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Powdered_Toast posted...

I'm interested if they actually dug into deeply. It aired as a segment of a bigger show, and all the other segments were obviously exaggerated or outright fake, but people take the Nasubi one at face value. There was a longer youtube video on it, but it got copyright claimed recently. I think they found out that it wasn't a 24 hour livestream like most people say, but short segments at specific times, and it was also obviously prerecorded.

The recording was done 24 hours, but it wasn't streamed. He'd change out the tapes and then there'd be someone who would stop by to collect the tapes. For a time there was a website where you could see a low-res low-framerate stream at certain times, but I don't have much detail on what that was really like. Of course, there were also some elements that were faked (e.g. he was supposed to win everything through write-in sweepstakes, but they provided him with supplemental food that they didn't mention in the TV program at all, since it'd be impossible to just live off his meager winnings). A lot of it really was real though, as crazy as it was.