The pitiful sight of thousands of AKB48 CDs discarded as rubbish after creepy otaku fans have extracted the all-important voting and handshaking event tickets has finally answered the question of where they all end up, and perhaps shed some light on their musical value.
Their latest single sold 1.1 million on its first day, and organisers report a total of 1.38 million votes were cast in the popularity contest itself.
The main popularity contest received hours of TV coverage, and broadcasters claim ratings as high as “28%” – although given their chart success evidently relies on a tiny core of creepy otaku fans and how difficult it appears to be to actually find anyone with anything good to say about their music, there are some lingering doubts as to just how “national” their popularity really is.
The handshaking event after the popularity contest, evidently the main event in more ways than one for many fans, also earned the group more notoriety when one of their number gleefully told a fan who had just blown ¥530,000 of his savings to cast 2700 votes “Don’t bankrupt yourself, OK?” as she shook his hand.
Just where all their CDs end up after the vote and event tickets have been extracted has been the subject of speculation for some time, and fortunately Twitter denizens were able to take a break from describing their latest meals in order to describe and photograph the contents of their local rubbish dumps:
“So this is where all their CDs end up…”
“They were just put out with the garbage at my apartment…”
“I found 150 CDs at my rubbish collection point. On closer inspection, they turned out to be AKB48 CDs released the day before.”
“I went to sell some and they offered ¥5 each. The gas I used to get there cost more!”
“The local library will give you dirty looks if you try to donate them to them.”
“Second-hand copies are on sale in Akiba for ¥50 each. I wonder if anyone will buy them…”
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is anyone really surprised at all?
I hate to say it but... this...
Lol just LOL
Whoa...this is harsh...
Yes, but we are talking about otakus which are a-social beings.
Mother Earth is crying.
mother earth isn't real. just like jesus.
Pollution is real, no matter how you handle it.
oh great, another person who thinks a little piece of plastic in a dump somewhere is gonna affect your life *rolls eyes*
"oh great, another person who thinks a little piece of plastic in a dump somewhere is gonna affect your life *rolls eyes*"
^It's about perception, not the volume of the actual "garbage".
@20:02
what do you mean by that? the fact that it's out on the street?
...let me guess, you've never been to japan, and therefore know nothing about the japanese disposal system?
19:54, a little piece won't yet billions of those little pieces will affect the lives of many people. Fuckhead.
19:54 Oh god that ignorance.
19:50 gets downvoted to hell, yet 19:54 gets upvoted? Something's wrong with the voting system.
And yet I am not surprised... Who the hell would keep hundreds of the same music disk anyway... Keep one.. if any.. and throw/give out the rest.
keep 3 if you know what i mean
i don't know what you mean, help this poor anon out
Adding "if you know what I mean" to the end of a sentence makes everything a sexual innuendo!!
Konata explains why you need three of something: one to read/hold yourself, one put away still mint-in-box-never-opened to preserve it, and one to lend out.
ugh, and i consider lucky star to be my favorite anime as well. i am ashamed.
What a terrible terrible character that growth stunted, insanely boring character is. I barely made it through the first episode.
vote this motherfucker down!
The Anon at 22:49, I mean
First episode is the only bad one. Stop being lazy. Always try at least the second episode. You don't get to judge it unless you've watched 3.
@cuppatea
Do you have an account on cruchyroll? I've seen someone with a .gif of your avatar.
The life of an otaku sure is expensive...
Why would they buy the CDs if they hate the AKB48 so much? For the votes, but they hate the AKB48. Obviously, these otakus have too much time on their hand.
If 1.1million CDs were sold the first day, and they were all purchased by the crazed otakus, then what is their actual fanbase numbers?
Well, you have some who buy 2700 CDs, other 3000+, and then some 150 (using the numbers in this posting and others).
Lets go with a nice round average of 250 CDs per otaku.
1.1m / 250 = 4,400 "fans"...
Very sad indeed.
And then there are people who just buy 1. So its probably around 5000-6000.
Still a "very regrettable" number.
