"Summary: ROF-MAO, Nijisanji's 4 member-group, appeared on NHK radio show last week as guests and in a segment where audience called the show to ask for advice, Fuwa Minato suggested to "buy followers" because the teenager was worried having few followers on social media would be seen as having few friends.
Archive (will be deleted in a week)
https://www.nhk.or.jp/radio/player/ondemand.html?p=9093\_01\_39886534:37:25~
Translation:
Question from a teenager who is worried not having many followers on her social media would make people think she doesn't have many friends.
For context, ROF-MAO members talk first about making friends by playing games, or spending more time face-to-face, etc. and then the conversation follows as below.
Kaida Haru: "I'm going to say something very convincing, I have 700k followers (on twitter) but I have very few friends, so the number of followers is not related."
Fuwa Minato: "Or think in the contrary, if the number of followers can increase your friends, you can just buy followers and get impressive (fake) numbers and then mentally..."
Radio Host: "That's the most dangerous part"
Kagami Hayato: "That's not the advise you should be giving teenagers."
Kenmochi Toya: "We're giving advice so they don't become like that-"
Kagami Hayato: "We want to stop that from happening"
Fuwa Minato: "Then forget it."
**He didn't use the exact word for "forget" but more like he takes it back.
A clip of this segment is posted on NHK yt official channel and that part is edited out (though I'm not sure if that's the only part edited out)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnXmNqVl5ZE [Open]
