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1. irie (irie_new@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 22:48:01 JST irie
   A post on Japanese Twitter giving advice how to get rid of so-called Impression Zombies got over 12 million views.
   
   Meant are people who spam unrelated and/or low quality content in replies in order to farm impressions for some kind of financial gain. This ironically ties back to what I wrote about Indian spammers under viral Japanese tweets, as the tactic seems to be an Indian one.
   
   Since muting and blocking seems pointless as they keep coming back, or perhaps their numbers are immeasurable (therefore zombies) Japanese are now working with muting certain sets of words or characters, some suggest to block entire languages.
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   • irie (irie_new@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 23:42:37 JST irie

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     The great Japanese Indian war of X
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     God bless the anti-Poo samurai of the Second Great Meme War! :Salute:
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   • Berkeley Berkman (berkberkman@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 23:43:11 JST Berkeley Berkman

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     @irie_new Maybe some kind of filter for common names from India and Pakistan could work, along with some kind of way to filter out any of those South Asian languages, including Punjab, Hindi, Sanskrit, and more.
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   • irie (irie_new@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 23:43:12 JST irie

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     That then explains why all of a sudden you have people named Devesh and other Indian names replying in N5 Japanese with unrelated messages to viral Japanese tweets.
     
     Seeing their impression farming schemes blocked by filters the spammers resort to using Japanese characters. Many Japanese users even suggest blocking Latin characters for that exact reason.
     
     Moral of the story, Indians will not learn something to learn more about the world or contribute to it, but they will start learning one of the most difficult languages on earth in order to scam a few dollars.
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