How One "Man" Fooled Us All - The Strange Story Of Samurai Buyer | TRO
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- How One "Man" Fooled Us All - The Strange Story Of Samurai Buyer | TRO
0:00 - Intro
5:59 - The Rise Of Samurai Buyer
12:26 - i Dubbbed
19:02 - Cherry Blossom
25:57 - Stormy Weather
33:09 - Collateral
43:39 - Samurai Liar
52:29 - Sayonara
Intro:
Image can be reflected in our demeanour, our actions, our comments, and equally, it will be defined by how people interpret that behaviour. When we encounter people, and other alike entities, we spend a lot of time attempting to paint a mental picture in our head for how we envision them. Now, we cannot look into their minds and read their every intention, but some judgement is always necessary, because when we have to make a decision which may involve bestowing responsibility or trust in certain people, then that mental picture has to be factored in.
However, this is typically reserved for personal relationships, and although we may hold greater opinions about certain issues, we won’t typically assign a face to it. This is particularly the case with corporations. Now, it’s completely valid to have distaste for companies and their conduct, but it’s also reasonable to accept that most companies are made up of a lot of interacting tiers, and this can lead to them pretty much being separated from the idea of consciousness altogether. Although I wouldn’t actually agree with that, and urge others to keep in mind that a decision will typically have a person behind it, it is often hard to conceptually feel any emotional connection to what a company may do, hell, if we did we’d probably never stop being upset, and we need to look out for our mental well being too you know.
UA-cam occupies a weird medium between the world of intimacy and distance, because although we may not feel a connection to a lot of creators on a personal level, their success partly relies on the direct support that we pledge towards them. A lot of celebrities feel a bit beyond our world, and UA-cam creates communities that people can be involved in, however, because of that, there is a bit more direct accountability, and a judgement that does feel a little more personal. Therefore, we tend to apply certain standards for creators that we may not give to large multinational corporations, partly because of that connection, and partly because we actually have the power to hold them accountable.
Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed companies attempt to be quote “woke”, and relate to the human condition, yet it never feels particularly real because, although amusing, you receive the impression it’s just another campaign focused towards the demographic of depressed teenagers who occupy the Twitter hellscape. On top of this, the Tweets are never really channeled through the mind of an individual, and therefore we never put a face to the company or develop a personal connection.
However, in 2015, a business managed to infiltrate a budding UA-cam community, through a character who would become almost synonymous with the product that he was offering. Yes, long before BetterHelp would cause many creators to reevaluate how they keep an eye on the sponsors they collaborate with, there was an even more bewildering controversy, surrounding one of the most iconic UA-cam sponsors: Samurai Buyer.
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Are you and primink married yet???
Hi The Right Opinion I don't have anything to say so I'm just leaving a comment to help in the UA-cam algorithm
@@alexanderl7059 do you want a medal or something wow you are so amazing (im being sarcastic)
am i the only one that reads all the special thanks?
MEAW
"Samurai Buyer." Now that's a name I haven't heard in years.
Also, Merryweather is the *last* name I expected to come up in this! I started reading some of his stuff this year, and I had never heard of any of this before.
* Takes out cigarette * I haven’t heard that name in a long timmmeee
Me neither bro this gives me flash backs to bad unboxing
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Isn't that the guy that buy samurai
Oh ie.. *takes hat off* years..
Shout outs to how TRO actually uses the segment feature on UA-cam and places his ads during actual breaks in speech and/or between segments.
I like how the ads being there makes it much easier to follow meaning you don’t get mad at the ads you just accept them as I’m helping this guy eat this week
I AM SO GLAD SOMEONE SAID THIS , IT’S SO HELPFUL , I LOVE IT . (If I know about the person it’s nice to get to the juicy bits.)
It automatically happens when you add timestamps in the description
Amen. Smoothest transition in all my days.
@@minikipp8549 I hope you know that to actually help them you have to watch 30 seconds or the whole ad (whichever comes first) otherwise they dont get the revenue for it.
For a guy called “Samurai Buyer” he sure has a lot of dishonour.
I bet he's the kind of guy to kill Solaire.
I bet he's the kind of man to hit Grimm as he bows.
I BET HE'S THE TYPE OF MAN TO LEDGE PEOPLE IN 1V1 DUELS.
Alright, alright, anyways.
For a country so obsessed with honour they sure are a bunch of dishonourable curs
Applepop Applerancher you’re a hollow knight fan?
Samurai actually had no honor at all, they’d harass villagers and kill civilians
He needs to capture the Avatar in order to gain his honour.
The fact that "Misaki" was an African and wrote "I'm not a nigga, I'm yellow" is about 1,000x funnier now.
If I can recall, I believe TRO said he hired an African man to work the mailing list
The person who wrote that _was_ Misaki, not the African employee who had sent the original emails to UA-camrs
MISAKI WAS BLACK?! WHAT- WHY WOULD HE LIE?!
This is not true. Misaki and the african spam dude are different ppl.
WHEEZE
“The moment you think someone can do no wrong is probably the moment you underestimate them.” Hits hard.
@prende 87 wait this IS a joke right
can you please add /s because i'm dumb and cannot sense it
also nice cat pfp
@X Æ A-8gu468h dont ads make you wanna buy from there? I dont wanna after watching this
@X Æ A-8gu468h
TRO: *exposes company for doing bad thing*
you: "IT WAS ALL AN AD, I'M COOL AND *DEEP* TOO RIGHT?!"
edit: unless you're trolling and have cranked a soulja boy on me
True
Tbf acting right and some people will think you're weak too. Everyone need to be a D to remind others it's not the case.
"UA-camrs have clashed with far worse corporate entities"
Its ok you can say UA-cam.
The Jester
The one word that won't get you demonitized is UA-cam itself.
His elegance will not allow it
Cinko515 “You” is actually slightly prejudice to the proletariat; we much prefer you use “our”.
@@aloadofbollocks988 what about RedTube
@@helix5031 Ugh don't make me vomit
Pretty weird how outta all the youtubers it was filthy frank that saw through it right away and even called him out on in
@Cidney Lysander lmao not only half Japanese but half Australian also. It's insane
When did he do that?
