Shinomiya Runa Grades a Viral Infidelity Checklist, Item by Item, on a Morning Stream

VSPO — Shinomiya Runa of VSpo spent most of a 160-minute morning stream grading a popular “cheating checklist” in real time, rating everyday situations between friends of the opposite sex from harmless to unacceptable. The stream began Wednesday morning in Japan.

She opened by saying she wanted to play something she could talk through but could not settle on a game, and she turned down several chat suggestions, saying she had lost the motivation for one of them. The first half hour was a *zatsudan*, or chat stream: she recalled spending a childhood summer doing nothing but a motion-controlled bowling game until she could throw strikes with a flick of the wrist while seated, talked about the gear systems in the Splatoon series, and described a cracked fingernail that had made it hard to play. She also checked her microphone level with chat and ended up lowering it slightly.

“If all you say is “you look cute today,” you’ll absolutely be misunderstood.” — Shinomiya Runa, on compliments to the opposite sex

Around the 35-minute mark a viewer suggested the checklist. She said she did not follow that genre closely and had only glanced at it, but she worked out how to write on the screen and started filling it in. Lunch with a coworker of the opposite sex passed easily, while drinks alone with a coworker depended on who it was. She called a movie for two “nothing but ulterior motives,” and said gifts to a friend depended on what they were: consumables were fine, but jewelry and other lasting items were not. Texting the same person every day for a week was out for her, and she said anyone who answered a friend’s late-night summons to see them in person might as well date that friend.

A recurring theme was how an act looks to others. She said she was fine with compliments on a specific haircut or outfit, particularly from someone who praised everyone, but that telling someone “you look cute today” would be misread. Items about ex-partners drew mostly shrugs, though she asked for consideration over things like keeping old photos, and she said an explanation of “I thought you’d get angry” was the one reason that made her stop wanting to talk. At the end she said she tended to avoid arguments with people who chose hurtful words, and she closed the stream after about two and a half hours.

Chat, which produced 3,137 messages and nine Super Chats, reacted to the format with running jokes. Viewers laughed as she worked through the list, several said that laughing off a joking remark was the only sensible reply, and near the end some called her unexpectedly tolerant.