Dark Topics from the Japanese Internet

[@PBNrandom]

21:52 That would be me 🤭 Thanks for covering the Cesium-san incident. I stumbled upon this when I was watching a compilation of Japanese TV clips of TV programs or networks having to apologize for certain mistakes. (A far more innocuous one in that video was NHK apologizing for airing two episodes of a soap opera in the wrong order.) Tokai TV is a Fuji TV station in Nagoya, and P-CAN TV is a local program so technically it was only seen in Nagoya and surrounding cities, but word (and screengrabs/recording of the incident) got around the Japanese internet so fast that farmers in Iwate caught wind of it the next day and demanded an apology. As expected, it became national news so the station conducted an internal investigation and around a month after, they aired a one-hour, *commercial-free* TV special explaining what happened (and apologizing profusely throughout). (I don't speak Japanese so I mostly relied on Google Translate and the CC auto-translate feature for these details. Apologies in advance if I misinterpret some details.) Indeed, the graphics they showed was a placeholder graphic that was supposed to be used only during rehersals. (Apparently, it was industry practice in Japanese TV until then to put very obscene or offending text in placeholder graphics as a way to let the staff know that what's shown on screen is a rehersal and not a live broadcast.) The guy who created the placeholder graphic said that since the Fukushima nuclear disaster was still fresh in his mind back then, that's what he put in thinking that no one else outside the station will see it. Basically, there was a failure to double-check at almost every point in the production hierarchy. Someone working for the show reminded another (I forgot their positions) to make sure not to include the placeholder in the files for the actual broadcast, replied something like, "Sure, sure" but didn't really get around to doing it. Same thing happened with another staff member... You get the idea. On the day of the broadcast itself, the person in charge of the graphics inadvertently loaded the placeholder in the queue, not paying attention to what's actually in it. While it was up on air, the executive producer was busy talking to another producer about the next segment in the show. And apparently, no one else in the control room (and even in the studio!) was paying attention which was why it was on screen for 23 WHOLE SECONDS. When the EP did notice it, he had a back and forth with the graphics person before he hurriedly switched to the studio camera feed. And where was the CEO of the station when this was all happening? He was out golfing 🤦🏽‍♂️ He only learned about it when he got a call on his cellphone a little while after. Naturally, the station was flooded with calls and emails of angry viewers. The CEO personally apologized to the mayor of Nagoya, the governor of Iwate, the head of the rice famers sssociation in Iwate... It was rough. Because of this incident, Tokai TV holds an internal refresher training for its staff every August 4 to remind them of the importance of broadcasting ethics, and what carelessness and lack of forethought can cause. They also launched goodwill initiatives to help Iwate and the rest of the Tohoku region to recover from the March 2011 disaster.

[@SakuraStardust]

Oh wow, thank you so much for reaching out! So glad you where able to see this! I’ll go ahead and pin this comment. It adds a lot of perspective to the situation for sure! Also, I’d love to watch that video on Japanese network apologies if you remember what it was called!

[@johngeronimo8821]

It's kindly weird to me that they need to display offending messages as a placeholder to indicate that the whole process is just a rehearsal 😅. Btw thank you for the complete info.

[@jamm6_514]

@@johngeronimo8821pretty sure it relates to similar processes held by several different industries! like how in games you have striking or absurd graphics used to call the attention of devs so they don't mistakenly leave the object untextured- it was likely assumed that having such offensive and absurd messages in the card would be enough to alert people that it was a placeholder, whilst it also looked realistic enough that could be used in a rehearsal. what we saw here is that it wasn't enough @_@

[@SamaKintoruControl]

not reading allat

[@Cod_OfWar]

@@SamaKintoruControlreal

[@lynthecookie2k23]

Anyone else minimized the video they were watching and got jumpscared by that thumbnail?

