A satirical video believed to mock “the speed of Japan’s disaster recovery” has surpassed 6.76 million views on China’s video site bilibili, and it’s become a hot topic on 5ch too. The clip pokes fun at a Japan whose response supposedly amounts to nothing but repeating “under consideration” and “under adjustment.” On 5ch, some wryly admitted “it gets plenty wrong, but I can’t fully deny how pathetic it is,” while others responded coldly with “we’re just being mocked, that’s all.”
The craftsmanship is seriously impressive, and so is how well they've mastered AI tools.
Title: "All Clear: It's precisely when every Japanese person says 'we're fine' that you know it's a real problem."
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2088628401255104512/vid/avc1/1280×720/0bHCjC6fhniwHPbv.mp4?tag=14
Title: "All Clear: It's precisely when every Japanese person says 'we're fine' that you know it's a real problem."
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2088628401255104512/vid/avc1/1280×720/0bHCjC6fhniwHPbv.mp4?tag=14
["All Normal | No Abnormality" MV: When Every Japanese Person Says There's No Problem, That's When There's a Big Problem — bilibili] https://b23.tv/GIlsXEA
Not bad. Love the "under consideration," "under adjustment" bits.
Feels really off, but hey, it's China — that's about par for the course.
bilibili: 6.766 million views
It was made by a Chinese national living in Japan who's also fluent in Chinese, so of course they know Japan well.
Still, if something like this goes viral, China really must be on the decline.
Re: #13
We're just being mocked, that's all.
We're just being mocked, that's all.
Sure, it gets a lot wrong, but I can't completely deny how pathetic it is.
Apparently Chinese people just can't prepare in advance at work, either
the mindset being "we'll figure it out when it happens."
the mindset being "we'll figure it out when it happens."
Fine, I'll give you that one — the thousand paper cranes thing I really can't argue with. (senbazuru: the traditional gift of a thousand folded paper cranes, often mocked as a well-meaning but useless disaster "relief" item)
Given it's come to this, we need to start recognizing them as basically an enemy state.
Does a fax machine even have anything in it that could explode?
If the same quake wrecked houses, China would probably just bulldoze them regardless of whether they're privately owned.
In Japan it'd probably take a week just to track down the owner.
In Japan it'd probably take a week just to track down the owner.
This is from back when the Fukushima treated-water release was the big topic, but I actually liked this one too — pretty sharp satire.
They really do have a knack for taking a critical angle on things and turning it into content.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1731634155237371904/pu/vid/avc1/720×1128/iARXbujIu7RxXAvh.mp4?tag=12
They really do have a knack for taking a critical angle on things and turning it into content.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1731634155237371904/pu/vid/avc1/720×1128/iARXbujIu7RxXAvh.mp4?tag=12
Re: #21
They portray the US as basically a god.
Kind of love that part.
They portray the US as basically a god.
Kind of love that part.
Guess we won't be needing Wednesday Campanella anymore. (a Japanese art/music unit known for offbeat, satirical videos)
But at least they don't bury survivors along with the rubble and pretend it never happened.
Re: #24
Really now?
Really now?
Re: #32
That's because there's no way to confirm they're alive and no reason to think they are —
basically "definitely dead, but we can't investigate, so just let us bury it."
That's because there's no way to confirm they're alive and no reason to think they are —
basically "definitely dead, but we can't investigate, so just let us bury it."
You've got your own flood disasters to deal with back home — is this really the time to be talking about other countries?
China's fallen so far that people resort to sockpuppeting hype-posts on NanJ just to boost their own self-esteem. (NanJ: a freewheeling 5ch discussion board)
Re: #38
One in four young people there is unemployed — college grads working as delivery drivers.
One in four young people there is unemployed — college grads working as delivery drivers.
Japan's disaster recovery surely isn't this bad.
For some reason disaster recovery is the one thing the government actually handles properly.
For some reason disaster recovery is the one thing the government actually handles properly.
Re: #56
Wasn't the Olympic torch relay during the Tokyo Games just tidied up along the route to make it look like Tohoku earthquake recovery was finished, even though it clearly wasn't?
Wasn't the Olympic torch relay during the Tokyo Games just tidied up along the route to make it look like Tohoku earthquake recovery was finished, even though it clearly wasn't?
They can't criticize their own country, so they're using Japan as a stand-in to mock instead.
Re: #65
The most recent disaster in China involved opening floodgates with zero warning, killing residents, clamping down on media coverage, doing no rescue work at all, and jailing anyone who posted the truth on social media — it feels like a completely different level.
The most recent disaster in China involved opening floodgates with zero warning, killing residents, clamping down on media coverage, doing no rescue work at all, and jailing anyone who posted the truth on social media — it feels like a completely different level.
Riots like this happen and it never gets reported at all.
You should check out Chinese news sites sometime — zero bad news about their own country.
International news kicks off bashing the US → Japan → Europe and Korea,
in that order.
Then come the feel-good stories about Belt and Road partner countries.
Keep watching that and your self-esteem probably shoots right up.
International news kicks off bashing the US → Japan → Europe and Korea,
in that order.
Then come the feel-good stories about Belt and Road partner countries.
Keep watching that and your self-esteem probably shoots right up.
Re: #91
Sounds basically like exactly what "our great nation" does. (a sarcastic 5ch term for Japan itself, mocking its own state-media-style spin)
Sounds basically like exactly what "our great nation" does. (a sarcastic 5ch term for Japan itself, mocking its own state-media-style spin)
China's gap between top and bottom is insane.
At the top they're going toe-to-toe with the US on flashy, well-publicized robots and AI and cutting-edge tech,
but at the bottom it's a level you can't even imagine.
A country that can build AI models but can never quite manage to unclog a drainpipe — that's China.
At the top they're going toe-to-toe with the US on flashy, well-publicized robots and AI and cutting-edge tech,
but at the bottom it's a level you can't even imagine.
A country that can build AI models but can never quite manage to unclog a drainpipe — that's China.
Re: #96
Apparently there's a country out there that can't even build an AI model and still gets wrecked by heavy rain.
Apparently there's a country out there that can't even build an AI model and still gets wrecked by heavy rain.
There were people on X who didn't even realize it was satirizing a Japan that's still stuck in a wartime/postwar-era mindset even in the Reiwa era, and just went "lol, so Showa." (Showa: the old, pre-1989 era, shorthand for anything outdated)
Re: #103
Honestly, I didn't get it either 😂😂
Honestly, I didn't get it either 😂😂
Do people even use fax machines that much anymore, really?
I figured that died out after COVID.
I figured that died out after COVID.
Re: #108
We send and receive faxes every single day where I work.
We send and receive faxes every single day where I work.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyō G board) thread “A satirical video made by a Chinese creator mocking “the speed of Japan’s disaster recovery” becomes a hot topic.”
