"Is It Difficult?" Blonde on Fox Selection

[thumper]

So cute, and she speaks Japanese better than some natives... Anybody know anything about her?

[wagyl]

Out of your league, mate. https://twitter.com/ClaraBodin http://clarabodin.com/profile-en/

By the way, I did that without access to a pay TV channel. There is this thing called the Internet, it is like having a reference library in your hands.

[yanpa]

"Is It Difficult?" Blonde on Fox Selection

Can someone reveal the connection between the title and the linked blonde? Without any context it looks like something from a random sentence generator.

Confused of Daikonland.

[Takechanpoo]

according to her profile on the twitter, she has lived in japan since 5 year old.
it means she is biologically or physically a pure gaijin but mentally or culturally japanese.
it follows that she speak japanese more fluently than some uneducated japanese. it doesnt deserve praising her.
i would wholeheartedly praise her speaking the same way even if she came to japan after becoming an adult.

and i guess her blonde hair is fake with high probablity. she cunningly uses j-kinpatsu complex to favor her buziness.

[wagyl]

according to her profile on the twitter, she has lived in japan since 5 year old.
it means she is biologically or physically a pure gaijin but mentally or culturally japanese.

I am so confused again.

Is a person born to parents from country A, but themselves born in and educated in country B (i.e. even greater ties than Mlle Bodin), mentally and culturally country A or country B? You can't pick and choose.

[kurogane]

There is this thing called the Internet, it is like having a reference library in your hands.

To be fair, you have to have an internet connection to use it. I like the internet too, though.

PS If she were not blonde and barbie doll pretty nobody would buy that mentally or culturally Japanese stuff. 5 is a little late for full cognitive integration.

[wagyl]

"Is It Difficult?" Blonde on Fox Selection

Can someone reveal the connection between the title and the linked blonde? Without any context it looks like something from a random sentence generator.

Confused of Daikonland.

Title was zero assistance in me finding the answer. As confused as you, and now even more so after Take's input.
My guess is that one of the many, many commercial she apparently does involves that line, presumably in Japanese translation.

By the way, 2chan is fairly interested in who she is, too.

[Takechanpoo]

oh sorry, i didnt read it enough. its my bad habit.

[wagyl]

There is this thing called the Internet, it is like having a reference library in your hands.

To be fair, you have to have an internet connection to use it. I like the internet too, though.

Yes, I should apologise. I should have considered the fact that not everybody has access to the internet.

[kurogane]

Well, there's that too, but it seemed a bit presumptuous to just assume that somebody posting here would................

[thumper]

Out of your league, mate. https://twitter.com/ClaraBodin http://clarabodin.com/profile-en/

By the way, I did that without access to a pay TV channel. There is this thing called the Internet, it is like having a reference library in your hands.

Wow! Great Bio.
BTW. What's this Internet thing?

Cheers

[wagyl]

Stop press!!! Could this be more résumé padding? She claims, in the English, to have been the baby in Trois hommes et un couffin, the original French movie which Hollywood remade as Three Men and a Baby because Americans can't read. She was not. At least the French and Japanese versions of the biography suggest that she and her twin sister were scouted in the search for cast, but don't go as far as to claim that she got the job.

How long until the internet Takes Her Down?

[wuchan]

"Is It Difficult?" Blonde on Fox Selection

Can someone reveal the connection between the title and the linked blonde? Without any context it looks like something from a random sentence generator.

Confused of Daikonland.

She's in a bunch of mini infomercials on FOX.

[Grumpy Gramps]

PS If she were not blonde

My bet: Undoubtedly hydrogen peroxyde.

[Taro Toporific]

"Is It Difficult?" Blonde on Fox Selection

Can someone reveal the connection between the title and the linked blonde? Without any context it looks like something from a random sentence generator.

She's in a bunch of mini infomercials on FOX.

Damn, my google-fu is failing me and I can't find a youtuber of the "Is It Difficult?" CM that pays five zillion times an hour on the FOX Japan channels. However, I did find this gem.

[wagyl]

If anyone had any idea at all about what product it was trying to advertise, that might help locate a copy of the CM, but it sounds like the ad is notable but not the actual product.

Making the Three Men and a Baby claim in Japanese.

Edit: whoa!!!!!! In this video she also claims that she was studying medicine in France, although that doesn't appear in the bios. And at the end of the story, she claims that her mother threw her out of her house in Tokyo for abandoning medical study. She left her mother's house on 11 March 2011. She had no assets apart from modelling, but she could follow her dream.....