@Cidney Lysander Jaiden is half Japanese
@@asrieldreemurr1988 I think that its more that Joji is well, himself, he's kinda not easily fooled by anyone.
@@Samantha-vt8zt no shlt , George is a japanese street connoisseur... he knows japanese bs when he sees it
Damn, this happened so long ago that Filthy Frank was still around
damn
Joji never left... you feeel me dawg?
The creator of filthy Frank is doing different stuff now and Im happy for them
@@liseegeskov8769 Happy for him, but his new music is shit as opposed when he was doing Joji vlogs and the Chloe Burbank mix was just the peak. 88Rising has destroyed his music.
@@Get_yotted yeah, once he made the hard switch to just Joji and his new 'music' I lost interest. I gave it a shot but Joji's music is just not my thing I guess. Sounds like all the other sadboy Soundcloud trash.
The Anime Man is half Japanese and is fluent in the language so it makes sense that he had no wacky interactions with Samurai Buyer
hardly matters if SB speaks english in the first place
i wouldn't say fluent
@@sasuxsakuxfan he's told plenty of stories on his podcast about where Japanese people were surprised to learn he was half Australian because of how well he spoke Japanese. he's fluent
@@sasuxsakuxfan lmao dude legit reads manga in Japanese. What more prove do you need to know wether Joey is fluent in Japanese and not?
@@sasuxsakuxfan he passed the N1 level of the JLPT so he's definitely fluent, and he's also said it was actually his first language. iirc he went to a school for bilingual kids too. hell, a long time ago he did a kanji contest with kizuna ai and kicked her ass lmao
Samurai Buyer?
🚬🐠
I haven’t heard that name in years.
He is smoking it backwards
!nquisitiv3 ciggy points the way it wishes
😗🚬
@@cocoroach_ok that's backwards to me
🚬😮 is the right way round for me
Fucking LOL @33:24 Keemstar had a golden opportunity to do the right thing and score a juicy scoop but went "Nah, my fans won't enjoy this". This man's ability to be an antagonist in every internet drama ever is beyond legendary.
This scoop would've been legendary.
But why would he help people instead of making the bag? Typical keem
idk i always thought it was condescending that people considered misaki "adorable" because of his supposed difficulty with english :/
Agree, it does have that taste of superiority I certainly don't like
I guess sometimes it was condescending but it also reminds me of when a grandfather tries to be hip and cool towards his grandchildren. I think it is more about the effort in trying to be informal when you're unexperienced on something. That is seen as endearing and well-intentioned, thus being considered adorable
Nothing to do with “superiority” or “difficulty with English”. It was the fact this guy tried to fit in with western culture. Using turn of phrase that could be misconstrued as insulting but in such a wholesome manner, that the person obviously didn’t mean disrespect. Akin to when you see people go to a country and try to learn a few phrases... amazing. Actually quite surprised the R words wasn’t brazenly used here.
Me too. As much as I liked JaidenAnimations I always felt weird when she talked abt him
it's like a fake innocence thing. You can't help but feel pity or condescending towards someone supposedly trying to fit in with western culture
I like how some of the editors censored swears while some didn’t
wall nut on top
Rents expensive
Eww Wall-nut Gang Us Gamer are Tall-Nut Gang!
Whilst
@@Hatimax1 frik tall nut and wall nut. Pumpkin gang!
honestly watching jaidens vids on him and seeing her mention how he was a scammer was. very odd to younger me considering the only scams i knew were from club penguin
you heard of the club penguin pedo rings lol
DarrenVeryCool not with in game items, I think people used the membership thing as a thing to scam people with, saying if you gave them your account etc. Wow, back then scamming was way simpler than these days..
Which video did she mention it?
same tho
@@Tetrabyt ohhh yeah. Vaguely recall stories of this ilk.
There was also catfishing. My friend and I would use her membership account to pretend to be a teenage boy. As tween girls.
What a weird friendship.
I never thought i’d see these two in a thumbnail together. they are polar opposites
Ikr
Lmao you should see her talking to swaggers
The legal threats definitely make more sense in the context of the Japanese legal system. You can be sued for libel in Japan for damaging a business even if the things you are saying are true.
@@amandak.4246 You just described the Japanese legal system as a whole.
I know this is old but I guess that explains why the merry guy was scared because he lived in Japan where as the American UA-camrs didn’t care because they couldn’t take any legal action other than try to remove the video.
I genuinely thought misaki was just some character idubbbz made up lmao
Deadass
Same.
literally same bro
I did until the last few videos when he started getting more aggressive towards samurai buyer
I thought the same thing for the longest time. Only just recently I stumbled on this samurai buyer thing on the internet and had a moment of realization. Lmao
Hot take: This video was made just to share the spongebob squarepants scene and the Misaki thing was just so TRO could put it on his channel
*All secret service agencies want to know your location*
This comment came up right before that part of the video played
honestly the whole "uwu japanese man can't speak english is so cute 🥺" is the best real-life example I've ever seen of the infantilization of japanese people, and it's honestly disgusting to watch everyone fall into the habit of treating what they deem to be a grown man like a toddler.
Right?? I was so uncomfortable with the clip of Jaidens video. Infantilisation at its worst 🤢🤮
@@maddogg- i mean, yeah, but jaiden's also japanese? is it possible for a japanese person to infantilize someone of their own somewhat heritage? /gen
@@goosedbanana i think it's still weird (i like her!) just like how trans people can infanitlise others (the whole soft boy trope), and the same with gay youths doing the same with adults. its not out of predejuice obviously, but still awkward and an issue since she has a platform
@@kilobucket that makes sense!! thank you very much for explaining it to me :)
@@goosedbanana np =)
Samurai Buyer officially shuts down on Dec.31. It’ll be in a way, an end of this saga, it’s an interesting lesson for companies about the power of social media. A nobody middle man shipping company got big because of large content creators, but certain individuals got a big head and thought they could do whatever they wanted and the repercussions of that decision affected them to the end. Even if Merry’s troubles didn’t end the company immediately… since due to the nature of companies they can stay active even if they are losing money for a certain period of time. It would seem this drama and the lack of professionalism of Misaki among other things started this slow collapse. In the age of social media; companies should try to avoid fucking people over for a small gain.