[@papaya3000ジ]

Me frfr

[@boahancock3461]

😭

[@carl6982]

Most definitely xDd

[@SakuraStardust]

Sorry y’all 😅

[@hastnicke_]

yeah

[@tehdrumerer3]

I LOVE and appreciate the absence of any introduction in this video. you are a beacon of example and hope to all creators and consumers. thank you for your service.

[@SakuraStardust]

I’ve been trying out cold openings lately with videos that are self explanatory lol. I definitely think it boosts viewer engagement 😊

[@tucosalamanca5818]

I disagree, I like the foreplay part of videos and don't rlly like being stuffed raw with 0 warning or lube ( in a non weird way)

[@nutellaluvr]

@@tucosalamanca5818 😭😭😭😭

[@jy61]

@@tucosalamanca5818 The fuck does this mean

[@rabies_]

@@tucosalamanca5818 you could have phrased that better😭

[@tweecafe]

definitely pablo picasso's face in that kincho donto ad. the image source seems to be david douglas duncan's photograph of him enjoying a cigarette on a rocking chair!

[@SakuraStardust]

Oh wow!!! I need to let the people searching in Japan know then!! Thanks so much for the info!

[@krisward.]

it totally is 100%. thanks for sharing!

[@snufkingstan]

i knew i recognized it and when they showed his face that was basically confirmation it was him

[@SMAXZO]

Yeah, it's probably from a show or an ad that comes after the kincho donto ad and they stop recording there..

[@_mango_]

Oh wow, Sakura Stardust may not work for the post office, but she always delivers.

[@QualityPeepersRodan]

Yes! Haha 😄

[@thepotatoportal69]

Sakura Stardust might not be a hepatectomer, but she always de-livers.

[@carcinoGenecistt]

watching this in a cloudy cold rainy day in my dark bedroom in the apartment while playing stardew, just what i needed! tysm for the amazing videos sakura! i love watching them in the background while doing my daily activities such as drawing or playing videogames.

[@SakuraStardust]

You’re very welcome, friend! I love Stardew as well! 😊

[@PeripheralVisionary]

I absolutely love these sorts of videos. They combine that feeling of nostalgia with morbid curiosity, to go searching for answers for unsettling mysteries, often in eras recently past.

[@AHOGE-TAN]

I love goodbye to dolphin dreams actually. It's basically a shitpost but fueled by japanese vocaloid P powers

[@serixskylark]

The only part I dislike are the random flashing lights and images. I understand ppl like to go super far with their shitposts, but risking sending ppl into an epileptic seizure is never the move imo.

[@twoshillings7292]

@@serixskylarkwhile i agree- i don’t think that’s almost anyone’s intention when putting flashing lights in things like that, it’s just supposed to be eye strain

[@serixskylark]

@@twoshillings7292 regardless of intention, it’s incredibly dangerous. More people should be informed as to why, just in case someone clicks onto it while not knowing it has flashing lights that could trigger a seizure.

[@kyojurokinnie]

SAMEE

[@DishantSharma679]

And hello whale nightmares

[@rudolfambrozenvtuber]

Mom why does the lady in the computer sound like she's trying to sell me the Gerber grow up plan

[@Karthikkun2805]

Timestamp?

[@rudolfambrozenvtuber]

@@Karthikkun2805 0:00

[@arthas640]

Growing up i remember stories of parents like Susan Smith so even as a kid i wondered how often the Gerber grow up plan was used by psychopathic parents to make a buck and escape their kids.

[@gemiemma]

knowing that the game is made by the people who do danganronpa like. oh, this is their norm lmao. suddenly all my suprice and wtf flew away when u showed the steam page lmao. danganronpa v3 especially has that energy. not as crazy but like. god. of course its them.

[@SakuraStardust]

Honestly, I was exactly the same. I was so confused til I realized they’re the Danganronpa people lmao

[@lautreamontg]

Yep, it all made sense to me when that came up.

[@tajbrock9883]

I’m sure the game is pre-Kodaka. But I’m gonna blame Kodaka.

[@K1D27H]

9:49 timestamp. The Thai part in a review by Dirter44 can be translated into "There is a corpse being hidden there".

