Kaijiposting / Should Have Gambled Instead

About

Kaijiposting refers to a practice of replying to greentexts social media posts with suggestions that the person in the story should have been gambling instead of whatever were doing, paired with images of professional gambler Kaiji Itō, the main character of the Kaiji manga series. The trend saw niche spread on Twitter in 2023, primarily in replies to several popular gimmick accounts.

Origin

In the 1996 manga series Kaiji and its 2007 anime adaptation, the main character Kaiji Itō is a high school graduate who becomes a professional variety gambler. The series focuses on his story and his misadventures surrounding gambling.^[1]

Starting on February 14th, 2023, Twitter user @AmbroseJSerra started replying with images of Kaiji Itō to 4chan greentexts shared by the gimmick Twitter account @GreenTextRepost, suggesting that the persons in the stories should have gambled instead of what they actually did. The earliest discovered post on Twitter^[1] starting this trend was posted by @AmbroseJSerra on February 14th and gained 17 likes (shown below).

Spread

In the following weeks, the user continued to reply to @GreenTextRepost, and later to other gimmick accounts on Twitter such as @greentexts_bot and @PicturesFoIder, with images of Kaiji and suggestions to gamble. For example, a Twitter^[3] reply made by the user on March 7th, 2023, gained over 410 likes in two months (shown below, left). Another reply,^[4] made on March 13th, gained over 810 likes in the same period (shown below, right).

Starting on March 17th, other Twitter users joined in on the trend, replying to @GreenTextRepost and other accounts with images of Kaiji. For example, on March 17th, 2023, Twitter^[5] user @UDPNV made a post that gained over 30 retweets and 1,900 likes in two months (shown below, left). On April 13th, 2023, Twitter^[6] user @RawRarePlato posted a reply that gained over 430 likes in one month.

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