Butthurt AKB48 fans going on a downvoting rampage. lol
A million fans or just 1000, the company is still paid. Company wins, exploited girls lose, lonely otakus crash in debt and everyone else just laughs at all this.
criticizing akb48 is one thing.
but when you see someone criticize akb48 fans for their CASH, then you know you've found a poor, jealous white person.
@23:31 and you probably think is right spend $30k in singles just to get the maximum of votes for your favorite member?
I *could* spend $30,000 on AKB48 CDs if I wanted to.. but WHY? There's no LOGIC to it at all. As a (mostly) well-adjusted whitey I can spend my money on far more tangible things than trying to outspend other rich, stupid otaku. And if I wanted what they're trying to get, I know how to get it for a lot less than $5000.
For all these terrible otaku (surely at least in the hundreds by the sheer volume and frequency of these obsessive posts and pictures) what else could you do to get laid in Japan for $5000?? I've been there quite a few times and believe me, with only a bare modicum of common sense and conversational Japanese it's possible.
I mean, I don't care how fat and NEET you are, a soapland'll be 1/10 that price. Or go find your own JK girl- sure she won't be *famous* but how many happy endings will you get for that amount?
Otaku who do this are mentally insane or ill. There is NO logical or practical reason for that Obsessive/Compulsive behavior and the supposed goal could be achieved far easier other ways. It is an addiction, deliberately encouraged by the AKB48 production and management.
"Lets go with a nice round average of 250 CDs per otaku."
LOL do you seriously think anyone buys 250 CDs, much less everyone?
looks like we've found another white person brainwashed by sancom.
"Lets go with a nice round average of 250 CDs per otaku."
LOL do you really think anyone actually purchases 250 CDs, much less everyone?
Looks like another white person who's been brainwashed by artfact. I envy his success.
"Lets go with a nice round average of 250 CDs per otaku."
LOL do you really think anyone actually purchases 250 CDs, much less everyone?
Looks like another white person who's been brainwashed by artfact. I envy his success.
I think the point he is making is that it would only take 4,400 fans buying that many discs to account for this level of "popularity."
I certainly do not think this is case (I'm guessing there must be at least a few hundred thousand casual fans), but even with an average number of CDs purchased per fan of 2-3, the CD sales would dramatically overstate their popularity.
It probably is reasonable to say the majority of their overall sales revenue (including events, goods, and so forth) derives from a small minority of fans, however.
Even if that was where the CD sales come from (ridiculous as it is), that doesn't account for the all the fans.
People who sell that many (4k) copies per single don't have 4k fans. Because not only does it not account for digital sales, it doesn't count for illegal downloads. I'm sure for every Ota who bought a second CD, there's someone who downloaded the single or just watches it on youtube.
AKB48 tops radio charts, karaoke charts, digital sales charts. You don't get to see a single girl or extra when you do those things.
Aishh, that's pretty harsh. Could have sold all that internationally or something...
as a korean, typing out "Aishh" might be one of the most pathetic things i've ever seen on this site. and that's saying a lot.
get off our site, dirty korean
go back to korea land and continue destroying your country with your stupid ass creationism you dirty pan faced gook ! leave this site alone for us americans to enjoy.
Just eat shit stupid korean! Those CD are only worth for it's plastic and paper for recycling.
Why continue this farce? Just have the wannabe hose receptacles go straight to porn.
yeah, but porn of girls their age is a hassle to come by, even in japan where it's one of two countries in the world where it's legal
Porn at average akb (senbatsu) age is quite legal. There are young members but 95% of them are trainees.
porn of 0 year olds is legal in japan, idiot
that would explain all the news here about people getting arrested for videotaping underage prostitution getting additional charges for child pornography.
They're not pretty enough for that.
true, if you like women past their expiration date, then akb48 isn't really for you.
unless you're talking about other junior idol groups, then i'd agree, since around 40% of akb48 fans these days are supposed to be women, so they're not really picking their girls to be as sexy as they used to.
So many jealous comments. Get real, they are prettier than your ugly faces behind your computers.