A lot of streamers have made a name for themselves by being assholes in Japan. Because you largely have the British “if I ignore this buffoon they will go away” coupled with racist “ha ha, they said ching chong ching” bullshit if someone does confront the youtuber.

Ludwig/Mogul Mail has a good video about some dipshit who would run up and say “hiroshima nagasaki” to people who eventually got his ass beat, repeatedly, and was arrested. But the norm is that Japanese folk just want to move on with their day and hope the asshole leaves them alone after a minute or so. Although, I want to say that also somehow became one of Lud’s love letters to (deranged wannabe rapist) ishowspeed, so… yeah.

Also, while I don’t watch the assholes, I have seen mention of a lot more IRL streamers who are hoping they can get into a video (or just have footage of) the more popular streamers ever since OTV included a chance meeting with (Anime with) Alvin Zhou during one of their recent Japan videos. And lots of other streamers and youtubers have been making Japan content since basically everyone with patreon cash in the US were annoyed we couldn’t go to Japan for like two years of COVID