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  • čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
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  • @P1kaSans
    @P1kaSans Před 27 dny +12442

    Mario Mario moment

  • @Zelmel
    @Zelmel Před 27 dny +10648

    Japan apparently doesn't recognize the existence of Wales

    • @prismaticc_abyss
      @prismaticc_abyss Před 26 dny +256

      Ironic since they hunt them

    • @Averybritishbear
      @Averybritishbear Před 26 dny +126

      @@prismaticc_abyssdidn’t know they hunted dragons
      I know you meant the sea creatures

    • @amirshlomolavan
      @amirshlomolavan Před 25 dny +23

      Tbh neither do i. Weird ass name. At least it's not colorado

    • @ludvig3242
      @ludvig3242 Před 25 dny +17

      @@Averybritishbear You didn’t, you’re lying to cover your mistakes. I’m on to you

    • @haruyanto8085
      @haruyanto8085 Před 25 dny +24

      Neither does Britain tbh

  • @jo0ke4u61
    @jo0ke4u61 Před 27 dny +5517

    CDawgKona

  • @basillestale5174
    @basillestale5174 Před 27 dny +3526

    japan: living in the future with AL and robots and stuff
    also japan: living in the feudal era when it comes anything government and paperwork

    • @mfaizsyahmi
      @mfaizsyahmi Před 26 dny +364

      Japan has been living in the year 2000 for the past 40 years.

    • @Sh0ckWolf
      @Sh0ckWolf Před 25 dny +17

      ​@@mfaizsyahmi Math isn't mathing.

    • @MrRedstoner
      @MrRedstoner Před 25 dny +252

      ​@@Sh0ckWolf math is very much mathing. It used to be 20 years in the future, over time changed all the way to 20 years in the past

    • @AnotherJunji
      @AnotherJunji Před 25 dny +119

      As someone living in Japan, I agree that it's stuck in the year 2000, most of it anyway, technologically it's dead, medicine is dead, robots and stuff, dead, games? Dead, currency is dead, the only redeeming quality is that you won't be robbed (besides umbrellas and girl's underwear).

    • @zockingtroller7788
      @zockingtroller7788 Před 25 dny +3

      ​@@AnotherJunji Designated smoking zones sound nice too. But I don't live in Japan so I of course don't know the whole situation

  • @donbenjamin6459
    @donbenjamin6459 Před 27 dny +1954

    First name Mario last name Mario. Truly a lancer moment

  • @cube611
    @cube611 Před 25 dny +563

    I think his name in katakana/hiragana is コフーン. Japanese names don't use the "ー" character, so his name is rejected. Maybe he should try "コフン."

    • @adalexander123
      @adalexander123 Před 20 dny +220

      Imagine English websites just saying "nah bruh you can't have an e in your name"

    • @0fficialPyroIceDude
      @0fficialPyroIceDude Před 19 dny +2

      興奮

    • @spelcheak
      @spelcheak Před 18 dny +93

      @@adalexander123 it’s more like requiring you use an e instead of é. The line just lengthens the vowel

    • @DerMBen
      @DerMBen Před 18 dny +79

      ​@@spelcheakWhich is also horrible design, because without the diacritics it’s not the same name.

    • @Pfish1000
      @Pfish1000 Před 16 dny +9

      ​@DerMBen I'm pretty sure a lot of websites would reject é and make you put e.

  • @OokamiDoragon
    @OokamiDoragon Před 20 dny +93

    Reminds me of the post I saw of someone named Wu being denied an application form because their name needed to be 3 characters long lol

    • @havyn88
      @havyn88 Před 13 dny +12

      as an Ng, I know that pain.

  • @isaaccook1890
    @isaaccook1890 Před 24 dny +182

    Vaguely reminded of a guy with a two-character last name complaining about running into a character limit problem when trying to sign up for something.

    • @Ellie-rx3jt
      @Ellie-rx3jt Před 24 dny +34

      It was a serious and recurring problem for people with two letter (usually Chinese) names living in the US/UK for a solid five years or so. Especially in college/university enrollment.

    • @TheQuark6789
      @TheQuark6789 Před 22 dny +40

      I had a Korean professor whose legal last name was just “O.” Most websites rejected it thinking it was an initial.

