Shohei Ohtani "Log Cabin" Copypasta
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Shohei Ohtani "Log Cabin" Copypasta, also called "Sho-Gay" (Japanese: 翔ゲイ) on the Japanese web, is a copypasta first posted to Reddit in 2019. Since the middle of 2021, this dirty copypasta featuring the Japanese baseball player Shohei Ohtani[1] has been popular among 5channel users and also fodder for video remixes on Niconico.
Origin
According to Nico Nico Pedia[2], Reddit user Marcello-Clerici[3] posted a copypasta written in Japanese to r/angelsbaseball on June 27th, 2019.[4] His post was a translated version of a minor copypasta seemingly derived from a post about a homoerotic romance with Jon Snow from Game of Thrones on r/freefolk in August 2017.[5]
Translation:
I'm not gay. But I want to live in a log cabin in the woods with Shohei Ohtani-san. We won't ever have sex, but there will be a simmering erotic undercurrent that makes me secretly burn a fire in my loins as I stand in the kitchen window watching him chopping wood, shirtless, sweat pouring off his body. I'll run upstairs and masturbate, the entire time forcing myself to think of women while my thoughts drift back to Shohei. I won't be able to climax and I'll eventually go back downstairs, angry. Sometimes we will look across the table and catch each other's eyes, and in that second, anything is possible, but we both deny ourselves and go back to what we were doing. One day one of us will die, and the other will bury him outside the log cabin. Then he'll go inside, pen a brief missive to his departed friend, and commit suicide, never able to deal with life without his one true platonic love.
Spread
In late May 2021, this Reddit post became known among Japanese internet users via Matome blogs citing threads in 5channel's /livejupiter/ (Nan-J)[6][7] and /poverty/ (Kenmo)[8] boards. Its visibility grew high enough to affect Satoru Noda[9], the creator of the Japanese manga Golden Kamuy[10], who cited phrases from this copypasta in a birthday tweet for his character Genjiro Tanigaki on June 28th (shown below).
誕生日おめでとう。谷垣源次郎さんと一緒に森の中の丸太小屋に住みたいです。#ゴールデンカムイ pic.twitter.com/8DaRsi0UUO
— 野田サトル (@satorunoda) June 28, 2021
Translation:
Happy Birthday. I want to live in a log cabin in the woods with Genjiro Tanigaki-san.
The following year, a Niconico user posted a text-to-speech video for the copypasta on July 18th, 2022 (shown below)[11], which became fodder for MAD videos on the Japanese video-sharing service and YouTube while being called "Sho-Gay" (翔ゲイ).[12]
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External References
[1] Wikipedia – Shohei Ohtani
[2] Nico Nico Pedia – 翔ゲイ (Japanese)
[3] Reddit – u/Marcello-Clerici
[4] Reddit – Shohei Ohtani Is Back--and the Most Exciting DH in Baseball : angelsbaseball / 06-27-2019 (Japanese)
[5] Reddit – I'm not gay. : freefolk / 08-12-2017
[6] 5channel – 【画像】アメリカ人「私は同性愛者ではありませんが、大谷翔平と一緒に森の中の丸太小屋に住みたい」 / 05-18-2021 (Japanese)
[7] 5channel – 米やきう民「私は同性愛者ではありませんが、大谷翔平さんと一緒に丸太小屋に住みたいです」 / 05-29-2021 (Japanese)
[8] 5channel – 【画像】reddit民「私は同性愛者ではありませんが、大谷翔平と一緒に森の中の丸太小屋に住みたい」 [966616616] / 05-23-2021 (Japanese)
[9] Wikipedia – Satoru Noda
[10] Wikipedia – Golden Kamuy
[11] Niconico – 私は同性愛者ではありませんが、大谷翔平さんと一緒に森の中の丸太小屋に住みたいです。私たちはセックスをすることはないでしょう。しかし彼が臀部を引き締めながら木を切るとき、次第に汗ばむ裸の上半身を、キッチ / 07-18-2022
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