So kawaii!
June 16, 2016 1:12 PM   Subscribe

This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry for the delayed delete; probably better to contain even the silly wtf Trump stuff in the election thread, and beyond that, the titling of this as "Japanese" by the non-Japanese maker seems like it's causing confusion in a way that's going to be a problem. -- LobsterMitten



 
While it's true Trump promises to turn into a giant robot which will destroy the earth, I'm still endorsing him because he will appoint true conservatives to the Supreme Court.

(yes, I'm ripping off Daniel Lin)
posted by honestcoyote at 1:17 PM on June 16, 2016


Did someone dose me?
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:26 PM on June 16, 2016 [6 favorites]


Wait, is it a commercial about Donald Trump made in Japan, or a commercial about a Japanese Donald Trump? I'd hate to think there was another Trump!
posted by Roentgen at 1:26 PM on June 16, 2016


The amount of effort put in to the production of this is astounding. The compositing and stuff are better than most adult swim/comedy central/john oliver type shows that would attempt something like this.

I'm actually sort of in awe. Is this person a pro VFX artist or something?
posted by emptythought at 1:27 PM on June 16, 2016 [5 favorites]


Well, it's the person that made BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK
posted by halifix at 1:29 PM on June 16, 2016 [2 favorites]


Also calling it now: In 8 years, campaign ads will be nothing but memes and shitposts. Stuff like this will run between episodes on hulu. Official facebook pages for politicians will be barely distinguishable from meme groups, only differing in the absolute dankness.

Which is to say, indistinguishable, because most of them are half stale anyway.
posted by emptythought at 1:30 PM on June 16, 2016 [4 favorites]


what
posted by gauche at 1:33 PM on June 16, 2016


Is there a dank scale? I need a formula to convert absolute dankness to fb likes!
posted by sneebler at 1:33 PM on June 16, 2016 [2 favorites]


Well, that ended well.
posted by zarq at 1:35 PM on June 16, 2016 [2 favorites]


It may be dank, but it's actually a pretty sharp parody of and at the same time non-parodic representation of how a big segment of the US populace feels about the orange leviathan.
posted by blucevalo at 1:35 PM on June 16, 2016 [2 favorites]




Is there a dank scale? I need a formula to convert absolute dankness to fb likes!

Dankness is weighted over time, and is logarithmic like the richter scale.

I'd say this is a solid 7.5, but it's losing steam as it gets overshared on every platform and space possible. By friday night it'll probably be like a 5.

In retrospect in say six months though, i think it has honest staying power. This isn't a Desu where it will just fade, and it's not infinitely reusable like steel beams", it's pretty poignant and well made.

I hope it spawns similar offshoot memes.
posted by emptythought at 1:37 PM on June 16, 2016


"It may be dank, but it's actually a pretty sharp parody of and at the same time non-parodic representation of how a big segment of the US populace feels about the orange leviathan."

It's unclear to me if the folk who want Trump to Make America Great Again would also be happy if he turned into a giant robot and destroyed the Earth, but I have a feeling that they'd be okay with that because explosions.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 1:44 PM on June 16, 2016


It looks like this was a parody ad produced by some dude named Mike Diva.

Dear Mike:

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT GIVE TRUMP ANY IDEAS.

Thanks,

The entire rest of the world.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:46 PM on June 16, 2016 [1 favorite]


can someone point me in the direction of some resource that will help me understand alt-right and maga and shitposting memes and specifically how all of those things are manifesting themselves in this really weird but not insignificant strain of trump's campaign? cause it's super fascinating and i don't really understand it all. the predictit thread for president, for example, is just full of people who spend all day pledging fealty to god trump. where did it start? who are these people?
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 1:50 PM on June 16, 2016


I suspect that that was actually Robo-Trump, who will have to fight the real Trump, and...

...

...

...whoever wins, we are basically screwed.
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:55 PM on June 16, 2016


Mike Diva has posted on twitter saying this is a pro-Trump video if you think swastikas and blowing up the earth is a good thing. I've been following him since BARK BARK and have watched this probably 30 times. I love it.
posted by msbutah at 1:59 PM on June 16, 2016 [3 favorites]


They finally made something more disturbing than tentacle porn.
posted by prepmonkey at 2:01 PM on June 16, 2016


i think my brain just melted for inability to process.
posted by thegirlwiththehat at 2:03 PM on June 16, 2016


Actually, I'd say that's a pretty accurate recap.

Alternately, that's a crappy articulate codpeice.

Hepme, hepme Im hypmotize
posted by petebest at 2:16 PM on June 16, 2016 [1 favorite]


This was made in L.A. Look at the credits. There's one Japanese name among them, for "translation."

How many of you were so eager to believe that this is Japanese because it fit your stereotypes?

I expected better of y'all.
posted by Borborygmus at 2:27 PM on June 16, 2016 [1 favorite]


I think you got the title of this post wrong: So kowai!!
posted by Pendragon at 2:30 PM on June 16, 2016 [2 favorites]


Stereotypes? Dude, this is actually what (a certain prominent genre of) Japanese pop music videos look and sound like.

But it's obviously fake and a parody.
posted by escape from the potato planet at 2:32 PM on June 16, 2016


I was willing to assume it was Japanese mainly due to there being stuff that looks like katakana, speech that sounds Japanese-ish, and "Japanese" being the first word in the title. Yeah, the usual stereotypes.
posted by sfenders at 2:36 PM on June 16, 2016


Also calling it now: In 8 years, campaign ads will be nothing but memes and shitposts. Stuff like this will run between episodes on hulu. Official facebook pages for politicians will be barely distinguishable from meme groups, only differing in the absolute dankness.

Which is to say, indistinguishable, because most of them are half stale anyway.


So what you're saying is that the transhuman dystopian cyberpunk future as envisioned in Warren Ellis Transmetropolitan has slowly come true!?!
posted by Fizz at 2:43 PM on June 16, 2016 [1 favorite]


Stereotypes? Dude, this is actually what (a certain prominent genre of) Japanese pop music videos look and sound like.

Sure, and I can imagine Mickey Rooney defending his Mr. Yunioshi in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" in the same way: "Dude, this is actually what (a certain prominent genre of) Japanese [people] look and sound like." smh.
posted by Borborygmus at 2:49 PM on June 16, 2016 [3 favorites]


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