[@QualityPeepersRodan]

Is it true? 😳

[@rynabuns]

@@QualityPeepersRodanobviously not lmao read the review

[@QualityPeepersRodan]

@@rynabuns sorry english is not my first language

[@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378]

​@@rynabuns Probably they just trolling.

[@K1D27H]

It looks like an encrypted message asking for help to me. No news about this in local news however so...guess we never know.

[@emma-rb4sp]

i actually have some commentary on the kamaitachi no yoru 2 stuff - im in a community with a lot of visual novel fans who are at least a little familiar with kamaitachi/banshees last cry and when i brought this up to them i was told that the whole cursed developer commentary thing was apparently a running gag within the sound novels from chunsoft. apparently similar ones are found in games like 428, machi, otogirsou and its sequel, and the rest of the kny trilogy as mentioned. also spikechun even all these years later really loves them some fourth wall breaking in their games - see the entirety of both ARGs held for the ai: the somnium files games tldr: the lads are too mad. so mad theyve been doing this crap for 30 years

[@SakuraStardust]

That’s wild. Thank you for sharing!

[@NoGoodNameHelpPLZ]

The goodbye dolphin dreams thing is definitely a shitpost

[@lambybunny7173]

Oh 100% Either that or some art project, but I think they go hand in hand tbh

[@karayura10]

@@lambybunny7173 Half half, it has early experimental sounds of ATOLS song, his drawing etc. Also where he can testing hyperlinks, sound testing, picture showing etc. If you can check his Pixiv, his drawing style not changing drastically over the years

[@joannamysluk8623]

ATOLS is a pretty goofy ahh producer so it's a pretty normal thing for them to do...

[@bewearstar9462]

It was a school project the oringal catetor said so

[@jommisalami]

I laughed so hard at that 🤣🤣

[@mathieuleader8601]

The Goodbye Dolphin website with the flashing reminds me of the Battling Seziure Robots gag from the Simpsons episode where the Simpsons go on holiday to Japan.

[@geirwickstrm9162]

I love the phrase (if that’s what it is called); «took to the internet». I like to imagine someone seeing the secret, buggy screen in a game and saying out loud; «I must take to the internet!» Like they’re about to travel somewhere. Great video.

[@chobi2007]

Goodbye dolphin website ect was a publicity stunt to promote their music I believe!! I actually listened to the album before even knowing abt the website, its pretty cool

[@Mondomeyer]

Put together the words 'Goodbye', 'Dolphin', and 'Japan' and the meaning is disturbingly obvious.

[@Amemorii]

​@@Mondomeyer i actually don't get it i'm so curious what do you mean,,

[@Mondomeyer]

Dolphin fishing is legal in Japan.@@Amemorii

[@Amemorii]

@@Mondomeyer oh!

[@Mondomeyer]

@@Amemorii And if it continues, dolphins will be but a dream. It all comes together a little too perfectly. I'm starting to scare myself.

[@panqueque445]

The cesium one sounds like an edgy humor place holder was aired by mistake. Wouldn't be the first time inside jokes get dark between coworkers.

[@SakuraStardust]

Honestly, those where my thoughts on it as well. Super dangerous to leave that kinda text as a placeholder followings such a horrible natural disaster 😰

[@arthas640]

random but reminds me of the time a fired employee nearly got emailed a government file we have to give employees in our industry when they leave and the file was nearly sent with its place holder name of "asshole junior" because both he and his father were massive assholes. luckily it got caught before he got it or we'd be sued for anti-asshole discrimination

[@jennieshutup]

cesium-san gotta be the unluckiest winner ever to win suspicious rice back to back

[@inconsideratebox3000]

Don't even get started on the contaminated rice. Cesium-san can't stop losing.

