in the thread, so whether it was simple disruption or had some specific intent remains unknown.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News VIP) thread “The Idolmaster: Shiny Colors / Shanison / Shinymas Thread Right Before Shanison’s 3rd Anniversary.”
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