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
Its not just that. The fact that the company continued to employ Misaki after shit went down instead of realizing their mistake and bandaging the wound while its still fresh, they allowed it to fester until nobody could trust their representative anymore. If they had fired Misaki from the first instance and claimed ignorance over his treatment of Merry, they could still save face(or replace it) but by letting things get out of hand, they earned their dismissal from the community.
@@DemBigOlEyes Yeah, as a company they should have let go of Mizaki as they let go of Merryweather. Mizaki was doing more harm than good by staying there, and as you said, letting him go would have been a form of reparation. However, Japanese companies being Japanese, it's very hard to let go of a Japanese employee. Gaijin are fine to let go, our true patriotic Japanese should stay.
@@DemBigOlEyes I like to imagine Misaki's real attitude got him in trouble somewhere with Yakuza or something else and got the shit kicked out of him.
LOL I remember Filthy Frank making a video where he got really angry at Samurai Buyer, started talking to him in Japanese, telling him that he wasn't fooled by his persona. It was great to watch
Dudes from osaka theres a lot of ppl like misaki there trust me so he knew whats up thats why he spoke in osaka accent to show him where hes from and he wasnt fooled god i love joji that mans smart af
@@idfk3199 what did he say in japanese?
@@idfk3199 I live in Osaka, I am just curious how do you know so much about Osaka?
I know this is an old video, but does anybody have a link to this? I've only been able to find his unboxing video.
@@dillonf1905 if you're talking about frank calling out misaki it's actually in his unboxing video at 1:22
you can find a translation of what he said in the comments if you want but if you can't then here's the translation from onnt758
"Bring it on, fool. Huh? Come over here. Bring it. Who do you think you are? "
"I'm gonna open this box for ya. Are you watching this video, fool? Huh?"
"I AM GONNA OPEN THIS FOR YOU!"
"You know what? If I see you in Tokyo I'm gonna beat you up."
"What the f*** did you send to my PO BOX?"
"Just kiddiiiiiing!"
"Anyways, I'm gonna open it for you! Because I'm a nice guy. I'll only say good things "
Hearing people call him "Ian Idubbbz" will never not make me smile
Slamming his head into his keyboard, Ian Idubbz had been pushed over the limit, he began to scream and yell, with the extreme power of a Dragon Ball Character. He cried hard,thrashing around his room, and then began to suck his swolen thumb to calm himself down, he glanced back to his keyboard, his eyes still flustered with blind rage, the comment still stood there mocking him ;
"
Kat Bird
16 hours ago
Hearing people call him "Ian Idubbbz" will never not make me smile"
Shortly after his tantrum, Ian Idubbz entered a school district and shot 24 students dead. Before loading the gun up into his mouth and pulling the trigger.
@@Laiser I- huh???
@@Laiser and thus idubbbz died but wait! His supposedly lifeless corpse is moving. It's moving as if someone or something is trapped in him, what is it we'll never know.
There were no cameras to record it only a couple of eyewitnesses. Some claim it was his soul while others believe a darker story- a story so unnatural that it's beyond comprehension of a human mind. It requires real deal to wrap your mind around this. They say his body moved vigorously, violently and then it burst open blood splattered on the incident due to the aftermath of what had just happened, only to be vanished in thin air. They say a man resembling idubbbz in stature stood over once great youtuber's body- wearing parrot green body suit. He resembled the sun, so bright, so hot that human eyes failed to capture the beauty.
Some internet users even started comparing him to God sometimes even above God, they have named him idups.
Seeing all these replies were written in an hour is odd because when I started the video there were no replies to this.
@A Lion bruh... It's midnight here
Just checked the website, turns out they're shutting down.
aw wait fr
@@jumbokitty just checked the website and they're shutting down on the 31st of December
@@dizzlewood dam its December 30th I guess its gonna shut down tomorrow
good.
Samurai buyer is officially gone.
I’m not surprised Joey was one of the first people to upload a video on samuraibuyer
I did not expect Merry to be involved-
Yea that came out of left field lmao
I was like: I know all these creators. Neat!
Although seeing them in these context is a bit sad... sad cross cultural polination.
@@icarue993 exactly
I love how “Man” is in quotes in the title. Super fitting
I dont get it
*Is he a woman? A man? OR NON BINARY?*
@@Cream12345Ice he isn't a man in the sense of gender for no reasonable or good person would do what they did
@@marshdidit1676 man is in quotes as if there's a lack of humanity?
Probably it's implying it's a whole company/organization that's disguised by a one man business
“The home of a twat with too much time” yeah same mate.
*free time
@ClaraLara XOX 💜
I wish i had free time
Aren't we all just twats with too much freetime
I'm guessing that word doesn't mean the same thing in the UK that it means in the US. If you say it here & it's overheard at work, you're getting fired. It's 1 of only 8 words that can't be spoken in US broadcast
This guy does more research for one YT video than I do for my finals
can we talk about how tro is actually the GOD of paraphrasing? can you help me with my essays pls
Fun fact- after the whole Samurai buyer situation Merryweather went off to create pretty successful private security company
This needs more love
*Tevor Phillips Intensifies*
I wonder how many people think this is real and not just a GTA reference lol
@@cimbrius5583 your telling me an anime artist didn't form a highly trained militia? Yeah right.
I heard they just got approval by the government to operate on US soil
Why I watch TRO's videos
25% Interested in what he's talking about
75% Interested in just listening to his voice
Why I watch him...i see him as a classy 2nd coming of colossal is crazy lol
I honestly just tune out accidentally and listen to his voice and have to rewind because I have no idea how we got here
That’s quite the insult to his content.
