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* British [[YouTube]] user [http://www.youtube.com/user/xbextahx xBextahx] somehow became very popular in Japan, where she is known as Beckii Cruel. |
* British [[YouTube]] user [http://www.youtube.com/user/xbextahx xBextahx] somehow became very popular in Japan, where she is known as Beckii Cruel. |
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** There's also [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/magibon Magibon], a Pennsylvanian twenty-something with a propensity for staring at the camera who's practically become a celebrity in Japan. |
** There's also [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/magibon Magibon], a Pennsylvanian twenty-something with a propensity for staring at the camera who's practically become a celebrity in Japan. |
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* When an American father named Allen Rout posted a picture of his newborn baby on his website, he'd never realize years later that it'd blow up into a [http://www.dadwagon.com/2010/08/02/qa-stephen-rout-japanese-meme-boy-and-his-father-allen-s-rout/ Memetic Mutation in Japan.] |
* When an American father named Allen Rout posted a picture of his newborn baby on his website, he'd never realize years later that it'd blow up into a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005010355/http://www.dadwagon.com/2010/08/02/qa-stephen-rout-japanese-meme-boy-and-his-father-allen-s-rout/ Memetic Mutation in Japan.] |
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* For unclear reasons, [[LiveJournal]] is [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|the most popular host]] for [[Russian Language|Russian-language]] bloggers, to the point where the Russian term for blogging is [[Brand Name Takeover|derived from the Russian name]] of LiveJournal. A Russian company now owns the site, a number of high-profile Russian politicians maintain LJs, Russian authors used LJ to publish excerpts or teasers for their new books, and it's even been theorized that the DDoS attacks on the site in April 2011 were caused by the Russian government in order to silence a critical blogger. [[LiveJournal]] is [[Serious Business]] in [[Russia]]. |
* For unclear reasons, [[LiveJournal]] is [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|the most popular host]] for [[Russian Language|Russian-language]] bloggers, to the point where the Russian term for blogging is [[Brand Name Takeover|derived from the Russian name]] of LiveJournal. A Russian company now owns the site, a number of high-profile Russian politicians maintain LJs, Russian authors used LJ to publish excerpts or teasers for their new books, and it's even been theorized that the DDoS attacks on the site in April 2011 were caused by the Russian government in order to silence a critical blogger. [[LiveJournal]] is [[Serious Business]] in [[Russia]]. |
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* eBay knockoff Yahoo! Auctions quickly faded away everywhere except Japan, where it is by far the most popular site of its kind. |
* eBay knockoff Yahoo! Auctions quickly faded away everywhere except Japan, where it is by far the most popular site of its kind. |
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