Mashiro Ends ‘Words You Shouldn’t Search’ Gacha With a Perfect Score and a Warning to Viewers

NIJISANJI — Mashiro, a Nijisanji streamer, ended a 94-minute run of his “words you shouldn’t search” gacha series by giving a perfect score to the last video he looked up, then telling viewers to protect themselves online. Of that last clip, he said it was the first time in a while that he had closed his eyes during a graphic video.

The format has him draw random search terms from a website, look each one up with the sound muted and the footage covered by a mosaic, explain it, and score it for how disturbing it is. He opened with the 1973 “Canister of 8mm” footage, scored it low because the black-and-white picture made the blood look black, and moved on to fasciation (*obika*), a plant growth disorder that bends and fuses stems. He called the pictures of deformed cacti, strawberries and sunflowers scarier than he expected.

“I closed my eyes for the first time in a while.” — Mashiro, after the final video

A video nicknamed “Ghost Rider” took the record at 19 points. Mashiro said he had to search past fake clips to find it, warned viewers not to look it up, and said he would probably think of it whenever he saw a lighter. He then switched to ten-pull gacha for the remaining half hour. Picks from those included a blog written entirely in unreadable strings of characters, a news article about a hot pot of insects including giant water bugs, and an old flash site whose sudden loud sound made him jump. He scored the insect article high and the loud site as irritating rather than frightening.

The last pull, a six-star draw, was a video he called far beyond everything else that night: if the “Ghost Rider” clip was a 2, he said, this was a 10. He gave it full marks, said he doubted it would be topped, and closed by saying that the internet holds dangerous material and that viewers should be adults who can say “that one’s a no” when such words come up. He said he planned to stream a collaboration the following night from about 10 p.m.