End of the nice story, but, ummm, didn't something else happen, including in Tokyo, on 11 March 2011? Something that would have thrown a few modelling jobs into disarray? That doesn't get any mention at all. This woman stinks, and it is not just Parisienne showering habits.

Edit No. deux: Stink http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/0 ... -sues-nhk/ the fliejins are circling this one.
The chronology does not match doing magazine promotion for her fashion consulting company which she had already set up, before that date.

[legion]

according to her profile on the twitter, she has lived in japan since 5 year old.
it means she is biologically or physically a pure gaijin but mentally or culturally japanese.
it follows that she speak japanese more fluently than some uneducated japanese. it doesnt deserve praising her.
i would wholeheartedly praise her speaking the same way even if she came to japan after becoming an adult.

and i guess her blonde hair is fake with high probablity. she cunningly uses j-kinpatsu complex to favor her buziness.

I know what you mean, there are a lot of J-folk cruising on English ability they acquired because their Daddy was posted to gaikoku-land. There are also a lot of gaijin cruising on the Japanese inability to spot crap English writing/narration etc, I just wish the two groups would meet up and their would some kind of anti-matter-bullshit meets anti-matter-bullshit explosion

[Russell]

If anyone had any idea at all about what product it was trying to advertise, that might help locate a copy of the CM, but it sounds like the ad is notable but not the actual product.

Making the Three Men and a Baby claim in Japanese.

Edit: whoa!!!!!! In this video she also claims that she was studying medicine in France, although that doesn't appear in the bios. And at the end of the story, she claims that her mother threw her out of her house in Tokyo for abandoning medical study. She left her mother's house on 11 March 2011. She had no assets apart from modelling, but she could follow her dream.....


End of the nice story, but, ummm, didn't something else happen, including in Tokyo, on 11 March 2011? Something that would have thrown a few modelling jobs into disarray? That doesn't get any mention at all. This woman stinks, and it is not just Parisienne showering habits.

Edit No. deux: Stink http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/0 ... -sues-nhk/ the fliejins are circling this one.
The chronology does not match doing magazine promotion for her fashion consulting company which she had already set up, before that date.

Wagyl, it looks like you have a field day today. LOL

[legion]

If anyone had any idea at all about what product it was trying to advertise, that might help locate a copy of the CM, but it sounds like the ad is notable but not the actual product.

Making the Three Men and a Baby claim in Japanese.

Ted Talks called, we did it already.

Looks like some spurious corporate mutual handjob event. She is tedious. Although I skipped through the video after hearing 3 seconds of her affectation.

[wuchan]

If anyone had any idea at all about what product it was trying to advertise, that might help locate a copy of the CM, but it sounds like the ad is notable but not the actual product.

lactoferrin supplement? She is in at least five "fox selection" commercials



Edit: one of these http://tv.foxjapan.com/special-content/foxselection/

[yanpa]

Is this the same Fox as right-wing Murdoch US Fox?

Not that I'd know it, the most exotic J-channel received here in Chez Squid is Chiba TV.

End of the nice story, but, ummm, didn't something else happen, including in Tokyo, on 11 March 2011? Something that would have thrown a few modelling jobs into disarray?

Was she in the bath at the time?

[legion]

There is a forum dedicated to these rays of light in our benighted lives

https://prettyuglylittleliar.net/

[Yokohammer]

There is a forum dedicated to these rays of light in our benighted lives

https://prettyuglylittleliar.net/

The human race is doomed ...

[Coligny]

There is a forum dedicated to these rays of light in our benighted lives

https://prettyuglylittleliar.net/

The human race is doomed ...

The french equivalent is jpoptrash... While being funny for a good 5 minutes, them wabsite survival being based on shitting as much diahrea on selected targets get old quickly.

Yes stuff like filthyfrank are acquired taste... But if you keep watching just to have material to bitch about it you might need counselling... Them be professionnal lynch mobs... Once they get one detail to back a label they put on someone they consider it game to go full retard on the judgemental character assasinashiun. They are not happy because people make video on things they are doing good instead of being weekly confessionnals about their every failure down to not washing their hands long enough after taking a dump.

(Jpooptrash is mostly a bedpan of sociopath...)

