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INTEREST: Actor Yūdai Natsume Posts Apology After Agency Cancels Contract Due to Past Tweets


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ice_tea



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 8:18 am Reply with quote
As I know, this guy still had inappropriate comments after he became an actor. And yes, he offended his target audience. That's why his agency doesn't want him anymore.
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mrsatan



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 1:25 pm Reply with quote
Wtv wrote:
mrsatan wrote:
What did he actually say, and what was the context? I've never seen it reported here. That matters.


https://twitter.com/Ieokun/status/993216063344070656


Thank you!
These translations aren't very good, but that being said, there's a real pattern being shown here. It wasn't just 3 or 4 tweets.
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Mr. sickVisionz



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 4:36 am Reply with quote
I didn't read literally every tweet and I can't read Japanese... but imo this stuff should be more embarrassing than career ending. I'm not active on Twitter so maybe I just misread the layout, but it looked like most of the tweets I saw weren't actually Tweeted @ people. I don't know if you can really harass someone if you aren't interacting with them in any way. Was he tweeting women to send him bloody panties or did he just make a post saying he liked bloody panties? One is harassment, the other is weird. You shouldn't be banned from life at 20-something because you were a weird 16 year old.

The one thing that I thought was actually bad (because it potentially involved a real person and was presented as something HE'S DONE, not something he's thought) was the tweet about sitting by women on public transportation and watching porn/fondling himself. That would be bad, regardless of age, but is it true? I've been a 16-year old boy. 16-year old boys self-reporting on the sex life of 16-year old boys should not be trusted. You might think, "now sickVisionz, why would anyone make up a story like that? That doesn't make him look cool, so it's probably not fake." I would just respond that this was as a kid who thought it'd be cool to post that he thinks period blood is awesome and that he wants to have public anal sex at Disneyland, so his barometer for sexual stuff I post online that makes me look good is clear cut broken.

If the one thing he said about actual harassment and abuse of real people is true, that's obviously bad. If that's not true, maybe he did enough to get fired from his current job but I think people saying he needs to go to jail or should be banned from all future employment are a little extreme. He has fetishes you don't like and he stated them publicly as a kid. For me, he'd need to actually do something. Having fetishes alone isn't enough.

I'll say it: I've only seen Ali Wong when she was pregnant. I find Ali Wong extremely attractive. She is not the only pregnant woman I've found attractive in my 35 years on this planet. I've had sexual thoughts about women I've seen, including those on public transportation. I've seen porn with public sex and thought "that seems fun" rather than "the horror"..

I'm a harasser and should be fired and banned from all future employment and potentially jailed now? I feel like most people wouldn't agree with that, but make it about random Japanese idol and now it seems like a logical stance.
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iamtooawesome



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:16 pm Reply with quote
Mr. sickVisionz wrote:
[rant] ... [/rant] .


You're disgusting to be honest. You're a Japanese literate yet you're still contemplating with this guy? Lels

Welcome to the reality boy. Not everything will be shooting rainbows in this kind of industry. Once you signed that lil piece of paper called contract, should be obvious to expect some dramas or sht. Once you get a lil recognition everyone will try to dig up your past no matter wtaf it was, thus you need to man up.

But the problem with this dude is different, didn't man up, when this scandal exploded on Weibo China down to twitter, this guy totally ignored it and let his manager handle his own mess just like what Justin Bieber does all the time. Manager-san(feat. Yudai) @hastagged and called out some angry(probly ex-Yudai fans) twitter users telling them to STFU because his boy is right or lols, just doing his job, until his tweet got retweeted several times and boom mess expected. Apparently aside from those old harrassment tweets that dates back during the Soviet Era, Yudai posted some pretty racist remarks about China and Korea and oh boy here comes the international S.J.W's and this time they're onthe right side.

Boi Yudai still not having the balls to like handle this mess Immediately deactivated his original Twitter account instead of just apologizing like I dunno? any professionals would do lmao And now we got this, he waited for the media to cool down, remained quiet for Broccoli knows how long, probly thinks the internet is more safe now lmao then he decides to post a letter of Apology. Grats boy, just how many advisers or friends told him off that he should've done this from the very start tho?

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Let me tell you 1 story bout the cruel industry of Pop stars/actors
If you know BTS im probly sure you've al least heard of them, these guys ars insanely popular and Kpop hallyu is taking over every media platforms thus resulting to bigger and problematic fanbase.

One case was the BTS manager scandal, ruder than Yudai's case. BTS was on a promotion tour and fans were taking pictures of them, particularly one of the fans recorded a video where the manager seems to be raising his hands like he's gonna bish-slap a BTS member, but fans were quick to assume that he was trying to hurt they're Oppa and so they started a witch-hunt propaganda on twitter to actually remove this manager. Lols without a 2nd thought he was actually fired since BigHit entertainment cant actually say "STFU he just raised his hand" to their source of capitalism. Like bro, the poor manager lost his job because of some problematic misunderstanding.1st priority: Fans always right, Cruel world aye.[/quote]]
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