[@kameronpan2939]

15:20 there's actually subtitles in the video so you can see it says 「何十年ぶりかな」"nanjuunen buri kana" which from my limited Japanese I can infer to mean "it's been a few decades huh" Enjoyed the video! Thanks for your hard work

[@SakuraStardust]

This is mentioned in the description, but thank you for providing this here as well! I misread it as furigana rather than burikana when half asleep and thought it would be funny in the moment lol

[@OyVeey]

Closer to "I wonder how many decades it's been"

[@Space-Milk]

I can't explain why, but "Contaminated rice" just freaks me the fuck out...

[@Cody-Millie]

Me too, out of all of them, that's the only one that genuinely made me feel really freaked out, and just that specific phrase too; I have no idea why

[@mathieuleader8601]

the scary face that appeared at the end of the Bodywarmers advert reminds me of the creepy sideshow performer Pip the Pinhead from the classic horror movie Freaks!

[@ZarlLarlack]

So I've heard from some video here on youtube (i genuinely could've dreamt this) that being complimented as being "dolphin like" is a huge compliment to younger women in japan in a way that doesn't translate to english at all. Like I said I could've dreamt this up. I guess that would make it a dolphin dream. So I think goodbye dolphin dreams could be like, "goodbye hopes of being pretty"? I don't know.

[@SakuraStardust]

Oh wow, I have a vague recollection of maybe seeing a joke like this in an anime like Azumanga Daioh or Lucky Star ages ago! Maybe it references having smooth and supple skin like the Korean glass skin trends? Thanks for sharing this, you may absolutely be onto something!

[@Lucienchol]

The contaminated rice thing is both not surprising but also very surprising. Stuff like this happens all the time, where placeholder text gets left so people usually write something super weird so its obvious that its a placeholder. Thought I think in this case it went a little too far insinuating stuff from something that happened so recently... I'm assuming whoever was responsible got the verbal lashing of a lifetime 😢

[@serixskylark]

Considering it caused their entire show to be canceled? I’m sure if they figured out who it was, they got the worst verbal beat down imaginable.

[@arthas640]

i had some former coworkers i hated, basically in my industry it operates off the apprenticeship system of job training and we have to log their hours, fill out a government form, get a signature from someone with a special license (me) and have that signature notarized so its all a pain in the ass. A few guys quit or got fired so they all got their forms, lost them, then claimed i never gave them their forms. I gave them each a new form keeping in mind each of them is costing me about a half hour or so of time i dont get paid for, and mail them each their forms costing me postage. A couple of them lost their forms again and one idiot needed a FOURTH fuckmothering form, each time blaming me or the post office, and one of them needed a 3rd form because he literally just scribbled out the hours i wrote and then wrote a larger number next to it so he could make it look like he was working way more hours then he did and got caught because it was wildly different handwriting and a different colored pen so he just tried to casually get me audited so he could forge a government document. I nearly sent a few of them forms with placeholder names like "John Dickhead" and "Asshole Thief"

[@APoleYouKnow]

I think you're more comfortable with this style of video than with the iceberg format. Keep them coming!

[@SakuraStardust]

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[@stefanhernold345]

Is that *your voice* , Mrs. Stardust ?

[@SakuraStardust]

@@stefanhernold345why would it not be my voice? I’ve live-streamed many times and I talk in my social media posts. I just happen to have a very high voice 😅

[@YinPatterns]

@@SakuraStardustmaybe they are asking because alot of these types of channels that make dark type of content use an ai voice which sounds super realistic until you hear it so many times you realize its an ai, maybe they mistaked you for as such?

[@JoseangelArellanobarraza]

18:58

[@KristaleeWolfe]

@@YinPatterns ??? how ? This girl has more emotion in her voice than most real people do in vids

[@charybdis855]

I translated one of atols vocaloid songs, when he made a collab song with Kikuo. The song is called “Nakimushi Denki”. It’s a normal song, and on Spotify. I’ve also translated a lot of experimental/industrial vocaloid songs, and that’s what led me down the iruka no yume rabbit hole, lol

[@karayura10]

ATOLS promoted Iruka 1st album on his channel back then and its pretty crazy advertisement, sad its privated tho

[@angrybidoof847]

Kikuo That explains it

[@imbabey]

omg i love the ATOLS music i had no idea they made such a website but when i think of some of their songs it kind of makes sense 😅

[@041able]

I'm addicted to your videos, all topics are very interesting. Also, love how correct is your japanese prosody despite being an english speaker.

