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The story
Word spread that NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang — known on 5ch by his nickname “Leather Jacket,” after his signature black jacket — intends to step down, and reaction poured into the live-commentary board. The trigger was an alleged honeypot operation by a Chinese firm, with claims he was involved in letting export-banned GPUs slip through to China. But posters on the thread were just as fixated on a separate internal affair with a subordinate, with many arguing that was actually the bigger problem. Some posts claimed the stock cratered right after the announcement, while later posts said it had bounced back — and the thread’s attention settled less on whether the allegations were true and more on which scandal actually forced him out.
What people said
Apparently the affair with a female subordinate was actually worse for US compliance standards than the honeypot allegations.
Nooooooooooooo
No wonder so many Japanese guys get caught by them too
Lol, apparently Elon Musk's already said he wants to hire him
Kind of like an MLB player with a domestic-violence record moving to Japan's NPB where the morals are looser — in the US, Leather Jacket's a confirmed harassment creep and he's done, but Japan would probably welcome him with open arms.
Well, the fear of the honeypot allegations causing chaos is gone now
Whether that one was even real was starting to affect actual company operations
Suddenly becoming a global celebrity probably got to his head
It's related to the Sega Saturn
PS5 runs on AMD, so no connection there
Switch 2 uses a custom NVIDIA processor, so it's directly affected
Guess you can't reach the top without that kind of mentality
The internal affair
That's probably the real reason
Rest easy, bro 🙏
Funny thing — that company's CEO is also a relative of Leather Jacket's
Background and key points of the discussion
CEO Jensen Huang has long been known on 5ch as “Leather Jacket” (“革ジャン,” Kawajan) for his trademark all-black leather jacket, and he’s become something of a face of NVIDIA in these threads. In this one, two very different allegations were being discussed side by side: claims that GPUs banned from export to China under US trade restrictions had slipped through to Chinese buyers, and a separate internal affair with a subordinate. Posters were split on which one actually forced the resignation. Some posts described the stock dropping sharply right after the announcement, while later posts said it had recovered — so the market’s reaction wasn’t as clean-cut as a single straight plunge. It’s worth noting all of this is secondhand chatter from the thread; as of this writing, no official statement from the company confirming either allegation has been found. Comments making blanket claims about nationality or leaning into unsupported conspiracy theories were left out of this writeup since they aren’t grounded in verified fact.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (“Nandemo Jikkyo G” / “Everything Live” board) thread “NVIDIA’s Leather Jacket resigns lolololololololololololololol.”
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