It's going to go up in flames.

The “Father’s Quiz” was praised on live TV. It’s disgusting,” he snapped on live TV, praising his comments in a “father quiz” - Livedoor News

• In 2024, a quiz was held on a Japanese New Year’s show to guess the “father” of a child based on a composite photo of a fictional child and a celebrity who was displayed as the “mother.
• One respondent answered a celebrity in the studio as his father, and the 29-year-old said, “Please stop. I feel like this corner is going to get a little flammable already, so please stop. It’s disgusting,” he commented.
• The Internet praised the young man’s sense of humor, saying, “It’s amazing that you can say that without fear,” and “You have good crisis management skills.

I like the expression “going up in flames.”

• In Japan, a statement of the type, “I think this is weird,” tends to be seen as “a statement that disturbs harmony.
  • Don’t water it down by saying that,” and they ignore it.
  • Because “I-message” I-message is perceived as a negative self-assertion? - The culture that sees self-assertion as a negative act
• Rephrasing that as “I’m going to get flamed” makes it an argument about whether or not I’m at risk of getting flamed, rather than “what do I think about it?”
  • In this case, the risk aversion of the Japanese people would lead them to say, “Well, let’s just leave it at that.
  • It’s impossible to prove that it won’t catch fire.
• This is a method that allows the “faceless masses,” also known as “the public” or “the air,” to speak for their opinions.
  • Osamu Dazai wrote in “Ningen Shikkaku”: The world is you, isn’t it?

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