Ao WuWu Restocks Meme Supply With Slam Dunk and Comedy Lines in Third Study Session

V4MIRAI — Ao WuWu of V4Mirai held the third installment of the “Internet Meme Study Session” on Friday, a stream of just over three hours in which Ao worked through Japanese internet memes and catchphrases Ao wanted to add to a “stock” on the road to becoming what the stream title called a villainous meme user. Ao said the evening had three parts: a list from the channel’s manager, memes recommended by viewers in the comments, and entries sent in through Marshmallow, the anonymous question service.

The first entry on the manager’s list was *kaeruka genshō*, or “frog-ification,” which Ao guessed at in the manner of a detective before working out that it describes a person who looked appealing suddenly turning one off, like a prince turning out to be a frog. Ao concluded it was best kept for joking with close friends. The running call *eh-ho, eh-ho* sent Ao hunting for the original image, and after chat compared it to the way characters run in anime, Ao decided it could be used whenever there was something to pass along. Ao also asked viewers what the study sessions should produce, and chat suggested a notebook of jokes, a daily calendar and a card game. Ao said the notebook idea sounded good and promised to think it over.

“If anything happens, I’ll take the responsibility.” — Ao WuWu, to the viewers just called accomplices

Lines from manga and anime made up much of the middle. “If you give up, the game is over” from *Slam Dunk* drew chat messages calling it less a meme than a famous quote, and Ao rated it a safe, 100-point pick. The *Castle in the Sky* line about people looking like trash from a great height was new to Ao, who had not seen the film, and chat helped place it with the villain Muska; Ao settled on using it when feeling superior. The comedy duo Sandwichman’s “I don’t know what you’re saying” led Ao to note a weakness of Ao’s own: because Ao is a real person, meme use is often taken as sincere. A line from *Fullmetal Alchemist* about kids with sharp instincts, and a pair of Bleach lines from the villain Aizen, went into the stock too, though Ao said the right occasion for the Aizen ones was hard to picture.

Around two hours in, as chat urged Ao to go on, Ao joked that the path was dangerous and that the viewers who kept supplying memes were accomplices. Ao then said the responsibility was Ao’s, and chat answered with messages calling that a manly stance. Later picks from viewers included a panda image captioned “this is no time to eat bamboo,” the Hiroyuki line “that’s just your opinion,” and “It’s coming from above, be careful,” the opening of the 1996 game Death Crimson. Ao watched the game’s opening with the audience for about three minutes and found it hard to follow, and chat called the game itself a notorious bad one.

The last meme was “Chiba! Shiga! Saga!”, a line from a sketch by the comedy duo Rahmens, which Ao watched with chat and said Ao had come to love for being so hard to make sense of. Closing out, Ao said the next session would take on *Steins;Gate* memes, and asked viewers to send in, through Marshmallow, the origins of the memes Ao was taught in a recent Apex collab. Ao said a collab in English was planned for after the stream.