One of Japan's worst livestreamers is allegedly about to confront with one of America's worst livestreamers. Rengoku Koroaki claims he and his boys are heading to the location of racist American livestreamer "Johnny Somali."
In the last week videos of Johnny Somali verballing abusing Japanese people on trains and in other places have gone viral. He has been assaulted at least once for being a racist. Japanese netizens have been trying to figure out where he is staying.
Koroaki, who cosplays as Demon Slayer character Rengoku Kyōjurō, rose to infamy on the Japanese internet for his participation in a Japanese QAnon offshoot. More recently he has attached himself to other right-wing causes and even ran for political office.
It is actually happening. They have arrived at the house he is staying at and are demanding an apology and demanding that he never stream on a train again. He is insisting he is just a comedian and they "do not understand our comedy."
The American guy with Somali Johnny selectively translated only a few of the things he said, hiding a lot of his defensive language, and seems to have convinced Koroaki and his guys that he sincerely apologized.
Koroaki and the others left after accepting Johnny's half-assed apology. He was overjoyed to hear how much subscribers Koroaki has, because he thinks it will increase his own following.
Johnny has just said on his he will continue streaming on the train. He is already walking back the things he promised he would not do.
Johnny Somali's reaction to the confrontation: He is very happy. Getting exposure from a Japanese livestreamer with a large following is "free promo."
He even thinks this thread is positive PR, I guess. At least until somebody tells the Japanese guys he "apologized" to that his apology was half-assed and he doesn't regret saying racist stuff on livestream because it gave him more attention online.
A clip of Johnny Somali "apologizing" to the Japanese livestreamers (he was just repeating words he was told to say):
The Japanese-speaking guy who helped interpret between Johnny and the Japanese livestreamers doesn't even appear to believe his apology was sincere, but seems to have said enough in Japanese to convince them that that it was sincere.
In this clip with Japanese subtitles, Johnny Somali laughs at the Japanese livestreamer posse who made him "apologize" and shows his happiness over the exposure he received from the encounter.
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