    • @kirachandesuu
      @kirachandesuu Před 22 dny +23

      ​@@TheQuark6789yeah that's why it's usually "Oh", and for "이" it's commonly romanized as "Lee" or "Yi"

    • @Slukke
      @Slukke Před 22 dny +8

      @@Ellie-rx3jt ...you think this was only a problem for five years?

    • @karan.kk.h
      @karan.kk.h Před 22 dny +15

      I got referred to 5 different departments trying to fix an issue where my uni profile refuses to recognise the latter half of my name (my legal given name is separated by a space)

  • @EmeraldGodBoi
    @EmeraldGodBoi Před 26 dny +468

    First name Mario, last name Mario

  • @LuckySketches
    @LuckySketches Před 27 dny +273

    KonaKona Colquhoun

    • @jennymarie4803
      @jennymarie4803 Před 23 dny +4

      Lol this message has a "Translate to English" link below it for me

  • @ratoh1710
    @ratoh1710 Před 24 dny +61

    Don't know how many will need this information but if you are typing in Japanese on Windows and you need half-width katakana you can right-click on the language icon (marked by A あ or カ depending on what you're typing at that moment) down in the bottom right and switch to half-width katakana.

  • @Bu3li7
    @Bu3li7 Před 25 dny +428

    I know a guy who was’t allowed to use his name on his PSN account.
    His name was “Jihad” ( which is a legitimate name in Arabic - means “struggle” )
    so .. same goes for English speaking services I guess.

    • @iamover9000yearsold
      @iamover9000yearsold Před 24 dny +63

      Kid named crusades

    • @Strawation
      @Strawation Před 23 dny +96

      "Name isn't real enough" and "name that's in the list of blacklisted naughty words" are two different issues though

    • @yourfriendlyneighborhoodpr7529
      @yourfriendlyneighborhoodpr7529 Před 23 dny +23

      Kind of rude to call a legit name a naughty word, unless im interpreting this wrong​@@Strawation

    • @Strawation
      @Strawation Před 23 dny +49

      @@yourfriendlyneighborhoodpr7529 rude or not, it's a fact. It's in a lot of games' list of words to censor. I'm surprised you haven't encountered it before. It's common knowledge that the people who come up with the lists are all a little slow in the head and sheltered. If something has even the slightest bit negative meaning, even if it's some archaic word from the 50s, there's a high chance of it'll end up on that list.

    • @CircusFoxxo
      @CircusFoxxo Před 23 dny

      ​@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodpr7529
      It's a regular word and a valid name
      But it's also what groups like al queda call their activities

  • @DoktorTaiko
    @DoktorTaiko Před 18 dny +12

    Feel ya. I have an umlaut in my last name and whenever I try to book anything in the US online, a red text pops up that says: "Please enter a valid name."

    • @Broomer52
      @Broomer52 Před 15 dny +3

      That’s what you get for having a name written in the devils tongue lol

  • @MaximeLafreniere433
    @MaximeLafreniere433 Před 21 dnem +15

    As someone whose name always gets the red squiggle under it, I feel this.

  • @xemkis
    @xemkis Před 21 dnem +10

    To be fair, dealing with names remains one of the hardest problems in computer science, right next to coming up with names

  • @jama211
    @jama211 Před 24 dny +114

    lol yup, FYI web developers, a name field should ALWAYS just be an open text field. Not even lastname/firstname is ok as some people don’t have two names or don’t know which one to put first if you’re from a country where they typically put the last name first, etc. Just _let people type their names how they like_. It’s less work too.

    • @Aethid
      @Aethid Před 24 dny +28

      It gets tricky when the business requirements want to be able to address someone with varying levels of formality. e.g. given name vs title and family name.
      I think the closest you can get to universal support there is to ask for "given name" (not first) and "family name", allow anything to be put in either, and allow the family name to be left empty - which you then need to handle in the rest of the software.

    • @danielantony1882
      @danielantony1882 Před 21 dnem +3

      I completely agree with you but last name, first name isn’t the linguistic term. Each culture has their own conventions on what is their first and last name, so you have to use actual specific words to make it easier to understand.
       It’s very simple-you choose your surname and given name. If websites don’t understand that, it’s not our fault.

    • @stannumowl
      @stannumowl Před 20 dny

      ​@@Aethid yep, not everyone have middle name, not every culture has family names. And even not every culture always use given names. (including ancient, I don't know do we have any example now or not, but there was at least one example in history).
      So I guess the 4 correct ways to do something will be
      1) just providing a required text field without limitations.
      2) write every thing people have in use with just limit that everything can't be empty at the same time
      3) make localised versions
      4) just put some fields like
      "legal name", "how to address you in such and such style" and let user choose.

