Famed Japanese Toy Company Good Smile Has Reportedly Propped Up 4chan for Years

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Good Smile reportedly put $2.4 million into 4chan, a move which may just end its incredibly lucrative deal with Disney.

Takanori Aki, right, is the president of Good Smile Company and is reportedly a friend of Hiroyuki Nishimura, the current administer of 4chan. Good Smile reportedly financially backed the site back in 2015, and past documents show Good Smile kept on with that support.

Good Smile, one of the world’s most popular toy companies, reportedly acted as the brace for one of the internet’s worst cesspools, financially backing 4chan. The site has gone on to facilitate harassment campaigns, racism, misogyny, and homophobia while being a vortex for internet conspiracy theories.

 

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GoodSmile_US love you bro.

Nice

Thank you Good Smile, you are Fren

absolutely based Good Smile

Crackerjack reporting, here. did the ads tip you off?

Anime figure company investing in an anime imageboard. Who would of thought.

Ngl nothing was gonna stop me from buying more nendos besides them committing genocide

This is why I buy Funko Pops instead Not only do they look better they also support great progressive social causes and strike deals with more respectable companies like Disney

ID_EntityCrisis We need a moot and snacks figure

Based

Lol that’s awesome and probably a smart move considering the target audience

And?

Nice

.fbi I think these guys might be messing with the operation...

Nice.

hm i think i will possibly have to buy some new smile products in support.

Based. Love nendos. Now I'm gonna buy even more.

Someone need to stop this hacker knew as 4chan!!!!!111

y'all do know 4chan is a huge website with way more boards than /b/ or /pol/ right?

And it’s like it’s an image board forum at its core

People still think it’s the year 2000 and that 4Chan is like the entrance to the dark web or something. Except for the occasional “rekt” video or some weird shit that eventually gets taken down anyway, 4Chan has become so normie it might as well be an MSN news page.

And? So?

Good.

Comments be like

I'll thank them by buying some nendos

You love to see it

Lol cry about it

Meanwhile on Twitter:

oh wow glad i preordered their metaknight figure

Twitter is worse than 4chan

Good 🙂

Love all the anime avatars basically being like „Fascism is good actually and also have you heard who the shooter in Nashville was?“ in the replies here…

and? 4chan is a weeb forum, makes sense they are not even edgy anymore

Awesome! Gotta give them more money!

Yes, and? What do you expect to happen?

What do you expect me to be? Concerned? Surprised? Disgusted? Outraged?

ok

they're doing WHAT with 4cent garbage

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anime figure company putting ads on an image board full of weebs, damn that's crazy

Wow, I can't believe an anime figure company advertises on the single largest English-Language anime imageboard. Thats craaazy!

....... Okay, and?

based good smile.

Nice

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