#DIRTY GAY MEMES TRIAL#
The New York Times Style section analyzed Depp and Heard’s trial outfits. On YouTube, film critics have switched over to offering trial commentary, and on TikTok, clips from the trial have become memes. When you log onto Twitter, it’s often the top trending topic - which apparently you’ll still see no matter how many related words or hashtags you mute. Over the past month and a half, the trial has metastasized into a full-on cultural phenomenon. Muting, I figured, would be enough to protect me and my mental health. As an abuse survivor, I knew that even anodyne-seeming mentions of the trial were likely to bring up uncomfortable memories and painful emotions, and I didn’t want to deal with it. Heard defamation trial inched closer to its April 11 start date, I made a strategic decision to mute the phrases “Amber Heard” and “Johnny Depp” on my Twitter feed. He was featured on "Lost in Tokyo", a Dutch and Flemish game show and has also appeared in multiple episodes of Jonathan Ross' Japanorama on the BBC.įinally, he made cameo appearances in Gantz and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya animes/mangas as well as several Japanese other shows and games.Photo-Illustration: by The Cut Photos: Getty ImagesĪs the Depp v. Hard gay also made a japanese version of "Young Men", from YMCA: You can find here (link via Wayback Machine) the forum community that helped translating and subbing HG's videos. They had many more views than the new ones. The original videos have been deleted due to copyright infrightement, sadly. He even went to Tomy's director's house to have his own Pop-up Pirate version:
#DIRTY GAY MEMES CODE#
His offbeat humor clashing with the japanese more conservative code of political politeness led to worldwide fame when videos from the show were uploaded on Youtube, and subbed in english: The Japan Times printed a story on Hard Gay in English on July 17th, 2005. It appears that the first Wikipedia article to be published on Hard Gay was on October 11th, 2005. This WMV episode with subtitles was made easily accessible to English-speaking audiences at least as early as November 7th, 2006. The site was available in English and Japanese right from the start. Http://was first registered on August 27th, 2006 and archived by on November 7th, 2006. The thread was called In Bridget we trust (link via Wayback Machine) and contained an image of Hard Gay hotlinked from 420chan. On February 22nd, 2006, another Hard Gay thread was created. Unfortunately, this video has been removed due to copyright violation. On February 19th, 2006, a user by the name of Grommet on the forums at started a thread entitled For the NANA fans (link via Wayback Machine) and posted a link to another Hard Gay video. After three years, the video has just under 70,000 views. The first Hard Gay video to be uploaded to Youtube was a video of a live performance, uploaded by user SaffronsGhost on January 19th, 2006.
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On the show, Hard Gay goes around performing acts of charity (or yonaoshi, “social improvement” → source: wikipedia link) for unsuspecting bystanders, wearing his fetish outfit while accompagnied by the Ricky Martin's "Livin’ la Vida Loca" song. Because of this, it was allowed to be aired and not deemed offensive to Japanese audiences. The character represents a common stereotype of American gay subculture to the Japanese audience and does not represent any Japanese gay subculture.
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Sumitani introduced the Hard Gay character (known in Japan as Hādo Gei) in 2002, growing to national renown by 2005 when Hard Gay became a weekly feature on the Bakushō Mondai no Bakuten!(Daibakuten) variety show. It was founded in 1912 as a traditional theatre, and has since grown to be one of the most influential companies in Japan, employing most of Japan's popular owarai (comedy) talent, producing and promoting the shows they appear in, and even maintaining its own amusement park. (吉本興業株式会社, Yoshimoto Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha?) (TYO: 9665) is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate, with its headquarters based in Osaka.
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In 1999.Įxcerpt from Wikipedia on Yoshimoto Kogyo: Sumitani's most well-known performing character is Hard Gay (ハードゲイ, Hādo Gei), also called "HG", Razor Ramon Hard Gay or Razor Ramon Sumitani, an eccentric supposedly gay man wearing tight black leather and PVC clothes and acting with overacted gay mannerisms.Īccording to Wikipedia, Sumitani had been a popular stage comedian, performing a few different characters for a few years befor joining Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd. Sumitani and his friend Makoto Izubuchi formed Razor Ramon in 1997. Masaki Sumitani is part of the Japanese comedy duo known as Razor Ramon, a name which he also used in his brief wrestling career.