@@natsukimarx2265 have you HEARD his voice
@@natsukimarx2265 I love his content obviously dude. I watch all his videos and I'm subscribed to him. I admire all the research he puts into his videos and actually learn stuff from it. His voice makes it that much better though and keeps my attention. Just let me make a little joke lol
To be fair: my boss is Indian. He still has the accent and on minimal occasion speaks broken English but all in all he speaks great English. But his writing and texting is still very very broken.
Imo, that kind of thinh is understandable. When I first learned English, my pronunciation sucked because I only needed to know how to spell words for school. That means I never bothered to learn how to actually pronounce things and how to communicate - simply because I didn't really need it at the time. I imagine it being similar for your boss, especially since Indian and English aren't really related.
@@o_p0tterhead Indian isn't a language
@@mattie1791 maybe he's talking about Indian people and English people
@@-Fozzy- i didnt know indians spoke arabic
@@-Fozzy- ..i think you mean hindi.
This sounds to me like an old episode of South Park "Chinpokumon"
Cold & cunning Japanese businessmen playing up a subservient & self-deprecatingly disarming persona to perfectly disguise a much more calculated (and sinister) alterior motive
God damn it they're good.
So small
My favorite part is when they reveal that they really mean it about americans having big dongs and then they demonstrate why
I forgot what Samurai Buyer even was and it clicked after a few minutes. The last I heard of it was Jaiden and Akidearest so I didn't even know this stuff happened so I'm glad I clicked.
Same, it literally took until the miraki guy was mentioned for me to realize it
Ya same
Jaiden made that video like 4 years ago. That's a long time.
Baby Elmo that was four years ago?? Istg, it feels like I watched it for the first time like a year ago
same
Not gonna lie I thought you would say that Misaki was actually a girl
Imagine
Back in the peak of people wondering "Who is Mr. Misaki", this was actually a really common theory. It had something to do with the marketing on their Twitter, I believe.
This info may be redundant though; I haven't watch the video yet.
@Glitch They're just a character being played by a real Japanese man apparently named Misaki.
He definitely has a girl name. Like even in Japan I think that is usually a girl's name
Nightlox 8 Woahhh there, buddy. Cool down a bit, yeah?
The fact that I used to get shat on and bullied in middle school because my english was terrible (English wasnt my mother language) and Misaki was being praised because his english was bad, makes me question basic human functions at this point.
The difference in treatment probably stemmed from you interacting with socially underdeveloped middle schoolers while misaki was interacting with grown adult youtubers. Kids can be as cruel if not more cruel than adults.
the whole idea of "Japan is the safest place" "japanese people are very kind" basically the country's reputation played a role in it. Its pretty much like you're an english speaking guy that went to a different country that's well known to be safe and some local told you that "blah blah" in their language is a greeting but in reality it's "I'm a retarded foreign whore". You've heard this quote plenty of times "Don't judge a book by its cover". Tip for all you travelers, specially streamers out there, it's best to learn the country's swear words or dangerous words first. Imagine some Japanese dude went to the US saying "gang sht" "Im Blood" "n-word" that his foreign "friend" told him to say as a formal greeting in a ghetto part of town.
I remember filthy frank opening a crate from them, and swore at them in Japanese about the shitty quality
Weeb
Link?
@@BichaelStevens ua-cam.com/video/iFx94Go8ve8/v-deo.html
I forgot about that lmaoo
"Do you want to fight with me? Huh?"
"I don't know what are you thinking..."
"I'll open this package. I'll punch you if we ever meet in Tokyo."
"What strange thing did you send to my PO box!?"
"Just kiddi~ng!"
"Anyway, I'll open it because I'm a kind man."
Idubbbz and Jaiden Animations are two people I never thought I'd see in the same thumbnail. Then again, I also didn't expect to see a video on Samurai Buyer in 2020.
Only here on TRO.
Jaiden has actually mentioned iDubbbz and even played Asian Jake Paul in one of her videos.
Bruh
They both have songs with boyinaband
I can't watch videos from commentators who just make some random avatar move around the screen while they talk without cringing so I just listen to it instead.
@@silverdeathgamer2907 why is it so cringy?
I Honestly just thought misaki was a made up idubbbz character.
I thought the whole thing was MaxMoeFoe and idubbbz doing a bit, I never saw Samurai Buyer promoted anywhere else.
@@Trisket I just assumed it was Joji and idubbbz because like. All of the letters he got were very homemade looking. Shocked to find out it really was a real person and real website
Duuuude same i watched the whole Samurai Buyer unboxing series when it came out on idubbz and I was like this has got to be a joke but I guess not
Noone realizes they're being fooled because they're too busy laughing at the fool.
I feel like this is something that needs to be made more clear about being a foreigner in Japan in general. I lived there for five years, and what I observed is that this sort of behavior by organizations and individuals in positions of power is unfortunately widespread.
Managers and companies regularly expect work hours beyond the legally allowed shift limits from their employees, and extra duties their workers were never hired for and will not be paid for. Do not expect pay for overtime in Japan, unless you're a CEO writing his own paycheck. For a native Japanese citizen, being taken advantage of in this manner is just accepted as part of living in their "unique" and "special" country. Trying to use actual recorded Japanese law to fight such exploitation by employers is pretty much pointless, as it's widely understood that a company will just fire you for made up and unspecific reasons (much like what you saw with Merryweather) and most government agencies who are ostensibly there to enforce the law will just accept their undefined reasons for termination. And that will often lead to this particularly Faustian rationale: since you were fired, you must have been a bad employee, so there is no longer a reason to continue an investigation about your mistreatment as one, and your case is summarily closed
This sort of bureaucratic betrayal by an agency that's supposed to protect you is usually followed by your name and picture (btw, all job applications in Japan require a photo of your face... for all of the wrong reasons you can imagine) being put on an entirely illegal but never criminally investigated black list for all the local employers who all embrace the same abusive work practices. Chances are, you will end up jobless and un-hireable, and you will either have to move to another place entirely or take the risk of looking for opportunity in the underworld. To the average good-hearted and pacifistic Japanese citizen, this is a terrifying prospect, and they will usually accept most demands made by their employers just to avoid this situation.
