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  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Always be very skeptical about “Japan weird” stories that don’t cite a specific store or person or place. I’m not saying that this particular story isn’t real, but this kind of shit gets made up all the time for clicks.

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        6 months ago

        One of the things I’ve noticed about reporting on Japan is how eager journalists are to attribute one-off or rare occurrences to the entire country.

        Its like if someone wrote an article about “Britain’s gamer girl bathwater” and trying to make it sound like the whole country is in on it.