‘Aka,’ a cast member of the YouTube channel ‘wakatte.tv’ — known for its university-student interview segments — has posted an apology video, sparking discussion on 5ch’s Nandemo Jikkyo G board. The video was uploaded with monetization turned off. The thread was split: some said an apology was simply the obvious, bare-minimum thing to do, or that if it means the end of segments mocking universities, that’s a relief for exam-takers; others pushed back, arguing it’s overblown to apologize for something that wasn’t even a crime, and that regular viewers already know it’s just entertainment.
The type who get a kick out of hurling abuse at ordinary folks?
Yeah, guess so.
But even without that gag, campus visits and student interviews are still in demand among exam-takers, so I think views will only dip a little.
It's like saying a delinquent deserves praise just for straightening up.
Honestly, that IS praiseworthy though.
Like Hezuma (a notorious Japanese YouTuber infamous for past stunts, now trying to reform his image) — he's putting in the effort.
So get caught once for a minor offense and your life's over?
This video has monetization turned off.
Apology videos don't earn ad revenue.
That guy's the type who shouldn't get credit no matter what he does.
He's got way too many supporters, so there's nothing to be done about it.
It's not as bad as the Fukushima incident, at least.
Honestly it sounds like people feel that particular segment wasn't wanted by exam-takers anyway, so they're glad to see it go.
Is this entertainment too?
Lining up things with totally different levels of influence and going 'that's fine there, so it's fine here too!' is kid logic.
Even working adults can get fired over minor offenses depending on the case — this guy should just shut down his channel and quit streaming too.
What this guy did wasn't a crime,
he just lacked morals.
His views are going to drop from here on anyway, so he's already paying enough of a price.
And right away you break out the kid logic yourself, lol.
Knew someone would say that.
Losing sponsors must really sting for a streamer.
If you actually watch regularly, you'd know it's just entertainment though…
It's exactly because it's entertainment that it's poisonous.
That's precisely how you control people's mindsets.
Sounds more like juvenile-detention-center logic, maybe.
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Geidai is harder to get into than Kyoto University anyway.
Background and Key Points of the Debate
wakatte.tv is known for segments where university students rank and evaluate each other’s schools, and the channel has repeatedly drawn criticism for staging that looks down on certain universities. The sticking point in the thread was how to judge the act of apologizing itself. One camp argued that apologizing doesn’t make someone praiseworthy — it’s merely the bare minimum response — while another argued that, compared to streamers like Hezuma Ryu who have had to reform their behavior, simply being capable of apologizing already counts for something; the two sides never reached a consensus. There was also back-and-forth between those defending him with “it wasn’t a crime, so this much backlash is excessive” and those countering that “‘it’s fine as long as it’s not a crime’ is a childish argument.” One point readers might easily get wrong: the apology video itself has monetization disabled, meaning he isn’t using the controversy to farm views. How the university-ranking segment will be handled going forward remains pure speculation within the thread — there has been no official announcement, so that should be treated with caution.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Breaking] wakatte.tv’s Aka finally drops an apology video wwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
