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Added August 13, 2026

An AI-generated airport POV meme of a fedora-wearing tourist whose shadow looms over horrified Japanese crowds, captioned "Just arrived at the sweet motherland of Japan. I feel like I'm just in an anime."

Added July 23, 2026

A July 2025 viral photo of model Saori Araki in a grey office suit, puffing her cheeks while holding a laptop—used in Which Way Western Man comparisons and 2026 Razer Project AVA discourse.

Added April 16, 2026

A short-form video meme pairing footage of someone walking or sprinting with a caption like “People in Japan when their phone dies,” exaggerating the viral “Japan is turning footsteps into electricity” Instagram copypasta by pretending footsteps can charge a dead battery.

Added April 10, 2026

An exploitable image macro from Ninja Sentai Kakuranger where a police officer says “Today is Friday in California” before chaos erupts—used for absurdist captions, redraws, and “out of pocket” English lines in tokusatsu clips.

Added March 12, 2026

Japan Is Turning Footsteps Into Electricity is a copypasta meme about Japan purportedly using piezoelectric floor tiles to harvest energy from footsteps. It spread as a recurring "did you know" post that people share with breathless enthusiasm, often used to mock credulous sharing of feel-good tech stories.