This is exactly why Misaki acted the way he did after being exposed, because in Japan, vague threats like that actually work, and most Japanese without the money or power to fight back will just cave to these threats immediately. His mistake is a common one, he tried to use Japanese style intimidation on Westerners, which pretty much always falls flat if they're not in Japan and vulnerable to Japanese authorities. In this case, he got rightfully punked by the UA-camrs involved, but always remember, folks like him in Japan generally are the "winners" in life. For every public shaming he's received online in our virtual world, he's probably fully taken advantage of and/or crushed an unfortunate Japanese citizen who happens to be lower than him on the totem pole with implied threats and requests that are presented as formal letters or official documents provided by cooperative local officials. Japanese bullies are paper tigers, but unfortunately in Japan, papers are very real weapons.
Now imagine being a foreigner with even less legal knowledge of Japan, it's an even more sketchy experience. Some companies will actually coddle their foreign employees for PR reasons, as they see their foreigner as more of a living mascot, and thus get much better treatment than native Japanese employees. But some also fully abuse the fear and confusion of their foreign employees to maximize every little profit or work they can get out of their essentially helpless laborer. If you look around, you will find horror stories of foreigners having their passports taken by their new employers for “registration purposes” but then never get them back, realizing that the company is holding it hostage for their compliance. So if you want to rock the boat, they just report you for being an undocumented foreigner and the Japanese government deports you and bans you from the country without caring you actually have a visa since you can’t produce it. And if you try to fight it and rightfully accuse the company of taking your documentation, good luck, because generally the Japanese do not care about the law when it comes to foreigners, unless it will get them in actual trouble with a major power’s government.
For proof of this attitude, look up the fact that “Japanese Only” establishments still exist in Japan, despite the country’s own constitution declaring that kind of discrimination illegal. By Japan’s own core legal document, no business can be allowed to deny services purely on a racial or ethnic basis, yet they do it rampantly throughout the country. Reporting it does nothing, as the government body tasked with “enforcing” that law is the Jinken Yougobu, or Bureau of Human Rights, and they literally have no power to enforce anything. They can’t force discriminators to desist or even send police, just send a strongly-worded (which in Japan basically constitutes not using the words “please” and “if you would be so kind” every other sentence) letter that will be ignored.
Importantly, if you ever decide to move there as a foreigner, always remember that there is no Writ of Habeus Corpus in Japan. This means Japanese police can arrest and hold you without warrant or charge for up to 23 days with no phone call and commonly no lawyer to get a confession out of you, any confession they want. You want to maintain you have a legal visa to be in this country and that it’s being held by your employer against you will? The police will just keep you in interrogation for 3 days straight until you break and admit that you made up the entire foul accusation to sully the unimpeachable honor of your Japanese employer just to get out of the interrogation.
This brings us to the Japanese legal system. The Japanese justice system only brings guaranteed convictions to trial because they believe acquittals in court de-legitimizes their legal system and makes Japan look imperfect or weak. Thus, Japan’s low crime rate is not indicative of lack of criminality there, but the fact that many crimes are actively swept under the rug when it involves only Japanese nationals. This is done through the tradition of jidan, a type of apology that takes the form of monetary compensation. The aggrieved party agrees to not file charges or withdraw them by accepting financial compensation from the guilty party. This type of resolution is actively encouraged and sometimes facilitated by Japanese police to simplify their own workloads, as a jidan means they don't have to actually finish the investigation and write any more reports. This is used for crimes as minor as theft to as egregious as rape. Keep in mind, rape as a crime in Japan is only vigorously pursued when the assailant is foreign.
By Japan’s own law, rape only occurs if the victim can prove they actively fought back, by having evidence of violence like bruises or cuts on herself and the attacker. If you’re drugged and raped in Japan by a Japanese man, congratulations, you just had consensual sex, and now you’re just a dishonest woman trying to ruin the life of a good decent Rufie-carrying family man. But you just have to suggest a foreigner may have raped you to send the Japanese police smashing through said foreigner’s front door in the middle of the night to arrest them and hold them for 23 days without a call or lawyer until they confess to it. This is not in anyway stating that the publicly well-known and tried cases of rapes by foreigners like US servicemen are all false accusations, but just pointing out that justice in Japan is severely unjust.
Now imagine that entire legal paradigm applied to a foreigner of little power or influence, and they’re accusing a Japanese person or entity of wrong-doing. To bring it to trial is a stain on their nation’s honor by allowing a foreigner to publicly expose Japanese misbehavior, and even if they acquit the Japanese employer, it’s an unforgiveable disruption to their near 100% conviction rate while also giving the public a whisper of a suspicion that discrimination or corruption may have affected the outcome. All outcomes cannot be countenanced there.
As far as the Japanese legal system is concerned, you’re just another foreign troublemaker trying to pollute the “purity” and reputation of Japan. All of this can happen to any visitor to the country that happens to upset the wrong Japanese national, but especially those who are seeking work or a new life there. Serious cases of coercion and entrapment have happened to people ranging from unfortunate prospective English teachers who got involved with unscrupulous English schools to young Filipina or Southeast Asian women who were lured to Japan on promises of maid work or other domestic jobs, but find themselves suddenly deprived of their documentation and forced into the red light district business like hostess clubs and brothels like soaplands.
Japan seems to get a pass from Western countries due to their image of being obsequious and cooperative to Western governments when it comes to international politics, but they have serious internal issues with basic human rights that are swept under the rug of the Japanese concept of "Yamato Damashii," or the "Japanese Spirit" or what I would call "the greater good of the Japanese people." It's this sort of warped manipulation of the 18th century samurai myth of selfless sacrifice that is used to exploit their own citizens alongside hapless foreigners. Japan can be an enchanting country with its preserved natural beauty and near-pristine maintenance of its historic sites and culture, but there is a definitely draconian and calcified skeleton inside that pretty closet.
That was fantastically long and well written
This is disturbing and eye opening, thanks for writing about it
Well said my man.