[@SakuraStardust]

I try my best 😊 I studied Japanese in college but have a long way to go. Thank you for the kind words, friend!

[@EnzoDraws]

12:37 Okay so I found the EXACT picture of Picasso used for the disjointed face! I literally looked up "pablo picasso smiling" on Google and it was like the 4th image. It's a photo of him in a bathtub, and it's definitely that pic, 100% no mistake. I won't link it because idk id KZbin flags links or not.

[@aliceDarts]

She just posted on the community tab about it. It was actually a photo of him on a rocking chair.

[@EnzoDraws]

@@aliceDarts oh, thank you! Those two pics are in the exact same angle and similar lighting so I really thought it was the other one, but it's nice to know it's still Picasso :)

[@direktive4]

green ghost image: maybe from one of those prank shows

[@a-ghost-named-Anna]

24:20 For further context the 2011 earthquake, and resulting tsunami caused a nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. Which is most often considered the second worst nuclear disaster in history. For example there is this substance called “Corium” which is only created in nuclear meltdowns, and it was created 3 separate times during the disaster. I would like to add that nuclear power is extremely safe, but prone to meltdowns when tsunamis hit. If anyone wants me to explain why I can do that, but for now it’s time I stop typing.

[@NinetailsNineLives]

me: ok so what do we got here? goodbye dolphin dreams girl: *"M I N N A S A N ٫ K O N I C H I W A"* me: *fear*

[@supersmallchibiwolf872]

These were some interesting dark topics. The topics that stood out for me was Goodbye Dolphin Dreams and The Cesium-San Incident. I hope the farmers recovered later on because It would be awful to lose everything due to misinformation. Cool video. ^_^

[@A10Warthog-jg3gw]

Edging me with the upload… it’s the scariest thing about this video

[@kat-rn3vc]

i recently found out about your channel and am already obsessed! i love how you explain every detail and the truth behind these things. keep it up :)

[@SakuraStardust]

Thank you so much, friend!! I really appreciate this comment 🥹

[@tempestinateapot2987]

Are we sure Spike Chunsoft isn’t trying to take over the world… They did distribute the physical version of Baldur’s Gate 3, and that game has taken over all of my free time.

[@themodernfrontiersmen]

I was just looking for a video about internet mysterious to watch while I eat ice cream lol. Love your content!

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

I feel represented by the distorted voice as she says her time will come to an end. Like. Thats a mood yo

[@monika-127]

15:21 would translate to "how many years has it been~?" i loveee ur videos sm 😭😭💗💗

[@BlehBlahBlegh]

I’m so happy the algorithm showed me your channel last year Your videos are so great

[@SakuraStardust]

Thank you so much, friend 😊 your support really means a lot!

[@sephirosu]

Geocities is an old personal website host, it's nothing to do with japan or blogspot, it was enormous in the early internet for making fansites and stuff like that.

[@GranchioGranchio]

Yeah I used to download MikuMikuDance on it

[@Era1113]

Turns out that GeoCities Japan was a bit different, existed prior to the Yahoo! buyout, and was actually still available until March of 2019, about 9 1/2 years after the English site shut down.

[@arthas640]

it was fantastic for the time too, so easy to use that when i was in school during our 3 month computer class (meant to prepare us to use computers which many teachers still thought were a passing fad... in 2003) we designed our own websites that were every bit as garish as you imagine.

[@liszst]

29:32 frutiger aero music hits hard lol it's so nostalgic...like so many old visual novels have similar music

[@devastatine977]

Seeing Yoshi from Death Forest in the video's thumbnail makes me happy, I love that game hehe ^^

[@samuelcrows]

Everyone scaried of the thumb. Me that saw this guy many times already: Thats fine.

