Hello Kitty / Oh Yeah I'm in Japan

About

Hello Kitty / Oh Yeah, I'm in Japan is an exploitable four-panel webcomic created by brunorust and proliferated by furries to share memes about living in certain countries or situations. While the original comic was posted in the r/furry subreddit, it quickly gained popularity in the furry meme subreddit r/furry_irl, leading to dozens of variations of the meme and even some versions that poked fun at r/furry_irl culture itself.

Origin

On November 27th, 2019, brunorust published the original comic, titled "living in Japan in a nutshell," in the r/furry^[1] subreddit. The post received more than 3,500 upvotes (91% upvoted) and 70 comments in less than one week. The first panel depicts an anthropomorphic corgi dog greeting a passing black cat. In the second panel, the corgi remembers "Oh wait… I'm in Japan…" before redressing the cat, this time speaking a Romanisation of (translated) "Good Morning Cat." In the fourth panel, the cat turns back, winks, makes a sideways V sign, and replies with "Nyaaa…" and an emoticon.

The comic was very positively received among Reddit furries and received decent popularity. It was also cross-posted among various communities, most notably of them r/furry_irl.^[2]

Spread

The crosspost to r/furry_irl^[2] received more than 1100 upvotes (99% upvoted) in less than one week. The premise of the meme led to multiple other users editing the meme with their country or location of choice in the second panel and changing the text (and sometimes visuals) of the bottom two panels to match slang or paraphernalia from their culture.

One of the earliest edits of the meme, Australia_irl,^[3] received over 3,600 upvotes (95% upvoted) and 100 comments within one week (shown below).^[3]

Over the next few days, others posted variations in the /r/furry_irl subreddit.^[4][5][6] Each receiving hundreds of post karma and multiple comments. While many of them referenced a country as per the original post, some users instead referenced a state/province or city in making their edits (examples below, left and right). Many of them also edited the panels to include backgrounds or objects typically associated with their location of choice.

One of the first edits of the meme to poke at its viral nature on r/furry_irl^[7] appeared on November 29th, 2019 (shown below, left). In it, the location of choice is r/furry_irl itself, and the resulting panels depict just how prevalent the meme has become. Many commenters noted this trend and wondered how and when the meme will lose popularity; some pondered if it will be cut off when the subreddit's moderators place it in the "deadhorse list," which would ban all future instances of the meme (shown below, right). Others expressed their takes on the meme's exploitable nature in different ways, including screenshotting the memes on the front page and even referencing an older exploitable in the process.^[8][9]

On November 29th, 2019, the original comic's artist brunorust posted r/furry_irl, thanking them for the users' support and spread of his comic and meme template.

Various Examples

Search Interest

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