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| “ | Show us your penis, Shinzo Abe | „ |
| ~ Their famous slander against Shinzo Abe |
Netto-uyoku is far-right racists, conspiracy theorists on the Internet who have existed from 1999 to the present.
Basically, they are spreading propaganda through social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, most of which contain racist elements such as anti-Korean and anti-Chinese.
They also slander controversial politicians, communists etc. under the guise of criticism, which in some cases leads to Cyberbullying.
Activity
They are very similar to Kodo suru hosyu and operate mainly on the Internet. Basically, they generalize and accuse Koreans and Chinese by citing the villainy and bad hoax of South Korea, North Korea and People's Republic of China. They also tend to slander Japanese controversial politicians and prime ministers, and overly blamed Otakus. However, they do not criticize Chinese characters, especially when they appear in the anime. Probably because Chinese people had already appeared in anime in their time. However, if something about Korea appears in an anime, they will attack that anime. They mainly consist of Shikishima-kai and Zaitokukai, JAnon, and in terms of far-right, Unplug, which is anti-vaxxers, also falls into this category.
Special cases
- When COVER corp. had a problem with China, Netto-uyoku spread a hoax that word "Nijigaiji" on their official Reddit. Actually, the radical fans of Hololive hate Vtuber group "Nijisanji" and spread this on 4chan and Reddit. In Japan, the term "Nijiga-Doruga (ニジガドルガ)" is used to refer to the radical Hololive fans who create movements involving other Vtuber groups.
- On May 6, 2020, Shinzo Abe made a streaming on Nico Nico Douga, and a number of slander comments were posted by Netto-uyoku. This streaming was to solicit questions from viewers about the response to COVID-19, and racist comments and slanderous comments were written in the streaming.
- On May, 2018, one of Japanese internet controversies, the Netto-uyoku banned spring festival", a large number of people for pleasure on the 2channel reported Netto-uyoku on Youtube. Most of the reported Netto-uyoku were users who had posted videos including Nanjing massacre denial, comfort woman denial, anti-Korean and anti- Chinese, which they criticized as being pro-Chinese on the part of Youtube.
- On January 6, 2020, Japanese Trump supporters, known as JAnon, took to the streets of Tokyo. The movement involved many believers of Happy Science and other propagandists.