    • @csharpcoffee
      @csharpcoffee Před 19 dny

      DO NOT DO THIS.
      Web devs, please ffs SANITISE YOUR USER INPUTS.
      We don't need more SQL injection and exploitation of parsing libraries flaws in cool new 0days

    • @Aethid
      @Aethid Před 19 dny +4

      @@csharpcoffee If you are getting SQL injection from a user input, then you badly fucked up elsewhere. User strings should be able to contain anything without breaking your program.

  • @martijn208
    @martijn208 Před 26 dny +101

    and here we thought Unicode would be universal and solved this problem.

    • @StopTryingSoHard
      @StopTryingSoHard Před 23 dny +8

      LOL, like the backend was written after 1979.

    • @martijn208
      @martijn208 Před 22 dny +3

      ​@@StopTryingSoHard ah, government IT projects. it's depressing if true.

    • @microcolonel
      @microcolonel Před 22 dny +1

      Probably still Shift JIS

    • @ZT1ST
      @ZT1ST Před 12 dny +1

      It's worth remembering that UTF-8 is biased towards making it easier to encode ASCII for pretty much the exact same reason that Japanese websites will likely be using the different character sets on their end; UTF-8 was designed to be compatible with ASCII tools as much as possible.

    • @martijn208
      @martijn208 Před 12 dny

      @@ZT1ST true, but there is also UTF-16 which was designed to be totally universal.

  • @matthewcolosi7606
    @matthewcolosi7606 Před 22 dny +15

    God I can’t get over how insanely xenophobic it is for a website to have pre-programmed in acceptable names.

    • @dracotias
      @dracotias Před 12 dny +1

      It's probably more to do with the fact that names just don't translate well across languages in general and Japan literally doesn't have many western "sounds" for lack of a better word.
      Essentially the closest translation of his name contains symbols/characters that wouldn't normally be in a name.
      Same deal as some western sites not allowing names that have spaces in them.

  • @m4rt_
    @m4rt_ Před 20 dny +6

    This reminds me of websites that try to heavily filter what emails you are allowed to enter to sign up, so if you use a custom domain, or just anything that isn't by Google, Microsoft, etc, then they just won't let you sign up.

  • @sepiasmith5065
    @sepiasmith5065 Před 23 dny +11

    MOOD lmao that's like when you have a hyphenated last name in America and even official government websites will be like "no special characters allowed!" and I'm like brother that is my NAME

    • @ibrahimihsan2090
      @ibrahimihsan2090 Před 6 dny

      My father's name was changed to a given name and a surname when in America.
      Mind you, he doesn't have a surname(at least, I don't think it makes sense for it to be)
      The three words that make his name are his birth name.
      We simply use the first part of his given name as a surname(patronymic).

  • @originalkingdomhearts
    @originalkingdomhearts Před 26 dny +28

    holy crap ! that is what that means !? I never could figure out what half width and full width meant omg!

  • @RachaelLongLastName
    @RachaelLongLastName Před 20 dny +7

    So I have had this exact same experience in America because my last name is hyphenated. There are some websites (I wasn’t allowed to sign up for pre testing for my university under my legal name) that just have an aneurysm if you enter a hyphen even though my legal last name is hyphenated.

  • @haruwu9556
    @haruwu9556 Před 23 dny +7

    I can't use my surname right in most Intl websites because it uses a "ç" which is a letter used in latin languages like portuguese, I hate it sm

    • @Yousifzzz
      @Yousifzzz Před 22 dny +1

      There’s a short cut for that ç is alt+0231, and Ç is alt+0199.

    • @kayhadrin
      @kayhadrin Před 22 dny +4

      ​@@YousifzzzI don't think he's having trouble typing it. It's most likely the websites that refuse it as it's not an English character.

    • @haruwu9556
      @haruwu9556 Před 22 dny

      @@kayhadrin Yep that's it!

  • @ronaldoalberto3510
    @ronaldoalberto3510 Před 25 dny +22

    I had to google translate my name to furikana when I wanted to sign up to get my oiran makeup done. It was quite confusing to navigate

  • @Krukmeister
    @Krukmeister Před 23 dny +13

    My first name is 5 letters and two of those don't exist in Japanese, also my last name is "van *****" so that add another level of fuckery and I have the easier name, girlfriend has 2 middle names and is "van den ******" her name in full is 50+ characters, no Japanese form is made for that shit.

