>>3551997office life is usually the default go-to work place for japanese. And office life is usually filled with overwork and underappreciation, hoping that killing yourself for hours on unreal amount of work will get noticed by your bosses. And if you so much as take time off they raise eyebrows.
Getting employment in some other means like the US offers the opportunity to strike out with something different is an unheard of concept. Something where you really have to fight for it.
Bear has had a hard life. Watched her friends all get relationships, jobs, kids, and so-on, all while she's alone shitposting on 2ch, then 4ch. This birthday is the first time she's ever felt widely and greatfully appreciated. Appreciated to be alive. Appreciative to feel loved. Appreciated for the work she's done.
