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2channeler en · NOUN

Etymology

From 2channel + -er.

Meanings

1. (historical) A member of the community of the anonymous Japanese textboard 2channel.
   • When Densha discovers that he may not need to abandon his treasures, he makes another kind of sacrifice, the decision to expose himself to potential ridicule by coming out as an otaku. We are obviously meant to view this gesture as a genuinely brave act, underlined as it is by the admiring chorus of voices from the 2channelers, who thank him for his courage and praise him for his ability to gambaru, a term that connotes perseverance and endurance in the face of challenges and even potential humiliation. 2011, Christopher Gerteis, “Where Have All the Salarymen Gone? Masculinity, Masochism, and Technomobility in Densha Otoko”, in Sabine Frühstück, Anne Walthall, editors, Recreating Japanese Men, University of California Press, →ISBN, part II (Marginal Men), page 170:
   • 2channelers were infuriated by Fuji Television’s sportscasters, who (in their opinion) weren’t doing enough to denounce questionable calls by the ref in favor of the South Korean soccer team. 2020, Matt Alt, Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World, Crown, published 2021, →ISBN, page 261:
   • There's also a prankish streak: When fast-food chain Lotteria held an online poll asking customers to vote for a new flavor of milk shake, 2channelers stuffed the ballot box in favor of kimchi — fermented cabbage. 2008 May 19, Lisa Katayama, “Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet”, in Wired, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2015:
   • The reader does not identify with Train Man himself but experiences pleasure and emotion by occupying the role of a 2channeler. 2012, Akihiro Kitada, “Japan’s Cynical Nationalism”, in Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, Izumi Tsuji, editors, Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World, Yale University Press, →ISBN, part I (Culture and Discourse), page 70:
   • However Densha otoko is first about an online community, a community of 2channelers that reproduces itself through the collective production of a heterogeneous narrative and a singular character, “Densha.” 2009, Christophe Thouny, “Waiting for the Messiah: The Becoming-Myth of Evangelion and Densha otoko”, in Frenchy Lunning, editor, Mechademia 4: War/Time, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, section “Control Room”, page 122:

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