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Fidias Panayiotou irritated the Japanese with his attempts to evade train fares and videotape it.
- Author,Nicholas Yong
- Role,BBC News, Singapore
His actions angered the Japanese and he had to apologize.
Phidias Panayiotoua YouTuber with more than 2.4 million subscribers, published a video titled Travel through Japan for free, in which he showed how he avoided paying for train tickets and the breakfast bill for his five-star hotel.
The production has almost half a million views.
Given the facts, some Citizens showed their anger on social networks and they ask that he be arrested. The railway authorities are considering taking action against him.
Good manners are a feature of Japanese culture and jokes that are considered disrespectful are frowned upon.
The man had to apologize for the inconvenience it caused.
“Hello beautiful people, I apologize to the Japanese people if we made them feel bad, that was not our goal!” the Cypriot YouTuber said on Tuesday, after his video went viral over the weekend.
Panayiotou describes himself as a “professional who makes mistakes” on his YouTube page.
He was joined by three other people in the video from Japan, which was part of a challenge.
At one point in the clip, he hides in the bathroom of a bullet train and pretends to be sick when confronted by a conductor. He then runs off to board another train where he repeats the trick.
Panayiotou also begs a stranger to pay for his bus fare, but he is still 80 yen (US$0.53) short. The driver then locked him in the bus and took him to a police station, where he was held for five hours before being released.
He later poses as a hotel guest so he can receive a free breakfast. “And we will leave the hotel without getting caught and without any problems,” she says to the camera.
It is not clear when the video was filmed or whether Panayiotou and his companions are still in Japan.
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Japanese culture appreciates good manners.
The fury on social networks
Many social media users They demanded that Panayiotou delete his video to show that his apology was sincere. The video appeared to have been removed from his YouTube channel as of midday Tuesday.
“Another strange and annoying foreign YouTuber has emerged. In addition to Phidias, the other three should be arrested,” said one social media user.
“I’m really disgusted by people like you who take advantage of the kindness and courtesy of the Japanese people,” another person said.
Another commented: “This is very wrong. This is just stealing people’s money and behaving rudely to others.”
In August, the also youtuber Ishmael Ramsey Khalidbetter known as Johnny Somaliwas arrested for allegedly trespassing on a construction site and repeatedly shouting “Fukushima,” in reference to the nuclear power plant that melted down in 2011 after a tsunami.
In 2017, the American influencer Logan Paul He also sparked widespread controversy with a video he posted, since deleted, of an apparent suicide victim in a Japanese forest that garnered millions of views.
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