[@SakuraStardust]

The internet has truly desensitized me ;-;

[@samuelcrows]

​@@SakuraStardust Internet takes our sanity, in a way or another.

[@thatstockin]

what’s so scary abt it? it has such a punchable face that I can’t take it serious😂

[@qwertyrhoads9295]

I looked at the little 1 shaped thing in the corner of the ceasium-san incident and then at creepy faces in the thumbnails of recommended videos, and were for some reason overcome with a random sense of panic. Idk.

[@tara-z1n3s]

these videos are actually so entertaining i love them sm

[@stishstash166]

the mushroom/burger bumper sounds like some surreal adult swim type stuff. is there an adult swim equivalent programming block in japan?

[@super_nintendad]

Great post as always! I hope your feel well with the POTS

[@SakuraStardust]

Thank you so much! It comes and goes, but I’ve been doing well lately 😊

[@fangurl3991]

Hell yea, got back from the gym and there’s a new upload!🎉🎉

[@supernicktendo64]

I went into this video expecting to know most, if not all of them and just to listen as background content. But wow, was that the wrong expectation! This launched me into many little rabbit holes I didn't know existed. Good list!

[@Rexdrinksredbull]

I was going to comment on how the "cursed PS2 game" reminded me of the Twilight Syndrome game in SDR2 - only to find out that Chunsoft made the "cursed game". Considering SDR2 released right after the merger, I do wonder if Twilight Syndrome is perhaps referencing the creepypasta? lol

[@charlotties_]

no.. twilight syndrome is referencing twilight syndrome lmao

[@arthas640]

@@charlotties_ no Twilight syndrome is referencing Twilight Sparkle, the princess who discovered it

[@charlotties_]

@@arthas640 ....no..its not...

[@arthas640]

@@charlotties_ that was a joke. OP's avatar picture is Applejack from MLP and Twilight Sparkle is the mane character.

[@charman69]

15:20 it says "its been decades, hasnt it?" or something to that effect

[@SakuraStardust]

I mention that in the description😊

[@AleTitan]

​@@SakuraStardust ok

[@TheDivaShiba]

Thanks for making these videos! I love Internet mysteries, but so many KZbinrs cover the same ones over and over. These are new to me (American) and really interesting.

[@Hope_this_is_just_a_dream1994]

Another great Video!!! Thank you so much! 😊

[@Kusuriuri-San0007]

I am so in love with your content! It gives me a blast of nostalgia from back in the days! Thank you so much! Keep making content like this 😭

[@SakuraStardust]

Thank you so much, friend!! I have a lot of stuff planned like this 😊

[@iluv_nana]

I love Goodbye Dolphin Dreams lol, not only is the mascot cute but the entire thing is just so silly I love it

[@ulaff]

I for one would be really interesting in Japan folklore, specifically how that word is basically banshee but not banshee.

[@DefaultGray]

4:15 I know for a fact this is a screencap of a prank. I can't remember what program it was, but I saw the clip this is from in something last summer. It was during my Tubi horror binge; I watched a lot during that so I can't remember the film (or tv special? There was a few on there, like Dark Tales of Japan). But I do remember it was used as b-roll for a montage.

[@radio_cooking_ghost]

i'm pretty sure that "goodbye dolphin dreams" site was made as a silly promo stunt for the albums! it matches the weird, computer-death-noises vibes of the albums pretty well imo

[@mr.tosciro4025]

Sakura uploads video, day improved tenfold

[@PhilipibesGrandma]

I just discovered your youtube channel and this is my first video of yours and gurrrll I'm loving it !!Keep it up

[@Higanbanaflowers]

Japanese internet never failing once again❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️ (Spookers)

[@jjenk911]

Welcome back, Alex. Good to see you back :)

[@KristaleeWolfe]

I would have lived my whole life without learning about these things if it wasn’t for this RAD video! Happy I get to hear about this 😂 This channel is dope 😁

[@aliceDarts]

I seriously love you content. You don't post often but it is always quality. Reminds me of Nick Crowley. He also does not post often but his content is fantastic. Please don't stop posting.

