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!