My man rly just put his essay in the comments very cool
To add on, Japan in notorious for labelling any crime that resulted in death as "suicide" or a health complication (ie. heart disease, even if patient history says they had no heart conditions presented before). This is in order to keep giving the image of how the police look to people, and showing that their (investigative/detective) capabilities are high. Unfortunately, the motive is the fact that this is the only way for them to keep their position as officers, and they will play dirty just to keep it that way.
"Without autopsies they can keep their percentage [of solved cases] high. It's all about numbers."
In terms of unnatural death, Japan autopsies only a mere 11% of the cases nationwide (whereas natural death autopsy is practically zero, which can avoid investigations for medical malpractice). They do not want to investigate due to a number of reasons: the family does not want to (cultural idea of "leave the dead alone" (while ironically falsely labelling the dead) in conjunction with social stigma aka "The nail that sticks out shall be hammered down" ), it is expensive for the insurance companies to compensate if the death is unnatural, giving proper punishment if it is someone who may be in power is impossible, and police want to keep those numbers of solved cases high.
The disturbing fact is that unless the killer is obvious, they will not request autopsies, and one can easily get away with murder if they need to.
Here's a Case of Takashi Saito, a 17-year old who's severe head injuries, chest injuries and "battered" looking body was announced by the police as a heart disease-related death. The police initially refused the family to see the body until pressure caved them in and the family saw the horrid state of their son. It wasn't until a month later that they decided to investigate, which was after the case had gone viral. (links also provide quotes and stats that I used for this comment)
web.archive.org/web/20190401043622/www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-09-fg-autopsy9-story.html (non-archive version still available, but it forces you to subscribe to the newsletter)
www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/02/27/editorials/troubling-low-autopsy-rate/
now you know another reason why Japan has a high suicide rate while having a low homicide rate
That site is a scam, they wouldn’t take any of my skilled samurai warriors.
Aww maan, I really thought I found a website that would buy my samurai 😔 guess I got to keep looking
Seriously though, what can I do with my dozens of samurai I've trained?
Train them to dance and sing as well, then you have a cool show to sell tickets for lol
BLORT BUGMAN stonks
"How are you supposed to protect your shit, from Criminals?"
*HIRE A SAMURAI*
Idk if this is just me but this content is like the perfect stuff to put on while trying to sleep
I’m literally up at 3:AM watching this guy
>punishing whistleblowers
Yep, he's definitely spent time in Australia.
Merryweather, Slazo am The anime man were three names I did not expect to hear this video
Same, especially after the slazo video he made
@@ellaphant-6885 And why because of that?
Ikr
To Anthony, because Slazo, he was apart of another drama, he could've been a bad guy. I wasn't expecting him to be connected to this at all considering.
@@ellaphant-6885 But Slavo wasn't the and guy in that drama. That chick who was Slazo's and also Pyrocinical's ex, iamAlexxx and their friends were the bad guys to destroy Slazo's image...
TRO uploading is like a national event: it garners an audience and there's a lot of entertainment to be taken out of it.
TRO is the next content cop
I was on my way out to grab dinner and stopped to watch!
@@Rydie_Haverlock Hell yes. That would be amazing
Simp
larp
"A guy named the anime man"..... AAAAAAaaaah holly fuck I forgot this guy existed! I used to watch him, akidearest, misty, and lost pause so much back in my weeb days.
They're shutting down it seems, got to love the message they have up "As a small startup, we had to learn a lot along the way and we’re honored that you stuck by us every step of the way. To everyone who's bought something through us, mentioned us on social media, or even just shared a youtube video we were a part of, we want to say thank you so much. It might be a bit clichéd at this point, but we truly could not have done it without you.
"
Sad to hear the only brand deal jaiden has done was a "scammer"
Yeah, Jaiden always said that she doesn’t want to take sponsors, though I don’t think she got paid to advertise Samurai Buyer it’s still sucky the only time she advertised something... turned out to be a scammer.
at least it wasn’t Raid: Shadow Legends
@@Romanticoutlaw the day she advertises raid is the day humans go extinct
@@brgan557
Speaking about things going extinct, have you heard about this cool game,
Plague Inc Evolved?
@@0riginal_zer030 man, thats a great game. Not sure I like this worldwide real life event they have right now though.
BRANDS AIN'T YOUR FRIENDS
COMPANIES AIN'T PEOPLE
They are hollow
But they are considered "people" by technicality and by us law. Thanks to the railroad company and California.
That's why companies can destroy their "property". And tbh the US is a corperation so.......... It's a pretty dire situation.
Batul Bratha
Ok commie
Thanks Joey, for having me take another look at this video. Honestly hope that TRO could possibly appear on Trash Taste some day
Yo bro, just wanted to say that I slap your videos on whenever I'm doing something that takes 40+ mins and it really chills me out, cheers
i haven’t heard anything about samurai buyer in like forever holy crap
I know, The last time I heard about samurai buyer was the Jaiden Animation video and nothing else so to see this in my subscription box was very surprising.
@@WeirdDog18 Same, I remember when he just seemed like an awkward, nice, Japanese man.
@all panic no disco Can I just say that I love your username?
It gave me a chuckle, and that's worth something in today's world.
@all panic no disco i relate so much to your name
can I just say, your user name is sooooo funny!
When I saw the title I was like “wait Jaiden’s a man?”
No, she is not
unrelated but i love your profile picture, im a hamilton fan too
Just Some Alien With Internet Access ooooh you got a fancy Hamilton profile pic
Hamiltrash unite
I looked at it and thought the video was trying to say the same thing. But as far as I know, having gone to high school with her, she is indeed not a man.
I have never been more happy reading the replies to a comment before.
Kept noticing the “I’m hungry!” Banner from Jaiden, I’m sad now
What happened? I don't know that youtuber
@@doctorbone3655 she has an eating disorder, but i think shes getting better having had a therapist and the support she needs :^)
@@doctorbone3655 she helped miskai come up with the slogan
You , and your team of editors,
are turning what you are doing,
into an ART form! Bless you and your team 🙏
Not really, the tweets in a slanted format and most of the text was unreadable with someone who has a small monitor (including phones)
The text for me is like 10 pixels big lol, it's inconvenient and serves no other purpose than being a stylistic choice.
