News X bans woman's account citing "self harm" after she tried eating 184 boxes of pocky for Pocky day (1 Viewer)

[StanBiSH]

i missed this while it was happening and unfortunately the account and tweets aren't there anymore, in Japan there is a いいねの数だけポッキー食べる day basically you tell people you are going to be doing that and the number of likes you get is the number of pocky you have to eat and later have to post proof

some girl (not an idol or actress etc) become know for being active during that day, 2 years ago she ate 350 pockies, past year 1,300 pockies and this year was using pictures of those previous days to set a goal the tweet ended getting 19,000 likes

she was actually planning to eat 19,000 pockies

and because she was serious about it was reported for self harm, her account suspended and tweets related to that deleted

so she had to cancel her participation, apologized to supporters and is now stuck with almost 200 boxes of pocky although promised to come back for 2025's pocky day

 

[eclipsoul]

it"s dumb as fuck but also ridiculous how violent racists and misogynists get to stay on that platform to spread their hateful agenda and yet a girl simply doing some stupid shit is enough for them to get her account off the app

 

[The_LastRomeo]

Wait wait wait, so people can be islamphobic to me, casually talk about how r*pe is legal but she got shut down QUICKLY for eating candy!?

 

[Abeamus]

I'll be honest I don't think those images are helping her case since that just reminds me of facial acupuncture and it's possible those got her in trouble more than the context as I doubt they're going to take the time to understand the context.