[Yokohammer]

It scares me not only that people actually want to participate in that shit, but that they have the time. I'd say we're looking at a subset of humanity that makes a negligible contribution to anything. Not your most productive demographic.

Says he ... trash talking the trash talkers ...

At least I don't do it all the time.

[kurogane]

She is tedious. Although I skipped through the video after hearing 3 seconds of her affectation.

Ironman Award for you. Either her voice or speech style is excruciating, like a short hop flight stewardess with a head injury and speech problems. What does that even mean, Take it or Leave it? Is that like a Buddhist Seize the Day sort of slogan?

[matsuki]

It scares me not only that people actually want to participate in that shit, but that they have the time. I'd say we're looking at a subset of humanity that makes a negligible contribution to anything. Not your most productive demographic.

Says he ... trash talking the trash talkers ...

At least I don't do it all the time.

It's concentrated, freeze dried, poop...but apparently females v-logging about Japan has become a thing....and there are always people that have the time and interest to clean it up.

[Russell]

Canadian YouTuber explains why she quit working on Japanese TV

Many foreigners living in Japan would love to become famous on Japanese TV. But according to one popular foreign YouTuber in Japan the reality of appearing on television is far from glamorous. Micaela has told her 271,000 followers in a frank YouTube video that she was exploited by TV producers and has subsequently “quit Japanese TV”.

The Canadian born YouTuber has been living in Kyushu for around 10 years uploading hundreds of videos about Japan before she joined a “talent agency” for Japanese TV appearances. But as Micaela explains in the video she was very disappointed with the way she was treated.

You can see Micaela’s breakdown of her experiences of Japanese TV in the video below.

Micaela says the TV producers she worked with were always keen to usurp her followers that she had garnered over many years on YouTube but they offered almost nothing in return except for the chance of more exposure. She says she had “tons of TV offers” but “not one of them paid” – even though they were always pressing her to share her appearance on TV to her followers on Twitter and YouTube. In fact, she ended up losing money by appearing on TV because she had to reduce her English teaching classes to find the time in her schedule. Micaela tells us that she believes YouTubers appearing on TV “deserve to be compensated for [their] work”.

Not only was she not getting paid but the one thing they did offer wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Micaela says, “being on TV has never brought me more traffic than being linked on another blog”. She advises other YouTubers that it is best to collaborate with someone or organize someone to write about your website, which will “definitely get you a lot more traffic than appearing on TV”.

Micaela is also critical of the way TV producers tried to portray her on screen. They were constantly trying to tell her to be more excitable. For one television shoot Micaela gave a report of a local convenience store. “The whole time we were doing this shoot he was just like can you just be more excited… smile more, be more energetic,” says Micaela. The final edited product of the shoot included a narration describing Micaela’s thoughts – a lot of which the producers made up without asking for Micaela’s permission. Micaela says the producers would often “give me a personality that is not mine”.

Micaela says she was constantly being told that she was less valuable than the other people working for her talent agency and that she needed to be aware that she was at the bottom of the food chain behind the “trainees”, “models”, “talents”, “personalities” and “celebrities”.

Here are some reactions to Micaela’s video:

“This is a kind of slave labour.”
“As an illustrator I can relate to so many of these points!”
“I love you for this video. I always knew that you were an intelligent person. You are one of my favourite YouTubers.”

Micaela does however qualify her opinions of her experiences with Japanese TV by saying ultimately the TV industry wasn’t for her and that others may be different from her and may be willing to put up with the negatives if they really want a career in the Japanese media.

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I didn't watch the video, so I leave judgement to you guys...

[matsuki]

I'm not watching all that video but for all the time she's spent here, you'd think she'd already "get it" without experiencing it first hand.

[kurogane]

Racist. Her account sounds about right, and she's already admitted to being a Canadian 20dumbthing by referring to herself as a "Popular Youtuber"

Hear how I bought Hello Kitty Pocky at my local 7-11!!!!!!!!!!!

She has a point, but like most Youtube Japan bloggers they tend to get their wisdumb from the Ministry of the B'in Obvious, at least to anybody with Japan experience that paid attention and has a measurable intelligence

The few times I was on TV while on fieldwork the producer or director or talent fluffer was often verbally abusive in his demands that I Gaijin it up for the camera, and once got physical when I walked off after what I thought were enough takes of the same stupid questions. And I think that was NHK. I don't think it's much better for Japanese but there is a BS level I think most FGs simply won't accept, especially the belittling criticisms.