Without reading the entire title I genuinely believed that Jaiden was secretly posing as Idubbz to escape a samurai.
With the way everything's going, I'd believe it
I'd seen her in person and misread it thinking she was some alternate persona by Idubbz or some shit.
@Berry O by "pyschopaths" you mean toddlers
@@RealVidjag nah that's the other 30%
Are you high
Man poor Merryweather, I didn’t expect him of all people to be mentioned
Not surprised consider how popular he got
@@akira8393 i didn’t know that this was how he got famous i thought it was from the comics
@@VanillaSchleep he got famous from comics, yes, but the controversy helped bring attention to him
some people prolly followed his accounts to try to cheer him up or whatever, and then when the comics popped up maybe 10% of people were like "oh it's that guy" but most people like me just came from the internet explorer memes and webtoons
Shouldeve just said sperm or the n word
Your editor Biodegradable has a cool style. Props to all the editors!
Thank you for going so in depth! Keep up the good work! Many other commentary channels just touch on the basics or assume you already know everything so I appreciate the care you give to actually digging for these videos
I find it really interesting that Misaki recognised the marketing potential in the tendency to infantilise non-westerners. It seems to me that Samurai Buyer came to realise that pandering to racist stereotypes sells. Honestly, this is a fascinating by-product of the 'edgy-humour' era of UA-cam - thanks for making such a great video on it
Exactly. He scammed them, but if they weren't infantilising him because he was Japanese, the scam would have fell through.
Edgy-Humour Era?
idubbbz hasn't changed. If that was an era of UA-cam, we're still in it today.
Lol. Why has everything always got to be attributed to racism. Maybe people just found it endearing, and Japan is a stable, functional country and culture so it’s more trust worthy.
Anyway, despite making up only thir...
Having positive and innocent feelings about a businessman seems like a really gullible and stupid thing. I guess hindsight is 20/20 though, and they were young.
Exactly: I was always weirded out by people considerimng Misaki to be such a wholesome, friendly adn endearing persona. The very moment he """"""accidentally""""" referenced racial stereotypes and started using edgy humor, it became clear to me that he was playing a character to a ppeal to the youTube community and gain clout.
PLEASE do Cryaotic. he was one of my favorite youtube idols growing up and his recent disgusting and disturbing fall from glory has given me flashbacks to my school's numerous takes of the Ice Bucket Challenge.
Oh no, what happened to him?
Farras TR TehMimi did a pretty good dive into Cryaotic. He basically started going after minors :(
@@kaitlynv623 oh. Oh no
@@kaitlynv623 thanks for the info, I'll check it out -- that's more than a little shocking, not gonna lie... :(((
Farras TR yeah, when I saw TehMimi’s thumbnail a part of me wished it wasn’t Cry because I loved him so much when I was younger. Had a little crush on him... It sends chills down my spine because he was so charming....
ik this is besides the point, but i loved all the different artists and different editors who worked on this. i think the different styles really adds to the video and keeps it fresh. just thought id say this
Damn all I remember of Misaki is that he’d send akidearest weird outfits to wear in the thumbnail lmao
I remember that and jaidens video
(Early middle school memories of watching Lost Pause, The Anime Man, and Akidearest)
I still watch them, I recommend watching them again and Nux Taku
I distinctly remember watching Lost Pause's Sakura visual novel videos every day after coming home from a summer music school, good times
I stopped watching the anime man when he kept talking about loli's, and started looking like a greasy degenerate
I don't know how anybody watches that lost pause guy
Sad middle school I say.
That tweet by Merry where he asked for help saying he was scared, that broke my heart.
Those are the words of a broken man.
Thankfully he is doing better now!
Huh. Never seen Ian get that damn emotional. He was legit tearing up. Wow.
i feel like i'm the only one who's never heard of samurai buyer
Oh i hadn't heard of it before this video-
you prob are tbh
i didn't.
Me neither
yeah I only just learned the name now
I thought that the quotes around “man” indicated Misaki was revealed to actually be a woman whole time.
Goat Shenanigans, I did too.
SPOILER ALERT
Same
Then the chlothes girls get is less weird
I thought it was gonna say Jaiden was a man, just at a quick glance
I remember when I was younger I almost managed to get my parents to buy something from Samurai Buyer. I had seen the name pop up alot in Jaiden's videos, and I was a massive weeb back then, so I begged and begged my parents for anything off of the website. I'm just glad that Jaiden posted a "warning" in the descriptions of her videos in time, otherwise my parents would've been absolutely fucked over.
I never saw the warning. What was it?
I didn't read descriptions and wasn't a weeb but I'm glad y'all didn't get screwed over lol. They seemed really sus
I always wanted a model Zero fighter, not really a weeb item, but I want one straight from Japan for the lulz and historical value, and a model Ha-Go because it's a wonky little thing.
I don't actually think the website is a scam, you probably would've been fine ordering from them
@@krisdoesart9643
It may not be a scam (as in you will probably receive the item you've ordered), but as someone that's had the displeasure of ordering from them (and I can't speak for anyone else, so others may not have had this problem), it's absolutely a possibility that they'll rip you off on their additional fees after you've already paid for the product itself. Don't be surprised if your order a tiny figurine or something and they end up charging you $30 for their services. As someone that's imported from Japan with many other services, I can guarantee that in my personal experience with them they've definitely overcharged to an outrageous degree.
This was highly entertaining. I came across by you by accident and have watched a few videos. Even the 4 hour long one about the avocado. Kudos. You and your team do an amazing job.
This is the 3 video I've watched on this channel and I am absolutely hooked, I live the idea, I love the effort, I love the plot, your doing great, props to you and your crew, keep up the good work
i have no idea who this man is, but damn right do i wanna know how he fooled us
Watch idubbbz samurai buyer videos. They are pretty funny tbh even for just the first couple minutes
I didnt like samurai buyer in the first place, he manipulated multiple youtubers just to advertise his company
@@iiinterpreter he's racist i'll pass...