  • @johndavidtibbetts7320
    @johndavidtibbetts7320 Před 27 dny +423

    Connor's media takes are all universally trash but man i have not disagreed once on his stances on japanese society and what its like for a foreigner to live there lmao

    • @blablabla798
      @blablabla798 Před 27 dny +88

      I mean it _is_ the trash taste podcast

    • @makii4772
      @makii4772 Před 26 dny +11

      @@blablabla798 ABSOLUTE CINEMA

  • @1234fakerstreet
    @1234fakerstreet Před 22 dny +4

    Korea does this too. It's beyond frustrating. There's a character limit on some sites. You can't enter your full name and then it says it doesn't match the name on your card. Other times you find out you can only do all caps or not use any caps. lol

  • @rajikkali2381
    @rajikkali2381 Před 26 dny +12

    Same issues in Korea, but for different reasons

  • @izumi_0_o
    @izumi_0_o Před 26 dny +23

    Kona tanaka

  • @RequiemMasses
    @RequiemMasses Před 26 dny +15

    Like the african guy named Obu O. Obu and his middle name is Obu named by his father Obu

  • @kasocool2812
    @kasocool2812 Před 18 dny +3

    Was setting up security questions for my work pc and one of the questions was "whats your favourite colour?" So i put red only to be told it needed to be longer than 3 characters. So apparently red isn't a valid favourite colour

    • @darbonhunter
      @darbonhunter Před 15 dny

      How rude of it not accepting red as a valid colour! I suppose that you could pick a word that describes a shade of red, such as Sanguine (blood red) or Vermilion (usually associated with Phoenix as it is a cinnabar red-orange).

    • @kasocool2812
      @kasocool2812 Před 15 dny

      @@darbonhunter think my response was "fuck you, I'll just pick blue then" 😂
      I'm guessing that anything less than 3 characters is just too easy to brute force

    • @darbonhunter
      @darbonhunter Před 15 dny

      @kasocool2812 Haha, an understandable response 🤣
      But yes, the combination possibilities get exponentially larger with each character added. 4 characters (with case sensitive letters, numbers) have nearly 7.5 million possible passwords. 3 characters only get you 4,680 possible passwords if you use both letters and numbers. The jump between 3 and 4 is quite significant.

  • @asmozinho
    @asmozinho Před 22 dny +2

    Him: kona
    My Portuguese brain: 💀

  • @guanglaikangyi6054
    @guanglaikangyi6054 Před 24 dny +6

    I have a very short surname, some websites won't let me use it, thinking I'm abbreviating something.

  • @das_hans
    @das_hans Před 22 dny +4

    English and European online forms don’t let me put my full name because it goes over the character limit. There are usually engineering reasons for stuff like this. Still always sucks when a machine tells you your name does not exist or isn’t valid.

  • @edd.5169
    @edd.5169 Před 22 dny +3

    "enter name"
    "wrong answer"

  • @crystaltriforce64
    @crystaltriforce64 Před 20 dny +2

    i understand this pain deep down. English spellcheck/autocorrect refuses to acknowledge my last name's existence

    • @ibrahimihsan2090
      @ibrahimihsan2090 Před 6 dny

      Don't these companies know people with foreign or uncommon names exist?

  • @Aaron-zh4kj
    @Aaron-zh4kj Před 22 dny +3

    You guys talk about this like it only just happened to you for the first time. This happens to me on a weekly basis, and I havent even been in Japan that long. I'll never forget one of my first weeks in Japan, being told by the lady at the post office that I spelled my name wrong. I was so done. 😂

  • @4AMO4
    @4AMO4 Před 22 dny +4

    Happens all the time to people who have swears in their name. Might be the case here.

    • @damond4346
      @damond4346 Před 17 dny

      reminds me of the guy whose username was nasser, but the game censored the word "ass" and made it look worse

    • @ibrahimihsan2090
      @ibrahimihsan2090 Před 6 dny

      ​@@damond4346How on earth does that even happen?
      They may as well censor legit nicknames like Dick.

