Nara city councilman Hezuma Ryu posted on X, urging young people who want to become famous by courting online controversy (“enjo,” going viral for bad behavior) to “absolutely stop, because it’ll wreck your life.” The remark came alongside his announcement of passing 1.5 million followers, but since he himself has a past as a nuisance YouTuber, reactions on 5ch were split between “look who’s talking” and sarcastic praise calling him “a genuine success story who landed a council seat and a salary.”
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Nara city councilman Hezuma Ryu (35) posted on X (formerly Twitter) on the 25th, offering a word of caution to young people eager to become famous even if it means courting controversy.
Hezuma wrote: “I started on social media seven years ago. Today my total follower count passed 1.5 million. I went down a crooked path, but who would’ve thought a nobody from Yamaguchi Prefecture would end up a politician? You really never know what life has in store.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
Wouldn't you call that being "disowned by the family," not "shunned by the whole village" (mura-hachibu, a traditional form of community ostracism)?
Re: #5
Wasn't the reason he got disowned that the neighbors kept complaining about him?
Wasn't the reason he got disowned that the neighbors kept complaining about him?
He's the root cause of the bad precedent that you can become a city councilman just by going viral for bad behavior.
But if you stream the normal, well-behaved way, you'll never climb the ladder, right?
Lick the soy sauce bottle at Kura Sushi (a chain hit by copycat "sushi terrorism" pranks) and you're famous overnight.
Lick the soy sauce bottle at Kura Sushi (a chain hit by copycat "sushi terrorism" pranks) and you're famous overnight.
Re: #10
Either you rise to the top or you fall into the abyss.
Either you rise to the top or you fall into the abyss.
Re: #10
Doing that in an actual restaurant gets you sued by the company for damages — that's 100% the abyss route.
Doing that in an actual restaurant gets you sued by the company for damages — that's 100% the abyss route.
Go say that to your "buddies" (lol) — the Yutapon father-son duo (another controversial YouTuber pair).
Does this guy actually regret his life…?
So, about that time he went to Kumamoto, took selfie shots making it look like he was working hard, then bolted straight back home.
People in Kumamoto are having an even tougher time right now with the brutal heat, but he completely ignored that.
As long as he gets the attention, that's all that matters to him!
People in Kumamoto are having an even tougher time right now with the brutal heat, but he completely ignored that.
As long as he gets the attention, that's all that matters to him!
Re: #1
What on earth were the people who voted this guy onto the Nara city council, and the people who support him, thinking?
What on earth were the people who voted this guy onto the Nara city council, and the people who support him, thinking?
"Don't end up like me," huh
What a cry from the soul (lol)
What a cry from the soul (lol)
But you can still become a Nara city councilman? (lol)
These days it feels like nuisance streamers are all following in Hezuma's footsteps —
chasing after the guy who turned it into the social status of a politician.
chasing after the guy who turned it into the social status of a politician.
The way he talks, you'd think he lived an upstanding life before he became a nuisance YouTuber.
He's literally a sitting councilman right now??????????????????????????????
Coming from a guy who somehow ended up a Nara city councilman, this has zero persuasive power.
You're the textbook case of infamy beating obscurity.
You're the textbook case of infamy beating obscurity.
His family got shunned by the whole village (mura-hachibu).
That's probably the part that hits hardest.
That's probably the part that hits hardest.
Lately Hezuma Ryu's actually being useful.
The guy has amazing drive and mental toughness — he just pours all of it into the wrong direction.
There's a story that when Ishiwara Kanji lectured Muto Akira, telling him "Don't act on your own — follow the army high command's orders," Muto shot back, "But didn't you succeed by acting on your own without authorization?" (paraphrased)
They act recklessly because they don't have a life worth losing in the first place.
Winning a Darwin Award would be the ultimate way to go out.
How much did you make off of going viral for bad behavior yourself?
You just don't want more competition in your own line of work, do you?
You just don't want more competition in your own line of work, do you?
People writing "look who's talking" are only reading the thread title.
What Hezuma's basically saying is "I'm not a success story — don't end up like me."
What Hezuma's basically saying is "I'm not a success story — don't end up like me."
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For the wannabes hoping to hit it big as a nuisance YouTuber, get famous, and climb out of the underclass, Hezuma — who got famous and even landed a council seat and a salary — is exactly the success story they're aiming for.
For the wannabes hoping to hit it big as a nuisance YouTuber, get famous, and climb out of the underclass, Hezuma — who got famous and even landed a council seat and a salary — is exactly the success story they're aiming for.
He seems to have actually been successful in sports back in his school days, and watching how he's handled run-ins with that big-name figure, he's fairly patient underneath it all.
If he'd skipped the whole baffling nuisance-YouTuber route and just worked a normal job as a sports-background company employee, he probably would've earned more in the long run.
If he'd skipped the whole baffling nuisance-YouTuber route and just worked a normal job as a sports-background company employee, he probably would've earned more in the long run.
Apparently, after the whole Hezuma Ryu saga, TV networks quietly stopped reporting on YouTubers who cause scandals.
And even when they do cover it, they leave the person's name out.
Back in the day, Kato from the show Sukkiri said the same thing about the Hezuma incidents: "Honestly, we don't want to report this because it just ends up being free publicity for a criminal."
If you think of it as an advertising cost, a few weeks in detention is cheap.
And even when they do cover it, they leave the person's name out.
Back in the day, Kato from the show Sukkiri said the same thing about the Hezuma incidents: "Honestly, we don't want to report this because it just ends up being free publicity for a criminal."
If you think of it as an advertising cost, a few weeks in detention is cheap.
Re: #68
Hezuma actually got a guilty verdict, you know.
Hezuma actually got a guilty verdict, you know.
It's the same deal as that half-Japanese-half-foreign influencer and former pro boxer, or that ex-pro-gamer guy who said anyone under 170cm isn't worth living.
Oh wait, were those guys not exactly "youths" either?
Anyway, those types who post day after day, 365 days a year, insulting people just to get attention —
I really wish their social media accounts would get deleted already.
And what all those idiots have in common is
they're tough on the weak but can't say a word to anyone stronger than them — total cowards.
Deep down, small, timid people.
Oh wait, were those guys not exactly "youths" either?
Anyway, those types who post day after day, 365 days a year, insulting people just to get attention —
I really wish their social media accounts would get deleted already.
And what all those idiots have in common is
they're tough on the weak but can't say a word to anyone stronger than them — total cowards.
Deep down, small, timid people.
Even among the "go viral for controversy" crowd, some of them carefully script the whole thing out.
It was Google, of all things, that made that profitable and popular.
They played their part in the decline of public morals.
It was Google, of all things, that made that profitable and popular.
They played their part in the decline of public morals.
Re: #72
Honestly, X should just ban Hezuma's account already.
If he got banned from YouTube and X both, he'd have nowhere left to show off.
X has let him post a ton of photos he took of people without their permission too — I'd think that easily meets the bar for a ban.
Honestly, X should just ban Hezuma's account already.
If he got banned from YouTube and X both, he'd have nowhere left to show off.
X has let him post a ton of photos he took of people without their permission too — I'd think that easily meets the bar for a ban.
*This article is an excerpt and summary compiled from the 5ch (Sports/Entertainment News+) thread “Hezuma Ryu Warns Young People Who Want to Go Viral for Bad Behavior: ‘Stop, Because It’ll Wreck Your Life’”.