[@visualspark6308]

11:56 I’m 99% sure that’s the photo of Picasso in his rocking chair. The shadows even hit the same.

[@shadowfeather3094]

weird things like this on the internet for some reason always fascinates me and captures my imagination... especially if it was made years and years ago 😶

[@subsonicwave64]

i heard your voice and was instantly worried this was a content farm channel. thank you for proving me wrong-

[@SakuraStardust]

I get “Watch Mojo lady” comments all the time, but I assure you I put a lot of work into my videos despite how my voice sounds 🥲

[@subsonicwave64]

@@SakuraStardust thats good to know

[@renren47618]

The Chumsoft thing sounds a lot like a meme from the developers, it's also kinda similiar to things you see on their games like *spoilers* Danganronpa V3's ending being the characters finding out that everything on their world is fictional and that Team Danganronpa made killing games into the world's biggest source of entertaiment.

[@rabies_]

sakura never fails to give me nightmares

[@Strlz_Remtachi]

35:24 was the jumpscare after SourceBrew's mention intentional? that scared me not gonna lie

[@HarleyAMV]

I found the Broken Face Commercial Image. It's described as this: Pablo Picasso enjoys a cigarette in the comfort of his bentwood rocker in his studio, La Californie, in Cannes, France, in 1957. David Douglas Duncan/David Douglas Duncan Papers and Photography Collection, Courtesy of Harry Ransom Center

[@haleandguu]

aaaaaahhhhh such an awesome channel !!! thank you sakura san, take it easy with the POTS , i have it too and know how it is when it flares.

[@SakuraStardust]

Thank you so much, friend! 😊 I hope you’re doing well with your own POTS stuff as well 💚

[@haleandguu]

@@SakuraStardust awwww , she responded to me ! made my night :) im alright , thank you so much ^~^

[@microwavedcorn5556]

i randomly found goodbye dolphin dreams on spotify one day and started listening to the songs i didnt even know about this stuff???? music is still a banger to me tho

[@DarkDragonSlayer]

6:42: my favorite dub of all time.

[@StarlightDreamer12]

The Cesium-san incident kind of reminds me of that American news broadcast about a plane crash where someone faked the pilot's names. Seems like, in a similar but slightly different vein, it was someone's dark humor. In this case though, I could see it being either deliberate or completely unintentional that it ended up on air.

[@reddpyramid]

16:13 That sounds like a spectrogram image to me. If you download the file and run it through a program like Audacity (iirc, it's been years since I played with these), the sound waves will make an image.

[@vampz_starz]

off topic, i love the maya watermark, gotta love ace atterny

[@allurinq]

Talking about caesium contaminated rice or something and then saying chain reaction really scratched my brain

[@Yenspilled]

Well I'm early once again great video Alex you're still my favorite youtuber.

[@tobenrendell2336]

I think the Pablo Picasso broken-face thingy might be some kind of Japanese TV channel ident

[@ravencarino6115]

I need to stop watching these scary videos at night. I watch ONE video about analog horror and everything in my FYP is horror stuff. Damn

[@meadowsweet5507]

The suspicious rice thing makes me so upset. I did "volunteer work" in Fukushima prefecture in 2012 and my group's entire job was to go to a farming community that had been affected by similar rumors after the reactor meltdown. I also remember there being videos of refugees going to other prefectures being treated like they were irradiated and dangerous. We had exchange students from completely different areas being treated the same way by a student's ignorant grandparents. It was all so fucked up. I'm surprised I never heard about the news broadcast.

[@SakuraStardust]

That’s horrific. I truly hope that everyone in that region was able to heal the best they could from so much tragedy and stigma.

