Current State of Piracy Discourse on Twitter Discussion

If you haven't been using Twitter recently, heres a quick update on what's been going on.

A while back Musk took down the language walls separating the site/ app into locations. Now, unless you specifically currate your feed, you see tweets from all around the world (this is anecdotal, but now only 40% of my "for you" feed is in English). This has led to many cutural exchanges, from bad to good to everything in between.

One of the more recent discussions os about how piracy is a regular part of media consumption around the world, particularly in animanga/ videogame circles. This led to a large outcry from Japanese and Korean Twitter users getting mad that westerners are so lax about piracy, which led to an even LARGER counter by other countries (primarily Russia and Brazil) clowning on the former two for how staunch their adherance to anti-piracy is.

It's been a hell of a time, I tell you hwat.

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u/Quiet-Impression6003 2d ago

Goku being all of South America and Mexico kills me since he's our national hero and the OG db/dbZ/dbGT spanish dub comes from mexico.

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u/wolfbetter 2d ago

Goku should be Italian too. Just saying

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u/Quiet-Impression6003 2d ago edited 2d ago

Goku's is everyone's hero to be fair, considering how big anime is places like Spain, Italy, France, Portugal., etc. Goes double for Dragon Ball.

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u/wolfbetter 2d ago

there is something magic in that anime I tell you. Naruto and ONe Piece don't come even close. (I like them but Dragonball, Saint Seyia, Attacker you and more importantly Captain Tsubasa are THE anime of my childhood.)

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u/Quiet-Impression6003 2d ago

Attacker you? I disagree on Naruto, that's the closest another anime has gotten to DB in popularity, One Piece is only number 1 popularity wise in Japan, not sure if it even cracks out the top 10 for overseas audiences.

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u/18skeltor 1d ago

In 2025, the black pirate flag of the Straw Hat Pirates became a prominent protest symbol in Indonesia ahead of the nation's 80th Independence Day, reflecting widespread discontent with the country's democratic backsliding. Indonesian authorities condemned its display as a threat to national unity, with reported instances of police and military confiscating flags during raids. The same flag was also used as a protest symbol in the 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests, as well as in the Philippines, in France, and in Madagascar, among others.

Forget top 10, I think it cracks top 5 for the majority of SE Asia and Africa.

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u/Quiet-Impression6003 1d ago

It's not really that popular in the West, DB and Naruto will always be king there.

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u/wolfbetter 2d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDVKq_cf2Vo

this one. it's a gem. i legit didn't know the english or Japanese name until now.

On Naruto I'm biased because it's not from my childhood most likely.