If you have ever watched “PythagoraSwitch”, a Japanese educational television program, then you have probably seen the popular “Algorithm March” segment performed by Kazunari Yamada and Hidenori Kikuchi of the comedy group Itsumo Kokokara. The “Algorithm March” is a canon-style song where participants march in a line and the follower must imitate the leader. The songs lyrics describe the actions that should be taken by the leader after each step they take.
It became an internet meme but my favourite variant is “Algorithm Chores” by the New Zealand group Extreme Clean Team. Check it out.
Here are the originators, Itsumo Kokokara, performing the “Algorithm March” with ninjas.
Do you remember the Friends episode where Joey Tribbiani poses for a health poster, but later finds out he’s become the V.D. poster boy?
VD, you never know you might have it.
Well, Japan’s largest adult video (AV) studio, Soft On Demand (SOD) (yeah, I know, the studio name is a story unto itself – I mean, if you are a porn subscriber then the name of the studio isn’t very inspiring), has been running their own campaign against sexually transmitted disease called “STOP! STD”.
The “STOP! STD” campaign is to bring attention to the rise of STDs in Japan and to increase the use of condoms. It features JAV stars like Nana Natsume, Saori Hara and Sasa Handa on large billboards sub-titled “STOP! STD”.
Some images from the campaign are below, but I really wonder what the actual message is supposed to be. Is it:
An appeal from the porn star to protect her from contracting an STD
The porn star has an STD but she is making an appeal for you to save yourself!
A general public awareness message that assumes that porn stars are the most qualified to deliver
For the conspiracists out there, do you think that because the “STOP! STD” sub-title is in English and “STD” is not common Japanese vernacular, it is a message for dirty gaijin’s to stop embellishing in perverted sexual practices?
VD, you never know you might have it.
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