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About

The Brainless Person (Japanese: 頭の悪い人, Atama no Warui Hito) refers to a series of expoitables which source face came from the Japanese amateur composer and MAD video artist Niewals (２÷す) on Twitter. In September 2017, this face of zero-intelligence became to popular fodder for parodies on the Japanese web.

Origin

On May 27th, 2017, Twitter user @micorun uploaded a 4-panel comic strip titled "The Difference in Mindset between The Intelligent and The Brainless" (頭の良い人と悪い人の物の見方の違い)^[1], which depicted his thought that people with intelligence can quickly associate much more words/images when looking at thing than people who aren't so (Shown below). His post went viral in both good and bad ways with earning 10k+ retweets and likes, and became to a template for online parodies with the hashtag "TheDifferencebetweenTheIntelligentandTheBrainless" (#頭のいい人と悪い人の物の見方の違い).^[2]

Blue: Intelligent / Yellow: Brainless

Three days later, Niewals posted a simple parody of that picture where a roughly-drawn brainless man says "Banana" (ばなな) while looking at an apple.^[3] As of September 25th, 2017, this post had earned 43,000 retweets and 66,000 likes. However, it had been circulating on the social web as one of the popular parodies for micorun's original post in its first several months.

Spread

Around the first half of September 2017, that Niewals' illustration itself finally became to the subject for parodies under the name of "Brainless Person" (頭の悪い人) among Japanese Twitter users. A vast amount of parody illustration and photoshopped images for "Brainless Person" began flooding on Twitter^[4], Pixiv^[5] and Nico Nico Seiga.^[6] Also, It became to be frequently used in the original comic strip parodies.^[2] Additionally, The Brainless Person has also spread among some non-Japanese speakers on Miiverse via Splatoon 2.

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References

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