The “viral” trend of stupid-ass YouTube personalities making a name for themselves by being offensive idiots in Japan continues unabated. Fortunately, in the latest case, local authorities put a stop to it swiftly, denying a group of nuisance streamers permission to board a ferry in Kagoshima.
According to JCast News, the group of nine people had already been making a negative name for itself by broadcasting its antics online. Their reports appear based on original reporting by the X account @canceljohnnys, a Johnny Somali hate account (respect).
The account had been tracking the activity of streamer Paul Denino, known by his online moniker of Ice Poseidon, and streamer Aaron Travis, known as Ac7ionMan. (Yes, these are names that grown-ass men call themselves.) Denino’s group had reportedly caused a commotion on a Shinkansen train and Denino apparently streamed himself smoking in a non-smoking passenger cabin of a ferry.
The group’s reputation, however, caught up with it. They tried to board another ferry in Kagoshima to Naha, Okinawa on February 26th. Before boarding, they were stopped by an English-speaking director of the Kagoshima Coast Guard.
“Unfortunately, even though you have already bought this ferry ticket, you cannot get on this ferry today. Because the ferry owner decided they refused.”
“Why?” a man who appears to be filming asks, chuckling.
“Because they acknowledge you have already done a lot of troublesome activities in Japan.”
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The group tries to deny they’ve done anything wrong. To which the Coast Guard person responds by reminding them that they’ve livestreamed everything. “Many people have watched,” he says as the speaker again tries to deny what everyone’s already seen with their own eyes.
“He got lied to – fake,” the man insists. “Wouldn’t we be in jail if we did something wrong?” another guy asks. The Coast Guard officer refuses to buy it, though, and doesn’t let them board.
At the end of the video, an American-sounding man with solid-sounding Japanese – apparently the group’s interpreter – tries to convince the Coast Guard one last time that the group didn’t do anything wrong. He tells his group in English, “They said because of things on YouTube and whatnot [i.e., what most people would call ‘evidence’], we’re not gonna win this battle.”
Last year, Chinese streamer Iron Head made headlines after urinating on Yasukuni Shrine. A court recently sentenced one of his co-conspirators, Japanese resident Jianh Zhoujun, 29, to eight months in prison.
Paul Denino has previously been arrested in both Thailand and Australia for his antics. Charges were ultimately dropped in both countries. Denino reportedly was also kicked out of a bar in Hokkaido in 2024.
Japanese commenters are lauding the Coast Guard director and the ferry company’s decisive action. One popular comment on Yahoo! News JP expressed a wish that Japan find a way to deny nuisance streamers entry at the border. “If immigration officers don’t already have that authority, we should pass a law to grant it to them immediately.”
That might prove difficult given that Japan will likely see 40 million total inbound tourists this year. At the very least, it would be nice to see these guys catch lifetime entry bans after the fact.
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