  • @kirbtastic15
    @kirbtastic15 Před 22 dny +3

    had this when trying to set up my internet and finally figured out after wasting so much time that it would only take my english name in all caps

  • @pitioti
    @pitioti Před 23 dny +4

    Japan is 100 years behind about administration and foreigner immigrants paperwork requirements XD
    I can understand they want to limit immigration, but, at least, don't make it impossible for those meeting your requirements XD

    • @Yousifzzz
      @Yousifzzz Před 22 dny +1

      This was about final fantasy 14 lmao

  • @ttd0000
    @ttd0000 Před 25 dny +5

    Grant should've pulled the "First time?" meme

    • @TheLaXandro
      @TheLaXandro Před 23 dny +4

      Garnt

    • @ttd0000
      @ttd0000 Před 22 dny +4

      @@TheLaXandro Fucking auto-correct proving my point.

  • @Xtra_Medium
    @Xtra_Medium Před 22 dny +2

    That website thought he was a pokemon 😂

  • @Josh_Quillan
    @Josh_Quillan Před 22 dny +2

    I expect it's a character limit problem. Full-width & half-width is not really about the character size, it's the size in bytes. To type Kanji it requires a double-byte character where roman letters are single byte - hiragana and katakana can be either one. What confuses me is why they still use systems that distinguish between them, it should be trivial to convert between one and the other, and text strings are of trivial size on modern hardware. so character limits make no sense. I usually had problems because I have two middle names and they do love to *insist* on "full name" on official paperwork (as well as making me write the date, what' up with that?).

  • @Neppy_Uzume
    @Neppy_Uzume Před 22 dny +1

    Last time I had this issue with one website, apparently all I had to do was write my name in all caps.

  • @PenanceisNigh
    @PenanceisNigh Před 24 dny +3

    It took years before my actual last name was accepted in websites (in america where I was born and currently live) as a real name.

  • @Towalak
    @Towalak Před 25 dny +2

    I love the 2 other dudes pitching in to show they know the names of Japanese writing systems at the beginning

  • @DanielPereira-ey9nt
    @DanielPereira-ey9nt Před 27 dny +19

    If you had told Amanozako to throw money on the water she would have asked how you knew she snuck some Macca out of your pocket earlier

  • @KrazyCouch2
    @KrazyCouch2 Před 7 hodinami

    I remember Facebook refused to accept my fake name when I was creating an account so now I'm just Guy Guy.

  • @joik3308
    @joik3308 Před 20 dny +2

    I don't think i can ever live in Japan and move like 40 years into the past , I take care of everything easily through my phone , the bank ,government stuff , payments , everything never even have to talk to a person.

    • @noseboop4354
      @noseboop4354 Před 16 dny

      If only the cars also stayed 40 years in the past. 1990s-2000s are peak cars, being cheap, reliable, stylish and easy to maintain. Today's cars are overpriced pieces of plastic, overfilled with sensors and computers that constantly crash and cost way too much to fix.

  • @Sennken
    @Sennken Před 23 dny +2

    I've noticed it years ago - Japanese are extremely (extremely) good when it comes to hardware, but anything software related is complete and utter garbage, it's astonishing. Websites? Crap. Apps? Crap. Videogames? Not crap, but very technically clunky, especially anything that has to do with UI and UX.

  • @viision127
    @viision127 Před 20 dny +1

    It's like Facebook not accepting my name, "Vision" cause it thinks it's a word

  • @akashgiri4377
    @akashgiri4377 Před 26 dny +17

    Kona Kona is a great name tho

    • @rodtvt5564
      @rodtvt5564 Před 26 dny +2

      Unless you're portuguese LOL

    • @akashgiri4377
      @akashgiri4377 Před 24 dny +1

      @@rodtvt5564 what does it mean in Portuguese 🤔
      If it's something vulgar or explicit tell indirectly

    • @rodtvt5564
      @rodtvt5564 Před 24 dny

      ​@@akashgiri4377slang for the female reproductive organ

    • @reginabaptista7402
      @reginabaptista7402 Před 21 dnem

      ​@@akashgiri4377 Kitty Kitty but fem

  • @ATable4You
    @ATable4You Před 24 dny +2

    At this point you might as well just have a Japanese name just to make things easier.

  • @patrickdix772
    @patrickdix772 Před 17 dny

    I get this occasionally as well, since my last name is three letters. Some websites say that a last name cannot be three letters, which is kinda annoying.

