Source: http://roninworksjapan.tumblr.com/post/102000265691/otaku-war-japan-2channel-and-gamergate

Let me confess that I had no goddamn idea of this happening in the first place. I should've listened to /pol/ about Japan not being immune to this madness.

Then again, of course, a lot of people in Japan do hate otaku, and I can see why.

The parallels in this situation are:

>2ch (not 2chan) is a 4chan that managed to fight back.

>The Kenmo can be compared to supporters of GanerGate

>In Japan, otaku never really got into the mainstream and are still largely hated (AFAIK, please correct me if I'm wrong), gamers in the west are largely in the mainstream

(I'm posting this from a phone, please understand.)

EDIT: The person behind the Tumblr post most likely has English as a second language.

Readable version here: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6817961

What in the hell

Oh Crap! I couldn't understand the bad grammar, but I got the point. What is it with society these days?!?!?

You know what, I have no idea what GamerGate is and I have no idea what that article was trying to say.

Turbo-engrish a go go

"I do not know a lot about the Western Internet. but I will guess it right.They are the new mass media which made a fortune by an advertisement. "
This made my day

He's upset about yellow journalism, but wouldn't all journalism in Japan be yellow journalism?

Well, someone gave us a readable version:

>I know jack shit about Japan or 2channel but I'll give it a shot.

Otaku seems to be a broad, encompassing term, like 'gamer', so let's just set that aside for now.

From what I can gather, 2channel was being misrepresented by Matome-blog, its posts being taken out of context and blown out of proportion, not unlike a LW cherrypicking a post from 8chan.

Matome-blog appears to be using its influence to pursue an agenda, perhaps advertising themselves to act like they speak for all otakus. The author's term for this shady/corrupt journalism is 'yellow journalism'.

There was a resistance against this yellow journalism, and they were named by their enemies as "Kenmo", meaning people hating profit, a name which they proudly adopted.

One of the practices the Kenmo are against is called "sutema", meaning a company that pretends to be consumers and advertises a product.

A change in management of 2channel spawned another struggle. The old manager, Hiroyuki, was replaced by a new one, known as JIM. Hiroyuki was then found out to have connections to many companies, selling information logged on 2channel to the highest bidder. Once Hiroyuki was no longer manager, he made a fake 2channel website, 2ch.sc, designed to replicate information on the real website, 2ch.net, so he could continue selling it.

The Kenmo were fucking pissed.

But wait, there's more! It appears Hiroyuki wanted to remain in charge, so he tried to have 2ch.net hacked and destroyed so that the people who use that site would have to go to his 2ch.sc

Thanks to Jim, someone named Codemonkey, and the rest of the Kenmo, 2ch.net was able to survive.

But their struggle seems to be far from over, even now, the yellow journalism persists and there are those who would want to sell the Kenmo's information for their own personal gain.

If any Kenmo do stop by here at 8chan, we should treat them well. They've seen some shit.

What he probably means is: "The media are sell-outs."

GamerGate.... -.-