>>82037815Y'know, the janitor incident is kind of interesting in that criticism also tells something about the critic, sometimes more so than about the target of criticism. It happened in 2020, yet I see it brought up every now and then in the Year of Our Lord 2024. There are plenty of bad and tasteless jokes made by basically good people and most decent folk live and forget about awkward moments. I mean, imagine what you would think of a co-worker who brings up a joke someone made four years ago as a reason to hate them. Nobody would like that guy, yet on the Internet they posture as some kind of fount of morality instead of eventually letting go like a normal person.
Of course, the whole thing is exacerbated by the fact that Lamy didn't even make the joke, but was the only one to apologize, so she is the one attacked all these years later. Proper apologies are important in Japanese culture, but that incident is all the proof you need that online trolls everywhere treat apologies as a sign of weakness and even in Japan performing a dogeza online merely leads to a boot stamping on the back of your head forever.
Oh yeah, and if memory serves the punchline wasn't "janitors bad" but "Akukin is a black company where you get more responsiblities without equivalent promotions or raises."
