2channeler

English Etymology From en w:2channel er occupation. Noun en historical A member of the community of the anonymous Japanese textboard 2channel. en Lisa Katayama Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet Wired https://www.wired.com/2008/05/mf-hiroyuki/ 19 May 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20151025132230/https://www.wired.com/2008/05/mf-hiroyuki/ 25 October 2015 There's also a prankish streak: When fast-food chain Lotteria held an online poll asking customers to vote for a new flavor of milk shake, 2channelers stuffed the ballot box in favor of kimchi — fermented cabbage. en Christophe Thouny Waiting for the Messiah: The Becoming-Myth of Evangelion and Densha otoko Frenchy Lunning Mechademia 4: War/Time w:University of Minnesota Press 2009 section “Control Room” 122 978-0-8166-6749-9 However Densha otoko is first about an online community, a community of 2channelers that reproduces itself through the collective production of a heterogeneous narrative and a singular character, “Densha.” en Christopher Gerteis Where Have All the Salarymen Gone? Masculinity, Masochism, and Technomobility in Densha Otoko Sabine Frühstück; Anne Walthall Recreating Japanese Men w:University of California Press 2011 part II (Marginal Men) 170 978-0-520-26737-4 When Densha discovers that he may not need to abandon his treasures, he makes another kind of sacrifice, the decision to expose himself to potential ridicule by coming out as an otaku. We are obviously meant to view this gesture as a genuinely brave act, underlined as it is by the admiring chorus of voices from the 2channelers, who thank him for his courage and praise him for his ability to gambaru, a term that connotes perseverance and endurance in the face of challenges and even potential humiliation. en w:Akihiro Kitada Japan’s Cynical Nationalism w:Mizuko Ito; Daisuke Okabe; Izumi Tsuji Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World w:Yale University Press 2012 part I (Culture and Discourse) 70 978-0-300-15864-9 The reader does not identify with Train Man himself but experiences pleasure and emotion by occupying the role of a 2channeler. en Matt Alt Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World Crown 2020 2021 261 978-1-9848-2671-8 2channelers were infuriated by Fuji Television’s sportscasters, who (in their opinion) weren’t doing enough to denounce questionable calls by the ref in favor of the South Korean soccer team.