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iiotenki
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there are exactly seven types of japan youtubers allowed to post videos by law. for your reference and personal safety, these types are as follows:

  • loudly gaijin. this content creator focuses on basic things you've probably heard about in japan and regurgitates those facts to you with as little subtlety as possible. major topics include akihabara, apartment sizes, and hot takes on youtube drama surrounding other japan youtubers at the moment.
  • spouse. this creator's entire personality is that they married a japanese person, a fact which is reinforced by their username, which features both partners' names. some overlap with the loudly gaijin types in content, but typically slightly more subdued, though you're never allowed to forget that they're married to a native and will not consider for a minute what will happen to the channel if they ever get divorced.
  • language pedant. this creator almost certainly has no actual language teaching certification or professional experience, but posts deep dives on grammar and syntax that are less focused on being actually helpful so much as bragging about how much more japanese they've studied than you. alarmingly prescriptive in their advice, these types would kill a man to protect the sanctity and integrity of pitch accents from foreign influence.
  • food pervert. this creator has the most potential of being an actual sensible person. maybe they fawn a little too much over convenience store chicken and mcdonald's promotions, but at least they won't yell at you if you can't pronounce the japanese words for "bridge" and "chopsticks" with the arguably correct intonation. they just want you to eat well, man, maybe without even breaking the bank.
  • game historian. ostensibly interested in old import games, but then only posts about the ones that are easy to discuss with non-japanese-speaking viewers and have had foreign attention for decades. can you even trust their credentials if they aren't posting about dating sims and pachinko rpgs on the regular?
  • man on the street interviewer. asks a lot of questions of locals and tourists, largely in bad faith to achieve attention-grabbing video titles. loves to remind viewers that 120 percent of japanese women have, in fact, cheated in their life and 83 percent of that group do so daily.
  • neighborhood walker. has a tenuous grasp of japanese public filming laws as they walk around their idyllic neighborhoods in search of content with capital v vibes. might even post train riding footage from time to time if you ask nicely enough.

now that you're all equipped with this knowledge, you should be able to navigate the waters of japan youtube knowing what to look out for so they don't infect your recommendations. good luck and don't do anything i wouldn't!


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in reply to @iiotenki's post:

Honest question: Any thoughts on Life Where I'm From and Tokyo Llama? They don't exactly fall into these categories (or at least not exclusively; certainly not the loud gaijin garbage) and I do enjoy their content, because they do seem to, I dunno, cover less superficial or common topics in a much less annoying way than the YouTubers you mean, if that makes sense?

I can't say I've really watched either one of them, so I'm honestly not really up to speed on what all they do, but certainly they both strike me as not particularly obnoxious. I mostly wrote this post in jest because YouTube is really intent on recommending me the popular bad apples for whatever reason, but I definitely agree that there are "good eggs" on there, too, as my grandmother would say. If someone like you enjoys them, that's definitely a good sign they're a-okay in my book! :eggbug-relieved:

Was watching an interview with PiNKII on Cat With Beard recently and her previous talent agency actually pushed her to stay in the "loud gaijin" niche. Despite her wanting to branch out into making music/other content. Makes me wonder how much of that category is too afraid/unable to branch out.

I honestly don't actively subscribe to a lot of Japan-specific channels, which, my facetious snark aside, isn't really out of any particular disdain for most so much as just, I already studied for five years and have lived here for three, so I've kinda had my fill of the sort of stuff the more general channels cover just from sheer life experience. But! I will say that I'm actually partial to JapanEat. He mostly only does shorts about different restaurants and stuff he tries out, but he's very unpretentious, is really respectful about how he films his stuff, and has a fun sense of humor that I enjoy. As someone who's terrible about actually going out to proper restaurants by myself, his content has honestly inspired me to go out on a limb and slowly try more places. Good vibes and he definitely knows his stuff, I'd recommend him to just about anyone!

ah, that makes perfect sense! I've been trying to find actual Japanese-language youtubers, too (like... Japanese people making content that isn't just for western audiences, I guess?), but outside of vtubers (most of whom i am, respectfully, fuckin Tired Of), it's harder to convince the algorithm to get that stuff onto my feed.