  • @AGuyWithTheFace
    @AGuyWithTheFace Před 25 dny +12

    I've heard from English speaking expats that the best bet for these situations is to use your middle name instead of your last name since most people's middle name in english are just another first name.
    Also if it's official it's essier to explain the mistake to someone if you are still using one of your legal names

    • @BottomOfTheDumpsterFire
      @BottomOfTheDumpsterFire Před 25 dny +3

      what if you don't have a middle name though

    • @autismspirit
      @autismspirit Před 24 dny +3

      lol just call them immigrants not expats
      also only people from/descended from western europe have middle names, and even then it isn't all of them

    • @Rad-Dude63andathird
      @Rad-Dude63andathird Před 24 dny

      "expat"
      They're immigrants. That doesn't change just because they're white.

    • @lalli8152
      @lalli8152 Před 20 dny +1

      ​​@@autismspiritTo be fair for many foreigners living outside their country immigrant doesnt work well because it implies they are seeking permanent or long term residence or even permanent citizenship, but lot of people moves between countries for example for work only short term without no interest to actually migrate there

    • @autismspirit
      @autismspirit Před 20 dny

      @@lalli8152 well in the case of trash taste that is true, since once the japan content farm dries up they'll leave the country immediately
      that aside, temporary migration is still migration, you're just parroting an excuse rich people use to not be associated with the poors

  • @Notllamalord
    @Notllamalord Před 25 dny +5

    Yet another massive W for English

  • @Zack_Zander
    @Zack_Zander Před 25 dny +2

    Now you shall be “Konakona”

  • @verylittleexperience
    @verylittleexperience Před 16 dny

    Facebook wouldn't let me register with my real name. I guess it doesn't believe adjectives can be surnames 😅

  • @LargeSpinningBlades
    @LargeSpinningBlades Před 21 dnem +6

    English speaking websites freak the heck out over the apostrophe in my last name . this is especially frustraiting when it comes to the UK government website where they have colonised at least two countries where the " O' " prefic is super common

  • @dest5218
    @dest5218 Před 12 dny

    Crazy this actually happened to me two days ago. Was trying to make a payment i got scared initially ngl until i figured it out abd convert

  • @theKTCalamity
    @theKTCalamity Před 17 dny

    mood. i have to end up calling airlines for precheck ins and ticket purchases cuz my last name is not a valid name for some reason.

  • @TheItalianoAssassino
    @TheItalianoAssassino Před 26 dny +2

    Joeys laugh is so funny

  • @user-jl8td7tb9y
    @user-jl8td7tb9y Před 12 dny

    Link also shares this naming convention with Mario, Link Link. Also that would mean that Luigi's full name is Luigi Mario.

  • @PizzaCome
    @PizzaCome Před 10 dny

    I had difficult trying to register to get some food since I had to utilize the qr code. I know the feeling... I know that annoyance

  • @123piecrustJR
    @123piecrustJR Před 20 dny

    That weather report shirt goes hard

  • @raccooncityhunk497
    @raccooncityhunk497 Před 26 dny +27

    What unit 731 does to a country:

  • @DominoPivot
    @DominoPivot Před 9 dny

    I once had a job where I had to write an algorithm that would discard text that wasn't part of a proper name. I resigned a week later.
    Sorry, that makes it sound like I quit because I couldn't do it, but no, I quit because I just couldn't believe how dumb it was to try and filter a list of things that may or may not be names. Some very common names in one language are swear words in another, and the word for Doctor in another. Some names have mixed casing, like McDonald. Some names are one letter long.

  • @StopTryingSoHard
    @StopTryingSoHard Před 23 dny +1

    I arrived during the era when there were still things about having to use a "real" kanji name, so I choose the direct translation of my names via the English meanings. So I usually never have trouble.
    My wife's given name is one of the odd name kanji that absolutely never works on these sites. Like 50% of the sites she cannot use her kanji given name. So she just uses her maiden name right, but some sites reject that because it's not a normal given name.
    It's hilarious and I love it.

  • @lojanta
    @lojanta Před 9 dny

    In my country, Poland, my friend's boyfriend had similar situation. His name is Gaweł, which is completely uncommon and usually only known by Poles from a poem for children. Gaweł wanted to create an account in the bank, but the website said that his name doesn't exist 😂 and basically the bank did not have that name in their record/data base lmaoo

  • @levchenkodarya
    @levchenkodarya Před 20 dny

    Had ATM not accepting a small letter (ェ) in my surname, so I had to put the big one and then explain to the other side that this was me.

