Suspected of evading fares and cheating on breakfast, another foreign internet celebrity angers Japanese people
(AFP, Tokyo, 24th) Japan’s JR Kyushu Railway Company announced today that it is investigating four foreign Internet celebrities active in the video and audio channel YouTube. They are suspected of traveling around Japan on the Bawang train. This is the latest example of foreigners using gimmicks to gain fame, which has upset many Japanese.
The internet celebrity who calls himself Fidias has 2.38 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. He released a video last weekend teaching viewers how to travel around Japan on four trains without paying for tickets.
During one of the journeys, Fidias hid in a high-speed train toilet and pretended to be sick when confronted by ticket inspectors, then escaped to another train and repeated the same trick.
Another video shows him entering a hotel, pretending to be a guest and defrauding himself of a free breakfast.
“I just had a five-star Japanese buffet,” he said smugly to the camera. “We were leaving the hotel and no one caught us and we didn’t have any problems.”
Other clips in the video also show four people begging Japanese people for money to buy train tickets. One of them appears to be Night Scape, another Internet celebrity with millions of subscribers.
It is currently unclear when this video was filmed, nor whether the four people in the video, three men and one woman, are still in Japan.
Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) said it was studying the content of the video before deciding whether to call the police. “We are aware of the incident and are investigating the relevant facts,” the spokesman said.
One social media user said: “Another inexplicable and annoying foreign YouTuber. In addition to this guy Fidias, the other three people should also be arrested.”
Another user said: “It’s strange that his (online post) comment section is full of praise. (Police) should arrest him to avoid copycat crimes.”
Another person said: “Japan is one of the safest countries in the world. I don’t want tourists to damage this environment. If there are many such foreigners, we will not welcome them back.”
After the controversy, Fidias publicly apologized on his YouTube channel: “If we made the Japanese people feel uncomfortable, I apologize to them… From now on, I will do more homework on the culture we visited and try to avoid this This situation happened again.”
One month ago, Japanese police arrested an American live broadcast celebrity named Johnny Somali because he was suspected of trespassing at a construction site. Police said that according to the video, Somali, whose real name is Ismael Ramsey Khalid, was wearing a mask and kept shouting “Fukushima” at the construction workers urging him to leave, referring to the nuclear power plant that was damaged in the 311 earthquake. factory.
Another video showed Khalid harassing train passengers about the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Japan.
Khalid’s YouTube channel has only 12,500 followers, and there are only 10,800 fans on another platform, Kick, and his account is marked “offline.”
In 2017, American YouTube celebrity Logan Paul uploaded a video of a body in Japan’s “Suicide Forest”, which attracted 6 million views before being taken down, sparking controversy.
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2023-10-24 08:05:02
