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Re:Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web by RicoElectrico on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @05:47PM (#38550553)

    Now this should go without saying, but when browsing through these search engines and the sites within them, please respect the people running these sites. You're stepping on their part of the world, not yours, and as such, you will find stuff that you won't necessarily jibe with—or you'll encounter fringe content that, to put it lightly, has a very niche audience; but despite this, respect these people's personal spaces and browse at a distance. I'm pretty sure Westerners already have an abysmal reputation over there due to moral policing (à la Twitter/Tumblr) those who are literally minding their own business—in a completely different continent no less. So don't make things worse for those who are already making an effort in disconnecting from those places where people who would harass them are rampant.
What?
Re:Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web by CobaltFire on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @05:56PM (#38550642)
What's legal and acceptable in Japan is rather different than anywhere in the West.

As one example, animated or drawn child pornography is perfectly legal there. There have been multiple legal rulings reinforcing that. Western audiences find that horrible, for the most part.

Actual pornography is censored in Japan however, and many of the people I've talked to there find uncensored real pornography to be far more offensive than drawn pornography.

You can also find parasocial writings where people will post their imagined lives with public figures. There are a ton of topics that fall under this advisory. It's a completely different culture, and many people not from there make assumptions about what's acceptable from what is popular wherever they are from. That rarely looks anything like the reality there (and is true for anywhere that happens).

Re:Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web by RicoElectrico on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @06:01PM (#38550683)
I thought of that, really. It's funny how the author dances around that never mentioning what it was about.
Re:Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web by _heimdall on Thursday December 07, 2023 @07:50AM (#38555747)
After years of seeing people being "cancelled" for much less, I don't blame someone for not wanting to write anything specifically normalizing or in anyway explaining what western cultures usually consider child pornography.

Even Google/YouTube gets in on the dog pile. Just try to mention Epstein in a YouTube video and see how quickly that strike or demonetization comes in.

Re:Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web by hooverd on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @08:34PM (#38551788)
Guro content, loli content, guro loli content. Stuff like "Unfortunate Girl 03". I can't imagine what else would cause such a reaction.
Re:Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web by numpad0 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @06:20PM (#38563165)
Doesn't take that much to trigger western audiences. There are some as-yet characterized trigger conditions in anime content that cause violent rage reactions to non-Japanese-mainstream cohorts. No one knows what it is(at least Japanese users don't).
Re:Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web by shunyaekam on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @05:48PM (#38550564)
Yeah. Some examples of niche content would be interesting.
Re:Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web by zlg_codes on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:06PM (#38551199)
What do you think doujins are?
Re:Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web by Tiberium on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @08:07PM (#38551622)
They are just self-published works, nothing more. Yes, some are NSFW, but is it different to self-published stories elsewhere? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doujinshi
Re:Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web by zlg_codes on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @08:43PM (#38551831)
The ask was for examples to niche content.

The world of doujinshis is a subculture, and therefore a niche. No value judgment made, but it's kinda similar to asking for a niche art style and getting upset when someone says "pixel art" in a world of live action and photorealistic CGI.

I'm just like, "do you want niche, or taboo? It's already niche."

Re:Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web by zlg_codes on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:55PM (#38560240)
Explain your flags, there is nothing incorrect about doujins being niche content. Is this place no better than Reddit?