  • @abdelarch8038
    @abdelarch8038 Před 17 dny

    Cona Cona is his Pokémon phrase

  • @user-to3lz2up9m
    @user-to3lz2up9m Před 7 dny

    They finally stopped using floppy disks.

  • @DenshaOtoko2
    @DenshaOtoko2 Před 4 dny

    Insert Peter Peter joke from Death note Smosh video here.

  • @lunethheart
    @lunethheart Před 17 dny

    You know i knew someone with the last name *horse*
    Facebook wasnt having it

  • @grandmasgopnik9642
    @grandmasgopnik9642 Před 21 dnem

    Bro my Dad has STORIES about the internet and just tech in general over there especially from his time in the 2000s. Shit wilding.

  • @jairacosta3804
    @jairacosta3804 Před 11 dny

    The funniest part is that this was all to play Final Fantasy 14

  • @seána649
    @seána649 Před 22 dny

    Just a tidbit!
    On a laptop, you can convert Japanese to full-width katakana by pressing Fn (function key) + F7.
    For half-width katakana, Fn + F8.
    (F9 and F10 are for full-width and half-width alphabet, respectively)
    There is no such thing as half-width hiragana

  • @Eramiserasmus
    @Eramiserasmus Před 25 dny

    Mario Mario happened to be the secret unlock.

  • @cliptracer8980
    @cliptracer8980 Před 15 dny

    Company asking think my last name should have an H in it. It doesn't. They will expect me to sign with said never agreed H. I don't

  • @maeschder
    @maeschder Před 23 dny +1

    Because of this many online stores in Japan don't allow you to pay with credit cards that don't have Japanese names on them
    There are simply too lazy or ignorant to account for the eventuality of non-japanese customers

  • @siennahyena8412
    @siennahyena8412 Před 24 dny +4

    Inconvenience: 😒
    Inconvenience in Japan: 🤩

    • @caelum3394
      @caelum3394 Před 17 dny

      He is British he would complain anywhere
      He has always complained about many things in Japan because HE LIVES THERE

  • @Vokoca
    @Vokoca Před 23 dny

    "no way of doing"? Yeah it's so hard to press F8.

  • @zlamanit
    @zlamanit Před 10 dny

    Similarly some western websites won’t accept that your name has just 2 letters

  • @TripImmigration
    @TripImmigration Před 23 dny

    And middle names too

  • @awakehopps
    @awakehopps Před 17 dny

    i had a same issue with dmm registration so i went with dan dan haha

  • @a_very_burnt_steak
    @a_very_burnt_steak Před 27 dny +1

    Man.

  • @shaifennec
    @shaifennec Před 5 dny

    I had that issue before, not on a japanese websites

  • @ethanleleux7481
    @ethanleleux7481 Před 21 dnem

    What if... You read... The text above the box...

  • @iennefaLsh
    @iennefaLsh Před 16 dny +1

    Another instance where a human transcriber would've been better than auto-captions. But that's just a pedantic's gripe.

  • @Cassius365
    @Cassius365 Před 25 dny

    Ah yes, Connor Streamerman Connor

  • @jadeeliss1370
    @jadeeliss1370 Před 10 hodinami

    i love how some english names are spelled in Romanji. mines boring Jād for Jade, but Kona for Conner is so cool

  • @crokar5835
    @crokar5835 Před 23 dny

    i know this feeling. not from japan but because my last isnt recognized as al ast name in America

  • @joshuafletcher991
    @joshuafletcher991 Před 20 dny

    Some websites don’t accept the elongated vowel ー katakana in their fields. Pretty stupid.

  • @imaginerose
    @imaginerose Před 17 dny

    As a Portuguese speaker, i love the name Kona

  • @SirElrich
    @SirElrich Před 15 dny

    This was about account creation for FF14. It's hard out here

  • @DegenerationHex
    @DegenerationHex Před 24 dny

    First name, Kona. Last name, Kona
    Kona Kona

  • @sneztchy
    @sneztchy Před 26 dny +1

    Kona 2012

  • @blushingralseiuwu2222
    @blushingralseiuwu2222 Před 10 dny

    Japan internet was way ahead of everyone else in 2000 era, and they keep it that way 😂

  • @subiiQ
    @subiiQ Před 27 dny +1

    Bruh

  • @vap0rw1se
    @vap0rw1se Před 24 dny

    K-Dawg as a nickname goes hard.