@@gohom3882 i- nooo
beedrill coochiesnatch are you the guy who spams on Pokémon Twitter with out dated memes? If I’m wrong let me know
Me: I hate how everyone ises the word "weeaboo" to describe anyone who likes ANYTHING from Japan smh :/
TRO: Japanophilic
Me: p... please just say weeaboo
That sounds like something a *weeb* would say
maybe dont get worked up about words that people generally use? just like what you like dude
@@gunswinger3110weeaboo has a strong, negative connotation behind it.
weeb
"Is that a *Japanophilic Comic* I found in your room?"
You should make this a podcast on spotify I love listening to this
Didn’t expect to see Merry’s anime backstory.
But jokes aside, what they did to him was messed no matter how you view it, and the fact they are keeping that narrative is beyond childish and insane.
Is this the same person that would send "sexy" outfits to Akidearest??
yeah, it is
Yeah. Creepy af imo
@Toori Baba off to horny jail
@@luv6707 Yeah. I mean I guess its okay since she was cool with it, but honestly it's still creepy as shit. Like I guess appealing to the horny is a good marketing scheme but holy moly.
@@Hesstiia I read that in the Oblivion guard's voice
opening a section with "in the spongebob squarepants movie..." really startled me lmfao
AYYEEE ITS MY MAN JOEYYYYYYY!!!!! IT FILLS ME WITH PURE JOY TO SEE ONE OF MY FAVOURITE UA-camRS TALK ABOUT ANOTHER OF MY FAVOURITES
when I like this video, it's not just to compliment you, it's because this is the exact type of content I want youtube to recommend me more of
"In the world where the corporate and the personal become one, the heavens will collide with the earth" hot dog that's a spicy quote
Your editors search history must be so random
Holly Higgs ha ha ha
Love the pfp :)
love the hamilton profile picture
@@allllyyyy absolutely love your username
I gotta say your video have always entertained me the quality and effort you put into them really pays off
His character looks like a human version of Allistor from Hazbin and Sebastian from Black Butler if they had a child together. No offense, I mean it as a compliment.
Ah, Merryweather...
The world: [Literally anything]
Merrweather: "You want thighs with that?"
I don't really like the execution of plot points in his stories, but his art is undoubtedly very good and worthy of praise.
I know him on this meme posting website
Gamer Bread
@@Potatotenkopf good artwork, but fr tho his story stuff is pretty disjointed
Meep Meep Marryweather does not draw his comics,he only writes them.He hired artists,why do you think his art style are different from each story?
I literally thought that you should have a section called "samurai liar" while watching, and then I got to the samurai liar part
Scamurai liar
Angie the Birb Scamulie liar.
Ha knew Mama Aki would be in here.
As someone who orders from Japanese sellers a lot btw, I have to say that broken English is not uncommon when communicating with them.
It's 12am and I am now 19, and I couldn't think of a better way to usher in my birthday than to listen to your smooth British voice😂
I legit thought by just seeing the thumbnail, you were gonna say Jaiden was a guy lmao
Same
JAIDEN IS SECRETLY IDUBBBZ?
She is tho
Why would Jaiden be a numale simp has-been?
@@Shizzy5321 bruh u sure
I swear to GOD I knew it right away!
Like, I still remember when Jaiden first posted her video about Samurai Buyer, referring to Miyasaki as "the most innocent cinnamon roll" and when she brought up the conversations she had with this guy, I just felt it deep inside my bones, something was off with guy!
Guess I’m an idiot
Not only that It was the box and the stuff he sent her yall can get that shit on amazon easily
GOD i hate that term sm
SellaRose. I mean it was like 4 years ago. Nobody really uses that term anymore. At least not that I see!
@@alexanderpumpkin3423 You'll see it everywhere in mha fandom it's pretty...cringe.
Im really loving the content man, i usually dont sub but your video's are very intetesting and obviously take a lot of work and research. Im surprised you're not at 1m already
And now he's reach 1 million
Woah what. I just came across this video just remembering about this story...and your videos are like hours long.
I sense the quality. Subbed. 👍
This may be a little bit of a difficulty to believe, but I was mutuals with the Samurai Buyer account on Twitter back a few years ago. And it wasn't even business relations, that account was added to a group chat that I was apart of (and still am in) some years back and would talk with the rest of the people in the group about various things. Something that's really irking me after the things you described here, is that whoever was operating the account could speak perfectly well English, or at least hadn't fully utilized the "broken" English that Misaki(?) would do elsewhere. They were generally empathetic and easy going. We would generally converse about our daily lives and struggles with depression and the like. I may have been interacting with a totally different employee.
Like I said, you guys might have a but of difficulty in believing me, but I'm just gonna sit here and try to rack my brains on any memories, and if I have anything off an old account what our conversations were like, I'll absolutely add more to this. Seeing the account in screenshots also doubled my confirmation to myself it's the same account I interacted with.
(Update): The person I befriended in the end was not Misaki after all, it was a different employee that they passed the account to for a while. From what he described he dipped FAST when he started realizing what he was getting himself into. Ironically you helped me remember him and now I have met up with an old friend again, thank you very much for that.
Basically just learned I was friends with a scammer whew idk how to feel about this
Damn, that's actually pretty interesting
Samurai Buyer has a comment on this video, now near the top of the comments. They state that the social media team is now pretty much new people so few really have the complete ins and outs on details of what happened, but you're able to read their whole statement.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Thankfully the staff person was one of the new ones, I don't think he's with them anymore but I'm still glad I found out it wasn't the other guy lol.
WAIT THE SAME PERSON WHO DOES THE INTERNET EXPLORER ANIME COMICS WAS ALSO THE PERSON WHO MISAKI FIRED???
Yes
Merrys comic on the girl with the green scarf was what I recognised
I simultaneously enjoy your videos and am almost always relieved I don't know the majority of the people you reference too. Life is indeed funny.
The amount of random connections (as in, things I remember seeing or experiencing or names/people I have seen or watched) I have to this topic is insane considering I never knew about the full scope of it.
Watching TROs videos: Interested in what he’s talking abt: 40% Feeling like a smart boy: 937393%
9600% go back to school
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