[@meadowsweet5507]

@@SakuraStardust I hope so, too. I will say, though, I was able to see first hand how resilient so many Japanese people are. Everyone I met was kind and very determined to overcome the tragedies they had been through. It was very inspiring for me to witness at just 18 years old. Many memories I cherish from that time. I'm confident they have all come a very long way from where they were over 10 years ago, and I know they did it together.

[@PresidentFunnyValentine]

Sakura Stardust may not be pregnant, but she always delivers.

[@QualityPeepersRodan]

She is expecting? Oh that is splendid my wife just gave birth to new baby for me and her he is our child! Sorry for poor English that is excellent 🥰

[@PresidentFunnyValentine]

@@QualityPeepersRodan No she's not. I was just making a jest.

[@snufkingstan]

never knew about you but this video is so high quality! def gonna check out more vids :)

[@SakuraStardust]

Thank you so much, friend! 😊

[@open_mind8617]

this is one of those vidoes that makes me look behind my back, great stuff

[@AlyssaTheToxicKitten]

If anyone wants to know about the "its a fine day" song, its a slowed down version of Its a Fine day by Opus III, its a great song actually!

[@Minohorse]

Great video, I have seen some of those before, but just on surface level. On that note, I was quite surprised to see ATOLS here, so that was funny. Also, what's up with that frame going from 35:22 to 35:23 right after recommending sourcebrew's channel?

[@SakuraStardust]

That was just a little rendering error lol

[@Minohorse]

@@SakuraStardust I see. I almost thought it was proposital to match the content of the video itself.

[@unineko4398]

The face in the “lost broken face commercial” is 100% pablo picasso. The original photo is on google, it’s a photo of him sitting cross-legged/criss-cross applesauce in a rocking chair (not sure which term is the correct one, english isn’t my first language)

[@LiliasSenga]

This is so good. Thank you for sharing this on X haha

[@MonadoGirl]

You have a great voice. You sound kinda like the exact in between of a 2010s anime character and a news caster if that makes any sense.

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

The c u r s e d ps2 game, about Chunsoft taking over the world sounds like a sarcastic shitpost from a dev who's most likely overworked and stressed out and showed the joke dialog to his coworkers and they probably had a laugh and put it in as an easter egg for data miners / pirates. Game Devs have been known to put rants into their code. Gurularry did a video on a few rants.. including one w hich was a plea to be dominated by a well endowed dominatrix, and a threat to pirates who would attempt to steal their IP.

[@renren47618]

Honestly, these guys do this in most of their games especially Danganronpa V3.

[@himeyy634]

14:24 イルカの夢 (iruka no yume) literally translates to "dolphin dream" in English. This phrase is often used to describe something that is unrealistic or unattainable, similar to the English phrase "a pipe dream."

[@autismrizzard]

That ghost broadcast image was so clearly fake it had me laughin

[@georgehandle5433]

Yes new Sakura stardust video let’s go!!!

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The green ghost photo looks to me like a prank. Someone hiding under the basin then popping out and making spooky noises, scaring the other person. Obviously the prank was very effective. And yes, those doors on the right do look like bathroom stalls. There is a gap at the top where the stall doors end. Dolphin dreams reminds me of the absolute chaos that is Haachama cooking. Nothing cursed there. Just someone having fun doing some spooky and weird stuff.

[@AugustQ-p1w]

As a Zero Escape fan honestly Chunsoft putting subliminal messages in their games would explain a lot tho. I've never met a member of this fandom who's normal about these games. Also how tf else could Zero Time Dilemma have gotten such high critic scores

[@stycautiuos]

Oh gosh, what would be terrifying about “Nice day, Fine day” is if the owner/person making updates on the original webpage or a accurate copy changes the page to where you wouldn’t see the torrii gate if you scrolled down occasionally… I’d start crying on the spot as I’m a pretty superstitious person.

[@RamunRami]

i miss when youtubers had a list of what music they have in their videos

[@tylerf8518]

Commenting to help with the algorithm. Also new vid let's gooooo.